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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The lede is buried: AI detection tools determined that some media outlets (including the NY Post) altered the woman's image to make her look more like Lopez. Misrepresenting truth for clicks is the modus operandi these days.

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My indoor Little Free Library is ready for the college students, faculty, staff and administrators who walk the hall next to my office. @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social .

A Little Free Library bookcase on wheels in an alcove. Above it is a collage made of old books that says "Read!"

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Well, they violated their own "Don't be evil" policy a long time ago....

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In one of my favorite essays on teaching college writing, @biblioracle.bsky.social identifies Wile E. Coyote as the hero of ungrading...because of his resilience. He "is a planner, an iterator, each failed initiative giving rise to the next." He also "commits fully to his plan. " 1/4

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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Hey folks: even if you aren't involved, consider signing this petition in solidarity with your fellow academics? Interdisciplinary translation: this is like if they canceled APSA for political scientists, AMS for musicologists, AHA for historians, MLA for lit studies, etc. etc.

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

My 8th-grade English teacher collected our hand-written essays on the play, "Raisin in the Sun," and proceeded to rip them in half and drop them it the garbage can. Then, she told us about the"write,rip up, rewrite," process she claimed would make our writing stronger. (1)

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Taking a brief bit of quiet time before the next session. #4C26

Hand-painted notebook cover in purple mosaic s.

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Give the gift of knowledge and resistance...and/or put these in your holiday wishlist! #AIhype #AIresistance #booksky

Three books: More than Words by John Warner, The AI Con by Emily Bender, Empire of AI by Karen Hao.

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Give the gift of knowledge and resistance...and/or put these in your holiday wishlist! #AIhype #AIresistance #booksky

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I was born in January 1966. My parents had been trying to settle on my name when they heard Michelle in the car radio...

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

How privileged this man is to be protected and left to believe he is fine, if not invincible.

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

And this is just one more reason to love Vince Gilligan.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 07/11/2025

Imagine household appliance that just keeps electrocuting people do death, and the manufacturer just shrugs, and keeps selling more of them. bsky.app/profile/hype...

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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

„Altman tells lies for money. And I’m glad they’re lies. Because the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals. They want to create a new kind of mind, so they can force it into mindless servitude. Their dream is to invent new forms of life to enslave.“

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Last weekend, we timed our first-ever fall visit to NW Michigan to experience the peak colors...and arrived to find it delayed because of higher than normal temps. Our backyard today:

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Commencing year 27 teaching first-year writing @ UToledo. #GoRockets #Utoledo

Me posing next to a sculpture of the word TOLEDO at The University of Toledo.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17/07/2025

"Writers have been using me long before the advent of AI. I am the punctuation equivalent of a cardigan—beloved by MFA grads, used by editors when it’s actually cold, and worn year-round by screenwriters. I am not new here."

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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Outdoor office temp: 85-degrees. Major road construction one street over. Roofers are executing a tear-off next door, and I wouldn't be surprised if they start shingling before 2 pm. No matter. This is my favorite place to write. #Writingsky, #academicsky,

A pile of academic articles, notes, and data on an outdoor table next to a laptop. In the foreground are two hanging baskets of flowers, and two planters of ornamental flowers. In the background us a grassy area and swimming pool.

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

To comply with a state law banning diverse, equitable and inclusive programming and initiatives on campuses, my alma material and employer renamed its nearly 50-year-old womens center....

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Excuse me while I troll AI images and presidents posing as popes.

Image of Pope Leo XIV sitting behind the US President's desk in the White House Oval office. Designed to parody the AI image of Pres. Trump as Pope.I

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Comp community: Asao Inoue is keynote speaker this year. This will be my 4th time attending this virtual conference. I recommend. It is so well organized and draws together faculty and administrative across disciplines.

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The Grading Conference @thegradingconference.com · 22/01/2025

Abstract submissions are now open! Please submit your abstract to present at the 2025 Grading Conference which will be held virtually June 11-13. Abstract submission information available at www.centerforgradingreform.org/grading-conf...

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I present the title page of my latest narrative for my annual evaluation: #AIresistence #AIinhighered #Edusky

A poster using elements from the film poster for Forbidden Planet. The title is Attack of The Robot Writers. It depicts Robby the Robot with an Apple laptop. In the foreground, a male comforts a frightened female.

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Morgan Tingley @mwtingley.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Merry Christmas from my home office, where I am playing Wridges and patiently waiting for everyone else to wake up.

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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The teaching case for AI in the university humanities classroom seems to be: Admit that you hate teaching and don’t want to prepare materials, run classes, prepare or grade student work.” I’d say this was odd and depressing but then a remember “teaching release” is the holy grail of academic success

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

This makes me so happy....plus, I kept the Styrofoam out of the landfill. #Rudolph #Christmas

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

A 27yo student whose HS counselor told her "college is not for you," did not believe me when I told her she won an award for her writing Showcase presentation. "Come on," she said. "Did I really win or did you do this?" I told her that 5 judges chose her project. She burst into tears. #fywriting

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A2: For 27 yrs, I have offered unlimited revision with shadow grades and used the 4.0 scale. I fully shifted to feedback over all grades while in a COP focusing on equitable teaching. I was asked to coach STEM faculty in alt.grading & I realized that I could do better myself! #Ungradingchat

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Waking up to the last week of the semester...a week of possibilities. My students--and I--are looking forward to a break, but there are plenty of learning opportunities before portfolios are due. Onward.

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Michelle Davidson @michellydav.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Spent the past 2 days talking to FY students at #UToledo's celebration of public writing. I am always impressed by the learning that happens when they transfer a paper into visual form, but the real reward is seeing them present and recognize that they are doing scholarly work.

A banner direction people to the Showcase of Student Writing at The University of Toledo.

Poster advertising the Showcase of Student Writing.

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