Learned yesterday that AI monitors Bluesky "Starter Packs" to determine who to cite for academic expertise.
So I'm starting one for Media History.
I'm too busy to search for every name. If you're a media historian nominate yourself in the comments and I'll add you.
Feminist film historian here!
#OtD 24 Mar 1912 Italian anarchist resistance fighter Augusta Farvo was born in Milan. Under fascism she was an active member of the Bruzzi-Malatesta anarchist partisan brigade, took part in the liberation and sheltered numerous partisans at her home stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9672...
A tweet that reads “The new academic wealth gap isn't your university. It's not even your advisor's connections. It's who knows Claude can turn 50+ research papers into a thesis chapter in 3 hours and who's still manually coding qualitative data. I just watched a sociology PhD skip 8 weeks of analysis. Here are the 9 prompts they used:”
fuck this so much
we are so not prepared for the mountain of dogshit “scholarship” about to flood journals everywhere
Good morning.
If you've just woken up, the politics of hope just crushed the politics of fear and hatred (Labour-Reform).
It wasn't even close.
40.6% for the Greens. Reform second on 28.7%, Labour third on 25.4%.
🧵 Dopo 8 anni hanno finalmente un volto i mandanti dell’omicidio di Marielle Franco, 38 anni, attivista per i diritti umani e consigliera comunale del partito Socialismo e Libertà, uccisa il 14 marzo 2018, insieme all'autista Anderson Gomes, di ritorno da una manifestazione per le donne a Rio
Tres concejales del partido de Mussolini registran una moción para prepara listas negras... ¡Quería decir partido de Meloni, ¿en qué estaría yo pensando?
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Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave
Very excited to be participating in Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine Conference. What an amazing lineup of speakers they've put together! You can check out the full schedule below. Honored to be among them.
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How AI Can Support Your Research Efficiency Automate routine or repetitive tasks, freeing up more time for experiments, analysis, and discovery. Creativity Spark new ideas, explore alternative approaches, or generate first drafts to move past the “blank page.” Clarity Translate complex data, technical language, or lengthy findings into clear summaries for colleagues, partners, or broader audiences. Organization Turn research notes, articles, or meeting discussions into structured summaries, action items, or literature maps. Accessibility Develop research outputs that are more inclusive and easier to share with collaborators, students, and the wider UNB community.
Nothing to see here other than a university telling its research community that AI can appropriately be used to "generate first drafts."
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I need to copy this idea!
Huge solidarity with @ucuessex.bsky.social and @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social, both out on strike today over threats to jobs and pensions.
Let’s do this #UCU #UKHE
Great film and testimony of the Wages For Housework movement in the UK. From 1975 but feels like talking to a friend today.
youtu.be/K2PdWfDm3b4
First ever. Shub in English. Keith Sanborn new book.
I’m a sucker for mid-20th century cover art so I’m definitely digging dust jacket of THE TECHNIQUE OF FILM EDITING by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar, 1968 expanded edition.
Evening viewing recommendation? On the Criterion Channel, watch Sara Gómez's ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (1977) in our Black Debutantes collection—a celebration of pioneering Black women who made an impact with their very first feature.
Yes! It’s almost in @jmbean.bsky.social hands!
The second was a special issue of @femmediahist.bsky.social that I co-edited with @tanyagoldman.bsky.social on the topic of nontheatrical film. Again, I was so proud of the truly global and diverse group of authors we put together. Give it a look!
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Such a great special issue and wonderful editors. A brilliant experience and surreal achievement getting something published a handful of months after becoming a mother!
Educational film existed in a much broader multimedia ecosystem that often included film strips — a ubiquitious mid-20th century form that has been neglected! Thus we’re very excited to learn of this exciting EU project, a collaboration between scholars in UK + Germany!
relocatingfilmstrips.eu
Just upsetting to see the same record being played over and over by senior managers that value buildings over people and education. #enough
If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education.
Monochrome photograph of a white woman standing over a desk with reel to reel recording equipment
Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt
Same.
Wow. i have been screening the Watermelon Woman for a few years and students here in the UK really love it
🚨 STRIKE ACTION ON THE 27 & 28 NOVEMBER 🚨
We’ve now served formal notice of strike action on 27 & 28 November.
Management must withdraw the plan to make 400+ of us redundant or risk escalating and sustained industrial action.
@ucu.org.uk
Mark Pendleton wears a pink UCU beanie, while standing on a train platform in the dawn light
Been a while since the pink beanie came out. Sheffield pickets here we come.
Our message to management is simple: No redundancies. Stop the incessant restructures. Listen to your staff. There is no University of Sheffield without us.
Nothing makes me stop paying attention quicker than hearing or reading 'I asked ChatGPT...'
Or “adapt to new ways of working”
MANILA — An important piece of Filipino history missing for almost 90 years and thought to be lost forever was just found in Belgium. “Diwata ng Karagatan” is now the oldest surviving Filipino film! 🎞️🎞️
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