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Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.
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Life in the Interregnum: Researcher, org change specialist, English faculty, supernerd, follow-back girl, zero patience for organizational dysfunction and poor leadership. Personal account, obv.

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Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D. @christinenowik.bsky.social · Nov 10
Really proud of the work we are doing at haccea.org We launched a micro course!

We are unpacking our contract negotiations w as much clarity as possible after two strike days last week.

We shall see what this week brings! #solidarity
HACCEA- Harrisburg Area Community College Education Association
HACCEA, the Harrisburg Area Community College Education Association, is the faculty union at HACC, dedicated to educating students in central Pennsylvania and beyond.
haccea.org
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biblioracle.bsky.social
It's hard to overstate how impossible this demand is from Purdue's administration to implement these AI requirements by next fall. We are nowhere close to understanding what AI proficiency means or what it looks like in education.
www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
December 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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biblioracle.bsky.social
A huge proportion of the instructional college faculty doesn't have access to employer health insurance, let alone a special faculty lounge.
parsnip.bsky.social geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 15h
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.” While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.
December 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
christinenowik.bsky.social
A.I. is going to make the forthcoming complaints about colleges' failures to comply with the digital accessibility order incredibly easy for the lawyers who do this work.

Coming to theaters near you on April 27, 2026. I should start an LLC.

Colleges are misreading the "public entity" definition.
December 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
christinenowik.bsky.social
Every time I need to endure yet another conversation about "incorporating A.I." into college classes, I am tempted to ask, "But are we doing anything about our upcoming compliance deadline or no?" I have a banger of a newsletter article coming up. onlinelearningconsortium.org/olc-insights...
New Federal Digital Accessibility Requirements: What Higher Ed Needs to Know and Do Now - Online Learning Consortium
Overview: What’s Changing and Why It Matters Back in April 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued final regulations under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that directly...
onlinelearningconsortium.org
December 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
christinenowik.bsky.social
But keep pushing it, higher ed. Keeeeeep puuuuushing it. *Brilliant* strategy and maneuvering.
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.
cisgenderstudies.bsky.social
The sharp divide between what I hear from students about AI and what administrators say about AI makes it impossible to believe anyone in admin has ever spoken to one of our students
December 11, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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levostregc.bsky.social
"...the uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual property, economic security, and... faculty working conditions..."
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions
Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad ho...
www.aaup.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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roopikarisam.bsky.social
Please know, there are people on the "AI Leadership Group," including me, whose research relates to harms of generative AI, AI literacy in the sense of negative impacts & critical media studies. We spend tremendous amounts of time pushing back and advocating for faculty & students who are concerned.
jeffsharlet.bsky.social Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10d
Some people saying they’d now never send a kid to Dartmouth. I’m dismayed by the local news, but AI in higher ed is horrifically pervasive. It’s a universal problem demanding broad action, not one that can be solved via careless brand curation.
jeffsharlet.bsky.social Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 10d
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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jacquelyngill.bsky.social
Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?
us.theconversation.com The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 23d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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mmparsons.bsky.social
The rhetoric has been about training students for the economy of tomorrow. Yet when employers always, *always*, year after year, say they want their workers trained in the skills that Humanities and Social Sciences teach, somehow that never turns into more investment in those programs.
thetattooedprof.bsky.social Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · Nov 11
From today's Chronicle of Higher Ed briefing. I am *never* an advocate of cutting programs. But I am curious to see if there will be the same type of "students aren't majoring in this, so let's cut the program" discourse around computer science as there always is for the arts and humanities.
But computer science is cratering. Four-year undergraduate enrollment in computer and information sciences plunged by 7.7 percent this fall — and it decreased almost twice as fast at the graduate level. The Clearinghouse data doesn’t say why, but it’s hard to ignore recent gluts of tech-company layoffs and questions about artificial intelligence taking coders’ jobs in a discipline that’s proven subject to ebbs and flows.
November 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
christinenowik.bsky.social
Really proud of the work we are doing at haccea.org We launched a micro course!

We are unpacking our contract negotiations w as much clarity as possible after two strike days last week.

We shall see what this week brings! #solidarity
HACCEA- Harrisburg Area Community College Education Association
HACCEA, the Harrisburg Area Community College Education Association, is the faculty union at HACC, dedicated to educating students in central Pennsylvania and beyond.
haccea.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.
olivia.science
cannot believe on some level I & my colleagues have turned the tide on this, but also it was in some senses inevitable as why not! Humans can do anything; we still have a way to go however of course, but:

banning AI in the classroom should be as uncontroversial as banning calculators in early maths
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Oct 24
“I already ban the use of generative AI in my own courses, and as a promoter of master’s theses. I explicitly tell my students they won’t learn anything by using it. [...] A general ban is necessary, but nobody dares to say so.”

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
Belgian AI scientists resist the use of AI in academia
Several AI scientists have published an open letter calling for a ban on AI use by students.
apache.be
October 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
christinenowik.bsky.social
Someone just liked this post from 2022 so I read it again to check relevance.

Yeah. Shattering resonance here in 2025 on the matter of power and the "quiet quitting" discourse in orgs.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Quiet Quitting
"It’s not just that we’re overdue for a re-calibration. We’re overdue for a revolution." ~Amelia Nagoski
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Realizing that part of the reason universities’ uncritical pushing AI into everything bothers me is that it is partly related to how little our institutions care about the humanities. Tech that might work in (some) fields does not need to be force fed to all of us. But who listens to us?
October 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social
The prevalence rate of psychopathy in the general adult population is 4.5%.

That’s about one out of every 22 adults.

In case anyone was wondering.

Psychopathy is often more concentrated among people in leadership positions.
January 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.
smcgrath.phd
🧪 A new position piece argues that the uncritical adoption of 'AI' in academia mirrors past collective blunders.

Fueled by industry hype, they posit this trend erodes critical thinking, academic freedom, and scientific integrity.
#AcademicSky #MLSky
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.
tjheffernan.bsky.social
Exactly...it is super irritating that there has been so much uncritical adoption of genAI and that governments seem to have swallowed the industry hype.
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Sep 4
the more you learn about genAI, the less likely you're to use it!!!

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-a...

I've repeatedly said in the past that meaningful change to the current disastrous reality is via combating big tech narrative & rhetoric and critical public awareness, which enables refusal/resistance
The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
www.wsj.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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charleswlogan.bsky.social
Resharing a 🧵 for the Labor Day morning crowd on why it's essential to teach young people about the labor abuses that make GenAI possible, now with excerpts from my own morning reading of Karen Hao's Empire of AI. #EduSky
It was yet another stark illustration of the logic of AI empires. Behind promises of their technologies enhancing productivity, unlocking economic freedom, and creating new jobs that would ameliorate automation, the present-day reality has been the opposite. Companies pad their bottom lines, while the most economically vulnerable lose out and more and more highly educated people become ventriloquists for chatbots. The empire's devaluing of the human labor that serves it is also just a canary. It foretells how the technologies produced atop this logic will devalue the labor of everyone else. In fact, for the artists, writers, and coders whose labor the empires of AI turn into free training data, that is already happening.
September 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
The 'bubble' is definitely the wrong metaphor for this whole thing. Even if the stock values slide, the hype dissipates and the headlines vanish, there will still be a massive energy hunger locked in, along with a swathe of new fossil infrastructure projects that'll stick around for decades
U.S. tech stocks slide after Altman warns of AI bubble and MIT study casts doubt on the hype
Investors’ long-running enthusiasm for artificial intelligence showed signs of faltering on Tuesday as tech stocks tumbled.
fortune.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Reposted by Christine M. Nowik, Ph.D.
benpatrickwill.bsky.social
If the AI takeover of education is indeed just getting started then it's really important to highlight why this could be bad, not just accept the unevidenced assumptions it will be good for education.

21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started
Was your kid’s report card written by a chatbot?
www.theatlantic.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
christinenowik.bsky.social
"Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks."
August 23, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
I’mma be real with y’all, I am holding this grudge big time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
August 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM