Please add me to this list lol

Not the solution OP requested but for me, it’s all about changing things up. 1.) 15 min small group discussion 2.) some quiet writing time (reverse 1 and 2 also works well) 3.) 20 mins big group discussion 4.) some group writing time. 5.) share out of group writing

I just read this article and I don’t l how to say it nicely other than I hate every single person in it and am glad that that the working class Catholic women I grew up around would beat all of their asses

Talking of banger tweets

Being a writing professor in the dawn of generative Ai. . .oofda. I hope some students hear me that writing is magic. Jubilation. Life affirming. Writing is so deeply intimate; to write and let ourselves step into our own hearts. We lose a piece of ourselves when we outsource that magic. ❤️✨️

Lord please forgive me for cackling.

Never know if students follow the news or not but mine definitely knew about Kristi Noem’s husband and they have thoughts 😂

I haven’t willingly listened to the orange idiot’s voice since 2017, so I had that on mute while I’m waiting for survivor to get back on. Doesn’t appear he said anything of note though?

Just randomly remembering the student in my Banned Books class who wrote on my end-of-semester evaluation that she was shocked the class required so much reading since she signed up for it thinking there wouldn't be any since the books were all banned...

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

raise your hand if you are too gullible and your mental health too fragile for April fools 🖐️

Something something about how I always encourage students to be prepared for questions they know they’re going to get on tests, job interviews, etc… Everyone else knew this question was coming except for the solicitor general???

It’s kind of a gag how Gorsuch mostly sucks but is good at exactly one thing (Native and tribal rights) and he’s very very good at it.

someone on a different social media cite posted a screenshot of George R. R. Martin's blog saying "The Winds of Winter is finally coming!" and I started crying out of happiness until I looked at today's date. I hate April Fools

I'm so excited for my fall classes: Gay Poetry and Reading/Writing Memoir! Two new preps the semester I apply for tenure is perhaps a foolish idea, but oh well. At least I'll get to read lots of gay shit

Today is Trans Day of Visibility, and I fight to be as visible as I can every day, because other people's visibility saved my goddamned life, but more importantly because being trans is fucking beautiful. Let me repeat that. Being trans is fucking beautiful. I wouldn't want to be any other way.

academics who've been anti-wikipedia have been wrong all along tbh.

Ryan Gosling is such a delightful leading man. I would watch him in anything

“standard,” edited English is not always the best choice

CPAC speaker: How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings? Crowd: *cheers* CPAC speaker: No. That was the wrong answer. Let me try it again...

This season of survivor is so good. I wish bluesky had trashy tv fandom communities as prominently as twitter used to so I could talk about the War of the Twinks on rn

There’s little more gratifying as an English prof the knowing your students loved a book you assigned them. I’m old and grumpy enough to make a point of saying: appreciating literature and studying literature aren’t the same thing. And classes are about studying. But knowing they liked it helps

Nancy Fraser on point as usual

Okay, but there’s some pretty good evidence that handwriting things is better for kids’ cognition, and cursive is faster. Not everything has to be linked to what you may or may not due in your job. Also, ban AI

I don't understand pricing. I use a software for work that used to cost $700 a year. A couple years ago, they raised the price to $2000. I threatened to leave. They gave me two years at $700. Now those two years are up, I threaten to leave again and they offered me a year FREE.

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

Not exactly the same but the gays had to suffer through an entire season of RuPaul calling this definitively gold plunger the “Platinum Plunger”

“Falling on hard times” is not good enough of a reason to go join ICE. Go sell some fish plates ho.

I ended up going with “I acknowledge your decision. Sincerely, Josh.” No greeting. This person writes in the passive voice to deny her complicity (“A decision had been made…”) so it was important for me to counter that

What's the professional way to express dismay to someone when your blood is boiling? Right now I'm torn between "I acknowledge your email and regret your decision," or "I appreciate you letting me know about this regretful decision."

There’s this famous instagram gay whose job, from what I can tell, is just screenshotting funny moments from HBO shows. I don’t know what else he does. And I’m obsessed. I need to find a way to do that for a living

One of the automated tasks Canvas is promising is "rubric generation." What if I said that moving away from rubric-based assessment is a necessity to preserve your labor and freedom to teach as you wish? We have to look underneath the hood of the systems this technology is shaping.

So happy to see this out in the world. Check out chapter 46!! @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social is a joyful and challenging co-author. Love him the pieces! wacclearinghouse.org/books/practi...

Happy publication day! @timothyoleksiak.bsky.social and I have a chapter in Storied Practices: Positionality in Writing Studies, edited by Kristine Acosta, Michelle Cowan, Rebecca Rickly, Nancy Small, and Erica M. Stone. The whole collection is here: wacclearinghouse.org/books/practi...

Scissors Sisters playing at Planet Fitness. Good job to the queen who makes the playlists 😂

Yall I actually had time to write today. It felt so good

At what point did ups decide we need 5-8 emails for every package

Don't even tell me about the bride's head unless it's being revisited

During this convo, one student talked about how a prof singled out her roommate’s discussion board post for praise because of how clearly it was written. Student knew her roommate had just used ChatGPT for the entire answer w/o doing the work. Student is furious.

Y’all this event was so great. Full audience!

Today was a good teaching day. Both classes were fun and thoughtful spaces. AI, work-life balance, and austerity measures sap me of my joy in this profession, but students have not

"Make shit up that supports what I want to believe" is the LLM methodology

My Banned and Censored books class just devolved into an unplanned conversation about GenAi. I rolled with it because I wanted to hear what they had to say. Y’all, students have much more nuanced and profound thoughts than we often given them credit for. Lots of support for the right to refuse

we don't need any more proof that genAI has a detrimental impact on your writing abilities than the arguments the pro-AI rhetoricians are making

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People shouldn't feel bad about previously admiring someone when they didn't know about the terrible harms that person committed, but we should challenge ourselves to consider how pedestalizing and prioritizing the legacies of charismatic leaders can create harmful dynamics. That can be addressed.

We can't let AI ruin writing. A student asked for several extensions because she stressing about an assignment. I granted them. What I got was an essay twice as long as what I requested, full of insight I never imagined. She's better off for having written it, and I'm better for having read it