Amber
@amberla.bsky.social
amlit phd | community college prof | a little black cloud in a dress | swimming through libraries 🐋 she/her
Can’t wait to read this piece, Pete. I love this movie. Just rewatched it a few weeks ago.
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Can’t wait to read this piece, Pete. I love this movie. Just rewatched it a few weeks ago.
@dmcampbellwsu.bsky.social Thinking of you while visiting a certain author’s residence in Lenox, MA!
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
@dmcampbellwsu.bsky.social Thinking of you while visiting a certain author’s residence in Lenox, MA!
Just going to walk around my campus and with this taped to my forehead. Will make it my background for every Zoom meeting.
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
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October 28, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Just going to walk around my campus and with this taped to my forehead. Will make it my background for every Zoom meeting.
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Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.
October 26, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Tomorrow. D.C. The National Mall. Sunup to sundown.
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Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.
September 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.
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It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.
We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing.
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Thanks so much for your reporting on this, Ben. I just got an email from my campus's IT office triumphantly advertising free student access to four different AI models -- at the same time as we have a hiring freeze, caps on grad enrollment, and a 7% budget cut -- and wanted to scream.
September 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.
Hearted this back in April and wish I could heart it again now, but alas, there is no double heart feature.
September 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hearted this back in April and wish I could heart it again now, but alas, there is no double heart feature.
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The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!
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September 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The landscape in higher ed is bleak right now, but here's a bright light at my institution: there's a new tenure track position at @davidsoncollege.bsky.social in Gender & Sexuality Studies. Please share widely!
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Even though it means they couldn’t fully attend to their coursework this summer, proud that my students are involved in union organizing at their jobs!!
August 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Even though it means they couldn’t fully attend to their coursework this summer, proud that my students are involved in union organizing at their jobs!!
Even though it means they couldn’t fully attend to their coursework this summer, proud that my students are involved in union organizing at their jobs!!
August 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Even though it means they couldn’t fully attend to their coursework this summer, proud that my students are involved in union organizing at their jobs!!
(Not to be prescriptive; that was my immediate impulse!)
August 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
(Not to be prescriptive; that was my immediate impulse!)
No, because it will count toward their number of users who have opted in!
August 14, 2025 at 1:59 AM
No, because it will count toward their number of users who have opted in!
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Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.
Summary of our concerns
1. Implementation Timeline
We have learned that the UC system has suffered numerous and increasingly frequent cyber attacks and security breaches. For years, the administration has done little to stud...
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August 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.
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This weekend was James Baldwin’s heavenly birthday! We’ve been preparing the announcement of a new book series in his honor! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
Q&A with series editors at manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/08...
Q&A with series editors at manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/08...
August 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
This weekend was James Baldwin’s heavenly birthday! We’ve been preparing the announcement of a new book series in his honor! PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!
Q&A with series editors at manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/08...
Q&A with series editors at manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/08...
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I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.
August 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.
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~ There are other things we want to say but twitter isn't the best place to say it.
That's why you should come to our Student Debt Update Call in early August: ~
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July 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
~ There are other things we want to say but twitter isn't the best place to say it.
That's why you should come to our Student Debt Update Call in early August: ~
debtcollective.org/event/studen...
That's why you should come to our Student Debt Update Call in early August: ~
debtcollective.org/event/studen...
No, this is it—it’s to discourage humans from relying on each other (to discourage collectivity). I have heard faculty say we shouldn’t push our values onto students by encouraging interaction with other humans, since younger gens don’t value it the way we do. I felt despair when I heard that.
July 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
No, this is it—it’s to discourage humans from relying on each other (to discourage collectivity). I have heard faculty say we shouldn’t push our values onto students by encouraging interaction with other humans, since younger gens don’t value it the way we do. I felt despair when I heard that.
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How to craft a prompt. Somewhere all the abused, demoralized English comp professors should be sharpening their knives
July 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
How to craft a prompt. Somewhere all the abused, demoralized English comp professors should be sharpening their knives
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You taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is, I know how to curse.
Is, I know how to curse.
July 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
You taught me language, and my profit on’t
Is, I know how to curse.
Is, I know how to curse.
