Edwardy Whitley

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English Dept at Lehigh University is accepting applications for its fully funded M.A. and Ph.D. programs in literature and social justice. Interested students can attend a virtual open house on Tuesday 10/28, 12-1pm and have their application fees waived. Register: lehigh.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

“There is more character in the Sperm Whale’s head. As you behold it, you involuntarily yield the immense superiority to him, in point of pervading dignity.” — Moby-Dick

No kings in Bethlehem, PA

Great to see you back on social media, Leon!

No luck in any of the Lehigh database. Not even the Historical Periodicals Collection from the AAS

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

We are in the FA stage of FAFO

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

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Breaking: Second Royal Society fellow resigns over Musk’s membership

More than 750 scientists, including multiple fellows, criticise academy’s lack of action

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...

Don’t quote me on this but I think that the Book Arts Workshop at Dartmouth has a full set of Cherokee type in their letterpress studio—if you’re looking for a field trip

Thousands of datasets from Data.gov have disappeared since Trump's inauguration. What's going on? The answer is more complicated than you might think.

mashable.com/article/gove...

For US Conservatives, DEI is code for ‘Don’t Ever Integrate’ The end goal of the war against affirmative action is to return the US to a state of quasi-legal racial segregation.

For US Conservatives, DEI is code for ‘Don’t Ever Integrate’ | @donaldearlcollins.bsky.social

The real end goal of the far-right war against affirmative action is to return the US to a state of quasi-legal racial segregation.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Hey, Bluesky. This is my dog and my daughter. They both like popcorn.

Remember: The GOP uses dangerous smears against trans people, immigrants, and people of color to deflect attention from the near record share of the nation’s income and wealth now going to the richest Americans.

Don't let them get away with it.

I saw Andy Serkis at the airport! I couldn’t bring myself to say hello or ask for a photo. I imagine he was even more exhausted from Fan Expo than I was from MLA.

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd” —Walt Whitman (and probably those cosplayers as well)

Scrooge and Marley CEO: The Counting House Business Is Flawed. Let’s Fix It OPINION GUEST ESSAY by EBENEEZER SCROOGE Mr. Scrooge is the chief executive officer of Scrooge and Marley. - - -I know the headline suggests you ar...

"Let me try to demystify what we do at Scrooge & Marley. We make our mission to make making more money make more sense. We are always striving to find ways to get more money from you, all at a lower cost to us."

Cambridge UP wants to use the scholarship my colleagues and I created a few years ago to train generative AI

And registration fees should be affordable. I’d happily attend a conference I didn’t get accepted to if that meant I could learn from leaders in the field. But my institution is like many others in that it will cover more/all of the costs only if I’m presenting.

Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The Department of English at Lehigh University invites applications for a tenure- track Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric with an ant...

Lehigh University is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Composition and Rhetoric careers.insidehighered.com/job/3224639/...

C19 in Pasadena was fantastic

English department people: this report just out from the Association of Departments of English is tremendous, the product of a lot of hard work by many people, and worth a read (and it's got pictures) www.maps.mla.org/content/down...

Thanks to @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social for the site visit to @umdbooklab.bsky.social and the gift of a Whitman poem. I’m always grateful to be a Terp, but today even more so.