Holly Hassel

@hollyjhassel.bsky.social

writing teacher and WPA, feminist, vegetarian, mom, ex-middle school football coach, Lions Fan, coauthor https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/6535-reaching-all-writers, 1st gen college grad, 1× Jeopardy! champ, Keweenaw .. more

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gramesy 🇺🇸🇦🇷 @gramesy.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 5h

#mnf #nfl

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 7d

Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵

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Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents
The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in October 2025.
Software, specifically learning management systems (LMSs), is as important to teaching and learning as physical classrooms and facilities. The recent and hasty integration of generative AI features into those systems is already redefining student and instructor relationships, evaluative standards, and instructional outcomes—with no compelling evidence that any of it is for the better. At the same time, so-called agentic browsers are becoming widely available to the public. These offer AI “agents” that can navigate LMSs and complete assignments without any student involvement. All of this is unfolding at a time when contractual arrangements between institutions and commercial vendors often lack transparency, with worrisome implications for data collection and student privacy.

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The Modern Language Association therefore unequivocally
1. Advocates for full faculty and instructional involvement, including faculty of languages, literatures, and the humanities, at all levels of decision-making in the selection, procurement, and responsible implementation of instructional technology systems and software, including those incorporating AI.  The instructional mission cannot be fulfilled in the absence of faculty expertise, and this expertise extends not only to the “content” of the curriculum but also to the infrastructures and environments—virtual and otherwise—in which learning happens. 
2. Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate in order to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed.  Without dedicated outside cooperation from lawmakers and technology providers, academic institutions may not have the technical capacity to do so on their own.
If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a learning management system, AI-generated content is submitted by an agentic AI on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.

Holly Hassel @hollyjhassel.bsky.social · 20d

#DetroitLions
Working on this. It's writing itself.

Holly Hassel @hollyjhassel.bsky.social · Oct 10

this is hilarious

Reposted by Marc Lynch, Rebecca Tushnet, Lisa Diedrich , and 2 more Marc Lynch, Rebecca Tushnet, Lisa Diedrich, Mary Jane Curry, Holly Hassel

Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · Sep 10

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Mar 23

Every single member of the Columbia administration should step down.

Through their complicity and their cowardice, they've betrayed their faculty, their staff and most of all their students.

There's no way they can lead that university in any meaningful sense from this point on.

Holly Hassel @hollyjhassel.bsky.social · Jul 16

this is just embarrassing

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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · Jul 8

Career Advice | A Quick Convo All Writing Teams Should Have

Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4lbkiny

Holly Hassel @hollyjhassel.bsky.social · Jul 8

For every academic who has had to write something with others against their will. :)

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

#committees, #reports #academicwriting #academicsky

The Quick Convo All Writing Teams Should Have (opinion)

Here’s the short conversation members of team writing projects should have before they start writing, Samira Grayson, Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides write.

www.insidehighered.com

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Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws.bsky.social · Jul 6

Once a rural hospital closes, it’s not coming back. We’re looking at irreversible damage to healthcare for rural Americans. Every story should mention this.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Jul 4

What, exactly, are we celebrating this Fourth of July?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken Congress?

Our corrupt Supreme Court?

Our ridiculous buffoon President?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · Jun 8

Trump planning to make it harder to go to college (unless you're rich) by cutting both Pell Grants and work study programs, all to give massive tax cuts to billionaires.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Trump aims to slash Pell Grants, which may limit low-income students’ college access

About 40% of undergraduates rely on Pell Grants to pay for college, and experts say if the plans are enacted, many of the lowest-income students would be forced to drop out.

www.nbcnews.com

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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · May 19

Filed for a preliminary injunction in our suit against the attack on NEH, & it seems our case will be looked at alongside the Authors Guild suit. Both approaches are vital, & they're different from each other. Will keep you posted. Plz help with donation to Pave the Way www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

Donate to Funds That Support Particular Activities

MLA funds help defray the cost of convention travel for graduate students and underemployed members, support advocacy on behalf of contingent faculty members, promote the study and teaching of languag...

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Erin Candy 🍒🇨🇦 @erincandy.bsky.social · May 17

People counting down to 2028 thinking Trump is just going to just peacefully leave when his term is over, like they can just wait out an authoritarian takeover, are completely delusional and have absolutely zero understanding of what fascism is.

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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · May 16

The Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social task forces on AI want to hear from members, prospective members, and interested writing, literature, languages, and Humanities educators!

Please take a moment to fill out the survey! www.surveymonkey.com/r/DVBMXDR?ut...

MLA AI Task Forces Survey

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

www.surveymonkey.com

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · May 16

Please, I’m begging The NY Times to write about any other college than Harvard.

(And, yes, I know that Brooks is not a serious thinker, but still.)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/o...

Opinion | ‘We Are the Most Rejected Generation’

www.nytimes.com

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Gwendolynne Reid @gwendolynne-reid.bsky.social · May 2

#CFP: Seeking chapter proposals for a Routledge Handbook of Humanities and Social Science Communication. Abstracts due August 3. Chapters: January 15.

#AcademicSky #Humanities #ScholarlyPublishing #WritingStudies #TeamRhetoric #AcademicWriting #AppliedLinguistics #RhetComp #Disciplinarity #AcWri

CFP: Routledge Handbook of Humanities and Social Science Communication

Call for Proposals: Routledge Handbook of Humanities and Social Science Communication Editors: Gwendolynne Reid (Emory), Chris Anson (NC State), and Xiao Tan (Utah State) Since the 1970s, fields rang...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Apr 16

A lot of people seem to think following the U.S. Constitution is optional—like picking which shoes to wear in the morning. It’s not. If you’re within the boundaries of the United States, the Constitution applies to you.

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Patti Poblete @voleuseck.bsky.social · Apr 10

Time for @jsanofranchini.bsky.social's talk! And here it is: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#4C25

2025 CCCC Chair’s Address Sano-Franchini

Timely, (Un)Disciplinary, and Solutions-Oriented: Remembering and Enacting Abundance in These Times When We Just Have to Keep Going [SLIDE] Part 1. This is Not a Talk About A.I. Imagine that a sale...

docs.google.com

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WTFGOP a.k.a on Twitter @Doggintrump @wtfgop.bsky.social · Apr 4

Fuck their exemptions. Its always about save me, fuck the rest of us, with these people

They all need to Stand up to this fucker or sit down & suck it up like the rest of us have to

Reposted by Lisa A. Gennetian, Gayle Kaufman, Holly Hassel

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Apr 3

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

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Jason Gantenberg @jrgant.bsky.social · Mar 29

#episky #medsky #academicsky #IDsky

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.

The National Institutes of Health is canceling grants that are seen as conflicting with the Trump administration’s priorities. We want to hear from researchers who have been affected.

www.propublica.org

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Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚 @tomesandtextiles.bsky.social · Mar 29

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

Holly Hassel @hollyjhassel.bsky.social · Mar 28

very on brand for America actually

Holly Hassel @hollyjhassel.bsky.social · Mar 24

appreciate the Batdance reference

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Mar 23

JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"

"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"

Holly Hassel @hollyjhassel.bsky.social · Mar 19

that is nonsensical word salad

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Angelo Carusone @goangelo.bsky.social · Mar 15

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed.

Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance.

My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · Mar 15

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · Mar 15

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.

He's a eugenicist.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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