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Jenn Stroud Rossmann

@jenn-rossmann.bsky.social
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MechE prof & Dean of Engineering @Lafayette College, The Place You're Supposed to Laugh, novel (7.13 Books), Engineer Reads a Novel (Public Books), Manifestos on inclusion, equity, and interdisciplinarity @InsideHigherEd

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyway, yall know all this stuff. The real point is that we all know this stuff but they keep making this AI thing that pretends we don’t know this stuff. the word for that is power.
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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This entire situation is beyond disgusting, but thank the Goddess for the stellar fucking work of student journalists. Truly. CW: rape, sexual assault www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...
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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"We know what to do: incubate open-access A.I. models, regulate technologies before they go rogue, hold the people who allow them to go rogue accountable if they do and protect the most vulnerable when we, the people, sometimes get it wrong." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
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Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will. (Gift Article)
The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wrote a thing about a thing I wrote, and @politybooks.bsky.social is bringing both to you: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wrote a thing about a thing I wrote, and @politybooks.bsky.social is bringing both to you: www.politybooks.com/blog-detail/...
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The fact also that the product in question seems to produce a dangerous dependence that leaves students lacking confidence in their own minds and abilities is enough for us not to be testing it; but the fact that the tech is driving some vulnerable young people to suicide is even more alarming.
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy birthday to this delightfully designed new book, out today! In which I propose that Wendell Berry has offered us a syllabus in verse for Engineering Design.
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Worldbuilding: The Engineering Imagination
Worldbuilding: The Engineering Imagination, Engineers across the globe are building our future and, by extension, our world. But how can these engineers—whose educations have often encoded historical ...
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Electrical Engineering teacher-scholars! Come join us at Lafayette College -- we are hiring at the Associate or Assistant Prof level. We prize inclusion, practice-and-theory integration, and interdisciplinary cooperation. #mechatronics #ee #design www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Odds are 10-1 that in the same week we learned about the shock gloves for ICE, someone will plaintively ask me "But why is it so important for engineering students to learn about ethics."
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I'm intrigued to hear how senior white professors, POC professors, and Black professors are protecting junior Black professors who are being targetted all over the world. You come to the internet to express outrage but where is the effort to support us BEFORE we are harmed by these institutions?
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Electrical Engineering teacher-scholars! Come join us at Lafayette College -- we are hiring at the Associate or Assistant Prof level. We prize inclusion, practice-and-theory integration, and interdisciplinary cooperation. #mechatronics #ee #design www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?...
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 02/08/2026
The application for the AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship, which places scientists & engineers into roles in Congress and in the Executive Branch, opened today. This program is essential for building technical policy capacity in the US. If interested, apply: fellowshipapp.aaas.org/app/main
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STPF Application - AAAS
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Students from all 50 states just drafted an #AIBillofRights. They named cheating, bias, privacy mental health, environmental costs and more. The civic grammar of AI rights is traveling and we're fortunate that young people are leading the way and writing it. www.the74million.org/article/stud...
"High school students, steeped for nearly the past four years in generative artificial intelligence, face this reality daily, attending class largely without a set of agreed-upon guidelines. Over the weekend, a small group of students came together to hammer out a few basic principles for the technology, something akin to an AI Bill of Rights.

Sponsored by a group that includes an MIT research initiative and a national superintendents’ association, 100 students from all 50 states gathered here to debate a first-of-its-kind set of recommendations, to be shared with district leaders nationwide as AI proliferates rapidly in the lives of both students and teachers."
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What stories do our technologies tell about us, and what other stories and tech are possible? In my new book from @politybooks.bsky.social I'm all about chasing down WHAT IFs and THEN WHATs, interrogating the history of technology in order to envision many possible futures.
The cover of Jenn Rossmann's new book WORLDBUILDING features an imagined planet made from folded paper.
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What stories do our technologies tell about us, and what other stories and tech are possible? In my new book from @politybooks.bsky.social I'm all about chasing down WHAT IFs and THEN WHATs, interrogating the history of technology in order to envision many possible futures.
The cover of Jenn Rossmann's new book WORLDBUILDING features an imagined planet made from folded paper.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”
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‘What To The Slave Is The Fourth Of July?’: Descendants Read Frederick Douglass' Speech | NPR
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
yes please and thank you very much!
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"Generative AI cannot dissociate itself from the processes of extractivism, automation, essentialism, surveillance, and containment, which perpetuate historic structures of heteropatriarchal, colonial, racist, white supremacist, and capitalist oppression” - Jasmina Tacheva & Srividya Ramasubramanian
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Gift link @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on the political level of data centers Winning political strategies can be as simple as pick something that harms people and be against it and then pick something that helps people and be for it. People HATE data centers so…
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Opinion | This Could Be the Winning Issue for Democrats
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Ever seen a news story about AI and thought “this could be an episode of Black Mirror”? We're running a research study where we ask people to imagine generative AI futures and pitch their own science fiction story. More detail at the link and please share! www.internetruleslab.com/black-mirror...
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Black Mirror Survey Study — Internet Rules Lab
We're recruiting for a survey where you pitch your own Black Mirror episode about the future of generative AI!
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Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com · 26/05/2026
BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism
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Data Feminism for Data Visualization
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
“We must avoid the … the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance.” www.theverge.com/news/936945/...
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Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI
AI has been a core part of Pope Leo’s papacy
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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 14/05/2026
I absolutely love this updated @chronicle.com feature on who a college thinks its peer institutions are. It's always good for a chuckle (and a sense of status competition). www.chronicle.com/article/who-...
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Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?
The Chronicle compiled the peer institutions for over 1,500 institutions from the 2023-24 year.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026
While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Study finds that students using chatGPT learned and remembered less than students who did not use it. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention
The rapid integration of generative artificial intelligence into higher education has outpaced empirical understanding of its effects on fundamental l…
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The attack on education in the US is not new, but the slow fuse that arguably started with Reagan is now setting off detonations across K-12 and higher education that are going to be incredibly difficult to walk back if we don’t treat this like the urgent crisis it is.
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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The original Earthrise photo is arguably one of the most important things to have come from the Apollo mission, changing the way we see the world. Incredibly moving to finally have a new shot of our small blue dot.
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Jennifer Francis @jenniferfrancis.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Women having to prove they are female is not a win for women.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“To streamline future projects, the city’s Dept of Environmental Protection, which is responsible for fresh water supply as well as sewage + stormwater mgmt, has formed a Bureau of Coastal Resilience to lead responses to coastal flooding as well as spikes in stormwater volumes...”
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New York City Rebuilds a Waterfront Park to Hold Back Rising Seas
After a $1.45 billion makeover, East River Park promises to use massive sea walls and earthen berms to protect Lower Manhattan from flooding. But for how long?
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
"Venture capital (VC) is fuelling the boom in artificial intelligence (AI). Yet analysis of a UK dataset reveals that VC is dominated by men... we argue that the homogeneity of the VC ecosystem is key to perpetuating the gender gap in innovation." academic.oup.com/cje/advance-...
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Venture capital as male-lens investing
Abstract. Venture capital (VC) is fuelling the boom in artificial intelligence (AI). Yet analysis of a UK dataset reveals that VC is dominated by men, both
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/03/2026
“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”
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AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think
AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs
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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Shoutout to every writer out there writing the kind of books fascists keep trying to ban.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026
I've been saying for almost 2 decades now that it should the current paradigm of "AI" acting as a helpmeet to fascism should be no surprise, when the drivers of fascism— militarism, capitalism, carcerality, white supremacy, &c— are the soil, the water, & roots from which this idea of "AI" was grown.
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
These fields of study are empowering and liberatory; they offer tools to understand, dismantle, and rethink societal structures. In a just world they would be acknowledged as essential fundamentals.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
All right, I got mad enough to write a full post about all this:
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Diversity Is Our Strength
This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns There's ...
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 11/02/2026
More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 10/02/2026
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Did you know that a famous math reference – most physicists have owned a copy at some point – is the result of a New Deal project to employ scientists and mathematicians? Thread incoming.
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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
While the struggle to defend the university will be fought over many years, the fight to reinvent the university—and to build the ideas necessary for escaping our public crisis—starts now. Support Public Books: buff.ly/JF5zxCh
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 27/01/2026
Some tools for thinking about AI in a time when the companies making them are trying to destroy teaching and learning itself... 1/n 🧵
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"we tend to focus on new, high-tech, and material interventions. But what if we adopted a more expansive approach that takes low-tech and even incremental solutions seriously, including those developed by members of the communities surrounding our campuses?" Let's imagine together, @shobitap.org.
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 26/01/2026
Absolutely brilliant new Coates piece on the racial politics (and racism) of The Homeland.
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“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: The culture war is an actual war.
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Portia @portianoir.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Use the anger you’re feeling now to get caught up and keep fighting it.
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Jenn Stroud Rossmann @jenn-rossmann.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Chuffed as heck to have my story Sand Dollars up now in The Eckleburg Review -- check it out here: www.eckleburg.org/sand-dollars...
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Sand Dollars
"Sand dollar is a funny name, if you’re a Corpus Christi kid who’s never seen dollars be anything...." by Jenn Stroud Rossmann
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