Hoo-chan, the mascot for Yamano musical instruments, is a musical fairy who dresses in a bird costume because both music and birds can fly freely across borders.

My institution purchased an AI tool for the campus. I got an email about setting up my account early before it rolls out more widely, and then a follow up email asking why I haven't set up my account yet. Asking if I need help. 1/5

Sunbeam xkcd.com/3253/

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

***NEW EPISODE!!!*** @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social & Sam Field talk with Lisa Roe, author of Big & Lily, about sisterhood, second acts, and the ways women learn to rewrite the stories they’ve been living.

"Their desire for their daughters to succeed propels them from involved, supportive mothers to unhinged, enmeshed adversaries." @sheshellwrites.bsky.social reviews Jennifer Jabaley's novel, What's Yours Is Mine:

Reminder to folks, or new info for those who don’t know: set this option to help you remember to include alt text on all your images. It helps your posts get found in search, leads to more engagement, and helps posts be better understood by those with health issues that affect Internet viewing.

Listen in on scientists finding (and falling for) a new species of octopus now called Microeledone galapagensis. Read more here www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...

My hobbies include writing "this does not sound like your voice," and "this is not a phrase we used in class, so I wonder where you learned it," and other passive-aggressive ways of saying "I can tell you used ChatGPT to answer this question" on my students' lab assignments.

Saw an ad on FB for yet another essay writing tool, this time from Adobe. In the video, the student describes how much more efficient of a writer she has become now that Adobe can summarize all her course readings and pull evidence for her arguments /1

Yes. You could import this to any discipline or endeavor. Thinking is the thing we do. For which we get credit, and are held accountable.

On the blog, @cvittitoe.bsky.social asks: When has your writing enthusiasm sputtered out? Did you fight it or give in? How did you know when it was time to start back up?

Fellow ancient history artists look at this!! Fully funded artist oppurtunity working with North East archives about Hadrians Wall, hosted by @vindolandatrust.bsky.social 🏛️🌿 If I didn’t already work at an archive three days a week I’d be all over this www.vindolanda.com/2027-artist-...

"For me, this season is redefining what it means to vacillate between two roles: mothering my own mother and mothering my almost 21-year-old daughter." from @rudribhattpatel.bsky.social's letter from the editor in our new issue:

Good news! We are offering my Center for Wildlife Studies shark biology and ecology course again this fall! You can take the online take-at-your-own-pace lecture for university transfer credit or just to learn something new.

"The fact that LLMs are becoming advanced enough to dupe prize judges and pump out nominally Granta-level short stories is depressing, but what's worse is the pathetic behavior of my fellow writers."

The NCTE 2026 Catalog is here! Featuring new, upcoming, and bestselling titles from NCTE’s collection, our latest catalog offers content you want and need. Discover fresh ideas, thoughtful research, and the voices of educators like you. Flip through the digital version: https://bit.ly/43lJqka

Look at this beautiful collection of writing!

When I was in undergrad, we at least had to search the library databases to find the citations to support the position in the paper we'd already written.

Once, I realized one the quotes I was citing for a paper was itself mostly a quote. The morning the paper was due I quickly read over that article to make sure I was quoting it correctly. I discovered that a foundation of her argument was one of my professor's ideas. It felt amazing to complete this

The piece says the author of the book "said that he had started his own investigation." Investigation into what? Into the book that he supposedly wrote? Also: "improperly attributed or synthetic quotes," oh, you mean lies. Those are lies. Famously the opposite of truth.

You’ll leave this @authorsguild.org session with actionable ways to free yourself from the algorithm-chasing burnout of social media and remember why you want to share your #writing in the first place. authorsguild.org/resource/pro... #indieauthors #publishing #selfpub #selfpublishing #writers

Shake it, baby! 🐢

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

Got an email with a 100% AI-generated flyer attached. All of the information for the event was in the email itself. The flyer was completely unnecessary, even setting aside that it was AI-generated. But the AI flyer looks so BAD & it's hard to read. Just... why? A Word doc would have been better.

I like this description of the so-called AI-writing detectors: they are "very good at detecting LLM usage, even when it's not there."

shronk

My student told me he ran his paper through an AI checker to see if it would get flagged even though he wrote it, and it offered to “humanize” his paper by changing the sentence, “Illicit cocaine use is responsible for many potential adverse cardiovascular events” to “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”

R, O, Y, G, B, IV

Narwhal #mermay

A dream come true to see my book with QueryTracker featured in Publishers Weekly! 🎉 "A practical and heartening guide for those navigating the book industry for the first time." If you're currently querying or planning to, we wrote this for you. 📘 Preorder it now: modernguidetoquerying.com/

There are 2 doors into my office. There is a guy from Facilities on a ladder outside one of them, head up in the ceiling, all the lights off, using a drill. No one else is here. He didn't hear me announce myself. Now I have one job: do not startle him and make him fall off the ladder.

I met someone who was shocked at how rabidly I despised GenAI. For others curious why writers appear to have an irrationally strong reaction to the chatbots, a rough breakdown of why so many of us are going full luddite: 🧵

Hey cuties try to remember to use alt text for accessibility 💖

Anyway do y’all wanna see my very profesh dye process because I remembered to film stuff this time!! 🧶

The academic equivalent of always reblog Tom Holland lip syncing to Umbrella is always reblog The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense

You also need to read this fanfiction of The Snake Fight Portion of Your Thesis Defense if you are or preferably were someone who exchanges academic emails

***NEW EPISODE!!!*** Amanda Fields and @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social chat with @martheaus.bsky.social, author of The Grace of Black Mothers, about Black motherhood, poetic form, and the complicated inheritance of the American Dream. @triohousepress.org

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

If you want to know why so many people are AI skeptics it's because things that used to work like Google Advanced Search went all-in on AI and now do not fucking work. IT DOES NOT FUCKING WORK ANYMORE

New Books About Women Artists | Jan–March 2026 artherstory.net/new-books-ab... #newbooksaboutwomenartists #womenartists #artherstory

My husband asked me what I was proudest of in my career and I thought about it. I think it may be that I built it not on Batman or Spider-Man, but on books no one really wanted at the time. Often books scheduled to be cancelled. Often after unsuccessful runs. Over and over. 1/

It has not been a great day at work today. Trying not to let it affect the rest of the evening. It’s only sort of working.

I talk to @benpatrickwill.bsky.social about how the citations of his academic work have skyrocketed. Unfortunately it's because of "Frankencitations," AI-hallucinated references that proliferates like Gremlins getting hit with water after midnight. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I take a few medicines, including vilazodone, an SSRI. If I didn't take vilazodone, I wouldn't have to take my other medicines. Because I'd be dead.

A thread worth pulling on

This month, expect a new Nghi Vo, a new Sarah Rees Brennan, and the epic continuation of Amina al-Sirafi's journeys...and that's just the sequels! Here's all the new fantasy books coming out in May 2026 📖 #Booksky

Krista Puttler's poem, "What is Brave":

Always love to be reminded of this. A lot of it was hand-stitched too. Really amazing, precise work. Women’s work is so often minimised and forgotten.

Um...so I accidentally stumbled onto the UVA law library's collection of 6,000 drawings by courtroom sketch reporter Ida Libby Dengrove, who worked in NYC mostly in the '70s & '80s, & they're kind of...amazing..?? This one is tagged "Clown Attack" (thread) archives.law.virginia.edu/resources/18...