Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)
@katjathieme.bsky.social
Into words, sentences, genres.
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Teaching Scores, Storied Averages, and Small Classes
University administrations are very keen on student evaluations. Behind the scenes, they are a managerial lever in employment decisions and…
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If you've ever found yourself in a position of inventing some sort of story that might explain uneven student evaluation scores—your own or someone else's—then this blog post is for you.
#writingstudies #cdnwrds #rhetcomp #teamrhetoric
#writingstudies #cdnwrds #rhetcomp #teamrhetoric
„Indigenous belongings from nations including Cree, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Nipissing, Kanien’kehá:ka, Wolastoqiyik and Kwakwaka’wakw have remained in the Anima Mundi collection without Indigenous care for 100 years. Now some of them will be returned home.“
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An art historian looks at the origins of the Indigenous arts collection at the Vatican Museums
Catholic missionaries sent thousands of Indigenous belongings to Rome for a 1925 exhibition. Beyond what the Vatican has now committed to repatriating, many more belongings must be returned.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
„Indigenous belongings from nations including Cree, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Nipissing, Kanien’kehá:ka, Wolastoqiyik and Kwakwaka’wakw have remained in the Anima Mundi collection without Indigenous care for 100 years. Now some of them will be returned home.“
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Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
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The point of being an established, publicly funded media outlet with a legal department is to NOT cave meekly in response to specious legal threats from foreign leaders.
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Note that the BBC openly admits in an email to me that the removal of this claim about Trump's world-historical corruption was done "on legal advice."
Translation: Trump's threat of a lawsuit, no matter how bogus, has now been rewarded.
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Translation: Trump's threat of a lawsuit, no matter how bogus, has now been rewarded.
newrepublic.com/article/2036...
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
The point of being an established, publicly funded media outlet with a legal department is to NOT cave meekly in response to specious legal threats from foreign leaders.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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This aquaman appears to be squeeking something from under an ocean rock. Barely anyone can hear it.
That part about "on legal advice." Sounds to me like the speaker didn't have any proof of corruption which makes the speach libelous. If you have proof, say what you want. Bring receipts and make claims that can be defended in court. Otherwise, there are plenty of other ways to speak about Trump.
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This aquaman appears to be squeeking something from under an ocean rock. Barely anyone can hear it.
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"Its hard out there for the people it's easy for."
Cannot love that line more
Cannot love that line more
November 26, 2025 at 5:10 AM
"Its hard out there for the people it's easy for."
Cannot love that line more
Cannot love that line more
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Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
. @rebeccasear.bsky.social is on a mission to get all studies using a database linking #IQ and race retracted. I spoke to her for @retractionwatch.com to find out more: retractionwatch.com/2025/11/25/m...
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
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November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Retraction Watch has covered the problem of the “national IQ” database. Should be noted I’m far from alone in working to remove these publications. The spreadsheet of pubs which use NIQ - linked to in the article - was started by @kohngregory.bsky.social; a project also worked on by Cathryn Townsend
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Every 19th/20th century industry you can think of is getting subsidies.
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Every 19th/20th century industry you can think of is getting subsidies.
„‚What is Cheryl Hines thinking?‘ has been a common refrain as Americans watch her husband blithely promote dangerous misinformation about vaccines and defund vital scientific research. . . And if you read Hines’ memoir, you will quickly conclude that Cheryl Hines isn’t thinking much of anything.“
I read the Cheryl Hines book so you don’t have to www.patreon.com/posts/144407...
What is Cheryl Hines thinking? Nothing, apparently | Men Yell at Me by Lyz Lenz
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November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
„‚What is Cheryl Hines thinking?‘ has been a common refrain as Americans watch her husband blithely promote dangerous misinformation about vaccines and defund vital scientific research. . . And if you read Hines’ memoir, you will quickly conclude that Cheryl Hines isn’t thinking much of anything.“
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Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
Georgia police chief charged with using license plate readers to stalk and harass people
A police chief in suburban Atlanta has been arrested on charges of using the city's license plate cameras to stalk and harass people.
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Police have access to massive surveillance networks that track the public whether they are suspects or not. That means probably for every 1 officer caught using the system to harass or spy on people they have feuds with, ex's, activists, journalists, there are probably 100 more we don't know about.
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“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language. We may be facing the biggest plot twist in this entire story: What if Nuzzi isn’t a good writer after all? What if, as a friend texted me, the true hero of this 15-act opera is whoever was editing her pieces at New York?”
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language. We may be facing the biggest plot twist in this entire story: What if Nuzzi isn’t a good writer after all? What if, as a friend texted me, the true hero of this 15-act opera is whoever was editing her pieces at New York?”
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Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada!
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
Happy World Linguistics Day from Melbourne, Australia!
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada!
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
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Two men who occupy prominent positions in Canada’s media landscape just travelled to Israel, where they received a briefing from the Israeli government.
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Two men who occupy prominent positions in Canada’s media landscape just travelled to Israel, where they received a briefing from the Israeli government.
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
Yeah. What are journalism ethics anyway?
Those men were TVO’s Steve Paikin and Global News’ Ben Mulroney:
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Very good thread—how mixed, disjointed modalities used to be part of how to recognize unhinged communication. Now masked by the surface polish of genAI chatbots.
#writingstudies #genai+writing
#writingstudies #genai+writing
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Very good thread—how mixed, disjointed modalities used to be part of how to recognize unhinged communication. Now masked by the surface polish of genAI chatbots.
#writingstudies #genai+writing
#writingstudies #genai+writing
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bad language is an antisocial art
“Forget the sex; the real scandal here is the crime against language. We may be facing the biggest plot twist in this entire story: What if Nuzzi isn’t a good writer after all? What if, as a friend texted me, the true hero of this 15-act opera is whoever was editing her pieces at New York?”
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
bad language is an antisocial art
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Yes! We have been in the business of discipline-specific pedagogy for years now. A field doesn't get upended over one new technology. Pedagogy isn't fragile!
It is amazing actually what good pedagogy can accomplish by guiding students, incl. in their very first year of university, through the substantive work of facing serious course materials head-on with discipline-specific approaches. Relying on synthetic text critique is really not it.
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Reacting to the presence of chatbots with assignment that ask students to look for mistakes in something they got a chatbot to spit out is not a sound approach to teaching your course material.
"GenAI allows seemingly limitless possibilities for assignments that
cultivate crucial literacies. For example, here’s the same old assignment caper that everyone and their AI dog has been suggesting for the past three years.”
#genai+writing
cultivate crucial literacies. For example, here’s the same old assignment caper that everyone and their AI dog has been suggesting for the past three years.”
#genai+writing
November 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Reacting to the presence of chatbots with assignment that ask students to look for mistakes in something they got a chatbot to spit out is not a sound approach to teaching your course material.
Very good thread—how mixed, disjointed modalities used to be part of how to recognize unhinged communication. Now masked by the surface polish of genAI chatbots.
#writingstudies #genai+writing
#writingstudies #genai+writing
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Very good thread—how mixed, disjointed modalities used to be part of how to recognize unhinged communication. Now masked by the surface polish of genAI chatbots.
#writingstudies #genai+writing
#writingstudies #genai+writing
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I want an inbox that literally just shows you the one that you're on, no list or preview of others. maybe in soft purples. playing whale sounds. maybe with interstitial messages about what a good person I am.
November 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I want an inbox that literally just shows you the one that you're on, no list or preview of others. maybe in soft purples. playing whale sounds. maybe with interstitial messages about what a good person I am.
My workday yesterday was teaching. Many years ago it used to be that my prep for classes was almost entirely going over readings, organizing notes. My own thinking advanced in the process. Yesterday my prep was toggling between online systems and accounts.
I interviewed Chris about Admin Night. We have more tech in our lives, but has it made our lives simpler or easier? The fact that human beings are organizing in-person parties to solve basic administrative tasks surely tells us that tech has failed us.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
My workday yesterday was teaching. Many years ago it used to be that my prep for classes was almost entirely going over readings, organizing notes. My own thinking advanced in the process. Yesterday my prep was toggling between online systems and accounts.
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Remember Andrew Wakefield?
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
November 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Remember Andrew Wakefield?
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020.
Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures.
Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.
There’s more strange exposing. Always there’s more.
I regret to inform you there is more Olivia Newzzi: the print VF will feature a nude portrait by artist Isabelle Brourman that is also destined for Art Basel Miami Beach. Notably, its inclusion appears be a surprise to VF staff. VF looking worse and worse here. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
November 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
There’s more strange exposing. Always there’s more.
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I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID.
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail
DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I really don’t think we can overstate the harm that the tech ethos of move fast and break things (followed by the unsaid “and then just move on”) has done beyond tech. Government, ngos, universities, public schools that have invited the folks who think like this in keep ending up gutted
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Oh you’d like me to undertake a gendered analysis of excavation tasks in the 10 excavation shots I have from four 1930s excavations? I hear you.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Oh you’d like me to undertake a gendered analysis of excavation tasks in the 10 excavation shots I have from four 1930s excavations? I hear you.