Jason Rhody
@jasonrhody.bsky.social
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Senior Director of Engagement Strategy (@modernlanguage.bsky.social). #HuMetricsHSS. Former: @SSRC_mtp, @NEH_ODH, @UMD_MITH, PhD English (UMD), #altac. Opinions mine.
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Want to strengthen your humanities enrollments & student outcomes? W/ support from @mellon.org, MLA Pathways Step Grants provide up to $10,000 to improve recruitment, retention, and/or career readiness in undergraduate humanities programs. Please share & apply by 29 Oct!

www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
MLA Pathways Step Grants
Step grants of up to $10,000 to support faculty members or teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate students.
www.mla.org
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Are you a humanities graduate student or are you a faculty member with grad students on the market? This is a great opportunity to get detailed advice about why and how to pursue a career at a community college. First session is tomorrow, Oct 7!

www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
The Brass Tacks of Community College Careers: An MLA...
With over a thousand two-year colleges across the nation, candidates who broaden their job search to community colleges dramatically expand their career options and have opportunities to serve the lar...
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Funding opportunity for the humanities. Deadline October 29. Please share!
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Join us at 2pm Eastern today (Monday, September 29) for "Supporting Faculty Research in Difficult Times," a free webinar from @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
An image of a hand holding a lit lightbulb with a text overlay that says "Supporting Faculty Research in Difficult Times. Join us for this free webinar to learn from panelists with experience in a variety of roles who are dedicated to sustaining academic research in an uncertain funding landscape. Register now."
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Each 55-min session will take place at 5pm ET, Oct-Dec 2025.
- 28 Oct: How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan
- 4 Nov: Rapid Threat Assessment
- 11 Nov: Understanding Budget Models
- 18 Nov: Should You Merge before They Merge You?
- 2 Dec: Operating from a Position of Strength
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"Many history curricula already discuss the past in a way that doesn’t allow nuance, & National History Day gave me a path to explore the people, events and injustices that are traditionally ignored." - thank you for these words, @mariumzahra.bsky.social
#NEH #Texas #NationalHistoryDay #humanities
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alondra.bsky.social
🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms
In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...
www.science.org
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
tedmccormick.bsky.social
It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
jasonrhody.bsky.social
Don't miss out on submitting a Just in Time session for the MLA convention in Toronto. Deadline is September 18!
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What are you doing to fight back in these tough times? Share your strategies at the MLA convention in Toronto. Propose a Just-in-Time session and tell us what's working. We are building a slate of sessions on advocacy on campus and off. Join us. www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Proposing a Just-in-Time Session
What Is a Just-in-Time Session?Most sessions at the MLA convention have to be completed and submitted by 1 April. This works well for many topics, but sometimes an organizer wishes to create a session...
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Funding opportunity -- if you are working on improving humanities undergraduate recruitment, retention, and/or career readiness initiatives, apply for support by 29 October! Follow the link to sign up for an information session on 8 September from 2:00–2:45 p.m. ET. Please share!
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We’re now accepting applications for our Pathways step grants! These grants are intended to support individual faculty members or small teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergrads. Apply by 29 October.
MLA Pathways Step Grants
Step grants of up to $10,000 to support faculty members or teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate students.
www.mla.org
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sjjphd.bsky.social
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
A screenshot from the New York Time reads: nytimes #
Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period.
White men saw the largest job increase - 365,000 - among groups.
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vaishakbelle.bsky.social
Happy to be a co-author of the Doing AI Differently white paper at the The Alan Turing Institute. This is a call to action for meaningful change in AI, w. collective insights from arts & humanities. And includes a mention of neuro-symbolic AI :-).

www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica...
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alwaystheself.bsky.social
Boosting..
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We! Are! Hiring!

The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26

More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572

#blackademia #academia #PhDSky
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We are rapidly experiencing a world governed by uncritical use of AI—literally influencing (certainly not “informing”) the highest levels of government policy, health, etc— and we can already see how harmful (& stupid) the outcomes are. The incentive rigging is the tell. Maybe pay % of lives saved.
joshdrescher.bsky.social
However evil you think this is, it’s worse:

“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
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literaturegeek.bsky.social
I still maintain my friendly Bluesky guide (tinyurl.com/DHbluesky) if you want to learn more or help incoming folks be aware of helpful settings like this. 3-step or incredibly detailed versions! Suggested starter packs to follow. Aimed at academics, GLAM, DH folks but broadly useful.
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cfiesler.bsky.social
My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate.

Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
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acyn.bsky.social
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
jasonrhody.bsky.social
Facts often are inconvenient to the narrative!
cathyndavidson.bsky.social
I've seen several articles this week ab "too many people going to college" and pointing out an 8% unemployment rate of recent college graduates without noting the nearly 20% unemployment rate for recent hs grads or noting average starting wage for hs grads is $42-46K, for college grads $60K. Hmmm.
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crampell.bsky.social
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students
Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.
www.forbes.com
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Meta products found to be harmful to users/society. This is my surprised face.
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Feel like this needs to be said again and again and again.
annakornbluh.bsky.social
say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
anisekstrong.bsky.social
It's important to note here that we're not just talking about faculty & university staff. 100s of U.S. colleges are in towns or small cities where they form the major industry & lifeblood of the community. Loss of students -> loss of rent $, restaurant $, bars, bookstores, gaming stores...
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alondra.bsky.social
Call for Papers! 🧵

The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)

Abstract Deadline: Sept 19

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...
Public Science
Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy
www.ias.edu