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Cate Denial

@cjdenial.bsky.social

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Historian: women, early 19C Dakota and Ojibwe country; Dir: Bright Institute @ Knox College; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · Nov 15

If you're new here, you might not know that I published -A Pedagogy of Kindness- this summer, available from the University of Oklahoma Press. And as of Tuesday, an audiobook is available too! www.oupress.com/978080619385...

A Pedagogy of Kindness - University of Oklahoma Press

Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, highe...

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Henny Gesserit @nmjmredux.blacksky.app · 6h

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 1d

- put down the damn AI.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 18h

This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 19h

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 3h

It's not too late to sign up for this short, free webinar on exploring the ethics of GenAI, held TODAY (October 8) at 4pm ET. Registration below.

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 9d

A reminder! On October 8 I'll be leading a short webinar on the ethics of generative AI for @onehe.bsky.social. Registration is free - check out the link below! onehe.org/event/explor...

Exploring the Ethics of GenAI – OneHE

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 4h

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 18h

Congratulations!

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 18h

This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 19h

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 18h

Oh, thank you for sharing that, Alex. It's beautiful.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 22h

Ahahahah, no, I completely understand 😀

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 23h

We were told to write as much as we needed to to express what we'd done. That was research, teaching, and service combined.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 1d

Jiminy! My promotion-to-full narrative was 41 pages.

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 1d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?

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Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House

Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.

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Benjamin Franklin House @benfranklinhouse.bsky.social · 1d

📢Call for papers!

Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!

Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...

If you have any questions, please email Megan King at [email protected].

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 1d

I always know when it's time to get my DTAP booster because I got it just before my nibling was born to protect her from anything I might carry!

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I already had Hep B, Shingles, Tetanus, Whooping Cough, and Pneumonia checked off!

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 2d

Jiminy. Awful situation.

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 2d

I am full of vaccines! Covid, Flu, and RSV all taken care of - and it's worth noting that if you're over 50 and have asthma and/or diabetes, or some other health conditions, you can (and should) get an RSV shot now. www.cdc.gov/rsv/hcp/vacc...

RSV Vaccine Guidance for Adults

Vaccine guidance for healthcare providers for the use of RSV vaccines for adults

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 2d

Are you an adjunct or VAP? Someone who works in history but outside academia? Check out this call for papers!

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 5d

I was lucky enough to get to chat with DeElla Wiley for the "Centering Centers" podcast. Link below! open.spotify.com/show/69L62lW...

Spotify – Web Player

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 3d

I hear you on no good tea in airports! (Or even hot enough water to make your own tea if you have tea with you.) You have a travel kettle for hotels though, yes?

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 3d

Here it is, my 244th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more in comments below, share as widely as possible, & thanks, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 244 (10/5/25) – Black and White and Read All Over

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 3d

I have been saying for a few years now that people really need to take a seriously long look at the center of that venn diagram where the circles are marked "AI Culture" and "Disregard For/Violation Of Consent." The whole "AI Actress" situation is more of why.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 4d

It's not a robot

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 4d

It's a mess top to tail. Respecting the pronouns of real-life humans? Yes! Respecting the assigned pronouns of a bunch of code? No.

Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 4d

It's not a robot. Robots are actually 3-D items that exist. This is a bunch of code. And suggesting it's a "she" is a part of the effort by tech billionaires to try and make us think AI has personhood. I'd also bet good money the tech bros do not respect the pronouns of real live people.

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