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Colleen Hoelscher

@choelsch.bsky.social
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Special Collections Librarian at Trinity University. Mom, baker, cheese enthusiast. she/her.

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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anne of Greener Gables
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BGinCHI @bginchi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"smart SLACs are going to market AI free campuses soon" Agree. Regionals need to do this too.
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Not how to articulate this, but I suspect it would be easier to convince people not to use genAI for things that don’t need it for by addressing underlying problems: wage stagnation, economic pressures from shareholders, competitive productivity via metrics — capitalism, by addressing capitalism.
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Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 17/07/2026
The Taco Bell finger pointing is a psyop to redirect attention from the real culprit, the deregulation and lack of oversight in our food supply
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Shockingly, the miscellaneous photos did not get sorted before making it to the archives in 2024.
Aged paper box with the notation “Misc. Photos to sort 8/14/64” scrawled in marker on top.
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rotkoff @rotkoff.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
My salsa, verde. My tacos, puffy. My fascist President roots for the Knicks. Spurs is six.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Special Collections Librarian in possession of a some really cool books, must be in want of a class ready to dive into a wonderful collaboration.
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Trinity English Department and Special Collections Collaborate to Curate Exhibition on Jane Austen
Students gain deeper understanding of texts through hands-on humanities research, participate in international anniversary celebration
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Couldn’t stop laughing at husband’s all-time Spotify top song (God Bless the USA, thanks to a kid practicing for a pre-k concert). Karma got me back—mine is “Rocking on Top of the World” from the Polar Express. Being a parent who cares too much about data is rough some times.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The irony of this article being accompanied by Elsevier's "reading assistant."
Screenshot of the article "ChatGPT as a Cognitive Crutch" from the journal Social Sciences & Humanities Open, with a pop up window for Elsevier's "Reading Assistant" AI tool.
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Simon is on strike ✊🏻 @simonxix.com · 30/04/2026
Technical infrastructure does not just persist. It needs maintenance and, crucially, people to perform that maintenance. Servers need to be updated, SSL certificates need to be renewed, domains need to be paid for.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This week I ordered the wrong rare book for a class, and loaded a reel of microfilm upside down and had to reroll the entire thing by hand (while helping a student). We weren't meant to try to go on living our lives with this much impending doom.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I've been working on reading/rereading Jane Austen's works this year, and how has no one ever mentioned to me how utterly hilarious Northanger Abbey is?
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Chris Slaby @cjslaby.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Apparently this is becoming a necessary weekly PSA. If you don’t want to read, write, and think, that’s fine. But then you have no business being a scholar. Especially if you’re TT/tenured, and especially in the humanities, if you can’t be bothered to do these things, you need to get out now.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A more interesting question to me: what is the weirdest field trip your school ever took you on? In middle school, we toured the recently decommissioned Connecticut Yankee Nuclear Power Plant. Like walked through the whole structure maybe a year after they turned it off? Lots of Alex Mack jokes.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Eli Whitney Museum, Mark Twain House, and Nature's Classroom.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
At this point, I'm fairly confident our photography prof continues to request Baltz's "San Quentin Point" portfolio for his classes because of how much I dislike it. It's photos of trash! www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks...
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‘San Quentin Point‘, Lewis Baltz, 1982 | Tate
‘San Quentin Point‘, Lewis Baltz, 1982
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Sometimes I get ideas that make me wish I taught semester-long classes. Reskeeting for the morning crowd.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
“Football Night in America: Social History via Halftime Shows” — a syllabus.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
It is 34 degrees with a wintry mix today in Dilley.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I loaned Joe Montana a screwdriver to assemble his daughter’s futon when moving her into her freshman dorm.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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a man and a woman are talking in a baseball field and the woman says there 's no crying in baseball ..
ALT: a man and a woman are talking in a baseball field and the woman says there 's no crying in baseball ..
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Vulture @vulture.com · 26/11/2025
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
There is absolutely nothing "intern" about this job description. And yet, they will have no shortage of applicants.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My PCP’s AI scribe charted that I have lymphoma (I don’t). Getting it fixed was such a huge hassle that I have considered just changing physicians.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Having been forced to eat Texas bagels for almost ten years now, in no universe should they be considered a draw.
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I'm curious if others who usually travel for Thanksgiving are second guessing doing so at this point.
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nick pants @nickpants.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
i wish LSUfreak was around to make a brian kelly GIF
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Whatever you were expecting, the reality of this timeline is 1000x worse.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
It is okay—dare I say, even wonderful!—to write in your books and dog-ear pages. Your annotations add historical value by showing how someone responded to the book.
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San Antonio Current @sacurrent.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Over the years, locals have been subjected to glowing promises about plenty of other big projects that fell flat.
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Boosters' past rhetoric shows why San Antonio residents should be leery of Project Marvel
Over the years, locals have been subjected to glowing promises about plenty of other big projects that fell flat.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The cognitive dissonance of being a college football fan* and working in higher education led me to same feeling of grossness. (* now former)
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“Can your football coach be so hot you overlook obvious problems with the actual team” finally we will learn the answer
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
To be clear, solving this mystery does not mean that I will get around to cataloging these books anytime soon.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Today I solved the provenance mystery surrounding a cart of medium-rare books (primarily Hugh Thomson/Macmillan novels) that has been in my office for 7+ years.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I'm processing the collection of a 1990s kids tv producer, and let me tell the fan mail sent to his show is WILD. Creepy adults, crazed pre-teens, the whole gamut.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Academic publishing is messed up in so many ways, not the least of which is that Fobazi wrote one of the most influential articles in our field with no financial benefit. Signal boosting for anyone else who has found her work as influential as I have.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
They are all on Second Life.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Our district only busses if you live more than 2 miles away, meaning my middle schooler would be expected to walk 1.7 miles that is somehow uphill both ways in 100 degree Texas heat.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 23/07/2025
"We forget what we don’t want to remember. While I understand that impulse, there are dangers embedded in our forgetfulness. This is especially true for anyone living in Flash Flood Alley."
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The San Antonio Flood of 1921 Held Lessons We Refuse to Learn
There is nothing unknown about what triggered the brutal Hill Country flood of 2025 and so many others dating back to the nineteenth century.
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
“What perfect albums came out when you were 16?” 2001:
Album cover for "Fever" by Kylie Minogue, featuring Kylie in a white shirt and bikini bottom, holding up a microphone on a white background.
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Mr Targeted Harassment @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Texas can't adequately warn people about deadly floods, but it can immediately let me know that a cop got hurt 250 miles away from me.
A "blue alert" from the state of Texas for an injury to a cop 250 miles away from where I live.
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Jess Schomberg @schomj.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I heard from someone who works there that management needs better messaging skills - I mean, that: the research rooms are still open to researchers, no change in that policy buses and cars will no longer be able to drive up right to the building, that is the change in policy
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Spot the (broad-winged? not sure on the exact species) hawk hanging around campus.
A hawk sitting on the branch of an oak tree, red brick college buildings in the background.
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