Andrew Israel Ross
@aiross.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️🌈
Oh for fucks sake
December 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Oh for fucks sake
I know it should just roll off me at this point, but I do find it frustrating when a disagreement leads to a block from a colleague (I consider all other historians colleagues). I think we should be allowed to actually have conversations here. Otherwise what's the point.
December 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I know it should just roll off me at this point, but I do find it frustrating when a disagreement leads to a block from a colleague (I consider all other historians colleagues). I think we should be allowed to actually have conversations here. Otherwise what's the point.
I feel like I'm being gaslit. When did citing things you haven't read become a thing?
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
December 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I feel like I'm being gaslit. When did citing things you haven't read become a thing?
Going to have to get all the other Andrews together to vote out the Andrew featured in that City Journal roundtable.
December 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Going to have to get all the other Andrews together to vote out the Andrew featured in that City Journal roundtable.
Browsing the print NYT this morning and way too many stories featuring a democratic senate caucus that still doesn’t get it. Oppose everything oppose fascism
December 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Browsing the print NYT this morning and way too many stories featuring a democratic senate caucus that still doesn’t get it. Oppose everything oppose fascism
Wait a 300 million endowment?
For those unfamiliar, the University of Austin is not serious or an institution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...
December 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Wait a 300 million endowment?
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Y'know you think you can't be shocked any more but then
December 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Y'know you think you can't be shocked any more but then
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DePaul University announced dozens of staff layoffs it says were caused by “financial headwinds” due largely to a “significant” drop in the number of international graduate students enrolling.
DePaul University Lays Off More than 100 Staffers Amid Budget Crunch, Drop in International Students
University President Rob Manuel called the last several weeks “some of the most difficult our community has ever experienced” as he announced that DePaul had laid off 114 of its 1,493 full-time and pa...
news.wttw.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
DePaul University announced dozens of staff layoffs it says were caused by “financial headwinds” due largely to a “significant” drop in the number of international graduate students enrolling.
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Is there a way to get this mind-numbing Co-Pilot shit off Microsoft Word?
December 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Is there a way to get this mind-numbing Co-Pilot shit off Microsoft Word?
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You cannot "combat the dangerousness of the right" by continuing to elevate and legitimate its institutions. In fact, one of the primary ways to "combat the dangerousness of the right" is to say "no, I'm not lending my talents and profile to you; if this is a space for Nazis, it's not one for me"
IMO it's hard to combat the dangerousness of the right by participating in a platform where they aren't present.
I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
You cannot "combat the dangerousness of the right" by continuing to elevate and legitimate its institutions. In fact, one of the primary ways to "combat the dangerousness of the right" is to say "no, I'm not lending my talents and profile to you; if this is a space for Nazis, it's not one for me"
Looking forward to reading this, but not thrilled with the imagery.
Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety.
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read:
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Dark Plot to Build a MAGA Terror State
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his project is to unleash government persecution of those he deems alien and u...
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Looking forward to reading this, but not thrilled with the imagery.
Fuck you @microsoft.com stop this shit
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Fuck you @microsoft.com stop this shit
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Using AI to monitor schools for thoughtcrime bsky.app/profile/chad...
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Using AI to monitor schools for thoughtcrime bsky.app/profile/chad...
Narrator: "it was not rock bottom"
December 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Narrator: "it was not rock bottom"
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Mind you, ICE fascists tried to criminally prosecute someone for throwing a sandwich at them. Now, they have ZERO problem repeatedly and heavily pepper spraying peaceful civilians conducting their civic duty of peaceful protest. We call them fascists because they act like fascists.
December 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Mind you, ICE fascists tried to criminally prosecute someone for throwing a sandwich at them. Now, they have ZERO problem repeatedly and heavily pepper spraying peaceful civilians conducting their civic duty of peaceful protest. We call them fascists because they act like fascists.
In...New Orleans
Another guy DHS put on their "worst of the worst" from the NOLA raids is this guy, who DHS breathily touts as having been ticketed for disturbing the peace and peeing in public.
So yeah, the term "serious offenders" will be stretched long past the breaking point, likely to just mean ever arrested.
So yeah, the term "serious offenders" will be stretched long past the breaking point, likely to just mean ever arrested.
December 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
In...New Orleans
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"Since 2006, Workday, which provides software for payroll, talent management, and expense processing, has been making a mint creating misery where painless processes could be. More than half of the Fortune 500 companies use Workday to pay, hire, onboard, and administer benefits to their employees."
The most hated workplace software on the planet
It creates mountains of busywork for everyone. So why do more than half of the companies in the Fortune 500 use it?
www.businessinsider.com
May 6, 2024 at 11:11 PM
"Since 2006, Workday, which provides software for payroll, talent management, and expense processing, has been making a mint creating misery where painless processes could be. More than half of the Fortune 500 companies use Workday to pay, hire, onboard, and administer benefits to their employees."
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In my 25yrs in the academy I 👀 the proliferation of expensive enterprise software that shifted the burden of sooo many basic administrative functions — reconciling receipts, paying honoraria, booking travel — from competent, efficient staff to faculty + students. I’d spend entire days on this crap.
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems
The total cost of a Workday implementation project at Washington University in St. Louis is set to hit almost $266 million, it was revealed after the project was the subject of protests from students.…
dlvr.it
December 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
In my 25yrs in the academy I 👀 the proliferation of expensive enterprise software that shifted the burden of sooo many basic administrative functions — reconciling receipts, paying honoraria, booking travel — from competent, efficient staff to faculty + students. I’d spend entire days on this crap.
Considering how often residents have to do jury duty, you would think the #baltimore courthouse could have functioning water fountains and maybe (one can dream) a coffee machine.
December 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Considering how often residents have to do jury duty, you would think the #baltimore courthouse could have functioning water fountains and maybe (one can dream) a coffee machine.
Today in bullets dodged www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Texas Tech Gathers Info on Race, Gender Course Content
For each of their courses, faculty must say whether they “advocate for” or “promote” certain race or gender identities.
www.insidehighered.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Today in bullets dodged www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Can they go with?
“.. Skeptics believe the technical risks are being underestimated and say space-based data centers won’t be competitive on cost, especially if power and other constraints ease on the ground.”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/bezos-a...
December 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Can they go with?
Have they explained the why or did they just want this video
December 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Have they explained the why or did they just want this video
Jfc
An earlier version of the NSS specifically said that the US should try to pry Italy, Austria, Poland and Hungary away from the EU
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...
December 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Jfc
Texas a&m isn't a university any more
Conservatives ran an op at A&M to create a controversy, then used that controversy as an excuse for a purge. The whole thing is fake.
Former Texas A&M President Mark A. Welsh III wasn’t pushed out over just one incident.
The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head.
The A&M Board of Regents came to want a more explicitly conservative leader who would shut down controversy before it reared its head.
December 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Texas a&m isn't a university any more