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Dr. Samantha Landau📚
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お化け博士 (Ghost Scholar) based in Tokyo. Gothic in Asia Association co-founder. Variously juggling research on: Emily Dickinson, Shirley Jackson, Jewish folklore, Japanese gothic/folklore, poetry & the gothic. Poet and opera singer. (Opinions mine)
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Dec 13
I'm so excited that my essay "Passionate Women, Vengeful Spirits: Female Ghosts and the Japanese Gothic Mode" has been published in Manusya: Journal of Humanities! Thank you to Kasia Ancuta for editing this special issue👻
It's open source and free to read here:
brill.com/view/journal...
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 6d
I say this with all sincerity, do not stop speaking about USAID. But also do not stop speaking about USIP, IRI, HIAS, KIND, IFES, and others.
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 6d
It wasn’t just USAID. The budget also funded tens of thousands of workers at NGOs and other related orgs that partner with USAID. All of them have been decimated. Most employees who were fired, usually with only hours’ notice, have not found new jobs. We lost a generation of public servants.
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 6d
This is great!
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 9d
The box’s lid rattled.
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 15d
Uh between this and your toe, is it time to slow down?
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 16d
Oh no!
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 16d
That’s why I have so much art on my walls😂
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 17d
Standard beige wallpaper😭
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 20d
I had to read that sentence 4 times and I still don’t believe it.

One of my friends in CS and I were chatting about chat bots the other day and he said “they just answer organized word salad based on prompts; it’s not information” and that’s the most accurate description I’ve heard…
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 21d
I would definitely not do it solo… you might injure yourself😬
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 21d
That’s a Pilates machine (you can’t really use it by yourself) and it’ll kick your butt.

I do a Pilates-weights menu 2x a month with my PT (the other days are all weights) and the muscle aches afterward are incredible😂
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · 29d
Maybe it’s time to try subbing my spider lily poem again🌱
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 18
If she means “plant more trees and solve our heat island problems” I can’t argue with it.
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 9
Congratulations, Jeremy!!! Wonderful news🥳🥳🥳
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 5
Sounds like a good idea!
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 2
Oh this is so lovely! Thanks for tagging me in. I’m so glad that he’s such a kind-hearted and warm person.

I’ve loved The Last Unicorn for as long as I’ve loved stories (basically my whole life). Read basically all of his short stories and novels… Tamsin and Summerlong are also favorites.
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 1
Omg yes.

So many! It’s such a cool place.
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Sep 1
I hope this is true! That sounds very fun indeed.
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 31
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 29
It’s truly scary…
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 28
The worst offenders in my classes had native level sentences in their finals but nowhere else. No points are awarded for grammar/syntax, only substance. When I explained that again, they repeated they were trying to get a better score😐 the woe I feel about this, the despair🫠
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 27
Next semester, I may use track changes in Word, or a Google Docs option that records a video of the composition. It feels silly but I think more oversight will encourage them to do their own work. They sincerely think it’s magic and we can’t see the difference b/w human and AI essays😬
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 27
Despite this, I’d say between 50-70% of students used some kind of AI modifications (usually Quillbot) and at least 30-40% outright copy-pasted some phrases or entire paragraphs.
This semester was about 3x the amount of AI I saw in Autumn 2024 semester.
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 27
I’ve had a very clear-cut no-AI policy since 2023. It includes the course learning goals and the purpose of writing and which resources are ok and which aren’t. Students can see it from Day 1.

Despite this transparent policy, I had the most AI and other cheating of my career this past semester.
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Dr. Samantha Landau📚 @broomsticknpen.bsky.social · Aug 26
I still have Xmas gifts I need to mail to friends from that annoying time period🫠
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