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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

This is a great description of a new workplace phenomenon. I know several people who are not trying to be rude when they use AI in collaborative work. But it is rude. It imposes both practical and emotional costs on collaborators who are then forced to deal with the dumb crap you sent them.

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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity

Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

For my HRM class on Friday, I'm planning to talk about some of the key events of 2025 relevant to understanding what is happening with discrimination law, the EEOC, and "DEI." Has anyone compiled a list of events like this? I could piece something together myself but maybe someone's already done it.

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Has anyone gotten Novavax this fall, or does anyone know when/in which pharmacies they might be available?

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I miss getting emails that didn't all sound like they were written by the same robot. Email was already so annoying and hard to manage. Now, often, there isn't even the feeling of making contact with other people.

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

That feeling when you're listening to a music history lecture series in an attempt to think about art and not fascism, and the next lecture is on Shostakovich's Symphony no. 5. 😱

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Researchers who co-author papers: what conversations have you had with your coauthors about LLM use during the writing process? Have you tried to influence your coauthors' LLM practices in any way? Have they tried to influence yours?

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Watching a webinar with @careyjones.bsky.social and Dr. Marlena Fejzo on pregnancy sickness research, I'm noticing how many women describe their experience as "horrific, but not bad in the scheme of things"; "destroyed my life, but others had it worse." (I'd put myself in this category, too!)

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

(1/2) A few 2025 phenomena I want to read scholarly or otherwise erudite articles about. Universe, make it happen 1. As scams grow to look more like real things, real things are also growing to look more like scams

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

As replies have pointed out, this is unfairly burdensome to some students with disabilities. But my follow-up question is, why hasn't someone made an updated typewriter or non-Internet-enabled word processor? Like how there are dumb phones for kids. Someone get on it please?!

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"

highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 09/03/2025

My son said "I don't understand why people are so afraid to get an autistic kid. Autistic kids are awesome." Can confirm. I love the deep dive in special interests, honesty, concern for justice, and empathy. Autistic minds enrich our world.

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

My university's admin sent a very "we're panicking. Are you panicking? It's time to panic" mass email this morning. What's everyone else hearing from their school admins this week?

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Social scientist friends (esp "DEIA" researchers), do you think the journals are changing or will end up changing the topics they publish on? Assuming one has the funding to keep doing the research, do you think there will be additional barriers to publishing it now, or same as before?

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My child was exposed to measles at the doctor's office as a baby, too young to be vaccinated. Did not get sick. ABSOLUTE BEST CASE outcome. Still so disruptive to our lives! 3 weeks with no daycare, never leaving the house. Worrying about my baby getting dangerously sick. ABSOLUTE. BEST. CASE.

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

My team's recent research: at work, women speak up less than men only when groups are uncivil. Maybe it's not a lack of confidence or leaning in that silences women, but actual cues in the environment. Focus on fixing the incivility, not the women! hbr.org/2025/01/rese...

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Research: Incivility at Work Silences Everyone, But Especially Women

Incivility at work isn’t good for anyone. But while both men and women are less likely to speak up in uncivil environments, women are more likely to withhold their ideas due to concerns about gender b...

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For today's post, have a cat pic. Do not snuggle the belly. It is a trap

Tabby cat on back in a windowsill, with front paws curled in T-Rex position and sun illuminating belly

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Tamar A K @tak135.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This take is on a different planet from what I’m feeling this week. I would say I am genuinely attached to Facebook. My 19 years on there have given me so much: connections, opportunities, meaning, joy. For the first time, I feel deep down that my time there is done, and I'm really sad about it.

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