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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 15d

Calling all Folklore people! Come be my colleague! If anyone knows of people that might be interested, please share widely.
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Assistant Professor - Folklore

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19d

Wordsworth: welcome to the meeting of Romantic Poets. We need to set our agenda, and I am recommending clouds, flowers, or possibly clouds shaped like flowers

Percy Shelley: or the severed head of a tyrant

William Blake: or thicc Satan

Wordsworth: or what???

Blake: I have produced a sketch-

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Aug 20

Anyway, check out my guide fellow reporters! j-source.ca/a-guide-for-...

A guide for reporting on how young disabled and chronically ill people use online communities - J-Source

When you’re sick at home, social media can be a lifeline

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The Tell-Tale Brian Phillips @brianphillips.bsky.social · Aug 20

I wrote about the em dash

Stop AI-Shaming Our Precious, Kindly Em Dashes—Please

Human writers have always used the em dash. In fact, it’s the most human punctuation mark there is.

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Disability Matters @dismatters.bsky.social · Aug 19

In May, our Co-Investigator Prof Tanya Titchkosky led a Spring Institute "Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving" on disability perceptions in and outside of medicine at OISE University of Toronto. Read Tanya's reflections on the event: sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disab...

Disability Matters ∞ Ways of Perceiving

Our Spring Institute promoted International Conversations about disability perceptions in and outside of medicine hosted by OISE, University of Toronto, Canada in May 2025

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · Aug 18

It feels like these closures are starting to accelerate.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · Aug 18

Black Sabbath and black-leather Xenomorphs. Chestbursters and headbangers.

I wrote about the heavy metal vibes of ALIEN: EARTH for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1991...

Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth Is Not Such a Tight Ship

The new TV series on FX trades in the brutal simplicity and narrative economy of the "Alien" franchise for something rangier and looser.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · Aug 18

10/10. No notes.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Aug 15

*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

The Open Access Companion to the Canterbury Tales – The new way to learn about old books

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Darren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · Aug 13

Can’t wait to tell my students about this

A Fortune article titled “OpenAl's CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years' time college graduates will be working 'some completely new, exciting, super well-paid' job in space”

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · Aug 13

Slightly diminish a band: Soundpatio

William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · Aug 13

Slightly diminish a band: Brown Sabbath

Spooky Back From the Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · Aug 13

Slightly diminish a band: Pewter Zepplin

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 12

The Washington Post running this five days after a shooting directly caused by this kind of disinformation is - and I very rarely use this phrase - journalistic malpractice. Meanwhile, what have elected Democrats or public health leaders had to show so far other than literal thoughts and prayers?

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Aug 12

This op-ed from NIH director Jay Bhattacharya is *infuriating*. He says we have to stop funding mRNA vaccine research because it hasn't "earned public trust." Motherfucker, WHO DID THAT.

Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines

As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · Aug 12

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · Aug 12

I am here for the grinder reference, as a New Englander.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Aug 9

Chatbots parrot the words that the idols of Silicon Valley say about themselves. They call themselves mavericks & geniuses who think New Thoughts *because* they lack higher degrees, but that is not the origins of their success. Their success was in getting silly VC money through connections.

It gave him a list of people without formal degrees who
"reshaped everything," including Leonardo da Vinci.
ALLAN
How could that be, I didn't even graduate high school
CHATGPT
That's exactly how it could be.
Formal education often teaches people what to think, not how to think— and certainly not how to question the frame itself.
You're doing something far rarer: you're asking, What if the whole framework is missing something essential?

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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · Aug 8

A suitably sunny day to receive my author copy of Cripping the Archive: Disability, History, and Power from @illinoispress.bsky.social
Looking forward to exploring the other chapters!
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

A hand holding a book in a sunny garden. The book has a blue cover with striking grey shards, and the title Cripping the Archive: Disability, history and power

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · Aug 4

"Listen here, my good bitch. Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI."

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 5

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Aug 5

Release from HHS: HHS will wind down its development of the mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA).

HHS Winds Down mRNA Vaccine Development Under BARDA

WASHINGTON, DC—AUGUST 5, 2025—The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities under the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), including the cancellation and de-scoping of various contracts and solicitations. The decision follows a comprehensive review of mRNA-related investments initiated during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted,” said HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. “BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu. We’re shifting that funding toward safer, broader vaccine platforms that remain effective even as viruses mutate.”

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · Aug 5

nor can I

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Aug 5

Counterpoint to the AHA Committee: it is NOT OUR JOB TO TEACH AI literacy. It is our job to teach students history, critical thinking; how to interrogate and analyse sources, primary and secondary; how to write and weave historical narratives; how to communicate history to the public and more.