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Working on conference presentations, my book, a book chapter, grading, and life. Oof!

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You're looking fine, so fine. Dressed up like a lovely day. #U2 #BabyFace

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Call for Proposals: Minority-Language Sustainability and the Folk Gothic session at MLA 2026 in Toronto

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First of 3 Call for Proposals for an in-person session at MLA 2026 in Toronto. This is a Gothic Studies forum session, although not our guaranteed session, and participants need to be MLA members by April. Minority-Language Sustainability and the Folk Gothic mla.confex.com/mla/2026/web...

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Check out this Star Trek TNG poncho my aunt made me! 🖖❤️ #TrekSky

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It’s been a good week. #spreadpositivity

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I think our country sinks beneath the yoke: It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.

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Hope you all have a wonderful day no matter who you spend it with! So thankful for all my new friends here on Blue Sky #HappyValentinesDay

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soft CFP: I am looking for agents in the nonfiction trade world who might want to join a trade proposal panel I'm organizing for next year's AHA. It's in Chicago in January, so nice and balmy.

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Because it's black history month and I love star trek‼️❤️🖖🏿 #BlackHistoryMonth #livelongandprosper #StarTrek

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Today in Black Histroy I’d like to recognize actor/singer/dancer Nichelle Nichols. You know her from Star Trek of course. she was also an activist and nearly quit Star Trek at one point. MLK convinced her to stay as he rightfully said she was an inspiration to young black women. lucky for us she did

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Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth with Black TV characters🎉 Today, I celebrate Captain Benjamin Sisko from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Character quote: "I'm not Picard." Benjamin Sisko was portrayed by Avery Brooks, the first Black man to lead a Star Trek series. #BHM

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Always going to be one of my top favorite Dr. Crusher lines. If there's nothing wrong with me...maybe there's something wrong with the universe. #StarTrekTNG #StarTrek #Trekkies #Treksky #SciFi

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To an oligarch all kyndenesse doth looke lyke waste

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Let the birds fly

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You say love is a temple, love a higher law. Love is a temple, love the higher law. #U2 #One

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My attempt to mash up a junk journal and an outline. I’m going to try this with my students this week as they prepare book reviews on their cookbooks. I am using the Gothic Cookbook for the sample.

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Happy Star Trek Saturday! #StarTrek🖖🏿

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I’ve tried something totally new (to me) this semester for comp 2. I collected used cookbooks and each student received one at random. (There was an opportunity to swap). Now the cookbook is the text for the class. 🧵

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Received three vaccines today! Thankful for this form of life-saving medical science. had to fix typo

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I know it is all so terrible. In a moment of sadness I wanted to look towards hope, so I contacted my town’s mayor with an idea for National Poetry month. Guess what: he liked the concept and I just emailed to get a meeting. Maybe little glimmers are the way forward for me at the moment. ✨

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Now would also be a good time to (re)read "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" by Mark Twain. It's a sad, hilarious allegory for the failure of Reconstruction and the vulnerability of progressive liberal democracy. Read the #ebook free on @gutenberg.org: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/86

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This is exhausting…

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Them: Humanities and Social Sciences are so useless! Get real degrees! Them, once elected: we must immediately remove any trace of our greatest and most threatening enemies: First of their Names, Worm Riders and Those Prophesied to Destroy Us, Humanities and Social Science Research!

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Feeling stabby. Already broke a needle.😬🥲 #embroidery

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CFP

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Alack, thou dost usurp authority.

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I am soliciting chapters for an edited collection titled 'Sensing the Sacred: Proprioception and Kinesthesia in Ancient Greek Religion'. It will hopefully go in an exciting new book series that is part of ongoing New Perspectives in Ancient Greek Religion plans. #ClassicsBluesky

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Hot take: Columbo is still my favorite (non Star Trek) comfort TV.

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Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child’s children, cry against you “woe!”

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Academics of Bluesky! Does anyone have access to the journal East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, specifically articles published in 2024?

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I do defy him, and I spit at him

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This year has been a long one—oh wait. It’s February. 🫠

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You kan not treate educacioun lyke a businesse. A businesse ys ther to make a profit. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

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Come see me at Green Door Hobart Indiana til 4p cst #UsedBooks #LocalArt #Community

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When astronomers get too drunke thei texte their exoplanets

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Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

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As we warp into the spring semester may your: • coffee be Janeway-approved • logic be like Spock’s • ambition rival Seven’s. • curiosity match Data’s. & resilience mirror Picard’s. 🖖🏽 Live Long and Prosper 🖖🏼 #StarTrek #AcademicSky #Trekademia #HigherEducation

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Have you published a book or essay highlighting LGBTQIA2+ characters, narratives, or representation in #StarTrek, #Babylon5, #Xena, #Buffy, #X-files, etc? If you have and you’d like your book to be showcased in a museum exhibit I’m creating, let me know!

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We’re hiring a tenured historian at UMass-Amherst in the Public Histories of North American Enslavement. Please circulate to anyone you think would be interested careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... 🗃️

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As relevant as ever! #academicSky #momademia

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No Star Wars. No Star Trek. Name a favorite sci-fi franchise.

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If you see this post a gif of how your week has been. No explanations.

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And it's true we are immune. When fact is fiction and TV reality. #U2 #SundayBloodySunday

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