Anthro Amy
@amyhanes.bsky.social
Cultural anthropologist (wildlife conservation, Cameroon), teacher (Harvard), solid dancer, dog parent, Bostonian (by way of the Mississippi delta)
My favourite grasshopper fact: Grasshoppers first appeared on the planet 250 million years ago. Grass did not appear on the planet until 40 million years ago. Imagine it: 210 million years, hopping around on any random surface you can find, waiting for the grass that will make you truly yourself.
Celebrating my little brother's 10 year soberversary. Couldn't love this kid more.
If you want more Patrick Stewarts, then you publicly fund the arts and learning programs, so that working class kids can find their way into making a career in them.
Celebrate your Jimmothy! Celebrate your voice! Amid the ridiculous LLM ads that college students are drowning in, our class turned to Jimmothy. Thought I'd share my too-wordy-but-awesome-art slide (Tara Anand art). @janerosenzweig.bsky.social #writing #harvard #voice #AI #grammarly #jimmothy
@janerosenzweig.bsky.social is a teacher's teacher. ❤️ this
Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last mo.Something that's surprisingly useful is asking my students to draw their research papers. They make all sorts of interesting diagrams and some always say they find it clarifying in unexpected ways (realizing a side point is the main point kind of thing). Low tech, done in class, no outsourcing.
Many thoughts about the argument in this piece but one is that citing a few studies to say that there is little evidence that "we discover what we think in the act of writing" contradicts everything I saw in 26 years of teaching college writing. Of course not the only we figure out what we think/1
Johanna Winant@johannawinant.bsky.social · last mo.missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution
Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream. The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers www.wired.com/story/adopt-...
Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream
The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.
wired.com
how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Happy National Book Lover's Day from the Little Chimp Library in Arlington, MA! (Daphne, Charlo, and Little Larry are rescued chimps at #Apeactionafrica and #sanagayoungchimpanzeerescue if you want to check out their stories.) #conservation #wildlife #books #booksky #chimp
Google, when I try to broadcast a message to the person downstairs ("are you cooking?") & you answer, "No, I'm not, but I can get you recipes," it's deranged. YOU AREN'T HUMAN. You do fancy TEXT PREDICTION. I don't, nor will I ever, give a shit about what you're doing.
Because this sounds like a winning idea.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3mo agoim not reading that I want to sleep tonight
The Omaha Public Library has a museum of forgotten bookmarks. Librarians are awesome. #library #books #librarians #reading www.instagram.com/p/DbgCe2alku8/
Omaha Public Library on Instagram: "Welcome to the Museum of Forgotten Bookmarks, Central Library edition. 🖼️ Tour our circulation team’s latest gallery of makeshift page-savers. Are some of these ar...
507 likes, 9 comments - omahalibrary on August 1, 2026: "Welcome to the Museum of Forgotten Bookmarks, Central Library edition. 🖼️ Tour our circulation team’s latest gallery of makeshift page-savers....
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What one Cambridge small business owner once said to me is true: “Harvard is heartless.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
Harvard College Lays Off Writing Center Director, Consolidates Center | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Harvard College Writing Center will no longer operate as a standalone unit after its director was laid off and its functions were consolidated as part of a restructuring in the Faculty of Arts and...
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You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.
Here are two stories worth reading together. In the first one, a Brown University professor found that most of his students used AI on a take-home exam. This is a story about AI use that fits the framework of academic honesty we had before AI: students just...cheated. But worth reading along with/1
The Ivy League Cheating Scandal No One Wants to Talk About
Roberto Serrano believes half his class used AI to cheat. He says administrators at Brown don’t seem to care.
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Physicist & chemist Marie Curie was the: + First woman to win a Nobel Prize + First person & only woman to win twice + Only person to ever win a Nobel Prize in 2 different sciences: Physics (1903) & Chemistry (1911) Marie Skłodowska Curie died #OTD in 1934. #WomenInSTEM
Recover from what is likely to be a...complicated 4th of July by spending some time with pen & paper at the July meeting of Pencils Up!
“Pencils Up!” Porter Square Books Writer’s Hour
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