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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 3d

This essay is very good but for the love of god let us not forget the staff, who run each and every one of these universities and stand to lose everything the faculty do (and then some) 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

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 3d

I thought you knew about Old Coaly!!

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 3d

It’s excellent. I can’t believe you didn’t know!

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 3d

I think @meganpeiser.bsky.social is doing a whole technology free reading course this fall. though she may just be printing stuff for her class each week?

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 3d

This essay is very good but for the love of god let us not forget the staff, who run each and every one of these universities and stand to lose everything the faculty do (and then some) 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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Chantal @chantalsh.bsky.social · 18d

"AI slop" seems to be everywhere, but what exactly makes text feel like "slop"?

In our new work (w/ @tuhinchakr.bsky.social, Diego Garcia-Olano, @byron.bsky.social ) we provide a systematic attempt at measuring AI "slop" in text!

arxiv.org/abs/2509.19163

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Hoyt Long @hoytlong.bsky.social · 4d

In case you missed it, this "Doing AI Differently" funding call should be of interest to humanities scholars with technical experience, computer scientists with humanities grounding, or anyone whose work spans both domains. Take a look and please consider applying! www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Expressions of interest: artificial intelligence humanities sandpits: Canada, UK and US

AHRC and SSHRC invite expressions of interest to attend a humanities-led, interdisciplinary research sandpit looking to put humanities insights and methodologies at the heart of artificial intelligenc...

www.ukri.org

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 3d

Theme: Queer (dis)belonging
CfP: 5 January 2026
Website: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk (to be updated as more info becomes available)

PLEASE SHARE WIDELYYYYY 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎉

LavLang32 - Lavender Languages 32

2-4 September 2026: Queer (dis)belonging

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 4d

Especially if in keeping the root word, “digital“, -al‘s ending requires an extra clump of vowels to move us to the next hard consonant sound comfortably

Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah! So I’m wondering if in order to make it feel “more right” there’s an extra syllable added in (unlike social > socials, which extends a rule in ways native speakers don’t always do)

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 4d

Between you and @triplingual.bsky.social I’m now wondering if it is a syllabification challenge from 1st language to 2nd language

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 4d

And I’m noticing that (2) is getting used for (1), an interesting conflation

Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 4d

This made me laugh!

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Aram Zucker-Scharff @chronotope.aramzs.xyz · 4d

I very rarely have direct contact on newsroom projects anymore, but this is cool because I did work with folks to help with the original collection protocol to make sure this information was handled and stored privately and wouldn't leave us with a re-identifiable dataset.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 4d

How does TikTok keep its millions of users scrolling, swiping and staring at their phones?

With readers' help, we collected data from more than 1,000 TikTok users to find out: https://wapo.st/4nC6Nyr

How TikTok keeps its users scrolling for hours a day

Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 4d

ambient observation: digitization vs digitalization? I have heard more of the second (digitalization) from our younger students, and also from L2 speakers

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 4d

(Should I blog this? Is blogging now massively passe? My excel workshop gets/got so much traction that way...)

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 4d

We talked about how I made this workshop on Thursday; today (Tuesday) at 2pm in the University of Arizona Main Library Data Studio we're doing it live & in person! my slides are here if you want to have a look www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pwo8s..., huge hat tip to @mellymeldubs.bsky.social

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 4d

love this description, haha. When someone proposed this idea to me in the first place my brain went, oooh what a great idea. still need a person on the other end to assess! super useful, like machine translation.

Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 5d

using genai to produce alt text on images! Doesn’t work for all images ever, of course, but how do you describe a raccoon to someone who has never seen one?

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 5d

I teach about microfiche/film in history classes around primary/secondary source research and in the the history of Early English Books Online and the LOOKS the students give me
It's how we invented scrolling on our phones!

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d

I have been trying to explain a microfiche machine to one of my dear, brilliant, talented, but clearly too young to be alive collaborators. And it is taking the last of my soul.

“Micro…fish?? I have never heard that word in my life.” I recorded the timestamp so it can be put on my tombstone.

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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · Dec 3

In collab w/ Semantic Scholar, we conducted a large scale (800+) survey of researcher usage and perceptions of LLMs for science.

Major findings:
+Most are using LLMs already, mostly for writing
+LLMs seem to be a win for research equity
+But some groups, like women, have more ethical concerns too

Simona Liao @simonaliao.bsky.social · Dec 2

Hi everyone, I am excited to share our large-scale survey study with 800+ researchers, which reveals researchers’ usage and perceptions of LLMs as research tools, and how the usage and perceptions differ based on demographics.

See results in comments!

🔗 Arxiv link: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025

LLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers' Usage and Perceptions

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led many researchers to consider their usage for scientific work. Some have found benefits using LLMs to augment or automate aspects of their research pipe...

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 5d

I really enjoyed this article - I have never felt fully up to par on open access vocab/terminology and I know that if *I* can't quite figure it out then the researchers 100% do not get it

Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

When Focusing on Terminology Becomes a Hurdle to Open Access Outreach | Katina Magazine https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/focusing-on-terminology-hurdle-open-access-outreach

When Focusing on Terminology Becomes a Hurdle to Open Access Outreach

Conversations about open access can be riddled with distracting language. But what if we treated these failures to communicate as opportunities to learn more?

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Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social · 6d

Applications open soon for the second Web Archiving School co-hort. Our fellowship aims to create a new generation of web archiving practitioners dedicated to documenting the Black experience. Sign up today to receive reminders and updates on the application: bit.ly/warc-2026-si...

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 7d

“I wonder if the lack of luxury in their design is almost an effort to excuse the carrier from consumer culture. Tote bags work within the subconscious assumption that they are outside of trends —never bought but rather received“ articlesofinterest.substack.com/p/trader-joe...

Trader Joe's Totes

The It Bag of 2025

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