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Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

This is downtown Santa Barbara right now. The No Kings protest stretches for over a mile along the water. The cars who drive by are all honking in support. Probably the biggest protest this community has ever seen.

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Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

they were memorable conversations!

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Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

@brettbobley.bsky.social has been one of the great humanities visionaries. In this context perhaps the highest praise would be to say his influence is incalculable. #ThanksBrett

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

OpenAI will not “embed” its tools in college life, it is already changing the nature of what it means to learn, to read or think critically. It does not embed in the world, it makes the world in its image. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t...

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Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement: “Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. 1/ senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

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Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

These images offer a momentary reprieve from the gloom of the world, but behind them lies a great deal of collaborative work (which itself has been a reprieve). Tremendous thanks to @ryancordell.org and all who contributed passages…

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/04/2025

In the press on a Saturday working on a project for @ritaraley.bsky.social & @alanyliu.bsky.social

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University of California @uofcalifornia.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The mission and values of the University of California have not changed. You matter. Your work is important. Together we will continue to make a difference in our state, our country and our world. #FiatLux ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=EweZ... Federal updates: bit.ly/4b7x9Db

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A Message from University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D.

YouTube video by University of California

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding. Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26) (Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)

Table of the 25 universities that receive the most money from the Department of Health and Human Services (basically NIH); Johns Hopkins, Duke, UCSF, Penn and Pitt are at the top.

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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Really powerful models are getting cheaper and cheaper to build - genuinely really cheap. Universities, do not tie yourself to OpenAI. We can and should use and develop open source only. (Desperately hoping that my own uni is listening)

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Now reading a paper for a promotion case and Adobe Acrobat popup keeps asking me ‘Short on Time? Ask for a Quick Summary!’ There’s a ‘Hide for this Session’ button but it does nothing. So here is unwanted, uninvited AI repeatedly telling me to half-ass my job, one that someone’s career depends upon

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Brilliant talk today by Hannes Bajohr (@hannesbajohr.de) on “Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text & its Styles” at launch of UCSB Center for the Humanities & Machine Learning (huml.ucsb.edu/events). Bajohr is 2nd from left with (L to R) ‪@zentralwerkstatt.org, Rita Raley, & @owenleonard.bsky.social.

Fabian Offert, Hannes Bajohr, Rita Raley, & Owen Leonard (seated in photo left to right) at a table under a screen showing the title slide of Bajohr’s talk on “Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles.” (Slide consists of white san-serif text against a dark background without images.)

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Katina Rogers @katinalynn.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

In #mla25 #s584 on generative AI, Rita Raley posits that the risk we’re collectively facing is not to the humanities but to the concept of research itself. (Standing room only in here, btw)

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Absolutely fantastic panel on “Rereading Generative AI” at #MLA2025. One of the best conversations I’ve heard about AI, copyright, language, & the future of the humanities and university. Highly recommend you check out all their essays in this PMLA special issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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PMLA: Volume 139 - Issue 3 | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - PMLA - Volume 139 - Issue 3

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Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

what, I forgot “fabulous”

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

New work: The post-election period may be volatile, esp if the outcome is disputed. Platforms will be scrutinized for handling of rumors & disinfo, early claims of victory, & potential incitements to violence. We analyzed scenarios & key policies to be aware of: www.techpolicy.press/a-guide-to-s...

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A Guide to Social Media Moderation Policies for the Post-Election Period | TechPolicy.Press

If there is unrest following the 2024 US elections, will major platforms be prepared to deliver on their stated policies?

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Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

www.chronicle.com/article/ai-m... many an existential threat on the horizon I guess; take a number and get in line

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Opinion | AI May Ruin the University as We Know It

The existential threat of the newest wave of ed-tech.

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

Full TOC for the PMLA cluster on #criticalAI edited by @ritaraley.bsky.social and me. Essays are alphabetical by title, but our piece is intended as the frame and Katherine Elkins’ as the endcap. They’re all bangers— check out Eduardo Ledesma’s, for example. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

🔥 🔥 Two great sentences on how universities are responding to AI 🔥 🔥

Meanwhile, educational institutions respond by equal measures of pattern language, convening summits, commissioning white papers, charging ad hoc committees and task forces, and retaining executive consultants—themselves leading instigators of the very media cycles to which the institutions strain to respond. That the output and outcomes of all this activity take the form of reports, visualizations, and slide decks—outputs that now can easily be machine-generated and by this point likely often are—is not so much symptom of a root cause but proof of concept of a continuous organizational strategy simultaneously anathema to the work of the university while scarily sanguine about the prospects for bringing the medieval institution into line with the data-drawn vectors of twenty-first-century capital.

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Francois Lachance @lachance.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Much to ponder here including the framing : "[T]he matter at hand is not simply property theft: it is rather an enclosure of the language commons". Thank you for this essay.

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Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

somewhat odd to say given the relatively accelerated timeline but…finally, it’s out

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Thank you so much @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social and @ritaraley.bsky.social for convening this discussion and helping get this to press (a mere 8 months after the initial discussion). I'll update some thoughts here in the coming days, too, but for now, THANK YOU MATT & RITA!

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Seth Perlow @sethperlow.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

Part of a Theories and Methodologies cluster brilliantly edited by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social and @ritaraley.bsky.social and with other sharp essays by @mmvty.bsky.social @aarthivadde.bsky.social and others not on. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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FirstView | PMLA | Cambridge Core

PMLA - Brent Hayes Edwards

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Glad to be able to cap my career by helping to pass on what I have learned about digital scholarship, & about the profession, in the MLA’s new “Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship”: www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov....

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Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship

Published by the Committee on Information Technology in 2024, these MLA guidelines are designed to help departments and scholars implement effective and fair evaluation procedures for hiring, reappoin...

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

If you're having a rough day, remember that in 1991 Tim Berners-Lee's paper for the World Wide Web was rejected and he was relegated to the poster session.

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Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

It’s almost like we need a media history :) Minh and I are on it…

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Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

In a cluster featuring essays by @mmvty.bsky.social @sethperlow.bsky.social and others not here. Coming soon!

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

A good time to mention that @ritaraley.bsky.social and I have a co-authored piece about to come out in PMLA (next few weeks) titled “AI and the University as a Service.” It’s not a feel-good read.

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Brett Bobley @brettbobley.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Interesting seeing this defense of the humanities major coming from the world of advertising.

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Rita Raley @ritaraley.bsky.social · 24/02/2024

starting yet another social media account from scratch…

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