Julia Polyck-O’Neill
@juliapoly.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Communication & Media Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland | Feminist Archives & Tech | Artist Archives & Networks | Digital Archives | Critical DH | Curator-poet-critic | they/she
OH MY GOODNESS.
The Closing of the Tabs, August 22, 2025 version, is completely wonderful. I just submitted a fresh book chapter to editors -- gaining a few days thanks to my rescheduled AC flight had a hidden advantage in that I could take a bit more writing time -- but now I'm freeeee
The Closing of the Tabs, August 22, 2025 version, is completely wonderful. I just submitted a fresh book chapter to editors -- gaining a few days thanks to my rescheduled AC flight had a hidden advantage in that I could take a bit more writing time -- but now I'm freeeee
August 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
OH MY GOODNESS.
The Closing of the Tabs, August 22, 2025 version, is completely wonderful. I just submitted a fresh book chapter to editors -- gaining a few days thanks to my rescheduled AC flight had a hidden advantage in that I could take a bit more writing time -- but now I'm freeeee
The Closing of the Tabs, August 22, 2025 version, is completely wonderful. I just submitted a fresh book chapter to editors -- gaining a few days thanks to my rescheduled AC flight had a hidden advantage in that I could take a bit more writing time -- but now I'm freeeee
I can't believe I've been able to write so productively during this time of crisis in my family. It's a slow, predictable crisis, but still emotionally draining and painful. My heart goes out to friends who've endured losing a parent to slow deterioration. Not an easy part of being a human being.
August 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I can't believe I've been able to write so productively during this time of crisis in my family. It's a slow, predictable crisis, but still emotionally draining and painful. My heart goes out to friends who've endured losing a parent to slow deterioration. Not an easy part of being a human being.
Reading a chapter is a beautiful book for my almost-complete book chapter (one of two I've been working on this summer), so wanted to highlight the title for others as it's quite excellent!
Apel, Dora. Calling Memory into Place. Rutgers University Press, 2020, doi.org/10.36019/978....
Apel, Dora. Calling Memory into Place. Rutgers University Press, 2020, doi.org/10.36019/978....
Calling Memory into Place
How can memory be mobilized for social justice? How can images and monuments counter public forgetting? And how can inherited family and cultural traumas be channeled in productive ways? In this deepl...
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August 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Reading a chapter is a beautiful book for my almost-complete book chapter (one of two I've been working on this summer), so wanted to highlight the title for others as it's quite excellent!
Apel, Dora. Calling Memory into Place. Rutgers University Press, 2020, doi.org/10.36019/978....
Apel, Dora. Calling Memory into Place. Rutgers University Press, 2020, doi.org/10.36019/978....
I have now submitted all the summer reviews I'd promised. A note to mention how useful it can be to perform peer review to drafts that are well-matched to one's area of research and expertise. I say that because we're in the midst of a reviewer crisis; very few academics are agreeing to review.
August 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I have now submitted all the summer reviews I'd promised. A note to mention how useful it can be to perform peer review to drafts that are well-matched to one's area of research and expertise. I say that because we're in the midst of a reviewer crisis; very few academics are agreeing to review.
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I teach my "Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists" class with this, and have gotten a lot out of it myself. If you're struggling going back to work at a university this fall, grab a friend, schedule some coffee meet-ups to talk about it, and do this workbook.
Finding Your Purpose is a workbook for anyone in and around higher education who is trying to remember what they're here for. It's especially directed towards graduate students and early career scholars.
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Finding Your Purpose
Higher Calling is a project for everyone who decided to become a scholar because they believed in the mission of higher education. “Finding Your Purpose” is a workbook to help all of us navigate the c...
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August 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I teach my "Project Management and Ethical Collaboration for Humanists" class with this, and have gotten a lot out of it myself. If you're struggling going back to work at a university this fall, grab a friend, schedule some coffee meet-ups to talk about it, and do this workbook.
Good thing I have reviews to write, otherwise this day of brainfog and grief wouldn't be productive at all.
August 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Good thing I have reviews to write, otherwise this day of brainfog and grief wouldn't be productive at all.
I participated in a fiction writing workshop this weekend and am surprised by how much it's helped motivate me to write academically now that I'm home, in front of my computer. I feel we forget how important creativity is to scholarly work.
August 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I participated in a fiction writing workshop this weekend and am surprised by how much it's helped motivate me to write academically now that I'm home, in front of my computer. I feel we forget how important creativity is to scholarly work.
I tried a ‘fashion’ yesterday. Felt nice!
July 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
I tried a ‘fashion’ yesterday. Felt nice!
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I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession.
Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.
Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.
July 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession.
Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.
Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.
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Very pleased to share my text “Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission” in Burlington Contemporary now available online in issue 12 with a number of other interesting essays. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/jour...
Burlington Contemporary - Journal - Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission
For a few days in June 2023 the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, was illuminated by an uncanny amber glow. Outside, an orange sky hung heavy with particulate matter and the atmosphere was haz...
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June 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Very pleased to share my text “Spiritually overqualified: Robert Rauschenberg and ‘The Happy Apocalypse’ commission” in Burlington Contemporary now available online in issue 12 with a number of other interesting essays. contemporary.burlington.org.uk/journal/jour...
Also, fellow academics, if you're rehashing an argument you've made (at length) in a previous publication in a new article, how do you handle this? I don't want to self-plagiarize but I have already done this work quite painstakingly elsewhere!
July 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Also, fellow academics, if you're rehashing an argument you've made (at length) in a previous publication in a new article, how do you handle this? I don't want to self-plagiarize but I have already done this work quite painstakingly elsewhere!
Relatedly, any good books on public art on your dashboard?
July 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Relatedly, any good books on public art on your dashboard?
Thoroughly enjoying writing this article about public art. It's funny how topics that are peripheral to what sometimes feels like the 'real work' (eg the book; the teaching) feel like a clever form of cheating the system.
July 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Thoroughly enjoying writing this article about public art. It's funny how topics that are peripheral to what sometimes feels like the 'real work' (eg the book; the teaching) feel like a clever form of cheating the system.
Want a career in academia? You might consider working as an RA or other contract worker doing some combo of communications/organizational/editorial work. It chips away at the ego just enough that when you organize anything later in your career, nothing will surprise or bother you!
July 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Want a career in academia? You might consider working as an RA or other contract worker doing some combo of communications/organizational/editorial work. It chips away at the ego just enough that when you organize anything later in your career, nothing will surprise or bother you!
BRAG POST:
I wrote almost a thousand (academic) words today! And it's a Monday!
I wrote almost a thousand (academic) words today! And it's a Monday!
July 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
BRAG POST:
I wrote almost a thousand (academic) words today! And it's a Monday!
I wrote almost a thousand (academic) words today! And it's a Monday!
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I'm trying to help a family here in Boulder raise a bit of money to give their aunt/sister/daughter a funeral - if you'd consider chipping in, we'd all be grateful ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-ho...
Donate to Help Us Honor Cindy's Memory, organized by Daniella Mota
On July 5, my sister Cindy gained her wings. She was a beautiful, smart, strong, and funny … Daniella Mota needs your support for Help Us Honor Cindy's Memory
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July 12, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I'm trying to help a family here in Boulder raise a bit of money to give their aunt/sister/daughter a funeral - if you'd consider chipping in, we'd all be grateful ❤️ www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-ho...
Also, it feels sooo good to return to my work after a few weeks of not having my time be my own. Oh wait, and also the last year of all new preps and f/t teaching. A relief to discover that I can still think and read and write, perhaps even better than before -- or at least in a new way.
July 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Also, it feels sooo good to return to my work after a few weeks of not having my time be my own. Oh wait, and also the last year of all new preps and f/t teaching. A relief to discover that I can still think and read and write, perhaps even better than before -- or at least in a new way.
Working on a book chapter about public art, memory, place, and the archive. A set of ideas I've been playing with for a few projects, always in different configurations, applied to different cities I've known. Feels poetic. The Newfoundland breeze is passing through my office as I write abt Toronto.
July 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Working on a book chapter about public art, memory, place, and the archive. A set of ideas I've been playing with for a few projects, always in different configurations, applied to different cities I've known. Feels poetic. The Newfoundland breeze is passing through my office as I write abt Toronto.
I And now for my favourite part of article submission:
The 👯♀️ C L O S I N G of the T A B S 👯♀️
The 👯♀️ C L O S I N G of the T A B S 👯♀️
June 26, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I And now for my favourite part of article submission:
The 👯♀️ C L O S I N G of the T A B S 👯♀️
The 👯♀️ C L O S I N G of the T A B S 👯♀️
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C'est moi!
newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : Julia Polyck-O’Neill : Poems, Attention, Unthought : How does a poem begin? / @juliapoly.bsky.social ;
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Julia Polyck-O’Neill : Poems, Attention, Unthought : How does a poem begin?
How does a poem begin? First, it might be useful to know that poems are objects. For me, these objects roll around, ...
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May 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
C'est moi!
Bonjour, friends. I am posting for accountability: I am not allowed to clean anything until this article is 98% finished. My microwave, fridge, bathroom, and laundry are immaculate tho.
June 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Bonjour, friends. I am posting for accountability: I am not allowed to clean anything until this article is 98% finished. My microwave, fridge, bathroom, and laundry are immaculate tho.
This was the conference. The recorded talks will be available on YouTube and I can't wait to watch them!
📣Registrations are open for our free online conference: Digital Pasts & Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality & Reimagining Digitality
📆 23-24 June 2025
Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan
🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...
📆 23-24 June 2025
Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan
🔗 www.uni-jena.de/en/313137/re...
June 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
This was the conference. The recorded talks will be available on YouTube and I can't wait to watch them!
A big thank you to the organizers of the 2025 @redico.eu conference! It's an impressive task to organize across continents and time zones. Great conversations and ReDICo is such an interesting project!
June 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A big thank you to the organizers of the 2025 @redico.eu conference! It's an impressive task to organize across continents and time zones. Great conversations and ReDICo is such an interesting project!
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5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.
JOB KLAXON - 5 year Research Fellowship for experienced postdoc working with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on digital war @edinburghuni.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Research Fellow (WARSHARE)
We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral Research Fellow with demonstrated success in delivering complex research projects, and advanced knowledge in conceptual and theoretical work on the appli...
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June 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.