Anastasia Salter

Replay book: Undertale - Can a Game Give Hope? with some absolutely fantastic University of Chicago Press wrapping paper.

My new book Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? is out today from the @uchicagopress.bsky.social Replay series, which is dedicated to short, personal takes on games. I hope it invites readers to visit (or revisit) the Underground and befriend some fabulous monsters. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Keynote at #COLM2025: Nicholas Carlini from Anthropic

"Are language models worth it?"

Explains that the prior decade of his work on adversarial images, while it taught us a lot, isn't very applied; it's unlikely anyone is actually altering images of cats in scary ways.

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

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Tuesday Forum: Anouk Lang on Poetry in the Makerspace Please join us for the next in our digital humanities series, the Tuesday Forums, brought to you by the Scholars' Lab, of the Library's DH Center. These presentations invite...

Anouk Lang's talk on literary+critical making scholarship will also explore how making-as-research opens questions about bodies, labor, & accessibility; intellectual process vs product. Virtual event, open to all! cal.lib.virginia.edu/event/15242444

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

I just saw One Battle After Another, and wow. If you are on the fence, see it, this is Anderson at his best and most relevant. Also, my fellow geriatric millennials will enjoy DiCaprio at his most Oscar worthy.

Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Hollywood Walk of Fame style star, but colored blue like a photo negative from a scandal, with book title Professor Superstar: Fandom and Anti-fandom of Academia and author Mel Stanfill

Table of Contents Chapter 1 Fans of Aca- Fans: FanStudies Scholars as Celebrities Chapter 2 From Lecture Notes to Likes: Academics as Social Media Microcelebrities Chapter 3 Haters Gonna Tweet: Academia as an Object of (Anti- )Fandom on Social Media Chapter 4 Make the Ivory Tower Exclusive Again: Frustrated Fandom of Academia at the University of Austin Chapter 5 Red, White, and Antischool: The University as Conservative Anti- Fan Object

well, apropos of recent news stories about how professors are objects of interpretation and negative feels . . . Professor Superstar now has a cover. press.umich.edu/Books/P/Prof...

ooof I bet, and there's no grant money out there anymore, but a textile sabbatical someday would be amazing! 😍

omg that is the coolest thing, I need it!

It's still one of my favorite games to teach, feels like there's always more to find when different players explore!

First books upcoming in University of Chicago Press's Replay series: Undertale: Can a Game Give Hope? and Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a Game Take Care of Us?

The first copies of my next book, a short reflection on the lasting impact of indie game Undertale, have arrived at @uchicagopress.bsky.social and are in good company with @n-w-f.bsky.social's upcoming book on Animal Crossing. Find both at: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

Even knowing the consequences, I did want to select it...

In Kuali: Propose Changes - Create a New Version (Please select this option.) Create a New Revision (Do NOT use this option.)

Great moments in interface design. Why do we even have that button?

A kid labeled "higher ed" splashes AI on Dawn, in a pink bikini on the beach.

The #DataSittersClub is back with @anasalter.bsky.social @lucidbard.bsky.social & @readywriting.bsky.social talking AI and pedagogy, with examples from the "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" class. Even if you're anti-AI, please fill out the survey! datasittersclub.github.io/site/dsc23.h...

+ @lucidbard.bsky.social - we will be sharing some of our pedagogical concerns and some of the concepts we taught in "DH Programming Pedagogy in the Age of AI" at DHSI 🤖

...definitely a trap 😹

A fluffy ragdoll cat sprawled on his back, feet askew, done.

First week of fall semester is wrapped, and my floofy kitty and I are on the same page.

Photo of the front cover of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The cover background uses a glitched photo of a handwritten manuscript.

Photo of the table of contents of a standard-sized (half sheet) zine titled "Queer Book History: a tasting from SHARP's 2025 Queer Book History Bibliography. By Visconti; Wingate; Keller, Coker; et al.". The table covers 32 pages and says: • Credits & how to cite this zine. • Introduction Resources: • Intro to general book history • Intro to QUEER book history! • Teaching queer history toward • A model teaching approach • Black, Indigenous, POC + Queer • Broader BIPOC book history • Zines, community periodicals, DIY queer publishing history • Libraries, archives, museums • Archives & catalogues • Design & art. • Close readings • Ethics & justice re:gender & sexuality • Feminist 2SLGBTQIA+ • Community & conferences • Queer book history isn't past • Current book arts practitioners relevant to queer book history • Want more queer book history? • Back cover & reuse/ remix info

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

This Year Will Be the Turning Point for AI College Members of the class of 2026 have been using ChatGPT since they were freshmen.

Recommend this piece by @ibogost.bsky.social on the dismal state of where we're at in higher ed teaching & learning right now. Key takeaway is that to fix what is breaking would require a wholesale overhaul that few of us have the time, energy or institutional capacity to undertake.

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...