Erik Wade
@erikkaars.bsky.social
Queer medievalist. Helicopter parent to a kitty. Champion napper. He/they
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Frankenstein (2025)
November 9, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Frankenstein (2025)
My review of Wright, Hall, and Hill's "A New Commentary on the Old English ‘Prose Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Adrian and Ritheus’ Dialogues" is out!
scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
25.10.10 Wright, Charles D., Thomas Hall, and Thomas D. Hill. A New Commentary on the Old English ‘Prose Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Adrian and Ritheus’ Dialogues.
| The Medieval Review
scholarworks.iu.edu
October 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My review of Wright, Hall, and Hill's "A New Commentary on the Old English ‘Prose Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Adrian and Ritheus’ Dialogues" is out!
scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
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Seeing a lot of "read banned books" posts and I just want to remind everyone my upcoming book with @erikkaars.bsky.social is gonna be banned so you know what to do. 🤣
a woman in a red dress says " read honey "
ALT: a woman in a red dress says " read honey "
media.tenor.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Seeing a lot of "read banned books" posts and I just want to remind everyone my upcoming book with @erikkaars.bsky.social is gonna be banned so you know what to do. 🤣
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I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
Lol at the dictionary being like "I hope none of you go to heaven"
'Rapture' comes from the Latin 'rapere' meaning "to seize and carry off."
'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'
We hope neither carries you off today.
'Raptor' also comes from 'rapere.'
We hope neither carries you off today.
September 24, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Lol at the dictionary being like "I hope none of you go to heaven"
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A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure.
The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
September 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure.
The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
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"The department of justice has acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating."
Coming to a classroom near you.
Coming to a classroom near you.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
"The department of justice has acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating."
Coming to a classroom near you.
Coming to a classroom near you.
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Hey academics, this applies to you too!!!!! Especially if you have published a book *or* you have a work anthologized in a book. Go check the dataset, and register as a potential member of the class ASAP.
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Hey academics, this applies to you too!!!!! Especially if you have published a book *or* you have a work anthologized in a book. Go check the dataset, and register as a potential member of the class ASAP.
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Mohammed is in a really dangerous place and needs to leave
September 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Mohammed is in a really dangerous place and needs to leave
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Im sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Dima. Dima is only 19 years old and she is studying to become a nurse. She just got engaged. Unfortunately she is also trapped in the North and doesn’t have the funds to escape. She also has really poor internet so it’s hard to reach out.
September 3, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Im sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Dima. Dima is only 19 years old and she is studying to become a nurse. She just got engaged. Unfortunately she is also trapped in the North and doesn’t have the funds to escape. She also has really poor internet so it’s hard to reach out.
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This is simultaneously the most important and the stupidest academic discovery I have ever heard of in my life (complimentary)
Very silly new article out now, tracing the transmission of a medieval story that claims that--when a leopard bites someone--mice become DESPERATE to urinate on the leopard bite. If they manage to do this, the bitten person dies.
doi.org/10.1093/note...
doi.org/10.1093/note...
When the leopard’s away, the mice will pee: the medieval transmission of an animal narrative from timotheus of Gaza to Persian, Arabic, and English texts
In his history of the kings of England, twelfth-century English historian William of Malmesbury makes the following curious aside:it is a known fact that i
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This is simultaneously the most important and the stupidest academic discovery I have ever heard of in my life (complimentary)
Very silly new article out now, tracing the transmission of a medieval story that claims that--when a leopard bites someone--mice become DESPERATE to urinate on the leopard bite. If they manage to do this, the bitten person dies.
doi.org/10.1093/note...
doi.org/10.1093/note...
When the leopard’s away, the mice will pee: the medieval transmission of an animal narrative from timotheus of Gaza to Persian, Arabic, and English texts
In his history of the kings of England, twelfth-century English historian William of Malmesbury makes the following curious aside:it is a known fact that i
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Very silly new article out now, tracing the transmission of a medieval story that claims that--when a leopard bites someone--mice become DESPERATE to urinate on the leopard bite. If they manage to do this, the bitten person dies.
doi.org/10.1093/note...
doi.org/10.1093/note...
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An Al Jazeera journalist is among 15 Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. At least three other journalists were killed in the attack.
August 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
An Al Jazeera journalist is among 15 Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. At least three other journalists were killed in the attack.
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Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza, say health officials
Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza, say health officials
Deaths take to at least 192 the number of Palestinian journalists killed in the conflict since 7 October 2023
Four journalists were among at least 15 people killed by Israeli strikes on al-Nasser hospital in southern Gaza, Palestinian health officials said.
The strikes on Monday killed Hussam al-Masri, who worked for Reuters, Mariam Abu Dagga, who worked for the Associated Press, the Al Jazeera journalist Mohammed Salam, and Moaz Abu Taha from NBC. Another Reuters journalist, Hatem Khaled, was also wounded in the attack. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza, say health officials
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BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
August 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
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The National Parks Service just fired SJ Joslin, a Yosemite Park Ranger, for their work hanging the trans pride flag on El Capitan in May.
Yosemite Employee Fired After Flying Trans Pride Flag
Shannon “SJ” Joslin says they were fired for exercising freedom of speech.
www.bloomberg.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The National Parks Service just fired SJ Joslin, a Yosemite Park Ranger, for their work hanging the trans pride flag on El Capitan in May.
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AFT and university administrators may have bought into the AI hype, but we don't have to join them!
A really great resource that includes a page dedicated to labor bargaining (and more evidence that the Luddites were right for fighting the obnoxious machines of automation).
A really great resource that includes a page dedicated to labor bargaining (and more evidence that the Luddites were right for fighting the obnoxious machines of automation).
teachers!
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.
take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
AFT and university administrators may have bought into the AI hype, but we don't have to join them!
A really great resource that includes a page dedicated to labor bargaining (and more evidence that the Luddites were right for fighting the obnoxious machines of automation).
A really great resource that includes a page dedicated to labor bargaining (and more evidence that the Luddites were right for fighting the obnoxious machines of automation).