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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you work at Cal State + are an AI refuser/angry re the renewal of the OpenAI contract, take the CSU AI Survey! I suspect last yr's data skewed towards enthusiasts/early adopters (certainly on my campus). It's important that the data reflect the full range of attitudes aisurvey.sdsu.edu/live/

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CSU AI Survey Response Rates

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Address high workload instructional needs with an increased use of professors of teaching and lecturers where appropriate." But further in the same section: "Where there is existing faculty capacity, reduce dependence on lecturers and visiting faculty." @ucaft.bsky.social

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wow, this is great! Using locally, and appreciate that I can make presentations digitally accessible in ways that feel less frustrating than when working with revealJS (though I'm adding alt to images, for example, in markdown or html). Thank you for your generosity in sharing!

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Last week, the world lost an extraordinary scholar and person. Alexander Reyes, a PhD student at UCI and my advisee, died after a severe illness. Please considering contributing to this fundraiser for his family, who have incurred tremendous expenses this summer, in his memory if you can.

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Donate to Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander, organized by Elizabeth Sandoval

Our family is reaching out to ask for support for our beloved cousin, Alex… Elizabeth Sandoval needs your support for Supporting A Final Farewell to Alexander

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Slightly nervous for any university administrator to read it, but thanks to the work of scholars such as @cjdenial.bsky.social & @benpatrickwill.bsky.social our first-year humanities program has a pedagogical statement on gen AI, with reading list! core.humanities.uci.edu/index.php/ge...

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Our Pedagogical Approaches to Generative AI in Humanities Core

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Looking forward to the webinar tomorrow!

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The first ~10 minutes alone provide such a nice articulation of cultivating curiosity with the support of a "web of trust," I look forward to sharing with colleagues!

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

See the brilliant performance work of Halim Madi singulars.oulipo.xyz

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Our conferences is THIS WEEK! *Get yourself registered* so that you get access to the conference page and Zoom links. Registration is free! www.civicsoftechnology.org/2026conference

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2026 Conference — Civics of Technology

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pam lach @plach.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Hey #DigitalHumanities peeps. This is the last week to sign up for an #ACH2026 pre-conf virtual workshop! 1) DH Pedagogy Studio: Creative + Critical Assignment Design 2) Get Started Preserving your Web Content & Data 3) Envisioning DH at your Teaching-Focused Instn ach2026.ach.org/en/workshops/

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Pre-Conference Workshops

Low-cost virtual pre-conference workshops for ACH 2026, June 22-23, 2026. Topics include DH pedagogy, web archiving, and DH at teaching-focused institutions.

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Liability and corporate chatbot "guardrails" are the reasons claimed by my university's IT Director of AI (whose highest degree is an MBA)

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

This spring my campus reading group had a really engaged discussion by reading an OpenAI statement in light of (by the light of?) your piece doi.org/10.1017/S026... !

Join us for our next reading group! We’ll pair Louise Amoore’s “Machine Learning Political Orders” (Review of International Studies 2023) with OpenAI’s statement “Our Agreement with the Department of War.” Please RSVP for lunch.
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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Fantastic syllabus, thank you for continuing to be so generous in sharing your materials!

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

We're making it happen! A hybrid, post- #ACH2026 SoCal gathering for those interested in DH understood broadly (incl. critical AI, critical data studies, DH pedagogy). Join us June 29 to commiserate, vent, celebrate, promote what's happening on your campus! ach2026.ach.org/en/hubs/

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Thank you for sharing. OMG they are saying it out loud: Why pay skilled and experienced instructors when you can exploit your own fee-paying undergrads? 2nd screenshot is from Appendix 4.

1.4 Expand the Learning Assistant (LA) Program

LAs facilitate implementation of active learning, which is associated with decreased failure rates (Alzen et al. 2018). ● Increased tuition revenue: 400 LAs enroll in an average of 3 units of 192 courses each quarter → more than $800k per year in tuition

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

And now I'm emailing my UCI colleagues to say that May 26 is actually next Tuesday!

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Trying to convince colleagues to go to what's sure to be an excellent book talk by @hellobrittparis.bsky.social at my campus today (during a time I teach) and tell me all about it!

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I don't know what service tier of Canvas my campus pays for, but I do know they're already paying Unizin $$ for its data marts service in order to gain more "insights" into the Canvas behavior data (including grades) they are collecting from faculty and student users www.unizin.org/about/knowle...

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Knowledge Base

One-Pagers Our One-Pagers provide concise, yet comprehensive overviews of key topics related to Unizin and its Content and data solutions. These documents are designed to give you a quick and clear un...

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

And also with "Canvas Next" tier, administrators can ostensibly use the conversation interface "IgniteAI Ask Your Data" to chat with user data collected in their university's Canvas instance so they "can make data-informed decisions regardless of data literacy or technical savvy."

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

If your campus subscribes to Canvas at "Canvas Next" tier, check out the option (disabled by default unless campus IT are rash) being rolled out in tomorrow's release: IgniteAI "study tools" let students "summarize" pages & generate flashcards on content! community.instructure.com/en/discussio...

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Canvas Release Notes (2026-05-16) - Instructure Community

Upcoming Canvas Changes 2026-06-17 * Deprecation: Removal of Unauthenticated File Access 2026-06-20 * Breaking Change/Enforcement: User-Agent Header Enforcement 2026-06-30 * Deprecation: Removal of Le...

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It was a presentation at the U of California Irvine event "Critical Disability and Visual Media in the 21st Century" by Junting Huang www.juntinghuang.net/bio

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Just last week I saw your "Dance ... Body" piece compared to a Francis Bacon painting in a very thoughtful conference presentation that also quoted your words!

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Thank you for the reminder & context! Link for those interested: copyright.universityofcalifornia.edu/resources/ow...

Ownership of course materials | UC Copyright

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Thank you for posting the link!

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Registration is open for ACH 2026, taking place virtually June 24–26! This year's theme centers transnationalism and solidarity in the Americas, with bilingual participation in English and Spanish. Register now: ach2026.ach.org

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24–26 June 2026, Virtual Conference

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Would love to learn more from you (all) about possible strategies for building community on a campus without a dh "center" (both literally and metaphorically)!

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Thanks to your continued raising of awareness, the conversations are happening on my campus!

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Wow, looking forward to the SoCal book tour (I hope!)

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Leonardo Flores @leoflores.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching I’m in drafted this Statement on #AI and #Assessment, endorsed by the #MLA Executive Council. I hope our community finds it useful to hold the line against EdTech opportunism and the erosion of core pedagogical values. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

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Statement on AI and Assessment

The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in February 2026.The purpose of assessmen...

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Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

We're excited to share details of our first event of the year! 'Digital Humanities on the Edge: Infrastructure, Surveillance, Platforms, Artificial Intelligence.' Friday 27th March 11am AEDT (via Zoom - link to follow) Details & registration: events.humanitix.com/digital-huma...

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Digital Humanities on the Edge

Our four speakers examine topics core to the future directions of DH: Infrastructure, Surveillance, Platforms, and Artificial Intelligence.

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Our teachers union @aft.org is collaborating not only with OpenAI but also with some outfit called BuildSubmarines-dot-com that will host a session that "connects career literacy to the Maritime Industrial Base and the U.S. Navy’s workforce needs"?! Unbelievably misjudged. @aftteach.bsky.social

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Too realistic! 'Detecting “authentic” student thinking is technically possible, but prohibitively expensive. Think about it: We would need to pay real human faculty to interact with real human students. We do not have the budget for that.'

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

👀 Is this a third-party plugin or a Canvas add-on feature? (Concerned about the labor issue of dysfunctional automated surveillance of faculty, who should be respected as the experts on inclusive course design!)

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

For the higher ed context, I appreciated this conversation from people who do care: "Who Cares About Procurement?" (_Higher Education for Good_ 2023) library.oapen.org/bitstream/ha...

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Anyone know of plans for/interest in an ACH 2026 hub in SoCal? @plach.bsky.social ? Might people like to come out to Irvine?

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Even spelled out as a model to be replicated in OpenAI's press release: "partnerships to support teacher-led AI adoption like with the American Federation of Teachers in the United States" openai.com/index/edu-fo...

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Introducing OpenAI’s Education for Countries

Helping countries build future ready education systems and workforces with AI

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract. Link below and anyone can sign:

Action Network petition: Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans.

In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a larger “AI-Empowered University” initiative. This is the largest contract ever established between a university system and an artificial intelligence company.

Despite the name, ChatGPT Edu is not educational technology. It is a general-purpose chatbot that is not designed, trained, or optimized for education. Beyond its privacy and security features, ChatGPT Edu is identical to the free online version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT Edu does not use reliable peer-reviewed sources to answer students' questions and is indifferent to whether its answers are correct. Experts argue that ChatGPT Edu is harmful to academic working conditions, diminishes the quality of teaching and learning, introduces new forms of discrimination, and is dangerous to students' mental health.

Recent polling shows that CSU students share these concerns, with the majority of students expressing that they are worried about the negative impacts of generative AI on human creativity and the environment.

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Amalia H @amaliah.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Looking forward to your panel!

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