Dr Susan Greenberg
@sgediting.bsky.social
Former journalist and editor turned academic, teaching/research about publishing & writing. Now back in professional practice c/o https://oddfish.uk & @oddfish-editorial.bsky.social. Cares about words & what they mean. http://bit.ly/2Jjx4gZ
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Since many of you are distracted by other things or not following any Jewish media, you should know that today, on one of the holiest days of the year, a man drove his car into a crowd gathering to go into a Synagogue in Manchester then got out and started stabbing people. Two people are dead.
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
Our story about today’s attack.
manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...
On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’
Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall
manchestermill.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Since many of you are distracted by other things or not following any Jewish media, you should know that today, on one of the holiest days of the year, a man drove his car into a crowd gathering to go into a Synagogue in Manchester then got out and started stabbing people. Two people are dead.
A very happy Jewish New Year to everyone (Jewish or not). It's a moment to reflect on the year gone by, and find hope for the future. L'Shana Tova.
September 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A very happy Jewish New Year to everyone (Jewish or not). It's a moment to reflect on the year gone by, and find hope for the future. L'Shana Tova.
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NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
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I mean, Archway. What the actual fuck??? I had not been there for a while - what a change. It’s actually relatively pleasant now, even though some of the old pubs have gone and they no longer sell all the local Irish papers in the newsagents at the tube. Does the Sligo Champion still exist?
So many happy memories but if you grew up here in the 1970s and 80s it’s hard not to notice how much cleaner it is, that it is more interesting, less polluted, far less menacing. Obviously, there are huge problems. But, housing aside, it’s generally just better. London has fallen? Absolute bollocks.
In London. Just did a circuit around Hampstead Heath taking in many of my old stomping grounds: Gospel Oak ➡️ South End Green ➡️ Belsize Park ➡️ Hampstead ➡️ Highgate ➡️ Archway ➡️ Tufnell Park ➡️ Kentish Town ➡️ Dartmouth Park. So many happy memories. It will always be home. I love it!
July 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I mean, Archway. What the actual fuck??? I had not been there for a while - what a change. It’s actually relatively pleasant now, even though some of the old pubs have gone and they no longer sell all the local Irish papers in the newsagents at the tube. Does the Sligo Champion still exist?
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"What neither the American public nor Parliament knew was that the man who would go on to draft the Declaration had secretly encouraged Norfolk’s ruin shortly before it happened." Andrew Lawler on the biggest coverup of the American Revolution:
The Biggest Coverup of the American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence condemns King George III for having “burnt our towns.” But the British were not to blame for one of the war’s most infamous conflagrations.
www.thebulwark.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
"What neither the American public nor Parliament knew was that the man who would go on to draft the Declaration had secretly encouraged Norfolk’s ruin shortly before it happened." Andrew Lawler on the biggest coverup of the American Revolution:
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After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
The Death of the Student Essay—and the Future of Cognition
One professor's reflections on the end of an era, as AI tools such as ChatGPT have murdered the student essay (RIP). Here's why that threatens the future of human cognition—and how to save ourselves.
www.forkingpaths.co
June 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.
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My panel with @rcolesworthy.bsky.social, @stephanieyevans.bsky.social, @byjennytan.bsky.social, and @jsavrankelly.bsky.social kicks off in less than 30 minutes!
Honored to follow the opening plenary by fellow @princetonupress.bsky.social author Eddie R. Cole
Honored to follow the opening plenary by fellow @princetonupress.bsky.social author Eddie R. Cole
1/2 We’re excited to kick off the @aupresses.bsky.social annual meeting today, with great programming in store from PUP staff and authors, including @lportwoodstacer.bsky.social.
June 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
My panel with @rcolesworthy.bsky.social, @stephanieyevans.bsky.social, @byjennytan.bsky.social, and @jsavrankelly.bsky.social kicks off in less than 30 minutes!
Honored to follow the opening plenary by fellow @princetonupress.bsky.social author Eddie R. Cole
Honored to follow the opening plenary by fellow @princetonupress.bsky.social author Eddie R. Cole
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"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."
A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...
buff.ly
May 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."
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This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city gates. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates
June 11, 2024 at 10:26 AM
This is a slow moving thread of screaming and horrified city gates. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #ScreamingCityGates
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The cool thinge aboute writinge ys that it ys absolutely difficult and payneful but then when you are done you looke back and you... still doubt what you wrote. And yet even wyth all that, so much bettir than Gen AI. To wryte ys to risk, and thus to joyne all othir wryteres yn risk and possibilitye.
May 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
The cool thinge aboute writinge ys that it ys absolutely difficult and payneful but then when you are done you looke back and you... still doubt what you wrote. And yet even wyth all that, so much bettir than Gen AI. To wryte ys to risk, and thus to joyne all othir wryteres yn risk and possibilitye.
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Everyone thinks random violence against their opponents is fine until they're the ones facing a crazed maniac shooting them for having the wrong politics. This is no way to run a society.
May 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Everyone thinks random violence against their opponents is fine until they're the ones facing a crazed maniac shooting them for having the wrong politics. This is no way to run a society.
Interesting piece, riffing on ‘The Screwtape Letters’ and its relevance for today (tl:dr the devil gets us by removing difficulty). During research, I found a letter from Macmillan NY in the 1940s telling London it was too difficult for American readers.
open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/e...
open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/e...
Economic Lessons from the Screwtape Letters
Rejection, Convenience, and the Budget Deficit
open.substack.com
May 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Interesting piece, riffing on ‘The Screwtape Letters’ and its relevance for today (tl:dr the devil gets us by removing difficulty). During research, I found a letter from Macmillan NY in the 1940s telling London it was too difficult for American readers.
open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/e...
open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/e...
Cat, by the base of the old cedar stump in Fulham Palace.
May 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Cat, by the base of the old cedar stump in Fulham Palace.
For some reason, I've just remembered those funny videos from nine years ago about 'shitty robots'. Innocent times...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxdq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxdq...
Meet the queen of sh*tty robots
YouTube video by Insider
www.youtube.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:53 AM
For some reason, I've just remembered those funny videos from nine years ago about 'shitty robots'. Innocent times...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxdq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxdq...
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Over the last 22 months, @oksanadudko.bsky.social and I have been plotting this forum in @historyworkshop.org.uk
It offers input on decolonizing Eastern European history and how why we urgently need Eastern Europe when doing postcolonial history.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
It offers input on decolonizing Eastern European history and how why we urgently need Eastern Europe when doing postcolonial history.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Teaching Eastern Europe in the Age of Russia’s Imperial Invasions: A Conversation On Being Postcolonial When No One Takes Any Notice
Abstract. This forum brings together six historians of Eastern Europe who discuss decolonizing approaches. In the aftermath of the Russian genocidal war, t
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May 2, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Over the last 22 months, @oksanadudko.bsky.social and I have been plotting this forum in @historyworkshop.org.uk
It offers input on decolonizing Eastern European history and how why we urgently need Eastern Europe when doing postcolonial history.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
It offers input on decolonizing Eastern European history and how why we urgently need Eastern Europe when doing postcolonial history.
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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It seems a good day to be reminded of this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZjG...
When did you find out that you were..............?
YouTube video by Ian Foster
m.youtube.com
April 29, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It seems a good day to be reminded of this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZjG...
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ok, for no reason but just because I think it's neat here's a thread of famous people with old gaming hardware or old computers.
big 90s and Y2K vibes.
Let's start with Shakira, Halle Berry and Bjork using a desktop computer
big 90s and Y2K vibes.
Let's start with Shakira, Halle Berry and Bjork using a desktop computer
April 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
ok, for no reason but just because I think it's neat here's a thread of famous people with old gaming hardware or old computers.
big 90s and Y2K vibes.
Let's start with Shakira, Halle Berry and Bjork using a desktop computer
big 90s and Y2K vibes.
Let's start with Shakira, Halle Berry and Bjork using a desktop computer
Fabulous! And it sounds a bit like my ‘slow journalism’. niemanreports.org/the-existent...
The Existential Editor: News for Humans, by Humans - Nieman Reports
From love and death to climate anxiety — Nieman Fellow Line Vaaben, Class of 2025, covers the things that keep you up at night.
niemanreports.org
April 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Fabulous! And it sounds a bit like my ‘slow journalism’. niemanreports.org/the-existent...
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The Right misunderstand Putin like the Left misunderstand Hamas.
February 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The Right misunderstand Putin like the Left misunderstand Hamas.
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💡 Read our latest feature story, in partnership with @poynterinstitute.bsky.social: When politicians and media personalities attack fact-checkers, they aren’t just attacking individuals. They’re undermining trust in truth itself.
niemanreports.org/fact-checkin...
niemanreports.org/fact-checkin...
The Case for Facts - Nieman Reports
Verifiable evidence remains journalism’s foundation, despite mounting attacks on the press. Story by Angie Holan, director of the International Fact-Checking Network.
niemanreports.org
February 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
💡 Read our latest feature story, in partnership with @poynterinstitute.bsky.social: When politicians and media personalities attack fact-checkers, they aren’t just attacking individuals. They’re undermining trust in truth itself.
niemanreports.org/fact-checkin...
niemanreports.org/fact-checkin...
I’ve noticed a frequent, distressing trope in TV dramas: someone escapes arrest by jumping to their death from a tall building. Latest example comes in the new Bergerac. I always have to leave the room because we lost a family member from (accidental) fall.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I’ve noticed a frequent, distressing trope in TV dramas: someone escapes arrest by jumping to their death from a tall building. Latest example comes in the new Bergerac. I always have to leave the room because we lost a family member from (accidental) fall.