Hollis Robbins
@anecdotal.bsky.social
AI is disrupting higher ed: how can we be ahead? Writing at https://hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com. Former Dean of Humanities & now Special Advisor for Humanities & AI at UUtah. Former Dean @ Sonoma State University. PhD Princeton, MPP Harvard KSG
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Are we at that sea change moment with AI and the Humanities? Read @anecdotal.bsky.social
“In sooth, I know not why I am so sad”
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November 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Are we at that sea change moment with AI and the Humanities? Read @anecdotal.bsky.social
I'd copy @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social but he blocks me. But everyone else can enjoy.
“In sooth, I know not why I am so sad”
Last night I attended a seminar at Harvard on “On Generative AI ‘Reading’ Shakespeare.” The paper, by a Renaissance scholar from Boston College, was structured around an essay written by ChatGPT on Th...
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November 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'd copy @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social but he blocks me. But everyone else can enjoy.
Why you should prefer verbs to nouns in the AI era. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/verbs-agai...
Verbs Against the Machine
In the AI era, verbs are our flying cars
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November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Why you should prefer verbs to nouns in the AI era. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/verbs-agai...
It’s safer for universities embrace the “Sunsteinian nudge” idea that students cannot be expected to develop better judgment, so things must be arranged such that good outcomes happen despite bad judgment. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/allowing-f...
Allowing Failure
Milton's marketplace > Mill's
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November 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It’s safer for universities embrace the “Sunsteinian nudge” idea that students cannot be expected to develop better judgment, so things must be arranged such that good outcomes happen despite bad judgment. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/allowing-f...
This is the standard view on Reddit right now. I called it in February. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/its-later-...
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This is the standard view on Reddit right now. I called it in February. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/its-later-...
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This is helpful. We need to develop our internal AI detectors.
November 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
This is helpful. We need to develop our internal AI detectors.
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Just in time for back to school! hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-tel...
How to Tell if Something is AI-Written
It is easy for me, with aphantasia
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August 13, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Just in time for back to school! hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/how-to-tel...
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Reading great texts of the American founding doesn’t necessarily make a person less likely to bully a subordinate or wheedle a deal for herself. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/ethical-di...
Ethical Diversity
What is not yet talked about
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November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Reading great texts of the American founding doesn’t necessarily make a person less likely to bully a subordinate or wheedle a deal for herself. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/ethical-di...
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There's a revolution in higher ed. Which side are you on?
Last Mile Education
The Syllabus Doesn't Matter
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November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
There's a revolution in higher ed. Which side are you on?
There's a revolution in higher ed. Which side are you on?
Last Mile Education
The Syllabus Doesn't Matter
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
There's a revolution in higher ed. Which side are you on?
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
African American Review
Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 2025
Special Issue: Black Surrealisms
Guest Editors: Grégory Pierrot and Abigail Susik
tinyurl.com/3k72wu7e
Contributors: Kathy Lou Schultz, Robin D. G. Kelley, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Terri Francis, Tiffany E. Barber & more!
African American Review
Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 2025
Special Issue: Black Surrealisms
Guest Editors: Grégory Pierrot and Abigail Susik
tinyurl.com/3k72wu7e
Contributors: Kathy Lou Schultz, Robin D. G. Kelley, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Terri Francis, Tiffany E. Barber & more!
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
African American Review
Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 2025
Special Issue: Black Surrealisms
Guest Editors: Grégory Pierrot and Abigail Susik
tinyurl.com/3k72wu7e
Contributors: Kathy Lou Schultz, Robin D. G. Kelley, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Terri Francis, Tiffany E. Barber & more!
African American Review
Volume 58, Number 1, Spring 2025
Special Issue: Black Surrealisms
Guest Editors: Grégory Pierrot and Abigail Susik
tinyurl.com/3k72wu7e
Contributors: Kathy Lou Schultz, Robin D. G. Kelley, Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Terri Francis, Tiffany E. Barber & more!
This was a great forum. Many pearl-clutching laments (including by someone who blocked me here) but I am optimistic about faculty in the age of AI. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
This was a great forum. Many pearl-clutching laments (including by someone who blocked me here) but I am optimistic about faculty in the age of AI. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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How childhood literacy education that insists on "visualization" doesn't work. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/decoding-w...
Reading Without Pictures
Aphantasia and literacy in the AI era
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October 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
How childhood literacy education that insists on "visualization" doesn't work. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/decoding-w...
Reading great texts of the American founding doesn’t necessarily make a person less likely to bully a subordinate or wheedle a deal for herself. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/ethical-di...
Ethical Diversity
What is not yet talked about
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Reading great texts of the American founding doesn’t necessarily make a person less likely to bully a subordinate or wheedle a deal for herself. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/ethical-di...
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This is my response to the "feminization" nonsense. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/who-is-lad...
Who is Ladling the Chum?
My response to the "feminization" debate
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October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is my response to the "feminization" nonsense. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/who-is-lad...
This is my response to the "feminization" nonsense. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/who-is-lad...
Who is Ladling the Chum?
My response to the "feminization" debate
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
This is my response to the "feminization" nonsense. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/who-is-lad...
I began to notice that when the trauma of the one child policy came up in interviews it was Dan who made sure to talk about forced abortions, not the (usually male) interviewer. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...
Dan Wang's "Breakneck" (review)
This review of Dan Wang’s extraordinary Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future (W.W.
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October 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I began to notice that when the trauma of the one child policy came up in interviews it was Dan who made sure to talk about forced abortions, not the (usually male) interviewer. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...
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As AI and new pedagogy is increasing the velocity of student learning, what will this mean for higher ed? Will these racing-through students want a degree in two years? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-two-mi...
The Two-Minute Mile Problem
Is higher ed ready for acceleration?
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October 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
As AI and new pedagogy is increasing the velocity of student learning, what will this mean for higher ed? Will these racing-through students want a degree in two years? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-two-mi...
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I spoke at a leadership conference about AI adoption in higher ed and said, sternly, if your faculty are behind and recalcitrant, perhaps it is your fault! Leadership needs to make it easy for faculty to adopt AI.
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The Faculty are Riding Horses
What the Nobel Prize Winners Might Say About That
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October 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I spoke at a leadership conference about AI adoption in higher ed and said, sternly, if your faculty are behind and recalcitrant, perhaps it is your fault! Leadership needs to make it easy for faculty to adopt AI.
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-facult...
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-facult...
How to Get to Mars (a short story) sciencefictiontalk.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
How to Get to Mars
A Short Story
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October 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
How to Get to Mars (a short story) sciencefictiontalk.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
It is tokens all the way down. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...
Token-Relief
Notes on depth
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October 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
It is tokens all the way down. open.substack.com/pub/hollisro...
I spoke at a leadership conference about AI adoption in higher ed and said, sternly, if your faculty are behind and recalcitrant, perhaps it is your fault! Leadership needs to make it easy for faculty to adopt AI.
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-facult...
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-facult...
The Faculty are Riding Horses
What the Nobel Prize Winners Might Say About That
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 11:28 AM
I spoke at a leadership conference about AI adoption in higher ed and said, sternly, if your faculty are behind and recalcitrant, perhaps it is your fault! Leadership needs to make it easy for faculty to adopt AI.
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-facult...
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-facult...
How childhood literacy education that insists on "visualization" doesn't work. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/decoding-w...
Reading Without Pictures
Aphantasia and literacy in the AI era
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
October 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
How childhood literacy education that insists on "visualization" doesn't work. hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/decoding-w...
As AI and new pedagogy is increasing the velocity of student learning, what will this mean for higher ed? Will these racing-through students want a degree in two years? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-two-mi...
The Two-Minute Mile Problem
Is higher ed ready for acceleration?
hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com
October 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
As AI and new pedagogy is increasing the velocity of student learning, what will this mean for higher ed? Will these racing-through students want a degree in two years? hollisrobbinsanecdotal.substack.com/p/the-two-mi...
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Spite is one of those things AI will never understand.
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Notes on Spite
(With apologies to Susan Sontag)
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July 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Spite is one of those things AI will never understand.
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