An account of university learning in the 14th century (from a 20th-c scholar):
'Oxford and Cambridge increasingly educated laymen, anxious for a little grammar and a year or two away from home, but not intending to put their university training to serious professional use.' Plus ça change?
I am teaching Watchmen this week & am excited to share this thread with my students! Thank you.
The UMich Regent who allegedly spearhead efforts to prosecute student protestors lost his endorsement to the Lebanese immigrant who represented those students in court.
At about the same age we enrolled my elder kid in a theater class, which she initially refused: “But Mom, I don’t want to act. I want to direct.”
![Headline of an NPR Science article: "The real space science behind Project Hail Mary." Its opening graf then segues into the core sci-fidelity question: "So how much of that science [in the film] is really plausible?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:egdbzrssfqf2e3bnxzocteyf/bafkreie2476mzcrrcvxjj2lcbizmzt25o7lyiqxo7ehf3q5auq7f2v37gi)
Headline of an NPR Science article: "The real space science behind Project Hail Mary." Its opening graf then segues into the core sci-fidelity question: "So how much of that science [in the film] is really plausible?"
Science fiction cinema as sci-comms adaptation: The entire framing of this NPR piece on Project Hail Mary underscores what we call Hollywood's "sci-fidelity turn" (pp. 167-179) www.peterlang.com/document/111...
Marvelous that this film resurfaces at precisely this moment of technological anxieties!
a truly cursed question: how would you cast Isabelle Huppert in the MCU?
scarlet witch's mom
New on the Anthropic settlement from the @authorsguild.org : over 91% (!!) of eligible books were claimed as of the claims deadline (I would not have predicted such a high number!)
Looks like the payout will be close to the $3000 originally estimated authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...
New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Ötkan, C. Ç. (2026). Beyond local belonging: The socio-political construction of football fandom in Türkiye. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 0(0).
#FanStudies
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When I raised this query during copilot training (🙄) I got told we hd a business msoft account so it was all secure, and then they ended the chat 😂
I screen this one in class! Banger. I think it surprises them how much they relate to her in it.
Marvelous that this film resurfaces at precisely this moment of technological anxieties!
the criterion closet bit is great
incredible! 🐋
is this post about Friends because they have stopped rolling their eyes and started perking up at the mention of that show in particular
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In publishing as in all areas of higher ed labor!
Similarly, "how to get a grant" panels should address the current funding landscape instead of repeating some variation of "innovate harder"
A huge loss for the Hampshire College community and for the entire Five College network, which includes my alma mater, Smith College.
i wish we had done this in digital humanities
by a guy named Capp, no less 👏
Congratulations, Christina! 🎊
Headline of an NPR Science article: "The real space science behind Project Hail Mary." Its opening graf then segues into the core sci-fidelity question: "So how much of that science [in the film] is really plausible?"
Science fiction cinema as sci-comms adaptation: The entire framing of this NPR piece on Project Hail Mary underscores what we call Hollywood's "sci-fidelity turn" (pp. 167-179) www.peterlang.com/document/111...
Recommending this great piece on Jarmusch's musical approaches and contributions to his films!
The wildly implausible ending gives the game away, this is true!
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the deep magic has a triple-digit h-index
Struck by how many of these titles Shahrzad Seyfafjehi and I discussed in our chapter that unpacks the "sci-fidelity turn" in Hollywood science fiction: pp. 167-179 of this book www.peterlang.com/document/111...