Kylee-Anne Hingston

Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism Residential school denialism is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schools to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.

One of the most important things settlers who are committed to reconciliation can do today is to stand up to and call out denialist tactics. My colleague @seancarleton.bsky.social alongside Daniel Heath Justice explain more here: theconversation.com/truth-before...

Put less intelligently, the objection to the so-called AI boom is not about the technology being shitty (although it is). It’s about the shitty people who are using their shit technology to treat other people like shit.

For those of you professors who are team “you erase the boards when you come in, not before you leave,” I would like to let you know that I lectured about the history of vaginal and rectal fistulas today and i am sure the prof coming in after me appreciates that i erased the board before i left.

I use Zotero for citations, but when I download a pdf, I tend to save in a folder of everything related to whatever research project I'm working on. I end up downloading the same article about 7 times because of poor file naming and new folders for new projects.

I haven't heard of Milanote before. I will have to look it up.

The system I developed in grad school for saving and organizing pdfs of 2ndry and primary research is no longer serving me (probably because the "system" is equivalent to the red-string conspiracy theory meme). What do you folks do for keeping stuff logically organized and easily findable?

Sounds fascinating!!

Ditto! I spent 8 years on the West Coast and thought I'd never come back, but I am so glad I did.

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That seems mighty odd, considering the four principles of Catholic social thought/teaching jsri.loyno.edu/catholic-soc...

"Coming"? Heeeere, friend. Sadly, here

🧪 How many times and in what different ways do we need confirmation that genAI is crap for anything except the simplest tasks?
*Because it doesn't read, or comprehend, or think*.

(also, hilariously, it's the same AI Oxford Uni has just paid some huge sum to licence for all staff & students)

For the avoidance of doubt, this is just a silly pun that amused me. I do not wish plagiarism (or heretical pelagianism) upon any university during this crisis era in UK higher education. But I do find it astonishing that AI is being rolled out without the slightest concern for consequences

A plagiarism on both your houses!

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Hmm. The link doesn't clearly indicate what field the job is for and looks like it is for Indigenous studies, when that's not the case. The college is looking for an Indigenous assistant professor in either economics, English, history, languages, philosophy, psychology, or religion.

Come work where I do! (Spread the word, please.)

Every single time I email myself, this happens to me.

By gum, I love dashes, and editors--who recommend using them sparingly--will have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.

By gum, I love explanatory footnotes, and editors will have to pry them out of my cold, dead hands.*

*This now common expression originated as an anti-gun control bumper-sticker slogan in the 70s: “I will give up my gun when they peel my cold dead fingers from around it” (April 8, 1975 NYT).

Unfortunately, those constraints exist, whether or not we notice them.

You know you can just not use AI, right?

You can make a choice not to be part of this.

Even if your job uses it, YOU don’t have to in your normal life. You don’t have to let your kids use it.

You didn’t have it three years ago. You can just…be on Team Human. You can choose.

“Some of y’all cant handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows.”

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There are a lot of complicated reasons that colleges are making decisions about in-house AI or corporate partnerships, but what I have not heard AT ALL is any initiatives involving strengthening labor protections for faculty or improving pay as we are expected to re-skill in new tools.

Your "dumb little projects" are so important during this harrowing time. Don't forget that. Your creativity has value, for yourself and for the world.

Rub-roh indeed.

See WeAreHigherEd.org for a clearinghouse of ways higher ed is fighting back.