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Dawn Gilpin

@drgilpin.bsky.social

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Associate dean for research & PhD director at ASU's Cronkite School. I study complex mediated social systems, from organizations to (sub)cultures. Also: semipro cat herder, Buffy the Vampire Slayer expert, perfume aficionado, and shoe lover. She/her .. more

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18d

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Oct 8

I like it. But S6 is also my favorite season of BtVS, so... 🤷🏻‍♀️

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Oct 8

After years of studying disinfo and wading around in various online toxic waste zones, nothing has made me despair more about the current state of media literacy than the discourse surrounding this album release.

Dave Vanness @djvanness.bsky.social · Sep 29

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · Sep 29

30% drop year over year!

Amid visa restrictions, international freshmen enrollment plummets at UW-Madison

This year’s number of international freshmen is the lowest recorded since at least 2015.

www.jsonline.com

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 24

It's Infrastructure Week all over again.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 16

Happy birthday!

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 15

Yes! There is a different calculus for distance during the warmer seasons here...

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 13

Icon behavior, frankly.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6

It's actually something I love about living here--this kind of thing happens daily. I haven't experienced it as much in other parts of the country, and definitely not in Europe.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6

It also doesn't prevent them from sharing what they remember reading with others. But it does prevent them from going back to check passages for accuracy.

Destroying a training dataset at least doesn't attempt to keep others away from the source material, but it does still raise thorny ethical Qs.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6

"Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to... destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models."

Burning books doesn't erase their memory or impact on people who've already read them.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

arstechnica.com

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 6

I'm walking into the supermarket after work as a young woman is exiting. When she sees me, she stops.
I am wondering whether I know her & should recognize her in the wild. She interrupts my thoughts: "Your outfit is SO CUTE!" I thank her. "OMG slay!" She mimes a camera click.
It feels like a win.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Sep 4

I brought up Becca Bloom in class today, and NONE of the students (all women) knew who she was.

I'm still processing my feelings about this.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Aug 22

I really love a good monsoon storm. #desertliving

America Xanadu @johnxuandou.bsky.social · Aug 13

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Aug 7

It's related to the first law of conferences, which is that the session(s) you're most interested in attending will be scheduled at the same time as your own presentation.

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redthespian - Big Weird Lonely Snake Guy @redthespian.bsky.social · Aug 6

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Aug 4

Same!

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ditto!

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · Aug 4

Ditto!

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Aug 4

Student journalists really are out there doing the work.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Aug 4

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · Aug 4

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Green Ben Casserole @franzferdinand2.bsky.social · Aug 4

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · Aug 3

The US could see a 30-40% decline in new international student enrollment, resulting in nearly $7 billion in lost revenue and more than 60,000 fewer American jobs. https://www.nafsa.org/fall-2025-international-student-enrollment-outlook-and-economic-impact

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Richard Stupart @richardstupart.com · Jul 31

At PhD/post-PhD level, academia is fundamentally dialogical and unless you intend to hide behind a prompt your whole life, you are going to look like a fool when you open your mouth and don't have a working understanding of the things you profess to write about.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is so brave! I applaud you. I don't hate it but I don't love it, and even that has caused me to face judgment and exclusion. I can only imagine what you've been through.

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Jul 28

Grocerymaxxing will be the next big trend.

amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Jul 28

im a grocerybro. im grocerypilled. i invented a new way to shop called vibe grocery shopping

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Jul 28

im a grocerybro. im grocerypilled. i invented a new way to shop called vibe grocery shopping

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Jul 23

I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.

Reposted by David Lazer, Dawn R. Gilpin

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Jul 18

I am in my 10th hour of editing my book manuscript - my eyes are blurry - I'm losing focus. And so, I bring you these quotes from W.E.B. Du Bois' "Black Reconstruction in America" (1935) I have also been thinking about all day:

Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Dawn R. Gilpin

David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social · Jul 18

How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era -- my analysis for NPR.

www.npr.org/2025/07/18/n...

How bipartisan support for public media unraveled in the Trump era

"It will test every single shred of creativity we have to continue to try to serve our mission," says one public media executive, as Congress ends federal funding for public broadcasting.

www.npr.org

Dawn Gilpin @drgilpin.bsky.social · Jul 13

It's part of their magic.

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