Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

We are hiring a tenure track poet! I’m so excited / spread the word… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

This is a fantastic volume, so proud to be a part of it! I am especially glad to be part of the community of scholars working of 18c science and culture who have connected with each other through the ASECS science studies caucus

It’s summer and we’re all looking for beach reads. Fortunately the lesser-known works of 19c authors are often perfect for the beach. I asked o3 to find a few overlooked gems.

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but With an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy We see into the life of things

It’s so easy to vote in the @asecsoffice.bsky.social elections for the Executive Board! Let’s break some voter turnout records!

Hi all, The Doctor Is In is preparting for remote ASECS 2025. Our tentative schedule is: Thurs 4/3 3pm-6pm PST/6pm-9pm EST/11pm-2am GMT Fri 4/4 6am-9am PST/9am-12pm EST/2pm-5pm GMT Please reply here if you can mentor. Updates coming soon!

#asecs member friends, please don't forget to vote in the executive board elections! You should have gotten a reminder from Benita this morning.

Hello my ASECS friends! Just in from our ED @bcblessing.bsky.social that voter turnout for Board and presidential elections is at 39%. There’s still time—this week! Voting closes Friday Feb 28. Go vote!!!

Another reminder for ASECS folks: elections for the Executive Board close THIS FRIDAY, and so far the response rate stands at 44%. Cast those ballots! I'm up for one of the Member-at-Large positions, and of course I'd love your support, but the fact is that you can't go wrong whoever you choose.

ASECS friends! Today is the last day for early bird registration rates for this year's Virtual Annual Conference, which is being held March 28-30 and April 4-6. Hope to see you there?

me: everyone prepare their christmas song? guy who wrote jingle bells: mine is about bells & horses me: aw ☺️ guy who wrote silver bells: mine is also mostly abt bells me: oh. hm. thats fine guy who wrote carol of the bells: [lighting match & running fingers through it] this world is a nightmare

One of a kind gifts for all your tech friends www.etsy.com/shop/artolog...

not everything is terrible - take this 19th century mechanical kaléidoscope for instance that just arrived! what a beauty.

Epistemology for Tuesdays in November

Magnificent

Hoping for a Yankees loss tonight and then a century-long drought of world series titles so that a curse mythology gets built up around these two dipshits.

yes me inscribing something completed on the work TO DO list just for the unmitigated pleasure of instantly crossing it off

This is absolutely beautiful

We’ve lost Martin Mull and Teri Garr, which means we must protect Michael Keaton at all costs

It took me a second to read the map correctly. Very cool! What’s the range of the world’s tides? Source: https://buff.ly/3BVylfq

Today is World Standards Day. Except in the USA, which will celebrate World Standards Day on Nov 14

Who died and left the US $7 billion? “It was the biggest estate-tax payment in modern history, but no one knew who made it. Then an anonymous phone call pointed to one man.” We don’t even know who our billionaires are. [sherwood.news]

The Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh digital collections have a variety of medical themed soruces for scotland from the #c18th to the #c20th. 🗃️ 🧪 #histmed www.rcpe.ac.uk/herit...

it's my daughter's birthday and I ordered her a monster cake from Carvel and this is the picture on the website and this is the picture of it in real life. please note: this is not a complaint. if this had been the picture on the website i would have paid more

Really pleased to announce the launch of a thoroughly updated version of Locating London's Past: locatinglondon.org - new functionality, better mapping, cleaner data. @ihr.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social

Once again it’s October, king of all months

The best way we can all honor the memory of Pete Rose is by banning sports betting again

It's like they hired the Three Stooges to run a campaign, but the candidate who hired them is Shemp

Just in case anyone feels bad about being blocked, 134 people block me, and I’m the sweetest sweetie who ever sweeted on this platform. Blocking is beautiful, muting is magnificent, no matter who does it to who. Folks get to build their own social media experiences and that’s beautiful.

I mean, they were minor poems

Ok, this is cool: a scanning electron microscope revealed a forgery of a 1933 English penny, of which only 5 examples are known. Someone filed the three off another penny and soldered it on nearly imperceptibly!

The Internet in its infinite wisdom led me to the music microgenre "chipmunks at 16 speed" or "chipmunk sludge": recordings of Alvin and the Chipmunks songs slowed down so that the vocals sound normal and the instruments are grimy and melancholic. You can really appreciate the harmonies in this one

Preach!

Oh look. Footnotes. A long forgotten technique abandoned by presses who wish to make readers interrupt their study by flipping back and forth front to back so they might include anger and frustration as part of their emotional journey through the past

Sun Ra’s application to NASA’s art program. #SunRa

I hope this is like the Silver Age Superman stories and Kryptonite, and maybe Cool Ranch dye will make mice able to climb walls, Spicy Sweet Chili dye allows them to fly, etc.

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

Counterpoint: MOAR NOTES! AND MOVE THEM TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE!! Who’s with me?

Okay I think you are ready for this BlueSky. Let's talk cheese history. More specifically, Yorkshire Dales cheeses, and how WW2 and rationing almost wiped out cheesemaking in northern Britain. This is the story of the near-death of the world of one of the world's great cheeses: Wensleydale. /1 🧵

a thread of artist renderings of gritty chasing JD vance in a zamboni:

An erotic short story in three acts

Katie Ledecky is an amazing athlete for many reasons. One of them is that she inspired one of the most joyous pieces of writing I've ever come across, by the incomparable Brian Phillips. grantland.com/the-triangle...

Hi All! My department has a last-minute opening for a 3/3 the 24-25 school year: mostly creative writing and film studies but flexibility for topics-based FYW and a lit class (19th/20th preferred). Position comes with benefits. I'm happy to answer questions! recruiting2.ultipro.com/COR1036CORN/...