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Rebecca Shapiro

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Historical Legal Lexicography and the Emoluments Clause (CUP '24), lexicographer, linguist, Edgeworth, #18thc, CUNY, down the shore

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You can smooch Isidore also!

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Oh no. That's terrible, I am so sorry. But these are such cute kittens. I hope they help.

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I thought it was Christian since I didn't know Jews who had it at home.

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20/10 would pat and give head smooches

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Apply for a Radcliffe Fellowship! Deadline for humanities, social sciences, & creative arts is Sept 12 2024 & for science, engineering, & math is Oct 3, 2024. They welcome all areas, but are particularly interested in projects on climate change. #philsci #histsci 🧪⚒️ #BlackInSTEM #IndigenousInSTEM 👩🏻‍🔬🗃

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Found it. We need to make it one of the Founding Discourses.

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The one where the guy said he hated mayo and someone else tried to eviscerathim for it, as it he alone was responsible for all social ills. Trying to find it but can't.

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I really wish I could find the insane and epic mayonnaise battle of last summer.

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This chapter of The Power Broker is describing a neighborhood in the Bronx full of working class leftist Jews who are embracing integration as Black and Latino residents are moving in! I'm sure nothing bad will happen to them! Let me pull up Google Maps and see where the Cross Bronx Expressway is!

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You've only read a novel once? Noooooooo, sometimes it's really good to pick up the things left behind (I caught an English Beat song in the background of episode 6 and my husband didn't).

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We're never the only ones and hardly the first ones.

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A decade ago, after I gave evidence to a detective and the police chief re my abuse, they told me of another, earlier case. My mouth dropped because I was still thinking like a 14 year old: "I thought I was the only one." We're never the only one.

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This is hard, I don't know what to say other than I'm really sorry and I hope you can work together.

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She is missing in Spanish and all but 2 languages on Wikipedia, and is unaccounted for by any of the Wikimedia relevant women's projects.

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Mary Elizabeth Cadle (1891-1978) was an American folklorist, literature professor, and activist interested in women's, African-American & labor rights. She collected & made numerous field recordings of folk songs & stories throughout the South and Caribbean from the mid 1930s until the early 1950s.

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Reason 2 *wearing my science writer hat* AD/RD is an absolutely heartbreaking diagnosis for families and caregivers. Millions of families suffer, mostly in silence. Throwing around cognitive decline for political reasons deeply disrespects patients and families.

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I did this in preparation for the semester because I can't create a proper calendar. It's awful! But schedules are so essential and hard!

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You and the wives/partners of Gen X cool white guys in bands.

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What did I do today? I made a table. One with Tuesdays and Thursdays for August, September, October, November, and December. I added the dates when we meet and when the final is. That's it. All of the day. How long have I struggled with this? Thirty-six years. Tomorrow, I will add the other exams.

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I was after I read Mary Karr. Waaaaaaaay over.

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Of course all cats, but especially co-working cats.

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Yes, it really is weird. I've had students who use different Englishes rank profanity and depending on where they're from this goes up or down a lot.

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My late Zalman K. Berland, who always worked from home.

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You're welcome (and I'm a free speech advocating Jew who argued strenuously with keeping antisemtic words around because they tell us who we are)

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Ah, I am sorry, I don't know of a term. "Proto-field" isn't in my ken but it might be someone else's; for me "proto" connotes early and not necessarily narrow focus. Good luck!

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First, "niche" has negative connotations; I'd shy away from it in use. As does "narrow," but less so. I'm not entirely sure what you're asking other than if, when I say "narrow field," do I conjure up an understanding of a field small in number of practictioners and also focus? If so, then, yes.

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Also, you're helping to make names more arbirary

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I don't say this lightly but consider deleting. It's sexist and makes you look bad.

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1) Losing Jane McAlevey sucks hard. 2) The "we're going to hold out until the writers lose their houses" statement during the WGA didn't just fortify the writers, it genuinely radicalized some managers and agents I know. People really do not know what capital thinks of them. To wit ... they don't.

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English speaking colleagues, I need your help: Is there an English word for particularly small disciplines? An umbrella term for fields like sinology, frisian studies, paleontology, etc.? In Germany, small fields are a thing ("kleine Fächer" or "Orchideenfächer"). Is there an English equivalent?

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My annual PSA for DH grad students: There's as much or more DH faculty hiring in LIS now than in pretty much all the humanities disciplines combined, and/so you might want to find yourself on the Wayne State Jesse listserv.

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I teach at CUNY and the Y is next to the T on the keyboard. It's very hard!

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I love Munro's work but not enough to read it again. I can cut her out just like I can cut out Ezra Pound and Robert Frost and most of Eliot. Woolf is still holding tho. There is always more art.

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Oh it's not good. Not as bad as Anne Sexton bad but close.

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