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K. Morrissey

@katiedidnt.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof at ASU. Research/Teach: Media studies, digital culture, and female desire in pop-media. (She/Her.) Views mine and not my employers.

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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 16/09/2026
Opinion: Ivy League leaders argue colleges need more AI, not less. This essay makes the countercase: Students can use AI well only if they first learn to think, read, and write without it.https://chroni.cl/4hatesu
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Opinion | The Ivy League’s Surrender to AI Is Insane
When college leaders drink the corporate Kool-Aid, the liberal arts die.
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Nooooo! Is this week cursed???
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Back to school day!!
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Profs looking for intro readings on AI! I've done a bunch of digging this summer. Here are some teaching recs. Basic explainers for early undergrad classes: Duarte et. al, "What is AI?" lincolncenter.asu.edu/ai-ethics-wo... Zewe, "Explained: Generative AI" news.mit.edu/2023/explain...
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My university has discontinued its use of Perusall and its breaking my heart. I loved how well-designed it was, that it incentivized reading, and how I got to have comment conversations with students in larger classes. It's been "replaced" with Harmonize, but it's not even close to the same.
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Hi all! I'm trying to collect examples of romance and/or romance-adjacent games, book projects, comics, etc. that would have be affected by the Kickstarter, Patreon, Itch.io, or Steam adult content bans. Does anyone know any specific creators or projects which were at risk or were directly affected?
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Watched The Odyssey. Was deeply underwhelmed.
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Transformative Works and Cultures @journal.transformativeworks.org · 01/08/2026
TWC / SCMS Fan and Audience Studies group graduate student essay contest journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/tw...
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TWC / SCMS Fan and Audience Studies group graduate student essay contest | Transformative Works and Cultures
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kate conger @kateconger.com · 21/07/2026
I wrote about what's happening to the web now that everything is A.I. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/t...
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How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web (Gift Article)
As Google incorporates more artificial intelligence into search, people are spending more time on Google. Some website operators are crying foul.
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Aja Romano @bookshop.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This week's Fansplaining longread explores the steady rise of K-pop communities in Kenya, Nigeria, and other regions of Africa—even as the industry and broader global fandom pass them by. A joyous piece with fantastic reporting from @tabbykibugiwriter.bsky.social! fansplaining.com/african-k-po...
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African K-Pop Fans Are Building Their Own Spaces
While the K-pop industry largely ignores them, fans in Kenya and Nigeria create K-pop communities for themselves.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 22/07/2026
From the Archives: More than half of faculty members surveyed said they are less satisfied with their jobs now than they were five years before. Same for 46 percent of staff and 38 percent of administrators. Why are academic workers feeling overworked and stressed? chroni.cl/4yzM8B8
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Higher Education Is Exhausted
Some don’t see a future in a sector battling for its very existence.
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Javaria Farooqui @javariafarooqui.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm so glad to share the CFP for the Eleventh conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Link to the full CFP  www.iaspr.org/conferences/... Please share with your cool academic circles! #popularromancestudies #romance #CFP #AcademicSky @iaspr.bsky.social
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
They always say that you’ll hate your book project by the end. But these warnings do not adequately convey how much you will haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate your book project by the end.
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"A survey by the campus AAUP chapter... found that a majority feared retaliation for what they teach and believed administrators’ commitment to academic freedom and due process had declined over the previous three years."
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
“accelerated programs can condition students to write in a particular format that scores well on an AP exam but isn’t what many professors are looking for. It can cut into the time teachers would otherwise spend on different forms of reading and writing”
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Why the Boundary Between High School and College Is Crumbling
Pushing students to and through higher ed seemed like a good idea, but it’s had an effect on how they learn.
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Dark Horse Workers United @darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU
Photo of the Dark Horse Workers United statement. 

For ALT TEXT readers, the statement is too long to fit into ALT TEXT. Please find the full statement on the DHWU website, linked in our bios
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
This article is clearly some flavor of rage bait, but (after I stopped sighing at the tone and the contradictions in the argument) it did make me think. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/dear-... So as one of those lazy, technologically-impaired, boring professors, here's some thoughts. 🧵
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Dear educators, Gen Z here. Could you please teach us like it’s 2026?
Learning has changed drastically in the past five years, but teaching practices haven’t caught up. From your students’ perspective, here’s how to adapt
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
THIS!! It’s also skewed by the fact that so many of the pedagogy conversations are coming from first-year writing and rhet/comp teaching environments. We need to talk about what AI sensitive pedagogy looks like in other disciplines.
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Does anyone else go stir crazy when the semester ends? Like, I want to relax for a week and take a break, but I genuinely don’t know what to do with myself. I’m bored! I feel like one solution is to travel, but it’s expensive. (The fact that it’s already 100 degrees outside probably doesn’t help.)
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“The complexities of classroom pedagogy are less like engineering, where every design tweak can in principle optimize performance for everyone, and more like policymaking in a diverse society, where every choice distributes benefits and burdens differently. Some students gain more, others less…”
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“Win-Win” Pedagogy Is Impossible (opinion)
Teaching choices—about a laptop ban, for instance—involve trade-offs, and that’s OK.
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Fansplaining @fansplaining.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"There are currently only three fanfics on the Archive of Our Own written in Swahili." In our latest, @soila.bsky.social writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fic, including the perspectives of fellow fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi. Read or listen to an audio version:
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The Elation and Anxiety of Reading Fic in Your Native Tongue
For fans in Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, “uncringing” non-English fanfiction is an endeavor in decolonialism.
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
“last year, the country spent more money building A.I. infrastructure than single-family homes. We built 10 times as many data centers as the next biggest builder (Germany). We invested more than 20 times as much money into A.I. as the world’s next biggest investor (China).”
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The estate management machine.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 08/05/2026
The new biopic about Michael Jackson was the result of a yearslong effort to resurrect the reputation of the king of pop, despite the accusations of sexual abuse that have surrounded him for decades. On "The Daily," our reporter discusses the new playbook for rewriting the past.
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The Resurrection of Michael Jackson
Can “Michael“ help restore the king of pop’s image? His estate is banking on it.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...
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DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I know Canvas must be back, because the “can you bump up my grade?” emails have begun to appear.
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 08/05/2026
Between the Canvas outage and the court win in the NEH grant case, it really feels like a day for @literaturegeek.bsky.social print of @megsmith.bsky.social quote. #DHmakes
A letterpress print reading "Infrastructure is something we owe to one another. - Meg Smith", next to a rigid heddle loom and spreadsheet with NEH grant data, and a weaving of that data
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Shelf Love Podcast @shelflove.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I am collecting “ideal” and “failed” romance novels from Janice Radway’s 1984 Reading the Romance. How much have preferences in #romancebks changed in the last 40+ years? We’ll see if I find out! substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Collecting the Romance from Janice Radway's Reading the Romance
Building My Romance Novel Collection
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 07/05/2026
Professors at Arizona State say they're concerned that Atomic, a subscription service, is showing decontextualized snippets of lectures and generating error-prone summaries. chroni.cl/4dfrI6x
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A University Is Scraping Course Materials for Its New AI Platform. It Didn’t Ask the Faculty.
Professors at Arizona State say they’re concerned that Atomic, a subscription service, is showing decontextualized snippets of lectures and generating error-prone summaries.
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
One of the research projects I will probably never get to, but hope someone does is a mixed-methods study of college professor AND student LMS use, w/ diary studies, observational ethnography, qual interviewing, and quant analysis of digital behaviors.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/05/2026
Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor
The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.
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Mel Stanfill @melstanfill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
curious how fans feel about generative AI? my article, “AI is not a fan”: media fan responses to generative AI between consent and callouts, is out now. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“AI is not a fan”: media fan responses to generative AI between consent and callouts
Through a survey of 2,627 media fans about generative AI, I find overwhelmingly negative sentiment despite nuanced distinctions across different AI applications and differences by demographic facto...
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Soooo... apparently Canvas has been hacked? That makes posting final grades a bit challenging.
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.
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What Does AI Do?
The economic and political problems of “cost disease” in education have created a powerful incentive for the adoption of AI.
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Steve Ammidown @stegan.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Here’s @shelflove.bsky.social to remind us that any claims of “firsts” in the romance genre are tenuous at best: shelflovepodcast.substack.com/p/condoms-in...
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Condoms in Romance: Tracking Down Claims About Firsts
The Trouble with Trailblazer Narratives
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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
So why are subscription streamers indiscriminately raising prices to levels many of us can't (or won't) pay? To get us to switch to ad tiers — which deliver "deliver superior economics". www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... #TVSky #Streaming
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Feeling totally flattened by this semester, but who isn’t feeling that way these days? What is happening to academia? The kids are not okay, the faculty are barely treading water, the AI slop is everywhere… just UGH.
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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 30/04/2026
This month’s #RomanceColumn has pirates and princesses and Faerie lords, oh my! Books reviewed: Rears and Vices by E.M. Caro, Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe, and Thistlemarsh by Moorea Corrigan. (Gift link)
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Great New Romance Novels
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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
⌛ Just a bit over a month left to send in your proposals for JPRS Special Issue on Sport Romance. Don't miss out on this opportunity! #RomanceResearch
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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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Brandon Butler @bb.usefairuse.com · 30/04/2026
Huge and very good news for doc filmmakers on fair use today! The 10th Circuit has reversed itself in the Whyte Monkee case, ruling that fair use DOES protect the inclusion of 3rd-party footage in the breakout hit *Tiger King*. Big 🧵, unpacking it all:
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 01/05/2026
Professors at Arizona State say they're concerned that Atomic, a subscription service, is showing decontextualized snippets of lectures and generating error-prone summaries. chroni.cl/428DUkp
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A University Is Scraping Course Materials for Its New AI Platform. It Didn’t Ask the Faculty.
Professors at Arizona State say they’re concerned that Atomic, a subscription service, is showing decontextualized snippets of lectures and generating error-prone summaries.
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...
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AI and the amplification of academic content assetization
Photo by Viktor Forgacs on Unsplash A new AI-driven digital learning platform launched by Arizona State University has set off alarm bells among academics for its exploitation of scholarly work. AS…
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Anyone else at PCA? I’m here for the romance track, as per usual!
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’d love to work with a developmental editor to develop the structure for book 2 but I can’t possibly afford it. (Dear lord, how do people pay for editors? Where are you getting money for it?) Anyone have recs for books or guides that helped them refine their academic book projects?
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 30/03/2026
Professors face a dilemma: If they hold students to the same standards they used even 10 years ago, more will do poorly. If they ease up, students won’t be prepared for more advanced work. What should they do? chroni.cl/4veO3JM
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Grade Inflation Is Called a Crisis. The Real Problem Is Deeper Than That.
Students are showing up to college with weaker skills. Colleges need them to succeed. Professors are stuck in the middle.
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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 30/03/2026
If you're a professor and your spending power has shrunk over time, you're not the only one. Here's how much faculty salaries have declined and why experts say it's happening.https://chroni.cl/4bQgCEf
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Professors Say They Need a Raise. They Probably Won’t Get One.
Faculty salaries haven’t moved for over a decade, and draconian cuts to higher ed threaten to make things worse.
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
I'm in the middle of my standard fight with Bridgerton. Meaning, I feel professionally obligated to watch it, things about it make me think I should like it, and then I turn it on and I am just... deeply underwhelmed.
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K. Morrissey @katiedidnt.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"How can we as faculty members and faculty leaders motivate and revitalize ourselves and others across a variety of budgets?" Helpful advice for faculty planning a self-retreat and/or a retreat for larger groups.
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Advice | Feeling Depleted? A Guide to Faculty Renewal
How to reconnect with purpose to what brought you into this profession.
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