workflows? oh do you mean my little army of robots that I give cute names to

on one hand, making online course videos feels very cringe (playing back your face, expressions, hand gestures, voice, etc). on the other hand, as an english professor I already embrace The Cringe

Hi. Hello. GRAMMARLY IS NOT A WRITING TOOL. IT IS SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM AND LINGUISTIC HOMOGENIZATION IN A TRENCHCOAT.

"gen AI can write your lesson plan!" that's what my PhD is for. can genAI make my hand-me-down pdfs cleaner and more accessible instead

Some nerds and I wrote about our experiences with mentorship for Rhetoric Review, and it's available now! "Recursive, horizontal, distributed, networked: Iterating transdisciplinary models of mentorship in the humanities" on pgs 18-27. doi.org/10.1080/0735...

I, too, love semicolons, but have you met my good friend... the colon

ya gotta love the way ancestry dot com is like "we found a yearbook photo of your beloved dead family member... and put it behind a paywall 🥰"

FYI I could be posting so many peaceful paddleboarding pics this summer if only I weren't too nervous to bring my phone onboard

spotify replaces human playlist curators with AI and the "160 BPM" playlist is all 140 BPM or lower. "mellow cello" has songs with no cello anywhere to be seen. I'm so sick of this, man

added some forbidden flags & forbidden words to this semester's medieval cosplay

ah, academia... how many other non-theatre/renfaire jobs expect you to wear medieval robes a couple times a year?

From my work with @nobugsnous.bsky.social and @jsanofranchini.bsky.social GenAI hype is... *Speculative, not specific *Future-oriented without attention the present (in terms of both harm and capabilities) *Relies on and/or furthers dubious narratives of inevitable technological progress

lost a bet with my students so we're spending the last class meeting watching SpongeBob

he's been yelling at me for the last thirty minutes straight

should be 5Cs so we can include "crabs" #4C25 🦀

ahhh, being young enough to be mistaken for a student when you are a faculty member 💀

before spring break: frustrated, angry over small things, overwhelmed by post-spring break deadlines after some time with extra sleep, getting lost in some canyons, avoiding my work laptop, and getting knocked on my butt a few days by illness: same number of deadlines, WAY more pleasant about it

me at the start of the day: oof. too many deadlines. a little worried me at the end of the day: has somehow jumped on board another thing because it would be soooo coooooooool

the most contented person in the world is actually just a girl with a good book some blankets and a cat on her lap

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the upcharge on nonstop flights will never not make me angry. taking one plane should be cheaper than taking two planes full stop

have a leo.

three weeks in, my second semester as a faculty member seems to only have two moods: 1. how does this work? why don't i know this yet? i'm so frustrated i've been here six months i should know this (continues to be frustrated with self/world) 2. i think i actually know what I'm doing?? this rules!

in 2024 I got a tenureline job, moved cross-country, defended my dissertation, walked across scotland, took too many planes, and assembled a lot of furniture. I think in 2025 I'm just gonna chill for a sec

I am begging professional Creators to simply review their auto-generated captions for errors

something about me is that rather than saying "it's an outlier skewing the mean" I'll say "it's a Spiders Georg situation"

best friend visit means holiday movie marathon thread. 1. hot frosty ⛄️ 5/5 stars simply because it was so incredibly stupid and so good at it

I really try to be open and understanding that other people have different tastes. however I have been to multiple events of late with only diet and zero sugar sodas provided and I find them disgusting and I'm getting angry about it

first article submission while on the tenure-track is complete ☺️ hope y'all're excited to eventually read the first of many collabs with my forever partner-in-crime @kshartel.bsky.social 👊🏻

okay... I think I'm gonna do this. I'm Marisa. I like hiking, teaching writing, trivia nights, reading with my cat, tweeting silly things, and having bad opinions my employer would disagree with. Previously I've lived in Indiana, Oregon, Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia. I now live in Utah! 🏔️