i don't understand this economy when nursing homes are so expensive they bankrupt our grandparents but nursing home aides need to use food banks. daycare is so expensive it eats up one parent's entire paycheck and yet daycare providers only make $10/hr and need second jobs.
this thread tho
Like many things, I always like “having written” a lot.
“Writing” isn’t such a sure thing.
She’s a banger okay
the NSF's own numbers show that in research expenditures per GDP the US now ranks only 23rd in the world; massive defunding of basic research across arts and sciences is afoot
Feeling v grateful today for UCLA/Harvard faculty who provided me with free (!!) access to all of Harvard’s library resources, including quiet study.
(It’s not the Powell Reading Room but it’ll do 😉)
Having a fun full-circle research moment: 8 years ago as a first-year grad student I attended a conference on rethinking the value of 15th C literature and was VERY out of my depth. For the new article I’m writing I’m returning to those conversations and realizing I have lots to add— a cool feeling!
As I continue to say: at the schools slashing humanities programs, look at where the admins went to college, as well as where they send their own children. They have no problem narrowing the horizons for other people's kids because they and theirs remain untouched by the consequences.
Daylight Saving Time is increasingly hard to notice when my digital devices are like, "What? Nothing happened. We know what time it is."
And my stove is left blinking and screaming, "IT HAPPENED! TIME SHIFTED UNNATURALLY! THEY'RE ALL LYING! ONLY I KNOW! ONLY I REMEMBER!"
A real party happening at Yale next week. "What is a Colonial Archive?"
I'm leading the materials workshop - and have chosen a nice array of Ethiopic, South Asian, East Asian, Latin American, and North American indigenous materials to get us going!
materialhistories.yale.edu/news/what-co...
"The Alchemy Lecture seeks to harness the spirit of this ancient endeavour to foster new ways of thinking about the most pressing issues of our times. In its original form, alchemy focused on combining elements to yield a compound that would inspire change and, in some instances, grant immortality."
"The Alchemy Lecture is a multi-vocal model that brings together a constellation of five
thinkers and practitioners from different disciplines and geographies annually to think together and in public on the most pressing issues of our times."
#YUAlchemy2023
Live Now
www.youtube.com/live/WQMVcZm...
Was way too excited to learn more about modern alchemists but… that’s not what this is 😂 my bad
58 years ago Sunday LBJ released a report from a group of experts on atmospheric carbon dioxide.
"Through his worldwide industrial civilization, Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment" that could produce "climatic changes... deleterious from the point of view of human beings."
Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I keep thinking about this article and about how the types of work the techbros keep trying to convince us AI is good at (communication, art) are fields that are thought of as, to some degree, feminine. I don’t have a well formed thought here but it’s striking to me
when you're watching masterpiece mystery and a boy's choir is singing a hymn you know shit's about to go down
Please repost and spread the word. Putting this list together is one of my favorite things ever AND it’s also a great occasion to remind lit studies scholars that MLA has an Indie Scholar Book Prize! Few orgs do and it’s important recognition of the work contingent/NTT scholars do.
I’m not a “cool” academic in that I find writing super painful, but is there anything more fun than ransacking the library for the first sources of a new project?
(Like most of my interests, it involves demons… and drama!)
blep
Spidery skeleton detail above a dissection
How Your Email Finds Me
#HappyHalloween
(Valverde Anatomy, 1560 #NewberryLibrary)
For Halloween, one of my favourite fancy dress costumes in history
George J. Nicholls going to Covent Garden ball dressed as a side of bacon (1894). He later published a book, ‘Bacon & Hams'
I guess he just loved bacon 🥓🥓🥓 🗃️🎃
Happy Halloween from my 2/5 of my witchy writing group! 🎃🧙🏻♀️
It only took three months and I’m a Dunkin Donuts convert for my all-season iced coffee 🏳️🌈 (It helps that here in MA there’s one literally every five minutes)
The stunning trove of texts sheds new light on Wheatley, the first African American to publish a book of poetry
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...
Honestly this is how I buy books too. Libby has been game-changing; I either read 6 books in a week or 0 books for months, there’s no in between.
How many screens is too many screens?? Asking for a friend…