Daphne M. | incidental writer/full time student

“‘Bending the knee’ has become the most popular Washington exercise because obsequiousness promises to improve the health of your bottom line. Whether you’re a trustee…or CEO…you are now engaged in servility cross-training.” — Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Academia was never supposed to run like this - competitive, precarious, racing to produce and accumulate. Many researchers are trying to identify solutions, and we need to work together to do so. #AcademicSky

For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback.

Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation. https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
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MIT is first school to reject Trump administration's agenda in exchange for funding benefits "With respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology president wrote in a letter.

"In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence... Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.”
#AcademicSky
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Currently listening to Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise. It's masterfully done in how deeply uncomfortable it makes you feel at times. It's so beautiful written though which only adds to the sense of horror and at times disgust. Disgust at men, (internalized) misogyny, and the system. #booksky

Season 7, Episode 3: Take Me Thru There (ft. Aria Daze) Podcast Episode · Romance in Colour · 10/10/2025 · 58m

I like listening to the Romance in Colour podcast when it drops on Fridays.

This episode features a fun conversation between @richardwriteson.bsky.social, host, with romance author Aria Daze.

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#Romancelandia #BookSky #BlackBookSky #BlackRomance

Front cover of Toward Eternity paperback

My novel TOWARD ETERNITY is now available in paperback, *run* to your local bookstore to get a copy now!!! www.harpercollins.com/products/tow...

A graphic featuring the cover of A Summer with the Immortal with labeled arrows around it. The cover is mostly light green. In the centre is a red lily with a long stamen shaped like a three-pronged radio antenna. Labels read: Mutagenic phenomenon. F/F with a meet-cute. Autistic MC and LI. Fantastical biotech. Environmental politics. Ancient ruins with strange secrets. Library love.

A reclusive immortal.
His mysteriously wilting crop of telephone-flowers.
A biology student determined to find the cause.
A very busy summer awaits…

Kobo: kobo.com/ebook/a-summer-with-the-immortal
Itch: parisvivian.itch.io/a-summer-with-the-immortal

#BookSky #IndieAuthor #Sapphic

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these violent nights by rebecca crunden kindle cover; image shows a neon city with four black figures, two men and two women; there's a moon in the background around the text.

👾 futuristic world
☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📝 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships

🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

#booksky

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🎭 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🐛 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈 a rescue cat

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

#booksky

"No hate! No fear!
Immigrants are welcome here"

Currently reading A Perfect Day to be Alone and I definitely lean more genre than litfic, so sometimes I read litfic and wonder "what even is the plot here?" That being said, I'm enjoying the book. Just like, I'm 52% through it and wondering where are we going with this? #booksky

I have to go to the dentist on Tuesday (and the 17th) and I just....oh gods. I have a massive phobia of the dentist and having depression mode dental hygiene practices doesn't help. But I'm pretty sure I have a cavity and I need a cleaning. This era of my life I'm putting my dental health first.

As a student, how would you recommend going about reaching out to the uni president/board?

If you are on the academic job market this year, I think it's worth reading this post + consider inquiring about this at places you interview.

Schools that sign this "compact" will be–by nature of what they will now be exposed to–a very different place from the place you applied to. #AcademicSky

" Signatories commit themselves to revising governance structures as necessary to create such an environment, including but not limited to transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas. Given the importance of academic freedom to the marketplace of ideas, signatories shall adopt a policy protecting academic freedom in classrooms, teaching, research, and scholarship. Such policies also shall recognize that academic freedom is not absolute, and universities shall adopt policies that prevent discriminatory, threatening, harassing, or other behaviors that abridge the rights of other members of the university community. Signatories commit to rigorous, good faith, empirical assessment of a broad spectrum of viewpoints among faculty, students, and staff at all levels and to sharing the results of such assessments with the public; and to seek such a broad spectrum of viewpoints not just in the university as a whole, but within every field, department, school, and teaching unit. "

Would you agree to FORMALLY SURVEY THE IDEOLOGIES OF FACULTY IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF YOUR COLLEGE, and to "transform or abolish" any that "belittle" "conservative ideas"?

That's what Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence." demands.

#edusky #academicsky

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As a fellow Cal State faculty member who has been informed that our *personal information* may have been shared with the EEOC over the same phony allegations, I want to say ⚡️I 100% SUPPORT Newsom’s plan to instantly deny state support to any school joining this authoritarian ‘compact’⚡️
#AcademicSky

“Having one's book banned is not a prize. It's an assault on the right to read. And, worse, official acts of censorship beget quiet censorship, done in anticipation of criticism. As frequently banned author Malinda Lo writes, "Self-censorship is possibly the most difficult kind of censorship to fight because it is generally not publicly admitted. It's done quietly, in private. If nobody knows it's happening, how can anyone object?"” "Being Banned Is Not an Award" Philip Nel Bookbird A Journal of International Children's Literature Volume 63, Number 3, 2025 Read free thru 31 October 2025 Illustrated with the cover art from the new issue of Bookbird

As Banned Books Week nears, Philip Nel warns against the ways institutional book banning efforts lead to self-censorship

Read "Being Banned Is Not an Award" in the new issue of Bookbird

Free on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

tinyurl.com/3hy62uye

#AcademicSky

Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

American Association of University Professors: Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

www.aaup.org/news/univers...

#highered #academicsky

Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.

I just peer reviewed a journal article that cited a “hallucinated" article ostensibly authored by me.

Needless to say, I recommended rejection.

#academia #academicChatter #commodon

Well thank you for this, I'm now subscribed to get otters to my email.

the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me

I feel that

Charlie Kirk in front of a split blue and red background with people arguing in the color blocks.

Charlie Kirk: Hero of ‘Civil Discourse’ or Fount of Division?

Pointing to the slain activist’s inflammatory statements about minority groups, some are pushing back—at their own peril—against the right’s framing of him as an emblem of quality discourse. https://bit.ly/42clCiM

#EDUSky #AcademicSky

The Integral Relationship Between Board Independence and Academic Freedom Join this webinar to explore the foundational role of board independence in preserving academic freedom and protecting the core mission of higher education, the pursuit of knowledge.

On Wednesday, October 1, listen to @joshpasek.com, @umich.edu, and David Rabben, @utaustin.bsky.social discuss how current political pressures are undermining academic freedom and what boards need to do to protect it. #academicsky @utaustinaaup.bsky.social

agb.org/events/webin...

My husband signed up for an online Finnish class that's actually taught by my professor! I'm so excited for him!

This is incredible, thank you!

Ive seen LLMs pushed a lot to fellow #adhd students and scholarship to "help" them with things like detail work and structuring work. Ive also seen many punished for trusting this offer of help too. Here's what to use instead:

#academicsky