Reposted by Sarah ThelenMary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Don't let a robot grade your students' work. 😑 032
Reposted by Sarah ThelenAustin J. Clements @clementsaustinj.bsky.social · 19/06/2025doing historiography again 1256478
Reposted by Sarah Thelenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/06/2025i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!nytimes.comEveryone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad? 688153321545
Reposted by Sarah ThelenLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025For me, what makes most of the works of history that I consider great are those that offer a glimpse into the unique mind and obsessions of people who have sifted through and curated a large number of sources, and made compelling and often idiosyncratic choices about what to highlight./9 1341
Reposted by Sarah ThelenAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/06/2025if you ask it for a thing that looks like an answer, it gives you a thing that looks like an answer if you ask it for a thing that looks like a source, it gives you thing that looks like a source if you tell it that it's wrong and ask it for a thing that looks like an apology, that's what you get 8337131
Reposted by Sarah ThelenAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/06/2025This means as a historian or political commentator, you spend quite a lot of time having to explain “yes, I know, I’m not saying it SHOULD be like this, I’m saying it IS like this,” unless you couch everything you say in fluffy adverbs (“Unfortunately…”), and often it happens even if you do. 1158226
Reposted by Sarah ThelenJay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 26/04/2025To wrap up, some key distinctions I use to do my work: Public vs. audience Journalism vs. the media Truth-seeking vs. refuge-seeking Political vs. politicized Issues vs. troubles Ritual vs. transmission Expect vs. predict Subscription vs. membership "When in doubt, draw a distinction." 25/ 818225
Reposted by Sarah Thelenve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 20/04/2025"Gen AI is early 1900s spiritualism for digital moderns" prediction stays winning 1253895
Reposted by Sarah ThelenMartin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 16/04/2025How Irish booksellers feel about the arrival of Amazon.ie: ‘It’s a very real danger to the industry’. Bookshops offer something that an exclusively online retailer cannot, but they may need support to compete against a corporate giant, writes Tim Groenland www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...amazon.ieAmazon.ie: Low Prices in Electronics, Books, Sports Equipment & moreSign up to Amazon Prime for unlimited free delivery. Low prices at Amazon on electronics, books, music, video games, home & garden and much more. 54119
Reposted by Sarah ThelenRobin Z @firepile.bsky.social · 08/04/2025New chapter out by me where I argue that people who claim to collaborate with LLMs are mistaken about the role of the bots, and that they're weak ass tools rather than serving the role of an actual collaborator academic.oup.com/edited-volum...academic.oup.comHow Not to Collaborate with Large Language Models: The Current Impossibility of Social Cognition with AI Systems | Oxford Intersections: AI in Society | Oxford Academic 23616
Reposted by Sarah ThelenJames O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The HEA has published Ten Considerations for Generative AI Adoption in Irish Higher Education, which provide a foundation for institutions to shape policies and practices around generative AI. hub.teachingandlearning.ie/ten-consider... 0136
Reposted by Sarah ThelenSaeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Universities — including the schools that most aggressively shut down student activism — are now fully panicking because the Trump administration is about to shut down all kinds of funding for research and more. Too bad they made it clear that their students shouldn’t speak up and speak out. 81196294
Reposted by Sarah ThelenPreeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I have been soft lobbying for the ALA to change Banned Books Week to Freedom to Read / Readers’ Choice week for like a decade bc of this very impression. Having a banned book is not a positive thing. It’s an attack. 7438125
Reposted by Sarah ThelenDr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I was writing about deterrence today and remembered my favourite way of explaining it 241779328
Reposted by Sarah ThelenAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 25/01/2025Channel your inner Amelia Bedelia 1256
Sarah Thelen @thelen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025History is never as straightforward as some people want it to be 130
Reposted by Sarah ThelenKevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Studying and teaching history is a form of resistance. 🗃️ 833482
Sarah Thelen @thelen.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Unfortunately, the pedestrian crossing by me is *more* dangerous than cruising in the middle of the street 120
Reposted by Sarah ThelenRyan North @ryannorth.ca · 22/11/2023anyway it's probably fine, it is definitely reasonable to have a machine that lies confidently about things you may not be certain about. a program that's baked into the OS and designed to be turned to for help when you're stuck and uncertain SHOULD randomly make shit up, including references, 231205207
Sarah Thelen @thelen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025From _Clio Wired_ (2011):: "The danger is ... that as the Web goes down the well-worn road of radio, tv, and cable, in which large 'infotainment' conglomerates come to dominate the wires, 'choice' becomes narrowly defined as the competition between two or three very similar 'products.'" 000
Reposted by Sarah ThelenJonathan Birch @birchlse.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Academic letters of recommendation: a guide for the perplexed (Bluesky edition). 518237
Reposted by Sarah ThelenEvan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 01/01/2025The first time I have seen track changes in a declassified archival document. From a document created in 2004. From the latest round of Prime Minister's Office files released by the UK National Archives. cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/re... 26623
Reposted by Sarah ThelenAmalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Going to physical archives helps us realize -the illusion that 'everything' is online -how much of historical record has already been lost -the inadequacy of the written -the selectivity of digitization projects Great @contingent-mag.bsky.social piece, and thanks for shout-out to archivists' labor! 3322115
Sarah Thelen @thelen.bsky.social · 28/12/2024"They are simply ingenious and exciting tools which have solid and encouraging applications but do not, crucially, gesture toward an omniscience that does not exist, and which be undesirable if it did." 020
Reposted by Sarah ThelenAnn Leckie @annleckie.com · 27/12/2024Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it. 9076092368
Sarah Thelen @thelen.bsky.social · 26/12/2024The number of people in higher ed who don't/won't see this as a problem is enraging 010
Reposted by Sarah ThelenMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/12/2024Michel Foucault: Even when the Elf is not on the Shelf, you are never free of it. You carry the Elf within you, monitoring your own conduct for Naughtiness. You hold yourself prisoner within a self-surveilled snow globe of Santa’s making.buff.lyGreat Philosophers on Santa’s Naughty and Nice Lists(With thanks to Dr. Henry Gorman) - - -Aristotle: Be good for goodness’ sake. Plato: To be “good” or “nice” is to cultivate one’s knowledge of Sant... 117255
Reposted by Sarah ThelenAlan Kelly @akellyucc.bsky.social · 24/12/2024A few years ago, at evening childrens’ mass on Christmas Eve, the priest got ‘a call’ from Santa, who said he was in South America, causing a lot of kids present who had just seen NORAD tracking him over Asia enormous geographical confusion. 032
Sarah Thelen @thelen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Great to have our genAI and assessment design work recognised and looking forward to working with @lorettag.bsky.social to do even more! www.teachingandlearning.ie/2024/12/20/h...teachingandlearning.ieHEA Announces Four Recipients of SATLE Impact Award for Excellence in Teaching and LearningThe Higher Education Authority (HEA) today announced the recipients of the SATLE (Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Funding in Higher Education) Impact Award. These awards celebrate excellence and… 060
Reposted by Sarah ThelenJacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns? 661361160
Reposted by Sarah ThelenEvil Mastermind @evilmastermind.bsky.social · 12/12/2024I've said this a million times, but I'll say it again: People who use AI don't actually want to *create* something, they want to *have created* something, and those are not the same thing. 1050269
Reposted by Sarah ThelenAnna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas. 15272412273
Reposted by Sarah ThelenJames O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social · 12/12/2024UCC’s @thelen.bsky.social speaking to the institution’s digital futures programme at the HEA’s Teaching & Learning Conference. @ucc.bsky.social @cirtl.bsky.social 041
Reposted by Sarah ThelenDr Catherine O’Mahony (she/her) @catherineomahony.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Integrated in formal offerings, ran workshops. Provide resources, readings etc. 111
Reposted by Sarah ThelenDr Catherine O’Mahony (she/her) @catherineomahony.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Now @thelen.bsky.social on digital transformation @ucc.bsky.social 131
Reposted by Sarah ThelenAndrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Also, this issue unites cognitive scientists in a way almost nothing else does. I think only Hinton is all in and he’s more a computer guy than a behavioural researcher 🤔. Is the ‘general intelligence’ claim coming from anywhere other than the salesmen? 3364
Reposted by Sarah ThelenHoctor @hoctor.bsky.social · 06/12/2024"So it's a toy show?" "Toys, books, bikes, singing and dancing, that sort of thing." "Aimed at what age group?" "Say four to twelve-ish." "And it starts at..." "Twenty to ten, runs till after midnight." "Is that... set in stone?" "Absolute deal-breaker, yeah." "Ok... Great." #LateLateToyShow 216933
Reposted by Sarah ThelenN Sims @copyrightlibn.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I'd argue there's several more reasons for citation than just two, but very much agree with your larger points: citing chatbots is nonsensical, and the emergence of the practice highlights how little most people think about what citations are for. (copyrightlibrarian.com/discussion/w...)copyrightlibrarian.comWhat is that citation doing? – Copyright Librarian 1175
Reposted by Sarah ThelenArvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social · 02/12/2024And chatbots aren't moral agents nor have ownership of the text they output, so they don't need to be credited. The proper thing to do when using a chatbot is to disclose it, for transparency, rather than cite it for attributing credit or signaling credibility. 4/ 68714
Reposted by Sarah ThelenNia Springer-Norris @nianorris.com · 30/11/2024My web development students don't even know what files they own are. We have to review file structure every assignment that requires JavaScript or CSS. They live out of their downloads folder like it's a van by the river. 26787118
