Kirsten Saxton
@kirstensaxton.bsky.social
18/19th lit, pop culture & out of order history, queer studies, crime fiction, hometown Oakland she/her/they
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If you're on Academia[dot]edu, heads up that they've started making AI-generated "podcasts" of the work that's uploaded there. It's enabled by default. You have to opt out. Don't play the file. (It believe it's not actually generated until you play it). Just opt out. www.academia.edu/settings#ai-...
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June 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
If you're on Academia[dot]edu, heads up that they've started making AI-generated "podcasts" of the work that's uploaded there. It's enabled by default. You have to opt out. Don't play the file. (It believe it's not actually generated until you play it). Just opt out. www.academia.edu/settings#ai-...
well shit
Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines, first stage in ending Federal HIV treatment guidance. #HIV #RFKJr
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Administration to phase out NIH support of HIV clinical guidelines
The National Institutes of Health will phase out its support of the clinical practice guidelines that advise doctors how to diagnose and treat HIV.
wapo.st
June 22, 2025 at 1:09 AM
well shit
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June 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity.
ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.
ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.
June 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity.
ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.
ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.
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digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/. New issue just released. Scholarship on Aphra Behn, pedagogy Concise Collections on Teaching Phyllis Wheatley Peters and much more.
#17c #18c #pride #indigeneity
#17c #18c #pride #indigeneity
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 | Open Access Journals | University of South Florida
<em>ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830</em> (ISSN 2157-7129) is an online journal that serves as a forum for interactive scholarly discussion on all aspects of women in arts bet...
digitalcommons.usf.edu
June 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/. New issue just released. Scholarship on Aphra Behn, pedagogy Concise Collections on Teaching Phyllis Wheatley Peters and much more.
#17c #18c #pride #indigeneity
#17c #18c #pride #indigeneity
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Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.
Cuts to NEH and Humanities Councils: What Southern States Will Lose - Federation of State Humanities Councils
Jump to Your State: Alabama | Arkansas | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Mississippi | North Carolina | Oklahoma | Tennessee | Texas On Monday, March 31, the Federation … Read more
www.statehumanities.org
April 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.
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The public colleges of New York, Texas, and California are great engines of social mobility in America. They move many born in the lower 20% of income to the top 20%.
Our most elite universities move smaller numbers from the bottom 20% income to the top 1%.
Paper: www.nber.org/system/files...
Our most elite universities move smaller numbers from the bottom 20% income to the top 1%.
Paper: www.nber.org/system/files...
April 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The public colleges of New York, Texas, and California are great engines of social mobility in America. They move many born in the lower 20% of income to the top 20%.
Our most elite universities move smaller numbers from the bottom 20% income to the top 1%.
Paper: www.nber.org/system/files...
Our most elite universities move smaller numbers from the bottom 20% income to the top 1%.
Paper: www.nber.org/system/files...
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Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...
Google Search
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March 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...
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True story: the last thing I did as Associate Editor of Studies in Romanticism was solicit this *very timely* forum on Transromanticsm - it has now been published in the current issue - and is OPEN ACCESS for 1 month. Thrilled to receive the issue in the mail too
muse.jhu.edu/journal/754
muse.jhu.edu/journal/754
February 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
True story: the last thing I did as Associate Editor of Studies in Romanticism was solicit this *very timely* forum on Transromanticsm - it has now been published in the current issue - and is OPEN ACCESS for 1 month. Thrilled to receive the issue in the mail too
muse.jhu.edu/journal/754
muse.jhu.edu/journal/754
@cignahealthcare.bsky.social Really? Seriously????
I think @cignahealthcare.bsky.social automatically rejects every request my doctors make. Why can’t I get an arm monitor so my doctors can keep track of the secondary diabetes I now have thanks to metastatic breast cancer treatment? We need the data to make life altering decisions about my care.
February 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
@cignahealthcare.bsky.social Really? Seriously????
check out Juliana Spahr's new collection "In the six ars poeticas, she sings of the dark times but also of coral, the pop song's possible liberation, and the love of comrades." together.https://lithub.com/listen-to-the-firespitters-seven-poetry-books-to-read-this-february/
Listen to the Firespitters: Seven Poetry Books to Read This February
It’s a new year, which means it’s yet another occasion to be the same old unbudgeable person as last year while grumbling to oneself, new year, new me. (I can’t read that phrase without thinking of…
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February 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
check out Juliana Spahr's new collection "In the six ars poeticas, she sings of the dark times but also of coral, the pop song's possible liberation, and the love of comrades." together.https://lithub.com/listen-to-the-firespitters-seven-poetry-books-to-read-this-february/
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Here's where you can go to email them your complaint: www.nps.gov/ston/contact...
February 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Here's where you can go to email them your complaint: www.nps.gov/ston/contact...
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Holy cow.
This is deep in the weeds, and people outside science departments and deans' offices won't have a clue what it means. But the NIH has just capped indirect costs on all current and future grants at 15%.
The STEM budget of every research university has just been absolutely shot to hell.
This is deep in the weeds, and people outside science departments and deans' offices won't have a clue what it means. But the NIH has just capped indirect costs on all current and future grants at 15%.
The STEM budget of every research university has just been absolutely shot to hell.
⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants.
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
—> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you.
Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Holy cow.
This is deep in the weeds, and people outside science departments and deans' offices won't have a clue what it means. But the NIH has just capped indirect costs on all current and future grants at 15%.
The STEM budget of every research university has just been absolutely shot to hell.
This is deep in the weeds, and people outside science departments and deans' offices won't have a clue what it means. But the NIH has just capped indirect costs on all current and future grants at 15%.
The STEM budget of every research university has just been absolutely shot to hell.
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So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund.
www.arts.gov/news/press-r...
www.arts.gov/news/press-r...
Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities
The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...
www.arts.gov
February 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund.
www.arts.gov/news/press-r...
www.arts.gov/news/press-r...
yes please
"In their email to the Brown community, President Paxson and Provost Doyle asserted that administrators “are also prepared to exercise (their) legal right to advocate against laws, regulations or other actions that compromise Brown's mission.” www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
"In their email to the Brown community, President Paxson and Provost Doyle asserted that administrators “are also prepared to exercise (their) legal right to advocate against laws, regulations or other actions that compromise Brown's mission.” www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Lair ’28: Trump’s executive orders require a collective response in higher education
Serving the Brown community since 1891
www.browndailyherald.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
yes please
"In their email to the Brown community, President Paxson and Provost Doyle asserted that administrators “are also prepared to exercise (their) legal right to advocate against laws, regulations or other actions that compromise Brown's mission.” www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
"In their email to the Brown community, President Paxson and Provost Doyle asserted that administrators “are also prepared to exercise (their) legal right to advocate against laws, regulations or other actions that compromise Brown's mission.” www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Stop
Complying
Complying
the president does not have anywhere near the authority to do what he did in that order. this rollover is pathetic.
we now have it confirmed:
hospitals across the country are shutting off treatment for all trans people under 19 years of age
some hospitals are still continuing care, but make no mistake: this will kill countless children and teens
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
hospitals across the country are shutting off treatment for all trans people under 19 years of age
some hospitals are still continuing care, but make no mistake: this will kill countless children and teens
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
January 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Stop
Complying
Complying
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Fred Moten said "The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly."
The campaign against trans rights is also about stripping away everyone’s protections against discrimination, reviving, as Douglass put it “the moral blindness” of those who “persuade themselves that they are safe, though the rights of others may be struck down.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Attack on Trans Rights Won’t End There
Once legal rights begin to fall, they fall for everyone.
www.theatlantic.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Fred Moten said "The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly."
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We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)."
Please send us your abstracts!
Please send us your abstracts!
January 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)."
Please send us your abstracts!
Please send us your abstracts!
Delighted that the DTA now has an Oakland campus presence!
Happy New Year! 🎉🎇 With the new year comes a new social media platform and, as always, the January DTA newsletter! If you're interested in a quarterly, long form look into new collections and DTA updates, head to the DTA's contact page and join the newsletter at the bottom of the page!
January 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Delighted that the DTA now has an Oakland campus presence!
welp yikes www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘He feels empowered’: DeSantis kicks off takeover of second liberal Florida school
Republican governor installs conservatives including self-described anti-feminist to University of West Florida board
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:02 AM
welp yikes www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
A job, working with me and other cool people supporting the Humanities at NU northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Assistant Director
About the Opportunity The College of Social Sciences and Humanities (CSSH) combines Northeastern University’s signature approach to experiential learning with liberal arts education, interdisciplinary...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
January 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
A job, working with me and other cool people supporting the Humanities at NU northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Who is working on the not enshittified version of Meta? Having a hard time leaving that Nazi site bc of its less public social emotional connection to folks (friends from HS, college, grad school, former students & colleagues I care about but am not in intimate text/convo connection with).
January 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Who is working on the not enshittified version of Meta? Having a hard time leaving that Nazi site bc of its less public social emotional connection to folks (friends from HS, college, grad school, former students & colleagues I care about but am not in intimate text/convo connection with).