Julia Leyda (she/her)
@julia-leyda.northsky.social
jaded academic | new Norwegian | chronically ill | ace woke pinko SJW | surviving mainly on film, TV, SFF novels - doesn't suffer fools - gleefully uses block function - mastodon https://hcommons.social/@julia - movies https://letterboxd.com/jleyda
35. Terrific. It's been a while since I read a novel where I found the characters so exasperating because they are well developed, and I cared about them so much. The POV shifts are also clever and *NECESSARY* for the story @emilystjams.bsky.social tells. I won't shut up about this for a while.
cognitive sabotage, you can ban it extra credit to U Chicago for bans on professional AND undergrad programs; smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall
All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...
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Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3w agodegenerative AI, you can refuse it www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3w agoMaybe of use www.ru.nl/en/research/... cc @olivia.science
“Make a zine if you can’t make a book... Make a flyer if you can’t make a zine. Make a postcard if you can’t make a flyer. Leave a record.” - @marc-fischer.bsky.social “There’s nothing like print,” Foroohar said. “Even if all the data in the world was deleted, I would still have this book.”
Chicago Reader@chicagoreader.com · 3w agoZines appeal to artists and organizers because they sidestep digital surveillance and reach people in real life. https://bit.ly/4fUv6Fk
New publication alert! My article with Maria Sulimma on the gendered regimes of electricity in the TV series Yellowjackets is just put from the ISLE journal. Please share! #AcademicPublishing #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnergyHumanities #Yellowjackets doi.org/10.1093/isle...
Drawn to Light: Gendered Electricity and the Climate Unconscious in Yellowjackets
Compared to other forms of energy consumption, electricity has long been either a symbol of technological progress and modernity, most recently in the comi
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uff, this chimes with Kate Manne's AI piece from a couple of days ago: “ChatGPT fills and fuels a felt need for the female sycophancy that no human being should want, and that privileged men should be weaned off their historical reliance on”
Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 3w ago"It was natural for scholar-patriarchs... to see those around them as flexible extensions of their own abilities... Secretaries’ + amanuenses’ labor typically went unremarked; sometimes it was positively effaced.... [Blair brings] scholarly assistants into the open, finding evidence of many hands."
It's clear that many cis people aren't aware how truly fucking awful the New York Times has been towards trans people and that it is not just a bit transphobic like so many others but a leading voice that has been cited in legal cases taking away the rights of trans people.
yall (writers, researchers, etc) are using zotero, right. open-source bibliography software that saves all your sources & notes? i realize i sound like an insta influencer but it's the only thing in my life that is even slightly organized. i still have my notes from grad school!!
"The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older This multi-award-nominated sapphic, Holmes-esque mystery manages to create a gaseous world that feels lived in.... Investigator Mossa tracks clues all the way back to the university where her ex-girlfriend, Pleiti, researches how to return to Earth."
The Best Sci-Fi Books of the 21st Century are Very Queer
Far from an obscure subset of science fiction, as it may have been in the previous century, queer sci-fi is now leading the genre.
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New publication alert! My article with Maria Sulimma on the gendered regimes of electricity in the TV series Yellowjackets is just put from the ISLE journal. Please share! #AcademicPublishing #EnvironmentalHumanities #EnergyHumanities #Yellowjackets doi.org/10.1093/isle...
Drawn to Light: Gendered Electricity and the Climate Unconscious in Yellowjackets
Compared to other forms of energy consumption, electricity has long been either a symbol of technological progress and modernity, most recently in the comi
doi.org
"Together with Secretary Kennedy at Health and Human Services, we’re removing fluoride from the water supply and replacing it with trace amounts of 100 percent pure testosterone, sourced exclusively from the manosphere."
Effective Immediately, Every God-Fearing Soldier Will Be Jacked to the Gills with Testosterone
“Whether our military members are deployed to Iran, the Pacific theater, or the streets of Dubuque, Iowa, Americans can feel safe knowing our soldiers are no...
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google's "why don't you want to use our documentation chatbot" survey offers a pretty good list of reasons not to use their documentation chatbot
Never forget that Sen. Susan Collins of Maine cast the pivotal and deciding vote to approve Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court.
As we close out on our country's 250th birthday celebrations, I also want to celebrate a notable Woman in History, Pasadena's own Octavia Butler.
America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital
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Across the Americas, in South Africa and beyond, feminists are all trans-inclusive. 🏳️⚧️ They are trying to build large forms of #solidarity 💪💖🌈 to fight enormous forms of power. Judith Butler
Owen Jones@owenjones.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is such an important point.
These are best-in-kind guidelines—no surprise, given who wrote them. Thanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @maurasmale.bsky.social and @mkgold.bsky.social for their intellectual leadership and addressing the challenges posed by genAI with characteristic criticality, nuance, and care.
Joel@sentantiq.bsky.social · 2mo agothanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social and Chief librarian Maura Smale @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for developing these draft AI Guidelines www.gc.cuny.edu/research-fac...
"After all, what is a university? Clearly not the students; they pass through like mayflies, eating, breeding, failing to do the reading and not bringing us enough money. Academic staff? They too are ephemeral, and a drain on our income streams." Read the whole thing 🔥
Neville Morley@nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 2mo agoWhy are you concerned? Do you not trust your senior management team? Do you not love us? thesphinxblog.com/2026/06/24/t...
Interdisciplinary scholarship often falls between categories, including when it comes to awards. We built the Ideas on Fire Book Awards Guide to make it easier to identify recognition opportunities across disciplinary boundaries. The database is now available: ideasonfire.net/ideas-on-fir...
