Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 05/09/2026getting angry about some relatively minor rhetorical overreach by the people on your side, over and over again, until it becomes your whole personality and you forget who you ever were. 150
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Don't worry, students, the line between "using AI to do your thinking for you" (bad!) and "stopping just short of that line so that you stand on your own ground" (good!) will be completely clear to you in every instance, just as it is for Homi Bhabha. 170
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Penn State Comp Lit departmental statement on in-class tech use (recommended), posting here in case you are working on one of your own or want to use/copy/edit for yourself. 0325
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Penn State comp lit departmental statement on AI (recommended, not required), posting here in case others are drafting their own (or want to copy/use/rework). 040
Reposted by Eric HayotAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/07/2026utterly patient response to professional misconduct Appiah DOGEd disciplines and fields about which he knows nothing, incinerating his reputation in the process "He just hasn’t done the reading." 511934
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Great piece by @gabrielh.bsky.social on the recent Vandy/Wash U report on the humanities... www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...chronicle.comOpinion | Dear Critics of Literary Studies: Do the ReadingThe philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles. 080
Reposted by Eric HayotMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Sounds great. Now please fund universally. 0329
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 15/07/2026A really interesting and important piece on the history of literary criticism, and the way it produces an axiology of the aesthetic... 042
Reposted by Eric HayotMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Here’s a must read critique of that “report” on the humanities/soc sciences. “But you know how when someone says ‘I don’t want to say X, but,’ the only important part of the sentence is the part that comes after the ‘but’?” @michael-berube.bsky.social @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.socialpghrev.comReport on the State of a Report (on the Humanities) - Pittsburgh Review of BooksOn June 5, 2026, the Chronicle of Higher Education published an article in a genre that has unfortunately become all too familiar in that venue titled “Has 11910
Reposted by Eric HayotAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 09/06/2026"This committee’s report would be terrible in the best of times, with its secret evidence and embarrassingly weak arguments compounded by a call for administrative repression. But to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion" 414362
Reposted by Eric HayotThe Bi of Hormuz @joshstein.bsky.social · 06/06/2026OK... I wasn't going to do a thread about this, but after trying to draft something short and pithy, I'm going to. It's a thread from my perspective, as someone who was a student of Paul Boghossian, an analytic philosophy acolyte, who abandoned the views of this about 15 years ago. 🧵 48033
Reposted by Eric HayotMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/06/2026I thought this was very good. It also got me thinking: I can tell *immediately* when my writing has been edited by someone else, because I know my voice so well. I assume others are the same. I wonder what it means to never gain that ability. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comWriting, Cognitive Offloading and Generative AI (opinion)Neither paradigm captures what matters when it comes to questions of cognitive offloading. 37613
Reposted by Eric HayotAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/06/2026This is a diabolically evil report. That is the only way to put it. Its objective is to reignite the culture wars using the imprimatur of both the university and prominent scholars so as to sow deep epistemic doubt about the humanities and hasten the project of killing us off entirely. 611334
Reposted by Eric HayotMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 19/05/2026So the Rosenbaum FUTURE OF TRUTH thing is appalling, but let’s not pretend this is an aberration: the over the fence talk I hear is that full on AI is now the norm in trade nonfiction. 5418
Reposted by Eric HayotHeather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I Was a University AI Czar. I'm Not Equipped to Teach in the Age of AI. jgellers.substack.com/p/i-was-a-un...jgellers.substack.comI Was a University AI Czar. I'm Not Equipped to Teach in the Age of AI.Over the past academic year, I served as the Inaugural Faculty Fellow for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at my university, a mid-sized public institution in the South. 021
Reposted by Eric HayotAndrew Whitehead @andrew-whitehead.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Please read and share this story. Grateful to @nbcnews.com for running this series on how cuts to Medicaid will dramatically alter how families care for disabled sons, daughters, and spouses. Great work, @mikehixenbaugh.com, and thank you for reporting. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...nbcnews.comFamilies caring for disabled relatives face unthinkable choices as Medicaid cuts loomPresident Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” state budget turmoil and new attacks on paid family caregiving have people fearing financial ruin as they fight to keep loved ones out of institutions. 15501267
Reposted by Eric HayotMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 14/05/2026The best rational for getting off Canvas (or other PE-funded LMS) is forming solidarity with students. For years, several of my colleagues & I have opened each course emphasizing the surveillance & security risks of Canvas. Last week many students realized we weren't just a contingent of paranoids 0334
Reposted by Eric HayotMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Column three is toast, so they will revert to column two. 0316
Reposted by Eric HayotModern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 07/05/2026In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 214371
Reposted by Eric HayotMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 29/04/2026The whole “restoring trust in higher ed” discussion falters in precisely the same way as Dems’ “if we listen, do good governance, and take the high road, we’ll win them over.” No you won’t. You can’t. You’ve misdiagnosed the nature of their “distrust.” 1/ 311136
Reposted by Eric HayotJ.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Always heartening when my dear colleagues in the Law and Business schools oppose a union because they got theirs and what even is a university? Shouldn't we spin off the high-performing divisions and let the devil take the hindmost in Social Work and Arts & Sciences? docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comMarshall Faculty Position in Opposition to UnionizationWe, the undersigned members of the Marshall RTPC faculty, oppose unionization in the proposed bargaining unit under UAW. While we affirm the right of workers to unionize, we believe that inclusion in ... 1112
Reposted by Eric HayotMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The always excellent @404media.co is on the ASU/Atomic/Canvas story. www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...404media.coUniversity Professors Disturbed to Find Their Lectures Chopped Up and Turned Into AI SlopASU Atomic, a new tool in beta at Arizona State University, takes faculty lectures and chops them into extremely short clips, that AI then attempts to turn into learning materials. 1113
Reposted by Eric HayotMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Coming soon to a campus near you. 63512
Reposted by Eric HayotSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Faculty in CA in the 1990s successfully protested mandatory online components of their classes largely on the grounds of IP and labor intensification. We don’t have to accept this. We can start with abandoning the LMS. 016850
Reposted by Eric HayotBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Perfect case of what we termed academic content assetization in a recent paper, where HE institutions use their learning platforms to gather teaching materials from staff to then repurpose as future revenue-generating derivative products 6268149
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 24/04/2026This is a very interesting essay, and reminds me of a recent piece by Chris Newfield (link in next post). Newfield argues that humanists must articulate "a new cultural order" that includes economics. Thompson's piece (which I admire) and its facile theory of "facts" and "feelings" exemplifies (1/2)derekthompson.orgIf America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad?Or: How the 2020s broke our brains 130
Reposted by Eric HayotKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/04/2026This rant is GLORIOUS 18614139
Reposted by Eric HayotDerek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Absolutely true, conservatives realized universal higher education was turning their children into independent thinkers and they *hated* it. Students were even protesting Democrats for not stopping the war! They started by charging tuition for the UC’s under Reagan… 1316
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 10/04/2026This is a crucial thread on what's going on with ADA/Canvas and higher ed by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social . Read/share, please! 141
Reposted by Eric HayotMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 10/04/2026For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵 310059
Reposted by Eric HayotDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Let's do this one time in good faith: Wealthy private universities in blue states should be bastions of humanistic education (including basic science), fully protected from the anti-education laws being passed in red states that afflict private and public schools alike. But instead .... /1 536091
Reposted by Eric HayotGlen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 03/04/2026ICYMI earlier, I've written for the @financialtimes.com today about the boring, empty and unsuccessful 'strategies' being imposed on all our universities. If we go on like this, sooner or later we'll have 'reorganised' them all out of existence. www.ft.com/content/5032...ft.comManagement consultants are ruining UK universitiesRelentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education 12610
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 31/03/2026This is a really important thread on the Canvas/Instructure terms of service, which were quoted in a piece @mattseybold.bsky.social and I wrote, and then were removed from the web three days after the piece was published. 0186
Reposted by Eric HayotMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 30/03/2026So, @ehayo1on9.bsky.social & I have been receiving a wave of questions about a passage from Canvas's terms of use that we quoted in this essay from January. We did get a few questions about it then, but this surge coming months later makes me think somebody is doing some damage control. 1/chronicle.comThe ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology. 15027
Reposted by Eric HayotTerrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 18/03/2026This piece is well worth the read. AI means only more and more annoying work for faculty: sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2026/...sonja-drimmer.squarespace.comOne Cool Trick to Increase Your Workload: AI "Literacy" for Faculty — Sonja DrimmerA refrain among the profiteers of automation is that the technology they’re selling will decrease everyone’s workload. But it has been shown time and again that automation intensifies labor: whether i... 083
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The humanities: weak, contemptible, ineffective, populated mainly by losers, graduates incapable of doing anything but menial service work. Also the humanities: a dangerous, incomprehensibly powerful force whose total destruction is necessary if society is to continue, children are to be born, etc. 2297
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 16/03/2026If it's so great, why do they keep giving it to you when you haven't asked for it, or forcing you to use it when you don't want to use it? Why are they so invested in creating the conditions in which you (and others) feel you have no choice but to use it, or to "fall behind"? Behind what? 122
Reposted by Eric HayotCritical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue @criticalai-journal.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Nice to see colleagues in college writing recognizing that gen AI in the classroom is neither inevitable nor necessarily beneficial--as the research increasingly shows, quite the reverse! www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in... 211845
Reposted by Eric HayotNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 15/03/2026"A department generating high credit-hour production across the university but with few declared majors is not an inefficient department. It is a department whose students are not being counted in the metric being used against it." 8905242
Reposted by Eric HayotKate Lowe (she/hers) @kateontransport.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Critical thinking is under serious threat from large language models/AI. Uni administrators are too prone to accept tech hype! (plus it can be wrong, steals IP, has devasting environment/energy impacts). @jessicacalarco.com made a great one-pager I share with students (plus effective model of comms) 413265
Reposted by Eric HayotNathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 10/03/2026GU Students:thehoya.comEDITORIAL | Avoid the Institutionalization of AIGeorgetown University professors could very well begin to see the phrases “indelible mark” and “valuable insight” a lot more often. With artificial intelligence (AI) constantly in the news… 04414
Reposted by Eric HayotMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.theguardian.com‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AIAs AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large 211588578
Eric Hayot @ehayot.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Excellent piece in @theguardian.com featuring @mattseybold.bsky.social, @dorazhang.bsky.social and others (including a shoutout to against-a-i.com) on AI in the humanities classroom.theguardian.com‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AIAs AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large 24813
Reposted by Eric HayotJames @mayornaise.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Goddamitalltohell 😡 I HATE THESE ASSHOLES 0103