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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This would require widespread support for enthusiastic consent.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

He argues that technology can enable but cannot determine what society does with AI: 'that's for the arts and humanities and social sciences...[to do] shaping that and guiding...humanity into the next era'. Quite different from arts, humanities and social sciences being inherently less valuable.

Photograph of a desk covered with documents and boxes of documents. On the right is an open laptop, being used to undertake a digital humanities network analysis of these archives of the League of Nations.

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Been looking through the syllabi for the courses I took and TAed for in college and grad school, and goddamn, so much good teaching happened in the age of reading and writing when profs had the freedom to make a killer reading list and just see where things went from there

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Nicole Perry @intimacychoreofl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thing I said in a workshop to students today: Developing a coping skill is not the same thing as “building character”, “building resilience,” or developing sustainable professional practices. Some acting and dance teachers need to hear me say that, too.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The TCU School for Classical & Contemporary Dance is hiring! We're seeking applicants for two positions: Director of the School for Classical & Contemporary Dance Review of materials begins Nov. 15. Start date: Summer 2027. jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/directo... (1/3)

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Director of the School for Classical & Contemporary Dance - TCU Main Campus, Texas, United States

Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2026. The position will remain open until filled. Position Details: This full-time faculty position is on-campus and in-person. ...

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The idea that classrooms are chiefly spaces for product testing, and that it is irresponsible pedagogy not to enforce this, is both cynical and vile, and “fuck off” is a cogent response from any professional educator to any non-teaching salescreep or tech-but-not-subject-matter expert who voices it.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Can confirm. If I ever posted the full story of how I know this, you wouldn’t believe me. It’s grounds for the immediate loss of any status one has in academia—tenure included. An extraordinary ethical violation.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Class discussion on Student-centered v. Teacher-centered v. Subject-centered (Palmer) pedagogies today. A student says: You know that song Another Brick in the Wall? By Pink Floyd? Teacher-centered reminds me of that. They're going to be okay.

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Dr. Bex @drbexphd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Dear Students, I promise never to use AI to grade your work.

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Danielle St Hilaire @docsthilaire.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

It’s crap like this that led me to put a statement in my syllabus saying that I would never use AI to give feedback on my students’ work.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Fuck no, D2L, I would not fucking like that one fucking bit.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Being a student is not a disease, teaching is not a drug and education is not a cure." - Gert Biesta

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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

I want to tell yall a secret. If you are struggling to get attention in a fractured, captured attention economy? Someone smart will eventually tell you to write about colleges. All the better if you claim that some new gadget is going to “end college as we know it”.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

My new approach to writing external reviews includes admonishing the institution for exploitation. "Considering their desire to seek advancement despite the impossible circumstances the institution has required of them, the U of XYZ would do well to provide them P&T." #AcademicSky

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Has anyone written anything about the ethics of external reviewing? #AcademicSky

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

"Why should I major in History?"

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sometimes in a library I imagine each book as years of an author’s life such that you are standing amidst uncounted hours of effort and concentration like some oasis of meaningful time.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

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Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

@ala-booklist.bsky.social calls ARTHUR MITCHELL, "A graceful, precise, and vivid biography of an essential figure in American dance, revealing the discipline, devotion, and 'almost unimaginable sacrifice' required for Mitchell to break racial barriers and advance the art of dance."

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 20/07/2026

"My next book project is a trans-species manifesto-cum-collage assembled from excised first editions of Hemingway novels, decaying roadkill gathered over the course of a summer spent barefoot in Michigan, and a series of scatological limericks generated by my AI companion, Judith."

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My Next Book Project

“My next book project is a trans-species manifesto-cum-collage assembled from excised first editions of Ernest Hemingway novels, decaying roadkill gathered o...

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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Senior Faculty at Elite Universities Published 1,500+ Op-Eds Last Year about What's Wrong in the Classroom. It's getting in the way of teaching. my latest for the Chronicle

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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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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I just included "AI was not used during any stage of this research" on a slide deck. Just in case.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This whole thing is just awful any way you spin it. We are the abyss and the abyss is us. And? The adverb usage is astounding.“simply really” is… whew.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Today is the 10th publication anniversary of my first book, Shapes of American Ballet: Teachers and Training before Balanchine (Oxford UP). Because (and why is this a hot take) George Balanchine was neither first nor alone in his work to develop American Ballet. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

neither seductive nor valuable... same as the tech bros that put us in this absurd position

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> for the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/05/2026

I am working on the edits of my second book and on the one hand every part of drafting and editing a book is painful and exhausting but on the other hand it’s one of the most satisfying and thrilling things I’ve ever done with my brain and I cannot IMAGINE outsourcing any part of it to a machine.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Maybe this is obvious, but if I was (which I wouldn't be) a faculty member who voted to cap A grades, the only reason I'd tell on myself so hard would be because I'd want institutional policy to substantiate my desire to be a hard-ass: kneecapping the students for my own self-aggrandizement.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I don’t see why student “success” (if that’s what A’s represent to some people) is such a problem.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I’m thinking of including a note on the first slide of a conference presentation that says GenAI played no part in it. Is this something we need to do, now?

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Interesting framing from two members of Harvard faculty conflating their intramural angst about the challenge of ranking and sorting the spectacularly excellent with the entirety of education. Hubris much?

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My latest Substack post, in response to the attempt by Harvard to limit the number of A grades #HigherEd #Assessment #Grades open.substack.com/pub/susandbl...

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Oh Harvard. Limiting A’s Is Not It

Grade Inflation, Deflation, and Obsession

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Grading systems are a not-inevitable hierarchy institutions enthusiastically opt into to serve those at the top.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

As a reviewer, I check for off-references before I start reading. If anything is amiss I send it back to the publisher. Because no.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Academic citations fabricated by AI are now a widely recognized problem. But the scale of their production and circulation is still pretty shocking. This is quite a neat, accessible site presenting the results of the 2.5m papers study published in The Lancet this weekend www.maxtopaz.com/citadel

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Fabricated Citations — CITADEL

4,046 fabricated citations in the biomedical literature. A more than 12× rise in three years. Verified across PubMed, Crossref, OpenAlex, Google Scholar.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Prediction: most university emails regarding the canvas situation will be written in passive voice, because surely it isn't their fault for forcing faculty to operate their courses through LMSs despite widespread resistance to that idea and concern for faculty and student security....

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

It will be a grand day in academia when we collectively change the tenure and promotion calendar so we're not asking folks to review dossiers without compensation while they're off contract.

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Jessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Reading end-of-semester student self-evaluations continues to be one of the most fulfilling aspects of teaching, econd only to those thrilling in-class moments when I observe-facilitate-experience-participate in student learning in real time.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Apparently, journals, universities and publishers cannot do it but the Oscars can

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