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A Few for Friday
* All Your Nightmares Are Real: Massive Mayfly Emergence in Wisconsin. * So, I would like to suggest the following as a starting point: we should highlight the accomplishments of “high-profile” faculty...
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If You Want a Vision of the Future: Weekend Links
* CFP: Literature and Social Justice Graduate Conference. * Dan Harmon’s advice for career happiness — imagine a job you could stand doing and then invent it — is more or less exactly how I describe...
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Thursday Links
* Call for Applications: The Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. * American SF and the Other. Ursula K. Le Guin, 1975. This tendency has been remarkably strong in American SF. The only social...
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Saturday Links!
* There’s only one important story in the world right now, but you won’t hear anything about it in your mainstream media: Ant mega-colony takes over world. * Found poetry: Below you’ll find a haiku...
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Tuesday Morning Links!
* On April 10th-12th, 2015, UF will be hosting its 11th annual Conference on Comics and Graphic Novels, “Comics Read but Seldom Seen: Diversity and Representation in Comics and Related Media.” * The...
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Monday Morning Links!
* I have an essay in Oil Culture, out this week, on “Retrofutures and Petrofutures.” It’s about science fiction framings of fossil fuel use and its eventual supersession. Amazon link! * Fascinating...
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All the Weekend Links You’ll Ever Need
* Key Findings in Chapel Hill’s Academic-Fraud Investigation. I find the scale of this thing totally amazing; that the NCAA is still claiming it has no jurisdiction here is also amazing. It’ll be...
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First Tuesday after the First Monday in November Links!
* ICYMI: An edited and expanded meritocracy, lottery, game blog post got republished at Inside Higher Ed yesterday. Here’s a reply suggesting a better metaphor than games might be the casting process....
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Wednesday Night Links!
* How Bad Was It? Mitch McConnell Triumphant. Losers, not unlucky. And they probably managed to pre-lose the Senate in 2016 in the bargain. If you want a vision of the future. Decision 2014: The...
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Weekend Links!
* C21 2015 call for papers: “After Extinction.” * More 2014 postmortems: The Democrats Have Two Choices Now: Gridlock or Annihilation. And in Michigan: Democrats Get More Votes, Lose Anyway. Davis...
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Saturday Morning Links!
* But it’s time to rethink this notion that Democrats lack principles. They have a clear agenda and are actually more ideological than Republicans. Democrats like Obama are willing to lose power to...
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I Just Can’t Believe It’s December Links
* Over the weekend, of course, we celebrated the first Star Wars Trailer Day in a decade. Your shot-for-shot dissection. A deeper look. Digging deeper still. The George Lucas Special Edition. Elsewhere...
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All Your Christmas Eve Eve Links
* De Blasio and the police. Some amazing stuff in there. According to a former de Blasio aide, during the general election campaign in 2013, de Blasio’s team was even convinced that members of his...
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Bask in the Warm Glow of Martin Luther King’s Dream with These Exciting...
* CFP: Modernism’s Child (Centre for Modernist Studies, University of Sussex, April 20, 2015). * CFP: Obsidian Call for Submissions: Speculating on the Future: Black Imagination & the Arts. *...
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Weekend Links Absolutely Positively Guaranteed to Help You Find Love This...
* Was this a luxury? Sure. But it was also the steppingstone to a more aware, thoughtful existence. College was the quarry where I found it. * Move over, Wisconsin, North Carolina wants in: Tea Party...
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Weekend Links! So Many!
* Harris Wittels has died. I really loved his appearances on Earwolf, but the one I keep thinking about is his appearance on “You Made It Weird” last November, where he spoke about his addiction at...
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Thursday Links!
* In case you missed it yesterday: “Universities, Mismanagement, and Permanent Crisis.” * Chomsky: How America’s Great University System Is Being Destroyed. * “Faculty and Students Are Walking Out...
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Find the Secret Tuesday Link and Win a Prize
* A thoughtful, if ultimately mostly negative, review of The Cambridge Companion to American Science Fiction. I’m either too narcissistic or not narcissistic enough to argue with the reviewer...
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Easter Links! Find Them All!
* The 2015 Hugo nominees have been announced, and they’re a mess. The Hugo Awards Were Always Political. But Now They’re Only Political. A Note About the Hugo Nominations This Year. The Puppy-Free Hugo...
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Sunday Morning Links!
As Marquette’s faculty gathers in the basement of the Bradley Center for commencement, some links… * I have sat in philosophy seminars where it was asserted that I should be left to die on a desert...
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