What is writing, you ask? #AcWri #WritingSky #AcademicSky

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Where do I even begin? Generative AI has poisoned education!

Larry Summers breezily declares he'll stick to teaching at Harvard, shedding other roles. Maybe to mingle more with females a third his age. #Epstein

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 Time of reckoning for him is long overdue! www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this

To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...

This is what happened when AI acted as both author and reviewer - a study found AI peer-reviewers accepted fake AI-generated papers 4 out of 5 times. We need #PeerReview to be better, and human oversight is more vital than ever! #ResearchIntegrity #AI #AcademicPublishing #ResearchSky #AcademicSky

Rhetorical question news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

And "women ruined the workplace," per the New York Times last week.

The Epstein files are clearly more damning than we assumed, which is saying something.

Hilarious side effect of the OpenAI pivot to porn plus the Swedish ban on online pornography purchases: Paying for ChatGPT in Sweden may be a criminal act soon.

Brilliant quote by Ben Roberts on LinkedIn about using AI in grading papers: "It’s getting a bit like a modern version of that famous Solzhenitsyn quote, but you replace ‘lying’ with ‘using AI’: ‘We know that they are using AI, they know that we are using AI, they even know that we know they […]

My new mantra: “I am not a human AI detector, I am not a human AI detector….” as I spend way too much time discerning human writing because I absolutely refuse to “grade” machine writing…

The 1st law of thermoacademics: the amount of urgent work to be done is constant. The 2nd law of thermoacademics: the amount of work previously deemed urgent is ever increasing #academicchatter #chemsky

Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster

The California State University System currently has campuses that are in severe financial exigency, such as SF State. Do the right thing, CSU and demand its $17 million back! apnews.com/article/ai-e...

If you're having virtual sex with a chatbot that is a product of a corporation aren't you in some sense having sex with the corporation and giving it this tremendous hold on you/dependency on their protection of your privacy (but they know all your secrets). Who wants to have sex with OpenAI?

Jerk-GPT.

So much for all the noble missions and transformations; Altman's AI is down to talking dirty now. Pretty sure it's a massive lie that they've "mitigated the serious mental health issues" and seems likely this new porn feature will generate lots more of them. Bubble, please pop.

Today, World Bread Day, I learned that the Bread Man has died. artreview.com/tatsumi-orim...

There should be mandatory Terminator movie screenings for all these AI obsessives. SkyNet is watching!!!!

My husband had a great time asking ChatGPT what kind of research I do. ChatGPT gave a rather accurate summary of my main ideas, but could not find most of the bibliography I've published. Book chapters in particular were missing. Imagine... and we're taking AI seriously. #AcademicSky

The CSU can no longer justify its status as the “largest AI-driven university system” while squeezing faculty, students, and staff (one of my colleagues who had been driven to despair & illness basically dropped dead over the summer, btw) to their absolute limits and even beyond.

It’s obvious that Open AI wants to replace the education sector. It cannot expect partnerships with public ed/govts while simultaneously promoting its involvement in the commercial sex industry. Taxpayers will raise hell. College students are adults. They are part of the sexting market.

The California State University system entered an initial $17 million partnership with Open AI for its Chat GPT .edu product that has plenty of gender and racial bias, as my students & I have documented. Now this: www.theverge.com/news/799312/...

▫️ #AcademicSky ▫️ Universities have collectively announced more than 12,000 job cuts in the last year, new analysis from the UCU suggests.

Good lord. The MMWR is a hallmark of public health practice. Firing its editors will impact you and how your local health department functions.

The thread is required reading and no surprise to me!

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Like many Never Trumpers and other people with a public profile, I have been on the receiving end of death threats for years just for speaking my mind. No one in America should risk being killed for exercising their right to speak, no matter how despicable you think their views might be.

Chris Murphy: "Our entire democratic experiment is going crumble if people don't believe they are safe when they express their political views."

So wonderful for Alex Winter, whom I will always remember as a fellow teenager in NYC back in the day.

“Writing is a technology that helps us understand our own ideas better. Where people are involved in thinking and invention — including at universities — it needs to be taught in that spirit.” #AcademicSky

You cannot listen to the Epstein survivors talk about their horrific ordeals and not feel waves of heartbreak, shame and anger. Furious fucking anger.

They want to keep releasing the same Epstein documents and hope we’re too stupid to notice.

Jia Tolentino writes some really funny lines. " On social media, many of the most chaotic and emotionally lawless people you’ve ever known are posting on a regular basis about having at long last achieved inner peace."

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

National Guard is now tasked with picking up garbage in DC

Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files

Least surprising headline ever.

Newsom, when I first saw him had the best skin I’ve ever seen on anyone. Looks like he‘s been in the sun too much recently! Sunscreen is your friend!

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.