Keegan Lannon
@keeganlannon.bsky.social
PhD: Aberystwyth; Work: UI-Chicago.
I twee—er, post (skeet?)—about all things that fall under the auspices of an English department, but especially comics, writing, and teaching (mainly about comics and writing).
I twee—er, post (skeet?)—about all things that fall under the auspices of an English department, but especially comics, writing, and teaching (mainly about comics and writing).
Big Second Semester Senior vibes here. Durbin is on his way out and doesn’t feel it’s his obligation to answer for any of his choices. M
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Big Second Semester Senior vibes here. Durbin is on his way out and doesn’t feel it’s his obligation to answer for any of his choices. M
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day for all those who celebrate. Maybe terrorize your workplace kitchen today like a brainless mass of walking veins and arteries trying to reshape itself into a man.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Happy Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day for all those who celebrate. Maybe terrorize your workplace kitchen today like a brainless mass of walking veins and arteries trying to reshape itself into a man.
I guess you can say this site has “made it” since I was just followed by an account that promised to grow my followers by some insanely high percentage.
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I guess you can say this site has “made it” since I was just followed by an account that promised to grow my followers by some insanely high percentage.
Being a Dad means I don’t get to games in a time fashion. SHOVEL KNIGHT by @yachtclubgames.bsky.social came out in 2014, I think I got it around 2019, and just now started playing it.
It’s great. I can see why everyone loved it 11 years ago. And as a game so deliberately retro, it ages well.
It’s great. I can see why everyone loved it 11 years ago. And as a game so deliberately retro, it ages well.
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Being a Dad means I don’t get to games in a time fashion. SHOVEL KNIGHT by @yachtclubgames.bsky.social came out in 2014, I think I got it around 2019, and just now started playing it.
It’s great. I can see why everyone loved it 11 years ago. And as a game so deliberately retro, it ages well.
It’s great. I can see why everyone loved it 11 years ago. And as a game so deliberately retro, it ages well.
For the third of our four days on Swallow Me Whole by @natepowell.bsky.social, I brought in Margaret Fink, the director of our Disability Cultural Center to talk about Mad Studies and the communities of Psychiatric Survivors (people who survived terrible treatment for mental health conditions).
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
For the third of our four days on Swallow Me Whole by @natepowell.bsky.social, I brought in Margaret Fink, the director of our Disability Cultural Center to talk about Mad Studies and the communities of Psychiatric Survivors (people who survived terrible treatment for mental health conditions).
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ATTN: SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEXT @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY OPEN DECEMBER 1ST.
EVERYTHING IS FINE. NOTHING IS WRONG. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA.
Start planning your submission to LIE MACHINE now!!
ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
EVERYTHING IS FINE. NOTHING IS WRONG. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA.
Start planning your submission to LIE MACHINE now!!
ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
November 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
ATTN: SUBMISSIONS FOR THE NEXT @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social ANTHOLOGY OPEN DECEMBER 1ST.
EVERYTHING IS FINE. NOTHING IS WRONG. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA.
Start planning your submission to LIE MACHINE now!!
ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
EVERYTHING IS FINE. NOTHING IS WRONG. WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH EURASIA.
Start planning your submission to LIE MACHINE now!!
ironcircus.com/lie-machine/
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
I was just talking to some students about death and dying in media, and then this book by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu (@epershannd.bsky.social) was on sale at my local library.
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I was just talking to some students about death and dying in media, and then this book by Hiromi Goto and Ann Xu (@epershannd.bsky.social) was on sale at my local library.
I know it's tangential to the whole thing, but does anyone else find it odd that there is not statistically significant amount of people with no opinion? *Everyone* asked has had an opinion in some way. That seems unusual to me, but I am not an expert in polling questions.
People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I know it's tangential to the whole thing, but does anyone else find it odd that there is not statistically significant amount of people with no opinion? *Everyone* asked has had an opinion in some way. That seems unusual to me, but I am not an expert in polling questions.
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Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here
Please share!
Please share!
Humanities Librarian - (African American Studies and English Literature)
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here
Please share!
Please share!
The conventions concerning author order in academic research are complicated, but these Italians working LLM research have, I think, nailed the best way:
November 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The conventions concerning author order in academic research are complicated, but these Italians working LLM research have, I think, nailed the best way:
After years of watching the Silver Sneakers at the gym, my buddy and I finally worked up the nerve to start playing pickleball. We got destroyed. These retirees couldn’t run to escape the building if it was on fire, but mopped the floor with us.
November 3, 2025 at 1:56 AM
After years of watching the Silver Sneakers at the gym, my buddy and I finally worked up the nerve to start playing pickleball. We got destroyed. These retirees couldn’t run to escape the building if it was on fire, but mopped the floor with us.
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The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
Happy Halloween!
For the kids: a variety of candies both chocolate and fruity; for the adults, charcuterie s’mores (smoked cream cheese, various spiced hams, and crackers).
For the kids: a variety of candies both chocolate and fruity; for the adults, charcuterie s’mores (smoked cream cheese, various spiced hams, and crackers).
October 31, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Happy Halloween!
For the kids: a variety of candies both chocolate and fruity; for the adults, charcuterie s’mores (smoked cream cheese, various spiced hams, and crackers).
For the kids: a variety of candies both chocolate and fruity; for the adults, charcuterie s’mores (smoked cream cheese, various spiced hams, and crackers).
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
Hey #ComicScholars and #AcademicSky more broadly. Julia Round (@hypnojoo.bsky.social) is working on what looks to be an interesting and important scholarly companion book on international comics:
www.intellectbooks.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hey #ComicScholars and #AcademicSky more broadly. Julia Round (@hypnojoo.bsky.social) is working on what looks to be an interesting and important scholarly companion book on international comics:
Why is John McWhorter running interference for people who mispronounce Mamdani's name? Is there a linguistic explanation for how words can be mispronounced over time and eventually take on new spellings because of that? There is, and he correctly notes it. But those words are not a person's name.
October 30, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Why is John McWhorter running interference for people who mispronounce Mamdani's name? Is there a linguistic explanation for how words can be mispronounced over time and eventually take on new spellings because of that? There is, and he correctly notes it. But those words are not a person's name.
There is some significant cognitive dissonance as the annual ethics training reminds me no one is allowed to pay for my lunch if they might have business with the University, while at the same time, the news reminds me the President is looking to have the DOJ pay him $230mil for doing it's job.
October 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
There is some significant cognitive dissonance as the annual ethics training reminds me no one is allowed to pay for my lunch if they might have business with the University, while at the same time, the news reminds me the President is looking to have the DOJ pay him $230mil for doing it's job.
I've been reading Pinker's THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT (1994), and I find the book to be both illuminating and deeply frustrating. He makes important claims about language that seem really progressive, like arguing all dialects are languages to themselves, equally nuanced and complicated.
October 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I've been reading Pinker's THE LANGUAGE INSTINCT (1994), and I find the book to be both illuminating and deeply frustrating. He makes important claims about language that seem really progressive, like arguing all dialects are languages to themselves, equally nuanced and complicated.
I'm sorry...did he say it was his "responsibility" as governor to make sure sports are fair?
California must be some sort of utopia if the top politician FOR THE WHOLE STATE has time to figure out how to make sports fair.
California must be some sort of utopia if the top politician FOR THE WHOLE STATE has time to figure out how to make sports fair.
gavin newsom says he wants to pass legislation banning trans people from playing sports in california
October 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I'm sorry...did he say it was his "responsibility" as governor to make sure sports are fair?
California must be some sort of utopia if the top politician FOR THE WHOLE STATE has time to figure out how to make sports fair.
California must be some sort of utopia if the top politician FOR THE WHOLE STATE has time to figure out how to make sports fair.
What's nice is that we didn't have to wait long for real-world examples of how AI video generators are going to make parsing out reality hard.
All those people who claimed AI skeptics were pearl-clutching over the potential for this exact situation to manifest can go fuck themselves.
All those people who claimed AI skeptics were pearl-clutching over the potential for this exact situation to manifest can go fuck themselves.
If you search TikTok for Hurricane Melissa videos right now, you'll see a flood of AI-generated and fake videos.
These AI videos include eye of the storm views from above, sharks swimming in floodwaters, huge waves battering towns, destroyed airports, and fake news reports.
These AI videos include eye of the storm views from above, sharks swimming in floodwaters, huge waves battering towns, destroyed airports, and fake news reports.
October 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What's nice is that we didn't have to wait long for real-world examples of how AI video generators are going to make parsing out reality hard.
All those people who claimed AI skeptics were pearl-clutching over the potential for this exact situation to manifest can go fuck themselves.
All those people who claimed AI skeptics were pearl-clutching over the potential for this exact situation to manifest can go fuck themselves.
I’ve long admired Steven Pinker without having read his stuff, but the more I read him the less Imposter Syndrome I have.
How can someone be so confidently wrong for 400 pages? Just astounding.
How can someone be so confidently wrong for 400 pages? Just astounding.
October 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I’ve long admired Steven Pinker without having read his stuff, but the more I read him the less Imposter Syndrome I have.
How can someone be so confidently wrong for 400 pages? Just astounding.
How can someone be so confidently wrong for 400 pages? Just astounding.
Just got off the phone with an organization that's works with lecturers to take their research to the public, and it looks like I'll be at a bar in River North (Chicago) to talk about language and rhetoric. I'll post more when dates are hammered out.
October 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Just got off the phone with an organization that's works with lecturers to take their research to the public, and it looks like I'll be at a bar in River North (Chicago) to talk about language and rhetoric. I'll post more when dates are hammered out.
When my Mom was diagnosed with cancer last year and underwent radiation treatment, I spent a lot of time watching Star Trek (the original cast) as she drifted in and out of sleep. She turned me on to Star Trek as a kid (and sci-fi more generally).
To say that the majority of Trek fans are right wing and that women don’t *really* like it is something that only a real trek fan would know that only a fake Trek fan would say
October 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
When my Mom was diagnosed with cancer last year and underwent radiation treatment, I spent a lot of time watching Star Trek (the original cast) as she drifted in and out of sleep. She turned me on to Star Trek as a kid (and sci-fi more generally).
I’m watching THE SOUND OF METAL, and the use of sound is amazing. Just brilliant.
October 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I’m watching THE SOUND OF METAL, and the use of sound is amazing. Just brilliant.