Could not be more well-deserved!!! Huge congratulations to Julia!
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
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hometown 4.5.18+hometown-1.2.1Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies. University Distinguished Professor of English. Director, Knowledge Commons. Seeker of open infrastructure, open governance, and open scholarship. All opinions my own and not those of my employer, especially the sweary ones.
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Folks, there's an account on mastodon.social that is using my name and reposting me on repeat. It's not me. Please block and report.
Friends, hcommons.social is getting a lot of suspicious account requests. If you or folks you know want to create an account with us, please ensure that your answer to the question of why you want to join our community tells us something about you and your relationship to our work. And please try to avoid throw-away email addresses. We promise not to spam you, but we need to know that you're not a spammer (or scammer, or troll, or bot) too.
I’m in the early stages of a new writing project, asking not how to fix higher education in the US but what we should do if it can't be fixed. This paper, presented at February's ACLA, represents the dipping of one toe in those waters. Comments *definitely* desired. https://kfitz.info/after-the-end/
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We’re exploring the possibilities but don’t have anything firm to share as yet.
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Holy shit. Orbán has apparently conceded. May Hungary have a smooth and safe transition of power. And may he be only the first authoritarian to fall. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt
The latest fashion in bot account requests: Text lifted from a random existing Mastodon user's profile. Some of them are plausible. Admins beware!
Gee, I hope they remember that they need to raise a million dollars EVERY YEAR to cover this. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2026/05/19/michigan-state-president-receives-1m-raise
New spam account pattern to look out for, Masto admins: Overnight we got two account requests using the names of existing users whose accounts have gone inactive, with a number tacked on the end. Email addresses were unrelated throwaway accounts. #mastoadmin
Time to update the numbers in my book talk again. Thanks for continuing to provide the instructive examples, MSU.
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@inquiline@assemblag.es Yeah, I just got @-ed by your troll from a new account on a new server. I reported (to myself 😇 and to the remote server admin).
Finally sitting still and reading MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS, and when I tell you how my breath caught at “the preferential option for the poor” (§14) nestled in amongst the standards for discernment we should develop for our collective future… I am here for liberation theology. Bring it, Leo.
I spent some time yesterday noodling about Amy Schiller's THE PRICE OF HUMANITY and the questions it raised for me about US higher education’s interpellation into the ideology behind Effective Altruism. https://kfitz.info/humanities-philanthropy-good-life/
This post gets at the complexity of deploying a major upgrade to a live program, and why we’re so glad to have a team on multiple continents working to make sure everything will go well when we do it for real. Not incidentally, it also makes clear why we’re so excited about the update even though the real improvements are to off-stage behavior. Thanks for this, @mpe@hcommons.social! @mpe@hcommons.social
This is super cool! @samplereality@post.lurk.org @samplereality@post.lurk.org
Time for a new #introduction post, as much of my last one has changed! I’m Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University. I’m founder and Director Emerita* of #MeshResearch, a lab building open-source interoperable tools for new forms of scholarly communication. I'm also director of Knowledge Commons, a scholarly network serving knowledge creators from across the disciplines and around the world. https://hcommons.org
My research interests circulate around transforming #universities into more #open, more #generous spaces for cultural and intellectual work. My newest book, LEADING GENEROUSLY: TOOLS FOR TRANSFORMATION, published in 2024 by Hopkins Press, explores the notion that #collective leadership infrastructures might be one key to that transformation. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12787/leading-generously
*Not a real title.
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I recently finished reading Amy Schiller's The Price of Humanity: How Philanthropy Went Wrong and How to Fix It , and as the director of... (New post from kfitz.info: "The Humanities, Philanthropy, and the Good Life" https://kfitz.info/humanities-philanthropy-good-life/)
I wrote the paper below for an ACLA panel on re-theorizing the university, delivered in Montreal in late February. Afterward, I shared it with a... (New post from kfitz.info: "After the End" https://kfitz.info/after-the-end/)
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@mpe @viroviacum I could not agree with you more: the world owes you many breaks at this point.
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@davidsirota But they’ll definitely come after you if you claim a home office deduction. 🤬
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social Thank you for this! It’s giving me a lot to ponder. I particularly like "processes which produce educated students.”
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@investinopen @lbcollister If this story resonates, you can help us by joining the Knowledge Commons coalition! Visit us at hcommons.org, create an account, and if you believe we provide an important value for ensuring a collective future for knowledge production, you can become a KC Champion! https://about.hcommons.org/kc-champions/
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@actualham@social.coop I said it before and I’ll say it again: Brilliant news! ❤️
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@misc The part that kills me is that if you reply-all to that same message it goes to the other person in the thread. I mean, great! But… 🤦🏻♀️
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@mve@mastodontti.fi @cmconseils@mastodon.social Ohhhh, that is delightful. Are you familiar with the work of Nina Katchadourian? She has a whole series of Flemish-style self-portraits put together in -- and only with the materials available in -- airplane lavatories. http://www.ninakatchadourian.com/photography/sa-flemish.php
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@mve@mastodontti.fi @cmconseils@mastodon.social The series (“Seat Assignment”) includes a two-screen video version of Queen/Bowie's "Under Pressure,” which is one of the best things I've ever gotten to see. (The audio is not recorded here, but if you sync the video to the song, it's astonishing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn1K-ttdoxY )
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@electricarchaeo@scholar.social I am about to embark on a writing project that has this very idea as one of its facets. I’d love to talk with you about it as I dig in!
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@mbattles Same. I only met her once but have carried Vocational Awe with me since it came out. She was such a force.
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@mpe Ugh, I am so sorry to hear this, Martin. Sending you all the good healing vibes I can.
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@brentsimmons Not just you. I switched over to Alfred sometime back and this was one among several reasons.
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@ekansa@scholar.social @electricarchaeo@scholar.social You could join us! Imagine the reimagined faculty club at such a reimagined institution.
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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io @kate@aus.social My experience of the medical profession in a fucking nutshell.
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@actualham@social.coop When you posted about your airport purchases I almost posted to say how much I love it but I didn’t want to color your reading any more than it probably had already been but oh man did I love that book.