Jason Kerr
@jakerr35.bsky.social
he/him Professor of 17th-century British literature, composer, occasional homilist. Author of Milton’s Theological Process (Oxford, 2023) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/miltons-theological-process-9780198875086
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What continuously shocks me is so many people have so little pride in what they do.If you have a PhD you trained for at least 5 post college years to acquire expertise in a field.When you’re asked to review its’s to tap that hard won expertise. Why would you think a machine an adequate substitute?
We are seeing multiple instances of reviewers doing manuscript reviews via use of AI/LLM.
If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request.
Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
If you don't want to do a review the old-fashioned way, better to decline the request.
Giving someone else's manuscript to AI is a violation of intellectual property rights/laws; the manuscript isn't yours...
May 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
What continuously shocks me is so many people have so little pride in what they do.If you have a PhD you trained for at least 5 post college years to acquire expertise in a field.When you’re asked to review its’s to tap that hard won expertise. Why would you think a machine an adequate substitute?
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This is such an excellent point and media should be reporting it this way. (This is in reference to Miller’s preposterous but still dangerous claim earlier today about the executive branch considering suspending the writ)
The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.
May 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
This is such an excellent point and media should be reporting it this way. (This is in reference to Miller’s preposterous but still dangerous claim earlier today about the executive branch considering suspending the writ)
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If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
May 3, 2025 at 1:23 PM
If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
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With alt text. The kicker comes at the end and it takes a bit to get there, but I tried to describe the rather dry layout leading up to it very clearly because the contrast of dryness to horror is very important to how the image lands for me.
April 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
With alt text. The kicker comes at the end and it takes a bit to get there, but I tried to describe the rather dry layout leading up to it very clearly because the contrast of dryness to horror is very important to how the image lands for me.
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Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...
Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...
Poems by the Incomparable Mrs K. P. (The Tutin Manuscript)
Katherine Philips (1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664) was an Anglo-Welsh Royalist poet and translator. Philips authored over a hundred poems on female friendship, theology, politics, and the nature of s...
scholarsarchive.byu.edu
April 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...
Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...
Please repost:
Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...
Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...
Poems by the Incomparable Mrs K. P. (The Tutin Manuscript)
Katherine Philips (1 January 1631/2 – 22 June 1664) was an Anglo-Welsh Royalist poet and translator. Philips authored over a hundred poems on female friendship, theology, politics, and the nature of s...
scholarsarchive.byu.edu
April 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Please repost:
Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...
Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...
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A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
![In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u@jpeg)
!["You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4@jpeg)
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
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The Trump admin has been instructed by a judge to restore the legal status of 133 international students.
Their status had been revoked for, among other absurd and egregious reasons, *traffic violations.*
abc7.com/post/ice-rei...
Their status had been revoked for, among other absurd and egregious reasons, *traffic violations.*
abc7.com/post/ice-rei...
April 23, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The Trump admin has been instructed by a judge to restore the legal status of 133 international students.
Their status had been revoked for, among other absurd and egregious reasons, *traffic violations.*
abc7.com/post/ice-rei...
Their status had been revoked for, among other absurd and egregious reasons, *traffic violations.*
abc7.com/post/ice-rei...
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Here’s a description of @matthewsteggle.bsky.social ‘s work that can be read by an interested public. The rest of us will await the grainier details in the journal Shakespeare.
Wow! And the binder to Shakespeare's printer Richard Field possibly using a letter to Anne Hathaway as binder's waste. Did some households give/sell their old business correspondence to binders?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Here’s a description of @matthewsteggle.bsky.social ‘s work that can be read by an interested public. The rest of us will await the grainier details in the journal Shakespeare.
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So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.
April 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.
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“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government **posted their home address** to social media.” 4/23/25 newrepublic.com/post/194289/...
Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up
Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s wife says she fears for her safety since the Trump administration deported him to a prison in El Salvador.
newrepublic.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government **posted their home address** to social media.” 4/23/25 newrepublic.com/post/194289/...
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I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth
Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.
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If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).
April 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).
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“In an age of uncertainty, we can’t predict the specific profile of a productive workforce. But recruiting according to immediate demands risks becoming anachronistic fast.”
So, employers, demand government funds the arts & humanities. We spend our entire first year unteaching by-rote learning.
So, employers, demand government funds the arts & humanities. We spend our entire first year unteaching by-rote learning.
April 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
“In an age of uncertainty, we can’t predict the specific profile of a productive workforce. But recruiting according to immediate demands risks becoming anachronistic fast.”
So, employers, demand government funds the arts & humanities. We spend our entire first year unteaching by-rote learning.
So, employers, demand government funds the arts & humanities. We spend our entire first year unteaching by-rote learning.
A student just presented me with a beautiful, hand-bound copy of his diplomatic edition of Katherine Philips's Tutin manuscript (which should be available digitally soon). It's one of the most beautiful and thoughtful gifts I've ever received from a student.
April 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A student just presented me with a beautiful, hand-bound copy of his diplomatic edition of Katherine Philips's Tutin manuscript (which should be available digitally soon). It's one of the most beautiful and thoughtful gifts I've ever received from a student.
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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
April 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).
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really feel like writing something on how steep tariffs may destroy restaurants that depend on imported ingredients to replicate non-American flavors—and thus spark a movement toward more conservative, blander food scenes throughout the US
April 9, 2025 at 4:08 AM
really feel like writing something on how steep tariffs may destroy restaurants that depend on imported ingredients to replicate non-American flavors—and thus spark a movement toward more conservative, blander food scenes throughout the US
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
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1/ I need to say something a little more personal about the NEH. A 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
1/ I need to say something a little more personal about the NEH. A 🧵
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I love the work Chris does and hadn’t thought of how much of it is possible only because of the @nehgov.bsky.social ‘s support. It is so sad to see the NEH hacked to bits by a chainsaw in the chaos that has been unleashed. Call your representatives and ask them to save the NEH (and the NIH, NSF, SSA
1/ I need to say something a little more personal about the NEH. A 🧵
April 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I love the work Chris does and hadn’t thought of how much of it is possible only because of the @nehgov.bsky.social ‘s support. It is so sad to see the NEH hacked to bits by a chainsaw in the chaos that has been unleashed. Call your representatives and ask them to save the NEH (and the NIH, NSF, SSA
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If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility
The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.
www.newsobserver.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks.
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
The website to check linked in the reply.
www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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Once again Vance's claim that we should not sympathize with Garcia but with the people victimized by MS-13 refutes itself.
In 2019, Abrego-Garcia was not deemed at risk of torture by the Salvadoran government but of persecution by a local gang that he said terrorized his family and tried to extort them over his mother's successful pupusa business. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Once again Vance's claim that we should not sympathize with Garcia but with the people victimized by MS-13 refutes itself.
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The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.
April 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.