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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D.

@annaelin.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof of Media & Communication at Naz U (Rochester, NY). Critical/cultural approaches┃Race + representation┃Mid-19th-cent. Cuba┃Student identity, language, + belonging┃"AI" resistance sites.google.com/view/annaelindnerp…

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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
! This fallacy has been driving me up the wall recently. Thank you for this
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anonymously polled my first-year sem students about "AI" today. Responses ranged from neutral to negative to devastating. Teens believing "AI is mid" is honestly doing more to deflate "AI" hype than anything any profs could hope to do
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The hypocrisy of those who acknowledge the established harms of "AI" and bemoan the cognitive deskilling its use causes among students before continuing to use it themselves is so cringe worthy
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
On AI and the work, a 🧵
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Most photogenic dog ever??
Brown and white puppy with big ears cocks his head at the camera
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
My week-long motivational dry spell has ended with a sloshy rainstorm 😁 SSRIs really are a modern medicine miracle
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My first op-ed was just published! #ROC www.syracuse.com/opinion/2026...
syracuse.com
Professor: I see hope for the humanities in the AI era (Guest Opinion by Anna E. Lindner)
Nazareth University professor adapts to AI's impact on education, fostering critical thinking and human connection amid technological challenges.
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Sage's list of conflicts of interest includes "Membership of organisations or scientific societies that undertake advocacy work;" "Ideology, beliefs, thoughts, faith," or "Political leanings or legal action relevant to the research." Isn't requiring that disclosure a violation of academic freedom?
Sage journal's list of possible conflicts of interest, found here: https://www.sagepub.com/journals/publication-ethics-policies/declaration-of-conflicting-interests
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
What do you all think? Should I include this in my cover letter for an original essay I'm submitting for publication or will an editor be put off?
Screenshot from my cover letter, which reads, 

"...no conflicts of interest to report. Finally, this work is entirely human-generated; no “AI” tools were used at any stage of the research, writing, or editing process, and I ask that none of my writing be inputted into an LLM during the review process. 

Thank you for your consideration..."
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The Bean's first long car trip
Brown and white puppy on a man's lap in a car
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Bean often looks demented as he's falling asleep
Brown and white puppy lying on his back, falling asleep
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The Bean likes to sleep upside down
White and brown puppy sleeping with paws in the air
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
We got a puppy! Meet Bean, the Corgi/Yorkie
Man holding a brown and white Corgi/Yorkie puppy
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Tacking this statement onto everything I write from this point forward
The end of a grant proposal reads, "Integrity Statement: No 'AI' tools were used at any stage in the preparation of this proposal"
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Important op-ed about the ridiculous data center proposed for Western NY: katiecouric.com/news/are-dat...
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People Should Be More Important Than Profits
As data centers sprout up across the globe, what are we losing — and how do we fight back?
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
!! Atten. all journalists!
open.spotify.com
how an editor uncovered an AI journalist
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Word is so glitchy that when I try a keyword search in a doc and no terms come up, it just says "no."
The navigation plane says "no" to my search for "renarration"
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Anything fun and/or politically important happening in Rochester NY this weekend? #ROC
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/01/2026
America is outraged after ICE killed two white people in Minneapolis. I understand why folks are feeling afraid and angry right now. But I need you to understand something just as clearly: this is what Black America has been living with for generations. open.substack.com/pub/cwebbstu...
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This Is America, Just Not the America You Knew
Two white people were killed by ICE in Minneapolis and suddenly White America is outraged.
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
My husband had a Christmas-Carol-esque dream that we had the CEO of Google in a room. Carlo gave him a dressing down for allowing Google phones and other products to enshittify so badly. Sundar Pichai looked thoroughly chagrined. Who knew it was so easy to hold tech billionaires accountable?
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
My husband: my sister's kid broke their TV. They got an opportunity now. Me: to watch less TV? Him: to upgrade to a bigger one. Damn, I tried.
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Had a very vivid dream last night that I was back in undergrad and my friends want to go drive somewhere. They showed up and Zohran was in the car and we were all laughing and joking and having the best time 😂😅
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
The latest in Apple nonsense. My favorite part: “Inspired by the concept of ‘a piece of cloth,’" inexplicably in quotation marks. www.forbes.com/sites/davidp...
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iPhone Pocket: Exactly Why The Issey Miyake Collaboration Sold Out Super-Fast
The newest Apple release is the iPhone Pocket. Did you buy it? If not, you may be too late.
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I asked my COMM 101 students where they get their news. Most said social media; one said, "honestly, this class." We profs have such an obligation to gather the best info and succinctly and clearly convey it in only 150 minutes per week. A big responsibility I take seriously
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I'm holding oral midterms for my COMM 101 Intro to Media Industries students this week and they're blowing me away. I'm centering the course around "AI" literacy, critical media, and cultural studies, and they're really getting it. They're engaging, passionate, curious
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Watching the second season of Shiny Happy People and my youth group experience makes a lot of sense now. As someone whose dearest wish was to be a Christian missionary from age 7 to 19, this is a bit triggering
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Are Wayne State library folks trolling?
The WSU Library Subject of the Month is "Sandwiches," with a picture of someone holding a sandwich
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Jessica Schulberg @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
pro soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios followed all the rules when he came to the US. His lawyer told took his asylum case bc it seemed like a "slam dunk. Then US officials sent him to CECOT, where he was told he'd spend the rest of his life w/@mattshuham.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-so...
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Pro Soccer Player Who Spent 125 Days At CECOT Gives Chilling Account Of His Time There
“Both the physical and mental abuse doled out by the officers made me think sometimes that I would never leave that place,” Jerce Reyes Barrios said.
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It's 7 AM and already 80°. Soaked the garden in preparation for the 100° weather we'll have today
Raised garden bed with green beans, arugula, tomatoes, and basil
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
It's my wedding day, but more importantly, it's #nokings day.
Anna in a white dress and veil with a sign reading "it's so bad I'm here on my wedding day"
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It's read-our-students'-evaluations-of-our-teaching season; any other teachers want to cry and comfort-eat with me?
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
This article says the owner wants to rebuild.... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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A Louisiana plantation-turned-resort burns, prompting a reckoning
Roughly an hour away, another plantation is working to honor the history of those once enslaved.
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
When students email me assignments that were due weeks ago, all of which I've already graded, with no explanations or text in the body of the email, even though I haven't accepted emailed assignment submissions all term
media.tenor.com
a little girl wearing a purple shirt is sitting in a car seat looking at the camera
ALT: a little girl wearing a purple shirt is sitting in a car seat looking at the camera
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Attention Comm scholars: come work with me! jobs.naz.edu/postings/4157 I've only been at Naz since August, but I really like my colleagues and students. #ROC
jobs.naz.edu
Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor of Communication and Media
The English & Communication Department at Nazareth University of Rochester, New York, invites applications for a one-year position in the Communication & Media Program at the rank of Visiting Assistan...
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Global Sixties Journal @globalsixties.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Recently published! Read the publication on "Seeking 'Self-Determination' in Detroit: Housing, Race, and the Activism of the West Central Organization, 1964-1971" by @annaelin.bsky.social in @urbanhistorya.bsky.social Read: doi.org/10.1177/00961442241288533 @sagepub.com
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I'm watching that documentary too and was similarly struck by how, under Mrs. Graham's leadership (not that she was perfect), the paper exposed Nixon's crimes. The public eventually came around. Makes the fact that the WaPo is currently being driven into the ground all the more bitterly ironic
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Helpful podcast episode: open.spotify.com/episode/47iN...
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Trump’s American Takeover
Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · Episode
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Me: skips the part that calls Trump a liar in the video on mis/disinformation I'm prepping for my Research Methods class tomorrow so I don't alienate right-wing students before teaching them. My fiance's bio prof: records a very cussy first-day lecture lambasting Trump and Musk for their lies 😅
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Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Read or listen to Robert Hubbell’s newsletter open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...
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A scar on the face of democracy
January 21, 2025
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I got a Facebook account in 2009 and just deleted it fully (it'll take 30 days to become permanent). Weird mix of nostalgic regret and a sense of freedom
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Anyone in the Rochester, NY region know of any inauguration protests happening in the city this weekend? I checked Facebook but couldn't find anything (and I'm planning on deleting my FB anyway) #ROC
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Designing and preparing courses before the term begins is almost meditative for me. I gather recommendations and advice from experts; assemble lists of resources and ideas; insert those resources into a carefully designed calendar; a beautiful, effective course that meets my students' needs emerges.
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
I read 16 books in 2024. It's hard to choose, but I think my top three were: 1. How to Say Babylon (memoir; social commentary) 2. The Frozen River (historical fiction) 3. Demon Copperhead (fiction) Follow me on StoryGraph! app.thestorygraph.com/profile/anna...
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Opening 2025 with Frederick Douglass's 1857 reflection on Africans and their descendants' struggles for freedom across the Caribbean and beyond: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Dr. García Peña contextualizes our current situation through historicization, reminding us of the significance diversity of Latinx communities and how the Democratic party has failed to account for the realities of those communities. Thanks for this important work
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Well this is grim
weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgptand i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here"

the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine

with the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world

but with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNEDthis kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me.

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he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood

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it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This is chilling: www.kctv5.com/2024/12/05/1... We've seen a version of this before, almost 200 years ago. My Wayne State colleagues and I wrote a paper about this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“If Ever Saints Wept and Hell Rejoiced, It Must Have Been Over the Passage of That Law”: The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in Detroit River Borderland Newspapers, 1851-1852
The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 raised the stakes for antislavery Whites and people of African descent in the United States by making resistance to slave catchers a federal crime. Thi...
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Listening to a Today, Explained podcast episode about the neuroscience of reading and thinking about how I much I friggin' love reading. Here's what I'm reading right now: app.thestorygraph.com/books/5a46be.... Just need to finish cleaning so I can get back to reading
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Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A gifted writer . . . explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfu...
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Anna E. Lindner, Ph.D. @annaelin.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Watching the Shirley Chisholm biopic. The struggle and joy and heartbreak are particularly hard to watch in the wake of the 2024 election. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjBe...
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SHIRLEY | Official Trailer | Netflix
YouTube video by Netflix
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