@ProfessorBall

history prof, early modernist, Iberia & beyond, poet, editor, author of Cómo ser rey, Treating the Public, Tithe of Salt, & Lararium. she/her. bi. Tweets mine.

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Logging out of Twitter indefinitely. Take care folks.
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I can so imagine my herpetologist father humming along to this, riding the roads, looking for toads and other specimens.
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
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(John Denver voice) Country toaaadds, take me homeee, to the place, toad belongg, OKLA-homaa, toady momma, take me homeee, country toaaadds
A Woodhouse's Toad sits on a country road in a cowboy hat. This tweet is from drafts.

ALT A Woodhouse's Toad sits on a country road in a cowboy hat. This tweet is from drafts.

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Today’s Team AHN includes Meghan Armstrong, @Bibliophilenick @frankie_urrutia @Hector_LinaresG and yours truly.
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Stoked to have two poems in this lovely lit mag! – at Valladolid, Spain
UCity Review Editors@UCityReview9 Jun 2023
The June 2023 issue is live! Includes work by @MsAubeELA @jackbedell @Martelli89 @LeePottsPoet @patriciacaspers @mrmeyerhofer @ProfessorBall @BunkongTuon @AmBusyPoeming @GaryPercesepe @BSatromPoetry & more.
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Lovely to spend time with these two absolute stars!!! – at Madrid, Spain
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So what, Stephen King put out 97 books in 9 months during the 80s using nothing but his incredible work ethic and cocaine
Publishers Weekly
@PublishersWkly28 May 2023
Sci-fi author says he wrote 97 books in 9 months using AI tools, including ChatGPT and Midjourney | @BusinessInsider pwne.ws/426V1AA
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My fab #ASPHS52 panel on art an power in early modern Spain.
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Michael Selzer of the University of Akron looks at women’s often obscured roles in health care and ideas of wellness. #ASPHS52 – at Boulder, CO
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Mike’s paper depicts a Monty Pythonesque series of espionage goofs. – at Boulder, CO
ASPHS@ASPHS120 May 2023
Michael J. Levin of the University of Akron asks if Early Modern Spanish espionage is overrated? He gives two cases of spectacular intelligence failures. #ASPHS52
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Some of us read for a living. Some of us read for leisure. Some of us for both. Read how you want, when you want, and what you want.
Mykail James | Gen Z Financial Education@BoujieBudgeter18 May 2023
Over consumption and hustle culture got y’all thinking that reading 200 books in one year is better than reading 3-5 books slowly and sitting with the information or the story
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ANC 🛫 SEA 🛫 DIA 🚍 Boulder – at Anchorage, AK
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I'm about to lose my mind. Someone in the university bureaucracy scheduled my 5-week class first summer term as a 10-week class. The summer term started yesterday....
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Happy Mother’s Day to an absolute legend! I am so grateful for my mama’s medical team and hope to have many more holidays to celebrate with her. #fuckcancer
Two white women with glasses in pajamas sitting on a gray couch. One is wearing a rainbow tie dye head scarf and a pale green Grogu shirt. The other has chin length dark hair.

ALT Two white women with glasses in pajamas sitting on a gray couch. One is wearing a rainbow tie dye head scarf and a pale green Grogu shirt. The other has chin length dark hair.

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My excellent #NewMexico colleagues just assessed basic needs insecurity there- including among #faculty and #staff Check out this new #RealCollege data news.unm.edu/news/survey-fin… 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
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Poet dg nanouk okpik, who is Iñupiaq and grew up with adoptive parents in Anchorage, has been recognized as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her collection of poems, “Blood Snow.” adn.com/arts/2023/05/08/alas…

Alaska-rooted Iñupiaq poet dg nanouk okpik a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

“I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it,” okpik said by phone Monday. “I feel like a thousand marmots running in the tundra — playing in the tussocks and hummocks and taiga and tundra.”

adn.com
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One of the beauties by this year's Pulitzer prize winner, Carl Phillips.
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Ugh! And like clockwork here is my end-of-the-semester cold. (Or so I assume since the COVID test I took is negative.)
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I love how UAA commencement features Alaska Native artists like the Yurapik Drummers and Dancers.
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One of my students this semester is ESL (French is his first language), and, dear Lord, his prose is full of epic lyricism.
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Working with @VariantLit is a dream! Congratulations to these fabulous poets!
Variant Literature@VariantLit5 May 2023
Say hello to the newest additions to the Variant family: MJ Gomez, Todd Dillard, Ian Powell-Palm, Sneha Subramanian Kanta, Ben Kline, Robin Rahija, and Jessica Ram! variantlit.com/contests/
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