Min Hyoung Song
@minsong.bsky.social
English Professor with focus on ecology, race, and aesthetics. Latest book is Climate Lyricism (Duke UP), which is also open access:
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism. Viewpoints my own and not my employer’s.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/2985/Climate-Lyricism. Viewpoints my own and not my employer’s.
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Min Hyoung Song
@minsong.bsky.social
· Aug 13
BC English GenAI Framework
Min Hyoung Song, Chair Department of English Boston College, August 2025 GenAI FRAMEWORK FOR BC ENGLISH COURSES While Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) programs have become ubiquitous as ...
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Some things I've been working on as chair of my department - sharing in case anyone finds its useful.
1. A GenAI Framework for English Courses
1. A GenAI Framework for English Courses
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
I’m a Professor. A.I. Has Changed My Classroom, but Not for the Worse.
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My colleague Carlo Rotella wrote this as a response to doom-and-gloom reporting on genAI's impact on the humanities and as a framework for thinking about what works. I think it's pretty good.
Gift link.
Gift link.
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Paris: Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Paris: Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
I said in this @washingtonpost.com piece that our city has developed “an urban policy based on well-being”.
❇️ PM 2,5 & NO2 levels have fallen 50%
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
Rental Family is such a treat. See it if you can.
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Rental Family is such a treat. See it if you can.
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Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
The official poverty line is mid$30k, but what if it’s actually $140k, as this piece argues?
"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The official poverty line is mid$30k, but what if it’s actually $140k, as this piece argues?
100%
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
100%
Social scientists always trying to test the obvious.
Science will often take you to unexpected and delightful places. In this study, researchers hypothesized that riders in a crowded subway car would be more likely to offer their seat to a pregnant person if there were someone in the subway car dressed as Batman 🧪🦇
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
November 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Social scientists always trying to test the obvious.
Armed lifeboats everywhere
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Armed lifeboats everywhere
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Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Holy f@$k!
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
“ChatGPT exhibits the highest level of anti-Black racism ever experimentally recorded.”
This whole video is jaw-dropping.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Omar El Akkad is the winner of the National Book Award! I interviewed him last year, and I remember him talking about the book that was about to come out.
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Omar El Akkad is the winner of the National Book Award! I interviewed him last year, and I remember him talking about the book that was about to come out.
We’re doing a panel on Merisky’s Everyday Ecofascism at the American Studies Association on Friday, and it was helpful to listen to this.
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We’re doing a panel on Merisky’s Everyday Ecofascism at the American Studies Association on Friday, and it was helpful to listen to this.
Omar El Akkad is the winner of the National Book Award! I interviewed him last year, and I remember him talking about the book that was about to come out.
November 20, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Omar El Akkad is the winner of the National Book Award! I interviewed him last year, and I remember him talking about the book that was about to come out.
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worth noting that the $30.2 million deficit the school is facing can be traced to ballooning admin salaries, real estate, and admin benefits, according to the economics department's analysis. the salaries for the actual professors is in line with or *below* the school's revenue growth
November 19, 2025 at 4:33 PM
worth noting that the $30.2 million deficit the school is facing can be traced to ballooning admin salaries, real estate, and admin benefits, according to the economics department's analysis. the salaries for the actual professors is in line with or *below* the school's revenue growth
I miss physical, bound conference programs with pages I could earmark and write into.
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I miss physical, bound conference programs with pages I could earmark and write into.
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Now free. Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime U.S. permanent resident, Korean American scientist with a green card, is finally out of ICE detention after 3 months.
Thank you @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social for keeping us all informed!
Thank you @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social for keeping us all informed!
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Now free. Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime U.S. permanent resident, Korean American scientist with a green card, is finally out of ICE detention after 3 months.
Thank you @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social for keeping us all informed!
Thank you @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social for keeping us all informed!
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Data centers are concentrated in these states- and here's how that is effecting electricity prices: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...
Data centers are concentrated in these states. Here's what's happening to electricity prices
Residential utility bills rose 6% on average nationwide in August compared with the same period last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
www.cnbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Data centers are concentrated in these states- and here's how that is effecting electricity prices: www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/d...
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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Imagine saying this out loud and not expecting any kind of blowback. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, we need to bring back shame so ghouls like Kelly are banished for life for saying shit like this.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Imagine saying this out loud and not expecting any kind of blowback. As @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social says, we need to bring back shame so ghouls like Kelly are banished for life for saying shit like this.
So many applicants now use LLMs like ChatGPT to write cover letters, they no longer communicate much or anything about the qualities of the applicant.
www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
So many applicants now use LLMs like ChatGPT to write cover letters, they no longer communicate much or anything about the qualities of the applicant.
www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
The second best time for Fetterman to drop out…
In an emotional excerpt from his new book, Sen. John Fetterman said he should have dropped out of his 2022 senatorial race while severely battling depression after his stroke.
John Fetterman said he ‘should have quit’ Senate bid in an excerpt from his new book
John Fetterman gave an emotional look into his struggle with depression in an excerpt of his new book Unfettered.
www.inquirer.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The second best time for Fetterman to drop out…
I must be doing something right because my feed is all a)
My whole feed is
a) I hate Chuck Schumer, or
b) you don't understand politics, don't be mad at Chuck Schumer
a) I hate Chuck Schumer, or
b) you don't understand politics, don't be mad at Chuck Schumer
November 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I must be doing something right because my feed is all a)
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illinois!durbin is 202-224-2152; "experiencing high call volumes" but keep trying and in the meantime send an email pronto
www.durbin.senate.gov
www.durbin.senate.gov
November 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Is it a good sign for the industry that employees have to be threatened to use gAI?
The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You’re Fired
At companies big and small, employees have feared being replaced by AI. The new threat: Being replaced by someone who knows AI.
www.wsj.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Is it a good sign for the industry that employees have to be threatened to use gAI?
I gave up a small way through because it takes too long to scroll through Musk’s wealth.
A really harrowing visualization of just how rich Elon Musk is. Perhaps we should rethink the existence of billionaires?
engaging-data.com/how-rich-is-...
engaging-data.com/how-rich-is-...
How Rich is Elon Musk? - Visualization of Extreme Wealth - Engaging Data
This visualization shows how rich Elon Musk is by comparing his extreme wealth to other large quantities of money and showing them on the same scale.
engaging-data.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I gave up a small way through because it takes too long to scroll through Musk’s wealth.