“accelerated programs can condition students to write in a particular format that scores well on an AP exam but isn’t what many professors are looking for. It can cut into the time teachers would otherwise spend on different forms of reading and writing”

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

This article is clearly some flavor of rage bait, but (after I stopped sighing at the tone and the contradictions in the argument) it did make me think. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/dear-... So as one of those lazy, technologically-impaired, boring professors, here's some thoughts. 🧵

THIS!! It’s also skewed by the fact that so many of the pedagogy conversations are coming from first-year writing and rhet/comp teaching environments. We need to talk about what AI sensitive pedagogy looks like in other disciplines.

Does anyone else go stir crazy when the semester ends? Like, I want to relax for a week and take a break, but I genuinely don’t know what to do with myself. I’m bored! I feel like one solution is to travel, but it’s expensive. (The fact that it’s already 100 degrees outside probably doesn’t help.)

“The complexities of classroom pedagogy are less like engineering, where every design tweak can in principle optimize performance for everyone, and more like policymaking in a diverse society, where every choice distributes benefits and burdens differently. Some students gain more, others less…”

"There are currently only three fanfics on the Archive of Our Own written in Swahili." In our latest, @soila.bsky.social writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fic, including the perspectives of fellow fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi. Read or listen to an audio version:

“last year, the country spent more money building A.I. infrastructure than single-family homes. We built 10 times as many data centers as the next biggest builder (Germany). We invested more than 20 times as much money into A.I. as the world’s next biggest investor (China).”

The estate management machine.

The new biopic about Michael Jackson was the result of a yearslong effort to resurrect the reputation of the king of pop, despite the accusations of sexual abuse that have surrounded him for decades. On "The Daily," our reporter discusses the new playbook for rewriting the past.

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

I know Canvas must be back, because the “can you bump up my grade?” emails have begun to appear.

Between the Canvas outage and the court win in the NEH grant case, it really feels like a day for @literaturegeek.bsky.social print of @megsmith.bsky.social quote. #DHmakes

I am collecting “ideal” and “failed” romance novels from Janice Radway’s 1984 Reading the Romance. How much have preferences in #romancebks changed in the last 40+ years? We’ll see if I find out! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Professors at Arizona State say they're concerned that Atomic, a subscription service, is showing decontextualized snippets of lectures and generating error-prone summaries. https://chroni.cl/4dfrI6x

One of the research projects I will probably never get to, but hope someone does is a mixed-methods study of college professor AND student LMS use, w/ diary studies, observational ethnography, qual interviewing, and quant analysis of digital behaviors.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

curious how fans feel about generative AI? my article, “AI is not a fan”: media fan responses to generative AI between consent and callouts, is out now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Soooo... apparently Canvas has been hacked? That makes posting final grades a bit challenging.

I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.

Here’s @shelflove.bsky.social to remind us that any claims of “firsts” in the romance genre are tenuous at best: shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/condoms-in...

So why are subscription streamers indiscriminately raising prices to levels many of us can't (or won't) pay? To get us to switch to ad tiers — which deliver "deliver superior economics". www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... #TVSky #Streaming

Feeling totally flattened by this semester, but who isn’t feeling that way these days? What is happening to academia? The kids are not okay, the faculty are barely treading water, the AI slop is everywhere… just UGH.

This month’s #RomanceColumn has pirates and princesses and Faerie lords, oh my! Books reviewed: Rears and Vices by E.M. Caro, Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe, and Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan. (Gift link)

⌛ Just a bit over a month left to send in your proposals for JPRS Special Issue on Sport Romance. Don't miss out on this opportunity! #RomanceResearch

Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Huge and very good news for doc filmmakers on fair use today! The 10th Circuit has reversed itself in the Whyte Monkee case, ruling that fair use DOES protect the inclusion of 3rd-party footage in the breakout hit *Tiger King*. Big 🧵, unpacking it all:

Professors at Arizona State say they're concerned that Atomic, a subscription service, is showing decontextualized snippets of lectures and generating error-prone summaries. https://chroni.cl/428DUkp

Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...

Anyone else at PCA? I’m here for the romance track, as per usual!

I’d love to work with a developmental editor to develop the structure for book 2 but I can’t possibly afford it. (Dear lord, how do people pay for editors? Where are you getting money for it?) Anyone have recs for books or guides that helped them refine their academic book projects?

Professors face a dilemma: If they hold students to the same standards they used even 10 years ago, more will do poorly. If they ease up, students won’t be prepared for more advanced work. What should they do? https://chroni.cl/4veO3JM

If you're a professor and your spending power has shrunk over time, you're not the only one. Here's how much faculty salaries have declined and why experts say it's happening.https://chroni.cl/4bQgCEf

I'm in the middle of my standard fight with Bridgerton. Meaning, I feel professionally obligated to watch it, things about it make me think I should like it, and then I turn it on and I am just... deeply underwhelmed.

"How can we as faculty members and faculty leaders motivate and revitalize ourselves and others across a variety of budgets?" Helpful advice for faculty planning a self-retreat and/or a retreat for larger groups.

Anyone have suggestions for good introductory readings (for 1st year students) on AI and LLMs? I'm particularly interested in readings explaining how an LLM works and/or how using the term "artificial intelligence" for LLMs is a misnomer.

OOOOOOOooooooo!!!!!

Everyone always proposes this as the answer without understanding that an oral exam requires very different skills than a closely argued research-driven essay. If you want to argue those skills don’t matter, then fine, argue that, but don’t pretend that oral argumentation is identical.

“The increasing interest in oral exams transcends disciplines and class sizes. Although some educators say the technique is better suited to smaller courses, professors at Canada’s University of Western Ontario have conducted oral exams for an undergraduate business class of 600.“

This article would be great for teaching in intro classes.

“Roughly 1 in 5 U.S. teens say they are on TikTok and YouTube almost constantly. At the same time, 64% of teens say they use chatbots, including about 3 in 10 who do so daily”

Oh, I’m dreading this. People’s monthly payments are going to go up so much. My budget is going to be wrecked.

That’s me!

This looks so so pretty. And weird. I can't wait.

lol. I accidentally posted the same article twice, sorry. But, in my defense, I’m pretty sure they changed the headline and added in new information. 🤦‍♀️

Can I just revise the end of my chapter to say: “So, as this chapter clearly predicted, the HBO brand was never going to functionally transition into a major streaming platform. Now, instead of making me revise this again, please just give me tenure??” 😭😭😬😬🙏🙏

Wow. This has so many implications. (Also… I think this is means my book chapter on HBO Go -> HBO Max -> MAX -> HBO Max is officially cursed. 😭)

“Everything about it puts me on alert: Something is wrong here; this text is not what it says it is. It’s one of them. Entirely ordinary words, like “tapestry”… make me suddenly tense. I’m driven to the point of fury by any sentence following the pattern “It’s not X, it’s Y…” ⬆️⬆️⬆️ THIS!!!

This “trap” is often what admin wants. They put the onus onto individual instructors, tell them it’s their responsibility to meet the student/handle the situation, and they refuse to offer clear guidance/support. Then admin is insulated from blowback & the instructor bears the burden.