I was trying to remember the name of the author of a novel I read earlier this year - named An Underachiever's Diary - and instead Google wrote me an AI short story about an underachiever???? what??? why??? aahhhhh!!
Dr Hannah Murray
@hlmurray.bsky.social
Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative. Melbourne. she/her ‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now! https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
Replying to all book scamslop emails with ‘my book is about furbies’ and seeing what happens next…
Replying to all book scamslop emails with ‘my book is about furbies’ and seeing what happens next…
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
About three months ago Tavia Nyong’o & I conceived of a collection of essays on The Epstein Class and the University meant to consider the ubiquity is sexual violence in the university & the fundamental fact that access to young women has long been a side perk of university employment & attendance.
The kids want to talk about Barron Field and early colonial poetry
Dr Hannah Murray@hlmurray.bsky.social · 3d agoLast week of classes and my attendance exploded!* *from 10 to 18%
Last week of classes and my attendance exploded!* *from 10 to 18%
Two Men Celebrate in Office
Alt: Two men doing the ‘raise the roof’ dance in The Office, pushing the air above them with their hands. They are both middle aged and white, with short hair and wearing suits. One is sitting at a desk and one is standing up next to him.
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This is the political economic trade-off in our space: politics (time devoted to critiquing AI, developing policies for handling it) vs. pleasure (reading and teaching literature). And that’s what AI, along with every other bureaucratic incursion, ends up taking away from us. eve.gd/2026/10/05/m...
My View on AI and University-Level English Literature
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International students and their families deserve our respect and support. But now the Liberals are competing with Labor and the One Nation to scapegoat them for problems they do not cause.
Education sector faces ‘bleak’ future as parties unite on student cuts
Labor, One Nation and, now, the Coalition have detailed plans to curb international student and graduate visa numbers, adding pressure to a strained market.
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I voted 🫡
Claire E. Aubin@ceaubin.com · 4d agoHiiiiiii my history podcast @thisguysucked.com got nominated for two (!!!!) Signal Awards and the listener/public voting round is open. It would mean a lot to me if you took a couple of minutes and voted for us in the following categories: - Show/Genre/History - Individual Episode/Genre/History
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
![Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.
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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nycc7oummopgeptw555s6icn/bafkreicwbyb3msa5cnllbexjrxrmuw2s6qj36aiitv2tp5aos5nsz2pem4)
Imagine being made redundant on maternity leave via Zoom while cradling your baby. That’s what happened to Alicia. The employer: an organisation that should know better - the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/935882...
Every week I worry that I will lose my job within the next few years and today I found out my PhD program is closing 🫠
Lecture recap questions as most will have watched the lecture Just a load of close reading passages The struggle is for authenticity because I’m the one bringing passages rather than them suggesting what we could look at
Le Ca-ghoul@lecagle.bsky.social · 6d agoHey profs, what do you do when students don't read
41% staffing cuts in the Faculty of Arts at UoN. We're entering a wilderness of creativity and critical thinking.
Me: got to finish marking today Also me: what if I just edited my lectures for 2027 and designed a reading list for 2028 instead
Kermit's Dark Side: Inner Battle
Alt: Kermit and his dark side. Close up on two green frog puppet heads facing each other. One on the right is wearing a black hood, covering his eyes.
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Spending my scarce time generously doing unpaid reviews of manuscripts that I discover midway are entirely AI-generated is turning me into the damn Joker. Trying not to take it out on editors, who are victims in this too, and who need our diligent professional service, but I'm about to fully snap
Higher ed leaders are worried about the "decline of public trust"; what are they doing about the fact that faculty, students, and staff at their own institutions do not trust them to lead effectively, defend academic freedom, and meet the challenges of the moment?
How many local models do you run?
This is my position with my students - if you fix the economic and social issues re. GenAI I still want to read your own work, writing and thought process.
Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2w agoThey quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
I don’t understand: isn’t this why we read books in the first place, what is the point of this
Aram Sinnreich@aramsinn.bsky.social · last wk.Woody Allen wrote a short story in which a dude invented this tech... it didn't end well.
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:
