Reposted by Anna E. Clarkmichael röbbins @alienvsrobbins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Lots of people will weigh in with thoughts on Anne Carson in the coming days, but I will just note that she wins the epigraph game 439667
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Among other excellent reasons, I’m glad the Nobel went to someone whose work is really great to teach with. 050
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If you want to really lean in to the darkness, look on Amazon for AI slop picturebooks 030
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Hot dog vendors will be glad to know they have a chorus of support 010
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Petition to ban the verb “relish” from all job and/or career-adjacent material. 330
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I have such low expectations for any true progress in the quashing of misogyny but I am allowing myself to dream about the end of fraternities/”greek life” 🤞 160
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Private schools are a scourge on civic life, and I say this as someone who has taught in the “best” of them. 161
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkMike Vincent @mikevincent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is truly bonkers. I can have zero experience, refuse any certification, curriculum, or accreditation AND take public money while teaching literally whatever the hell I want to in my choice of 9 states 1021065
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Picking "Worldly Gray," "Kilim Beige" or "Urbane Bronze" will definitely get you on a list. 020
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Also, I kid you not, "Useful Gray, "Amazing Gray," and "Passive." 250
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Browsing exterior paint colors and wow, have I got some fodder for the aesthetics of fascism crowd: 1172
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2026So much has fallen on us elder millennials and now we’re responsible for keeping all the cute natural wine shops solvent too. 030
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 25/09/2026All the money in the world apparently buys you this version of the humanities 0123
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026No idea what I’ll be for Halloween, but my cat will be going as a Fat Bear Week contestant. 2200
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So much of the teaching of writing and reading has been an attempt to circumscribe the very freedom they yield, which in part explains why it is often done so badly. 050
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Pretty sure Hyrox is one of the lesser Greek sea deities and that’s fine. 010
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2026This has been a great week for adding to my list of people and events of which I can feel ok about maintaining near total ignorance 140
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026Has anyone considered orienting college education around the practice of sitting together and discussing real books, read on paper? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...nytimes.comUniversities Sound Warnings About A.I. Even as They Embrace ItAs A.I. upends education, university leaders have been all over the map about how to respond. It can be very confusing for students. 317028
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 12/09/2026chat, please curse in a pointedly inconvenient but not fatal way the following individuals: 000
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One of my favorite parts of Bluesky is the spicy version of Kai Ryssdal 060
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I feel so confident saying the native intelligence of this generation is not the problem. The looting & wholesale sabotage of their educational infrastructure is. 251362336
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 09/09/2026“‘’destructive scanning sacrifices multiple potential future human readings to a single instance of machine reading.‘“ 020
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars 141596357
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I think something similar is happening with many faculty (and teachers) too: they know they can’t prevent ai use, trying to do so means exhaustion on top of exhaustion, they turn a blind eye and feel like it’s a horrible compromise. Meanwhile, the institution pretends this is all tenable. 131
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 05/09/2026“Institutions capitulate or dodge; students who don’t want to cheat with AI do; and then students believe it’s their individual failing. Some become cynical; some are filled with guilt.” 150
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026One thing I always see: ai does not know when to stop. Claude‘s professional voice is gratuitous drama masquerading as assertive precision. 1112
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I have gone from being the person family call on to help polish a cover letter to the person they call on to de-Claude it. This does not feel like progress. 1160
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026"A projected 111,000 fewer international students are expected in the U.S. this fall — a more than 9% drop in enrollment. A coalition of higher education organizations (AND UNIONS) sued the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the rule from taking effect." www.wuky.org/wuky-news/20...wuky.orgU.S. colleges, universities brace for loss of international studentsThe Trump administration is capping the length of time international students can legally remain in the U.S., and declines in their enrollment could spell disaster for colleges and universities. 3251115
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkSarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/08/2026has anyone encountered any good critical history of writing in the university? especially as it concerns labor 133816
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I finally read this review and I’m moved by the extent to which Dwight Garner praises the novel and also the depth of his work here—it’s not a simple rave, by any means, but a class on how to read. If you want that. 415724
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkMario Trujillo @mariotrujillo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026There is no comprehensive tally of ICE subpoenas to tech companies in the second Trump administration. But this is a start www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...eff.orgA List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech CompaniesThis is likely an undercount. The full scope is hard to pin down because these subpoenas typically only come to light when a user is given notice and challenges them in court, or when a company docume... 0108
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 27/08/2026MIT report is superb. It acknowledges disruption, concedes different disciplines will handle this differently, foregrounds people and social interaction — but also says something obvious I had just about given up hope institutions could say: aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/ 29523
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkNick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Making university faculty sit in their offices from 8 am to 5 pm every day, 5 days a week, is insane and serves no conceivable academic purpose. The fact that admins and even *staff* are exempt from this absurd requirement shows the real goal is to make tenured faculty quit. 391629357
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 26/08/2026She was *such* a human being, but the thing I keep thinking about is how Dolly’s voice makes me feel—one of so few singers who, in listening, produce in me the same physiological joy as the act of singing itself, like I could open my mouth and those same pure notes would pour out. Nothing like it. 080
Reposted by Anna E. ClarkAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026cognitive 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...chicagomaroon.comSosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This FallAll 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... 16913272
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 24/08/2026oh for a time machine to go back to, oh, 2012 or so and talk to every English department trying to endure by hawking ”writing skills” to business and criminal justice majors… 081
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I‘d love to know more about where ed schools are in all this, or, like, teacher education in general. You go to school, get a degree and a certificate, just to do …. this?? 121
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but another instance of bland, lazy ed speak that dishonors students’ intellectual and creative capacity 020