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Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 4w ago

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

cmrn knzlmn@ckunzelman.bsky.social · last mo.

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Brown Brothers Media is the most successful media company you've never heard of. For years, its success was fueled by AI, fake writers, and fake reporting. When we started asking questions, BBM started mass-deleting content. Somehow, what came next was even worse. futurism.com/artificial-i...

How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

futurism.com

Andrea Mann@andreamann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"By writing, you are literally firing up your brain and therefore stirring up your conscious thoughts and something new emerges. You are not, or at least not always, transcribing something already present in your conscious thoughts.“ LOVE this piece. www.historians.org/perspectives...

How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.

historians.org

Scott Simkus@scottsimkus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I rebuilt the 1943 Negro league stats now included as part of the official MLB statistical record. A huge breakthrough in my research was uncovering this 4-page Homestead Grays press release from late in the season, hidden in the archives at Howard Univ. It was a road map for finding box scores.

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amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz · last yr.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last yr.

Burnout also takes years to recover from, especially if you don't have the resources to prioritize rest, change jobs/spaces, and more. YEARS.

Possible Worlds Games@possibleworlds.bsky.social · last yr.

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

Ana-Maria Dimand@anadimand.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Calling all students and early-career scholars in public policy and public administration: Together with Hannah Lebovits, we’ve put together a collaborative, evolving resource list to help you navigate the field, no matter where you're starting from.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2y ago

For more on what quantitative scholars can learn from (and about) qualitative research, I'd recommend checking out Qualitative Literacy (coauthored with @marioluissmall.bsky.social). www.ucpress.edu/books/qualit...

Qualitative Literacy by Mario Small, Jessica Calarco - Paper

Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

ucpress.edu

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 2y ago

I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

betsy ladyzhets 😷@betsyladyzhets.bsky.social · 3y ago

If you missed our session at #SciWri23 about investigative reporting as a science writer -- or if you attended but want to dig into the resources we discussed -- you can now check out our tipsheet here:

Tipsheet: Pursuing investigative stories as a science writer

Tipsheet: Pursuing investigative stories as a science writer Resources and tips from Science Writers 2023 session: Data, FOIAs, tips: pursuing investigative stories as a science writer October 8, 2023...

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Seth L. Sanders@nabalkattu.bsky.social · 3y ago

In which I show that there's no evidence that the inventors of the alphabet could actually read. www.asor.org/anetoday/202.... Instead a remarkable "working misunderstanding" led to the alphabet's rise, much as with the invention of Greek script. ClassicsBluesky

Who Really Invented the Alphabet?

Who really invented the alphabet? Although we are still uncertain about precisely where the world’s most influential communication system came from, we know more than we did 20 years ago.

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