祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski
@zugenia.bsky.social
English and Cultural Studies prof; poet; editor of @ecfjournal.bsky.social. Thinking in semiotic squares and cosmological circles. she/they/we
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A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
For your holiday shopping pleasure: A FUNNY THING is available in paperback, and you can get 20% off with the code ENGLITR26
Go get her!
Go get her!
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"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. “We were surprised and heartbroken,” Abraham told me. The deal fell apart."
www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
Who Is Mubi For?
The art-house movie streamer had a cultlike following. Then it started to expand.
www.vulture.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:22 PM
"The team behind No Other Land was in the middle of negotiations with Mubi for a streaming deal that would have helped support the residents of Masafer Yatta when the Sequoia news dropped. “We were surprised and heartbroken,” Abraham told me. The deal fell apart."
www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
www.vulture.com/article/mubi...
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Looking for some trans advice—I’m trying to decide if it’s worth updating my birth cert and ID gender markers, since right now passport and SSA markers can’t be changed. I’m mainly concerned bc I travel internationally a lot and also am planning to move to Canada
January 2, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Looking for some trans advice—I’m trying to decide if it’s worth updating my birth cert and ID gender markers, since right now passport and SSA markers can’t be changed. I’m mainly concerned bc I travel internationally a lot and also am planning to move to Canada
Hey Siri: fast forward time to the most astrologically auspicious moments of 2026 for me, personally
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Hey Siri: fast forward time to the most astrologically auspicious moments of 2026 for me, personally
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People may not realize that this is the birth place of Ethnic Studies and the first Black Studies program. SFSU is a school of historic significance.
December 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
People may not realize that this is the birth place of Ethnic Studies and the first Black Studies program. SFSU is a school of historic significance.
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This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.
Rare footage of a footnote being born in the wild.
December 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.
Event Horizon is an exquisite morality tale for Neptune in Aries, Pluto in Aquarius times.
“This Is the Future that Techbros Want”
“This Is the Future that Techbros Want”
December 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Event Horizon is an exquisite morality tale for Neptune in Aries, Pluto in Aquarius times.
“This Is the Future that Techbros Want”
“This Is the Future that Techbros Want”
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👇🏼💯
HOW WILL WE LEARNE THINGES?
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
YEAH THE MACHYNE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
YEAH THE MACHYNE
December 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
👇🏼💯
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I am so proud that my partner @samirabady.bsky.social was one of the journalists breaking this AI vending machine and making it order live fish
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
An AI agent ran a snack operation in the WSJ newsroom. It gave away a free PlayStation, ordered a live fish—and taught us lessons about the future of AI.
www.wsj.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I am so proud that my partner @samirabady.bsky.social was one of the journalists breaking this AI vending machine and making it order live fish
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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they also wrote a blog post about the experiment last June:
December 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
they also wrote a blog post about the experiment last June:
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This made me genuinely laugh out loud.
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
This made me genuinely laugh out loud.
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You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
You’ve lost the plot as a presidential administration when Dr. Oz is on stage handwringing about the cost of balls
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People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
I have a weird question for the #bird people on here. Do you think someone could tell that a book was pooped on specifically by a sparrowhawk (or perhaps hawks generally) just from the feces? I'm looking at a 16th c. case where witnesses claim books were pooped on specifically by sparrowhawks!
December 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
People who aspire to be academics: I wish to live a life of the mind
Actual academics:
Actual academics:
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Today is Austen’s birthday!
I’ve been thinking (a lot) about my place in the Austen250 commemorations. The “how it started” vs. “how it’s going” of it all.
2017
I’ve been thinking (a lot) about my place in the Austen250 commemorations. The “how it started” vs. “how it’s going” of it all.
2017
December 16, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Today is Austen’s birthday!
I’ve been thinking (a lot) about my place in the Austen250 commemorations. The “how it started” vs. “how it’s going” of it all.
2017
I’ve been thinking (a lot) about my place in the Austen250 commemorations. The “how it started” vs. “how it’s going” of it all.
2017
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you know what we could eat instead?
Cereal costs $11 now.
December 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
you know what we could eat instead?
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If you like what you read here, consider checking out *Failing Our Future* from John Hopkins UP: amazon.com/Failing-Our-Future-Grades-Students/dp/1421449935
December 16, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If you like what you read here, consider checking out *Failing Our Future* from John Hopkins UP: amazon.com/Failing-Our-Future-Grades-Students/dp/1421449935
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“A delegation of 30 Canadians, including six Members of Parliament, was denied entry [by the Israeli government] into the West Bank early on Tuesday.
…each delegate was asked to sign a form declaring they acknowledge they are a threat to public safety, which they declined to do”
…each delegate was asked to sign a form declaring they acknowledge they are a threat to public safety, which they declined to do”
Canadian delegation of MPs denied entry into West Bank | CBC News
A delegation of 30 Canadians, including six MPs, has been denied entry into the West Bank early Tuesday.
www.cbc.ca
December 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“A delegation of 30 Canadians, including six Members of Parliament, was denied entry [by the Israeli government] into the West Bank early on Tuesday.
…each delegate was asked to sign a form declaring they acknowledge they are a threat to public safety, which they declined to do”
…each delegate was asked to sign a form declaring they acknowledge they are a threat to public safety, which they declined to do”
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JOURNALISTS I AM BEGGING YOU TO LOOK AT A MAP AND LEARN WHERE THE OCEANS ARE
December 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
JOURNALISTS I AM BEGGING YOU TO LOOK AT A MAP AND LEARN WHERE THE OCEANS ARE
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I have found over and again that changes in higher education do not happen where change can be most effective but rather tends to happen where people/programs are least protected
Many literature and humanities PhD programs are under threat of dissolution or closure, or have been closed, over the objection of all stakeholders but the higher administration.
Tell me: what has been effective in stopping this at specific places? Has anything been effective?
Tell me: what has been effective in stopping this at specific places? Has anything been effective?
Faculty opposed this change; current students opposed it; program alum fought it.
It’s happening anyway, because it satisfies administrative priorities and flatters the CMU “brand”—not because it’s needed or wanted, and not because it guarantees better job outcomes for program graduates.
It’s happening anyway, because it satisfies administrative priorities and flatters the CMU “brand”—not because it’s needed or wanted, and not because it guarantees better job outcomes for program graduates.
December 16, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I have found over and again that changes in higher education do not happen where change can be most effective but rather tends to happen where people/programs are least protected
Little did I imagine when the When Dickens Met Dostoevsky story came out that 12 years later, this bonkers fraud scheme would just be *how the internet works*
Yet one more reason we cannot allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding is that we cannot triangulate among them the way you can among reasonable independent sources. They bullshit in the same way and end up agreeing with one other about things that are completely false.
December 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Little did I imagine when the When Dickens Met Dostoevsky story came out that 12 years later, this bonkers fraud scheme would just be *how the internet works*
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When I went to college a hundred years ago (2000-4), my school was actively recruiting humanities majors, w scholarships etc. Institutions incentivize areas of study in order to grow them. And they underfund them intentionally to strangle them. It’s not a random natural phenomenon.
one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
December 16, 2025 at 12:56 AM
When I went to college a hundred years ago (2000-4), my school was actively recruiting humanities majors, w scholarships etc. Institutions incentivize areas of study in order to grow them. And they underfund them intentionally to strangle them. It’s not a random natural phenomenon.
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This book, Notes on Footnotes, presents its notes as chapter endnotes, the worst of all note formats 🥲
Looking forward to reading this.
Always happy to see more books about the theory/practice of scholarly editing. Too many think they can do it just because they know about an author, but it’s a complex field in its own right!
Always happy to see more books about the theory/practice of scholarly editing. Too many think they can do it just because they know about an author, but it’s a complex field in its own right!
December 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This book, Notes on Footnotes, presents its notes as chapter endnotes, the worst of all note formats 🥲
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Book submissions for the George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in 18th-Century Scholarship are now open—Jan 15 deadline. If you published a peer reviewed book in 2024 or 25, please submit! $500 cash prize. RT’s appreciated 🙏🏼 asecs.org/resources/ol...
George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS
asecs.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Book submissions for the George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in 18th-Century Scholarship are now open—Jan 15 deadline. If you published a peer reviewed book in 2024 or 25, please submit! $500 cash prize. RT’s appreciated 🙏🏼 asecs.org/resources/ol...
University administrations are eliminating the best critical theory programs on purpose.
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
University administrations are eliminating the best critical theory programs on purpose.
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Incredible opportunity for faculty and students to engage in malicious compliance. Bring the whole place to a standstill.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Incredible opportunity for faculty and students to engage in malicious compliance. Bring the whole place to a standstill.