Dr. Bex
@drbexphd.bsky.social
Cohost of too many podcasts, bibliophile, Latinx Studies professor at Baruch (CUNY), brooklynite, multifandom fangirl (she/her)
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
Amy Imhoff@amyimhoff1701.bsky.social · 2d agoRT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
I love these things. Language usage and pronunciation FASCINATES me to know end. But if my map looked like anything other than this I would have been SHOCKED! New England born and raised and I’ve never lived south of Brooklyn lol!
Zoe Tunnell, from Comics@zoewithasword.bsky.social · 5d agoThe infection has successfully taken root "You talk mostly like someone from New Jersey"
I do not and will not use AI. Period. But particularly in my teaching. I will not create lessons, lecture notes, or feedback with AI. If I expect students to do their own work I will do so too.
jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · last wk.Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made
Dear Students, I promise never to use AI to grade your work.
Jessica Zeller (she/her)@jessicazeller.bsky.social · 2w agoFuck no, D2L, I would not fucking like that one fucking bit.
Texans, if you’re one of the people who had their voter registration suspended, there’s still time to fix it! trib.al/OP3mVj5
Pretty interesting how, if the university didn’t pay you on time, it takes weeeeeeks before you see that money. But if they overpay you they sure as hell take that money back right quick.
i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science
Here’s the foolproof workaround for Claude watermarking genAI text. Write your words yourself. Completely foolproof!!!
Idk if there’s anyone following me who doesn’t understand this system, but just in case, all of this is real af
The Nation Magazine@thenation.com · 4w agoThere are jobs for college instructors. They do require degrees. But the pay and the benefits are abysmal. Another take on the state of the academy:
This is alarming and dangerous and will harm so many. And it raises flags about changes in similar departments across the country
Lynda Lopez@lyndab08.bsky.social · 4w ago“Northwestern plans to remove its flagship Program of African Studies’ status as a university research center, effectively closing the program at the end of the month, according to two sources familiar with the matter.”
Humanists are the Dr. Fauci of higher education, scapegoats for lots of bad faith and bad behavior.
My chair stood up for all of us. We wouldn’t be half the department we are if not for her unwavering efforts and it’s a disgrace they’re taking that away from us.
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier@smittermeier.bsky.social · 4w agoMore female professors I worked with, particularly the white ones should internalize this
Expat. Just an upper class way of not calling oneself an immigrant.
I have been waiting on peer review of an article for 8 months now. I have reached put to the editor twice and they say they will reach out to the peer reviewer. And I get it peer reviewing isn’t paid labor (we should fix that!), but I had the summer to work on potential revisions and now… oh well
Sad to hear of the passing of the remarkable scholar Johanna Fernández. Dr. Fernández was committed to sharing important history inside and outside the academy. Her work as Lead Scholar on Hidden Voices: Latines in US History ensured Latinx history will be available to K-12 students everywhere.
Okay, so there are definitely BETTER films from that year, and many I would enjoy more today. But this was my comfort movie that year as I started college
Julian 'Frankenstein' McGrath Wearing Sunglasses
Alt: Kid from big daddy putting on sunglasses
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Vita Ayala@definitelyvita.bsky.social · 2mo agoWithout saying your age, what’s your favorite movie that came out when you were 18?
Even if Spain deserves to win (and they have hands down dominated this game), Emiliano Martinez deserves mvp of this game. Holy shit the saves!!!
No, a degree is not only about making money and it's sad but predictable that this is where we're at. Things which are not money have value. Yes. Imagine that...But given the cost of a degree (which is a real problem), it's no wonder shit like this gets asked. #HigherEd #Teaching
NPR@npr.org · 2mo agoIf an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
“The effect of ChatGPT on educators’ lives is catastrophic. Whether you intended to do it or not, you’ve made every teacher’s life infinitely more difficult than it was two years ago.”
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2mo ago
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Normally wouldn’t root for Argentina. I do love an underdog and that they are not. But they’re my late friend Andrea’s team so I have to. Plus what other choice do I have? A colonizer? Fuck no.
Banks be like: "Oh, you are -$5 in your account? You got no money? Well, we're charging you $30 a day until your account is back in the positive."
