Angela H.
@angelah.bsky.social
Comparativist who fell into the long 18th-c and decided to stick around. I’m Bartleby-the-scrivner-ing LLMs and their inevitability. Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections (New Histories of Philosophy @OUP). Views expressed are mine alone.
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There are those of us who have been saying that the best preparation for "prompt engineering" is likely to learn how to read, write, and think and, well, here you go.
Quite an opening.
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
There are those of us who have been saying that the best preparation for "prompt engineering" is likely to learn how to read, write, and think and, well, here you go.
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Once again I am asking people to understand that a university is not a debate club.
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Once again I am asking people to understand that a university is not a debate club.
I wish I had heard about Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Our London Lives before today! It sounds perfect for my class on London this spring, but I don’t know if I can squeeze in another long novel.
November 19, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I wish I had heard about Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Our London Lives before today! It sounds perfect for my class on London this spring, but I don’t know if I can squeeze in another long novel.
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NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
NEW: An analysis finds that NIH funding cuts have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, affecting over 74,000 participants that were enrolled in studies that were testing treatments for conditions including cancer, heart disease and brain disease.
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We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
A rebuttal to NIH leadership's screed against pandemic preparedness.
Dr. Angela Rasmussen joins Inside Medicine for a tag-team response to a poorly reasoned essay by NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and his deputy, Dr. Matthew Memoli.
insidemedicine.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:54 PM
We've got a MASSIVE DEEP-DIVE rebuttal to the NIH leadership’s recent essay. They're arguing for a head-in-the-sand approach to pandemic preparedness.
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
The great @angierasmussen.bsky.social joins me in an extraordinarily detailed, line-by-line fact check.
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/a-rebuttal...
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📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown!
November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom
Register via QR code in graphic
@aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here's your chance to do something about the people being starved and beaten in Broadview ICE custody.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
Share this post, and I'll donate $1 to the Midwest Immigration Bond Fund (www.mibfc.org).
And if you make a donation to them, let me know how much and I'll match it 1:1.
The shudder I shudder when I remember that time a spider crawled out of a can of coke I was just about to drink from. It crawled onto my bottom lip before I even knew what it was.
November 12, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The shudder I shudder when I remember that time a spider crawled out of a can of coke I was just about to drink from. It crawled onto my bottom lip before I even knew what it was.
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Severe restrictions on the teaching of race, gender, and activism being considered tomorrow by the Texas A&M board of regents. They want to control university education the way they control K-12. Our statement ⬇️
Severe restrictions on the teaching of race, gender, and activism being considered tomorrow by the Texas A&M board of regents. They want to control university education the way they control K-12. Our statement ⬇️
AAUP at UT Austin Stands in Solidarity with Faculty in the Texas A&M System
Statement by Karma Chavez, President of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin on the impending action by the Texas A&M Board of Regents regarding civil rights and academic freedom November 11, 2025 We…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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Severe restrictions on the teaching of race, gender, and activism being considered tomorrow by the Texas A&M board of regents. They want to control university education the way they control K-12. Our statement ⬇️
Severe restrictions on the teaching of race, gender, and activism being considered tomorrow by the Texas A&M board of regents. They want to control university education the way they control K-12. Our statement ⬇️
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How Grammarly Launders AI-Generated Content
How Grammarly Launders AI-Generated Content
Grammarly’s Authorship tool is billed as a powerful way to prove that your words are authentic. Even though it allows you to easily launder AI-generated text.
www.plagiarismtoday.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
How Grammarly Launders AI-Generated Content
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"Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines...are increasingly unwelcome...With few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early grades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education System are minced into dry text that teachers read from manuals."
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"Books — actual books, with dust jackets, spines...are increasingly unwelcome...With few exceptions, the only stories allowed in the early grades of state-appointed HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education System are minced into dry text that teachers read from manuals."
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Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Not only that, but so much AI tech extracts the metadata and open info created/enabled *by* library and data workers. The labor of our field is being consumed and then resold to us in the hopes that we’ll decide our own jobs are obsolete @404media.co
Why is there no English Walton? Why is the creature mowing through these sailors like a werewolf zombie?? Guillermo, don’t do this to me….
November 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Why is there no English Walton? Why is the creature mowing through these sailors like a werewolf zombie?? Guillermo, don’t do this to me….
Well, caught up on the news and now I know why I saw so many “they’re doing physiognomy” posts yesterday. Geez louise.
November 7, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Well, caught up on the news and now I know why I saw so many “they’re doing physiognomy” posts yesterday. Geez louise.
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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Washing my Centrum Silver down with some sauvigon blanc.
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Washing my Centrum Silver down with some sauvigon blanc.
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I participated in this @chronicle.com forum
on AI alongside many other excellent folks. It’s paywalled and I don’t have a gift link, but in the QT I’m attaching a screen grab of my piece which is about the technological but also the political realities of rupture. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
on AI alongside many other excellent folks. It’s paywalled and I don’t have a gift link, but in the QT I’m attaching a screen grab of my piece which is about the technological but also the political realities of rupture. 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.
www.chronicle.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I participated in this @chronicle.com forum
on AI alongside many other excellent folks. It’s paywalled and I don’t have a gift link, but in the QT I’m attaching a screen grab of my piece which is about the technological but also the political realities of rupture. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
on AI alongside many other excellent folks. It’s paywalled and I don’t have a gift link, but in the QT I’m attaching a screen grab of my piece which is about the technological but also the political realities of rupture. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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Geoffrey Hinton warns us of the persuasive powers of superintelligence. But, "while AI won't “decide” to persuade people to do harmful things on a global scale any time soon; AI companies are persuading us to do harmful things on a global scale already." mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-...
Thoughts on Hinton
On Consciousness in Programs
Geoffrey Hinton recently won a Nobel Prize for his work on backpropagation, a foundational piece of research that contributed to the emergence of contemporary artificial ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Geoffrey Hinton warns us of the persuasive powers of superintelligence. But, "while AI won't “decide” to persuade people to do harmful things on a global scale any time soon; AI companies are persuading us to do harmful things on a global scale already." mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-...
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The Modern Language Association "Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate... to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed." 1/
www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
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 le...
www.mla.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The Modern Language Association "Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate... to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed." 1/
www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
What a loss!
Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section.
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
www.thecut.com/article/teen...
Teen Vogue Is Folding Into Vogue.com
According to Condé Nast’s announcement, the outlet will keep its “unique editorial identity and mission.”
www.thecut.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
What a loss!
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A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Authorities Investigating Explosion on Harvard’s Medical Campus, Believed To Be Intentional | News | The Harvard Crimson
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University…
www.thecrimson.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A device exploded inside the Goldenson Building in Harvard’s Longwood medical campus early Saturday morning, according to a message from the Harvard University Police Department to University affiliates.
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Matan H. Josephy and Laurel M. Shugart report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
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Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
“We’ll Smash the Fucking Window Out and Drag Him Out”
We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...
projects.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.
ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.”
You can judge for yourself.