Wendy Matlock
@wmatlock.bsky.social
Middle-aged medievalist in the US Midwest
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Just wanna highlight that Seattle Public Schools teacher salaries start at just over $60,000, less than half what a new Seattle police officer will make after six months under the new contract.
Cops get bonuses for two-year associate degrees; teachers, of course, have to have finished college.
Cops get bonuses for two-year associate degrees; teachers, of course, have to have finished college.
Salaries were significantly higher last year, presumably because of inflation:
mysps.seattleschools.org/wp-content/u...
mysps.seattleschools.org/wp-content/u...
mysps.seattleschools.org
October 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Just wanna highlight that Seattle Public Schools teacher salaries start at just over $60,000, less than half what a new Seattle police officer will make after six months under the new contract.
Cops get bonuses for two-year associate degrees; teachers, of course, have to have finished college.
Cops get bonuses for two-year associate degrees; teachers, of course, have to have finished college.
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Have you ever done a "hidden curriculum" session with undergrads? (That is, explaining all the things colleges assume you know but are not obvious to many people.) What did they find most helpful?
June 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Have you ever done a "hidden curriculum" session with undergrads? (That is, explaining all the things colleges assume you know but are not obvious to many people.) What did they find most helpful?
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In case my representatives weren’t listening. Stop voting for anything that supports this president and the GOP.
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@governor.ny.gov
@ritchietorres.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@governor.ny.gov
@ritchietorres.bsky.social
WOW. Watch a constitutional law expert completely DEBUNK Republicans’ censorship crusade, while articulating exactly how Donald Trump is threatening freedom of speech. 🔥
March 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
In case my representatives weren’t listening. Stop voting for anything that supports this president and the GOP.
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@governor.ny.gov
@ritchietorres.bsky.social
@schumer.senate.gov
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social
@governor.ny.gov
@ritchietorres.bsky.social
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Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
March 26, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Was just reading John Quincy Adams' oral arguments before SCOTUS in the Amistad case and this part seems, uh, pretty relevant
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The university received reports that an international graduate student was taken into custody from an off-campus apartment Tuesday night, Tufts President Sunil Kumar wrote in a letter to the school community.
Tufts says federal authorities detained graduate student, revoked visa
The university received reports that an international graduate student was taken into custody from an off-campus apartment Tuesday night, President Sunil Kumar wrote in a letter to the school communit...
www.wbur.org
March 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
The university received reports that an international graduate student was taken into custody from an off-campus apartment Tuesday night, Tufts President Sunil Kumar wrote in a letter to the school community.
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Applications are open for the Summer Latin Program at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto! Note that Basic Latin is online, a great opportunity for anyone who's been wanting to start Latin and doesn't have a local option. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
March 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Applications are open for the Summer Latin Program at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Toronto! Note that Basic Latin is online, a great opportunity for anyone who's been wanting to start Latin and doesn't have a local option. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...
#medievalsky
#medievalsky
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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I wrote about the economics of rap beef and the Kendrick and Drake battle for Public Books www.publicbooks.org/bad-beef/
Bad Beef
Rap beef is form of capitalist accumulation that enriches artists—and, most of all, the corporate suits that run their record labels.
www.publicbooks.org
February 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I wrote about the economics of rap beef and the Kendrick and Drake battle for Public Books www.publicbooks.org/bad-beef/
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Critics of DEI initiatives in aviation are making empirical claims that are easy to refute. As @alexkirshner.com argued last January in Slate, this is not typical scapegoating for real problems (unemployment, crime, etc.). Here critics are making up the problem—and they have it exactly backwards. 6/
Conservatives Had to Get Weirdly Racist Even When It Comes to the Airplane Freakout, Huh?
This bizarre strategy is actually part of an alarming new trend.
slate.com
November 25, 2024 at 6:58 PM
Critics of DEI initiatives in aviation are making empirical claims that are easy to refute. As @alexkirshner.com argued last January in Slate, this is not typical scapegoating for real problems (unemployment, crime, etc.). Here critics are making up the problem—and they have it exactly backwards. 6/
This whole thread. Exemplary history writing and teaching
The failure among the press last week to see the connection between the Tuskegee Airmen and DEI is the same gap in historical analysis that allowed Trump days later to outrageously blame DEI for the worst aviation disaster in the U.S. for the past 16 years.
February 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This whole thread. Exemplary history writing and teaching
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
January 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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“I don’t understand what produce in the Central Valley has to do with fires in LA” this is the subject of one of the most famous movies ever made, in which it is explained to Jack Nicholson at length by the director of The Maltese Falcon
January 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“I don’t understand what produce in the Central Valley has to do with fires in LA” this is the subject of one of the most famous movies ever made, in which it is explained to Jack Nicholson at length by the director of The Maltese Falcon
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"By making over these women in our own image, we lose so much of what was distinctive and beautiful about their literature."
What Were the Lives of Medieval Women Like? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
What Were the Lives of Medieval Women Like? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
What Were the Lives of Medieval Women Like? (Gift Article)
In “Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife” the historian Hetta Howes seeks to relate to figures of the past.
www.nytimes.com
December 28, 2024 at 12:24 PM
"By making over these women in our own image, we lose so much of what was distinctive and beautiful about their literature."
What Were the Lives of Medieval Women Like? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
What Were the Lives of Medieval Women Like? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/b...
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"the research conditions for the study of literature and language are a national embarrassment" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Humanities Decline in Darkness: How Humanities Research Funding Works - Volume 1
www.cambridge.org
December 28, 2024 at 11:04 AM
"the research conditions for the study of literature and language are a national embarrassment" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
December 28, 2024 at 7:58 AM
OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
Healthy occupationally satisfied professors "no longer exist in the academy. . . .What we get instead is more “talent management,” “student success management,” and “course management” software to “automate” those tasks . . . Adjunctification has played a key role, too."
wordsinspace.net
December 16, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Healthy occupationally satisfied professors "no longer exist in the academy. . . .What we get instead is more “talent management,” “student success management,” and “course management” software to “automate” those tasks . . . Adjunctification has played a key role, too."
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As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
Facing Cuts Likely to Worsen Under Trump, Academic Librarians Urgently Organize
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
truthout.org
November 17, 2024 at 5:59 PM
As the war on higher education looks to heat up, academic libraries will likely be the first on the chopping block.
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Our book with Minnesota is out in the wild! More on the contributors and interventions to come.
November 20, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Our book with Minnesota is out in the wild! More on the contributors and interventions to come.
Anyone else using ms word for their writing projects and worried about how the company is turning it to AI (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...)? What alternatives are out there? I'm also relying on a work computer, so not really able to have control over which apps I can download...
Connected experiences in Office - Microsoft 365 Apps
Provides Office admins with information about connected experiences for Office, such as experiences that analyze content or experiences that download online content.
learn.microsoft.com
November 17, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Anyone else using ms word for their writing projects and worried about how the company is turning it to AI (learn.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...)? What alternatives are out there? I'm also relying on a work computer, so not really able to have control over which apps I can download...
1) how animal personifications and poetic disputes undermine and redefine ways of thinking about human experience in late medieval England & 2) the rhetoric of proverbs as borrowed language that repackages wisdom and authority across time and place and belief systems.
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about.
1) Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550 (2025)
2) the history of teaching book history
1) Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550 (2025)
2) the history of teaching book history
Bluesky academics, lets get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about.
1) the use of extinction narratives in heritage & nation-building
2) a history of technology words in sign language
1) the use of extinction narratives in heritage & nation-building
2) a history of technology words in sign language
November 17, 2024 at 3:03 PM
1) how animal personifications and poetic disputes undermine and redefine ways of thinking about human experience in late medieval England & 2) the rhetoric of proverbs as borrowed language that repackages wisdom and authority across time and place and belief systems.
Manhattan College is laying off a number of tenured faculty next week, and admin says that they don't have to observe Handbook protections for tenured faculty about notice or severance and untenured have more protection. MC faculty are fundraising for a precedent-setting lawsuit gofund.me/fb84b607
January 9, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Manhattan College is laying off a number of tenured faculty next week, and admin says that they don't have to observe Handbook protections for tenured faculty about notice or severance and untenured have more protection. MC faculty are fundraising for a precedent-setting lawsuit gofund.me/fb84b607
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the consulting company now setting up to shred American University uses the same report for every school and doesn't bother to change the filename on the pdfs
Oh one more thing--just downloaded their report again and the file name has University of New Hampshire in the file name. As if we didn't know they were doing the same thing at every school...
December 6, 2023 at 2:21 PM
the consulting company now setting up to shred American University uses the same report for every school and doesn't bother to change the filename on the pdfs
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I don't know about creative temperaments. I do know that the problems of writing a novel (what happens next, how do I get unstuck, why is this plot a disjointed mess, what are the characters even doing) are all solved by writing the book. AKA, the process of writing a book is solving those problems.
December 1, 2023 at 8:46 AM
I don't know about creative temperaments. I do know that the problems of writing a novel (what happens next, how do I get unstuck, why is this plot a disjointed mess, what are the characters even doing) are all solved by writing the book. AKA, the process of writing a book is solving those problems.
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CFP for humanities scholars + writers!
i’m on the editorial board for the inaugural issue of rust belt studies.
we invite contributions on defining the region and identifying key concerns using humanities methods.
POC/LGBTQ perspectives are especially welcome!
www.rustbeltstudies.org
i’m on the editorial board for the inaugural issue of rust belt studies.
we invite contributions on defining the region and identifying key concerns using humanities methods.
POC/LGBTQ perspectives are especially welcome!
www.rustbeltstudies.org
November 29, 2023 at 8:05 PM
CFP for humanities scholars + writers!
i’m on the editorial board for the inaugural issue of rust belt studies.
we invite contributions on defining the region and identifying key concerns using humanities methods.
POC/LGBTQ perspectives are especially welcome!
www.rustbeltstudies.org
i’m on the editorial board for the inaugural issue of rust belt studies.
we invite contributions on defining the region and identifying key concerns using humanities methods.
POC/LGBTQ perspectives are especially welcome!
www.rustbeltstudies.org