Chris Forster

Awesome reddit comment from someone who worked in the early days of integrated circuits and noticed chip covers, made from mildly radioactive ceramic, were flipping bits. www.reddit.com/r/electronic...

There are not many things that 97% of Americans have in common. High school English is one of them.

A couple of years ago, I put together a simple OA edition of Nella Larsen's "Passing" when it went out of copyright. It's has been accessed >100,000 times by 50K users. I told this to someone & they said "...and you're not monetizing any of it?" Nope, all free. scalar.lehigh.edu/african-amer...

Worth noting for non-education folks unfamiliar though: Engelmann’s DI is VERY different than the lecture style many (myself included) use in college courses. I think that’s important for people in HE who think this is about attacking the lecture as a pedagogical form. It is not.

Announcement!!! Big news!!! 📢📢📢 My book, The Racialization of Print, has a cover (!!), and a webpage, and pre-orders are now available! Coming in Spring, 2027, from @uncpress.bsky.social and @oieahc.bsky.social Use code 01SOCIAL30 to save 30% uncpress.org/979889313492...

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Please watch this. Sex ed doesn't stop rapists, but it helps *everyone else* understand that they need to intervene, and how. Sex ed is crucial for ending rape culture and keeping more people safe. I'm a proud member of the @educateusaction.bsky.social advisory board for a reason.

delighted to share with you a few slides from my powerpoint on the culture industry, which I first made in 2015 (?), pre-AI, and have added to, little by little, over the years, as the processes of homogenization have intensified & the smothering sameness of mainstream ideas become more choking: +

"Require full books" is ranked 25th out of 30 here, only a few above "Private school vouchers" and "Allow A.I. use." The explanation? "Some experts saw this as common sense, though there is little existing research."

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

Pope’s lines from “An Essay on Criticism” have been much misunderstood: Where'er you find "the cooling western breeze," In the next line, it "whispers through the trees." It’s not the predictability of rhyme pairs that is being censured (Pope used “trees | breeze” more than once) but (1/2)

The @averyedison.com version of this comic is my favorite: bsky.app/profile/aver... And it remains the correct response to “IT HAS A SOUL” discourse. But this thread is right.

I think we could try to falsify that premise (Thankfully, logic tells us that doesn't necessarily invalidate the conclusion)

Just found out that there’s a new, and final, installment of ITV’s groundbreaking 7up documentary series. Original creator/director Michael Apted died a few yrs ago so they got Asif Kapadia (dir. of Senna) to do it. Can’t wait to watch & have an existential crisis.

I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

A fantastically sharp post that joins a sense of text's actual functioning (resonant with the Textpocalypse described by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social) to a longer history of the class function of literacy that resonates with @mattseybold.bsky.social on deliteracy.

LLMs bridge the gap between the honor still accorded to white-collar literacy and the dwindling capacity of educational institutions to reproduce it. https://andrewgoldstone.com/blog/f26nope/

It took me too long to realize that this game is not a sequel to the groundbreaking first-person spy game set in Menlo Park.

Mac Le Moray. (Like when the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's...)

Omg nerds ftw

I’ll stop apologizing. But I’m including a citation to this post.

Sounds like a Future Me problem, not a Current Me problem

It was a pleasure to help the author with this article and so serendipitous that @mellymeldubs.bsky.social was in town when we were in touch. Secret help from an incredible & stealth Princeton librarian also got @hathitrust.bsky.social in the convo, finally.

I mourn the passing of Rachel Blau DuPlessis, whose writing taught me so much. Much to choose from, so here’s a bit of Blue Studios I had pinned above my computer for a while: A book should be porous; it should have enough air and space, enough blue air, so that whoever is enters it can breathe.

My experience is folks talk more about THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY (and just the very end, re biopower) than even the prison stuff. Which utterly ignores THE ORDER OF THINGS!

it is sooooo cool that we have an actual explainable algorithm here on bsky

I have to admit it's funny to begin a novel by arguing that all your problems can be traced to your mother's having asked your father, in the middle of your conception, whether he'd remembered to wind the clock

An undergrad told her professor President Trump made teaching about gender identity illegal and then THE PROFESSOR was fired. This happened LAST YEAR in Texas. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

It’s here! From the team that brought you Clarissa 2025, join us to read a rollicking delight of a novel. Whether you’re rereading or reading for the first time, there are lots of ways to join. We’ll have weekly Substack posts and bimonthly hybrid meetings.

For those who write tenure letters: you play an important role here. For the last few years I include a statement that the funding environment is bad and while any funding wins should be celebrated, lack of fundraising success should no longer be used as a meaningful metric for tenure.

I'm looking for a scholar who studies James Baldwin (broadly, his life and/or work) who is open to collaboration and computational methods. If you know someone nice, please let me know :D

I can’t read about Meister Eckhart without imagining the makin’ copies guy calling him “the Eckhartmeister.”

The alchemists were right after all. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Delighted to share that my article on Mina Loy's conversion to Christian Science in Florence around 1909 has been published in Feminist Modernist Studies! Thanks to @euilibrary.bsky.social, the article is Open Access so is free to read & download (see below): doi.org/10.1080/2469...

If it were me, I'd first try it via regulatiry of the high-frequency function words, which are exactly the sort of signal many stylometers already look for. Dunno if it would work well, but it'd be subtle and elegant if it did so.

I am reading a remarkably accomplished doctoral dissertation in advance of a defense next week and it is good to be reminded that early career historians are doing absolutely phenomenal scholarship despite the multitude of forces arrayed against them.