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@elzbethw.bsky.social
Let's all get along.
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If a single scholar of color told me they were using this, I would need to stage an intervention within 48 hours. You will be fired or "not reappointed" when this goes sideways even if your lil friend will be fine.
a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product
December 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
If a single scholar of color told me they were using this, I would need to stage an intervention within 48 hours. You will be fired or "not reappointed" when this goes sideways even if your lil friend will be fine.
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I just spent six years writing a book. I learned how to use archives, how to handle secondary sources, how to structure a 140k-word argument. I fell so hard in love I went back to school for a PhD. Now people ask how I use LLMs to write or summarize and I can only think “You don’t value what I do.”
December 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I just spent six years writing a book. I learned how to use archives, how to handle secondary sources, how to structure a 140k-word argument. I fell so hard in love I went back to school for a PhD. Now people ask how I use LLMs to write or summarize and I can only think “You don’t value what I do.”
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Back when I was writing regularly about baseball, circa 2012, I crunched the numbers & the likelihood of becoming a tenure-track professor in one of the MLA disciplines was almost precisely the same as getting from a college baseball team to a MLB roster.
Nothing has gotten easier since then.
Nothing has gotten easier since then.
Becoming a tenured professor is a bit like becoming an NBA forward or a successful recording artist. (Or a novelist or a working fine artist or a pediatric cardiologist.) The supply is massively greater than the demand, and everyone is excellent. This is a hedge fund of yourself, not a career goal.
December 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Back when I was writing regularly about baseball, circa 2012, I crunched the numbers & the likelihood of becoming a tenure-track professor in one of the MLA disciplines was almost precisely the same as getting from a college baseball team to a MLB roster.
Nothing has gotten easier since then.
Nothing has gotten easier since then.
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Christian Clothing CEO: You finish that sweatshirt about saving as many souls as possible?
Christian Clothing Designer: Sure did, boss. Real fuckin’ ominous and with an implied threat of mass murder, just like you asked.
Christian Clothing CEO: What.
Christian Clothing Designer: Sure did, boss. Real fuckin’ ominous and with an implied threat of mass murder, just like you asked.
Christian Clothing CEO: What.
December 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Christian Clothing CEO: You finish that sweatshirt about saving as many souls as possible?
Christian Clothing Designer: Sure did, boss. Real fuckin’ ominous and with an implied threat of mass murder, just like you asked.
Christian Clothing CEO: What.
Christian Clothing Designer: Sure did, boss. Real fuckin’ ominous and with an implied threat of mass murder, just like you asked.
Christian Clothing CEO: What.
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HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
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Growing up my conservative parents hated bill clinton, because he was a democrat, but tolerated people like dennis hastert, because he was a republican. I came to view his affair as immoral due to the power dynamics involved. I’m comfortable saying he’s a bad person who deserves punishment. Easy.
December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Growing up my conservative parents hated bill clinton, because he was a democrat, but tolerated people like dennis hastert, because he was a republican. I came to view his affair as immoral due to the power dynamics involved. I’m comfortable saying he’s a bad person who deserves punishment. Easy.
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Here's two pages from the ledger book of American profile artist Wm Bache. This c. 1803–1812 volume contains images of his patrons in New Orleans, LA.
Thinking about this week's news about photographic portraiture & redaction, visual representation & citizenship, & character(s) in text & image.
Thinking about this week's news about photographic portraiture & redaction, visual representation & citizenship, & character(s) in text & image.
December 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Here's two pages from the ledger book of American profile artist Wm Bache. This c. 1803–1812 volume contains images of his patrons in New Orleans, LA.
Thinking about this week's news about photographic portraiture & redaction, visual representation & citizenship, & character(s) in text & image.
Thinking about this week's news about photographic portraiture & redaction, visual representation & citizenship, & character(s) in text & image.
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Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.
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You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
December 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?"
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.
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14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
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I talk about everything as risk management. It’s especially important in work because the political economy changed — sometimes literally called risk shift — while our cultural practices still assume known knowns & predictability.
What’s your risk tolerance? That’s the most important question.
What’s your risk tolerance? That’s the most important question.
I've been talking about both doctoral study (with academic jobs as the goal) AND tenure for YEARS in terms of RISK MANAGEMENT. It is a very calculated, and increasingly speculative, risk. You have to treat it that way.
Faculty hate it when I do this. Especially about tenure.
Faculty hate it when I do this. Especially about tenure.
I keep telling brilliant students not to get PhDs not because they aren't capable, but because if I show them the job boards for the last couple of years and the graphs, not even the fabled hubris of an undergrad who wants to be a professor can get through. There are no jobs.
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I talk about everything as risk management. It’s especially important in work because the political economy changed — sometimes literally called risk shift — while our cultural practices still assume known knowns & predictability.
What’s your risk tolerance? That’s the most important question.
What’s your risk tolerance? That’s the most important question.
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I think these young Nazis should eat shit, just like the old Nazis.
December 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I think these young Nazis should eat shit, just like the old Nazis.
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
slow day in the office so figured we'd start some beef with museums
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A fitting scene for this morning's weather in NYC: Jacob Lawrence, "Rain," 1938
December 19, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A fitting scene for this morning's weather in NYC: Jacob Lawrence, "Rain," 1938
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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"A new study has found that eating 50g or more of high-fat cheese a day correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia. That means all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content, including brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella." www.sciencealert.com/cheese-linke...
Cheese Linked to Lower Dementia Risk in 25-Year Study
One of the finest foods available to humanity may carry an unexpected benefit.
www.sciencealert.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"A new study has found that eating 50g or more of high-fat cheese a day correlates with a lower risk of developing dementia. That means all cheeses with more than 20 percent fat content, including brie, gouda, cheddar, parmesan, gruyere, and mozzarella." www.sciencealert.com/cheese-linke...
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David Brooks writing about how there was nothing to see with the Epstein Files while not disclosing *he was in them* is at least a Nuzzi-level journalistic scandal
What I'm saying is, get ready to see a nude painting of David Brooks in the NYT within weeks
What I'm saying is, get ready to see a nude painting of David Brooks in the NYT within weeks
December 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
David Brooks writing about how there was nothing to see with the Epstein Files while not disclosing *he was in them* is at least a Nuzzi-level journalistic scandal
What I'm saying is, get ready to see a nude painting of David Brooks in the NYT within weeks
What I'm saying is, get ready to see a nude painting of David Brooks in the NYT within weeks
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David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
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The main thing I have had hammered home by the past ten years in politics is that we really need pretty much every government office to be run by boring and anonymous nerds who you will never once hear about in the news
December 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The main thing I have had hammered home by the past ten years in politics is that we really need pretty much every government office to be run by boring and anonymous nerds who you will never once hear about in the news
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Olive Theatre
Donalsonville, GA
Donalsonville, GA
December 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Olive Theatre
Donalsonville, GA
Donalsonville, GA
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Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.
December 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.
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Santa: uh alright
Take that Santa! This is me upside-down and naked in a fireplace – Brooke DiDonato’s best photograph
Take that Santa! This is me upside-down and naked in a fireplace – Brooke DiDonato’s best photograph
‘I wanted to make a perfect square with my body. My back hurt for days afterwards. People often want to know if the kitten is real’
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Santa: uh alright