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The news today was hard. Capitulating to the anti-diversity forces at the federal and state levels, OSU President Ted Carter told us about the closing of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Belonging and Social Change. www.thelantern.com/2025/02/we-l...

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Ohio State has eliminated our Office of Diversity & Inclusion, The Center for Belonging & Social Change, & renamed the Office of Institutional Equity as “The Office for Civil Rights Compliance.” This includes staff cuts and firings. Compliance indeed. Our admins are obeying in advance.

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I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

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"But as most presidents have remained silent, some critics have blamed institutional neutrality, the concept that universities should refrain from making statements on social or political issues." This is what institutional neutrality leads to👇 www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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great opportunity for a funded PhD here in New Zealand 👇👇👇

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I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students. Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

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We're excited to be hosting this conference later in 2025! There will be opportunities for ELCC students to be involved and to showcase their work in 18th and 19th century literature - please get in touch with Nikki Hessell for more information about these opportunities

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"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

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If you’ve enrolled in ENGL117 at Victoria University you’ll get many practical skills, including a head start on the NYT International Edition Sunday crossword.

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Looking forward to getting back in the classroom and connecting with a new cohort of first-years!

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Our government's policy on research in the humanities and social sciences making news overseas for all the wrong reasons👇

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Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

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We all benefit when Te Tiriti o Waitangi is respected www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-news/3605... #toitutetiriti #nzpol

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Exciting announcement

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Sublimate your existential terror by crafting an incisive political manifesto enmeshed in a 19th c niche project [AKA The submission portal for NAVSA2025 is now open] navsa.georgetown.edu/submit-propo...

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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

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Helen Rickerby's amazing work with George Eliot in HOW TO LIVE (2019) a lovely NZ example: nzpoetryshelf.com/2018/06/04/m...

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Five years since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it can feel as if trust in the knowledge of experts and scientific evidence is in crisis 🧪🧵

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I’ve often wished I was stupider.

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Exciting new book prize just announced by AASA! If you have a book in animal studies, get your nomination in: animalstudies.org.au/book-prize

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as you put together your #mla25 schedule, consider making an appt to donate blood if you want to come uptown, the jeff hwy location is a six-minute drive from singletons mini mart & seven from adams st grocery & deli ochsnerbloodbank.org/donorportal/

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Announcing our winter special issue: "Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel." 12 short essays engage with truisms in novel studies. Thanks to Sarah Allison & Megan Ward (@sarahdallison.bsky.social, @megaplex.bsky.social) for guest editing & to all the contributors!

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No. This is nonsense. Generative AI isn't artificial intelligence, it's a theft machine, built on theft, sipping the lifeblood of our planet, vomiting out simulacrum of creativity and talent that is most striking its its uncanny valley hollowness. It is the corporate murder of creativity. A plague.

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In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.

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Really glad we managed to get funding for this position. 2 year post doc in tikanga and the law. Please RT to your networks if you work in the area, and if you're interested in the role yourself please do consider applying; don't self exclude. Exciting time and place for this mahi.

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Universityes are places wher unique, DIY kyndes of intellectual, artistic, scientific, & creative communitye kan flourish yn order to create true innovacioun, unconstrained by the limits of profit-based businesse and the monoculture of the status quo. That ys why so manye oligarchs dislike them.

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The Royal Society Te Apārangi has sent an open letter to the Prime Minister about the importance of social sciences and humanities, following changes to the Marsden Fund terms that explicitly exclude research areas in the social sciences and humanities: www.royalsociety.org.nz/news/open-le...

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I will only say this once as a representative of all English teachers everywhere. The words in the book that are sequenced into a “narrative” are voiced by a “narrator.” Now, and hang with me here, the narrator is not the author.

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Statement from the Australian Council of Learned Acadamies about the Marsden decision. There's concern across the global research sector about the NZ government's decision to defund key research areas

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Tina Makereti's next book, and her first of non-fiction, something to wait for in the new year. A writer who means so much, and makes so much meaning, for so many of us: teherengawakapress.co.nz/this-compuls...

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This.

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Word of the day is ‘quafftide’ (16th century): the season for drinking. Also a pithy way of declaring that it’s time to relax. Works for hydropots (water drinkers) just as well.

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Can confirm that this is an amazing opportunity for someone looking to do a funded PhD here in Aotearoa NZ focused on poetry & Romanticism/settler colonialism/Indigenous sovereignty 👇👇👇

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Please share widely! Full NZ PhD scholarship available as part of a Marsden-funded project, for dissertations focused on poetry & negotiation, incl. at least one of these subfields: British 18C and/or Romantic poetry Settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

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“This decision is disastrous and a major step backward . . . . New Zealand needs people who will hold a mirror up to our society and challenge our assumptions, if we are to prosper as people and as a country.” — Grant Robertson Vice-Chancellor University of Otago www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...

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