Teaching with Dickens’s working notes or about his compositional process? Consider submitting materials to the Dickens Notes Project!

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

Thwarted in my evening reading. @nathankhensley.bsky.social, my cat is a fan 😁😻

I don’t think we really need EEG to tell us that outsourcing thinking to AI decreases learning in writing tasks, but I suppose we can hope that studies like this *might* check the institutional bandwagoning. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

These kind of ChatGPT performances are like having conversations with a sociopath. It lies so confidently—such a symptom of our current times, except with these odd extended apologies.

Last night I had the pleasure of hearing @annagk.bsky.social talk to our Dickens postgraduates about www.dickensnotes.com - a fantastic open access resource showing Dickens's working notes for his novels. Highly recommended!

Devastating

"Al Gurad did not understand why his visa was terminated and the State Department had not provided a reason for the decision."

Devastating. For those of us waiting for the result of grant applications, and for those who have active or awarded grants, this is just awful. But the impact of this move will be pervasive and long-lasting.

ACH has confirmed reports that DOGE is at the NEH. Chair Shelly C. Lowe has been replaced by Acting Chair Michael McDonald. ACH remains committed to a diverse, inclusive, and supportive DH. To engage in advocacy efforts: [email protected]. Read our statement of support for NEH: buff.ly/bQeRaGw

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

This is a very helpful thread re: the slashing of overhead rates on NIH grants. It is an atrocity and, as OP states, an attempt to decimate higher ed. This guidance goes into effect immediately, affecting not only future but also current grants, which is to say current university budgets.

Everything is bleak. But my Brit Lit survey students are writing about why The History of Mary Prince matters in 2025, and they are giving me hope.

For me the scariest thing about week 1 (and the transition) has been precisely this phenomenon of “anticipatory obedience”; institutions are showing us the thinness of their commitment to values they previously claimed to hold

Best "Neo-Victorian" novels to teach: go! I'm teaching a grad class ("Re-Forming Victorian Lit") next semester. I want to end with a 21st-C novel that's explicitly taking up/engaging with Victorian forms. Ideally not centered solely on white British characters. Course description in thread.

Yay @emmadavenport.bsky.social ! Can’t wait to read this!

It’s busy in here! This list o’ lists is super helpful for finding your people in the midst of this academic social media migration.

* Digital Dickens Notes Project, an online critical edition of the working notes Charles Dickens used during serial composition of his novels, directed by @annagk.bsky.social and @adamgrener.bsky.social, and reviewed by Beverly Park Rilett #ReviewsInDH reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/digital-...

Grateful to the Digital Scholarship and Publishing Studio at the University of Iowa for the opportunity to share the dickensnotes.com project @annagk.bsky.social and I direct--excited to connect with the DH community here over the next few days!

Planning a Serials & Storylines seminar next semester. What are the most narratively intriguing serial tv shows you've watched recently? Which shows have you taught (esp. paired with 19thC texts) that worked well?

@adamgrener.bsky.social & I are excited to share the latest version of the Digital Dickens Notes Project. Check out our transcriptions, annotations, and introductions to Dickens's Working Notes @ www.dickensnotes.com. There's heaps of new material for Little Dorrit & Hard Times.

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