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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)

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winston @winston.cc · 3h
did everyone else know there is an incredible brutalist cathedral about an hour outside the twin cities? my partner and i went yesterday and holy shit it was amazing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_J...
a vast wall of honeycomb concrete shapes filled with patchwork stained glassan even wider views of the stained glass windows with a balcony cutout in the middlea shot of the front of the cathedral taken from floor level, showing massive brutalist shapes stretching across the church a view from under the balcony, showing its large cantilevered supports made of poured concrete
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 3h
„No one elected you“ is really, really funny.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 6h
“A review of two years of flights by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows that the Israeli leader is once again routinely taking a more direct path — through Canadian airspace — when travelling to the [USA] despite the international arrest warrant that Canada has committed to enforce”
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ANALYSIS | Netanyahu is flying freely over Canada as his international arrest warrant remains in place | CBC News
A review of two years of flights by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows that the Israeli leader is once again routinely taking a more direct path — through Canadian airspace — when travell...
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Stephen Stirling @sstirling.bsky.social · 10h
Proud to be at a news organization where reporters help set the rules for how AI is used. 🤖 No AI generated imagery/videos 🤖 No AI mimicking employees 🤖 Right to remove byline from any AI-content 🤖 A guild-staffed advisory committee www.inquirer.com/business/phi...
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Philadelphia Inquirer employees secure new union contract with raises and AI protections
Under the new three-year contract, members will see healthcare costs increase for the first time in 20 years, the union said.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People are saying that everyone knows the Manhattan Institute is extremists— but that is not true, centrists kiss up to them all the time. Here is a major Abundance event and look at all the people pal-ing around with a Manhattan Inst director.
ABUNDANCE26
December 10 & 11
Washington, DC
Nicholas Bagley
Professor, University of Michigan
Law School
Matt Clancy
Program Director, Coefficient
Giving
Colani Nottoni
Judge Glock Director of Research, Manhattan
Institute
Derek Kaufman
Founder & CEO, Inclusive
Abundance
Jennifer Pahlka
Author, Recoding America
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17h
Unbelievable. Except totally believable. We utterly fail at elite accountability in 🇺🇸, & elite universities have been at the forefront of that since Iran-Contra, repeatedly offering sinecures to the authoritarians. It's why all the things keep happening time & again: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 7h
It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.
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Honkey Kong @henrygoeldner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the only non-negotiable for writing is you have to read. doesn't matter if you're writing comics, prose, screenplays. read. read books, articles, scripts, comics. fiction and non-fiction. read lots of 'em and never stop reading.
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John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 10h
"This Labour Government is the worst thing to have ever happened to trans children. They have step by step dismantled every protection that supported my daughter... At every point when the Labour Government could have made something better, they have turned around and given her another kick."
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 9h
A devout Catholic, Carney manages to make many feel like they should be respectful and polite and not make a fuss during the high mass of finance, in which crisis is transformed into eternal life. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-mark-carney-davos-catholic
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Brief: Mark Carney, Davos Catholic — Conspirituality
Matthew examines how Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has paired an 18-month austerity rampage with approval ratings near 60%.
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Billie Jean Sweeney @billiejsweeney.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bacon: “The problem is that lots of liberal activists and elites are having their perspectives shaped by the nyt in 2026.” Me: For the past 4 years, the nyt has consistently misshaped news about trans ppl, promoting medical falsehoods and repeating right-wing fabrications.
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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 02/10/2026
"This is about consent to use students’ work for commercial purposes. Students can’t meaningfully consent to their work being processed to train AI or develop services when Turnitin’s processing is a mandatory part of progressing through university." wonkhe.com/blogs/a-supp...
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A supplier shouldn’t be able to rewrite who owns students’ essays
Sam Dickinson looks at Turnitin’s paused plan to put student essays to work on AI – and finds that neither anonymisation nor university regulations answer the copyright question
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 02/10/2026
One of these OpenAI astroturfed events just happened here. The "Student Leads" of the event are receiving cash stipends. It is not a registered student organization. Unclear if compliant with the Campus Use of University Facilities policy, which normally prohibits commercial use of classrooms.
Photo of poster on a bulletin board
OpenAI Student Collective at CU Boulder
Hands-on workshop
Create Your Website
From Idea to Link

Build a website with ChatGPT Work and Sites.
No coding needed. Bring a laptop
Monday, September 28
6:30-7:45 PM
KOBL 352
Leeds School of Business
Scan to RSVP: https://luma.com/y0w9zqlgWhat you’ll receive

    A ChatGPT subscription and Codex credits for the duration of the program

    Funding, credits, and merch to help you organize campus events

    Training, resources, and guidance on the latest OpenAI tools and technology

    Access to the OpenAI team and a global network of Campus Leads

    A cash stipend each semester in recognition of your time and leadership

    Opportunities for a HQ visit in June 2027 and other surprises along the way
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 22h
posts like these are 100% part of the separation/support agreement and should be considered paid advertising
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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 21h
I just published BCNET's Privacy Impact Assessment for Turnitin: privacylibrary.ca/wp-content/u... It has not been updated since 2020. Turnitin's AI detection feature was released in 2023. If you are a journalist looking to break this story in Canada, I have FOI docs. Hi.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever want to be ridiculed by academics, make some really silly assertion right to their faces and make sure you do so in a way that suggests you really, really mean it.
By John M. Kainer
September 25, 2026
If you want to send a group of sociologists into an uproar, tell them a group disparity is the result of individual choice. Take your pick of groups and issues. Try telling a room full of sociologists that women are underrepresented in STEM because they prefer people to ideas, or that intergenerational poverty persists because the poor make bad decisions with money. You will likely be shut down before you reach the end of your sentence. The conviction that structural accounts offer the best and fullest explanation for human behavior is central to sociology as a discipline.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
When you compare how much right-wing funding is going into their version of the humanities in higher ed ("civil discourse," "civic thought," "intellectual freedom") vs how little public or private funding there is for peer-reviewed humanities scholarship & teaching, it really makes you think.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Exactly.
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Charlotte @fireantprincess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
if I was an ai company, burning through unprecedented amounts of cash without a clear business model, I’d also hire scientists to do PR for me, because they are extremely cheap compared to the amounts of cash I am burning.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
Excellent piece by @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social on the weak Left vision for public education. This extends to higher ed; beyond free tuition and full employment, the Left doesn’t have a program of what content people are supposed to get out of college. educationwars.substack.com/p/whats-left...
educationwars.substack.com
What’s Left for Public Education?
The left has no vision for public schools - and that’s a big problem
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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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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 01/10/2026
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (1889 - 1966) Translated by Judith Hemschemeyer #NationalPoetryDay
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/10/2026
"The University of Cambridge refused to sign plagiarism detection software Turnitin’s new licence agreement, which could have allowed students’ work to be used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models."
varsity.co.uk
Uni opposes Turnitin AI training plans
The University is now exploring alternatives to the plagiarism detection service, according to the SU
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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 02/10/2026
It shows you how bad the problem is that limiting people to 24 submissions a year will make a meaningful difference.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.
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Boxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 01/10/2026
It's a good thing for these guys that they don't have to wait for peer review before they get this stuff out there, these days.
[Under a Biased Probe, it Appears That] Language Models [Below a Certain Size] Use Trigonometry [That We Can't Actually Find] to Do [Up to Two Digit] Addition [if All Values Are Single Tokens]
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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 01/10/2026
When Turnitin says they do not train "Generative" AI models with student data, they are not saying they do not train AI models (such as classifiers) with student data. I'd like them to explain how students going back to the late 1990s consented to AI training on their copyrighted work.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh, man. What's the best treatment for brain rot?
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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For Writing Studies/Rhet/Comp friends. I put this on FB yesterday and hope it will circulate. It's an FYI about a forthcoming CFP for alt/counter-programming during CCCC 2027. I'm part of a planning group of about 50 people working on it. Hoping to have the CFP out this coming week.
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Dr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reminder! #rhet/comp #cccc
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When are jurisdictions outside the US going to regulate OpenAI? Canada can’t be counted on at all at the moment.
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People often ask me, "How is it being in Ohio?" knowing the attacks on higher education are acute here. But the fact is, nowhere is safe. Here's a story about senseless and devastating budget cuts in Minnesota. There is no political party that seriously defends higher education in the U.S. today.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brutal.
Rubin claims (page 26f) that "A growing number of scholars—critics and supporters alike—have described activism as a fieldwide trend such that the activist strand of sociology has become increasingly dominant in the last two decades and even more so recently (e.g., Iceland 2025). Since the 2010s, a growing group of 'heterodox' sociologists have criticized sociology as a field for its growing commitment to activism and a general ‘ideological capture‘.“ Again, let us read this carefully—the word growing is used three times here to imply change—without any actual statements about time and quantity. First, it must, of necessity, be true that there are a growing number of scholars who are saying that sociology has become more politicized in the past two decades, since there c ould be no one two decades ago saying this! The total vacuity of this statement, coupled with its sounding meaningful, is typical of the way Rubin supports her argument.Despite not having, in any way, shape or form, attempted to ascertain change, she goes on to talk about the effects of it: "Looking at the consequences of these trends, some scholars suggest that ideology is impacting methodological decisions." What is the evidence of the bad consequences of these trends that, so tar, remain purely conjectural? Not surprisingly, it is the opinions of critics not merely like herself, but actually, blatantly, her own previous opinions published before the "report": "Likewise, I have claimed that normative concerns are overtaking empirical concerns in determining methods decisions (Shalaby and Rubin, in prep). I include a brief catalogue in Rubin (2025, 796), with examples from sociology, criminology, sociolegal studies, and related fields:...”
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Belgian human rights organization Unia is planning to take Cofnas to court for violation of Belgian anti-racism laws. www.demorgen.be/nieuws/unia-... /84
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“With little to no data, and by misreading and misinterpreting the data she does have, Rubin mistakenly sees politicization everywhere – as if (leftist) woke monsters are hiding in her closet and under her bed.” About Ashley Rubin’s single-authored Vanderbilt and Washington U report on sociology.
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Carney consulted with labour and was told don't touch the right to strike. He limited the right to strike
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"The Sun is the oldest continuously independent college daily paper in the country. Ms. Dasser was adamant that the paper dominate the story not just in its reporting, but in its editorial response. Why be financially independent if not to publish sharp-edged views of the biggest campus issues?"
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When are jurisdictions outside the US going to regulate OpenAI? Canada can’t be counted on at all at the moment.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Brutal.
Rubin claims (page 26f) that "A growing number of scholars—critics and supporters alike—have described activism as a fieldwide trend such that the activist strand of sociology has become increasingly dominant in the last two decades and even more so recently (e.g., Iceland 2025). Since the 2010s, a growing group of 'heterodox' sociologists have criticized sociology as a field for its growing commitment to activism and a general ‘ideological capture‘.“ Again, let us read this carefully—the word growing is used three times here to imply change—without any actual statements about time and quantity. First, it must, of necessity, be true that there are a growing number of scholars who are saying that sociology has become more politicized in the past two decades, since there c ould be no one two decades ago saying this! The total vacuity of this statement, coupled with its sounding meaningful, is typical of the way Rubin supports her argument.Despite not having, in any way, shape or form, attempted to ascertain change, she goes on to talk about the effects of it: "Looking at the consequences of these trends, some scholars suggest that ideology is impacting methodological decisions." What is the evidence of the bad consequences of these trends that, so tar, remain purely conjectural? Not surprisingly, it is the opinions of critics not merely like herself, but actually, blatantly, her own previous opinions published before the "report": "Likewise, I have claimed that normative concerns are overtaking empirical concerns in determining methods decisions (Shalaby and Rubin, in prep). I include a brief catalogue in Rubin (2025, 796), with examples from sociology, criminology, sociolegal studies, and related fields:...”
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
While the Vanderbilt and Washington U report on anthropology is still being read—no doubt in preparation for more critique to come—there are already a range of detailed responses to the report on sociology. I will thread them here.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"CBC News could not independently verify such a link. CBC News also was not able to reach Robson via email on Wednesday afternoon. The Globe and Mail reported on Wednesday that a digital research tool showed that Robson's email address was used to register a Moroccan Microsoft account in March."
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This week on Zoom, I‘m a very self-aware active listening writing studies prof, alternating: *stares intently at right-hand corner of desk* *focuses nonchalantly on tree outside left-hand window* *examines right elbow resting on desk* *fixates anxiously on dirty coffee cups on left side table*
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What the leadership of Vanderbilt and Washington U are wishing to do with the commission of their series of reports against current humanities and social science scholarship is the following. Take the butter off the bread of right-wing anti-university think tanks.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Why have an account? What‘s it for?
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So glad that this quote can be added to my forthcoming article on AI and Epistemic Dispossession because I had to say that they will absolutely be using AI to erase science and history but I didn’t yet have the ‘he admit it’ smoking gun
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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026
I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What do the researchers who work for Anthropic think about (1) having directed a machine to plagiarize other researchers' work, (2) posting a paper attaching their own names to these machine results, and (3) allowing the company to issue hype that goes far beyond the capacity of their results?
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope you‘re doing well, friends. I just went to the liquor store and it was eerie in there. Quiet, very quiet. No special offer displays. Empty space. One employee. When I commented during checkout, deadpan: „Well, it‘s Tuesday.“ True! I don‘t think I‘ve ever been to the liquor store on a Tuesday.
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