Devina Sarwatay

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How to explain AI to your family this holiday season | CNN Business Politics, football and movies are among the many topics that tend to come up around Thanksgiving. In 2025, a new question may arise at the table: Why the heck is everyone talking about AI, and what sh...

"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."

New academic drinking game:

Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.

"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Graphic Refuge Wilfrid Laurier University Press - Transforming Ideas

...across Global North & South, shedding light on stories of displacement, resilience, & belonging.
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Our #GraphicRefuge panel shared incredible insights from co-authors Dr Dominic Davies & Prof. Candida Rifkind with thought-provoking responses from Dr Ernesto Priego & Dr Mihaela Precup. The discussion explored how comics narrate refugee experiences...

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Correct.

AI Must Fund the Commons – Not Eat Them AI feeds on the cultural commons—now it must pay its dues, supporting the creators and public institutions it depends on.

“GenerativeAI isn’t magic. It’s the product of millions of invisible creators—poets, coders, photographers, musicians—whose work has been harvested, scraped, & absorbed into AI models without consent or compensation…

This is not innovation. It is expropriation.”
—Otti Vogt

Give me life Aurora!

Thrilled to be part of a significant volume by stellar editors Hanan Badr & Karin Wilkins. Couldn't have done it without my generous & exceptional co-authors Keri Stephens & @larawolfers.bsky.social
We're in fabulous company:
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Grateful to all involved
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Nearly 1,500 flights canceled on second day of cuts tied to government shutdown Charlotte, North Carolina, has the most cancellations – at 120 – as industry experts say other sectors might also feel effects

"Most (air)controllers are working mandatory overtime six days a week during the shutdown w/out pay, & some are taking second jobs to pay their bills, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) has said." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Image of first page of journal article entitled "Social Media and Society: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics"

🚨Special Issue Alert: Platforms, Publics, and Anti-Publics
(1/9) Introduction from our guest editors Zoetanya Sujon, Harry Dyer and Felipe Bonow Soares. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#academicsky #socialmediasky

this is objectively hilarious

All I want is one single reporter to ask him if he thinks people seeking asylum = means from insane asylums

Turns out the sweetheart deal that Trump's former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta gave Epstein back in 2008 was even worse than we thought. Epstein's emails show Acosta tanked an investigation that had Epstein dead to rights on money laundering, and other financial crimes.

My paper was turned into a comic according to their email - what????

Bubbes volunteer to do what they do best: Counsel troubled souls Why crowds of young professionals have been lining up to get advice — and hugs — from other people’s bubbes.

A group of Jewish grandmas, or bubbes, have been offering advice and comfort to anxious D.C. residents.

The ‘What Would Bubbe Do?’ sessions give people the chance to ask a bubbe about issues ranging from job loss to relationship struggles.

uh, that’s not “reimagining” the novel. that’s…the novel.

Hurricane Melissa could be Jamaica's most powerful storm in history “There is nowhere that will escape the wrath of this storm,” said Evan Thompson of Jamaica’s Meteorological Service. Melissa is already blamed for four deaths.

Praying for the Jamaican people tonight.

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#MCCIConnect is off with a powerful seminar by @aronczyk.bsky.social @rutgersu.bsky.social on A Strategic Nature
Hosted by @citystgeorges.bsky.social (Carolina Matos, Raluca Moise & @devinasarwatay.bsky.social)
Next: Graphic Refuge 19 Nov 5 pm
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How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Leonie Smith sits down with Clare Stainthorp and Devina Sarwatay in a podcasting studio.

How can networks help the uncertainty of being a first-gen academic? How did the pandemic impact our attitude towards community? These are just some of the questions discussed in Ep 3 of #ConfessionsOfAnECR with Leonie Smith, @claregs.bsky.social & @devinasarwatay.bsky.social.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown.

Inmates say she's getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

I wrote about the “compact” for higher education

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I'm teaching UG Year 1 students 'Researching Media & Communication' & it's their 1st brush with academic research
What are YOUR top 3️⃣ foundational texts to absolutely include in this module to make them fall in love with research?
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Over 75% of content removal decisions by platforms like TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube were successfully reversed through appeals enabled under the EU’s Digital Services Act. www.euractiv.com/news/tiktok-...