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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 13h

I need to listen to this. We all need to be listening to voices who are skeptical of boosterism and doomerism.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13h

When an AI summarizes a text, it is not "reading," in any way close to what happens with humans. It is more accurate to call an AI summary a "compression." Compression of huge bodies of text can be very useful, but I think it's necessary to hold on to the distinction between compression and summary.

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 18h

LAST DAY to register to vote in New Jersey. Proud we’ve registered 100 brand new voters with @donutsndemocracy.bsky.social. One last push today at Montclair State University. Here’s a before…

Cute young couple on a bench fills out voter registrations.

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For the little it is worth, media contributions/appearances/interviews are part of our standard CV.

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One of my students wound up marooned in Iceland because of the volcanic eruption, and that sounds like a much better situation than this.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/09/2026

Crush the arts (Kennedy Center), destroy the civil service (DOGE), control elections (gestures broadly), dismantle the press (gestures more broadly), decimate science (NIH), and demolish education (DeptEd). The authoritarian playbook.

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I haven't had a chance to read this whole piece, but these screenshots capture my concerns, as a linguist who largely teaches future teachers, with Grammarly. What models of usage do they use? What are their reference texts? If I don't know "what's under the hood," why trust it?

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Scholars whose parents did not graduate from college are less likely to land tenure-track jobs at major research universities & less likely to get tenure Researchers...found disadvantage of being a 1st-gen college grad could be even greater than disadvantages associated w being female or nonwhite"

nytimes.com

The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations (Gift Article)

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

bu.edu

New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The University of Chicago’s undergrad social-sciences division will go “analog” this fall, implementing a blanket policy banning technology in class and AI assistance on coursework across the division’s core courses." www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...

chronicle.com

U. of Chicago Bans Tech, AI in Social Sciences Core Courses

The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Refusing "AI" makes sense for some labs, but not for us: we've been using ML tools for almost a decade. We also wanted to disaggregate the nonsensical category of "AI" and instead talk concretely about how we use automation in our work, and how to make automation work for us.

amacad.org

Making Automation Work for Social Scientists

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you want a usage to go away, just ignore it.

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In the file of best polyglot stories ever, I think this "French only with a gun go my head" is pretty entertaining @michaelerard.bsky.social

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm very excited about your new sourcebook--for realsies!

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Preparing for a workshop on teaching critical thinking in STEM in light of current, let's say pressures, and decided I should start my talk with a slides that lays out the values that form my premises:

Slide header: Premises/values: Cards on the table

Bullet points:
* I care more about students’ learning than about the “accuracy” of grades or the prestige associated with a specific degree
* I want to work collaboratively with my students, rather than policing them
* I don’t want to spend any time reading, much less providing feedback on, something nobody wrote
* Science is a human, communal process; there is no knowing without knowers; and our work cannot be autocompleted
* Deep thinking and human connection are always more important than polish, speed, or “productivity”
* Research agendas should not be set by & for industry

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Garry @thegmcconnachie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is why Dolly Parton will be remembered and loved ❤️📚

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I know that many people feel as if they are peculiarly blessed to live at the same time as certain artists, but I feel that way about David Bowie, Prince, and Dolly Parton. But Dolly is the only one who could make Protestants venerate saints again.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

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Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Stories like this are a good example of what Kellogg and other cognitive psychologists call the "audience representation of the text" being formed in real time. Expert writers must maintain three distinct conceptualizations of their text in working memory as they write--

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Stephen Chrisomalis @schrisomalis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I am actively recruiting MA and PhD students in linguistic, historical, and cognitive anthropology at Wayne State for Fall 2027. No GRE; multi-year funding for all PhD students. Application deadline 01/15. Share widely, or contact me for more info. clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/dz6179

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

not a conspiracy and other researchers are documenting and developing www.theamericanvandal.com/p/against-te...

theamericanvandal.com

Against Technofeudal Education

Pillars For Protecting Our "Core Infrastructure" From OpenAI

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/07/2026

Find the 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe YOUR vibe ⬇️ www.merriam-webster.com/time-traveler/

I recently discovered Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler feature which tells you which words are the same age as you.
I'm convinced there are 5 words from your birth year that perfectly describe your vibe.
Mine (1987):
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-adhd
• brain fart
-dad joke
-potty-mouthed
-thirtysomething

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It is more of the fascist fire sale playbook, isn't it? Take something of value and strip it for parts until it ceases to function, especially if it is a public good.

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 08/08/2026

This is the main reason I'm so angry about the "AI" bubble. All this enormous effort could have been spent combatting the climate crisis and the opportunity cost of your fucking chatbot is going to be the very climate we live in Imagine what we could have done with those 3 trillion dollars?

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Is it wrong to wish a broken toe on someone? That seems like a benign curse, sort of like my go-to: "May (insert name here) and their descendants to the 7th generation never find a good parking space "

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

And this is exactly why I object to deaccessioning books! A book might tear, but it won't lock its covers or disappear once you own it!

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Please put your recovery first and talk with the ADA office! Your students need you, but you need to be well.

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sometimes estrangement is a tragedy, but sometimes it is what we do to try to make the next generation better. /26

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This insistence that we should treasure "heritage" without interrogation demonstrates a denial of our own personal shames. If we refuse to hold ancestors responsible for their actions, we are denying responsibility for our own. /25

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And in that same conversation about the Civil War my dad said, "The only shame you should carry is your own. But you always should do better." /24

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

And when he was 17, she dropped dead. My aunt was already married to her first of many husbands at 14. /23

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Or that his own mother decided one day that she was not going to take my grandfather's bullshit one more day and took his sister and got on the train and went to Oklahoma. /22

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Or perhaps he knew that his grandfather had murdered someone and his grandmother had to raise two daughters on her own, /21

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Probably because he knew he had abandoned a family before creating his second one, /20

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My dad had only an 8th grade formal education, but he was a good man with friends of all backgrounds. Who never used racial or ethnic slurs in private; who encouraged his daughters to think about careers and self-sufficiency/19

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I'm sure I'm not alone in having ancestors who perpetrated atrocities (small and large). But I recognize that good people distanced themselves from them and embraced other narratives. /18

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So when I look at this moment in US History, this is what I see: people so estranged from their families that they have embraced myths of strength and ability because their don't know the specifics. /17

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

But all of them lived lives of estrangement from family as they migrated from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania to California. /16

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

But there are good people too. Musicians, and artists, and photographers, anti-slavery Quakers--one of Lincoln's portraits was taken by an ancestor. /15

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Felicia Steele @feliciajsteele.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Every year we went to Fort Union in NM, and he emphasized how important the NM territory--and Mexico--was in preventing Confederate advancement all the way to California. /14

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