Sarah Osment
@smosment.bsky.social
For you I've saved the descriptions of chicken sandwiches, teaches at UChicago | editor & indexer | proud member of SEIU local 73
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THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE has a cover, a website, and is available for preorder! (Use code NUP2026 for a discount.) See the full contents at the link below — lucky to be part of this extraordinary project and excited to see it in print this fall! ✨🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948066...
one of the saddest ironies of higher ed's headlong embrace of AI is that the clearest and most thorough reporting on the subject has been done almost exclusively by student journalists
those who work in University writing programs should pay close attention—developing AI-friendly teaching doesn't make you safe from layoff www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
those who work in University writing programs should pay close attention—developing AI-friendly teaching doesn't make you safe from layoff www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
I'm pretty sure my dog just tried to make me laugh, the beauty of which made me cry
not a public humanities collective called Enclosure Academy 😭
RIP Benjamin you would have loved and hated the hundreds of selfies taken next to Angelus Novus
obsessed with all the photos of the newest belugas in chicago
someone paid for my and my friend’s lunch today and doesn’t everyone love a little cute intrigue now and then instead of the totalizing, world-shattering kind
Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏
telling my landlord he can't raise my rent because of zeus's law
berries named after my dog and flowers wrapped in newspaper hate to see me coming
so many things to love about chicago summers, not least the confetti corners
the time has come to reveal my new favorite hat
The project is a way to keep talking with other people about one of the central theses of my forthcoming book, Relatability: namely the idea that the way not to lose an aesthetic experience is to share it with other people. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The University of Chicago law school has banned AI and electronic devices from its classrooms for first-year students. Why won't the college do the same for its first-year undergraduates?https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/13/university-of-chicago-ai/
The AI effect: University of Chicago Law School opts to prohibit electronic devices in some classrooms
Come fall, first-year students at U. of C. Law School will be prohibited from using electronic devices like laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom.
chicagotribune.com
The University of Chicago law school has banned AI and electronic devices from its classrooms for first-year students. Why won't the college do the same for its first-year undergraduates?https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/13/university-of-chicago-ai/
The AI effect: University of Chicago Law School opts to prohibit electronic devices in some classrooms
Come fall, first-year students at U. of C. Law School will be prohibited from using electronic devices like laptops, tablets and phones in the classroom.
chicagotribune.com
Anthropic is hiring a Standards Editor when they could save nearly a third of a million by just letting Claude do it
wonderful first sentence from Juliana Spahr's review of Idris Robinson's latest. look what sentences can do! why would you ever want to give that up to AI?
RIP Sam Neill you were so good at playing disbelief of women (Dern, Adjani,, that one raptor)
there is infinite money for weapons, non-educator vice chancellors of nothingness, and tech-grift corporate welfare but zero money for teachers, libraries, tuition
i quit.
civic centers going great so far lol westvirginiawatch.com/2026/07/08/o...
One student enrolled in WVU Washington Center after GOP lawmakers mandate creation of program • West Virginia Watch
Only one student has registered for courses at WVU's Washington Center, an academic program mandated by Republican lawmakers for the campus.
westvirginiawatch.com
a great thing to do if you know a dog is to tell them to look at things. many of them will look in the wrong direction (mine does anyway) but they are so excited to see what you see, to know what you mean, even if they’re lousy at it