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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

(To answer your question more directly, you ask GenAI to find and summarize a source that says something you want a source to say, and then GenAI confidently makes up and summarizes a source, and then you believe GenAI and dishonestly incorporate the made-up source and summary into your paper.)

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

So are we all. But this is the age we're living in, thanks to university administrations widely buying into the hype of GenAI.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Me too. So much. I can't believe it made it through peer review. Just think how many degrees granted in the past 4 years should not have been granted?

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

That a recently graduated scholar, one who taught undergraduate courses on writing, would use AI to assist in writing a paper, and then not explicitly identify that use according to the journal's policies, and then lie about that use once caught, makes me want to weep.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I was disheartened to see, however, that "the author admitted that they used citations generated by artificial intelligence but maintains that only the citations, and not the rest of the text, were generated by AI."

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I was relieved to see, right below the abstract, a publisher's note that they retracted the article after publication when 6 hallucinated citations were discovered.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

The past few weeks, I read through probably hundreds of pages of AI generated literary analyses as I compiled files for allegations of academic misconduct in my courses this term. Today, I read the abstract of a peer-reviewed article and saw all the same stylistic markers.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I sneakily googled and found which institution. That's fantastic! One of my pals is in the Eng department there, too. Seems like a really good place to work.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I did not realize you were out on the West Coast! (Sorry I called you a turd!) I'd sympathize re: gloom, but when I lived in Victoria, I studied outside by blooming roses in December, and here we're expecting 10cm of snow tonight and 20 next week. Then again, I do not miss the wet cold out there.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

To check if it spat out something like the paper I was marking, I plugged my prompt for the assignment (a term project about disabled content creators on social media) into ChatGPT. It immediately produced the generic response the student submitted, and then it followed that up with this:

ChatGPT writes, "If you want, tell me: which creators you actually followed (or want to pretend you followed *eyeballs*) ...and I can help you plug them directly into your draft so it sounds natural and specific.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Except for Vancouver and Victoria, the turds.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Holy crap, amazing. (I'm a Saskatchewanian and I had no idea about this stuff.)

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki... @rs4vp.org #Victorian

cdn.sanity.io

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Disabled academics: how often are you made to pay for accommodations out of your ProD account (money that your colleagues get to put toward research travel, conferences, etc.)?

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas! me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

In VPR 58.2, @kyleeanneh.bsky.social traces reproductions of F.W. Burton’s 1840 watercolor “A Blind Girl at A Holy Well” to consider how #periodicals deployed its sentimental depiction of blindness in mid-century debates about Irish culture and nationhood: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

On left, burgundy background with text that says: Kylee-Anne Hingston, “Blindness and Irish National Identity in the Textual Afterlife of F. W. Burton’s A Blind Girl at a Holy Well,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, The Blind Girl at the Holy Well, ca. 1869, print, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, https://lccn.loc.gov/2003674284.

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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

One of the most important things settlers who are committed to reconciliation can do today is to stand up to and call out denialist tactics. My colleague @seancarleton.bsky.social alongside Daniel Heath Justice explain more here: theconversation.com/truth-before...

theconversation.com

Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism

Residential school denialism is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schools to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Put less intelligently, the objection to the so-called AI boom is not about the technology being shitty (although it is). It’s about the shitty people who are using their shit technology to treat other people like shit.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I use Zotero for citations, but when I download a pdf, I tend to save in a folder of everything related to whatever research project I'm working on. I end up downloading the same article about 7 times because of poor file naming and new folders for new projects.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I haven't heard of Milanote before. I will have to look it up.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The system I developed in grad school for saving and organizing pdfs of 2ndry and primary research is no longer serving me (probably because the "system" is equivalent to the red-string conspiracy theory meme). What do you folks do for keeping stuff logically organized and easily findable?

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Ditto! I spent 8 years on the West Coast and thought I'd never come back, but I am so glad I did.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

"Coming"? Heeeere, friend. Sadly, here

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🧪 How many times and in what different ways do we need confirmation that genAI is crap for anything except the simplest tasks? *Because it doesn't read, or comprehend, or think*. (also, hilariously, it's the same AI Oxford Uni has just paid some huge sum to licence for all staff & students)

Screen grab of article text:
"Science

The results were mixed. The LLM did
summarize scientific fndings in
language that was accessible to
nonexperts it avoided technical terms
and jargon, for example). It also
effectively summed up commentary
content, such as Science's Policy Forums, for a lay audience. However, it tended to sacrifice accuracy for simplicity. The
ChatGPT Plus summaries required
rigorous fact-checking by SciPak writers.
Also, extensive editing for hyperbole was
needed. For example, ChatGPT Plus had
a fondness for using the word
"groundbreaking." It also struggled to
highlight more than one result from
multifaceted studies. When asked to

summarize two papers at once, it could
only cover the first of the two submitted.
It ultimately defaulted to jargon if
challenged with research particularly
dense in information, detail, and
complexity."

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

For the avoidance of doubt, this is just a silly pun that amused me. I do not wish plagiarism (or heretical pelagianism) upon any university during this crisis era in UK higher education. But I do find it astonishing that AI is being rolled out without the slightest concern for consequences

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

A plagiarism on both your houses!

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hmm. The link doesn't clearly indicate what field the job is for and looks like it is for Indigenous studies, when that's not the case. The college is looking for an Indigenous assistant professor in either economics, English, history, languages, philosophy, psychology, or religion.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Come work where I do! (Spread the word, please.)

stmcollege.ca

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Every single time I email myself, this happens to me.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

By gum, I love dashes, and editors--who recommend using them sparingly--will have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

By gum, I love explanatory footnotes, and editors will have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands.* *This now common expression originated as an anti-gun control bumper-sticker slogan in the 70s: “I will give up my gun when they peel my cold dead fingers from around it” (April 8, 1975 NYT).

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Kylee-Anne Hingston @kyleeanneh.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Unfortunately, those constraints exist, whether or not we notice them.

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

You know you can just not use AI, right? You can make a choice not to be part of this. Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it. You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

“Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.”

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

There are a lot of complicated reasons that colleges are making decisions about in-house AI or corporate partnerships, but what I have not heard AT ALL is any initiatives involving strengthening labor protections for faculty or improving pay as we are expected to re-skill in new tools.

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Faith K. Falkner @faithfalkner.com · 15/04/2025

Your "dumb little projects" are so important during this harrowing time. Don't forget that. Your creativity has value, for yourself and for the world.

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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

See WeAreHigherEd.org for a clearinghouse of ways higher ed is fighting back.

wearehighered.org

We Are Higher Ed

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