iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Same...my full title is so long that I can never remember it when put on the spot.

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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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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hahaha I knew as soon as I saw this that it was yet another triumph of the UK publisher titling rules! (Still honestly don't understand it...SEI seems to work just fine for American books that do allow the more abstract main titles).

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Congratulations! And a gorgeous cover.

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This sounds amazing! Looking forward to reading.

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think I just read the same book!

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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

Oh sorry should have said: if you don't itemize deductions, which we don't.

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

(I look into this every year because it does feel wrong that being a professor is my job but I cannot deduct job-related expenses. But that appears to be the answer as far as I have been able to discover.)

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

If you are getting paid to write for those other outlets, then that makes sense! I just meant that as I understand the tax code you cannot deduct business expenses from salary income, unfortunately, only, e.g. 1099 income.

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

Only if you have substantial non-salary business income! As far as I understand it at least; would love to be wrong about this.

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

1. yes 2. rarely (once a month max, sometimes much less). have cut way back on this for budget reasons. 3. daily (bike commute built into my day helps with this) 4. rarely, though I talk on the phone to close friends and family very frequently.

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

2/2 4. Too many administrative tasks; sometimes grading and teaching emails, esp. in 3-course semesters. 5. Schedule the time; don't schedule more than is reasonable for your workload; make it fun, in a peaceful spot, add treats so you look forward to it.

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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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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I absolutely love hearing about other people's eccentric writing/research/revision practices so I really like how this pod includes questions about process at the beginning of each author interview.

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

It's the frame narrative for a short story (serialized in the Kaleidoscope) about a "Demon Ship" which is terrorizing the Mediterranean. In the issue I'm looking at 'Greek Corsairs' are mentioned once but otherwise the identity of the pirates is left very vague ('Mediterranean' is all you get)

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

I just wrote the same thing above except that I really like the Rain Wilds books (though I do appear to be an outlier in that opinion). I just finished a reread of the whole Elderlings series and was pretty impressed with how well she wove the whole enormous thing together.

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

Yay! If you enjoyed the world-building I would definitely recommend reading on to the next trilogies (make sure to read them in the right order) which all build on each other and this first trilogy. I think the Liveship Traders books have some of the best world-building out there.

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Congratulations! Really looking forward to this!

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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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