I’ve logged back in to post Marcellus Williams poems. You can read a few here.

Israel has killed 10% of Gaza’s pre-war population.

MSmommunism.bsky.socialSep 20, 2024 8:55am

This is the number from The Lancet which is now likely a pretty big undercount too

On the academic job market? Know anyone on the job market? I created a template job market folder that includes a detailed read me, a template spreadsheet to keep track of jobs, recommended folders, and samples. bit.ly/AcademicJobF... Please use or share with others!

This AM "Reinventing Readership: Alternative Readership in Literary Magazines, Fanfiction, Cookbooks" #DH2024@caramartamessina.com@billquinn.bsky.social & Avery Blankenship: "readers talk back to literary journal issues; fanfic writers’ source text conflicting interps; cooks staining cookbooks"

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Scholars’ Responsibilities Towards Fans: A Case Study of Trans Representation in Our Flag Means Death Dr. Cara Marta Messina (she/her) Assistant Professor of English, Marist College, USA cara.messina1...

ChatGPT can’t summarise documents. It shortens them, misses key conclusions, adds errors, makes stuff up, and ignores actual summary sections. Use it to summarise important texts like meeting discussions at your peril. ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/w...

When ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.

One of the use cases I thought was reasonable to expect from ChatGPT and Friends (LLMs) was summarising. It turns out I was wrong. What ChatGPT isn't summarising at all, it only looks like it. What it...

A complex website with all the bells and whistles is a pony. And you have to keep feeding and cleaning up after it until it dies or you euthanize it.

Rhet/comp needs to have a long discussion about the difference between “critical” and “supports/uses”

This is the final call for registrations for the 2024 GRN. If you have an idea that you need to workshop, a dissertation chapter, prospectus, or article, we encourage you to register. There will also be an alt/academic job market preparation workshop on Friday, June 14. forms.gle/nkjbx4Vjxwod...

Submit Your Graduate Research Network Proposal

We are now accepting submissions for the 2024 Virtual Graduate Research Network. For more information about the Graduate Research Network, visit our Web site at http://www.gradresearchnetwork.org or e...

So many programs and courses aimed at early undergraduates list "information literacy" as part of their learning outcomes and faculty desperately need to address how the incorporation of "AI" into search results ends up returning and confirming incorrect information

CGcaitlindeangelis.bsky.socialMay 19, 2024 2:10pm

Google's AI can pull together nouns that frequently appear in proximity, but it can't tell the relationship between them. "Abraham Lincoln" and "13th Amendment" often appear together and Amendments are often said to be "crafted," so the algorithm assumes that history is like math.