Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️
@medrenliza.bsky.social
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U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
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medrenliza.bsky.social
Hello new followers! I work on early modern lit/sci, women writers, and book history and textual editing.

This year I'm on a fellowship letting me focus on asexuality and aromanticism studies; I'm writing abt ace/aro history; ace/aro reading; and also collate ace/aro research here: acearobiblio.com
A circular logo; in the center is an open book with page colored with the aro and ace flags; around it is text reading "The Asexuality and Aromanticism Bibliography."
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cheryllynneaton.bsky.social
Trans rights are civil rights. If you aren't willing to die on the hill of trans rights, then you aren't willing to die on the hill of Black rights. Of Jewish rights. Of disabled rights. Of gay rights. Of anyone's rights. Human rights.
talleststone.bsky.social
I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.
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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Our local @lancasterucu.bsky.social strike ballot closes this week

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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University

- 1 in 4 people will be made redundant

But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action?

Please read 👇

Sign the petition 👇

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Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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broadwaybabyto.bsky.social
Covid is not over.

People are still dying and becoming disabled every day.

We rushed “back to normal” for the economy, not because the threat had passed.

When you wear a mask, you’re not only protecting your health, you’re saying you don’t believe anyone is expendable.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Elin Thomas, UK textile artist who uses embroidery/crochet to create unique work resembling petri dishes and bacteria spores #womensart
Photo looking down on four petri dishes, neatly arranged, with what resembles bacteria and mould growing inside created with crochet and embroidery
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echomikeromeo.bsky.social
We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...
Logo with the words 'GLINTS: Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary and Trans Studies' in coral text on a purple background.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Stained glass 'vege garden' by Annie Rie, stained glass artist inspired by the English countryside #womensar
Rectangular stained glass artwork divided into irregular sections depicting rows of different types of growing veg such as cabbages and beans
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aridrennen.bsky.social
Hey real quick what do the big grey bars represent?
medrenliza.bsky.social
C! He gets the corner, I get the diagonal.
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
huge W
bachynski.bsky.social
This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”
Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.
www.nytimes.com
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pricelab.bsky.social
🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜
Manuscript Data Curation Fellow
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
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dubchi5.bsky.social
Watch as big companies slowly walk back their AI initiatives. It’s already happening. The lack of accuracy, hallucinations, and other issues are really being seen on the backend. Universities are about to sink a lot of money into something they may have to rescind.
disabilitystor1.bsky.social
This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more
A photo from Jamie Keller Davis for the NYT: a color photo of a Chicago skyline showing three buildings photographed from street level. The one in the center has brown brick-like walls, and a very large poster advertising ChatGPT. The poster shows a conversation between a hypothetical student and ChatGPT: "Can you quiz me on the muscles of the leg?" "Can you build me a first time marathon training plan?" The text at the bottom of the poster reads: "ChatGPT Plus is free during finals.
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courtneymilan.com
It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
The new Covid vaccine guidelines follow the same script as anti-choice heartbeat laws. "Technically," vaccines and abortions are "available." But the impediments to getting them are erected so high that they are not, in fact, available to the vast majority of people.
medrenliza.bsky.social
I actually developed the whole site WITH undergrads!
medrenliza.bsky.social
My Poems and Fancies basically uses a Wordpress template that made each poem a "Blog Post": library2.utm.utoronto.ca/poemsandfanc...

(but the notes are all textual notes, not really all that many glosses, except for in the "Bonus Poems" section: library2.utm.utoronto.ca/poemsandfanc... )
BONUS POEMS – Margaret Cavendish's Poems and Fancies
library2.utm.utoronto.ca
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eayers0.bsky.social
A couple of #histSTM #histsci #philsci positions opening up: Asst Prof in Philosophy of Science & Technology (TT) at University of Toronto, apps due Oct 15 (including letters of rec).

jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology
Assistant Professor - Philosophy of Science and/or Technology
jobs.utoronto.ca
medrenliza.bsky.social
When I first read the headline, I thought sandwich-throwing was majorly trending in DC. But, having read the article, the actual truth was fun to read about too.
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mehr.nz
samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Aug 27
There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.

Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
alexdecampi.bsky.social
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.

As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how

Part 1: is your work in Libgen?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com