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PhD candidate & teaching fellow @ UNC-Chapel Hill | Medieval & Early Modern lit. History of religion & medicine. Demonism. Imagination & horror. | He/They. 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸
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khristiansmith.bsky.social
“Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum: Habemus Grimaceum!”
Purple-pink water vapor rises from the chimney stack of the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority's waste-to-energy facility in Conoy Township. The words “waste-to-energy” are seen on the side of the building framed by two verdant trees.
May 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Watch Indigeneity: A #RaceB4Race Symposium live now

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February 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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grubstreetwomen.bsky.social
The budget shortfall at Sonoma State, an HSI, is 8 million, leading to layoffs of 25% of faculty and shuttering programs. The system is paying 17 million to OpenAI. We always say budgets are moral documents. This is why.
drsepinwall.bsky.social Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · Feb 7
So I found the answer to HOW MUCH THE CSU IS PAYING for "AI tools" "at no cost to students or faculty" to be an "AI powered university." @cfaunited.bsky.social: help!

🚨$16.9 million

In the middle of a "budget crisis" where the CSU is doing layoffs pleading poverty!

edsource.org/2025/cal-sta...
Text: The university will pay about $16.9 million over the lifetime of its partnership with OpenAI, which is “less than current and planned expenditures for these technologies,” a CSU spokesperson said.
February 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
UNC is eleventh. Severe impact on future research if proposed cuts aren’t successfully challenged.
epopppp.bsky.social Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Feb 8
Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding.

Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)

(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
February 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
“Fade into (Jesu).” feat. Mazzy Star and John Donne by Jon Stitch.
November 18, 2024 at 8:28 PM
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jonathanhsy.bsky.social
Deadline extended: RaceB4Race First and Second Book Institutes for early and mid-career scholars writing books in Premodern Critical Race Studies!

First Book Institute: acmrs.submittable.com/submit/30956...

Second Book Institute: acmrs.submittable.com/submit/30956...

@acmrs.bsky.social #PCRS
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies - 2025 RaceB4Race First Book Institute
RaceB4Race First Book Institute There is a glaring need to support early career premodern critical race scholars through the process of publishing their first book, a critical juncture in an academic ...
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November 17, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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I have been concerned for years that states will block faculty from attending certain conferences or accepting some grants. It looks like that is now happening at North Texas.

www.chronicle.com/article/a-te...
Meanwhile, the impacts on research are already being felt. According to the faculty member in the College of Education, one prestigious grant from the Spencer Foundation has been delayed until it’s determined to be in compliance with Senate Bill 17. As a result, they said, “we’re already putting in jeopardy relationships with major funders across the nation.” Those in the College of Education were also told that they will not receive travel funds to present research at conferences that deal with race, color, ethnicity, gender identity, or sexual orientation. If scholars choose to pay out-of-pocket to attend such conferences, the faculty member added, they must say that they are not representing the university. (Reese, meanwhile, said that faculty members can get travel funding to engage in activities “whereby scholarly and professional stature are demonstrated and may be appraised.” She denied any delay concerning the Spencer Foundation grant.)
November 14, 2024 at 1:48 AM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
🧵 with practical next steps. Some of this advice may not apply to you. Some of it may require significant financial security or aid you don’t have. Know that you have options. Ask for what you need and be willing to share what you can.
rahaeli.bsky.social rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Nov 6
Right. Here's your to-do list for the next two months to put you in the best possible position to survive what's coming:

1. Renew your passport (or apply for a passport) this week even if it is not expiring in the next four years. Renewing early will give you the maximum 10-year validity period.
November 6, 2024 at 7:44 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
I am still here! Just infrequent at posting. As a catchup/distraction, here’s a sneak peek at next semester. ⚗️🏝️✨📖📚
Front page of syllabus for ENGL 146: Speculative Fiction. List of readings for ENGL 146.
November 4, 2024 at 8:50 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
I always do at least one costume change per year. Happy Halloween from Foxe’s Actes and Monuments! 😅😇
Khristian wearing a fox onesie looking at the title page of Foxe’s Actes and Monuments floating above his open palm. A cartoonish halo hovers over his head. Khristian wearing a fox onesie and holding a copy of the Oxford World Classics edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (Actes and Monuments).
November 1, 2023 at 4:02 AM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
Happy Halloween! My best friend and I went as Calvin and Hobbes.
Khristian dressed as John Calvin, his expression one of exhaustion with the world of embodiment…and Catholics. Everett dressed as Thomas Hobbes, contemplating geometry and repulsed by monarchy. Everett dressed as Thomas Hobbes and Khristian dressed as John Calvin making silly faces in their office.
October 31, 2023 at 4:21 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
Heading to #scsc2023. Anyone going to be around Baltimore this weekend?
October 26, 2023 at 6:01 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
"A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land, and to pervade the very atmosphere...Certain it is, the place still continues under the sway of some witching power, that holds a spell over the minds of the good people, causing them to walk in a continual reverie.“
Khristian in a skull-print knitted sweater sitting in front of the wooden “Welcome to Historic Sleepy Hollow” sign. The Headless Horseman Sculpture on Broadway in Sleepy Hollow, NY. The Old Dutch Church atop a small hill, framed by the adjoining Sleepy Hollow Cemetery’s iron fencing. A mix of historic, replacement, and contemporary headstones in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
October 20, 2023 at 4:55 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
See y’all in April! 🥰
Screenshot of an email confirming Khristian’s enrollment in an SAA seminar.
October 2, 2023 at 12:49 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
Happy October! 🍂🍁🎃
In front of a window: a sage stoneware jack o’lantern stacked on top of a white one with lit tea lights in them. Framed by star-shaped string lights. A neon palm reader sign hangs in the window behind.
October 1, 2023 at 11:16 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
A camp little Kempe!
Mirror-photo of a woodcut tattoo on Khristian’s lower forearm of William Kempe from Kemps nine daies vvonder (1600). Mirror-photo of a woodcut tattoo on Khristian’s lower forearm of William Kempe from Kemps nine daies vvonder (1600).
September 25, 2023 at 8:11 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
Happy Equinox, everyone! 🍁🍂
On a balcony/covered porch, a plastic skeleton sitting on a stool with a potted fern in his lap. Red lanterns and mid century modern bird feeders festooned above. Leaves and rain cover the ground in the arboreous surroundings. A box of Macedonian halva with pistachios and another of Droste drinking-chocolate on a black table-runner patterned with white and gold Halloween florals and moths.
September 23, 2023 at 8:25 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
Overcast, low humidity, and 68°?! With a breeze?! 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡
Clip art of a dancing skeleton
September 22, 2023 at 2:57 PM
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luckytran.com
Please do this! It's great the government is going to send people free COVID tests again. But we also need them to send people free N95 masks.
Urge the White House and Congress to Provide Free N95 Masks!
Urge the White House and Congress to Provide Free N95 Masks to the Public! Send an email here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/freen95s #FreeN95s #BringBackMasks
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September 20, 2023 at 6:21 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
Many many thanks to Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus, and Kibrina Davey for their work editing this incredible collection and for generously including me in it. Available now from Manchester UP!
Photo of the first page of Khristian’s chapter on spiritual poison in Romeo and Juliet. A copy of Poison on the Early Modern English stage: Plants, paints and potions on a yellow, cream, and dark gray knitted blanket.
September 20, 2023 at 6:22 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch′entrate!
isasaxonists.bsky.social Dr.MRO/ Axel Folio @isasaxonists.bsky.social · Sep 18
Dante's Inferno or an upcoming limited edition medieval inspired Halloween colorway? Stay tuned! #RepublicOfYarnia
An image of yarn in a long pan. The top is black and it fades into a smokey yellow and then deep orange at the bottom. The colorway looks like a fiery image.
September 19, 2023 at 8:18 PM
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nepeteaa.bsky.social Bird 🌲 @MFF DD @nepeteaa.bsky.social · Sep 19
thoughts? 👀🍄
September 19, 2023 at 5:29 PM
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cristinalalfar.bsky.social
Hoping newbies will see this post about the #earlymodern and What's History feeds.
onslies.bsky.social Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Sep 13
Noticing a bunch of #earlymodern faves arrived! Hashtags aren't a functioning thing here, but @janmachielsen.bsky.social made it function with a custom feed which you can pin and see all #earlymodern/#reformazing/#nuntastic goodies & find earlymodernists in the followers!: bsky.app/profile/did:...
September 16, 2023 at 7:24 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
I am safe with my students. The same students with whom I sat through a three-hour lockdown two weeks ago. I will have updates as they’re released.
Screenshot of an Alert Carolina message, reading: “!Alert Carolina! Emergency: Armed, dangerous person on or near campus. Go inside now; avoid windows.”
September 13, 2023 at 5:32 PM
khristiansmith.bsky.social
Had a lovely time celebrating a another trip around the sun yesterday. 🥰
Mirror selfie of Khristian holding a shorthair black cat, framed by autumnal florals. A small, single-portion pecan pie in front of a Grumpy Cat birthday card, which reads: “Hope your birthday’s as happy as a basket full of kittens….Which, by the way, is horrible.” A red wolf plushie, “Virgo: Music of the Zodiac” CD, and heart gelatin mold box with 40s/50s advertising art are positioned together on a dark gray sofa, framed by pillows and autumnal floral arrangements in the background. Martha Stewart’s Hors D’Oeuvres Handbook (1999) on a black table-runner decorated with white and gold Halloween florals.
September 12, 2023 at 9:40 PM