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Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social · 5h

I would love to see some genuinely Weird Shit instead of the writing equivalent of face-tuned bullshit.

Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 5h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 7h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

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drheathergreen.bsky.social @drheathergreen.bsky.social · 7d

This is going to be a phenomenal series and crucial resource for historical research and teaching edited by Crystal Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social on @nichecanada.bsky.social. The intro is now live - keep tuned in for the next several weeks to follow the series!
niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...

Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 20h

genuine question for mid-career people: what concrete tips do you have to keep service from swamping your own writing?

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 20h

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…

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Dr. Kristopher Wells @drkristopherwells.bsky.social · 1d

Sign the new House of Commons e-petition calling on the Government of Canada to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ people worldwide and reaffirm Canada’s role as a safe haven.

Thank you to MP Rob Oliphant for sponsoring this important petition.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1d

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 3d

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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Koganaawsawin @koganaawsawin.bsky.social · 4d

A statement from @anishinabeknation.bsky.social Grand Council Chief Linda Debassige on National Day of Action for #MMIWG #NoMoreStolenSisters

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 5d

I guess there's no Alberta oil or Saskatchewan potash, either
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News

Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

www.cbc.ca

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Aug 26

Also it's ~wild~ to see a topic you've written a whole book on, have cited mostly women and PoC authors, and yet a whole multi-thousand newsletter post only cites ... other substack bros.

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · May 28

If academics wrote books like substack bros.

“If you’ve been with me for a while you know that I like to go DEEP into a topic. That’s just who I am. Well this new book goes extra hard & I’ve written 90k words on my fave subject. But bear with me, folks, it’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up.”

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · May 28

If academics wrote books like substack bros.

“If you’ve been with me for a while you know that I like to go DEEP into a topic. That’s just who I am. Well this new book goes extra hard & I’ve written 90k words on my fave subject. But bear with me, folks, it’s gonna be a wild ride, so buckle up.”

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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 7d

Ai companies want to use our electricity? Ok. They can pay triple rates offset all our bills.

Ai companies want to use our water? Ok. They can subsidize infrastructure construction and maintenance.

Ai companies want to use our land? Ok. They can pay taxes high enough to fund affordable housing.

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Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social · 8d

I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".

Poster depicting an owl hunting gerbils in a field, juxtaposed with an image of the zoonotic cycle of plague. Arrows connect a rat with fleas, and a man sleeping in a bed. The image reads 'Friend of the Farmer Conserve Owls'.

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Alanna Smith @alannawrites.bsky.social · 7d

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable."

All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

‘It’s too late to be scared’: readers on the controversial rise of AI ‘actors’

The birth of AI ‘actor’ Tilly Norwood has caused a backlash in Hollywood and has sparked conversation from Guardian readers

www.theguardian.com

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Grist @grist.org · 7d

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors.

grist.org/politics/aft...

#Climate #Arctic #Research #Science #Funding

After Trump cut the National Science Foundation by 56 percent, a venerable Arctic research center closes its doors

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 8d

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

The Public Scholar

A Practical Handbook

www.press.jhu.edu

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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 7d

"You have to know how to use A.I. for getting any kind of job in the future" has me pondering the fact that we are actually terrible at knowing what we're going to need to know to do in the future.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 7d

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

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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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 7d

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 9d

These are the kinds of things that suggest to me that there is a deep rooted misanthropy in this push towards "AI" whatever that means. It seems to be driven and shaped by people who have no desire to be around or interact with other people, and seek more and more distance from human beings

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 7d

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

Kate Jeffery @katejj.bsky.social · 7d

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 8d

I'm feeling a new love for a clumsy sentence or a misspelled word. I imagine a human on the other end. Doing their own typing, like the old days.

I'm thinking about styles of writing that might emerge from this-- analogues to a guacamole I once saw advertised as "hand hacked" at a fancy restaurant.

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 8d

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness.

Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 9d

We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.

Annie @anniearmstrong.bsky.social · 9d

www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.

Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor's gender, researchers find

When philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is...

www.psypost.org

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