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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.

Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

First job out of grad school, I asked for (and got) annual funding to attend a natl conference even if not presenting. Current job, negotiated a later start date bc I knew it would take me that long to get my house ready to sell and move. Long run, asking for more $ would have been better.

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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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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 · 26/03/2026

Pat Ireland Nixon was a SATX dr who wrote a lot of history books, was even president of the THA: archives.trinity.edu/pat-ireland-...

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Redirecting…

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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

"Novels are all so full of nonsense and stuff; there has not been a tolerably decent one come out since Tom Jones, except The Monk." To have Thorpe say that novels are all trash except for "The Monk"? Austen could not have depicted his character better than this one line. I'm obsessed.

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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 · 17/03/2026

It was decommissioned in '96 I think? I was definitely in middle school when we went. I still have the Rivereast clipping somewhere.

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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 · 16/03/2026

Somehow never did Gillette Castle on a field trip even though I grew up in the neighboring town. Did you have to dress up in colonial costumes for Sturbridge Village, or was that a special tradition at just my school?

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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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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 09/02/2026

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

2026, Together we are America: immigration and cultural identity

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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

2013, Who run the world? Beyoncé and 21st century feminism

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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

2004, wardrobe malfunctions and purity culture

Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake Super Bowl halftime show

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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

2002, performative patriotism post 9/11

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Colleen Hoelscher @choelsch.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

2025, race relations in the Trump era

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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 · 27/01/2026

The Library of Congress name authority file has it as “Tyler, the Creator, 1991-“. Their standard rule is to format the authority file “lastname, firstname” fwiw.

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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 · 10/12/2025

It’s actually a real thing! Studies have found a correlation between “roaming entropy” and improved mood.

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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

"The Archival Intern will evaluate Polar’s historical materials and design a complete archival program" !?!?!

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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 · 08/11/2025

We did a snowy gingerbread man last year

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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

You've Got Mail, Stepmom, and Rudy

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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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