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Dr. Samantha Landau📚

@broomsticknpen.bsky.social

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お化け博士 (Ghost Scholar) based in Tokyo. Gothic in Asia Association co-founder. Variously juggling research on: Emily Dickinson, Shirley Jackson, Jewish folklore, Japanese gothic/folklore, poetry & the gothic. Poet and opera singer. (Opinions mine)

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Dec 13

I'm so excited that my essay "Passionate Women, Vengeful Spirits: Female Ghosts and the Japanese Gothic Mode" has been published in Manusya: Journal of Humanities! Thank you to Kasia Ancuta for editing this special issue👻
It's open source and free to read here:
brill.com/view/journal...

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 1d

Uh between this and your toe, is it time to slow down?

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 3d

Oh no!

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 3d

That’s why I have so much art on my walls😂

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 4d

Standard beige wallpaper😭

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 6d

I had to read that sentence 4 times and I still don’t believe it.

One of my friends in CS and I were chatting about chat bots the other day and he said “they just answer organized word salad based on prompts; it’s not information” and that’s the most accurate description I’ve heard…

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 7d

I would definitely not do it solo… you might injure yourself😬

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 7d

That’s a Pilates machine (you can’t really use it by yourself) and it’ll kick your butt.

I do a Pilates-weights menu 2x a month with my PT (the other days are all weights) and the muscle aches afterward are incredible😂

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe it’s time to try subbing my spider lily poem again🌱

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 20d

If she means “plant more trees and solve our heat island problems” I can’t argue with it.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations, Jeremy!!! Wonderful news🥳🥳🥳

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sounds like a good idea!

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 2

Oh this is so lovely! Thanks for tagging me in. I’m so glad that he’s such a kind-hearted and warm person.

I’ve loved The Last Unicorn for as long as I’ve loved stories (basically my whole life). Read basically all of his short stories and novels… Tamsin and Summerlong are also favorites.

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 1

Omg yes.

So many! It’s such a cool place.

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 1

I hope this is true! That sounds very fun indeed.

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 31

😂

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s truly scary…

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 28

The worst offenders in my classes had native level sentences in their finals but nowhere else. No points are awarded for grammar/syntax, only substance. When I explained that again, they repeated they were trying to get a better score😐 the woe I feel about this, the despair🫠

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Next semester, I may use track changes in Word, or a Google Docs option that records a video of the composition. It feels silly but I think more oversight will encourage them to do their own work. They sincerely think it’s magic and we can’t see the difference b/w human and AI essays😬

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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 27

Despite this, I’d say between 50-70% of students used some kind of AI modifications (usually Quillbot) and at least 30-40% outright copy-pasted some phrases or entire paragraphs.
This semester was about 3x the amount of AI I saw in Autumn 2024 semester.

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 27

I’ve had a very clear-cut no-AI policy since 2023. It includes the course learning goals and the purpose of writing and which resources are ok and which aren’t. Students can see it from Day 1.

Despite this transparent policy, I had the most AI and other cheating of my career this past semester.

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 26

I still have Xmas gifts I need to mail to friends from that annoying time period🫠

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 26

In JP Post’s case they just paused it. And you can still send letters and gifts worth under $100.

JP did have a total freeze and then partial freeze on delivering mail to many countries (incl. US) between 2020-23 due to Covid and cost-cutting. So this isn’t great, but not so new🤷🏻‍♀️

Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Gifts under $100 should be ok. Anything above that would be subject to the tariffs.
I think these are temporary measures while they figure out how much to charge people and how much the changes will cost them😐 but given what happened during 2020-23, being nervous is wise🥲

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Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social · Aug 18

TLDR re. COVID VAXX:
"Prepare for lots of headlines and mixed messages this week. In the meantime, if you’re under 65 and not high risk, *the window to get a Covid-19 vaccine is right now*—before the FDA label changes. Once it happens, access will be limited immediately (if it isn’t already)."

Covid-19 vaccine label change, alpha-gal syndrome, leaked MAHA report, mRNA funding cuts, and... where is bird flu?

The Dose (August 18)

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Aug 16

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

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