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All This Weekend’s Links at Half the Price
* Michael Lovell, Marquette, and Milwaukee. MU’s students are on board. * Turns out academic freedom isn’t free: Michigan State University could risk losing $500,000 if it does not stop offering...
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Sunday Links for the Sunday Reader
* This president delivers compassion with a kind face and from a decorous and understated height. And that seems to be the role he prefers to play in the world too. It was doubtless the posture from...
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Thursday Links!
* Working Mom Arrested for Letting Her 9-Year-Old Play Alone at Park. Dad Charged With Child Endangerment After Son Skips Church To Go Play. This Widow’s 4 Kids Were Taken After She Left Them Home...
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These Are Monday Links; There Are Many Like Them, But These Are Mine
* If you’ve been following Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, there’s a new chapter out. * A One-Item List For Tenure-Track Faculty: Do the job you were hired to do. * The next wave of...
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Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!
* The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction has a pre-order page! Open your wallets! Contact your local librarian! Get your Hugo nomination ballots ready! * It’s a shame about Joan Rivers....
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Friday Links!
* I’ve pointed out before that even as academic institutions are more and more distrusted, professors oddly retain a good deal of public respect. We have it because we’re free: free to say the...
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Tuesday Morning Links!
* Marquette University, with a generous grant from the Templeton Religion Trust, is pleased to announce a request for proposals on the topics of “The Self, Motivation, and Virtue,” Approximately ten...
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Weekend Links!
* I liked this brief addendum to my academic job market as “game” piece from the other day. One thing I might add is that the game metaphor also helps us see the job market as something that could be...
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Wednesday Links
* Marquette English’s medievalist search closes today! Get your applications in! * Advice for academics: how to write a research statement. * The digital humanities and the MLA JIL. * Junot Diaz on...
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Thursday Morning Links
* Your poem of the day: Tracy K. Smith, “Sci-Fi.” * Philosophical science fiction, 1, 2, 3. Via MeFi. * Science fiction as white supremacist fantasy. * Charlie Stross on why he thinks he’ll be writing...
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Wednesday Links! Some Especially Good Ones!
* Paradoxa 26, “SF Now,” is on its way, and has my essay on Snowpiercer and necrofuturism in it. Mark Bould and Rhys Williams’s introduction to the issue is online. * Extrapolation‘s current call for...
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An Especially Worthy Entry in Our Ongoing Series of Wednesday Links
* ‘Well, Here’s What Won’t Pass,’ Obama Says Before Listing 35 Proposals. * Aaron Bady’s amazing “African Writers in a New World” interview series at Post 45 continues with Teju Cole. * Daniel Maguire...
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One Thousand and One Wednesday Links!
I’ve been incredibly busy lately, and things are only going to get worse in the next few weeks. But for now, some links! * I made a Twitterbot that I’m pretty pleased with: @LOLbalwarming. It’s the...
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Sunday Night Links!
* But trains loaded with millions of gallons of crude oil thread the thickly populated areas of some of the nation’s biggest cities. Including Milwaukee. * Love Song for a Neoliberal University:...
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Another Loose Firehose of Weekend Links!
TGIF RT @iycrtylph: Capital's final victory is to have produced a humanity unworthy of liberation. — Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) July 10, 2015 * I’ve been so busy this little bit of clickbait isn’t...
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Monday! Morning! Links!
* Jaimee’s lesson on the letter L, “Lo Lee Ta,” is up at Red Paint Hill. * How to prepare your campuses for a queen sacrifice: a handy guide from Connecticut. From Inside Higher Ed and excellent...
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1001 Sunday Links
* Penn Gillette on three-card monty and graduate school in the humanities. * Towards a taxonomy of cliches in Space Opera. * “Use Tatooine sparingly” and other rules from the Star Wars style guide. io9...
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Spring Break Forever Links
* Hey look! LARoB reviewed Green Planets. * Another science fiction studies research opportunity: The 2016-2017 Le Guin Fellowship. * Notes from ICFA roundtable on The Force Awakens, on cast,...
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Big Tuesday Links!
* Sadly always relevant: How the Media Inspires Mass Shooters. So There’s Just Been a Mass Shooting. I bought an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle in Philly in 7 minutes. * Since, in fact, we lack the ability...
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London Calling to the Faraway Links
* accessiblesyllabus.tulane.edu. * Global Markets in Chaos After UK Votes to Leave EU. Five terrifying immediate reactions to Brexit from the markets. Results Map. All this and the vote wasn’t even...
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