Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 13h11 and 12, parasites and plagues: two novels for our time. I wrote about both in The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century. 000
Reposted by Laura KremmelWIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN 311042525
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Finally finding a few minutes to sort through my brief summer research at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social... before diving into midterm grading. What a semester! 050
Reposted by Laura KremmelJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026READER OF THE DAY, 10 OCTOBER 2026 Rebecca Campbell, Do Not Disturb (2010) 192
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Book recs 9 and 10: I can't think of two more different novels except that they've both faced banning and censorship. 110
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A dramatic cover for a strange book. Outsold Dracula, which was published around the same time. 100
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Finally, today's #7. One of the most disturbing books I've ever read. The first half is quite incredible. 110
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Book #6: Spider. I love McGrath's work. This is, in turns, disturbing and beautiful. 110
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Books #4 and #5: Two Melmoths. Both excellent! Sarah Perry's book also teaches really well. 120
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Behind in posting these! #2 and #3: The Monk and Zofloya. Can't seem to stop reading or writing about them. 220
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Stop making movie adaptations of recent books that I haven't had time to read yet! 020
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026The paperback is here!!! Thank you to @uniwalespress.bsky.social! I'm so proud to make this work more accessible to folks! 💀 053
Reposted by Laura KremmelGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline 2336451377
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026That's next on my list! It's a cemetery near where I used to live, just outside Boston. 010
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Posting daily October reading recs on my office door, in no particular order. October 1 is Bird Box, by Josh Malerman. I devoured this during an international flight shortly after it came out. One of the most horrific birth scenes I've ever read. Don't watch the bad movie adaptation. 150
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Another fabulous discussion of the Morbidly Curious Book Club in Lewiston last night. Mixed reviews on this one, though I overall liked it. 010
Reposted by Laura KremmelThe Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows... 199113362173
Reposted by Laura KremmelKimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026But I need to smile more. 717143686315
Reposted by Laura KremmelJared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes. 17093023068
Reposted by Laura KremmelGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 203190805447
Reposted by Laura KremmelShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Someone on here said that Altman’s eyes are identical to Elizabeth Holmes’ in that teaser and now I can never unsee it 48318
Reposted by Laura KremmelOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.comStanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in adStanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement. 491372288
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026UK only! Sometime in November/December for US copies. 000
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Paperback #pubday for Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination! www.uwp.co.uk/book/romanti... 1113
Reposted by Laura KremmelUniversity of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026New in Paperback! 'Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination' by @lkremmel.bsky.social demonstrates how Gothic literature experiments with and subverts Romantic medical debates to reassess the power of nonnormative bodies. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/romanti... 032
Reposted by Laura KremmelAlt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/09/2026📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)regulations.govRegulations.gov 23317199
Reposted by Laura KremmelSeth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Trustees: what do you do Humanists: well, like all of us around here we make better people T: what’s the margin on those H: hey? T: what do you sell them for H: come again T: you said you make people, how much do they go for H: T: are you an idiot? H: T: ok program cancelled 0195
Reposted by Laura KremmelCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI. 2241411195
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Hey, @panslabyrinth20.bsky.social, come to Niagara Falls! 000
Reposted by Laura KremmelJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."bu.eduNew Learning Outcomes Announced | English 402367470
Reposted by Laura KremmelCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff! 251639390
Reposted by Laura KremmelDr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...nationalmuseums.org.ukJobs - National Museum Directors' Council WebsiteAssociation of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives. 512098
Reposted by Laura KremmelWaldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent” 1821759391
Reposted by Laura KremmelAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🙅🏽No, AI is not helping worker productivity🙅🏽We dispel 5 common myths in my new video, Myths Around AI and Productivity. The first myth is that AI will improve productivity, which studies not only largely contradict, but sometimes suggest the opposite effect. youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU 110748
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Exactly! I read way better British fantasy when I was little. There were wizards before HP... 000
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026*Whispers* Harry potter isn't even very good. Mediocre at best. 3100
Reposted by Laura KremmelCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious 871886843
Reposted by Laura KremmelHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose. 1344042793
Reposted by Laura KremmelMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Dolly Parton's take on AI in 2023: “I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing. I’m sure it’s a good thing for scientists or medical things. But when it comes to trying to duplicate a human being and every little thing they are, it don’t seem right to me. It’s too much.”gizmodo.comDolly Parton's Sister Asks People to Stop Posting AI Slop of the Legendary Singer"I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing," said Dolly Parton in 2023. 5652176
Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I wish AI companies would go the way of Theranos. They've hoovered up more money and are worse than useless. And those tech bros are 10x more psycho. 031
Reposted by Laura Kremmelkate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Elizabeth Holmes jumpscare 1435723
Reposted by Laura KremmelBrandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026An aside: you'd get a hell of a vibrant intellectual culture if you did hire and pay for the requisite number of faculty, as a bonus. 04010
Reposted by Laura KremmelIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.scienceopenletter.earthOpen Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia 121178