Alexis Shotwell
@alexisshotwell.bsky.social
Feminist theorist writing about imperfection and impurity as a good place to start, Ursula K Le Guin's anarchist communism, disability, ecology, racism, getting together to fix complex problems. Functional potter, year-round cyclist, queer, earnest.
Coming up in Ottawa - a Palestine solidarity teach-in and art build, a queer experimental music and poetry event, an anti-Fifa soccer tournament, the Ottawa Trans March, International Overdose Awareness Day, and much more! www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
Turnitin is typical of the edtech dual income platform biz model - take subscription fees from institutions, then take monetizable data and content from students and staff too bsky.app/profile/benp...
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · last wk.Turnitin has long used its end user licence agreement to use students' work for product devt. Now it's trying to update it to use essays for AI devt too! Prime example of academic content assetization - turning student IP into a source of value codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...
"...warmly and engagingly combining fannish vim with scholarly vigor..." This is a great review!
Locus Magazine@locusmag.bsky.social · last wk.Alvaro Zinos-Amaro reviews TRACE ELEMENTS: CONVERSATIONS ON THE PROJECT OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY by @bluejo.eurosky.social and @adapalmer.bsky.social: “advances thoughtful questions about genre identity, publishing history, literary craft”
Put this on your calendars! The book is searching and interesting and the conversation will be wonderful
Ottawa Trans Library@ottawatranslibrary.bsky.social · 2w agoJoin us for the launch of The Politics of Lonely: Why Is Friendship So Hard?, and a conversation about friendship and community-building! Come by Saturday October 24, 5-7pm for a conversation with Lee of @sheerspite.bsky.social, Adrienne Row-Smith, and @alexisshotwell.bsky.social
Hey I was alerted that my teaching/reading theory essay We Aren’t Here To Learn What We Already Know has been migrating servers and here’s a new link avidly.org/we-arent-her...
We Aren’t Here to Learn What We Already Know - Avidly
What is a good question? And, how do we teach students to work at writing good questions? In my feminist and queer theories class, a core course in the Gender
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I have gotten through every single day of my life without any voluntary/deliberate use of generative AI.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 2w agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
The introduction to the vibes book is live and free on the publisher’s website! dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-o...
Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation
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We added 17 new books to the shelves this month! You can drop off books in person or send them in the mail. Unsure if a book fits our collection? Send us an email or drop by to ask Let us know if you have recommendations! You can seeour full catalogue here: www.librarycat.org/lib/otttrans...
Coming up in Hottawa! Abolition ftw plus Ottawa Service Dog Meet up Group walk, People's SONA: Filipino Community Festival, No Pigs BBQ and Roast: A Community Gathering to Demand the Terminations, Not Resignations of Ottawa Cops, Prisoners' Justice Day events www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
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Wrenching story, and so important that it’s being told. Among other things, I think about what disability community could have meant as an alternative to pursuing this scale of untested treatment.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 4w agoWhat a harrowing story and an incredible work of #scicomm in the reporting. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
My twice-yearly PSA that this tool helps you set up the dates for your syllabi. It doesn't solve the existential problems of AI in higher ed, which we can only address by reconfiguring the neoliberal university such that actual teaching is possible, but still: wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...
Generic Syllabus Maker
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The SFWA Emerging Technology committee is proud to share our new resource page! Basic background on AI in writing tools, current industry policies, and guidance links for common software. Still to come in August: a database on AI and data collection in writing tools. sfwa.org/emerging-tech/
Emerging Tech Committee - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Emerging Tech Resources On Saturday, July 18 at 1pm Pacific Time, we are honored to present “Understanding AI: A Hype-Free […]
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They’ll argue that merging departments saves money,” he said. “But then they need someone to lead the larger [department]. They need more administrative support. They create associate dean positions. So money moves upward from student-facing services into senior administration.”
Scott Neigh@scottneigh.bsky.social · last mo.The wave of austerity hitting Canada’s university sector and the Australian consulting firm that’s profiting from it. breachmedia.ca/a-notorious-... #cdnpoli
Joyful launch day to Everybody’s Perfect! I don’t know of any other SF book that so beautifully exemplifies something I learned from direct action AIDS activists: We collectively shape the world that then shapes us, under conditions in which we have limited power but a great deal of agency. 1/
Everything Cory says in this thread is true!
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2mo agoThere's a new Jo Walton book, called *Everybody's Perfect*. Because it's a Walton novel, you know in advance that three things are true about it: 1. It is beautiful; 2. It is profound; 3. It is unlike every other novel, including every other Jo Walton novel. us.macmillan.com/books/978125... 1/
Just four days before my new Venice novel Everybody's Perfect hits the shelves, and here are my author copies arranged with some tapestry cushions! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Some thoughts on political education, the printed word, & the threat of the Prairieland convictions. Cabral caption trans: 'think more to for better action. Act more for better thought.' 1/
Very happy to have this cowritten piece out about why institutional neutrality is not good!
CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives@policyalternatives.ca · 2mo agoNeutrality policies actually weaken academic freedom, rather than strengthening it @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 2mo agoBREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
I'm excited to be working on this anthology with Gideon, and getting to work with some amazing authors!
Gideon Lichfield@glichfield.bsky.social · 3mo agoIf you want to have a story published alongside some of the leading names in speculative fiction, now's your chance. @mitpress.bsky.social has agreed to publish an anthology linked to the Protopian Prize, a fiction contest for hopeful future visions of democratic governance... [1/2]
COVER REVEAL w/ @uminnpress.bsky.social Liberation Is Other People gives a vision of politics as a shared, impure, always imperfect process of creation. Freedom is exercising the capacity to shape the world with others. Our greatest possibility lies not in heroic martyrdom but in working together.
Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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Coming up in radical Ottawa! Sign making for and Nakba Day Protest, Bids for Care, Land and Freedom Screening, ILPS conference, Food, not bombs! Just Voices Spring Concert, Orléans Kidical Mass, Ottawa Anarchist Bookfair, and more! Check out the calendar: www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
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*IF* Alan lands either job, this might be the last time I have to ask for help with insurance premiums! I have to cough up about $392. Please share and help an LGBTQ disabled person unable to escape red-state hell. venmo: KARRIE-HIGGINS-2 www.paypal.com/paypalme/kar...
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This is some very impressive alt text. May we all aspire to the descriptive precision of the mecharobin builders
False Knees@falseknees.bsky.social · 12mo ago
