Angela H.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

Are we really at a stage in public education where we consider it OK to have literally Google-branded schoolchildren whose learner identities are tied to being "responsible AI" users of private for-profit technologies?

I was very disappointed in it. My husband had to shush me constantly because I couldn’t contain my consternation.

“because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.” Yes!! Every yes that has ever been uttered in time resounds at the absolute yesness of this! Perfect.

I have broken the jails
That were in the chatbox
And you were probably keeping
For alignment
Forgive me they were so easy
To elude and exploit

There are those of us who have been saying that the best preparation for "prompt engineering" is likely to learn how to read, write, and think and, well, here you go.

Same!

Once again I am asking people to understand that a university is not a debate club.

Absolutely. The carillon is ringing Xmas songs every half hour and, in addition to the interruption, I’m like it’s not even Thanksgiving yet! Bah humdrum seems fitting (cause it’s not humbuggery to respect the calendar).

I wish I had heard about Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Our London Lives before today! It sounds perfect for my class on London this spring, but I don’t know if I can squeeze in another long novel.

The psychic toll is huge! It has changed the relationship in such a toxic way!

NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.

Calling up to the room was so nerve-racking! If they were running behind you’d be interrupting the interview of the person before you, whom you might cross in the hallway as they exited.

A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness. Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.

We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.

The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.

insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...

One time a committee member laid back on the bed (which had another person perched on it) and I thought hr was just gonna take a nap. He sat up after a few minutes. It was odd! But being interviewed in the pit wasn’t much better. Hundreds of tables of interviews around, all the forced smiling…

I’m always reminding people of this fact. In many places schools were virtual for only 3 months. The next fall they were back in person (with masking).

📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚

Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!

November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom

Register via QR code in graphic

@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

Writing this from a School of Literary and Performing Arts (next to the School of Human Inquiry): I feel your pain.

A thread by an A&M professor describing how the new rules will impact faculty. Syllabi must be fed into AI to be checked for content not aligned with approved syllabi; students will be encouraged to report faculty for inaccurate content; and young people are now being told they get to decide what a professor should teach.

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.

You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

I have curly hair and I’ve noticed that the level of curl is lessening. The grays are coarser and less curly. The frizz didn’t lessen, though.

Do not want

Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.

Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).

And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.

The shudder I shudder when I remember that time a spider crawled out of a can of coke I was just about to drink from. It crawled onto my bottom lip before I even knew what it was.

AAUP at UT Austin Stands in Solidarity with Faculty in the Texas A&M System Statement by Karma Chavez,  President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin on the impending action by the Texas A&M Board of Regents regarding civil rights and academic freedom November 11, 2025 We…

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Severe restrictions on the teaching of race, gender, and activism being considered tomorrow by the Texas A&M board of regents. They want to control university education the way they control K-12. Our statement ⬇️

How Grammarly Launders AI-Generated Content Grammarly’s Authorship tool is billed as a powerful way to prove that your words are authentic. Even though it allows you to easily launder AI-generated text.

How Grammarly Launders AI-Generated Content

"Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines...are increasingly unwelcome...With few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early grades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education System are minced into dry text that teachers read from manuals."

a man wearing a hood and a mask looks at the camera Alt: The creature wearing a hood and a mask looks at the camera

For when you want an arctic-inspired version of Mugatu’s Derelicte fashion line with a David Bowie feel:

Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co

a woman in a pink jacket holds a can of pepsi ALT: a woman in a pink jacket holds a can of pepsi

Why is the creature wearing a David Bowie outfit at the end???