Ashleigh Imus

As a linguist, an interesting phenomenon I’ve noticed is a flurry of new coinages based on the new meaning of “slop” – unwanted, usually low-quality, AI-generated content.

I love this with all my editorial heart! 💗

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Brilliant, unexpected and heretofore utterly unreported upon!! Dictionary.com open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

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Check out Kimberly Kay Hoang’s review of Offshore: Stealth Wealth and the New Colonialism, by Brooke Harrington journals.sagepub.com/stoken/defau...

Thank all the gods in the universe for a good copyeditor.

Emily Hund. The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media - Farnaz Ghaedipour, 2025

Farnaz Ghaedipour’s review of The Influencer Industry, by Emily Hund, explores the pitfalls of the industry and suggests new questions for organizational scholars: journals.sagepub.com/stoken/defau...

Washington, D.C. yesterday. "Shut down the Senate, Shut down the Senate." Chanted for hours.

More massive #USprotests, ongoing. Sources here report, "Millions of people are getting ready as we speak to take this country back and save the USA. Their days are numbered. Stay tuned." #3E

Stewart R. Clegg. Frameworks of Power, Second Edition - Roy Suddaby, 2025

In a fascinating review of Stewart Clegg’s Frameworks of Power, 2nd edition, Roy Suddaby explores history as the key to understanding institutional power. journals.sagepub.com/stoken/defau...

The Human Work of Academic Publishing; In Memoriam Dan Brass Tapping the potential of AI technologies while staying committed to reviewing, writing, and editing with care

I wrote about what human editors do (and why you should care) in Administrative Science Quarterly’s January newsletter asqjournal.substack.com/p/the-human-...

Has AI Replaced Editors? - Valerie Monckton AI tools have exploded in popularity, leading many to question the value of working with an editor when software like Grammarly and ChatGPT might edit their work at a fraction of the

#Editor Valerie Monckton expertly answers the question "Has #AI [ #ArtificialIntelligence ] #replaced #editors?" in her most recent blog post. www.valeriemonckton.com/has-ai-repla...

The Contrarian | Substack Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication. Launched 13 hours ago.

Too many in mainstream & new media aren’t standing up to Trump’s assault on democracy—we will

Today, @jenrubin.bsky.social & I launch @contrariannews.bsky.social: bold, independent, pro-democracy journalism

Join us in the fight 👇 contrarian.substack.com

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

The People's Cabinet Naming a Positive Form of Opposition

A Shadow Cabinet. A People's Cabinet. An Alternative Cabinet. Naming, and establishing, a positive form of political opposition in the United States:
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Benjamin Shestakofsky. Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality - Andrew B. Hargadon, 2025

VC-backed startups can bring opportunity but also foster inequality. Check out Andrew Hargadon’s review of Behind the Startup, by Benjamin Shestakovsky. journals.sagepub.com/stoken/defau...

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How is algorithmic management changing knowledge production and what can we do about it? Check out the latest article in Administrative Science Quarterly journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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It is a fact that grammar road trip movies are excellent options for romantic dates, especially when they are held at beautiful museums. Fortunately for romance, "Rebel with a Clause" will have its world premiere at the DC language museum Planet Word on January 10!

Ynterviewer: Kan you explayne thys gap yn your resume?

Dante Alighieri: Yn the middle of thys journeye of lyfe Ich founde myselfe yn a shadowye woode, for...

Orwell wrote: So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information....

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Just published in Administrative Science Quarterly: an outstanding and brave article by Anastasiya Zavyalova on authoritarian stigmatization via the Russian Foreign Agents Law: gohttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00018392241297379

Public higher educacioun ys the infrastructure of democracye and sholde be free to all. Everyone sholde be able to pursue their intellectual vocations and career dreames, to fynde the learning thei seek wythout the burden of debt. It ys tyme for a movement to re-invest yn public higher ed.

plot ys not the poynte of a storye, nor even usuallye the most ynterestinge part

Why Does U.S. Technology Rule? Maybe it's just in the right place

A friend asked ChatGPT to summarize this post — and it got everything wrong: stressing failed European institutions, which the post downplayed, somehow bringing in Brexit, which I never mentioned. Ominous paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-does-u...

Kakistocracy: The Economist's Word of the Year 2024 reflects political despair The Economist has selected 'kakistocracy' as its Word of the Year, encapsulating a global sentiment of disillusionment with governance by the least qualified

The Economist's word of the year is "kakistocracy."

#WOTY2024

Wonderful! Anna Abalkina & ‪@retractionwatch.com‬ have put together the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. This will help #publishers and #authors who don't want legitimate, high-quality #research #articles ending up in #hijacked #journals. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Graphic logo for "Brain Rot" featuring stylszed text and a decorative emblem above the word "brain." The background is solid blue bordered by a dotted line.

Image showing a dictionary-style entry for the term "brain rot," defined as an intellectual deterioration viewed as a result of overconsumption of trivial or unchallenging online content, potentially leading to further cognitive decline. The word is highlighted in bold with a graphic of a brain with ice cream elements above it.

CONFIRMED: Oxford University Press select 'brain rot' as the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year 🧠📱

#OxfordWOTY

Fear of books is fear of ideas. It's fear of democracy itself. Let's ban that!

Ich do not knowe ynogh wayes to saye: support public higher ed. Even thrugh hard tymes, even thrugh low enrollementes. Do not destroye livelihoodes and gut programs yn the name of an illusory efficiencye. Supportinge educacioun ys a social goode for a free societye not a return on investment.

Thanks for this very thoughtful review of #Foolproof in Administrative Science Quarterly!

"By sharing the entire value chain of his research... the book exhibits the value of human work driven by intention and purpose. " 🙏

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Heading for review of Guido Alfani. As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West, by David Lingelbach and Valentina Rodríguez Guerra, Administrative Science Quarterly 2024. Link in post.

A review of *Gods Among Men*: "The rich are far, far more than just the useful consequences of technological progress. The rich, their power, and what society should do with both represent a grand challenge facing the global economy and the international order." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...