Pamela Manasco
@pamelamanasco.bsky.social
Poet | Nerd | English instructor @ AAMU. Recent poems in The Louisville Review, Bear Review, Split Rock Review, & elsewhere. https://pamelamanasco.com
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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So much love to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing my fossil poem!
"...how wonderful it is to be wrong about the bones
and underneath, to remind absence is only replacement,
that what we are is perhaps necessarily a plan
for what is coming later, some shining reminder."
"On Finally Understanding That Fossils Are Not Bones" by @pamelamanasco.bsky.social
and underneath, to remind absence is only replacement,
that what we are is perhaps necessarily a plan
for what is coming later, some shining reminder."
"On Finally Understanding That Fossils Are Not Bones" by @pamelamanasco.bsky.social
On Finally Understanding That Fossils Are Not Bones — Susurrus
www.susurrusthemagazine.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
So much love to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing my fossil poem!
I am beyond honored that @identitytheory.bsky.social nominated my poem for the Best of the Net 2026! 💜
Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees from Identity Theory!
September 28, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I am beyond honored that @identitytheory.bsky.social nominated my poem for the Best of the Net 2026! 💜
Tbh I would rather lick a rusty railroad spike than incorporate generative AI in my freshman composition courses
August 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Tbh I would rather lick a rusty railroad spike than incorporate generative AI in my freshman composition courses
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Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt.
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
August 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt.
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve
📸: Malcolm Glass
My 10-year-old: I've eaten many ants in my time. Some were on accident. And some...were not.
August 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
My 10-year-old: I've eaten many ants in my time. Some were on accident. And some...were not.
Just spent 2 hours donating platelets because it's a good thing to do but ALSO because I wanted this ridiculous shirt
August 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Just spent 2 hours donating platelets because it's a good thing to do but ALSO because I wanted this ridiculous shirt
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I had some dental work this morning (fixing issues with a couple of old silver fillings). My husband's take:
July 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I had some dental work this morning (fixing issues with a couple of old silver fillings). My husband's take:
Sleeping dog on my legs = unfortunately I only exist to be a pillow in this chair and will never move again
July 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Sleeping dog on my legs = unfortunately I only exist to be a pillow in this chair and will never move again
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Great poetry still exists
July 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Great poetry still exists
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Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.
July 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.
(poetry) rejections are never easy to receive but I am watching a weird, chunky cardinal munch on sunflower seeds outside my window and this bird just looks SO DUMB so everything is not actually terrible!
July 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
(poetry) rejections are never easy to receive but I am watching a weird, chunky cardinal munch on sunflower seeds outside my window and this bird just looks SO DUMB so everything is not actually terrible!
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Needed this reminder today.
July 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Needed this reminder today.
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Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”
June 29, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”
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Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...
🧵 addressing the argument: "AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and make them more effective.”
Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.
Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.
Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout – but we found it can sometimes make it worse
Efforts to simplify teachers’ jobs through technology can backfire without a strong focus on teacher well-being.
theconversation.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...
At work early-ish on a Saturday morning and it's really easy to be jaded in academia, but I still love seeing all of the freshmen heading our way each fall.
June 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
At work early-ish on a Saturday morning and it's really easy to be jaded in academia, but I still love seeing all of the freshmen heading our way each fall.
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"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another thought… the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts"
- Lynn Hunt
- Lynn Hunt
June 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another thought… the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts"
- Lynn Hunt
- Lynn Hunt
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“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
- Mister Rogers 💛
The human world, it’s a mess ❤️🩹💚🌎
- Mister Rogers 💛
The human world, it’s a mess ❤️🩹💚🌎
June 22, 2025 at 4:08 AM
“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”
- Mister Rogers 💛
The human world, it’s a mess ❤️🩹💚🌎
- Mister Rogers 💛
The human world, it’s a mess ❤️🩹💚🌎
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Just a general note - call it a life hack, if you will: If you ever find yourself thinking something along the lines of "The librarians are a problem, we must do something about the librarians!" then stop, look in a mirror and realise YOU are the problem.
We live in a world where I just got an email from the American Library Association reminding me to remove my badge outside the ALA convention and “If you see something, say something.” They’re (rightfully) prepping for terrorist threats against LIBRARIANS! Hideous times.
June 21, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Just a general note - call it a life hack, if you will: If you ever find yourself thinking something along the lines of "The librarians are a problem, we must do something about the librarians!" then stop, look in a mirror and realise YOU are the problem.
Just bought myself a reward plant (pink princess philodendron, not potted yet, don't judge me) for Not Crashing Out About the Atypical Mole the Dermatologist had to Remove Pt. 2 because a treato really will make it better.
June 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Just bought myself a reward plant (pink princess philodendron, not potted yet, don't judge me) for Not Crashing Out About the Atypical Mole the Dermatologist had to Remove Pt. 2 because a treato really will make it better.
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June 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/
June 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/