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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

cornell alums sign and share and fight and then some docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · 2d

All of these books are FANTASTIC. I was blown away — in different ways — by each one and they were each a joy to read. The world is dark but scholarship continues to amaze

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 6d

We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

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Sarah Dimick- Unseasonable: Climate Change in Global Literatures (Columbia UP)

Kency Cornejo- Visual Disobedience: Art and Decoloniality in Central America (Duke UP)

Brooke Belisle- Depth Effects: Dimensionality from Camera to Computation (University of California Press)

Steven Swarbrick & Jean-Thomas Tremblay- Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP)

Amber Jamilla Musser- Between Shadows and Noise: Sensation, Situatedness, and the Undisciplined (Duke UP)

Christopher T. Fan- Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility (Columbia UP)

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Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 6d

We are so excited to announce the shortlist for the ASAP/16 Book Prize!

Congratulations to all the nominees! We’ll announce the winner of the prize at the annual conference in a few weeks in Houston! See the ALT ID and thread for more information.

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · 8d

A small bright spot. Does this mean that university administrators will stop doing this administration’s illegal work for them??

AAUP @aaup.org · 8d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · 20d

Every day is stupider

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 26d

Grad students, please submit!!!

Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present @asapartsnow.bsky.social · 26d

ASAP Members! Are you a grad student who presented at our conference last year in NYC? Submit for this year’s Grad Student Paper Prize! Swipe to see the guidelines! Submissions due OCT 1!

RULES FOR COMPETITION
Only current ASAP members in good standing can submit work for consideration for the graduate student paper award.
Papers considered for the prize must have been presented at the previous year’s ASAP conference.
Papers may be self-nominated or nominated by members of the association who attended the conference at which the paper was presented.
The paper must be the paper presented at the conference. It should not be in any way revised or edited for consideration by the prize committee.
Longer papers submitted to seminars are eligible, but submissions longer than 12 double-spaced pages (works cited excluded) will not be accepted.

Papers must be submitted electronically to the chair of the prize committee by the deadline.

The paper must be the same version as the presentation at ASAP/15. It should not be revised or edited in any way.

Papers pre-circulated to seminars are eligible, but submissions longer than 12 double-spaced pages (works cited excluded) will not be accepted.

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Neel Gupta @neel2112.bsky.social · Aug 18

David Christensen, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social & I wrote about the Seattle Public Library open checkout dataset. The data is idiosyncratic and imperfect—but also a rare, detailed look at book popularity over time. Excited to see how others put it to use!

openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

Seattle Public Library’s Open Checkout Data: What Can It Tell Us About Readers and Book Popularity More Broadly? | Journal of Open Humanities Data

The Seattle Public Library (SPL) publishes anonymized, open-access checkout data for every item in its collection, dating from 2005 to the present. To our knowledge, it is the only U.S. library to release checkout data by title with this level of temporal detail: one dataset records exact timestamps for print book checkouts, while another provides monthly aggregates across all formats (e.g., ebooks, audiobooks, print books). Because U.S. book sales data is largely inaccessible outside the publishing industry, SPL’s open checkout data offers a rare and valuable alternative. But how well does it generalize beyond Seattle? Does it reflect book sales? And what can it tell us about readers more broadly?

openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Aug 3

Not surprising but depressing nonetheless

Cornell Reportedly Nears Up to $100 Million Settlement With Trump Admin to Restore Frozen Federal Funding

Cornell is reportedly in talks with the Trump administration to soon close on a settlement to pay up to $100 million to restore its frozen federal funding.

www.cornellsun.com

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jul 31

It’s been great to get to know you and your work a bit, Pedro! I’m so glad the trip was a success!

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Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jul 29

New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.

Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉

🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jul 28

I also want the internet to know that one of the bonus checkpoints (you receive extra points for completing them) involved doing a ring toss from like 10 feet away, which I got on my FIRST TOSS (it also involved hula hooping, which I did not do well)

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jul 28

I spent the weekend in Milwaukee doing one of my favorite Extremely Wholesome Activities: the Riverwest 24! It’s a 24-hour bike relay race typically completed in teams and involving the surrounding community. I biked over 60 miles, slept too little, and had a blast with old friends. Always a delight

At the start line for the Riverwest 24, in the middle of a big crowd of bikers about to begin

Along the Riverwest 24 route, going up a hill along a switchback trail full of bikers with three signs that read, respectively, “keep,” “path”, “clear” visible ahead

Checkpoint 3 of Riverwest 24, a sign made of lights that reads “RW24”

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jul 23

Dreaming of creating our own university, a free one, where we just learn and teach stuff, not controlled by business people, and no one is expelled or has their degree revoked for legal activities unrelated to academic conduct. Call me crazy

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Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · Jul 17

This is now a thread of ICE arrests in small towns and rural places in New York State. If you see a Facebook post, news article, or other documentation of detentions, please let me know, and I'll add them.

Eliza Bettinger @scalywager.bsky.social · Jul 4

What it’s like right now to be one of the *many* sole Asian American families in small predominantly white towns around NYS.

Mayor Jeffrey Oatman voted for Trump. He agrees with most of the work ICE is doing.
But arresting Zhang and shutting down a village restaurant isn't what he had in mind.
Oatman's kids grew up with the Zhangs' kids, who could be seen most nights doing their homework in the restaurant while their parents made a life for them, he said.
It's the perfect American dream scenario, he said.
"All I know is that we lost a pretty good, upstanding citizen in our village," he said.
"That's sad."

Barber Mikey Merritt said he voted for Trump. On Monday, he saw the headline
"Ice Raids China Moon" across the top of the Queen Central News, the local weekly newspaper published out of a house on Church Street.
"It's unfortunate to see something like that happen especially in a community like this where they're not messing with anybody, they're not bothering anybody. The community likes them," Merritt said.
"These aren't the immigrants people voted to have sent away."

Jin Ping Zhang and her daughter Winnie said they had no comment when a reporter visited Wednesday.

In fact, they have asked the entire town not to talk about what happened. They don't want anyone to advocate for them. They don't want anyone to raise money. They have a lawyer, they said.

China Moon, the Chinese restaurant on Main Street in Camden, is closed after ICE agents arrested the owner. Michelle Breidenbach
Their neighbors are doing their best to honor those wishes. The administrator of the Camden community Facebook page posted a message that says he will not allow any discussion about what happened to China Moon.
But at the same time, the story needs to be told, residents say.

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jul 2

We will abolish ICE. And dismantle DHS.

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jul 1

Dark, dark times but this man is so inspiring

Anil Dash @anildash.com · Jul 1

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jun 30

You too, Shannon 💜 I know you will continue to inspire in your new role! They are so lucky to have you!

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jun 30

“…while the U.S. academy is one of the nation’s greatest achievements and public goods, and while it’s worth fighting for, it needn’t be — and shouldn’t be — preserved in its present neoliberal form. There’s so much that can be reimagined.” May we all have your courage and clear-eyed vision, Shannon

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jun 25

A fascinating dataset that will be of interest to sci-fi scholars and beyond. And co-authored by Cornell Lit in English grad student @teddyleane.bsky.social!

Post45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · Jun 25

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away?

Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting.

doi.org/10.18737/552...

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jun 22

Unfortunately it’s very bad

lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jun 22

Obviously I know our culture hates women but it can still be a shock to experience a film that is so misogynist it strains the credulity of the very ideological project in which it unthinkingly participates

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jun 22

Ok there is a lot going on and everything is as horrible as ever, but I have to be honest: 28 Years Later is a maliciously bad film. I went bc it was 90 degrees in London and the theater was air conditioned — and bc I love bad zombie movies and watch them all of the time. But this one is BEYOND bad

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jun 17

Truly the most evil part (to write) of any book

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jun 14

They were all over!

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · Jun 14

I have only seen a few examples in samples from textbooks etc. Wild stuff