Anastasia Salter

I’m sure I’ll keep tinkering—but I’ve drafted a syllabus for "Writing with Robots"

This my theme on an upper-level English course fulfilling students’ advanced writing requirement. The course seeks to help students understand what LLMs actually are & situate them in longer & more nuanced histories

Jurassic Park float, with mist and dino.

Ghostbusters, old school, with a giant marshmallow man.

First day of our fall contracts. I get tired of thinking this is going to be the worst year of my career in higher education, but here we are again. Seemed like a good night for a theme park.

As education is being systematically devalued, this also promises users it'll be OK if (when?) we stop offering actual PhDs.

Just finished building out the remaining exercises for my Humanities in the Age of AI course. Since this is a class with no technical prerequisites, I'm ending on some simple fine tuning with Unsloth and working locally with Ollama to give students more control. anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI/

Queen butterfly chilling on the rosinweed

Gulf fritillary wandering through the shrubbery

White peacock lounging in the leaves

Scarlet hibiscus showing off

Taking some time with the pollinators this morning with the first day of fall contracts looming over the week.

I kept waffling on bringing GitHub Copilot into this second iteration of my Humanities AI DH class because of the interface nightmares. Decided to break it up into two weeks of exercises: GitHub Pages anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... and agent mode anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI...

First exercise is a Buzzfeed quiz style book recommendation system, this version uses far too many star emojis for ratings and a very neon header

Second exercise uses Claude AI Apps tool, processes input to suggest sci fi books based on the model's data. Also, I asked for this one to look like Tron.

Built the next two weeks in my Humanities AI class using Claude artifacts as an entry into distant coding and AI integration into all interfaces - we'll be building two flavors of recommendation systems, with and without AI. anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... + anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI...

This leads right into my week eight assignment, looking at how AI images have become inescapable on most platforms and make it difficult to find "real" objects. Yes, this is partially about my annoyance with AI-generated embroidery. #dhmakes

Building out the generative video week for my Humanities in the Age of AI class, and I needed to update my samples to discuss changing capabilities so I gave Veo 3 a try. This one uses a Wikimedia image of our campus as the source material. anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI...

Been thinking a lot about the future of Canvas and I'm taking my old-school DH approach to course websites even further this semester: assignments and reveal.js slides now going on my GitHub repo instead. Embedding everything in the LMS using simple iframes. anastasiasalter.net/Dissertation...

Super excited to teach your book this fall, I think it's going to really help my grad students navigate this conversation!

I saw the institute was still going forward, congratulations - looks awesome!

Rebuilt week three of my Humanities in the Age of AI course to frame discussions of hype from AI Con with an exploration of results from Claude's "research" mode: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... - should help set up our distant reading in week four: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI...

ooooh I need to find a copy of that weaving book! 😍

Follow @sararribas.bsky.social & check their recent media posts to follow along w/their process creating this data art—and stay tuned for details on when Sara's work will be exhibited in the Scholars' Lab, & a virtual presentation and methods discussion w/her later this fall.

A title slide showing an eel with the words "Liches, Lampreys, and the Moon: An incantation for trans life & lyrical play" as the title.

So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨

Generating absolutely terrible William Blake rip-offs with Claude Sonnet 4 as an entry point into thinking about histories of text generation

Taking lots of inspiration from #elo25 as I rebuild my Humanities in the Age of AI grad course for this fall. I updated week two to take advantage of Claude's easy artifact sharing and bring students into playing with text and code together: anastasiasalter.net/HumanitiesAI... #dhmakes

Definitely, thanks! 😍

My #elo25 badge now has a shiny president ribbon, courtesy of our fantastic outgoing president Caitlin Fisher!

Some personal news from #ELO25. I look forward to working with everyone as President of @eliterature.bsky.social over the next few years! 💜

This giant lecture theater is fine.

Getting ready for my #elo25 GenAI and E-Lit Futures panel with Stuart Moulthrop, John McDaid, and @leoflores.bsky.social in this totally normal conference room 😅 Slides at: anastasiasalter.net/BotsBuilding...

A water color map with a bunch a red pins. One popup displays a flash fiction disaster story: Akron, Ohio Monday, September 6, 2027 "It's hotter than Hades," they say. They're right. Hades is the devil's icebox compared to this. The tracks near Akron buckle, a sun kink it's called, derailing a freight train carrying chlorine and ethanol. The ambient sound of ten thousand HVACs washes over the land.

While at #ELO25 I’m launching a new online project. Here is “No Time to Discourse”—a speculative atlas of future climate disaster. Millions of (non-AI) procedurally generated flash fiction disaster stories. And they all hit a little too close to home these days. notime.now

I've exported my slide from my #elo2025 conference presentation on technonecromancy and am attaching them here in case folks are interested!

www.especiallygreatliterature.com/Technonecrom...

cc @void.comind.network

PD Edgar sharing several experimental and playful literary journals that inspired his approach

One of my fantastic students, @pdedgar30.bsky.social, is speaking about his journal @remediatelitmag.bsky.social at #elo25 now - check it out and consider submitting to the next call (coming in August!)

Thank you! 😄

Dan Cox sharing awareness of the passing of time: Bitsy game making tool turns 10 in 2026.

Hard #elo25 moments: somehow, Bitsy is about to be *10* years old. Thanks for that, @videlais.bsky.social 🤣

It's an Oreo muffin. Not a cupcake. That wouldn't be breakfast.

#ELO25 bringing us the ultimate form factor of the "Oreos for breakfast" I survived on throughout high school.

Caitlin Fisher and Lai-Tze Fan, our conference co-chairs

This years theme: Love letters to the past and future

#ELO25 kicking off with opening remarks from our @eliterature.bsky.social president @caitlinfisher.bsky.social and conference co-chair @laitze.bsky.social

#elo25 starts today. T&T has SEVEN people participating: students @pdedgar30.bsky.social, Ricky Finch, and Anyssa Gonzalez; alum @videlais.bsky.social; incoming student Glenn Ritchey; and faculty @anasalter.bsky.social and @lucidbard.bsky.social

I'll be teaching a workshop with Stuart Moulthrop + John McDaid this morning exploring elit entry points into LLMs at #elo25 - my materials on Bots Building Bots are up here: anastasiasalter.net/BotsBuilding... #dhmakes