Alex Penland, Academia Native

I’ll have to apply, then! This looks ideal for the type of work I’ve been looking for as I’m finishing my PhD.

Just checking—this looks like it would be a fully online position, is that correct?

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

"Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance."

And yet: "We want these tools to succeed and are open to working with AI companies to deliver for audiences and wider society.’"

Dude, what???

The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest 2025 - SmokeLong Quarterly The SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) is now an annual competition celebrating and compensating the best micro fiction and nonfiction online. The grand prize winner of The Mikey is automatical...

Just under 20 days to get your micros (-250 words) in! Fiction, CNF, hybrid, published, unpublished, translations. We're so easy. What about that killer micro you published 20 years ago? It's eligible. We're searching for the best. Deadline Nov 15th. www.smokelong.com/the-smokelon...

I will! I’ve been doing loads of adventures in gluten free baking lately—my best friend is celiac, and I’m determined to make her some good food!

When I’ve perfected it, I’ll write up the recipe and share it!

Nearly a Century Ago, American Chestnut Trees Died Off. Now, Hikers Can Walk Among Them Again. Efforts to restore the American chestnut comprise "one of the most epic conservation stories ever told.”

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild.

Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

About | Literary Arts Fund The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.

Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/

(Flour is a buckwheat/oat/chickpea mix, blended with psyllium husk for a gluten replacement. Wish me luck.)

Roommate saw this while I was making the post and laughed their ass off. Yes, it IS sitting on a throne, thank you VERY much. If I do not pay it due respect it will not rise, as is the case with all breads.

A glass bowl covered with a paper towel. Inside the glass bowl is a lump of gluten free dough. The whole mess is sitting on a blue hot water bottle, which in turn is on my kitchen counter.

#Glutenfree baking adventures. I am DETERMINED to bake a good GF bread—one that looks like bread itself. Getting a proper dough feels like a good first step?

(It’s sitting on my hot water bottle so the yeast doesn’t get cold.)

I thank you for your confidence in my one day baffling a nation!

We’re both in the Good Taste Club 😎

#careergoals if I’m honest.

Oh I just love this one.

This is what they've done.

This is what they've done.

This is what they've done.

This is what they've done.

Oh hell yes that is a GREAT word

I know this isn't even NEWS because it's just the way of the world, and I swear I don't live under a rock. I was just talking with my (rational, grounded, trusting-in-the-system) mother earlier and it just hit me in a wave of sorrow.

What do you MEAN they want to cut up a space shuttle, you know???

I limit my news intake of what's going on back home (AKA American news) because it's SO much, but every time I get an update it hits me in the chest.

What do you mean he's destroying the White House.

How are there soldiers parading through my city, rounding people up?

It feels like a bad movie.

a man with long hair and a beard is sitting in a car ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is sitting in a car

Damn right it is.

THIS. I can’t get along with someone who’s made it illegal for me to use public bathrooms because she doesn’t like my face.

Here’s hoping they all quit mid season due to backlash.

Gosh I just love this one.

my one and only major demand for phones is "ridiculous battery life because I am a degenerate who is always looking at bluesky on my phone" and my upgrade timelines are based on when my previous battery starts to degrade

you cannot sell me on less battery life

I'm sure he'll get that volume down soon lol. It takes at least a semester.

(Fun fact: lawa is a loan word from English! Tybewana likes to smack on extra syllables--either other words or sounds with vague, vibey meanings--to create more detailed vocabulary.)

Like, no shame in a quiet chat and I know I did the same when I first got here and still default to it, but bro *please*!

I can think of SO many people who need to be familiar with the concept of lawai (the plural).

Some of them are currently within talking distance, namely the American undergrad who's in the same study room as me and talking at 3x the volume of his friends.