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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It was my pleasure to read and review! For anyone looking for a tl:dr summary, commit to the book, it's worth it.

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

If you're at #AAS2026, come see us at the JapanLab booth in the exhibit hall this weekend! We make free educational games for Japanese studies and have resources if you want to teach with our games or even make your own!

A photo of an exhibit booth with posters and handouts for JapanLab games like the Censor's Desk and Ready, Set, Yokohama.

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Methodology Seminar: Historian's Workshop Seminar: International History Seminar: Museums, Monuments, and Memory Eventually: Seminar: Colonialism in East Asia Seminar: Gender and Sexuality in East Asia

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Academic history colleagues, list all the courses you teach: Intro: Premodern, Early Modern, and Modern Histories of East Asia Colonial Power in East Asia Gender and Sexuality in East Asia Tokyo: Rise of a Megacity Japan: From Samurai to Superpower Virtual Heritage and Video Games +

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Where are the good bagels??

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Check out our games here! www.utjapanlab.com/teachers

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Services 1 — JapanLab

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Good morning #aas2025! Come see the JapanLab at UT Austin at exhibit hall booth #107! The booth will be staffed from 10-3 Friday/Saturday and from 10-12 on Sunday. Come learn about our games for teaching Japanese studies classes and the undergraduate intern model we used to develop them!

The JapanLab booth in the exhibit hall that features posters, bookmarks, and flyers and will be staffed from 10-3 Friday/Saturday and 10-12 on Sunday.

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Hello, can I be added to the starter pack? I'm a historian of modern Japan working at Knox College. Thanks!

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

I've been using Obsidian for my notes lately, it might be what you're looking for. It can be very smart but it can also be very basic. It uses markdown so there isn't even a formatting bar in the vanilla version (but you can get one through plugins). I think there's spell check. obsidian.md

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Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking

Obsidian is the private and flexible note‑taking app that adapts to the way you think.

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

I saw the trailer this morning and thought, "maybe the internet is not where I want to be today."

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Anyway, good morning from this evergreen quote from a guy we teach the kids is a great American hero

Frederick Douglass quote from 1857:

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power conceded nothing without a demand; it never has and it never will.

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 26/02/2024

I feel like one or two days every couple of months I need a shirt that reads, "I am very cranky today for reasons that aren't fully rational and I'm trying very hard not to make it your problem, please don't test me."

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Jessa Dahl @jkdahl.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

A lot of people are posting and rightfully mocking bad takes from the other site on how AI will make all entertainment individualized, and it just makes me think how the most joyful conversation I had this week was a surprise "wait you watch Star Trek too??" one I stumbled into at the library.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Block and move on. Block and move on. Block on a whim, Block weird replies. We are not here to "win" the internet, we are here to read cool posts from experts and artists we would never ordinarily be able to interact with, and occasionally promote our own cool stuff to like-minded weirdos.

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