Academy Film Archive Lays Off Multiple Staff Members in Restructuring as AMPAS Announces Expansions to Collection The Academy Film Archive has laid off archive and library staff members in a restructuring move, as the Academy Museum announced new acquisitions.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists

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Ludwig & Ryan met at USC film school. Would a Black kid from Oakland even be admitted into the program today? And would a Swede even want to come to this country for training?

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library Peer-reviewed publications remain the most accepted form of knowledge production and distribution in academia today. But such formal publications are often deeply exclusionary, especially for undergr...

I've been offering students the option to make zines in many of my UG classes as a part of a creative final projects, for many of the reasons Kawa mentions. But I also want to figure out how to integrate them into my own aca writing practice as well.

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Shocking and wrong. You have always been a critical touchstone for me.

We have a cover! Coming soon and OA too! Based on the Rethinking Sexualities project with the always brilliant, always beautiful, always kind @susannapaasonen.bsky.social and @jenmadelene.bsky.social
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For us all

Lou Grant is really worth watching again. You can chart the conservative shift in the early 80s by how the politics of the show (was forced to) change. And Billie/Linda Kelsey is great! As is, of course, Nancy Marchand

So Jealous!