Danielle Spratt
@dlspratt.bsky.social
18thcenturyist, English prof + director of community engagement, CSUN; history of science + medicine, Austen, satire, public humanities. Engaging the Age of Jane Austen (w/Bridget Draxler), Histories of Science (ed. w/Dave Alff), Reading Austen. She/her.
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If you are inclined to read about funny novels in the 18th century, periods, labor and birth, hysteria etc you can pre-order the book! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/bod...
May 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
If you are inclined to read about funny novels in the 18th century, periods, labor and birth, hysteria etc you can pre-order the book! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/bod...
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This is a fantastic volume, so proud to be a part of it! I am especially glad to be part of the community of scholars working of 18c science and culture who have connected with each other through the ASECS science studies caucus
Thrilled to share that *Histories of Science* is finally out in the world! Dave and I are so grateful to @uvapress.bsky.social and have been honored to work with such brilliant contributors @tobiasmenely.bsky.social @aaronrhanlon.com @qu1x0tical.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This is a fantastic volume, so proud to be a part of it! I am especially glad to be part of the community of scholars working of 18c science and culture who have connected with each other through the ASECS science studies caucus
Thrilled to share that *Histories of Science* is finally out in the world! Dave and I are so grateful to @uvapress.bsky.social and have been honored to work with such brilliant contributors @tobiasmenely.bsky.social @aaronrhanlon.com @qu1x0tical.bsky.social
May 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Thrilled to share that *Histories of Science* is finally out in the world! Dave and I are so grateful to @uvapress.bsky.social and have been honored to work with such brilliant contributors @tobiasmenely.bsky.social @aaronrhanlon.com @qu1x0tical.bsky.social
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We've published a list of resources from the Information Exchange about the NEH Appeals Process that was hosted by ACH, AHA and MLA earlier this week. buff.ly/JVOBxP0
Resources from the Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process
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May 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We've published a list of resources from the Information Exchange about the NEH Appeals Process that was hosted by ACH, AHA and MLA earlier this week. buff.ly/JVOBxP0
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3 ways to fight for the NEH:
1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming
2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have.
3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming
2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have.
3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
Paving the Way: For the Future of the Humanities
Students and faculty members in the humanities face mounting challenges—from skepticism about the value of humanities education to deteriorating pay and working conditions. The MLA is committed to res...
www.mla.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:56 PM
3 ways to fight for the NEH:
1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming
2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have.
3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming
2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have.
3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...
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NEH just sent new guidance about terminated awards that includes the following: "7. Appeals--NEH is not offering a means of dispute resolution"
Yet that is clearly at odds with the Terms & Conditions for Orgs governing our awards. They are trying to discourage appeals. Submit them anyway.
Yet that is clearly at odds with the Terms & Conditions for Orgs governing our awards. They are trying to discourage appeals. Submit them anyway.
NEH Grantees with Terminated Grants--the 30 day window for appeal is almost here. If your DOGE termination letter is dated April 2, then it is recommended to submit via eGMS by May 1. Having spoken w/ a number of sources, here's the best info I could gather on appealing your grant termination.
April 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
NEH just sent new guidance about terminated awards that includes the following: "7. Appeals--NEH is not offering a means of dispute resolution"
Yet that is clearly at odds with the Terms & Conditions for Orgs governing our awards. They are trying to discourage appeals. Submit them anyway.
Yet that is clearly at odds with the Terms & Conditions for Orgs governing our awards. They are trying to discourage appeals. Submit them anyway.
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If you've had an NEH grant terminated, join us tomorrow (4/30) at 11 a.m. ET for an information exchange about the NEH appeal process hosted by the MLA's @jasonrhody.bsky.social, @nolauren.bsky.social from @ach.bsky.social, and Sarah Weicksel from @historians.org: ach.org/news/2025/04...
Event: Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process
ach.org
April 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
If you've had an NEH grant terminated, join us tomorrow (4/30) at 11 a.m. ET for an information exchange about the NEH appeal process hosted by the MLA's @jasonrhody.bsky.social, @nolauren.bsky.social from @ach.bsky.social, and Sarah Weicksel from @historians.org: ach.org/news/2025/04...
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I am leading a bipartisan and bicameral effort to denounce the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities and to demand POTUS and NEH Acting Director Michael McDonald restore funding for grant recipients.
April 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I am leading a bipartisan and bicameral effort to denounce the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities and to demand POTUS and NEH Acting Director Michael McDonald restore funding for grant recipients.
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@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov we need you to speak up for the NEH! So far, DOGE has terminated 43 grants in the state of IL, totaling ~$11.7M dollars. That is less than one thousandth of the federal budget, but it makes a HUGE difference for our state! Please help us protect this agency!
April 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov we need you to speak up for the NEH! So far, DOGE has terminated 43 grants in the state of IL, totaling ~$11.7M dollars. That is less than one thousandth of the federal budget, but it makes a HUGE difference for our state! Please help us protect this agency!
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Receipts: impact.ach.org
You can use this @ach.bsky.social created tool to look up the impact of DOGE cuts to NEH funding for your state and congressional district! Then call/email/tag your reps to help us SAVE THE NEH. #savetheneh
You can use this @ach.bsky.social created tool to look up the impact of DOGE cuts to NEH funding for your state and congressional district! Then call/email/tag your reps to help us SAVE THE NEH. #savetheneh
NEH Grants 2025
NEH Grants 2025
impact.ach.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Receipts: impact.ach.org
You can use this @ach.bsky.social created tool to look up the impact of DOGE cuts to NEH funding for your state and congressional district! Then call/email/tag your reps to help us SAVE THE NEH. #savetheneh
You can use this @ach.bsky.social created tool to look up the impact of DOGE cuts to NEH funding for your state and congressional district! Then call/email/tag your reps to help us SAVE THE NEH. #savetheneh
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@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @pelosi.house.gov What are California Senators and Representatives doing to save NEH funding and staff?
@ach.bsky.social has organised impact.ach.org to document terminated NEH awards. This a resource I wish we never needed.
Grants left and right are being prematurely ended. Some that really matter to me are 1/n
Grants left and right are being prematurely ended. Some that really matter to me are 1/n
NEH Grants 2025
NEH Grants 2025
impact.ach.org
April 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @pelosi.house.gov What are California Senators and Representatives doing to save NEH funding and staff?
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If your NEH grant was rescinded, contact your representative and help @humanitiesall.bsky.social track grant terminations by using this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
April 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If your NEH grant was rescinded, contact your representative and help @humanitiesall.bsky.social track grant terminations by using this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
p2a.co
April 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
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Serious question: has anyone with an NEH grant or cooperative agreement NOT been told it’s canceled? This week has been a bloodbath for so many of us.
April 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Serious question: has anyone with an NEH grant or cooperative agreement NOT been told it’s canceled? This week has been a bloodbath for so many of us.
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Please contact your member of congress to ask them to save the NEH. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
p2a.co
April 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Please contact your member of congress to ask them to save the NEH. p2a.co/DdtlGIT
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Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
April 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.
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Do not fuck with librarians; they know everything, and incredibly organized, and will come for your ass (I can't wait)
The Trump administration, with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide.
This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.
This threatens student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to digital library services.
The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.
www.wired.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Do not fuck with librarians; they know everything, and incredibly organized, and will come for your ass (I can't wait)
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I spent the last five years serving public history, arts, and culture at NEH. Please take a moment to let your representatives know you support NEH. Or read on and I can tell you a little bit about why I believe in public funding for the humanities.
On Monday, March 31, 2025 we learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded.
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Learn what steps you can take here: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...
Save the NEH! – National Humanities Alliance
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April 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I spent the last five years serving public history, arts, and culture at NEH. Please take a moment to let your representatives know you support NEH. Or read on and I can tell you a little bit about why I believe in public funding for the humanities.
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regional public Us serve the vast majority of the 20 million students enrolled in higher ed, are largest employers in countless regions, and are being demolished for the oligarch’s pleasure
It's not just the most visible universities being damaged by the administration. It's all of them.
A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural regi...
www.propublica.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
regional public Us serve the vast majority of the 20 million students enrolled in higher ed, are largest employers in countless regions, and are being demolished for the oligarch’s pleasure
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little pieces of language are ours
slogans, taglines, chants, flyers, memes, stickers, posters, zines
slogans, taglines, chants, flyers, memes, stickers, posters, zines
When people ask how those without access to systems of power might combat the rising fascist tide — think of graffiti. The radical orgs of the 70s knew this. It’s visible, it sticks in the mind, it establishes the presence of the speaker not as an individual but as a representative of the collective
I love this graffiti (in Minecraft)
February 15, 2025 at 12:13 PM
little pieces of language are ours
slogans, taglines, chants, flyers, memes, stickers, posters, zines
slogans, taglines, chants, flyers, memes, stickers, posters, zines
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Good news!
My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social !
Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025.
Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world!
#C18L #18thcentury
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social !
Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025.
Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world!
#C18L #18thcentury
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
On Wonder
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - On Wonder
doi.org
February 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Good news!
My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social !
Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025.
Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world!
#C18L #18thcentury
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social !
Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025.
Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world!
#C18L #18thcentury
DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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The CSU's literally *shutting majors & firing faculty* at the same time as it *pays multi-millions to Silicon Valley companies* for this climate-disaster plagiarism machine. It's unconscionable. The money (state money!) is being siphoned from students/faculty, for the CSU to be tech bro paradise.
“The rollout will cover 23 campuses of the largest public university system in the United States, enabling students to access personalized tutoring and study guides through the chatbot, while the faculty will be able to use it for administrative tasks.”
OpenAI targets higher education in the U.S. with ChatGPT rollout at California State University
Microsoft -backed OpenAI said on Tuesday it will roll out an education-specific version of its chatbot to about 500,000 students and faculty at California State University as it looks to expand its user base in the academic sector and counter competition from rivals like Alphabet .
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The CSU's literally *shutting majors & firing faculty* at the same time as it *pays multi-millions to Silicon Valley companies* for this climate-disaster plagiarism machine. It's unconscionable. The money (state money!) is being siphoned from students/faculty, for the CSU to be tech bro paradise.
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Dr. Mildred García serves as chancellor of the California State University and can be reached at:
(562) 951-4000
csu-chancellor@calstate.edu
California State University Chancellor
401 Golden Shore Long Beach, CA 90802-4210
bsky.app/profile/dust...
(562) 951-4000
csu-chancellor@calstate.edu
California State University Chancellor
401 Golden Shore Long Beach, CA 90802-4210
bsky.app/profile/dust...
The chancellor of the Cal State system just announced that it will become "the nation's first and largest AI-powered public university." The announcement celebrates "collaborations" with Adobe, Google, AWS, IBM, Instructure, Intel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI. +
February 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Dr. Mildred García serves as chancellor of the California State University and can be reached at:
(562) 951-4000
csu-chancellor@calstate.edu
California State University Chancellor
401 Golden Shore Long Beach, CA 90802-4210
bsky.app/profile/dust...
(562) 951-4000
csu-chancellor@calstate.edu
California State University Chancellor
401 Golden Shore Long Beach, CA 90802-4210
bsky.app/profile/dust...
In case anyone is wondering, there was zero faculty consultation about this. Do better, CSU!
February 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In case anyone is wondering, there was zero faculty consultation about this. Do better, CSU!
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Sonoma State announced faculty layoffs and program closures today. Targeted programs are mostly humanities and social sciences
Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.
Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.
January 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Sonoma State announced faculty layoffs and program closures today. Targeted programs are mostly humanities and social sciences
Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.
Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.