Janet Frick
@jfrickuga.bsky.social
UGA Psychology prof, PI of UGA Infant Lab. Higher Ed, developmental science, prenatal dev, Georgia life. Missouri native and Jayhawk at heart. Lover of podcasts, piano, and professors who use their tenure (while it still exists).
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I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice
New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok!
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...
The NYT Recruiting Brochure for New College
A failing Ron DeSantis higher ed experiment gets a boost
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice
One of several reasons that I require students to turn in the actual PDF of the study they are reading /citing with most of my upper level writing assignments. Relatedly, so discouraged today to learn that folks are using AI to grade student papers. Seems unethical to feed LLMs with student work!
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 PM
One of several reasons that I require students to turn in the actual PDF of the study they are reading /citing with most of my upper level writing assignments. Relatedly, so discouraged today to learn that folks are using AI to grade student papers. Seems unethical to feed LLMs with student work!
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Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
I have submitted ALLLLLL the letters of recommendation due on Dec 1 with a full 42 minutes to spare. Please clap. (This is after the batch due mid-October, Nov 1, and mid-November). A few weeks of rec letter peace now arrive, just in time for grading hell! :)
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I have submitted ALLLLLL the letters of recommendation due on Dec 1 with a full 42 minutes to spare. Please clap. (This is after the batch due mid-October, Nov 1, and mid-November). A few weeks of rec letter peace now arrive, just in time for grading hell! :)
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Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made $95 million last year. His workers are striking for the bare minimum. Glad to be on the right side of the picket line with them.
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Blue Sky censored one of the most important writers of our times, and they owe her an apology. In the meantime …
I’m getting back to work. You can stay in touch with me at sarahkendzior.substack.com: my newsletter is free.
Finally, please use my suspension to draw attention to other unjustly suspended people including Palestinians attempting to raise awareness of genocide, and the user Link. Thank you.
Finally, please use my suspension to draw attention to other unjustly suspended people including Palestinians attempting to raise awareness of genocide, and the user Link. Thank you.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Blue Sky censored one of the most important writers of our times, and they owe her an apology. In the meantime …
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Glad to see @sarahkendzior.bsky.social back. But READ her Thread.
November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Glad to see @sarahkendzior.bsky.social back. But READ her Thread.
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"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"[U]niversities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically."
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
I finally had my wordle day!
Wordle 1,603 1/6
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November 9, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I finally had my wordle day!
Wordle 1,603 1/6
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Insane.
November 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Insane.
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I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
November 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.
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This is so embarrassing, man. The six most influential Republicans in the country with the unreviewable power to make the law whatever they want, patting each other on the back for their courage. Butter-soft.
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is so embarrassing, man. The six most influential Republicans in the country with the unreviewable power to make the law whatever they want, patting each other on the back for their courage. Butter-soft.
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In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
August 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.
Excellent conversation
I had the pleasure of joining @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on @slate.com’s Amicus Podcast to discuss why I believe it’s up to us-the public-to save democracy. We are not quitters! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Demolition Man
Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 10/25/2025 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Excellent conversation
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An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch
No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...
Great thread (as well as overall great account to follow). 🐸 🚫 👑
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Great thread (as well as overall great account to follow). 🐸 🚫 👑
Seems that an independent student newspaper serves an important function in higher education.
By reporting on the Indiana University faculty's overwhelming no-confidence vote in the (still serving) university president. 2/
www.idsnews.com/article/2024...
www.idsnews.com/article/2024...
‘A vote is not a temper tantrum’: No confidence movement comes from years of tension
Faculty will decide whether to vote no confidence in Whitten and other administrators Tuesday.
www.idsnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Seems that an independent student newspaper serves an important function in higher education.
Whoops.
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 15, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Whoops.
Higher ed admins: don’t turn into Umbridge. History will remember.
October 11, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Higher ed admins: don’t turn into Umbridge. History will remember.
We have several fantastic new faculty in our Psychology department at UGA! Come join a thriving, supportive department here in Athens GA!
📣 I am excited to be recruiting PhD students to my lab in Psychology and Neuroscience at UGA! If you are applying for Fall 2026 and passionate about environmental effects on brain function, plasticity, and behavior development, consider joining me in Athens!
psychology.uga.edu/how-apply-ou...
psychology.uga.edu/how-apply-ou...
How to Apply to Our Graduate Programs
The department offers two graduate degrees: the Ph.D.
psychology.uga.edu
October 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
We have several fantastic new faculty in our Psychology department at UGA! Come join a thriving, supportive department here in Athens GA!
Everyone who works at, attends, or cares about American universities needs to read.
I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Everyone who works at, attends, or cares about American universities needs to read.
This should be of great concern to all social science professors as well
Welp: Texas A&M President Mark Welch just stepped down after pressure from Republicans over a video of a professor who taught about transgender people in a children's literature class
September 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
This should be of great concern to all social science professors as well
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Maria Ressa won a Nobel prize in 2021 for her efforts to support free expression against the authoritarian regime of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.
This just in: Jon Stewart normally only hosts “The Daily Show” on Monday nights nowadays, but tonight he is returning to his longtime desk for one Thursday edition, Comedy Central says. His guest: Maria Ressa
September 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Maria Ressa won a Nobel prize in 2021 for her efforts to support free expression against the authoritarian regime of Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines.