Anne Zell
@annezell.bsky.social
mom of 4, social psychologist, not an optimist but keeping on anyway, grouchy feminist. love reading fantasy, playing co-op board games, and sitting out by a fire on a crisp night. also, my cats. views my own. she/her
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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lol. For racist white guys who say they love Hitler, “due process” and “fairness.”
For Latino fishermen accused of drug smuggling, summary execution.
Also, it’s amusing to demand due process here. You’re experiencing social sanction, fellas. No one is sending you to prison.
For Latino fishermen accused of drug smuggling, summary execution.
Also, it’s amusing to demand due process here. You’re experiencing social sanction, fellas. No one is sending you to prison.
October 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
lol. For racist white guys who say they love Hitler, “due process” and “fairness.”
For Latino fishermen accused of drug smuggling, summary execution.
Also, it’s amusing to demand due process here. You’re experiencing social sanction, fellas. No one is sending you to prison.
For Latino fishermen accused of drug smuggling, summary execution.
Also, it’s amusing to demand due process here. You’re experiencing social sanction, fellas. No one is sending you to prison.
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These are just the cases ProPublica could find.
Also: “A spokesperson for Kavanaugh did not return an emailed request for comment.”
Also: “A spokesperson for Kavanaugh did not return an emailed request for comment.”
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 2:03 AM
These are just the cases ProPublica could find.
Also: “A spokesperson for Kavanaugh did not return an emailed request for comment.”
Also: “A spokesperson for Kavanaugh did not return an emailed request for comment.”
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*Frantically putting the hyphen back in*
My undergrads think the Diener Mid-Career Award is hilarious because to them it sounds like it’s for having a “mid” career 🫠
October 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
*Frantically putting the hyphen back in*
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I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...
On Being a GenAI Killjoy
Maggie Fernandes, University of Arkansas Photo by Maksim Romashkin on Pexels.com At a recent teaching talk about GenAI refusal, an audience member asked Megan, Jen, and me this question: how d…
refusinggenai.wordpress.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI.
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...
refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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I'm stress-maxxing. I'm losing sleep pilled. I'm in my fuck fuck fuck era
August 3, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'm stress-maxxing. I'm losing sleep pilled. I'm in my fuck fuck fuck era
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Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...
🧵 addressing the argument: "AI won’t replace teachers, but it will save them time and make them more effective.”
Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.
Adding edtech doesn't necessarily save teachers time. A recent study found that LMSs sold to schools over the past decade+ as time-savers aren’t delivering on making teaching easier.
Technology is supposed to decrease teacher burnout – but we found it can sometimes make it worse
Efforts to simplify teachers’ jobs through technology can backfire without a strong focus on teacher well-being.
theconversation.com
June 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...
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Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
June 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss):
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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"It was the average of times"
This article is going to turn me into the Joker. Literary style is not a puzzle you solve to get a little information treat 😩😩😩
June 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"It was the average of times"
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"To describe references to nonexistent scientific research, in an official federal document related to public health policy, as 'some formatting issues' is like saying the Titanic confronted 'some evening issues.'”
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
As more fake citations emerge in the ‘MAHA’ report, White House struggles with a defense
To describe references to nonexistent scientific research as “some formatting issues” is like saying the Titanic confronted “some evening issues.”
www.msnbc.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"To describe references to nonexistent scientific research, in an official federal document related to public health policy, as 'some formatting issues' is like saying the Titanic confronted 'some evening issues.'”
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
May 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
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ChatGPT will give you accurate information just as cheerfully as the most toxic bullshit - and without any of your own understanding to fall back on, you have no choice but to take everything it says at face value.
Study after study shows that high levels of knowledge are needed to error check AIs.
Study after study shows that high levels of knowledge are needed to error check AIs.
April 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
ChatGPT will give you accurate information just as cheerfully as the most toxic bullshit - and without any of your own understanding to fall back on, you have no choice but to take everything it says at face value.
Study after study shows that high levels of knowledge are needed to error check AIs.
Study after study shows that high levels of knowledge are needed to error check AIs.
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if you are a woman of color with imposter syndrome, I want you to remember nothing you do today will be worse than this
The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES.
Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):
Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):
March 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM
if you are a woman of color with imposter syndrome, I want you to remember nothing you do today will be worse than this
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks.
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
Remembering Psychology Professor Sam Sommers
Sam Sommers, longtime professor at Tufts, studied the psychological causes and consequences of racism
now.tufts.edu
March 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Social psychology lost a giant, and I lost a dear friend and collaborator. Still processing the loss of Sam Sommers, and probably will be for some time. Cherish the time you have with your people, folks.
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
now.tufts.edu/2025/03/20/r...
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👀ICYMI: "academics have to claim the autonomy to define the tasks involved in scholarship"
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Research
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Research
Generative AI is a hinge point for higher education
Decisions taken now around how generative AI is used by academics and universities will shape the future of research. Mark Carrigan argues whilst optimistic scenarios are possible, generative AI st…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
👀ICYMI: "academics have to claim the autonomy to define the tasks involved in scholarship"
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Research
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Research
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Few things better summarize the fact that "tough on crime" is about social control, not actually fighting serious crime, than the contrast between these two stories, both of which came out today.
February 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Few things better summarize the fact that "tough on crime" is about social control, not actually fighting serious crime, than the contrast between these two stories, both of which came out today.
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“President Trump is breaking the law. Here are some examples.”
See? It’s not hard.
See? It’s not hard.
President Trump has opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how their actions could be consistent with the rule of law. Here are some examples of the administration’s defiance of statutes. nyti.ms/4aKnKRP
February 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“President Trump is breaking the law. Here are some examples.”
See? It’s not hard.
See? It’s not hard.
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OK, this is good
February 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
OK, this is good
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#AcademicSky An important statement from the American Association of University Professors @aaup.bsky.social on "Against Anticipatory Obedience." Please read. www.aaup.org/report/again...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
www.aaup.org
February 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
#AcademicSky An important statement from the American Association of University Professors @aaup.bsky.social on "Against Anticipatory Obedience." Please read. www.aaup.org/report/again...
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Cartoon about the male friendship recession and ‘Mankeeping’ 🧵
January 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Cartoon about the male friendship recession and ‘Mankeeping’ 🧵
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Me waking up the teenagers for school...
a close up of a pile of brown mud on a black background
ALT: a close up of a pile of brown mud on a black background
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January 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Me waking up the teenagers for school...
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To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.
Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
January 24, 2025 at 12:46 PM
To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.