This is a great description of a new workplace phenomenon. I know several people who are not trying to be rude when they use AI in collaborative work. But it is rude. It imposes both practical and emotional costs on collaborators who are then forced to deal with the dumb crap you sent them.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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For my HRM class on Friday, I'm planning to talk about some of the key events of 2025 relevant to understanding what is happening with discrimination law, the EEOC, and "DEI." Has anyone compiled a list of events like this? I could piece something together myself but maybe someone's already done it.

Has anyone gotten Novavax this fall, or does anyone know when/in which pharmacies they might be available?

I miss getting emails that didn't all sound like they were written by the same robot. Email was already so annoying and hard to manage. Now, often, there isn't even the feeling of making contact with other people.

That feeling when you're listening to a music history lecture series in an attempt to think about art and not fascism, and the next lecture is on Shostakovich's Symphony no. 5. 😱

Researchers who co-author papers: what conversations have you had with your coauthors about LLM use during the writing process? Have you tried to influence your coauthors' LLM practices in any way? Have they tried to influence yours?

Watching a webinar with @careyjones.bsky.social and Dr. Marlena Fejzo on pregnancy sickness research, I'm noticing how many women describe their experience as "horrific, but not bad in the scheme of things"; "destroyed my life, but others had it worse." (I'd put myself in this category, too!)

(1/2) A few 2025 phenomena I want to read scholarly or otherwise erudite articles about. Universe, make it happen 1. As scams grow to look more like real things, real things are also growing to look more like scams

As replies have pointed out, this is unfairly burdensome to some students with disabilities. But my follow-up question is, why hasn't someone made an updated typewriter or non-Internet-enabled word processor? Like how there are dumb phones for kids. Someone get on it please?!

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last yr.

I got the best teaching evals of my career for a large course last semester— along with three teaching awards— after rebuilding my intro class around in-class handwritten essays. I simply do not believe that this is unsolvable or that students don't care about actually learning to do their work.

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

My son said "I don't understand why people are so afraid to get an autistic kid. Autistic kids are awesome." Can confirm. I love the deep dive in special interests, honesty, concern for justice, and empathy. Autistic minds enrich our world.

Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈@kennedy.northsky.social · 2y ago

Vaccines don't cause autism but if they did a bunch of alive autistic adults is much better than polio and having polio and dying of polio

My university's admin sent a very "we're panicking. Are you panicking? It's time to panic" mass email this morning. What's everyone else hearing from their school admins this week?

Social scientist friends (esp "DEIA" researchers), do you think the journals are changing or will end up changing the topics they publish on? Assuming one has the funding to keep doing the research, do you think there will be additional barriers to publishing it now, or same as before?

My child was exposed to measles at the doctor's office as a baby, too young to be vaccinated. Did not get sick. ABSOLUTE BEST CASE outcome. Still so disruptive to our lives! 3 weeks with no daycare, never leaving the house. Worrying about my baby getting dangerously sick. ABSOLUTE. BEST. CASE.

My team's recent research: at work, women speak up less than men only when groups are uncivil. Maybe it's not a lack of confidence or leaning in that silences women, but actual cues in the environment. Focus on fixing the incivility, not the women! hbr.org/2025/01/rese...

Research: Incivility at Work Silences Everyone, But Especially Women

Incivility at work isn’t good for anyone. But while both men and women are less likely to speak up in uncivil environments, women are more likely to withhold their ideas due to concerns about gender b...

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For today's post, have a cat pic. Do not snuggle the belly. It is a trap

This take is on a different planet from what I’m feeling this week. I would say I am genuinely attached to Facebook. My 19 years on there have given me so much: connections, opportunities, meaning, joy. For the first time, I feel deep down that my time there is done, and I'm really sad about it.

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2y ago

Zuckerberg says people who leave his platforms are "virtue signaling"