Crystal Lake

Peer Review Paranoia The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

my college kid was heartbroken when on the first day of class the professor said "I used to spend 3 weeks teaching this part, but just have AI create it for you and we'll skip it." Skipping the most creative part of the work. The part my kid most looked forward to.

Great idea!

…protein bars, safety pins, stain-remover pens, chapsticks, cough drops, ibuprofen, dry-erase markers, menstrual products, bandaids. Essentially, all the stuff you never knew you needed to have at the office until you really needed it. What else would you put in such a kit?

picture of a white mesh office supply caddy filled with the items listed in the post

Here’s a thing I’ve started to do: leave a little “Survival Kit” for our graduate student instructors in their offices before the first day of classes. It includes…

Your keynote and reflection workshop were so inspiring, Cate! Thank YOU for leading our conversations about higher education in the directions they need to go!

photograph of 8 graduate students standing with Catherine Denial.

It was such a joy today to get to fan girl all the way out and introduce our graduate student instructors in English to Catherine Denial, whose work has influenced so much of the work I’ve been doing these last several years with our grad program. 😍

Any other Hopkins authors get the LLM licensing email? Thoughts?

Sabotage Beastie Boys · Ill Communication · Song · 1994

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“Work a little harder. / Work another way.”

💯

Since the eighties, LuPone has been based in Connecticut. Years ago, she and Johnston got a flock of chickens and named them Marilyn, Rita, Eartha, Foghorn Leghorn, and the Fabulous Miller Sisters (Pia, Alexandra, and Marie-Chantal). All but three were massacred in a raccoon attack. "It was horrific," LuPone said. "There was blood and feathers and guts all over the place when my husband heard me screaming. He came down in this Victoria's Secret underwear, barefoot. We looked in the hen hut, and there was the raccoon, basically looking at us, going, I ain't finished.'"

There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

This books sounds amazing! Congratulations!

The work of the ACLS matters now more than ever, and I’m floored by the honor of being among this year’s awardees!

Book stack: Shows of London Milton on Film Pleasures of the Imagination Act of Reading The Spectator vol 3 Storythinking Reading in the Brain

Let ‘em cook!

Title page for Archibald Alison’s Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790)

In my happy place.

Here's a VERY Rare Book!
Dare I say.... a UNICORN?

How could I (almost) miss that it's #NationalUnicornDay?
#volvelle #interactive #popup
#NewberryLibrary
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Data providers like EBSCO, ProQuest, Sage + Cengage are “implementing “local controls” on databases, particularly related to health + race. ‘Under even the smallest of threats, the co’s have provided the tools or have secretly put on the tools… that apply the content blocking on these systems”

picture of a cat wearing a neck tie and shaking its “fist”

I guess even the cats are angry hedge fund managers now, and nothing makes sense anymore.

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Fire up your typing fingers, friends, because I can’t wait to read your essays as a new member of PMLA’s advisory board starting this summer.

Living to Work in Severance - The Rambling In this essay, Andrew Strombeck considers how Severance reminds its viewers that the Always-Be-Hustling era masks grim truths about work. As long as we view work as a place to find our best selves, we...

For all you #severance fans, don’t sleep on this brilliant essay about the show by the one and only @drew-strombeck.bsky.social.

the-rambling.com/2022/10/21/i...

So grateful for and impressed by the work you did in this role, Kathy!!!! Our field is the better for it! ❤️

Eighteenth-Century Studies is looking for a new Book Review Editor! Deadline to apply is April 15. Details are at asecs.org/publications...

Delighted to feature this essay—a must-read for anyone interested in eighteenth-century numismatics—as part of the Vetusta Monumenta project!

These are the days, it never rains but it pours…

PP&T Curio: Thing: B. F. Skinner's pigeons Behavioral psychology is for the birds.   Having a "bird-brain" wasn't such a bad thing in the mind of psychologist B. F. Skinner. A pioneer in behaviorism—the study of human and animal behaviors es...

Pigeons turn out to have been central to how we think about psychology!

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Headline from NYT “House Passes Budget Plan to Slash Spending…”

The irony that now we really do need someone in the government to “stop the steal.”

A Twist of the Kaleidoscope | The Point Magazine Has academia ruined literary criticism? Is this the end of literary studies? Has contemporary culture reduced authors to mere influencers building their brand? Or is […]

I’ve got a new essay in @thepointmag.bsky.social reviewing books by Michael Chaouli, Jonathan Kramnick, and Lauren Oyler, and talking about what I love about (reading about) literary criticism, and how I do not love The Discourse.

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Check out @drew-strombeck.bsky.social with work from a new book project in the latest issue of NOVEL! 😍