Granny Weatherwax
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MCF en études anglophones, littérature américaine contemporaine. Fait plein de cours à beaucoup d'étudiant.e.s dans une fac pas d'excellence pas top Shanghai.
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"We're ruled by venal little usurpers, all of us, and they make meaninglessness everywhere they go." Daniel March, dans The Likeness de Tana French.
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Bardella
November 29, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Bardella
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And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.
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Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.
November 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Admin are continually pressuring us to make the course "more accessible," by which they mean "devastatingly easy to complete," but it's not about access. Many students refuse to read or write in any capacity that isn't tech-aided, no matter how simple the assignment, no matter how process-based.
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At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.
November 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM
At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.
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It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
November 28, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.
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Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
November 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.
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The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
Tom Stoppard, Withdrawing with Style from the Chaos
From 1977: For the playwright, art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself, an absurd mosaic of incidents and accidents.
www.newyorker.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The acclaimed writer Tom Stoppard has died, at 88. For the award-winning playwright, “art is a game within a game—the larger game being life itself,” Kenneth Tynan wrote, in 1977.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/197...
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We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.
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How can we sleep for grief?
By counting our stock. Seven plays from Aeschylus, seven from Sophocles, nineteen from Euripides, my lady! You should no more grieve for the rest than for a buckle lost from your first shoe, or for your lesson book which will be lost when you are old.
By counting our stock. Seven plays from Aeschylus, seven from Sophocles, nineteen from Euripides, my lady! You should no more grieve for the rest than for a buckle lost from your first shoe, or for your lesson book which will be lost when you are old.
November 29, 2025 at 7:27 PM
How can we sleep for grief?
By counting our stock. Seven plays from Aeschylus, seven from Sophocles, nineteen from Euripides, my lady! You should no more grieve for the rest than for a buckle lost from your first shoe, or for your lesson book which will be lost when you are old.
By counting our stock. Seven plays from Aeschylus, seven from Sophocles, nineteen from Euripides, my lady! You should no more grieve for the rest than for a buckle lost from your first shoe, or for your lesson book which will be lost when you are old.
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As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
November 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”
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Enfin une compétition saine entre régions.
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Pauvre petit Jordan...
Après la farine, Jordan Bardella reçoit un œuf sur la tête dans le Tarn-et-Garonne
www.liberation.fr/politique/ap...
Après la farine, Jordan Bardella reçoit un œuf sur la tête dans le Tarn-et-Garonne
www.liberation.fr/politique/ap...
Après la farine, Jordan Bardella reçoit un œuf sur la tête dans le Tarn-et-Garonne
Le président du Rassemblement national dédicaçait son livre dans la ville de Moissac ce samedi 29 novembre, lorsqu’un homme lui a écrasé un œuf sur la tête, rapporte «Le Figaro».
www.liberation.fr
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Enfin une compétition saine entre régions.
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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Curieusement, le ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur est beaucoup moins scandalisé par une descente de députés fafs sur un campus que par l’organisation d’un colloque sur la Palestine au Collège de France.
November 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Curieusement, le ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur est beaucoup moins scandalisé par une descente de députés fafs sur un campus que par l’organisation d’un colloque sur la Palestine au Collège de France.
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Le collectif ECUME (Encadrer C'est Un MEtier) lance un appel à témoignages sous forme de questionnaire pour faire un état des lieux des problèmes liés à l'encadrement doctoral : doctorant.e, ancien.ne doctorante, il est fait pour vous : sites.google.com/view/collect...
Collectif ECUME - Appel à témoignages
ECUME
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November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Le collectif ECUME (Encadrer C'est Un MEtier) lance un appel à témoignages sous forme de questionnaire pour faire un état des lieux des problèmes liés à l'encadrement doctoral : doctorant.e, ancien.ne doctorante, il est fait pour vous : sites.google.com/view/collect...
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Le 17 novembre dernier, le collectif violent d'extrême droite "La Digue" a agressé des étudiants à Lorient. Ce genre d'attaque par des groupuscules néonazis se multiplie, selon l'aveu même de la DGSI. Le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur doit réagir !
Ma question écrite ⤵️
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November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Le 17 novembre dernier, le collectif violent d'extrême droite "La Digue" a agressé des étudiants à Lorient. Ce genre d'attaque par des groupuscules néonazis se multiplie, selon l'aveu même de la DGSI. Le ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur doit réagir !
Ma question écrite ⤵️
Ma question écrite ⤵️
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Remarquable article du Monde pour ne pas oublier l’affaire sinistre et l’immense scandale qu’il y avait à rencontrer Senoussi, ce qu’essaient de faire oublier l’ex-président ex- prisonnier et multi-condamné Sarkozy et ceux qui ont l’indécence de soutenir ses théories
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
Attentat du DC-10 d’UTA, en 1989 : la colère froide de la veuve du pilote
L’attaque terroriste commanditée par le régime libyen de Mouammar Kadhafi contre un avion français a privé Maryvone Raveneau de son époux. Partie civile au procès de Nicolas Sarkozy, avec une quaranta...
www.lemonde.fr
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Remarquable article du Monde pour ne pas oublier l’affaire sinistre et l’immense scandale qu’il y avait à rencontrer Senoussi, ce qu’essaient de faire oublier l’ex-président ex- prisonnier et multi-condamné Sarkozy et ceux qui ont l’indécence de soutenir ses théories
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
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"Caricaturer les universités, c'est le boulot du ministère, pas des députés !"
Trois députés RN s’introduisent dans un campus de la Sorbonne, dans l'espoir de constater le supposé «entrisme islamisme» et faire une vidéo pour Boulevard Voltaire. Le ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur s'insurge du procédé.
Trois députés RN s’introduisent dans un campus de la Sorbonne : le ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur et France Universités s’insurgent
Les élus voulaient constater le supposé «entrisme islamisme» du campus de Villateneuse (Saint-Denis). Philippe Baptiste condamne leur venue «sans autorisation» ni «respect du droit à l’image» ce vendredi 28 novembre.
www.liberation.fr
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Caricaturer les universités, c'est le boulot du ministère, pas des députés !"
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Perso je me fais voler l’équivalent de 512 cafés par mois. CINQ CENT DOUZE BORDEL.
Et toi ?
Et toi ?
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Perso je me fais voler l’équivalent de 512 cafés par mois. CINQ CENT DOUZE BORDEL.
Et toi ?
Et toi ?
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Quand universitaire incité, señor, lui toujours faire ainsi.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Quand universitaire incité, señor, lui toujours faire ainsi.
Et comment serons-nous "incités" ?
Je suis vraiment curieuse. Can't wait.
Je suis vraiment curieuse. Can't wait.
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Et comment serons-nous "incités" ?
Je suis vraiment curieuse. Can't wait.
Je suis vraiment curieuse. Can't wait.
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
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Les sujets des épreuves orales de la session 2025 de l'agrégation externe d’anglais sont en ligne sur le site de la SAES. Nous espérons que cela sera utile aux collègues dans leur travail de préparation des candidat.es.
saesfrance.org/sujets-agreg...
saesfrance.org/sujets-agreg...
Sujets agrégation externe — 2025 - SAES - Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur
Épreuves écrites Épreuves orales Lien unique
saesfrance.org
November 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Les sujets des épreuves orales de la session 2025 de l'agrégation externe d’anglais sont en ligne sur le site de la SAES. Nous espérons que cela sera utile aux collègues dans leur travail de préparation des candidat.es.
saesfrance.org/sujets-agreg...
saesfrance.org/sujets-agreg...
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Proposition de loi : faire abattre sur le champ tout personnage politique employant dans un discours le déterminant possessif pour parler des jeunes (nos jeunes, notre jeunesse, etc.).
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Proposition de loi : faire abattre sur le champ tout personnage politique employant dans un discours le déterminant possessif pour parler des jeunes (nos jeunes, notre jeunesse, etc.).