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Dr Hannah Murray

@hlmurray.bsky.social
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Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative. Melbourne. she/her ‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-l…

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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 18h
Me: got to finish marking today Also me: what if I just edited my lectures for 2027 and designed a reading list for 2028 instead
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Kermit's Dark Side: Inner Battle
Alt: Kermit and his dark side. Close up on two green frog puppet heads facing each other. One on the right is wearing a black hood, covering his eyes.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Spending my scarce time generously doing unpaid reviews of manuscripts that I discover midway are entirely AI-generated is turning me into the damn Joker. Trying not to take it out on editors, who are victims in this too, and who need our diligent professional service, but I'm about to fully snap
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This feels antisemitic
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026
Higher ed leaders are worried about the "decline of public trust"; what are they doing about the fact that faculty, students, and staff at their own institutions do not trust them to lead effectively, defend academic freedom, and meet the challenges of the moment?
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026
How many local models do you run?

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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack th Show more
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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is my position with my students - if you fix the economic and social issues re. GenAI I still want to read your own work, writing and thought process.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don’t understand: isn’t this why we read books in the first place, what is the point of this
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:
Screenshot of Chronicle of Higher Education website showing featured articles: "Anthropology Has a Truth Problem"; "The Social Sciences Have a Politics Problem"; "Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?"; "Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon's Call to Action Seriously."
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Johannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Incredible stuff.
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AI and the crisis of the author
        

By Anchit Sathi

September 4, 2026
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Editor’s note (September 21, 2026): We have removed this essay. AI was used in its preparation. The TLS editorial guidelines prohibit the use of AI in the writing and editing process. The author states that he was unaware of the policy.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Week 11: 8 out of 85 students attended. I don’t mind small tutorials but it does feel like I’m running one class of engaged students with a shadow class of essay-writing ghosts underneath.
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 Breaking news: we fucking WON!!!!!!!!!! 🚨 www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...
Legal 500 workers win full pay claim after strike action

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Dozens of publishing staff at Legalease, the publishers of legal industry-bible The Legal 500, have won a dramatic victory in their industrial dispute over pay.

Staff who had been on strike for two and a half weeks accepted an offer that fully met their original pay claim of a £2000 pay increase for every worker. This was despite the company originally claiming it would not pay such an increase.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Before I moved to Australia I was a ChildLine counsellor for fifteen years. The impact Esther’s project made on the lives of young people is enormous. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cq...
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Dame Esther Rantzen, broadcaster, campaigner and charity founder, dies aged 86
Rantzen, who fronted the BBC's That's Life for two decades, went on to found Childline, and in recent years had been a campaigner for assisted dying.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Curséd timeline
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a professor, most of what I do is log in to things
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great news: the School has sacked a third of its academic but we've acquired 2 new interim managers on top of the extra permanent ones. Fine work all round.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I live in Australia and *checks notes* oh god Choosin’ Texas is number one here too.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just realised that twenty years ago I started my BA English degree! And the nerd that I am, I still have my notes.
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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am tired of having to pretend that the value of studying my discipline solely rests on the "marketable skills" we teach. Sometimes things are just worth knowing and doing because they make your life bigger and richer.
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Loser behaviour
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Go Brisbane Bears!
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Not just X - list of three Ys”
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is unethical
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
. . . like we have the word chutzpah as well as an entire culture of extremely, extremely colorful and vivid curses . . . but I don't think there's an appropriately strong Yiddish word that covers this
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yep. In Australia the government are rejecting/never processing student visas en masse. We are now on our second voluntary redundancy scheme in 12 months 🙃
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is unethical
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.
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History is a human craft | Historical Transactions
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not loving the use of Claude by the editor to work out if an historical event happened or not … but yes, reviewing GenAI written articles absolutely sucks, is a waste of time, and people need to be barred from submitting work.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Who has two thumbs and just got the go-ahead to create a final year class entirely on speculative fiction? This guy! 🎉
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it is incredibly fucked up that the UK government and police consider it a much worse crime to wear a t-shirt or wave a placard with 'palestine action' on it than to block ports and attack lifeboats
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The major problem with this reporting - beyond its fundamental inaccuracy - is that when arrests are eventually made there will be no proper context and therefore it will seem like the state is smothering free expression.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“You’re so paranoid, you probably think this close reading was written by AI” (it was Eve, it was!)
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“You’re so paranoid, you probably think this close reading was written by AI” (it was Eve, it was!)
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That’s not what Old(e) English means ?!?!
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026
[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
2/2 But this data on enslaved people themselves, derived from the registers of the ‘amelioration’ period is a yet more significant resource on captives & for their descendants: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...
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Nearly 4m records of enslaved people in 20 former British colonies now searchable online
Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.
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The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every chatbot prompt box says "check answers for accuracy." But increasingly, "humans in the loop" refuse to do that. Instead, they become complicit in the AI industry's project of destroying the provenance of information. But you are person, and it is an app. It can't take responsibility for you.
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Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own
Claude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product.
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’ll all go mad from suspicion if we run everything through Pangram but the guy admitted it! He even admitted that the explanation email he wrote about his AI use included AI suggestions and reworded statements!
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Tom Ellison @123tomellison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine the vibes in the student newspaper bullpen during these email exchanges. Delectable.
A screenshot of a Dartmouth student newspaper article that says:

In an email statement to The Dartmouth on Sept. 18, Schnell wrote that he uses artificial intelligence for “language refinement, copyediting, improving clarity and organization and making writing processes more efficient,” but “review[s] the final text and take[s] responsibility for its content.”

“I develop ideas and arguments, conduct the research, evaluate the evidence and sources, determine the structure, prepare drafts and decide what appears in the final text,” Schnell wrote. “I regard these technologies as assistive tools. They do not identify the problem, design the research project, guarantee the validity of research results, interpretations, citations, conclusions or substitute for my research, intellectual judgment or authorship.”

Schnell’s Sept. 18 email statement to The Dartmouth was itself “100% AI-written,” according to a Pangram test.

In a follow-up statement about the composition of the email, Schnell wrote that he “developed the substance and wrote a draft” of the email, then “used an Al tool to assist with language and clarity, taking on several suggestions (including reworded sentences), before reading it through, making minor changes and sending it to you with my signature.”
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do you hate academic reading and writing? Do you hate them so much that you’ll buy an app to turn them into tiktoks and slop for you? Try this one simple trick: Do something else
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