hell yeah

I can’t imagine how depressing and frustrating it must be for college profs these days.

At this point, our intro comp/first-year English course has been so heavily revised, it no longer includes a novel, or "extended reading" of any kind, no "specialized" or "historical" reading, mostly in-class assignments, no research essay...and we are still seeing a 40-50% rate of AI misconduct.

This is not a "students today" post--it's more "this is a new form of dysfunction" that doesn't look exactly like it's been in previous decades. It's more than just "first-year chaos." It's an across-the-board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and *connect* with others.

Cryptid!

So cool!

ooooooh now that sounds excellent. i love me some m.r. james.

I looked up the researcher the author talked with and she co-founded an organization that continues to explore the topic. Seems really cool.

storiesoftheselands.ca

Here’s the article. It’s apparently a lot more complicated than that, and given that the Ukrainian migration happened in the late 19th century, they certainly weren’t Nazis.

www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Their efficacy was confirmed against LIVE viruses including Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), AND Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS).

The study has been published in Science Advances. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED.
• www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🧪🧵⬇️

Scrungly