Jim Zeigler
@jameszeigler.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Oklahoma English. Coeditor of GENRE: read.dukeupress.edu/genre
https://linktr.ee/genre_dukeup_journal
https://linktr.ee/genre_dukeup_journal
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Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.
Oklahoma University has placed a grad student instructor on admin leave for failing a psychology paper on gender for citing *the Bible* as a source of empirical evidence.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
In response, OU has placed on instructor on admin leave citing, get this, the FIRST AMENDMENT.
Universities are cooked.
December 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Look, y'all know I hate AI as much as the next passionate hater of AI, but ChatGPT has nothing on the University of Oklahoma deciding that based on the first amendment students can literally say anything in their papers as existential threat to the university.
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The University of Oklahoma faculty senate needs to take a strong position in defense of the right of instructors to evaluate student performance along the metrics set out in the syllabus.
December 1, 2025 at 12:56 AM
The University of Oklahoma faculty senate needs to take a strong position in defense of the right of instructors to evaluate student performance along the metrics set out in the syllabus.
If only Sen. Tuberville were required to complete by hand in front of a proctor the paperwork to run for Governor... But at least the Dems have a good candidate to expose that Tuberville's literacy stops at X and O.
It’s official. @dougjones.bsky.social will run against Tommy Tuberville for Alabama governor. www.al.com/life/2025/11...
Doug Jones will enter 2026 Alabama governor’s race
Campaign paperwork is to be filed this week.
www.al.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If only Sen. Tuberville were required to complete by hand in front of a proctor the paperwork to run for Governor... But at least the Dems have a good candidate to expose that Tuberville's literacy stops at X and O.
Here's good news. The number of humanities majors is up a lot at one of the top public universities in the U.S. ls.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
ls.berkeley.edu
November 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Here's good news. The number of humanities majors is up a lot at one of the top public universities in the U.S. ls.berkeley.edu/news/humanit...
Awesome
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.
Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Awesome
Or, Trump Regime Again Violates the Law and Causes Irreversible Damage
October 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Or, Trump Regime Again Violates the Law and Causes Irreversible Damage
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The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability
This nationwide cohort study with sibling control analysis examines the association of acetaminophen use during pregnancy with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.
jamanetwork.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
How 'bout no more listening to Sam Altman. Here's Gary Marcus vindicated:
The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
Opinion | The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
How 'bout no more listening to Sam Altman. Here's Gary Marcus vindicated:
The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/o...
Another piece bemoaning a lack of "viewpoint diversity" among college faculty. Do the authors acknowledge that disciplines have their own politics that don't map onto partisan elections and make the "too many Dems" criticism a lazy category mistake? Nope.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
How to save the American university
As Trump threatens funding and public trust plummets, US schools are in the fight of a lifetime. This is how they can survive – with their souls intact
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Another piece bemoaning a lack of "viewpoint diversity" among college faculty. Do the authors acknowledge that disciplines have their own politics that don't map onto partisan elections and make the "too many Dems" criticism a lazy category mistake? Nope.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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When the AI bubble pops it will destroy your 401k *and* the obscenely wealthy people responsible for it will get a huge bailout with your money.
They spent more money this year on the plagiarism machine than consumers spent.
Over a third of the stock market is handcuffed to the plagiarism machine
They spent more money this year on the plagiarism machine than consumers spent.
Over a third of the stock market is handcuffed to the plagiarism machine
August 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
When the AI bubble pops it will destroy your 401k *and* the obscenely wealthy people responsible for it will get a huge bailout with your money.
They spent more money this year on the plagiarism machine than consumers spent.
Over a third of the stock market is handcuffed to the plagiarism machine
They spent more money this year on the plagiarism machine than consumers spent.
Over a third of the stock market is handcuffed to the plagiarism machine
A stirring rebuke -- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi
The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A stirring rebuke -- www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is absolutely the case. Brown just agreed to Trump Regime review of course evaluations.
Speaking as a tenured faculty member of a small, regional public university: Columbia, Brown, Penn, and Harvard are fucking over me, my colleagues and co-workers, and my school.
August 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
This is absolutely the case. Brown just agreed to Trump Regime review of course evaluations.
Lit studies friends and associates on Blue Sky, this really fine special issue intro by Merve Emre & Justin Sider could use a boost
"Revisiting The Radical Aesthetic," a special issue of Genre edited by Merve Emre and Justin A. Sider, is now online. The issue celebrates the 25th anniversary of Isobel Armstrong's powerful work of critical theory. View the TOC and read the intro, freely available: buff.ly/1uXbZim
July 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Lit studies friends and associates on Blue Sky, this really fine special issue intro by Merve Emre & Justin Sider could use a boost
As an educator in Oklahoma, I'm very gratified that our Sec of Ed Ryan Walters is finally getting the national attention he has sought so shamelessly & cynically. Now let's hope it hurts rather than helps his run for Governor
Oh I have been waiting on this one.
Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who wants bibles in the classroom and Christianity taught to kids, just got caught watching adult content.
On his work computer.
During a Board of Education meeting.
Read that again.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
On his work computer.
During a Board of Education meeting.
Read that again.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/ryan-walte...
July 27, 2025 at 1:31 AM
As an educator in Oklahoma, I'm very gratified that our Sec of Ed Ryan Walters is finally getting the national attention he has sought so shamelessly & cynically. Now let's hope it hurts rather than helps his run for Governor
Imposing AI LLMs on curricula & Learning Management Systems (eg Canvas) should be added to this list of the creeping authoritarian ruin of public education. Is AFT fighting against Open AI & the like?
The funding cuts and book bans and privatization vouchers are all part of a larger scheme to end public education as we know it. Autocrats know that their brand of greed, power and privilege cannot survive in a democracy of diverse, educated citizens.
July 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Imposing AI LLMs on curricula & Learning Management Systems (eg Canvas) should be added to this list of the creeping authoritarian ruin of public education. Is AFT fighting against Open AI & the like?
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What the hell is a rescission? I’ll explain.
July 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
What the hell is a rescission? I’ll explain.
Agreed, even if it ruins Bill Clinton too (or is that a bonus?)
I normally tune out internecine debates about popularism but in this case I’m thinking that Dems should maybe run with the ball here?
"Should the government release all documents it has about the Jeffrey Epstein case"
Yes: 79%
No: 4%
Yes Among:
Democrats: 85%
Independents: 76%
Republicans: 75%
YouGov / July 14, 2025
Yes: 79%
No: 4%
Yes Among:
Democrats: 85%
Independents: 76%
Republicans: 75%
YouGov / July 14, 2025
July 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Agreed, even if it ruins Bill Clinton too (or is that a bonus?)
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Do you think the conservative justices had a “what if we just stopped pretending” conversation or did they all just lock eyes across the room at some point and know it was go time
July 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Do you think the conservative justices had a “what if we just stopped pretending” conversation or did they all just lock eyes across the room at some point and know it was go time
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THE LOTTERY, but everyday, timed a hundred, in Gaza
July 13, 2025 at 12:35 AM
THE LOTTERY, but everyday, timed a hundred, in Gaza
So MIT's endowment effectively loses its non-profit status but churches keep theirs & can now sermonize about who deserves their congregants' votes
July 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
So MIT's endowment effectively loses its non-profit status but churches keep theirs & can now sermonize about who deserves their congregants' votes
No doubt George Mason U should be investigated ... for letting the Koch Bros dictate curricula (& not DEI initiatives) www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/u...
July 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
No doubt George Mason U should be investigated ... for letting the Koch Bros dictate curricula (& not DEI initiatives) www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/u...
Trump appointments are either carnival-barkers for the cameras or no-show, do-nothing mob jobs
Staff at FEMA haven't received any internal communications from the agency or department leadership since the deadly floods in Texas, which is unheard of in the wake of a major disaster.
Acting Administrator David Richardson is "nowhere to be found."
Acting Administrator David Richardson is "nowhere to be found."
FEMA response to deadly Texas floods delayed & deficient with Noem in charge
Staffers sound the alarm.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Trump appointments are either carnival-barkers for the cameras or no-show, do-nothing mob jobs
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men will literally invent a new political party instead of saying “sorry i elected the fascist”
July 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
men will literally invent a new political party instead of saying “sorry i elected the fascist”
Did not know 'til now that "Ted" is this excellent ... & exactly right
July 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Did not know 'til now that "Ted" is this excellent ... & exactly right