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Health Humanities at University of Minnesota, Health, Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in 18th/19thC British and Irish literature. Must love dogs. https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/matthew-reznicek
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a very fine teaching hospital, nationally ranked in many specialties, has to lay 650 people.

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How many of them will go for communion on Sunday without their masks?

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Michael Pham fled Vietnam at the age of 13. He was named bishop of San Diego a month ago. Today, he stood watch at a courthouse: ICE agents were “standing there covered with masks as we walked toward the courtroom. Eventually the agents scattered and went away” timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

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Universities are major employers - attacks on universities are attacks on jobs.

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If you don’t have anything nice to say, just make something up instead. That’s the strategy GOP politicians have adopted in hopes of selling their regressive, unpopular budget bill to voters, as an even harsher version of the legislation now makes its way through the Senate. wapo.st/4n6QkT3

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“This is the “Holy Grail” of abolitionist-era Baptist documents,” said the Rev. Diane L. Badger, administrator of the American Baptist Church of Massachusetts. 🗃️📜 Time to look in your archival spaces to see what is hiding in the dark corners!

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BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

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This is it. How actual scholarship (often) works.

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"In court documents, university officials have described a 'palpable sense of fear, confusion, and uncertainty on Harvard’s campus about the future of its international students' as well as worldwide travel disruptions affecting international students in the wake of the administration’s orders."

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Read a whole book today. Wrote one (1) footnote with it.

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If I worked at the Washington Post, I would be dying of shame. This is not about publicity-seeking Democrats, this is about the rise of a police state. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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👇👇👇👇

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WELL BOYS, ITS TIME TO GET TO YOUR LOCAL COURTHOUSE!

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I need Minnesotans to learn that there are more beers than IPAs

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Happy “I finished the manuscript revisions” beer.

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First run in a week and it’s 85 with 80% humidity. Why is this self care?

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Evergreen

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Curious about Lectures on Imagination? Robert Piercey unpacks Ricoeur’s late thinking on poetics, possibility, and phenomenology in Philosophy in Review. 🔗 buff.ly/HEjuVHU #PaulRicoeur #Phenomenology

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One might call it a Wonder.

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30 years ago today, Natalie Merchant released Tigerlily, her solo debut after 10,000 Maniacs. Three Hot 100 hits, five-times platinum, and a reminder that sometimes stepping out on your own sounds this beautiful.

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All that’s left is the bibliography.

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New signs at incarceration camps raise historical erasure concerns asamnews.com/2025/06/19/d... via @AsAmNews

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Following on from the success of their 2024 event at Manchester Deaf Centre, UKDHHH are hosting a virtual event for organisations and individuals working with, or interested in, the histories of Disabled, Neurodivergent, and/or Deaf people! Weds 25 June 10:00-16:00 (BST) #Online #skystorians

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So many people are going to learn exactly how important writing is for learning and thinking over the next year. All that underfunding of writing programs and treating writing as a simple, generic skill are coming home to roost.

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“In the formative stages of education, we are now at risk of stripping away the core competency that makes our species thrive: learning not what to think, but how to think.” www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-...

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Glad to have seen this essay making the rounds. I agree wholeheartedly with most all its conclusions, even while I still fret about assessment that makes space for those with differentiated learning needs. I’m not sure how the in-class text can work inclusively…

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Whether it's Joe Biden's son's business partner writing "the big guy" in an email when Biden was ex-vice president or Donald Trump selling crypto, NFTs, bibles, gold sneakers, watches, and cell phone plans while he is the current president, both sides have monetized executive branch positions.

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Drowned in the bathtub, to borrow a phrase

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The thing is that the years and years of constant, voluntary cuts makes higher ed more susceptible and impacted by these changes happening outside the university. We have “right-sized” ourselves into the perfect position to be attacked from the outside. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

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The puppy is also over the heat

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It’s going to be ~29c with 86% humidity. This is why I hate summer.

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My goal today is to finish proofing my remaining two chapters. Then next week I can finalise the bibliography. Time to get this book off my desk.

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the damage is incalculable. in the future, no one will trust our visas. no one will trust our grants. tax credits/incentives for infrastructure won't be trusted. The US is establishing itself as an unreliable partner.

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Per Rolling Stone (and others) — Trump’s Fox News consumption is why he went from saying we had nothing to do with it to taking credit (?) for the attack: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... (Meanwhile Iran says they did not ask to come to the White House, despite Trump’s claim)

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My developmental editor just loved my revised intro! All that’s left is the formatting till I resubmit this mss.

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I'll say it again: It's clear that the Atlantic is supplanting the Washington Post as America's second most important media outlet.

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All the boosterism seems to elide the fact that, at its base, AI allows students to outsource their thinking to something else.

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I really resent how much time I have to spend on thinking about how to AI-proof my assignments.

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I have been stigmatized for many reasons over my life. But the social death of not being an AI booster right now is 🔥🔥

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