Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

So much love to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing my fossil poem!

Susurrus@susurrusmag.bsky.social · last yr.

"...how wonderful it is to be wrong about the bones and underneath, to remind absence is only replacement, that what we are is perhaps necessarily a plan for what is coming later, some shining reminder." "On Finally Understanding That Fossils Are Not Bones" by @pamelamanasco.bsky.social

I am beyond honored that @identitytheory.bsky.social nominated my poem for the Best of the Net 2026! 💜

Identity Theory@identitytheory.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees from Identity Theory!

Tbh I would rather lick a rusty railroad spike than incorporate generative AI in my freshman composition courses

Welcome to another special Issue Twelve, dedicated in loving memory to CJ's late aunt. View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-twelve 📸: Malcolm Glass

My 10-year-old: I've eaten many ants in my time. Some were on accident. And some...were not.

Just spent 2 hours donating platelets because it's a good thing to do but ALSO because I wanted this ridiculous shirt

I had some dental work this morning (fixing issues with a couple of old silver fillings). My husband's take:

Sleeping dog on my legs = unfortunately I only exist to be a pillow in this chair and will never move again

Great poetry still exists

Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose. www.status.news/p/the-onion-...

(poetry) rejections are never easy to receive but I am watching a weird, chunky cardinal munch on sunflower seeds outside my window and this bird just looks SO DUMB so everything is not actually terrible!

Needed this reminder today.

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Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”

Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...

Anne Lutz Fernandez@lutzfernandez.bsky.social · last yr.

🧵 addressing the argument: "AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and make them more effective.” Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.

At work early-ish on a Saturday morning and it's really easy to be jaded in academia, but I still love seeing all of the freshmen heading our way each fall.

"Something ineffable happens when you write down a thought: You think something you did not know you could or would think and it leads you to another thought… the process of writing itself leads to previously unthought thoughts [and] crystallizes half-formulated or unformulated thoughts" - Lynn Hunt

How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

historians.org

Mary Dudziak@marydudziak.bsky.social · last yr.

In light of this: www.media.mit.edu/publications... I will start my fall research seminar with five or ten minutes of free writing. On paper, with pen. And I'll assign Lynn Hunt, "How Writing Leads to Thonking." www.historians.org/perspectives...

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say, ‘It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.’ Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.” - Mister Rogers 💛 The human world, it’s a mess ❤️‍🩹💚🌎

Just a general note - call it a life hack, if you will: If you ever find yourself thinking something along the lines of "The librarians are a problem, we must do something about the librarians!" then stop, look in a mirror and realise YOU are the problem.

Cheryl B. Klein@cherylklein.bsky.social · last yr.

We live in a world where I just got an email from the American Library Association reminding me to remove my badge outside the ALA convention and “If you see something, say something.” They’re (rightfully) prepping for terrorist threats against LIBRARIANS! Hideous times.

Just bought myself a reward plant (pink princess philodendron, not potted yet, don't judge me) for Not Crashing Out About the Atypical Mole the Dermatologist had to Remove Pt. 2 because a treato really will make it better.

It's possible that Grammarly has lost it's damn freaking mind. #writing #writingcommunity #booksky

With the recent success of Andor, I'm getting more questions than usual about how to land a job writing Star Wars books, so let's do the yearly How to Write IP thread, shall we? Firstly, IP means Intellectual Property-- that's shows, movies, plays, even books, any world owned by someone else. 1/

There should be an anti-AI country song called Goodbye, URL

Poetry is where the real sickos are at. The ones who truly dgaf yet simultaneously g the most f

Maybe this is my reward goal: answer email within 48 hours of receipt this June and July and I can buy this game in August? (I'm going to buy it either way)

Polygon@polygon.com · last yr.

Tiny Bookshop made me miss being a bookseller

What causes the cycle of email avoidance -> person avoidance -> turning into a little gremlin in a hole -> sending the "so sorry I didn't reply to your email for a month" messages and why is it always ADHD

applying for jobs again