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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 41m

know what's good? a great lecture by someone who really knows their shit

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 7h

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 8h

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 19h

the cider delighter

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 21h

A revelatory Q&A with Babette Mangolte at tonight’s MoMA screening of NEWS FROM HOME, I think we could have listened to her all night

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 1d

how is the answer here anything longer than “no,” I am losing my miiiinnddd

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 1d

This week someone used the word “palaver” in casual conversation with me, and I just wish it would happen more often

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oliver evans @olivergevans.bsky.social · 3d

Some reflections on Ed Wood, auteurism, and the differences between yesterday’s bad cinema and today’s corporate slop, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Oliver Evans reviews "Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood, USA" by Will Sloan: "The worst film by Ed Wood is more interesting than the best film by Ron Howard, Sloan argues, which is admittedly a checkmate."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mausoleum-of-dreams/

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 2d

ok but what should I call you

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 2d

It was eerie watching Akerman’s FROM THE OTHER SIDE tonight, like encountering a dispatch from the past that was also a shockingly prescient document of our current moment www.moma.org/calendar/eve...

Pour Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador. 1991. Written and directed by Chantal Akerman De l'autre côté (From the Other Side). 2002. Written and directed by Chantal Akerman | MoMA

Pour Febe Elisabeth Velasquez, El Salvador. 1991. Belgium/France/Switzerland. Written and directed by Chantal Akerman. With Catherine Deneuve. Courtesy Amnesty International. In French; English subtit...

www.moma.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 2d

this crane ain’t right

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliant review of the new Ed Wood bio by @olivergevans.bsky.social!

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Oliver Evans reviews "Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood, USA" by Will Sloan: "The worst film by Ed Wood is more interesting than the best film by Ron Howard, Sloan argues, which is admittedly a checkmate."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mausoleum-of-dreams/

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 3d

looks like it’s time

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 3d

Signed! Sharing!

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 4d

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

actionnetwork.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 3d

oh yes, many times, and I’ve learned sufficient writerly humility to trust that even if I don’t *feel* grateful for every edit in the moment, this person is almost always doing me a tremendous solid

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 3d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3d

As an expert on help-seeking, I'm not surprised that AI makes it harder for students to develop strong relationships with teachers. Because AI means they can get help without asking an actual human teacher, but it doesn't address the distrust that makes it hard for many students to ask. 1/

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 4d

Would love to program A COUCH IN NEW YORK and LET THE SUNSHINE IN, Juliette Binoche in two gloriously weird auterist riffs on the rom com

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 5d

My friend @sivav.bsky.social with a sharp essay in the New Republic explaining why universities that sign Trump's noxious "compact" are not only cowards but utter fools. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 5d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 5d

I also had that today. It‘s a meaningful thing.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 6d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 5d

Hmmm it’s almost like cooperating didn’t work out as planned

(from Robert Sklar‘s Movie Made America)

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 6d

A screenwriter/director (not a novelist), but Billy Wilder was born in what is now Poland!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7d

brown alums sign and share standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...

Brown must reject Trump’s so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence” – Stand Strong Brown

standstrongbrown.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 8d

Was just thinking about this! And Pokerface — a dudette

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 10d

Still time to register for Monday's @aaup.org webinar on the state-backed threat to independent higher education accreditation www.aaup.org/event/politi...

Politicizing Accreditation in the South and Beyond

This webinar will explore the historic importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional norms and standards for public higher education and examine the threats a politicize...

www.aaup.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 8d

hi, it’s me, joining team ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, there’s just a lot to love about this movie

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