Meredith Martin

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poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu and this cdh.princeton.edu

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Given that JD Vance is a published writer for whom a body of criticism and scholarship exists, this is a unique opportunity to see what, if any, public impact the humanities and especially literary studies may have.

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I also want to point out that Vance's whole "professors are the enemy" schtick came after he profited enormously from universities. Nowhere was "Hillbilly Elegy" pushed more than on college campuses. He cashed in with six figure speaking fees to talk about Appalachian poverty.

JD Vance has talked about emulating authoritarian Orban's gutting of academic freedom in Hungary open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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*Every professor and university with an ounce of sense*:

JD Vance has talked about emulating authoritarian Orban's gutting of academic freedom in Hungary open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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The dismissal of the obviously robust classified-documents case is a good demonstration of how the right wants government to work. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | A preview of government of, by and for a subset of ‘the people’www.washingtonpost.com That Judge Aileen M. Cannon’s dismissal of the classified documents case wasn’t surprising tells us a lot about how government might evolve over the next four years.

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“What is most exceptional about the Americans is not the voluminous record of their violence but their extraordinary ability in the face of that record to persuade themselves that they are among the best behaved and best regulated of peoples.” - Richard Hofstadter, American Violence, 1970 🗃️

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Getting increasingly pissed off by various politicians "distraught" today. This is America, where every day we wonder if this when someone we love gets mowed down by a shooter. Pretending to be shocked just shows you don't get it. Trump has a Secret Service detail to protect him. My kids don't.

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Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

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I think it's perfectly acceptable for some people -- not necessarily politicians, but the rest of us -- to say something like "Trump has encouraged political violence for the better part of a decade and has been promising to do it with the government if he wins. I do not sympathize with him."

YES PLEASE THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

Princeton's new Humanities Initiative is looking for an Executive Director. Apply here: main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/19340/e...

Careers | Human Resourcesmain-princeton.icims.com A career at Princeton provides the opportunity to make meaningful impact. We invite you to imagine the difference you can make being a part of our community.

Princeton's new AI Lab is looking for an Executive Director. Apply here: main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/19339/e...

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Five graphics that show what the new U.N. population report tells us about the futurewww.nbcnews.com These five charts and maps highlight key points from the report released Thursday.

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A Tesla in full-self driving mode hit my twin today. The driver was not aware, did not have his hands on the wheel, and did not brake. He hit this mother of 2 going 30 mph before blaming it on FSD getting confused by a train and driving off, as if that explained everything. So now, it's personal.

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Junior Scholars: Project 2025 is now breaking through to public consciousness. The more people learn about it, the more they hate it. Now is a great time to search that website, go to the section of your expertise, and write an oped. Keep the drip of bad news for them coming, all the way to Nov.

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Donald Trump and Republicans will enact a national abortion ban by bypassing Congress, and using judge shopping and SCOTUS to do it. They aren’t “leaving abortion to the states.” They’re leaving it to SCOTUS to rule the 14th Amd covers the unborn. 👇🏻 2024 GOP Platform, Chapter 9:

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Recently we @versification.bsky.social had a major update of PoeTree dataset: Corpora in 10 languages with full-text search in more than 330k poems 🇨🇿🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇸🇫🇷🇭🇺🇮🇹🇵🇹🏳️🇸🇮 Metadata & morpho-syntactic annotation All data is accessible via REST API + Python & R helper libraries versologie.cz/poetree/index

PoeTree. Poetry Treebanks in 10 languagesversologie.cz PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising over 330,000 poems in ten languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish).

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leaders, disciplined and governing

NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Pro tip: call the Project 2025 1-800 number and complain about it to them. The people answering the phones don’t seem to know what the plan even is.

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Data & Society is hiring a rsch + ref librarian to help them "figure out better methods for making [their] rsch visible, discoverable, + durable" — and to create new methods of repository building to foreground the work of "lay experts, radical thinkers, community organizers, activist scholars"

Why You Should Apply to Be Our First Research and Reference Librariandatasociety.net

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Giving a shout out to ABC News for their electoral college map and the attention to #accessibility they put into it. It's invisible work for most of us but it matters. abcnews.go.com/Politics/202...

2024 Electoral Interactive Mapabcnews.go.com The ABC News 2024 Electoral Map shows state-by-state votes on the path to win the 2024 Presidential Election.

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Climate Zonespudding.cool Explore how will your city feel in the future.

mitpress.mit.edu/978026254872... LOOK AT THIS AWESOME THING I JUST PRE-ORDERED GET ON IT!

Dissonant Recordsmitpress.mit.edu How archives obscure recorded media—and the case in favor of discovering them.Silence is not absence. It may be perceived as meaningless, or it may not be ...

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Overturning Chevron is going to usher in an era where self-taught judicial expertise in technical areas such as chemistry, statistics, mechanical engineering, biology, geomorphology, epidemiology, mathematics, and many other fields will once more be able to shine forth as it did in the Middle Ages.

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The only thing better than someone making something great with open collections from the British Library is when they share how they did it! Guest post from Sak Supple on how he made digitised British Library playbills searchable online blogs.bl.uk/digital-scho...

blplaybills.org: leveraging open data from the British Libraryblogs.bl.uk In this guest post, developer Sak Supple describes his work turning digitised images of playbills into fully searchable documents... Digital Curator Mia Ridge says, 'we're absolutely delighted by Sak'...

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IF you find books on Google Books that are obviously out of copyright, but not being made available via Google Books (e.g. books published in U.S. before 1929) USE this form to open the scans to public view support.google.com/websearch/an...

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Pretty amazing they can legislate my uterus but not any of these things

The way we’re all told to treat all this as normal. It’s fine that half your email is scams. It’s fine that you can’t answer your phone. It’s fine that every Instagram post is full of scam bait comments. It’s fine that people text you weird phishing links. Just adjust your behavior.

On my way to the airport for the @dariah.bsky.social conference on Workflows. “Worked Up About Data” is a preview of forthcoming Poetry’s Data & story behind Data Work w @zoeleblanc.bsky.social. Excited to see @princetoncdh.bsky.social folks present their work! María Medem inspired the slides.

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Two year postdoc for historian using public history approaches, in particular Museum Studies, Historic Preservation, or digital history. Cornell University, USA

With the sponsorship of the Society for the Humanities, the Department of History invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship position beginning August 1, 2025. The fellowship carries a stipend of $62,000/year. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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