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Dr. Megan Faragher

@meganfaragher.bsky.social

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Professor, English, opinions own. Interwar Literature & Sociology; Roller derby athlete ft/ cat. AUUP-AFT Wright State Chapter President Co-President, Space Between Society Books: Psychographic Turn (OUP, 2021); Midcentury Women's Writing (MUP, 2024)

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3h

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

(Published June)

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 8h

A friend asked if we’ll be safe from the feds skating in Chicago burbs next week and I’m like “sure!”

But then my family living in Elgin is like “the suburbs are 🧊 hell!”

So…. let’s see if I get abducted playing roller derby next weekend!

American life!

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 8h

I still have my grad school ones! 😂

Ours had plastic binding so less ouchies!

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 9h

What higher ed workers wouldn’t give for a leader who even sounded vaguely like this.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 12h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 10h

I MISS THESE!

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 12h

The state threw all this money at these centers. Four mil for ours. But we don’t have faculty or centers. So I guess it’s just grift and bribes!

Good use of taxpayer money.

AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 12h

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re on the TT, I recommend Michael Foote.

His videos are everything right now in terms of the pathway to resisting darkness in these times.

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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 2d

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile, the state wants everyone who is breathing to know how to find me, an individual faculty, in my office with the door open.

We are not equally accountable.

And I am not the armed one!

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 2d

Identifying public officials isn't "doxing." People have the right to know who is working for their government. Nor, for that matter, is it "radical left-wing terrorism." So it's frustrating to see platforms caving to these bad faith characterizations. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

I tried to double check my travel itinerary for 30 hours from now and had a real scary moment where I couldn’t pull up my hotel reservation for 40 minutes.

All is well! But 😱!

Not easy to sleep after that!

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

Also love this exists!

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

I’m finally looking at the program for MSA and…damn you all for making infrastructure the theme of MSA this year.

It’s so good, and looking at my “want to” schedule kills me with exhaustion.

Every hour has something that makes me 🤤.

I like down hours!

I need mental time! 🙀 😂

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 2d

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 2d

Is that a capybara !!?

Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 2d

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

Screenshot from statement “Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge. Faculty carry out the mission by conducting research and teaching students. The knowledge they produce and circulate is independently assessed by professional peers. Interfering with that process by forcing knowledge to pass through a political filter is a tactic adopted by the Soviet Union and other authoritarian states. The White House is dressing up its compact as a reasonable corrective to what it views as problems in campus culture. Let no one be deceived. This proposal imposes government censorship on academia. It is anti-American, and it weakens our democracy by devaluing academic expertise.”

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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 4d

Ohio farmers are in crisis. They are being hammered by soaring costs, and Jon Husted is doing nothing about it. Soybean sales have cratered and he hasn’t stepped in to stop a $20 billion taxpayer-funded bailout of Argentina.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3d

Wins all around!

This can be temporary if the voters have the smarts to flip this script.

Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 3d

When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine in March signed Ohio Senate Bill 1, some students and faculty predicted colleges and universities would lose enrollment and prestige. People have lost jobs and students have departed because it mandates ending diversity programs and terminating majors with few graduates.

Ohio law cut academic programs. Economists split on the consequences • Ohio Capital Journal

A panel of Ohio economists is split on whether a new higher education law dismantling diversity programs and some academic courses, and regulating classroom discussion, will reduce enrollment and…

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3d

Every year it’s different. 12’ werewolf is back again. He’s a classic. As is the 20’ skeleton.

The big head at the top was new last year.

The dragon is the new addition this year? He’s cool.

He’s next to my bedroom so I can say hi daily!

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3d

It’s humiliating every year, but one must persist in making the effort.

One is my modest cute holiday display.

Then there’s my neighbors.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 3d

I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3d

The likeness!

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 3d

Someone’s kid made pictures of the whole team and this is mine.

I tried to capture the face.

Also we have a mascot.

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 4d

One of my teammates said I remind them of a character on this show and I don’t remember who, but I hope it’s Roy.

Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 4d

I know my teammates have harassed me to watch Ted Lasso for years...

But I don't know if I can take the narrative of a "team" being purposefully decimated by heartless overlords seeking unrelated vengeance and using you as a prop.

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 4d

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 4d

Happy anniversary to my favorite local shop.