Dawn Gilpin
@drgilpin.bsky.social
Associate dean for research & PhD director at ASU's Cronkite School. I study complex mediated social systems, from organizations to (sub)cultures. Also: semipro cat herder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert, perfume aficionado, and shoe lover. She/her
"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) & provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." Disinvestment in the humanities is one way we've reached the current moment. Double the budget instead. Triple it.
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I love how obvious it is that neither of them can actually skate.
One of the small tortures of being active in any media fandom these days is the constant reminder that most people don't know the difference between "canon" and "cannon." There are an alarming number of the latter pointed at people's heads.
If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
Jill Hasday@jillhasday.bsky.social · 6mo agoOn this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
I kind of love that the day began with a magical solution for turning crappiness into happiness. It set just the right tone going into the weekend. ✨🌵🪨 #opalite
Quote with 5 jobs you've had 1. Chocolatier shopgirl 2. Men's accessories sales 3. Packaging machinery customer service 4. Door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales 5. Technical translator and interpreter (Italian-English)
Sara G.@sarag.bsky.social · 6mo agoQuote with 5 jobs you’ve had: 1. Lifeguard 2. Cashier 3. Store Manager 4. Customer Support Manager 5. Product Manager
I love a resort hotel where the bar restroom is both larger and fancier than my entire apartment.
I'm so glad The Pitt is back to take my mind off Heated Rivalry for an hour.
As a Dawn, I approve and co-sign this plan.
JRR Jokien (joshcarlosjosh)@www.jrrjokien.com · 7mo agoMy goals for 2026 are simple. I shall be: 1. Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Dawn! 2. Treacherous as the Sea! 3. Stronger than the foundations of the earth! 4. All shall love the new me, and despair!
Hate freeloaders who join in the New Year's Eve countdown for the last 10 seconds. I've been doing this all year. Where were you back in May
I asked Chat GPT to give me a Wrapped-style summary of my year. It said my “overall vibe” for 2025 was “Resilient, and extremely tired of being resilient.” Rude, but accurate.
This is especially hilarious since I mostly use Spotify to listen to random classical music while working. But hey, sure.
I really need to find a home with a coat bath. What a quality of life improvement that would be!
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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After years of studying disinfo and wading around in various online toxic waste zones, nothing has made me despair more about the current state of media literacy than the discourse surrounding this album release.
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
Nick Fleisher@nickfleisher.bsky.social · 10mo ago30% drop year over year!
"Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to... destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models." Burning books doesn't erase their memory or impact on people who've already read them. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion
Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.
arstechnica.com
I'm walking into the supermarket after work as a young woman is exiting. When she sees me, she stops. I am wondering whether I know her & should recognize her in the wild. She interrupts my thoughts: "Your outfit is SO CUTE!" I thank her. "OMG slay!" She mimes a camera click. It feels like a win.
I brought up Becca Bloom in class today, and NONE of the students (all women) knew who she was. I'm still processing my feelings about this.
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.
Student journalists really are out there doing the work.
James Fallows@jfallows.bsky.social · last yr.Important details from this story: 1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... 2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal." 3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.
A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.
Steve Herman@w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · last yr.The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact
I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.
Richard Stupart@richardstupart.com · last yr.At PhD/post-PhD level, academia is fundamentally dialogical and unless you intend to hide behind a prompt your whole life, you are going to look like a fool when you open your mouth and don't have a working understanding of the things you profess to write about.
Grocerymaxxing will be the next big trend.
amy brown@amybrown.xyz · last yr.im a grocerybro. im grocerypilled. i invented a new way to shop called vibe grocery shopping
I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
