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Jennifer Romig

@jennifermromig.bsky.social

Veteran legal writing professor; still positive, eclectic, and pragmatic

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Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Part of what's happening here is that to those using AI, the definition of "writing" gets blurred with "writing up" as if one has fully formed ideas that just need to be showcased rather than that the ideas change/get sharpened/etc. through the writing process. /1

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 4d ago

Some academics used AI to write op-eds. I spoke @chronicle.com. Making complicated things legible to broad audiences is the whole goddamn work and no, you can't outsource it to LLMs. www.chronicle.com/article/prof...

But to David Perry, associate director of undergraduate studies in the history department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the author of a book on public scholarship, using AI to “edit” or “condense” is synonymous with using it to write. Cutting down an article or generalizing it for a broader audience is “what writing and thinking is about,” he added. “Writing complicated things that are accessible to a public audience and that are short enough for public-audience attention spans is hard — it is harder, in many ways, than writing at length and writing only for your 20 most compatible colleagues,” Perry said. “It’s just a practice. You have to decide to put in the work.” The work of being an academic, Perry said, is to make complicated things coherent. Michael Socolow, chair of the communications and journalism department at the University of Maine at Orono, agreed, calling it a “cop-out” for a writer to say they “only” used AI for the basic mechanics of composition. He added that he’s concerned about what senior academics model for both junior academics and their students when using AI.
Ana Marie Cox@anamariecox.com · 2w ago

Always amused by people who write LLM prompts that include the exhortation to make the output super-double-good, like the "exceptional expert witness report" here. Will ChatGPT give you a shitty response unless explicitly asked? This seems like a design flaw!

Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 2w ago

New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

Stacie Rosenzweig@ethicking.com · 2w ago

“Is my resume sufficient to be an expert” entered into an AI prompt is… wow. I get insecurity. I think every first time expert has these questions. I’ve been there. But if being a first timer was disqualifying then nobody would ever qualify. Trust your client to vet your credentials.

Victoria J. Haneman@taxlawprof.bsky.social · last mo.

My heart goes out to everyone who tried to take the Washington bar exam. You spend years in law school, months preparing, thousands of dollars on courses, and countless hours putting your life on hold for a single exam. No matter how this ultimately gets resolved, these examinees deserved better.

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Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · last mo.

"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

Legacy Update@legacyupdate.net · 3mo ago

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

The top-left corner of Microsoft Word 2007, showing the ribbon.
Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"[Bradley] does it all with a floating economy of motion and a beguiling offhandedness that appeal to the imagination. Many basketball players ... have a tendency to be rather tastelessly rococo in their style, and Bradley stands out in contrast to them because he adorns nothing that he does."

What Makes a Truly Great Basketball Player?

John McPhee’s 1965 Profile of the Princeton basketball star Bill Bradley, whose achievements broke barriers in the Ivy League, where athletes of the highest calibre usually don’t show up.

newyorker.com

Claire McCaskill@clairecmc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Tonight as the Knicks are tipping off I’m thinking of great Knicks players of the past. Have to give a nod to Crystal City,Mo’s own Senator Bill Bradley. Hope he is there tonight booing Trump!

Dan Sinykin@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

For the @ajc.com, I wrote about how close reading cultivates the virtues that promote eudaimonia, or human flourishing, or the good life. That's me in the picture at the front of the room. www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...

‘Close reading’ is a solution for students looking to live a good life

Education is being polarized by advocates on the left and right, but students' learning should not be limited to mastering skills that lead to economic output.

ajc.com