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Private eye article about “Austen novel finally being adapted for screen”, “stopped the constant adaptations of Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, William Makepeace Thackeray and Ann Radcliffe”

@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you :)

I am a former rural EMT and grew up on a ranch so I feel like my cv is very strong in this particular area. 😂 I can do first aid for your compound fracture, drive a tractor, herd the sheep, or can the peaches!

Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5.
arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921
hkotek.com/blog/gender-...

Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently. A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of tea...

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

SAME. Super extra good!

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

relatable!

Title page of 16th century book with woodcut illustration cut out

Vandalism! At some stage in its nearly 500 year history, someone cut out the printer's ornament from the title page of our 1544 copy of Aesop's Fables.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

The Curran Index is Hiring! – RSVP The Curran Index is hiring a qualified U.S.-based research assistant to conduct archival research at the Huntington Library in California.

Very sad that I am not located near the Huntington so that I could apply for this awesome-sounding job!
rs4vp.org/curran-index...

Delighted to receive these beauties in the mail today: the newly paperbacked volumes of The Cambridge History of the Gothic that I co-edited with @dalegothic96.bsky.social and @catherinespooner.bsky.social for @universitypress.cambridge.org

My philosophy and experience with students is that they can almost always do incredibly difficult work, but if you ever waste their time with soul-killing meaningless work, you have essentially poisoned the well when it comes to getting them to spend any additional effort on your class.

All I want now is one of these!

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

It's on! My new book, Wild for Austen, launches exactly one month from today from St. Martin's Press, then @ Manchester UP (UK), & Ultimo Press (Australia). I'll be on 16-city book tour! Details are over at devoney.substack.com. Thanks for supporting this book & celebrating #JaneAusten 's 250th.

People want jobs that support decent housing, a vacation or two a year, time to spend with friends and family and have creative hobbies, and good health care.

What we've been given as all of those things have been ripped away is a shopping addiction.

the perfect bike accessory does not exis...

🤣🤣🤣“the developers in question expected the AI tools would lead to a 24% reduction in the time needed for their assigned tasks. Even after completing those tasks, the developers believed that the AI tools had made them 20% faster . . .

the AI-aided tasks ended up being completed 19% slower . . .”

Stack of three books showing their marbled tail edges.

Lovely marbled edges on these three late 17th century volumes, all printed in London.

Too many vaccines in the first year?Your child is 44% more likely to survive to one year if they are vaccinated than if they are unvaccinated.

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

Me to my students: no block quotes.
Me to myself while writing a book: this block quote is so great, not a single word of it could possibly be excluded.

Made a quick announcement for my students working on this week's essay in my online grad class. #academicsky

yes! did not anticipate how much I would enjoy the strong apple subplots, haha. (this book reminded me in some ways of THE OVERSTORY, which I thought was fantastic, but it's way more harrowing than this one).

I really enjoyed that book! I thought it was being overhyped but then when I finally started it I read it in like a day.

The Meaning Hidden in Wordsworth’s Teacup and Mary Shelley’s Hair

On the Intimate Connections between Romanticism and Slavery www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...

ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

A New York Times opinion headline: “Is ‘Toxic Empathy’ Pulling Christians to the Left? How Allie Beth Stuckey is holding the line on the right.

This is the fruit of a seed planted in the first Trump administration--a seed of skepticism around "social emotional learning" that, I'd argue, was planted to test whether fear-mongering around "too much empathy and not enough real learning in schools" could be used to justify attacks on DEI. 1/🧵

Hahaha I do also get all the 'yasss Queen' / 'he's the WORST' type of comments and I love them. They have lots of little assignments they can choose from to go with the commonplace book so they often have things like collages or Grangerized pages glued in there.

I just taught Austen again this past spring and they really seemed to love the invitation/imperative to focus on reading and thinking. And the self-direction and mental freedom that implies -- for my students at least they seem to value it more as the world gets more digital and stressful.