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I feel like I need more cats.

I really think it is time NJ colleges bought some billboard space in Texas and Florida: Go to College in New Jersey--be free to be who you are and to study what you want.

Francis opened a door bsky.app/profile/brid...

So who else feels like they are self-censoring when they share articles like this? There are economic costs to a destroyed tourist industry.

Lisa has always been brave and spoken up against authoritarianism. Thank you, @lisalmoore.bsky.social for doing it again. I wish you didn't have to.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

To anyone who has auto immune disease--Epstein-Barr virus has been implicated in multiple diseases, as well as in non-alcohol associates liver disease. We are squandering the opportunity to allay human suffering and prevent disability and death. How you vote matters.

Our office of institutional advancement reopened the crowd-funding campaign for our chapter of Sigma Tau Delta because we are so close to our fundraising goal. If you feel like helping our students present their work in New Orleans, help us raise this last $140. crowdfunding.tcnj.edu/campaigns/en...

Two-thirds of humanity have received a mRNA Covid vaccine. There are almost 9 billion of us! 6 billion people have not dropped from basic medical care. data.who.int/dashboards/c...

I can think of nothing more fun than the prospect of the Swedish chef presenting an analysis of sound change in the fictional medieval language--Old Low Norse-- in John Irving's Water-Method Man. Coincidentally, the novel that my husband gave me to say "I love you."

Every American needs to watch this:

Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do? New at @startribune.com

This was one of the main reference texts my students used in my World Englishes class.

I guess that FL teachers should be getting boosters. In 2011, I discovered I had no measurable immunity to measles and got a booster. The booster worked for about five years, so I got another. In my last set of titers, immunity seems to be sticking. If you teach, get a titer panel and boosters.

Posting this for no reason whatsoever--or maybe just because my dad always liked Popular Mechanics www.popularmechanics.com/technology/s...

From yesterday's Irish Times.

Physics of light and color Art History I (cave paintings to the Renaissance) Anatomy and Physiology Roadside Geology

For the folks in the back: OCR predates LLMs. HTR software predates LLMs. Digital Humanities predates LLMs. Grammar and spell checkers predate LLMs. YOU DO NOT NEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINES.

I hadn't really thought of this, but what we see in Minneapolis and other major cities looks a lot like the militarization of Northern Ireland.

Yep, this sums up how I feel about LLMs: www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...

So...we just hit an iceberg and sink, killing the poor schleps who are locked in steerage? Metaphors have power, folks.

I've been planning to do cursive workshops and now there is even greater reason to do it. Not one of the students I've worked with in the last five years who plan to teach elementary school can use cursive.

There is only one flaw in this characterization -- hardly any of us grade on paper anymore.

We’re hiring hungry ghost wranglers — I mean Machine Learning Engineers. As well as Typescript, React Native, and Go devs.

The worst part of autoimmune disease (all the manifold things classes as "fibromyalgia" (Latin for "I don't f*&king know what's wrong with you") is that you can go five or six days in a row and feel great and then get slammed and not be able to move.

People often stop reading in adulthood because they're fatigued from school book assignments or just don't have the time. Here's how to turn the page on old habits and start reading again in 2026. bit.ly/3YzoQdO

I was lucky enough to see @stephenfry.bsky.social in Importance of Being Earnest last night, and I realized that we get the "rhythm of the barb" entirely from Oscar Wilde. It was such a gift to watch someone who understands Wilde's language so clearly and deeply portray Lady Bracknell. Thank you.

I don't think I've ever seen such a pithy and clear summation of the consequence of Lost Cause ideology.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

“As philosopher Peter Hershock observes, we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself.“

As with everything she writes, Sarah Kendzior's meditation on a St. Louis cemetery is well worth reading. I never knew that there was a St. Louis Prufrock.

In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.

Only a liar or functionally illiterate person would call a slop machine "genius-level at everything". If children die because their parents follow the advice of an ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis slop machine, Altman should be on the hook for it. I don't have words for how sick and furious I feel.

Fabulous--noe using AI tools to censor faculty members. Terrific...

Ugh...I swear it gets worse every day.

Strangely, this thread gives me comfort, because I thought what I was seeing was specific to my own institution.

I didn't realize linguists had claimed a day guaranteed to be overlooked in the US, but /hæpi lɪŋwɨstɪks deɪ/!

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

Insurers understand risk better than anyone, and academics should recognize that deploying AI in campus systems comes with significant risk to our credibility.

I may be gone a few days...

I guess that other English department faculty--and poets of the world--got a good, nihilistic chuckle out of this article.

Really good explanation of the consequences of this change in terminology

From Tressie's lips to God's ears--mainly because I think certain people in academia are impervious to shame and pay consultants a fortune to keep them that way.

Norton Learning was gracious enough to invite me to write a blog post about communicating what we do nortonlearningblog.com/2025/11/read...

I've been in NJ for 24 years. Although the food hasn't always been great (thank goodness for Edison), quality of life is high--good infrastructure, excellent medical care, good schools, strong communities. It would be a blessing to my home state NM if they had these things to add to the best food.

The Humanities are important for us all--for our sense of ourselves, for honoring our past, and for preparing for our future.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

It's not only colleges. A student in my class and a practicum in a local 9th grade classroom told me about how her students were using it in their high school classroom.