Prof. EAGZ
@emmmilygz.bsky.social
Linguist, nature appreciator, big fan of sambal & soursop. All things Austronesian & NW New Guinea. Swarthmore/Philly. She/sie/lei/dia/andi.
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Once again recommending that you cancel your subscription to any service the NYT provides. Hit them in their pocketbook until they stop being shitlords.
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · yesterdayNasty work by the Times here. Law enforcement sources say they found "some evidence" that Ilhan Omar married her brother, but the paper doesn't say who they are or what the evidence is. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/u...
People keep thinking they can automate the type of admin work often done by women... bc they think their institution is a machine and not a brain. They think it can be recreated as a set of tasks executed w/ rules, and that we can skip the parts relying on relationships, memory, and judgment.
Benjamin Tausig@burrata.bsky.social · 4w ago“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators
Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?
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This 💯. Planning lessons, designing assessments, grading, adjusting future lessons, bringing in new insights from things you've read. All of this is part of teaching and it all requires a deep well of expertise and we should both be rewarding teachers for that and funding the acquisition of it.
John Downes-Angus@johndownesangus.bsky.social · 2d agoTake teachers seriously as people who have a deep understanding of what they teach. If they don’t, put a shitload of money into ensuring that they do. Stop telling teachers they “teach kids, not content.” Don’t suggest that AI can handle the planning while we do “the teaching”. Etc.
Want a notebook that will make people say "that's a cool notebook"? I've got you covered. jerthorp.me/notes
"Being trans is sad Being trans is horrid." Shut up. Being trans is great. Look. I've got inner peace and a fucking scythe.
Jay Hulme@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 3mo agoToday at the convent: the nuns have been teaching me to scythe.
Hey did you know virtually all the evidence showing an educational benefit to AI is junk science? hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
39 meta-analyses, 39 positive findings: An audit finds serious flaws in research on AI in education
‘Anybody can sort of say that they have evidence for anything,’ a top scholar says
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Discord PSA: starting mid-December, messages you post in public channels of Discoverable servers can show up on the web and in Google. On by default in the US. DMs and private servers aren't included. Turn it off now. It only covers messages sent after you flip it. User Settings > Data & Privacy
Midterms are around the corner here in the US! Here's a round-up of voter resources if you need em:
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I’m so furious about this because their justification is “people need to know how to halve recipes and/or measure in metric” and, like… those are features that places like Allrecipes and Nigella have had standard on their sites for years with no AI
soleil ho@soleilho.com · 5d agothis is a real bummer. and according to their senior editor (in the comments), you can't turn it off www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/i...
Technology is a choice, not an inevitability. Be wary of what @bcmerchant.bsky.social calls "deterministic futurity." Anyway, on a related note: science, technology, and society studies matters because it makes visible the social in what scientists will have you believe is "just how things work"
your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...
I Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves (U.S. National Park Service)
I Didn't Know That!: Leave the Leaves
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damn www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Dirty Secret Behind the Farmed Fish You Eat
Forced labor, rancid waste, harmful chemicals. What to know about the seafood that could end up on your plate.
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Simen Sætre@simensetre.bsky.social · last wk.Interessant cover på The New York Times Magazine denne uka. "It was supposed to save the oceans. Instead it's making things worse". "The dark secret behind the farmed fish on your plate".
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We’re encouraging people to carve #SaveTheAcademy pumpkins and then post them tagging @acadnatsci.bsky.social and Drexel (who isn’t on here), to continue the point that we’re not giving up. Get some templates and take action at save-the-academy.org (scroll down to find templates).
Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251
The State Board of Elections’ last-minute changes to voting by mail are leading to thousands more absentee ballots being rejected this election - at a rejection rate twice as high as in 2022. It’s infuriating. North Carolinians, please make a plan to vote this year, in person if possible.
And if you’re voting by mail, make sure you seal both envelopes on your ballot. Don’t let them take away your vote. You can track the status of your mail-in ballot online: northcarolina.ballottrax.net/voter/
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BallotTrax is a service that enables voters in participating states and counties to receive notifications by email, SMS, or voice about the status of their mail ballots.
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In my most curmudgeonly moments, I don’t see why presenting the prose output of a machine built on mass theft as your own scholarly work should be evaluated less harshly than old school plagiarism. Traditional plagiarists at least had to identify and evaluate the works they were going to copy.
Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com · 2w agoOpinion: If AI is now part of academic writing, what should institutions actually evaluate? This essay argues that analytical writing should be judged by evidence, structure, argument, and accountability not by guesses about how each sentence was produced. https://chroni.cl/4eDRdjg
If you live in Minnesota, you get time off of work to vote without using any PTO/Vacation. That includes anytime during the whole 46 day absentee voting period. Link to a PDF from the SOS you can share with your employer. www.sos.mn.gov/media/yxhj1s...
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oh man i have Thoughts on this mainly that as a queer person who has often had a strained relationship with their parents, if you want your child to give you grace on the real honest missteps you made raising them, you can go a long way by 1) owning up to that and 2) not continuing to do AH shit
Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is a quietly metastasizing moral panic
Dear all the college kids, Get your flu shot. Sincerely, All your professors
Happy 10th birthday to the Happy Song! Easily the most fun and successful project I've been involved in. 🧪 edition.cnn.com/2026/10/17/s...
How ‘The Happy Song’ was scientifically designed to soothe babies | CNN
It works. Here’s how Imogen Heap and two scientists saved parents’ lives.
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