Reposted by Josh ReaKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026This is one of the objections I have when people talk about how useful LLMs can be for literature searches or for any kind of search, really. Even beyond the biases that inevitably (and, in some cases, intentionally) show up, part of a good literature search is seeing information *in context.* 501872337
Reposted by Josh ReaKyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago. 219239485930
Reposted by Josh ReaInside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 21/08/2026Opinion | The Crisis in College Composition and Communication The dissolution of the field’s premier organization couldn’t have come at a worse time. By Jason Godfrey and Anne Ruggles Gere: bit.ly/4gtUvWI #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky 012
Reposted by Josh ReaDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/08/2026A good reminder that cities aren't loud. Cars are loud. 762789
Reposted by Josh ReaIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 26/07/2026A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE. 3168172304
Reposted by Josh ReaDan Libertz @dlib24.bsky.social · 25/07/2026c.org/vyVbttS2QK #teamrhetoricc.orgSign the PetitionHalt Dissolution of CCCC and Call for Transparency from NCTE #SaveCCCC 186
Reposted by Josh ReaAmber Buck @ambuck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Hey @insidehighered.com @chronicle.com Want to report on how the professional organization for college writing (including the top required college course) was just dissolved by its parent org? ncte.org/press-update...ncte.orgNCTE Update, Decision by NCTE Executive CommitteeThe following is a message from the NCTE Executive Committee. 2326
Reposted by Josh ReaDr. Jennifer (she/her) @drjags.bsky.social · 24/07/2026That "special topics conference" language is really getting under my grill. It reeks of the long history of seeing composition as an extension of and lesser than literature. 3308
Reposted by Josh ReaDustin Edwards @dustinedwards.bsky.social · 24/07/2026the audacity for the NCTE EC to say they're excited about the future. i just -- 4546
Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The silence from NCTE over the last two days is rather loud. 150
Reposted by Josh ReaMegan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 24/07/2026The CCCC Exec Committee released a brief statement on the NCTE’s intention to dissolve CCCC. "CCCC is the professional home for thousands of scholars, teachers, and researchers...with a decades-long record of shaping how writing is taught, studied, and understood."docs.google.comCCCC EC Quick Response July 23Public Facing Statement To be Shared With the General CCCC Membership We, members of the CCCC Executive Committee, were alarmed to learn of the NCTE Presidential Team’s plans to dissolve CCCC, which ... 23835
Reposted by Josh ReaAjuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 11/07/2026There is no way to use ChatGPT responsibly. 10363108
Reposted by Josh ReaIlhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 13/07/2026ICE has fatally shot 11 people since Donald Trump's second term began. These are not isolated incidents. They are the predictable result of a cruel, violent system. Abolish ICE. 7344241118
Reposted by Josh ReaMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/07/2026SHOCK NYT REPORT: DHS now admits the man ICE killed in Houston wasn't even their target. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 35-year U.S. resident, was just driving to work when agents — with no body cameras — shot him dead searching for two other men who weren't even in the van. Gift link in reply. 1039149337261
Reposted by Josh ReaHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”futurism.comThe Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost IncomprehensibleThe extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes. 19524374
Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Imagine writing this and sending it out to people like you thought you actually did something. 020
Reposted by Josh ReaAli Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 22/06/2026JFC, STOP SHARING GEN AI IMAGERY. It's shitty. And it's bad. BONUS frustration if it has no alt text, because then you suck twice. 17012
Reposted by Josh ReaJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026The integration of AI into writing classrooms should take heed on what's happening to programmers who use AI to "vibe code." These are people who already knew how to do the thing that's atrophying. Students don't have their writing practices set yet. www.404media.co/software-dev...404media.coSoftware Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains“It's making me dumber for sure.” 11910
Reposted by Josh ReaLe Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I am extremely alarmed by this.chronicle.comA Professor Defended a Postdoc Who Was Deported. Now His Lab Has Been Suddenly Locked Down.Work at an Indiana University biology lab was halted amid federal scrutiny, affecting dozens of researchers. “The damage is significant and mounting,” the department chair told The Chronicle. 0205
Reposted by Josh ReaJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 11/05/2026A school board in Wisconsin is probably going to censor an instrumental performance by children because the composer dedicated the piece to a queer icon. It’s why the calls by Democratic consultants to compromise on “the trans issue” is so unacceptable. You cannot compromise with this vile hatred.wpr.orgWisconsin school board considers pulling piece from spring band concert due to LGBTQ+ history tiesWatertown High School band students have spent months preparing for their May 18 spring concert. But a piece of music will likely be struck from their set list over its history. 5431143
Reposted by Josh ReaRachael Nevins ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences. 843264932
Reposted by Josh ReaAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/11/2025There's a kind of displacement in the idea that ai is both A) so easy to use that we won't need people to know how to do things B) itself something that requires significant skill and training to use 713834
Reposted by Josh ReaOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/04/2026I try hard to never to use "generative AI" because the phrase is itself industry gobbledegook that aims to erode scientific vocabulary through normalising such terms that superficially seem technical but are nonsense in their referent; more below: 29333
Reposted by Josh ReaDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Red state: we have cut gender studies because it doesn’t support our theology Blue state: we have cut gender studies because it doesn’t support our AI institute 431895
Josh Rea @reajm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026We have had several (I think four?) professors in my department retire in the three years I've been at my current institution and not one of those lines has been filled. 000
Reposted by Josh ReaChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 18/04/2026The desperate campaign to push AI down our throats is just what Nestlé did with baby formula, or Monsanto with patended seeds. Manufactured Intermediation—inserting a corporate tollbooth into a process that used to be self-sustaining, using a low initial barrier to entry to destroy the alternative. 302815996
Reposted by Josh ReaCheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 07/04/2026If I were a senator or congressperson, I would not be on social media right now. Actually, I would be on social media. I would be live in an airport or on a train while on my way back to the Capitol to hold a sit-in with as many colleagues and camera crews as possible over this ****. 111110267
Reposted by Josh ReaAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/04/2026I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king. 1058170294174
Reposted by Josh ReaToronto Will @torontowill.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I appreciate that "it doesn't really work this way", I just don't care. An imminent threat to end a civilization is a 5 alarm fire, even by Trump standards. If he can break the constitution to start a war, you can bend some procedure to stop a genocide. At least look like you're trying. 219821
Reposted by Josh ReaRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026my youngest grandson returns from The Waste. No food again, just metal scraps. But he's so proud, and wants a reward. "Tell me again about The Great Before. Tell me why The Green went away," he begs. "in the Before," I begin, "people had questions about who should participate in women's sports..." 192017367
Reposted by Josh ReaDr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 05/04/2026Isn’t it weird how “AI literacy” being pushed on students isn’t about learning how it works, the cost of how it works, learning to spot disinformation, media and tech literacy. But instead is just “employers will like it if you get it to write your emails :)” 241917563
Reposted by Josh ReaKarl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/03/2026there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productivetechdirt.comStanford Study: ‘AI’ Generated ‘Workslop’ Actually Making Productivity WorseAutomation undeniably has some useful applications. But the folks hyping modern “AI” have not only dramatically overstated its capabilities, many of them generally view these tools as a… 372079663
Reposted by Josh ReaTaco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org · 11/03/2026You do not need the robots to creatively prompt you! Just try to take the most violent bite of yourself possible. Try to swallow yourself whole 729098
Reposted by Josh ReaJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 02/03/2026I’m actually not sure we can come back from “prediction markets for war crimes”, as a society. I think this might be it for us. 393141568
Reposted by Josh ReaDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 26/02/2026i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period 421572382
Reposted by Josh ReaMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop. 7039271065
Reposted by Josh ReaMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain. 15069421846
Reposted by Josh ReaTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism. 81004345
Reposted by Josh ReaRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 06/02/20261. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable. 425274548043
Reposted by Josh ReaAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/01/2026You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested. 4362314511151
Reposted by Josh ReaDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage. 13866007418639
Reposted by Josh ReaNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 24/01/2026It’s time. I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight. A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents. 361859464
Reposted by Josh ReaJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 19/01/2026Pretty much every article I read about "integrating" AI into the writing classroom brings me back to the conclusion I work through here: We should teach writing, not document production. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...insidehighered.comWriting Classes Are About Writing, Not AI-Aided ProductionIf we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here. 39333
Reposted by Josh ReaEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Please stop and read this statement from Renee Good's wife. 39906362
Reposted by Josh ReaKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15898642821173
Reposted by Josh ReaJosh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 29/11/2025If universities would prioritize smaller classes and fewer bells and whistles like third-party technology contracts, a significantly bigger number of PhDs would find a position in higher education. 1045871