Nathaniel C. Green

But I was told AI will replace historians

All this is to say, @thetattooedprof.bsky.social is right, and I think faculty's in-person classes are the best way to do the kind of outreach he's talking about. So do what you can to keep those in-person classes, and fight for them!

The result: a lot of online courses are actually *more* writing-intensive than in-person classes. There is nobody there to prod the student to turn in their work. The work is especially prone to cheating, *and* it's virtually impossible to foster any meaningful sense of community among students.

Students have also learned that online classes are often actually *harder* than their in-person equivalent. This is usually not intentional. But what would be basic interaction in an in-person course (group discussion, for instance) now becomes a written assignment meant to "simulate" discussion

College leadership, IMHO, should prioritize in-person classes as a way of fostering exactly this kind of community, *and* as a way of maximizing the learning that can take place. We know that even students who learn by taking an online class would learn *more* if they took it in-person.

Learning can occur in online classes. But colleges promote them as a convenient alternative to in-person classes, which in turn leads to lower enrollment in in-person classes. That, in turn, makes it harder to cultivate the kind of campus community college leaders say they value.

An added challenge is how heavily so many institutions (like community colleges) promote online, asynchronous classes over in-person classes. I teach both, and I can tell you that even the "best" online courses are a pale shadow of in-person classes.

Am I reading this right? That SCOTUS justices "care" so much about historian-written amicus briefs that "It's created jobs"?

Did I miss the ads for all these jobs on H-NET?

It is absolutely possible to criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic.

It is wrong to kill innocent civilians, and Israel should stop doing it.

See? Not anti-Semitic.

I am not Jewish. But I find it deeply troubling that anything but unquestioned support for a state amounts to a hateful attack on the members of a world religion.

Evergreen post (sadly)

"It was not merely that Ghislaine was a product of an elite unburdened by principle, who often reduce their daughters to mere ornaments. It is that an ornament, it seems, is all that Ghislaine Maxwell ever aspired to be."
Brilliantly captures what is sad and what is terrible about her story.

Pro tip: If a dude with six fingers on his right hand shows up wanting the sword, tell him to eff off but be ready to fight. And if you lose, make sure you have a son that will dedicate his life to avenging you.

Parkinson also has a great discussion of the way Jefferson's declaration builds to a "crescendo" with the "merciless Indian savages" line and the (deleted) paragraph about slavery. You can find it in THIRTEEN CLOCKS, which is a very readable, condensed version of THE COMMON CAUSE

You might consider Robert Parkinson, "Friends and Enemies in the Declaration of Independence," in @jbf1755.bsky.social and Johann Neem, eds., JEFFERSONIANS IN POWER.

This is like Veep dialogue: the sheer, relentless awfulness of it, deployed mercilessly with expert precision at target's most vulnerable insecurities, with the sole intention of maximizing irreparable harm to the soul.
There is such a perverse craftsmanship to it. Staggering.

To the extent that's true, it's rife with inaccuracies.
1) Many human college students are not noisy drunks
2) Even noisy drunks deserve housing!
3) Restricting housing actually drives up housing costs, it doesn't reduce them.

Crucial framing here. AI is so often marketed as a way of eliminating "unimportant tasks." Which means people who admit to using it are telling us what they think is "unimportant."

I grew up in Fort Madison, Iowa, a town with no college/university, few apartments, few opportunities (and fewer now than when I lived there). When I moved to Cedar Falls (where UNI is), I absolutely loved it.
Will never understand hostility toward colleges by people who live in college towns

bsky.app/profile/jane...

Yikes.

My in-laws live in the Black Hills of South Dakota. It's very conservative, and also deeply economically dependent on tourism. I wonder what kind of impact Trump's xenophobia will have on tourism-related businesses in conservative areas

Democracies are built on trust. We shouldn't trust Trump. But we also shouldn't adopt his stance that nothing can be trusted.

Remember: the essence of Trump's political project is to undermine democracy by destroying democratic institutions and to salt the earth so they can't be cultivated after he's gone. That means destroying not only the institutions but the public trust needed for them to function.

There is a difference between credulous acceptance of authority (bad!) and the kind of trust that any democratic system needs to function (good!). Mistakes happen. It's important that we not take a mistake as evidence of something nefarious without evidence clearly indicating the connection.

...3. The number of folks who (like me) thought the worst tells us much about how much distrust and fear already exist in our political culture right now, but also
4. Why it's important not to give into reflexive cynicism or suspicion of wrongdoing until we have the facts

FWIW:
1. I believe the LOC when they say this was a technical error, not intentional or rooted in coercion from Trump
2. I was concerned about it @ first, given the specific parts of the Constitution that were missing, as were many
...

But there are historians who liked the AHA statement. (I corresponded with one yesterday). The same folks who endorsed that study likely also liked the AHA statement.

I'm not convinced there's a contradiction here, as your OP suggested. If there are specific people who endorsed the use of AI on ancient inscriptions *and* also criticized the AHA statement, that's a more compelling argument.