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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 16h

Wow, an actual job in European history

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 17h

***Job Opportunity***

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Modern Europe: Urban History, Fordham University

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Modern Europe: Urban History in New York, NY for Fordham University

Exciting opportunity in New York, NY for Fordham University as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor...

careers.historians.org

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like introducing $$ into this system is super problematic but what do you do? It takes a lot of time to do these letters well, which we all know.

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 20h

exactly. and I question the ethics and judgment of anyone who would do otherwise. But this where we are I guess.

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 20h

I just keep thinking about how we KNOW these things reproduce racial & gender stereotypes. So you're gonna use one to write a T&P letter for a colleague who is a woman? her a person of color? FFS

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 20h

exactly. And putting confidential information into an LLM also seems wildly problematic, even if people say they are using it only to summarize published work.

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 20h

I sat in a meeting the other day where full profs & deans in some disciplines insisted there was nothing they could do if faculty wrote internal or external T&P letters with AI. The only people who objected to this were humanists.

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 22h

the second thing on here that totally made my day

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 22h

Everyone thank Bezos for destroying one of America's iconic newspapers. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 23h

where is this coming from?

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 23h

this is amazing

Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 1d

Your morning image

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 23h

well, this made my morning!

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 3d

If you are appalled by the audacity of people using AI to grade student work, I recently overheard someone professing that "there is nothing to be done" if faculty are using AI to write T&P letters

John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 5d

I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Dangers of using AI to Grade

Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains

substack.com

Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 3d

THIS

Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 3d

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 3d

it's the pervasive anxiety - feeling constantly nauseous and sick -- that is doing me in

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 4d

I am reading all the papers now and they are pretty good; happy to report someone also named you "Robert."

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 5d

my institution offered a buyout to every tenured faculty member 55 and older last year (1 yr salary in exchange for leaving in May). Now we are being reorganized to save $$ on staff appointments and faculty admin compensation. It's coming for us all!

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 7d

I'm not really sure I read the description of the project in the same way. But I guess that's called interpretation.

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 7d

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 7d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 7d

I was just thinking the same thing.

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 8d

It's Banned Books Weeks. Fully half of the top challenged books in the U.S. are LGBTQ+ related and literature for adolescents (+Toni Morrison). Let's all buy one. www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...

Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024

Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books based on reports from the field and media coverage.

www.ala.org

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 9d

what do you hipster professor types know?!!

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 9d

I was just there this morning. This is the block. Nothing is on fire. There is no destruction. There is no War Zone. We were out for a 22-mile bike ride on a beautiful Sunday morning. Our biggest obstacle was repeatedly encountering the ongoing PDX marathon route.

Three cyclists in front of Portland ICE headquarters on a beautiful sunny day. Empty street. Nothing going on.

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 10d

I think about this almost every day.

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10d

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 10d

what about grape?

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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 11d

The Chronicle has actually been hostile to supporting universities' real mission of teaching and learning for some time. It's a publication that exists to support the managerial class whose inflated salaries steal our budgets

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