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Janet Frick

@jfrickuga.bsky.social

UGA Psychology prof, PI of UGA Infant Lab. Higher Ed, developmental science, prenatal dev, Georgia life. Missouri native and Jayhawk at heart. Lover of podcasts, piano, and professors who use their tenure (while it still exists).

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This is insane. Brooks says everyone is too blinded by ideology to see the truth of what the video shows. Then the host asks him what it shows and he refuses to answer.

β€œLeft and right are equally to blame for everything all the time” is also an ideology!

10.01.2026 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3989    πŸ” 531    πŸ’¬ 167    πŸ“Œ 54
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We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems."

From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

09.01.2026 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 76    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 9

Beautiful, thank you!

09.01.2026 22:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve never regretting nuking my account there.

09.01.2026 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Great ideas on both. I’ve been doing oral presentations in my smaller classes but it takes a lot of class time.

09.01.2026 21:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m a big podcast listener and just came across this one: great conversation and @americancampus.bsky.social is now jumping up in my queue

09.01.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Raise your hand if you’re doing more in-class writing and activities on paper and the whiteboard.

09.01.2026 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Minnesota Can & Must Prosecute the Unnamed ICE Agent Who Murdered Renee Good | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland Get more from Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon

You're going to hear a lot of lies about what the law allows after the Trump Regime's murder of Renee Good.

States can prosecute federal officers, they've been doing it since the 1800s. Trump cannot stop it and cannot pardon it.

Here's the legal analysis

www.patreon.com/posts/147687...

08.01.2026 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 572    πŸ” 258    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 19

This is the technology our schools are encouraging our children to use.

31.12.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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ICE Agent Kills Woman, DHS Tells Obvious, Insane Lies About It | Defector On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) surrounded a stationary vehicle stopped in the middle of a residential street. O...

β€œWhat the driver was or wasn't doing with her vehicle is irrelevant; so are the ICE agent's feelings about it. The agents never had to be clustered around the woman's vehicle in the first place. They never had to try to extract her from it.β€œ

07.01.2026 22:06 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice

29.12.2025 15:21 β€” πŸ‘ 780    πŸ” 125    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 9

One of several reasons that I require students to turn in the actual PDF of the study they are reading /citing with most of my upper level writing assignments. Relatedly, so discouraged today to learn that folks are using AI to grade student papers. Seems unethical to feed LLMs with student work!

15.12.2025 20:56 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy

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I had a student protest a grade in a class and allege religious discrimination in the process, and that earned an automatic bump to an EOO office investigation. I was cleared, and it didn’t become national news, but it was still super stressful. Departments & grad coordinators need to have plans.

02.12.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, I'm sending flowers and candy to all the schools who maybe have one rating item and just say "upload your damn letter", and a lump of coal to portals with the ridiculous "please rate the student on these 29 attributes, using this 7 point scale in a drop-down menu."

02.12.2025 04:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have submitted ALLLLLL the letters of recommendation due on Dec 1 with a full 42 minutes to spare. Please clap. (This is after the batch due mid-October, Nov 1, and mid-November). A few weeks of rec letter peace now arrive, just in time for grading hell! :)

02.12.2025 04:19 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.

01.12.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 16366    πŸ” 3335    πŸ’¬ 225    πŸ“Œ 147

Psych professor here, and yes it is obvious that the essay was not responsive to the prompt. Not because of the viewpoints shared (as Mel stated) but because it does not engage with the substance of the original article. Nothing in her essay indicates she understands the original paper.

02.12.2025 01:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Blue Sky censored one of the most important writers of our times, and they owe her an apology. In the meantime …

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Glad to see @sarahkendzior.bsky.social back. But READ her Thread.

14.11.2025 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 740    πŸ” 160    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 3
β€œJeopardy Amy” made a post on threads that she also used the same starter word

β€œJeopardy Amy” made a post on threads that she also used the same starter word

Also this made me super happy! @jeopardamy.bsky.social πŸ‘‹πŸΌ

09.11.2025 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A black and white fluffy kitty laying on his back, sprawled out like he owns the place

A black and white fluffy kitty laying on his back, sprawled out like he owns the place

Bandit says β€œsup”

09.11.2025 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."

09.11.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 187    πŸ” 65    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

This is super concerning.

09.11.2025 04:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

09.11.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 14490    πŸ” 4324    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 127

I finally had my wordle day!

Wordle 1,603 1/6

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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I would be losing my πŸ’© if I was on faculty there

07.11.2025 23:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Insane.

07.11.2025 23:22 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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