Teddy Roland
@teddyroland.bsky.social
Postdoc @ School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. American Literature, Media Theory, Data Science. I publish under "Edwin Roland" but don't tell anyone.
New Challenge: Serve your loved ones the AI-sloppiest Thanksgiving spread
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
New Challenge: Serve your loved ones the AI-sloppiest Thanksgiving spread
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New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
TikTok as a high art www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UhtD71/
#soju #ramyeon #ramen #seoul #korea
TikTok video by Woody Shin
www.tiktok.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
TikTok as a high art www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UhtD71/
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People always say that the East Bay had a great train system before BART that we should restore. So I re-created the Key System and Southern Pacific "Red trains" in SubwayBuilder to test this! The stops and routing are accurate and based on year 1940, when Bay Bridge rail service was at its peak
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
People always say that the East Bay had a great train system before BART that we should restore. So I re-created the Key System and Southern Pacific "Red trains" in SubwayBuilder to test this! The stops and routing are accurate and based on year 1940, when Bay Bridge rail service was at its peak
Market differentiation based on levels of automation. A classic tale, newly adapted for AI!
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Market differentiation based on levels of automation. A classic tale, newly adapted for AI!
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That's pretty cool! A museum scanned their entire collection, and then matched the distribution of colors to the era from which the object comes. The browns of 19th century, reds of mid-20th, recent blues. But also more and more of Pure Black.
Source: lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape...
Source: lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape...
we perfected abundant cheap, vibrant, color-safe pigments in every hue and then immediately stopped using colors
November 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
That's pretty cool! A museum scanned their entire collection, and then matched the distribution of colors to the era from which the object comes. The browns of 19th century, reds of mid-20th, recent blues. But also more and more of Pure Black.
Source: lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape...
Source: lab.sciencemuseum.org.uk/colour-shape...
TIL that the Porgy and Bess copyright requires that the opera be performed by all-Black casts
The expiration of the copyright in 2031 is going to be 🧐
The expiration of the copyright in 2031 is going to be 🧐
November 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
TIL that the Porgy and Bess copyright requires that the opera be performed by all-Black casts
The expiration of the copyright in 2031 is going to be 🧐
The expiration of the copyright in 2031 is going to be 🧐
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📣 Tenure-track DH position at Chapel Hill with a home in English/Comp Lit
Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities
The Department of English & Comparative Literature at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities with an anticipated sta...
unc.peopleadmin.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:22 PM
📣 Tenure-track DH position at Chapel Hill with a home in English/Comp Lit
Ruling based partly on how social media has changed *since the suit was first brought.* Raises serious concerns for the Amazon trial that starts in [checks watch] 2027
Meta Did Not Violate Antitrust Law, Judge Rules
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Ruling based partly on how social media has changed *since the suit was first brought.* Raises serious concerns for the Amazon trial that starts in [checks watch] 2027
As Hamlet memorably put it: word, sword, swords
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
As Hamlet memorably put it: word, sword, swords
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Bibliotactics events coming to your city! East coast folks--if there is a community org/library/university interested let me know. Or if other folks would like to batch on another event while I'm in your city. First up is a zoom roundtable on colonial libraries calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...
November 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Bibliotactics events coming to your city! East coast folks--if there is a community org/library/university interested let me know. Or if other folks would like to batch on another event while I'm in your city. First up is a zoom roundtable on colonial libraries calma.ischool.uw.edu/uw-event/col...
aaarg. I need an urgent deadline to distract me from these longstanding obligations on my desk
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
aaarg. I need an urgent deadline to distract me from these longstanding obligations on my desk
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14 Nov 2025
November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
14 Nov 2025
a campus reading group is discussing a recent Dave Eggars novel. I'd say that his reputation is being rehabilitated, but it might be more accurate to say it's being "habilitated" at all??
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
a campus reading group is discussing a recent Dave Eggars novel. I'd say that his reputation is being rehabilitated, but it might be more accurate to say it's being "habilitated" at all??
The twin pressures of federal cuts to research funds and reduced state appropriations for unis are ending the recent decline in tuition costs
The good news? College tuition has been going down. The bad news? It’s about to rise again
College students nationwide are facing increases in tuition this fall of as much as 10 percent, along with new fees and rising costs for dorms and dining plans, after a stretch when tuition had been f...
hechingerreport.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The twin pressures of federal cuts to research funds and reduced state appropriations for unis are ending the recent decline in tuition costs
Fast Fashion: We make disposable products for mindless consumption
AI Slop: Hold my beer
AI Slop: Hold my beer
Walmart: Women’s Off-Shoulder Mini-Dress
Designed from market trends by AI??
www.walmart.com/ip/No-Bounda...
Designed from market trends by AI??
www.walmart.com/ip/No-Bounda...
Robot or human?
www.walmart.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Fast Fashion: We make disposable products for mindless consumption
AI Slop: Hold my beer
AI Slop: Hold my beer
Walmart: Women’s Off-Shoulder Mini-Dress
Designed from market trends by AI??
www.walmart.com/ip/No-Bounda...
Designed from market trends by AI??
www.walmart.com/ip/No-Bounda...
Robot or human?
www.walmart.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Walmart: Women’s Off-Shoulder Mini-Dress
Designed from market trends by AI??
www.walmart.com/ip/No-Bounda...
Designed from market trends by AI??
www.walmart.com/ip/No-Bounda...
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Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
Opening the black box of EEBO
Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t
academic.oup.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
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It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters
I have been encouraging students to use (and disclose) generative AI for their assignments. Those not using AI have produced stronger responses until this task: "Brainstorm two distinct titles for your project and describe the audiences they wld appeal to respectively."
It's what GPTs are made for!
It's what GPTs are made for!
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I have been encouraging students to use (and disclose) generative AI for their assignments. Those not using AI have produced stronger responses until this task: "Brainstorm two distinct titles for your project and describe the audiences they wld appeal to respectively."
It's what GPTs are made for!
It's what GPTs are made for!
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Job alert!
@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year
Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year
Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Job alert!
@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year
Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
@ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year
Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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What happens when we model the detective archetype at scale? 🕵️♂️📚
Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627
Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627
November 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
What happens when we model the detective archetype at scale? 🕵️♂️📚
Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627
Our new paper, accepted for #CHR2025 combines literary history and computational modeling to trace how the figure of the detective evolves across 150 years of French fiction.
arxiv.org/pdf/2511.00627
“But I do feel confident that the strategic move is not to hope AI never learns to solve our problems, but to demonstrate that we are the ones who can teach it how. And then to invent new, more difficult problems to solve together.”
An invigorating vision!
An invigorating vision!
Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +
Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.
If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.
www.chronicle.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“But I do feel confident that the strategic move is not to hope AI never learns to solve our problems, but to demonstrate that we are the ones who can teach it how. And then to invent new, more difficult problems to solve together.”
An invigorating vision!
An invigorating vision!
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Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here
Please share!
Please share!
Humanities Librarian - (African American Studies and English Literature)
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here
Please share!
Please share!
Finished slides a full hour before class and am now wandering bewildered from room to room
October 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Finished slides a full hour before class and am now wandering bewildered from room to room