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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 15h

Having seen the Joyce Carol Oates very bad, not good tweet about romance and AI, I can't help thinking about the way that romance has been treated as a punching bag for so long and always by people who are completely unwilling to engage with the genre and know little about it.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm planning on having students do more in-class writing in both my freshman and upper-level classes. If you are too, let's share prompts? Here are some of mine that I'm tinkering with:

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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

Bram Stoker
1847-1912
A PENGUIN SINCE 1979

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Red State Universities: we believe in indoctrination and job training Students: we hate that is there another option? Blue State Universities: we promise to have no values except job training. It ain’t enough. My latest. Gift link.

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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.

The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A magnified transection of a thistle stalk by Nehemiah Grew. Grew was one of the first scientists to use a microscope to study the internal structure of plants.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/08/2026

14 hours later and my mentions are still full of angry treatises about badly behaved cyclists. Bike lanes are not a reward for good cyclist behavior! They are infrastructure proven to make cities safer for ALL ROAD USERS. Whatever way cyclists have wronged you is irrelevant to the discussion!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

People also need to see this not just as an arcane concern for rare book enthusiasts or librarians or archivists or historians and other scholars, but as part of the destruction of the corpus of human endeavour necessary to bring about what Sam Altman says here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqv...

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‘Buy It From Us On A Meter…’, Sam Altman Says AI Will Be a Utility, People Should Buy It Like Water

YouTube video by Mint

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 17/08/2026

A few things: (1) AI should not be used to assist writing. Cognitive outsourcing is bad. (2) The college essay is on the decline because of labor as much as AI. Learning to write well requires a lot of personal contact which neoliberal logics of higher ed work against www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Just as a matter of interest, *any* use of AI in scholarly writing is tantamount to plagiarism. You don’t know whose work the AI has trained on, so you can’t give them proper acknowledgment or make an appropriate citation.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Everything is so so so stupid.

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

1. Normally 2 and 3; currently 1 and 2 (chair load) 2. I aim for two 2-3 hours sessions but at busy times am very happy to manage 1. 3. Weekdays late morning or early afternoon, depending on my teaching schedule. Never early mornings; nights or weekends only under deadline. 1/2

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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

August as an academic

Tabbycat in tie say he hopes he doesn’t have a lot of meetings… while in the background is a lots of meetings factory

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

☞ ☞ ☞ the index finger is a pointing gesture to be found in manuscript and print traditions. It was used to draw the reader's attention to a certain part of a text or image. This slow-moving thread highlight a few of them:

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

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The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

" Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new data shows. " #English #language #literature #HigherEd #Edchat #edusky www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 22/06/2026

ME: okay, kiddo, I hope you have a great week at sumer camp! KID: don't you mean "summer" camp? UR-NAMMU: construction of the great ziggurat begins at first light ME: your counselor seems nice

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Millie Schurch's article 'Paper Colonialism: Instructions and Institutions at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1770–1820', written as part of her postdoc in our ‘Early Citizen Science’ project is now published in Eighteenth-Century Studies ! muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.its.uu.se/article/993281 🧵

Print of a view of the Palm House at the Royal Botanic Gardens

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet

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Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today

It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Paging @nushpowell.bsky.social : “It has of late been much the fashion with writers of celebrity to choose pirates for their heroes, insomuch that many of our youth, especially of the female sex, attach an idea of romantic grandeur to the very word pirate.” (Kaleidoscope, 1830)

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

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The US Is Pulling Up a $386 Million Climate Ocean Sensor Network

NSF dismantling Ocean Observatories Initiative as very strong El Niño forms. Edson, Robbins, McLean: an irreparable blind spot in U.S. climate observation.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Someone who does not get enough credit for the “BookLab” community that has emerged: in addition to designing the Book Beetle which has been the enabling starter press for so many students and learners, including @umdbooklab.bsky.social, Josef is also a constant mentor and friend to many.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 12/06/2026

Hosted by @katieailes.bsky.social, this episode of the Building Stories podcast explores how Christian Isobel Johnstone laid the foundations for today’s media industry in Edinburgh & advocated for affordable access to reliable information #C18 #C19 www.historicenvironment.scot/visit-a-plac...

Title page for volume 1 of CLAN-ALBIN: A National Tale, by Christian Isobel Johnstone

CLAN-ALBIN
A NATIONAL TALE

A nation fam'd for song and beauty's charms;
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free;
Patient amidst toil; serene amidst alarms;
Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.
BEATTIE

IN FOUR VOLUMES

VOL. I.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

First #bookhistory post of the year. Some books simply scream for a thread! We have two copies of the same #EarlyModern edition. Why would we want to collect two copies of the same book, you ask? Read on! EHC Antwerp, K 54092 copy 1 and 2. [1/16] 📜 💙📚

Two title pages of the same book, showing their likeness.

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I don't care what chatgpt told you, babe, I'm in my medieval mystics era 💅

Words over Hildegard image: I asked chat GPT well I asked Hildegard of bingen and she said I see you as a little boy or some mad man

I asked chat GPT well I asked Julie if Norwich and she said all she'll be well and all shall be well and I'll manner of things shall be well

I asked chat GPT while I asked Catherine of Siena and she said proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear

I asked Chad GPT while I ask Marjorie Kim and she said patience is more worthy than miracle working

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

This is glorious. (From the British Museum, Midsummer 1939.)

A letter to British Museum staff, written in Midsummer 1939, advising various departments not to lower their dress standards in the heat.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/05/2026

Instead of cutting deals with billionaires to push "A.i." into schools, I'd suggest pushing government to TAX billionaires to increase teacher pay and reduce class sizes.

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Joe Dator @joedator.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 19/05/2026

For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assist…

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The Filipino virtual assistants behind LinkedIn's “thought leadership” content mill

For $7 an hour, virtual assistants use AI tools to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Canvas is down, ye say? Aye lad hearken to me and I'll tell thee of a time when a man might say canvas was down! When the leviathan booms his bulk upon ye an' thy splintered masts surrender their sails to the foaming, merciless drink!! then, lad, ye say might say with some authority that can (1/135)

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Katie Lumsden @katiejlumsden.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Real “Letterpress is my Passion” energy here.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Just want to be clear that when RFK Jr. said in the hearing today that he is “overhauling” the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force, it is because this administration wants to reduce the number of services that health insurance companies are required to cover.

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

'Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80 percent of the time — a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”' Cognitive surrender 🥲 futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

In fact I was, only yesterday, reflecting on the tragically under-read state of my article on Botany Bay and Romantic magazines. There are kangaroos, people! #ASECS26 @rs4vp.org doi.org/10.1353/ecs....

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Packing for #ASECS26 ! Can't wait to see everyone in Philadelphia.

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Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Never had a Lady’s Monthly Museum in its original wrappers in my hands before, but now I own this from May 1803. I’ll be using it along with other items from by personal collection and the much more extensive riches in the @uoyborthwick.bsky.social in my @rarebookschool.bsky.social course in July.

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.com · 28/03/2026

Roman Mosaic Unearthed - Southwark, London, UK <3 What Time Reveals (9 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/03/28/f... Two archaeologists gently uncover a large Roman mosaic beneath a construction site near The Shard in central London. The vibrant geometric patterns, preserved underground for nearly...

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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

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Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

Goldman Sachs reports that 300 million full-time jobs could be replaced by AI by 2030. Labor turnover is high and hiring has slowed. 71% of Americans worry that AI will cause permanent job loss. As young people about to enter the workforce for the first time, the fear of unemployment is understandable, but we cannot save ourselves with the very tool that is putting us at risk.

The irony is that as Penn pours endless money and energy into AI advancement in its attempt to get ahead, the University is only quickening its own demise. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it. As technology advances and workers are replaced by machines, schools are some of the only places we have left to explore and wrestle with human thought. With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship.

Editorials represent the majority view of members of The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board who meet regularly to discuss issues relevant to the Penn community. This body is led by Editorial Board Chair Jack Lakis and is entirely separate from the newsroom. Questions or comments should be directed to letters@thedp.com.

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