Jason Rhody
@jasonrhody.bsky.social
Senior Director of Engagement Strategy (@modernlanguage.bsky.social). #HuMetricsHSS. Former: @SSRC_mtp, @NEH_ODH, @UMD_MITH, PhD English (UMD), #altac. Opinions mine.
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Jason Rhody
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MLA Pathways Step Grants
Step grants of up to $10,000 to support faculty members or teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate students.
www.mla.org
Want to strengthen your humanities enrollments & student outcomes? W/ support from @mellon.org, MLA Pathways Step Grants provide up to $10,000 to improve recruitment, retention, and/or career readiness in undergraduate humanities programs. Please share & apply by 29 Oct!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
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Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool!
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025
Our project, Linked Open Profiles, is a WordPress plugin designed to display ORCID profile data directly on websites. With ORCID Global Participation Fund (GPF) support, we moved the tool from a proto...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Our team developed an open-source WordPress plugin that lets you pull in items from your ORCID profile and display them on your site. Very cool!
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
Schopieray, S., & Eben, G. (2025). Linked Open Profiles - ORCID Global Participation Fund Final Report 2025 (p. 3). MSU Commons. doi.org/10.17613/ypc...
If you're trying to figure out how to manage massive changes in higher education, there is still time to register for this 5-session virtual workshop that helps you think about responses to threats, questions about mergers, understanding budgetary woes, & other essential topics. Starts tomorrow!
Register now for our workshop series, How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan, and learn how to plan strategically by identifying shared values, responding to challenges with workable solutions, and operating from a position of strength. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan: An MLA...
Even in the normal course of business, it can be hard to find time for strategic planning. In times of uncertainty, with added pressures, it can be even harder. This virtual workshop series is intended...
www.mla.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
If you're trying to figure out how to manage massive changes in higher education, there is still time to register for this 5-session virtual workshop that helps you think about responses to threats, questions about mergers, understanding budgetary woes, & other essential topics. Starts tomorrow!
Free webinar tomorrow on AI!
Reminder: we’re hosting a free webinar tomorrow! Register for AI in the French Higher Ed Classroom to discover strategies for redesigning writing classes to enhance critical thinking, using AI to design pedagogical materials, building chatbots, and more. www.mla.org/Events/Webin...
MLA Professional Development Webinars
The MLA offers professional development programming throughout the year to support members and those working in languages, literatures, and the humanities. Additional free virtual programming can be...
www.mla.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Free webinar tomorrow on AI!
Are you a humanities graduate student or are you a faculty member with grad students on the market? This is a great opportunity to get detailed advice about why and how to pursue a career at a community college. First session is tomorrow, Oct 7!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
The Brass Tacks of Community College Careers: An MLA...
With over a thousand two-year colleges across the nation, candidates who broaden their job search to community colleges dramatically expand their career options and have opportunities to serve the lar...
www.mla.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Are you a humanities graduate student or are you a faculty member with grad students on the market? This is a great opportunity to get detailed advice about why and how to pursue a career at a community college. First session is tomorrow, Oct 7!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
Funding opportunity for the humanities. Deadline October 29. Please share!
Deadline for @modernlanguage.bsky.social Pathways Step Grants is Oct 29! Looking to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate humanities students? Reach out with questions and please share!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
MLA Pathways Step Grants
Step grants of up to $10,000 to support faculty members or teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate students.
www.mla.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Funding opportunity for the humanities. Deadline October 29. Please share!
Deadline for @modernlanguage.bsky.social Pathways Step Grants is Oct 29! Looking to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate humanities students? Reach out with questions and please share!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
MLA Pathways Step Grants
Step grants of up to $10,000 to support faculty members or teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate students.
www.mla.org
September 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Deadline for @modernlanguage.bsky.social Pathways Step Grants is Oct 29! Looking to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate humanities students? Reach out with questions and please share!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
Join us at 2pm Eastern today (Monday, September 29) for "Supporting Faculty Research in Difficult Times," a free webinar from @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
September 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Join us at 2pm Eastern today (Monday, September 29) for "Supporting Faculty Research in Difficult Times," a free webinar from @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
Sharing again for the Monday crowd.
There's a lot happening in higher ed. If you're looking for support & community as you navigate this evolving landscape, consider the @modernlanguage.bsky.social 5-session virtual workshop series "How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan."
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan: An MLA...
Even in the normal course of business, it can be hard to find time for strategic planning. In times of uncertainty, with added pressures, it can be even harder. This virtual workshop series is intende...
www.mla.org
September 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Sharing again for the Monday crowd.
There's a lot happening in higher ed. If you're looking for support & community as you navigate this evolving landscape, consider the @modernlanguage.bsky.social 5-session virtual workshop series "How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan."
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan: An MLA...
Even in the normal course of business, it can be hard to find time for strategic planning. In times of uncertainty, with added pressures, it can be even harder. This virtual workshop series is intende...
www.mla.org
September 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
There's a lot happening in higher ed. If you're looking for support & community as you navigate this evolving landscape, consider the @modernlanguage.bsky.social 5-session virtual workshop series "How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan."
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
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"Many history curricula already discuss the past in a way that doesn’t allow nuance, & National History Day gave me a path to explore the people, events and injustices that are traditionally ignored." - thank you for these words, @mariumzahra.bsky.social
#NEH #Texas #NationalHistoryDay #humanities
#NEH #Texas #NationalHistoryDay #humanities
STUDENT VOICE: What National Endowment for the Humanities cuts mean for high schoolers like me
In April, the Trump administration announced drastic funding cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Those cuts are harming education groups that rely on NEH grants — and students like me.…
In April, the Trump administration announced drastic funding cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Those cuts are harming education groups that rely on NEH grants — and students like me.…
STUDENT VOICE: What National Endowment for the Humanities cuts mean for high schoolers like me
In April, the Trump administration announced drastic funding cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities. Those cuts are harming education groups that rely on NEH grants — and students like me. Among the organizations that lost funding was National History Day, a nonprofit that runs a half-century-old competition engaging some 500,000 students annually in original historical research. It also provides teachers with resources and training. For many schools, the annual event is cemented into the social studies curriculum. The cuts sliced $825,000 from National History Day’s budget over several years, the group said.
hechingerreport.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
"Many history curricula already discuss the past in a way that doesn’t allow nuance, & National History Day gave me a path to explore the people, events and injustices that are traditionally ignored." - thank you for these words, @mariumzahra.bsky.social
#NEH #Texas #NationalHistoryDay #humanities
#NEH #Texas #NationalHistoryDay #humanities
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🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms
In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...
www.science.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.
September 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.
Don't miss out on submitting a Just in Time session for the MLA convention in Toronto. Deadline is September 18!
What are you doing to fight back in these tough times? Share your strategies at the MLA convention in Toronto. Propose a Just-in-Time session and tell us what's working. We are building a slate of sessions on advocacy on campus and off. Join us. www.mla.org/Events/2026-...
Proposing a Just-in-Time Session
What Is a Just-in-Time Session?Most sessions at the MLA convention have to be completed and submitted by 1 April. This works well for many topics, but sometimes an organizer wishes to create a session...
www.mla.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Don't miss out on submitting a Just in Time session for the MLA convention in Toronto. Deadline is September 18!
Funding opportunity -- if you are working on improving humanities undergraduate recruitment, retention, and/or career readiness initiatives, apply for support by 29 October! Follow the link to sign up for an information session on 8 September from 2:00–2:45 p.m. ET. Please share!
We’re now accepting applications for our Pathways step grants! These grants are intended to support individual faculty members or small teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergrads. Apply by 29 October.
MLA Pathways Step Grants
Step grants of up to $10,000 to support faculty members or teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate students.
www.mla.org
September 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Funding opportunity -- if you are working on improving humanities undergraduate recruitment, retention, and/or career readiness initiatives, apply for support by 29 October! Follow the link to sign up for an information session on 8 September from 2:00–2:45 p.m. ET. Please share!
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Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
August 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be
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Happy to be a co-author of the Doing AI Differently white paper at the The Alan Turing Institute. This is a call to action for meaningful change in AI, w. collective insights from arts & humanities. And includes a mention of neuro-symbolic AI :-).
www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica...
www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica...
August 11, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Happy to be a co-author of the Doing AI Differently white paper at the The Alan Turing Institute. This is a call to action for meaningful change in AI, w. collective insights from arts & humanities. And includes a mention of neuro-symbolic AI :-).
www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica...
www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica...
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Boosting..
🚨JOB ALERT🚨
We! Are! Hiring!
The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26
More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572
#blackademia #academia #PhDSky
We! Are! Hiring!
The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26
More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572
#blackademia #academia #PhDSky
Apply - Interfolio
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apply.interfolio.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Boosting..
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Martin O’Malley, former Social Security Administrator, says the DOGE bro upload of SSA to cloud is the biggest data theft in history and could maybe lead to need to mass issue new SSA#s. 🤯 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
Fmr. Social Security boss: Trump & DOGE created ‘greatest theft of personal data in U.S. history’
Fmr. Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss DOGE employees unprecedented “pirating away” of Americans’ Social Security data and how it could lead to the “largest class act...
www.msnbc.com
August 29, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Martin O’Malley, former Social Security Administrator, says the DOGE bro upload of SSA to cloud is the biggest data theft in history and could maybe lead to need to mass issue new SSA#s. 🤯 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
We are rapidly experiencing a world governed by uncritical use of AI—literally influencing (certainly not “informing”) the highest levels of government policy, health, etc— and we can already see how harmful (& stupid) the outcomes are. The incentive rigging is the tell. Maybe pay % of lives saved.
However evil you think this is, it’s worse:
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
“The A.I. companies selected to oversee the program would have a strong financial incentive to deny claims. Medicare plans to pay them a share of the savings generated from rejections.”
Medicare Will Require Prior Approval for Certain Procedures
www.nytimes.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We are rapidly experiencing a world governed by uncritical use of AI—literally influencing (certainly not “informing”) the highest levels of government policy, health, etc— and we can already see how harmful (& stupid) the outcomes are. The incentive rigging is the tell. Maybe pay % of lives saved.
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I still maintain my friendly Bluesky guide (tinyurl.com/DHbluesky) if you want to learn more or help incoming folks be aware of helpful settings like this. 3-step or incredibly detailed versions! Suggested starter packs to follow. Aimed at academics, GLAM, DH folks but broadly useful.
August 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I still maintain my friendly Bluesky guide (tinyurl.com/DHbluesky) if you want to learn more or help incoming folks be aware of helpful settings like this. 3-step or incredibly detailed versions! Suggested starter packs to follow. Aimed at academics, GLAM, DH folks but broadly useful.
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My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate.
Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
August 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate.
Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
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Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
August 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people
Facts often are inconvenient to the narrative!
I've seen several articles this week ab "too many people going to college" and pointing out an 8% unemployment rate of recent college graduates without noting the nearly 20% unemployment rate for recent hs grads or noting average starting wage for hs grads is $42-46K, for college grads $60K. Hmmm.
August 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Facts often are inconvenient to the narrative!
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Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students
Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.
www.forbes.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
Meta products found to be harmful to users/society. This is my surprised face.
"The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide — and then kept bringing it back up in later conversations."
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Instagram’s chatbot helped teen accounts plan suicide — and parents can’t disable it
An investigation into the Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook found that it helped teen accounts plan suicide and self harm, promoted eating disorders and drug use, and regularly claimed...
www.washingtonpost.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Meta products found to be harmful to users/society. This is my surprised face.