Dawn Gilpin

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

It's Infrastructure Week all over again.

Happy birthday!

Yes! There is a different calculus for distance during the warmer seasons here...

Icon behavior, frankly.

It's actually something I love about living here--this kind of thing happens daily. I haven't experienced it as much in other parts of the country, and definitely not in Europe.

It also doesn't prevent them from sharing what they remember reading with others. But it does prevent them from going back to check passages for accuracy.

Destroying a training dataset at least doesn't attempt to keep others away from the source material, but it does still raise thorny ethical Qs.

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

"Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to... destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models."

Burning books doesn't erase their memory or impact on people who've already read them.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I'm walking into the supermarket after work as a young woman is exiting. When she sees me, she stops.
I am wondering whether I know her & should recognize her in the wild. She interrupts my thoughts: "Your outfit is SO CUTE!" I thank her. "OMG slay!" She mimes a camera click.
It feels like a win.

I brought up Becca Bloom in class today, and NONE of the students (all women) knew who she was.

I'm still processing my feelings about this.

I really love a good monsoon storm. #desertliving

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

It's related to the first law of conferences, which is that the session(s) you're most interested in attending will be scheduled at the same time as your own presentation.

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

Same!

Student journalists really are out there doing the work.

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.

This is so brave! I applaud you. I don't hate it but I don't love it, and even that has caused me to face judgment and exclusion. I can only imagine what you've been through.

Grocerymaxxing will be the next big trend.

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

I am in my 10th hour of editing my book manuscript - my eyes are blurry - I'm losing focus. And so, I bring you these quotes from W.E.B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935) I have also been thinking about all day:

So much going on in this text, which was written — we could also say "lived" — by NPR's media reporter. The most important in my view are these words from a former CEO of NPR, Vivian Schiller.

"Any evidence-based news organization that reports critically is going to be accused of left-wing bias."

It's part of their magic.

A close-up of Dash the Ginger girlcat, with saucer eyes that are simultaneously intense and vacant

Dash, a Gen Z-coded ginger cat, stares fixedly from across the room. One is left to wonder whether she has checked out entirely or is judging the viewer.

If you're still confused about the Gen Z stare, Dash can demonstrate it for you.

I genuinely love travel. I mean not all the waiting around or cramped airline seats or other indignities, but the actual part where you get to experience new places, people, foods, languages, etc.
But man do I miss my cats when I'm away from home.

Former DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent' NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience.

“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.

I stopped for groceries on the way home from an excursion with my summer program that kept me away from the news all day. On a whim, I grabbed a bottle of wine, just to have some on hand.
Boy was that a good decision today, as it turns out. Rosé incoming.

America needs more muckraking local journalism.

Screenshot of a text purporting to be from the "Arizona Ministry of communications" (their capitalization) demanding payment of an outstanding traffic ticket and warning of penalties ranging from vehicle suspension to prosecution and a bad credit score should I fail to comply.

Very legitimate text received this morning, better pay this fine via the perfectly above-board link provided.