Today, my university announced a capital campaign described as "powering innovation to impact." Aside from the fact that the slogan sounds like meaningless marketing-speak, I find the use of "impact" as a verb, particularly without a direct object, to be dismaying. style.mla.org/impact-as-a-...

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Launch day for Blackness in Interwar Germany! It looks absolutely smashing inside too—huge thanks to the team at Hurst for the beautiful production work!! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social

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Book launch today! My new book, "Why You Should Read More Fiction" (Johns Hopkins), is part of a wave of digital humanities work that explains why reading fiction is so important for our minds, especially right now. I hope you'll pick up a copy and spread the word. #digitalhumanities #fiction

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Maybe universities shouldn‘t be tying which departments and programs they decide to invest in based on projected job trends they have no actual clue about. Why not just invest proportionally in every field of inquiry rather than underfund some disciplines and overfund others?

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Academics take themselves too seriously and also not seriously enough

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