Luxon himself handed me the Prime Minister's science prize last year. Let me say this in plain English: he's an idiot for running a govt who budgeted more for AI than for the Marsden fund. any journo reading this can quote me on it #nzpol

Collaborate, share & organize

Did you publish a book in 2025/2024? Are you attending NAVSA this November? Do you want to celebrate your book? If so, fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1tJH...

There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”

for real and for true, the RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP is out!! The code CUP20 will get you 20% through the Columbia University Press website; let me know if you are dying to read it but need a presentation copy from the author, who is very excited about it------!! cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...

SMASH IT!

just the hugest shout-out to the site against-a-i.com/short-readin..., with a list of teachable readings that I could pull from for my class this semester thanks to the team putting it together, led by @annakornbluh.bsky.social. What a service <3

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

@annagk.bsky.social and I are welcoming short pedagogy articles/approaches that use Dickens's Working Notes, or that center compositional process or serial form in some way. If you teach Dickens, check out the dickensnotes.com platform!

Today we have a beautiful example of a Kármán Vortex street to the west of the North Island. This cloud pattern is generated downstream of Taranaki Maunga when wind, cloud and stability conditions are just right. To learn more: blog.metservice.com/K%C3%A1rm%C3...

Accessible and expanding archive of resources tailored for teachers who are trying to explain and engender AI skepticism, create AI-free classrooms and curricula, & think with other scholars and educators who are doing the same.

continue to collect best e.g.s of assignable articles, especially shorter than these great ones! will compile, along with assignment prompts, this week

I have taken the resources that were in the budget and which you were probably saving for higher education Forgive me they were needed to feed the AI bubble and to dismantle the humanities

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in case anybody wants this or any other UCP books, I just saw you can get 75% off all ebooks from the press til August 17th w code EBOOOK75— I think it works out to around $8.75 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Did you publish your first book in Victorian studies in 2024? If so, submit it for consideration for the Rudikoff Prize. More information here: nvsa.org/rudikoff-pri...

🚨Digitization Alert!🚨 We’re excited to announce that we have digitized poetry, notebooks, and unpublished manuscripts by W.B. Yeats. These materials live in the Boston College Collection of Yeats Family Papers and we are delighted to make them more accessible!

This might be the only/best opportunity to promote my book, which argues this is kind of what 19th realism is about: ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...

The @aaup.org report on AI is so hugely important. Among other key takeaways is the fact that most AI programs have been introduced by administrative fiat and by circumventing meaningful faculty, student, & staff consultation. shorturl.at/InI5Q

On board for this

I have a new project called It’s an Emergency. I think it’s kind of funny. open.substack.com/pub/itsaneme...

I would prefer this

There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.

Nine standard deviations.

One of my takeaways from this term is that the slop-py student essays of today are not all that different from the spark-sy essays of bygone years; both manifestations of a lack of curiosity and/or misunderstanding of what reading a book is

Think reading this article would result in my Spontaneous Combustion

write, read stuff written by people, discuss with other people

Launch of Swamphen Volume 11: Recentring the Region This Thursday we will launch the most recent volume of Swamphen: A Journal of Cultural Ecology. When: Thursday 19th June, 2pm AEST Where: zoom (message me for details) #environmentalhumanities @animalstudies.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social

We'll be celebrating Anna Jackson's new book of poems tonight at Unity! (PS. if you're interested in becoming a better reader and writer of poetry, Anna is teaching her entry-level course LCCM 172: Reading and Writing Poetry, starting in July) www.unitybooks.co.nz/news-and-eve...

Ah yes this is why I got into education: so I can watch 2 robots shitting into each others’ mouths

"AI hype men frequently exhort that AI is coming for all our jobs, and only those clever enough to learn how to deploy it will survive...The more likely scenario...is that the work that remains will be deskilled, de-spirited, stripped of creativity and joy, and granted the meanest remuneration."

18C people, can anyone point me to environmental or ecological readings of Gray's Elegy?

Getting to dunk on AI *and* Atonement at the same time is a special little treat, tho

Has anyone read/written anything on LLMs and irony? I.e., their (in)ability to model or respond to differential/inferred meaning or context

Great opportunity for a fully funded PhD here in New Zealand, working in the framework of Nikki's amazing project and in a supportive community

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!

CFP: Victorian Infrastructures and their Environmental Legacies Irmtraud Huber and I are looking for submissions to our special collection to be published with @openlibhums.bsky.social Abstracts due 31 October, full texts due 31 March '26. Find the full CFP here: shorturl.at/OvPc4

Me and my @navsa2025.bsky.social abstract

Love to refuse a prompt. static1.squarespace.com/static/53a4b...

This exactly 👇

I said this at 12 PM and by the evening I learned that my colleague had been kidnapped docs.google.com/document/d/1...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Congratulations @amymarguerite.bsky.social 🎉

Which is why: divest, divest, divest.

Spotted on campus this morning. Thanks to the person who posted this.

If you want a fight President Carter, if you want a fight President Trump, then God Damnit, you’ve got a fight! This is not over! We are on the right side of history. In the end, we will be victorious. -Hasan Jeffries, Associate Professor of History at OSU #OSUAAUP #OHAAUP #AAUP #NOSB1

BREAKING: We're sending an open letter to universities across the country, offering support and urging them to reject pressure to punish international students and faculty for exercising their First Amendment rights. Schools must hold firm against the Trump administration's censorship attempts.

The shouting and roaring of rude men is so hideous.

We as the Ohio State chapter of the AAUP stand firmly with students, staff, and all who oppose the racism, sexism, and bigotry that is underlying the attack on DEI. See that flyer captured in the photo with one of our members? That’s the one for March 4. Be there.

The news today was hard. Capitulating to the anti-diversity forces at the federal and state levels, OSU President Ted Carter told us about the closing of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Center for Belonging and Social Change. www.thelantern.com/2025/02/we-l...