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Melody Jue
@melodyjue.bsky.social
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Professor, UCSB English
Ocean humanities, media, STS, SF
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Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza
Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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#Southwest flight from Vegas to SBA had engine failure mid flight. Thought we were going to die. These are the fire engines coming to check it out.
July 11, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Layover flight in Vegas is “too heavy” to depart in 106F weather… yay
July 7, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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One week after terminating the employment of over 100 staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the agency posts four open positions...but we who are now unemployed are not "eligible" to apply for them.

The absolute cruelty is more apparent than ever. #NEH
altnehgov.altgov.info Alt National Endowment for the Humanities @altnehgov.altgov.info · Jun 17
WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS???

2/3 of AMAZING and COMPETENT STAFF were literally let go due to “funding.”

Multiple vacancies. Speechless.

(Kids close your eyes.)

FUCKING OUTRAGED.

www.usajobs.gov/job/838968500
Director
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.<br>
www.usajobs.gov
June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference
The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.
www.nytimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Informatics of Domination is out with @dukepress.bsky.social! I co-edited this experimental collection with Zach Blas + @melodyjue.bsky.social across years + countless zoom chats. I remain stunned by the brilliance of our 50 contributors: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...
Informatics of Domination
Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriar
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May 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Listen up! The latest episode of @asleecocast.bsky.social podcast is out, and our guest is ocean humanities expert @melodyjue.bsky.social, discussing her new work Coralations. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #envhum
Coral-colored book cover of the book Coralations
May 21, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Trump fired over 1,000 National Park staff in February, and most still haven’t been reinstated. The $45 million he’s wasting on a military parade for his birthday could have paid their salaries for over a year.
May 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Four year postdoc in sf studies: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
Universität Basel: Four-Year Postdoc Position on Contemporary US/Anglophone Science Fictions at the University of Basel 80%
Funded by the Claudine und Hans-Heiner Zaeslin-Bustany Foundation, the four-year project “Anglo Genres for Atlantic Futures: Contemporary Eco-Fictions, Campus Novels, and Science Fictions” is directed...
jobs.unibas.ch
May 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Juliana Spahr, The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)

www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)
www.thenation.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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If you are using chat bots, this is what you are choosing.
'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis
The company’s turbines — enough to power 280,000 homes — run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.
www.politico.com
May 6, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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dukepress.bsky.social
The new experimental collection "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, addresses formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. Read the intro for free now!
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Cover of Informatics of Domination, edited by Zack Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. The cover features and bright white title text against a stark black background, with information about the contributors in a light gray text. The text is located at the top of the cover, above a series of intersecting parallel and perpindicular lines that are rendered in a black, gray and white gradient.
February 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Just Published: In 'Informatics of Domination,' edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social, and @jsrhee.bsky.social, published by @dukepress.bsky.social, we were all set the task of writing about one entry each from Donna Haraway's famous chart in her 1984 legendary cyborg manifesto.
April 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , and Jennifer Rhee, is one of the great new titles we have coming out this May! #MediaStudies #TechnologyStudies
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Cover of Informatics of Domination, edited by Zack Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. The cover features and bright white title text against a stark black background, with information about the contributors in a light gray text. The text is located at the top of the cover, above a series of intersecting parallel and perpindicular lines that are rendered in a black, gray and white gradient.
May 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM