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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 3d

CBS has moved #Matlock to Sunday nights, in Murder, She Wrote's old timeslot, thus affirming my argument that it's the fitting successor to MSW.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not trying to brag, but today I had one of the best classes in 20 years.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 7d

Why do I have an entire folder called Slide Templates on my computer and spend hours making beautiful slides? Because this is what I get after SEVEN attempts to have Copilot generate slides with visual design based off my lecture notes.

Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 7d

When you're working on a presentation about the current state of copyright and AI...

Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 14d

When your approach to learning is straight from Andrew Sarris’s playbook, I guess cinema gonna cinema.

A sad list of so-called great film directors that is negligently composed of men and only men

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 17d

Proofs for Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies with @melstanfill.bsky.social submitted. See you all on publication day!

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 18d

Get to the office to find a voicemail from my dad, complaining about AI. His specific concern: the two letters are often being printed in sans serif and "everybody knows an I has a horizontal line on top and bottom of it." Keeping his eyes on the big issues, my dad.

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Paul Gagliardi @pgagliardi.bsky.social · 18d

I'm starting a new research project and if you happen to know anyone who skated in any traveling ice show -- such as the Ice Capades, the Ice Follies, Holidays on Ice, etc -- and they would be willing to be interviewed by yours truly, send me a DM :)

A group of Ice Capades skaters in a show in Milwaukee in the 1950s

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 25d

Do you have experience copyediting or proofreading academic journals? Would you like to wrangle #AO3 tags? Can you read and translate from Chinese or Italian to English? Do you have experience in managing or leading people? The #OTW is Recruiting! otw-news.org/w8thejrv

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 21d

It is September 21 and it is a cloudy day and this isn’t how it’s supposed to go.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 22d

I will add that the Smothers Brothers were also canceled for petty contract reasons TV historians widely believe to be a shield for censorship of their content. And this letter from LBJ is verified by Snopes.

Mollie Katzen @molliekatzen.bsky.social · 22d

From President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Smothers Brothers, who had a popular, bold, and very funny political satire TV show in the late '60s. I'm old enough to remember it.

They regularly skewered Johnson (Vietnam War era), and for all his faults, was elegant enough to respond thus.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 22d

On a related note: All the cranks have included their own AI use or lack of use in their policies, right? We're not just telling students what they're allowed to do but modeling it for them, right?

Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 24d

Faculty using tools for things they are not designed for and are not good at does not contribute to a learning environment where those same faculty can teach students critical literacy skills. I will keep shouting about this forever.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25d

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 24d

Faculty using tools for things they are not designed for and are not good at does not contribute to a learning environment where those same faculty can teach students critical literacy skills. I will keep shouting about this forever.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 25d

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice

The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central.
Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality

Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window.

Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.

Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform.

Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · 29d

I guess this has reached this platform too. But I don’t make the rules. If you see it, you have to share it. Enjoy!

Lock Down Your Life @lockdownyourlife.com · 29d

This week has been a long year. But you know what to do. 😍

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Sep 9

Towanda massively scratched up her own car making a point. Oops.

Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Sep 9

Thirteen years ago in grad school, we workshopped one of my articles-in-progess in class. Inspired, I said I wanted to go home and immediately work on revisions. The professor told me not to because she hadn't give me *her* feedback yet. I think about this a lot and still don't understand the logic.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Sep 4

I appear to have crossed over into my “Towanda!” era. Be warned.

a woman in a red hat says " face it girls i 'm older "

ALT: a woman in a red hat says " face it girls i 'm older "

media.tenor.com

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Sep 4

Me: Sees that a grant or fellowship requires a letter of rec, just deletes application.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Sep 3

I told my students it’s my 20th year teaching, and they burst into a spontaneous round of applause. 🥰😭

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Aug 31

I have gotten so pedantic in my course syllabi that I now say things like "You have to bring a pen to class" and "You have to take your headphones out when class starts." Is this what we've come to?

Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Aug 30

An alarming number of academic, peer-reviewed articles have the wrong release dates for films.
Small thing? Sure. But indicative of a lack of care that we can't then go criticize our students for.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Aug 26

Copyediting time! Teaching AI in Film and Media Studies, co-authored with @melstanfill.bsky.social, is coming soon.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Aug 23

“It just doesn’t seem like that would actually be useful for many things.” - my 86 year old aunt, upon learning what gen AI is. From the mouths of babes.

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Bridget Kies @bridgetkies.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is horrifying in an institution of higher learning, at the place we most expect info literacy skills to be taught. The problem is that students don’t (know how to) use databases and Boolean searches, so tools like AI wizards and assistants seem good to keep students in-house (off Google).

mesk @meesk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our library website now prominently links to an "AI" "research assistant" and I want to scream into the void about it. It is so upsetting to see the library, of all places, cave like that (granted, the institution may have forced their hand). Ugh.

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mesk @meesk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Our library website now prominently links to an "AI" "research assistant" and I want to scream into the void about it. It is so upsetting to see the library, of all places, cave like that (granted, the institution may have forced their hand). Ugh.

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