Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D.
@brittrclark.bsky.social
Ph.D in American Studies. Lecturer in English. Lover of pop culture.
My book Media Representations of Retail Work in America: http://bit.ly/3YIBAgT
My book Media Representations of Retail Work in America: http://bit.ly/3YIBAgT
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Looking for books published in the last year or so for my 20th/21st century lit class in the Spring.
Ah, yes, the classic young adult autobiographies Heart of Darkness and Moby Dick.
Thanks AI! 🙄
Ah, yes, the classic young adult autobiographies Heart of Darkness and Moby Dick.
Thanks AI! 🙄
Reposted by Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D.
I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.
February 16, 2026 at 3:57 PM
I'm writing a book. Every working day begins with me rewriting what I wrote the day before, and the day before that. If your reaction to that is "AI could save you that trouble," I know you're not a writer. Computer programs can't sleep on it, can't dream an idea, can't suddenly realize something.
"and she's gonna be a therapist..."
He used the present tense for her! He believes she's going to get better. ❤️😭
#HATM #TheBigSick
He used the present tense for her! He believes she's going to get better. ❤️😭
#HATM #TheBigSick
February 16, 2026 at 2:25 AM
"and she's gonna be a therapist..."
He used the present tense for her! He believes she's going to get better. ❤️😭
#HATM #TheBigSick
He used the present tense for her! He believes she's going to get better. ❤️😭
#HATM #TheBigSick
@pcbryan.bsky.social and I met in undergrad. I was in an club that played games on campus every Friday and he showed up with mutual friends. We played kickball and he likes to say that I literally knocked him off of his feet running to first base.
#HATM #TheBigSick
#HATM #TheBigSick
SNEH & me 1st met at UHCL when I was volunteering at a bake sale for the Vagina Monologues selling vagina-decorated cookies.
What version of this story you get when you ask for our meet cute depends on how cool we think you’d be with it, lol. 😂 #HATM
What version of this story you get when you ask for our meet cute depends on how cool we think you’d be with it, lol. 😂 #HATM
February 16, 2026 at 2:20 AM
@pcbryan.bsky.social and I met in undergrad. I was in an club that played games on campus every Friday and he showed up with mutual friends. We played kickball and he likes to say that I literally knocked him off of his feet running to first base.
#HATM #TheBigSick
#HATM #TheBigSick
I just realized that I think I like this so much because it reminds me of one of my favorite movies, The Apartment from 1960. It gets real dark in the middle, but is also lovely and funny.
#HATM #TheBigSick
#HATM #TheBigSick
a man sits at a table with a woman laying on a bed and says i just have this talent
ALT: a man sits at a table with a woman laying on a bed and says i just have this talent
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February 16, 2026 at 1:53 AM
I just realized that I think I like this so much because it reminds me of one of my favorite movies, The Apartment from 1960. It gets real dark in the middle, but is also lovely and funny.
#HATM #TheBigSick
#HATM #TheBigSick
Keep an eye out for Vella Lovell aka Heather from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in a bit part. I just remembered she's in this!
#HATM #TheBigSick
#HATM #TheBigSick
a woman with curly hair is sitting at a table talking to a man and says i 'm a student .
ALT: a woman with curly hair is sitting at a table talking to a man and says i 'm a student .
media.tenor.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Keep an eye out for Vella Lovell aka Heather from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend in a bit part. I just remembered she's in this!
#HATM #TheBigSick
#HATM #TheBigSick
1. Reading a bio of Abagail Adams and in her first encounter with John she cheekily insulted him by calling him vain.
#HATM #TheBigSick
#HATM #TheBigSick
Tonight’s #HATM questions:
1 This movie is a pretty odd meet cute, get together story. What’s your fav historical couple &/or their meet cute?
2 What's your fav book/article on medical history/history of the body? Paging @nursingclio.bsky.social
3 What’s on the menu at your place tonight? #HATM
1 This movie is a pretty odd meet cute, get together story. What’s your fav historical couple &/or their meet cute?
2 What's your fav book/article on medical history/history of the body? Paging @nursingclio.bsky.social
3 What’s on the menu at your place tonight? #HATM
February 16, 2026 at 1:08 AM
1. Reading a bio of Abagail Adams and in her first encounter with John she cheekily insulted him by calling him vain.
#HATM #TheBigSick
#HATM #TheBigSick
#HATM
For an update on where this couple is, I recommend Kumail's stand-up special on Hulu Night Thoughts.
The lead-up here is that they were getting work done on their house & caught on their security camera a couple sneaking into their pool w/ a cheese board + knife
youtu.be/kzPQ-6V3-rs?...
For an update on where this couple is, I recommend Kumail's stand-up special on Hulu Night Thoughts.
The lead-up here is that they were getting work done on their house & caught on their security camera a couple sneaking into their pool w/ a cheese board + knife
youtu.be/kzPQ-6V3-rs?...
Not sure how that will hold up in court my love. Watch #NightThoughts on @hulu
YouTube video by Kumail Nanjiani
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February 16, 2026 at 1:02 AM
#HATM
For an update on where this couple is, I recommend Kumail's stand-up special on Hulu Night Thoughts.
The lead-up here is that they were getting work done on their house & caught on their security camera a couple sneaking into their pool w/ a cheese board + knife
youtu.be/kzPQ-6V3-rs?...
For an update on where this couple is, I recommend Kumail's stand-up special on Hulu Night Thoughts.
The lead-up here is that they were getting work done on their house & caught on their security camera a couple sneaking into their pool w/ a cheese board + knife
youtu.be/kzPQ-6V3-rs?...
Oof
"Rather than building courses through faculty expertise or disciplinary knowledge, faculty gather complaints from alums now trying to get real jobs, feed those complaints into AI, and allow the system to revise the course accordingly."
The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™
As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...
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February 13, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Oof
Discovered a half eaten slice of pizza outside my third floor classroom window.
February 10, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Discovered a half eaten slice of pizza outside my third floor classroom window.
So, my Instagram is nothing but zoos so I can calm down by looking at cute animals before I go to bed. Did all of them do “superb owl” content yesterday? Yes, yes they did (well, most of them did)
February 9, 2026 at 2:51 PM
So, my Instagram is nothing but zoos so I can calm down by looking at cute animals before I go to bed. Did all of them do “superb owl” content yesterday? Yes, yes they did (well, most of them did)
Put the Olympics on in the background and it skiathalon came on. We weren't sure what that was so I looked it up. Read it out loud to my husband who replied: "I would just use the classic technique of go fast..." 😆
February 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Put the Olympics on in the background and it skiathalon came on. We weren't sure what that was so I looked it up. Read it out loud to my husband who replied: "I would just use the classic technique of go fast..." 😆
Ugh, I feel this so much right now
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
February 04,1954
February 04,1954
February 5, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Ugh, I feel this so much right now
So many students have the flu (with doctor’s notes)! Stay healthy out there everyone!
a cartoon of a penguin laying on a bed with the word abster below it
ALT: a cartoon of a penguin laying on a bed with the word abster below it
media.tenor.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:00 PM
So many students have the flu (with doctor’s notes)! Stay healthy out there everyone!
Reposted by Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D.
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
January 31, 2026 at 6:57 AM
You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)
Good tech.
Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)
Bad tech.
Talking about the internet and the 1990s in class tomorrow, and I'm having way too much fun watching old news clips from the time either baffled by it or trying too hard to demonstrate how cool it is but ending up just being really weird.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXv...
1997: Will INTERNET SHOPPING Ever Take Off? | The Money Programme | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Talking about the internet and the 1990s in class tomorrow, and I'm having way too much fun watching old news clips from the time either baffled by it or trying too hard to demonstrate how cool it is but ending up just being really weird.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXv...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDXv...
In our attempt to watch as many of the Oscar movies as possible before the ceremony, my husband @pcbryan.bsky.social and I watched this just a couple of days ago (before it was announced as the pick for #HATM).
It's really good!
#HATM #TrainDreams
It's really good!
#HATM #TrainDreams
February 2, 2026 at 1:02 AM
In our attempt to watch as many of the Oscar movies as possible before the ceremony, my husband @pcbryan.bsky.social and I watched this just a couple of days ago (before it was announced as the pick for #HATM).
It's really good!
#HATM #TrainDreams
It's really good!
#HATM #TrainDreams
1. Huron–Manistee in MI.
2. We went out for burgers. Glad to see a number of places closed or closing early because of the weather. Take care of your minimum-wage employees!
#HATM #TrainDreams
2. We went out for burgers. Glad to see a number of places closed or closing early because of the weather. Take care of your minimum-wage employees!
#HATM #TrainDreams
And now for tonight's #HATM questions and since it is the US Forest Service's birthday, let's have some fun:
1) What is your favorite national forest? Post pics if you have them!
2) What is on the menu at your home tonight?
1) What is your favorite national forest? Post pics if you have them!
2) What is on the menu at your home tonight?
February 2, 2026 at 1:01 AM
1. Huron–Manistee in MI.
2. We went out for burgers. Glad to see a number of places closed or closing early because of the weather. Take care of your minimum-wage employees!
#HATM #TrainDreams
2. We went out for burgers. Glad to see a number of places closed or closing early because of the weather. Take care of your minimum-wage employees!
#HATM #TrainDreams
Unpopular opinion: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You was equally uncomfortable to watch, but much better than Marty Supreme, and should have gotten more Oscar nominations this year.
February 1, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Unpopular opinion: If I Had Legs I'd Kick You was equally uncomfortable to watch, but much better than Marty Supreme, and should have gotten more Oscar nominations this year.
As a Millennial this one made me lol. See! We’re not the only generation to kill things/industries!
(Although I don’t think we ever got described as “hardy”)
(Although I don’t think we ever got described as “hardy”)
January 31, 2026 at 4:15 PM
As a Millennial this one made me lol. See! We’re not the only generation to kill things/industries!
(Although I don’t think we ever got described as “hardy”)
(Although I don’t think we ever got described as “hardy”)
After a "snow day" on Monday and an asynchronous "e-learning" day on Tuesday I'm now getting lots of emails from students telling me they can't come to class tomorrow because they have the flu.
Stay safe and healthy out there, everyone!
Stay safe and healthy out there, everyone!
Sick Duck GIF
Alt: Sick Duck GIF
media.tenor.com
January 28, 2026 at 6:24 PM
After a "snow day" on Monday and an asynchronous "e-learning" day on Tuesday I'm now getting lots of emails from students telling me they can't come to class tomorrow because they have the flu.
Stay safe and healthy out there, everyone!
Stay safe and healthy out there, everyone!
Great 🧵
I "know" without having to articulate it to myself that injecting LLMs into the experience of learning to write is bad for learning how to write. It changes writing into something else. Whether this other thing has value or not I can't say and don't think we'll know for a while. I also know that...
January 28, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Great 🧵
👇
...judging those products because they've never had the opportunity to produce those products. AI is positioned as a "superpower" when combined with human capacities but if we're not also developing those human capacities where is the superpower?
January 28, 2026 at 4:00 PM
👇
Reposted by Brittany R. Clark, Ph.D.
This is an amazing 🧵
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
January 24, 2026 at 3:38 AM
This is an amazing 🧵
Watching classic Law and Order from the beginning and a surprising number of actors from The Sopranos make guest appearances.
My husband: It's like they're assembling the mob version of the Avengers. One Italian-American at a time.
My husband: It's like they're assembling the mob version of the Avengers. One Italian-American at a time.
January 24, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Watching classic Law and Order from the beginning and a surprising number of actors from The Sopranos make guest appearances.
My husband: It's like they're assembling the mob version of the Avengers. One Italian-American at a time.
My husband: It's like they're assembling the mob version of the Avengers. One Italian-American at a time.