Dan Breen
@dgsbreen.bsky.social
Medieval and early modern literature and history, friends, family, "culture." Occasionally grumpy, but mostly nice.
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UMD's Department of English is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization in Poetry. Please spread the word. Best consideration date October 15, 2026. If you have any questions about the position, don't hesitate to reach out.
Assistant Professor
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The mission of the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) is to prepare versatile and visionary leaders equipped to address the complexities of...
umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
August 24, 2026 at 2:05 PM
UMD's Department of English is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization in Poetry. Please spread the word. Best consideration date October 15, 2026. If you have any questions about the position, don't hesitate to reach out.
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#JOB ALERT: Carleton College is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in African History. The deadline for applications is September 1, 2026; start date for the job will be September 1, 2027. More information here ⬇️. 🗃️ #EduSky #HigherEd #Blackademics
JOB ALERT: Come work with me in the History Department and Africana Studies Program at Carleton! We are hiring a TT assistant professor in African history. The position is open to all geographical and thematical subfields in African history. 🗃️ #EduSky #Blackademics africanstudies.org/jobs/tenure-...
Tenure-Track Professorship, Carleton College Department of History and Program in Africana Studies
Start Date: September 1, 2027 African History. Carleton College’s Department of History and Program in Africana Studies seekapplications for a […]
africanstudies.org
August 20, 2026 at 12:14 PM
#JOB ALERT: Carleton College is hiring a TT Assistant Professor in African History. The deadline for applications is September 1, 2026; start date for the job will be September 1, 2027. More information here ⬇️. 🗃️ #EduSky #HigherEd #Blackademics
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Mad Max
Maverick Miller is a worse husband than Mel Gibson, but if he knows what women want, he could avoid an Apocalypto this November. With Trump's military misadventures starting to look like Gallipoli, even not-so-braveheart Dems may have found a lethal political weapon.
by Maureen Dowd
Maverick Miller is a worse husband than Mel Gibson, but if he knows what women want, he could avoid an Apocalypto this November. With Trump's military misadventures starting to look like Gallipoli, even not-so-braveheart Dems may have found a lethal political weapon.
by Maureen Dowd
August 22, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Mad Max
Maverick Miller is a worse husband than Mel Gibson, but if he knows what women want, he could avoid an Apocalypto this November. With Trump's military misadventures starting to look like Gallipoli, even not-so-braveheart Dems may have found a lethal political weapon.
by Maureen Dowd
Maverick Miller is a worse husband than Mel Gibson, but if he knows what women want, he could avoid an Apocalypto this November. With Trump's military misadventures starting to look like Gallipoli, even not-so-braveheart Dems may have found a lethal political weapon.
by Maureen Dowd
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The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below.
Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Closing Date: October 15, 2026
Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Closing Date: October 15, 2026
Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
jobs.utoronto.ca
August 18, 2026 at 4:47 PM
The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below.
Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Closing Date: October 15, 2026
Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Closing Date: October 15, 2026
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Save the date for our next #Shakespeare Webinar with Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social.
On 7 September at 6pm she will be joined by Dr Harry Newman (Royal Holloway) to explore The Winter's Tale.
#WintersTale
Free, but registration required. Find out more:
On 7 September at 6pm she will be joined by Dr Harry Newman (Royal Holloway) to explore The Winter's Tale.
#WintersTale
Free, but registration required. Find out more:
English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith
english.web.ox.ac.uk
August 7, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Save the date for our next #Shakespeare Webinar with Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social.
On 7 September at 6pm she will be joined by Dr Harry Newman (Royal Holloway) to explore The Winter's Tale.
#WintersTale
Free, but registration required. Find out more:
On 7 September at 6pm she will be joined by Dr Harry Newman (Royal Holloway) to explore The Winter's Tale.
#WintersTale
Free, but registration required. Find out more:
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See my ACLA seminar on World Literature and the Global South below 👇 and repost please and thank you!
CFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar!
It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.”
There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.
It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.”
There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.
View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
www.acla.org
August 4, 2026 at 4:07 PM
See my ACLA seminar on World Literature and the Global South below 👇 and repost please and thank you!
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Trump‘s ceasefire stops short of preventing armed conflict.
July 18, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Trump‘s ceasefire stops short of preventing armed conflict.
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“If you, as an administrator or professor, care little about whether the education you offer is a quality product, and if you have little faith in the transformative power of that education, then these kinds of changes are going to be acceptable to you.”
Required reading, to be shared widely
Required reading, to be shared widely
Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
July 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“If you, as an administrator or professor, care little about whether the education you offer is a quality product, and if you have little faith in the transformative power of that education, then these kinds of changes are going to be acceptable to you.”
Required reading, to be shared widely
Required reading, to be shared widely
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Make clocks more honest again with permanent Standard Time!
July 17, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Make clocks more honest again with permanent Standard Time!
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Why Democrats should select Count Binface as their Senate nominee in Maine.
July 11, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Why Democrats should select Count Binface as their Senate nominee in Maine.
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There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️
Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) at The University of Manchester
Apply now for the Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
www.jobs.ac.uk
July 1, 2026 at 5:22 AM
There’s a permanent modern British history post going at Manchester 🎉Come and join a great department and please share with anyone who might be interested. (Don’t let the short deadline put you off). #skystorians 🗃️
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Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass in Texas when federal immigration officers stopped her, confiscated her rosary and put her in handcuffs.
She was released hours later after lawmakers intervened.
She was released hours later after lawmakers intervened.
ICE’s arrest of nun heading to church fuels bipartisan backlash in South Texas
The president’s deportation drive has riled border areas that supported him in 2024, and a GOP congresswoman has joined Democrats calling for the sister’s release.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 1, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Sister Leticia “Letty” Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass in Texas when federal immigration officers stopped her, confiscated her rosary and put her in handcuffs.
She was released hours later after lawmakers intervened.
She was released hours later after lawmakers intervened.
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"In short order, SpaceX has become the sixth-most valuable public company despite the fact that it posted a net loss of $4.94 billion last year on $18.7 billion in revenue."
Good luck when the correction comes!
Good luck when the correction comes!
The Myth of SpaceX
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.
www.theatlantic.com
June 22, 2026 at 11:47 PM
"In short order, SpaceX has become the sixth-most valuable public company despite the fact that it posted a net loss of $4.94 billion last year on $18.7 billion in revenue."
Good luck when the correction comes!
Good luck when the correction comes!
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The Iran War was a massive success insofar as we learned many lessons that we'll take to heart during our invasion of Cuba.
by Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth
by Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth
June 18, 2026 at 3:36 PM
The Iran War was a massive success insofar as we learned many lessons that we'll take to heart during our invasion of Cuba.
by Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth
by Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth
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Scoop: In unanimous bipartisan ruling, NLRB rejects Amazon's challenge to landmark Whole Foods unionization vote in Philly www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Whole Foods Unionization Upheld By US Labor Board
The US labor board ruled against Whole Foods Market’s objections to a landmark Philadelphia unionization vote, teeing up a likely yearslong legal battle over whether the Amazon.com Inc. grocery chain ...
www.bloomberg.com
June 15, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Scoop: In unanimous bipartisan ruling, NLRB rejects Amazon's challenge to landmark Whole Foods unionization vote in Philly www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Spurs lost because they had a black coach.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
June 14, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The Spurs lost because they had a black coach.
by Pete Hegseth
by Pete Hegseth
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Times have been tough in this Ohio town ever since they closed the old tax cheating factory. So when Donald Trump announced a deal where neither he nor his sons would ever have to pay taxes again, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.
May 25, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Times have been tough in this Ohio town ever since they closed the old tax cheating factory. So when Donald Trump announced a deal where neither he nor his sons would ever have to pay taxes again, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.
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The John Calvin Bobblehead has been frame-mogged by the Pope Leo Bobblehead
May 9, 2026 at 11:06 PM
The John Calvin Bobblehead has been frame-mogged by the Pope Leo Bobblehead
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The Gilded Age had mass inequality, government kickbacks, an imperialist war, restricted voting, and racial segregation. But it also had its bad points.
by Clarence Thomas
by Clarence Thomas
May 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
The Gilded Age had mass inequality, government kickbacks, an imperialist war, restricted voting, and racial segregation. But it also had its bad points.
by Clarence Thomas
by Clarence Thomas
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The real winner of the Kentucky Derby? Florida governor Ron DeSantis.
May 3, 2026 at 6:51 PM
The real winner of the Kentucky Derby? Florida governor Ron DeSantis.
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I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead.
Signed,
A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure
Signed,
A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure
April 29, 2026 at 6:47 PM
I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead.
Signed,
A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure
Signed,
A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure
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I've had a first, quick read-through of the article on the new Cædmon's Hymn discovery and it is a splendid model of clarity. You could absolutely read the abstract and introduction and get why this is a blockbuster discovery. 🧵
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Open access!)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Open access!)
A New Early-Ninth-Century Manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn: Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Vitt. Em. 1452, 122v | Early Medieval England and its Neighbours | Cambridge Core
A New Early-Ninth-Century Manuscript of Cædmon’s Hymn: Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Vitt. Em. 1452, 122v - Volume 52
www.cambridge.org
April 30, 2026 at 12:13 AM
I've had a first, quick read-through of the article on the new Cædmon's Hymn discovery and it is a splendid model of clarity. You could absolutely read the abstract and introduction and get why this is a blockbuster discovery. 🧵
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Open access!)
www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Open access!)
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The Athletic | The New York Mets are playing baseball the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
April 20, 2026 at 2:14 AM
The Athletic | The New York Mets are playing baseball the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein