Franzi Roesner

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To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life.

YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

Two great bits of academic attack work this week. The new one allows Android apps to see data displayed on the screen by other apps, including Google Authenticator codes. www.pixnapping.com

Yes!

Golden larches in the North Cascades

Check out these beauties

I’m thrilled to start my little book tour at the place where I wrote a good chunk of the book! 📚☕️👩‍💻

At @hcde.uw.edu, we will be hiring an Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor this coming year! Timing wise, we are hiring for a Sept. 2026 start date, but could be sooner.

We are looking forward to welcoming a new colleague!

Learn more and apply at apply.interfolio.com/171881

Aerial photo of UW campus with Mt. Rainier in the background

Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here!

Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).

Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020

This polarization is going to produce some pretty dramatic statistics pretty soon.

North Cascades seen from Sahale Glacier

Took myself to Cascade Pass / Sahale Arm today and it was the LITERAL BEST.

My 7yo just *asked* to go on a hike this weekend. That's it, I'm done, I will never achieve anything greater.

Astronomers Are Keeping an Eye on This Asteroid’s Odds of Hitting Earth — The Stonecoast Review this morning’s snowperson is a sad lump already soft like an aging snow cone around the underbelly woodchip eyes and buttons in a heap.

Pleased to have a new poem in the latest issue of @stonecoastreview.bsky.social ☄️ ⛄ www.thestonecoastreview.org/issue-23/ast...

Retrospective of a Woman By Franziska Roesner

New poem up at swwimmiami.substack.com/p/retrospect..., inspired by a recent visit to the MOMA in NYC :)

I have a little poem in here ☕

James Baldwin

"Art would not be important if life were not important, life is important."

The entire Republican Party has lined up solidly behind a would-be fascist dictator with a narcissistic psychopathic personality disorder. But the real problem is that Democrats spent too long backing a president who often looked and sounded old.

An extraordinary story about how scientists in the US are afraid to speak up as the entire science research ecosystem is demolished at the hands of the Republican administration.

Without our voices, how will people understand the scope and generational consequences of the ongoing destruction?

Having mastered large language models, submarine design, toilet paper supply chain logistics, trade economics, and Russian military history, I would like to explain why I think Catholics chose the wrong Pope....(1/57)

Crushing to hear of more junior colleagues in the computer science & human-computer interaction (HCI) space whose NSF CAREER grants were terminated this week. I'm hopeful that philanthropic funders can find a way to support this generation of scientists studying online manipulation, bias in AI, etc.

Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars. CSV of table: Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075" Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113" Engineering,94,"$33,472,485" Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740" Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312" Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738" STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063" "Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904" "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"

UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.

We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.

Ugh I'm so sorry to hear about this

Ugh I'm so sorry Amy

The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false.

The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

This is just to say

I have texted
the war plans
that were in
the Defense Department
and which
you were probably
saving
for people with a security clearance
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

being a white male conservative in the US is genuinely one of the easiest lives it is possible to live, and you can tell that's the case bc these morons think having someone tell you your opinions suck ass is the worst thing that could ever happen to you

"what's going on? Did you find something else to do that's not getting ready for bed?" "I just wanna make a toothpaste soup" cool cool

Kamala Harris warned us that Trump was going to do all the things that he's now doing. But she wasn't likable enough when she did it.

Exit Poll Where should I put my feminist rage? Chew it up, swallow it, let it sit heavy in my gut, undigested for seven years? Wrap it in a body bag, tie it at the knees, dump it in the Boston Harbor? Deposit it into a savings account under my husband's name? Crush it with my bare feet, ferment it in oak barrels, drink it alone? Paint my nails with it, shiny, black, expensive, sharpened to points? Or bestow it, carefully (a fragile inheritance cradled against my chest) upon my daughters? — Franzi Roesner

May someone find value in my angry feminist post-election poem, appearing today in @themarbledsigh.bsky.social 's political poetry anthology.

Thanks so much for the kind words ☺️