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Shannon Murray
@shannonkmmurray.bsky.social
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I teach Shakespeare and children’s lit on the beautiful Prince Edward Island — and I write about teaching for hope in higher ed.
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shannonkmmurray.bsky.social
Rereading The Hobbit, which my students voted in as our last novel for a Children’s Lit class. This line got me: “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, the world would be a merrier place.“ Amen.
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Tech wythout heart ys a horror.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
R hetorique & the crafte of
T eaching
October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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shakespeare.lol
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush, and tyranny
Tremble at patience.
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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justincolson.bsky.social
At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!
October 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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pdurdel.bsky.social
I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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katiephang.bsky.social
“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”

The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
October 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Missed Globe4Globe: Shakespeare and Environmental Justice ?

Catch up with many of the talks here 👇

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September 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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shakespeare.lol
The evil that men do lives after them
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Starts Tomorrow
Friday 12 September
2pm
Online
Free
👇

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice share.google/IzXWfke8BpZl...
Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
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September 11, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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earlymodlancs.bsky.social
Fancy 24 hours of free, online talks?

Friday 12th to Saturday 13th September 2025

🌎🎭📚🌍🎭📚🌏🎭📚🌎🎭📚

Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice

Information & Registration here 👇

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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice
The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.
share.google
September 10, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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susandblum.bsky.social
#AICon in #education: we’re not all fans.

www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The… | Ben Willi...
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The Construction...
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September 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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onslies.bsky.social
"Our subjects need to be allowed to be their subjects, or else their value will fail."

Useful reminder of what's happening to our jobs and disciplines.
Every worker who has lost their job in academia due to the spurious metrics and financial troubles that have become the norm is a victim of constructive dismissal. More and more we are asked to take our energy away from what we were primarily hired to do to work more and more on proving our financial value. The power behind this is real, and opposing it and defending our colleagues from the worst consequences requires rigorous strategy as well as action. However, we should also defend our rightful place in society as centres of tradition and learning, and demand recognition as worthy in our own right.
August 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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marcossgonsalez.bsky.social
“It is essential that we build into our teaching vision a place where spirit matters, a place where our spirits can be renewed and our souls restored. We must become as articulate in naming our joys as we are in naming our suffering.”

—bell hooks
August 17, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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ruthejbooth.bsky.social
"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)
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
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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rorshock.bsky.social
Can we please put to bed the idea that #LLMs can help with scholarly research?

After assembling dozens of titles around a research question, I decided (morbid curiosity) to "check my work" with #ChatGPT.
1/5
August 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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levostregc.bsky.social
Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.
August 1, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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newseye.bsky.social
COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to?

HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.
August 1, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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mobydickatsea.bsky.social
I could see no compass before me to steer by
August 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.
Today Is the Original No Kings Day/Happy Bastille Day
Yesterday I wrote, "The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 15, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Hamlet: am I just an overthinking coward?
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Can't remember if this speech was in the 2018 Almeida production, but it's never not time for a picture of Andrew Scott; there was at least one show when an audience member replied 'YES!' to the question 'Am I a coward?'
A young man wearing a black open-necked shirt, the sleeves rolled up; he is standing in front of a bank of blue CCTV screens.
July 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Hello, book! 😍

#earlymodern @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.
sarahtaber.bsky.social Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · Jul 4
I know we don't feel like there's much to celebrate this July 4th. It's been a rough several years.

So I want to talk about how we're making history right now.
July 5, 2025 at 7:22 PM
shannonkmmurray.bsky.social
Last week, with two extraordinary colleagues, Lisa Dickson and @drjessicariddell.bsky.social , we celebrated the power of theatre with our students for a week at @stratfest.bsky.social. We watched three tyrants rant and harm and fail: Leontes, Duke Frederick, and Macbeth. And we saw the reactions.
July 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM