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erinktwohig.bsky.social

@erinktwohig.bsky.social

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University. Literary translator. Here for all things academia, football, and Maghrebi lit. Personal account/opinions my own, etc.

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Yell In a War@jelenawoehr.bsky.social · last mo.

it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social · last mo.

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address.
Racheline Maltese@racheline.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just because SCOTUS affirms a type of discrimination does not mean that discrimination is required. This decision should not cause us to weaken our efforts for trans inclusion in general or trans inclusion in sports in particular. Cis allies, you very specifically, need to double down.

Sydney Bauer@sydney-bauer.com · 4mo ago

If you are trans and you want to play sports I want you to know there will always be spaces for you even if this government tries to tell you at school you are not welcome. Sports are for everyone. I promise.

Linda Holmes@lindaholmes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Running into words you don’t know and either discerning what they mean from context or looking up what they mean is how you learn new words. It’s one of my favorite things about e-readers! A word you don’t know can become a word you know in about ten seconds.

Fraser McQueen@frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Deadline now extended to Friday 19th June - please consider submitting an abstract if your research touches on any of the areas covered!

Fraser McQueen@frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The CfP for this year's PSA French Politics Specialist Group annual workshop is attached here! The workshop will be held in Leeds on Friday 11 Sept. We look forward to receiving your abstracts! If anyone has any questions, please feel free to reach out either to me or to @salomeietter.bsky.social

Phillip Maciak@pjmaciak.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I've taught PERSEPOLIS (book & movie) more times than I can count. Two epic masterpieces, but, more than that, two texts that find their way to young people. I've never had a class that didn't *get* PERSEPOLIS, and that's a miracle of its own. Satrapi's voice and imagination are so alive. RIP.

little Marjane in bed talking to a giant bearded god in the clouds