fuming at this message on my Canvas home page that encourages me to “integrate GenAI responsibly” into my teaching. shame on @pennstateuniv.bsky.social

AND there was a field trip to the New Bedford Whaling Museum, with a little bit of extra time for a stop at the Moby-Dick Brewing Company. bliss!

the Melville Society conference in Mystic Seaport this past week was pure magic. many of us slept on an 1882 sail ship that’s docked at Mystic Seaport Museum & then we wandered around UConn Avery Point campus in the days. so many good people, so much good whale-talk…I’ll be dreaming about it forever

#envhum hive:

I'm organizing a proposed session for MLA 2026 in Toronto, Literature and Taxonomy, that will examine the oppositions & alliances between literary studies and the science of taxonomy. all time periods & subfields welcome! deadline March 23.

please share widely!

a perfectly-timed launch of a new exhibit at Penn State Special Collections that recognizes the modes of resistance in print archives of queer and trans makers and activists. my favorite: a book from the Queer Ecology Hanky Project with the cutest little gay hedgehogs and capybaras you’ll ever see

a few nights ago it was storming on the little rugged point of Aotearoa where this albatross family lives and one of the mates looked SO HAPPY all night long in the pouring rain

for anyone else who has been waking up with anxious jitters every day the past few weeks and is finding it increasingly difficult to calm down: let me introduce you to the Cornell Bird Lab @cornellbirdcams.bsky.social
albatross live cam

we’re doing this Bluesky thing! my name is Grace and I am from Newfoundland but I am living in Pennsylvania right now, getting my PhD in English! I like riding my bike and reading about nineteenth-century oceanography. here are pictures of my cat Poe, places I’ve biked, and me with some seaweed