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Dave Hershinow
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Director of The Writing Center at The Graduate Center, CUNY. A lover of good books and bad tv. Author of Shakespeare and the Truth-Teller: Confronting the Cynic Ideal (Edinburgh UP, 2019). They/he.

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Great news! Our TV died just in time for Black Friday!!!
November 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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#WritingTip: In the thick of research, it's easy to get overwhelmed @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social but one strategy that can help you refocus is to get back to your research questions. What are you trying to figure out and how is your research getting you closer to an answer?
November 25, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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humanitiescuny.bsky.social
Please join us also for @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Shorts: An Evening of Films and Discussion! A program showcasing the talent of GC film artists, whose creative work reflects their groundbreaking research and distinctive viewpoints.

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Graduate Center Shorts: An Evening of Films and Discussion - Center for the Humanities
Still from Las Olas, a short film by Fernando Vieira.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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This is a statement I received from a Epstein survivor who is a Jane Doe.

Share it widely.
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Good luck to everyone @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social running in the NYC Marathon this weekend! #GCRuns #NYCRuns
Photo of the Brooklyn Bridge, looking up from street-level.
November 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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my fae nephews made a video together (one is the actor, the other did the filming and editing) and AFTER THE FACT I was informed they only made it under the EXPRESS UNDERSTANDING I would post it in its entirety

I was not informed ahead of time, but who am I to stifle ART
October 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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There are important conversations happening about the role of AI in (and beyond) higher ed, a topic sure to come up in job interviews. Hear from the experts next week at "AI and the Future of Work" @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social - register now for this hybrid event: www.gc.cuny.edu/events/ai-an...
AI and the Future of Work
In-person reservations for this event are currently full, but please join the livestream.Proshansky Auditorium
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October 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Missed our workshop on the op-ed @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ? The Op-Ed Project is a wonderful resources that can help you learn about the genre, identify a target publication, and craft a provocative lede. Check out their website: buff.ly/qzzJNLM #PublicWriting #WritingCommunity
Op-Ed Writing: The Basics — The OpEd Project
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June 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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I think a fair bit about the AI boom and it’s globe-cracking costs. If you do, too, then this piece of investigative journalism is worth a read: www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-cent...
AI's promise is still taking shape. The costs of its data centers are already here.
Data center costs in electricity and water have been hard to pin down. We dug up documents to figure out the impact of AI infrastructure.
www.businessinsider.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Missed our reverse outlining workshop @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ? That's ok! Read our definition in the #RevisionStrategies Glossary and then put it into practice with exercises like "Is Your First Draft Disorganized? Reverse Outlining as a Method to Discover Structure." buff.ly/YwUE7pT
Reverse outlining is an adaptable strategy that makes the structure of a text more visible. Whereas writers create outlines in the pre-drafting stage to move from ideas to a draft, they create reverse outlines at varying points in the revision stage to help them take a step back from a completed draft and make key decisions about structure and content. There are different ways to approach reverse outlining, but the basic exercise involves reading through a completed draft, summarizing each paragraph in one or two sentences, and putting those sentences in a bulleted outline to create a skeletal version of the text. This helps writers assess how readers might experience their current structure, as well as whether each paragraph is making the claim that they think it is and includes sufficient evidence. Sometimes, writers use reverse outlining on a smaller scale to understand the structure of a particular section of their writing (e.g. a chapter in a book or a section in an article), or even to think through how they are structuring sentences within a single paragraph. If a writer has concerns about a specific dimension of their project, they can create a reverse outline with that in mind. For instance, if a writer wants to understand what role their sources are playing in the current draft, they might create sub-bullets for each paragraph that capture all their evidence and color-code it so that they can see when and how they are using each source. Alternatively, if a writer wants to assess whether they are effectively connecting their sub-claims to their central claim, they might use sub-bullets to capture all the sentences where they forge those kinds of connections so that they can spot places where they might need to do more of that work. Reverse outlining can also be used as a reading strategy; creating a reverse outline of someone else’s text can help the reader more readily understand the parts of the argument and how they work together to support the claim.
May 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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the law clinic repping this student, CLEAR, is based out of CUNY.....once again the public city university absolutely flounces the ivy league when it comes to having a backbone and standing on actual principles
Columbia Student Hunted by ICE Sues to Prevent Deportation
Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who has lived in the U.S. since she was 7, participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations. Immigration agents visited residences looking for her.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
dhersh.bsky.social
So I guess we’re starting the TTR party. Who’s with me?
rgrusin.bsky.social Richard Grusin @rgrusin.bsky.social · Mar 19
Yes. I’d like to see a Tax the Rich party spun off from the Dems and open to anyone who wants to tax the rich.
March 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Genuinely think “Tax the Rich” would have broad appeal and would mobilize public opinion around major progressive policy goals.
March 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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I’ve gotta say, any Democratic politician who votes for the continuing resolution makes clear that they don’t represent the people who voted them into office. If Schumer is really whipping in favor of the CR, then we need to clean house in a big way. Primary everyone.
March 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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I’d like to see more of these.
adrianaguatame.bsky.social Adriana Guatame-García @adrianaguatame.bsky.social · Mar 6
A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
March 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
dhersh.bsky.social
I really want one of my kids to have a birthday part with the theme “70s Disco” but where all parents and children have to take the assignment VERY seriously. So far no takers.
March 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.
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February 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Every single stupid conversation I’ve had with a scientist about anticipatory obedience and historical comparisons over the last week has had me thinking about how scientists’ political incompetence is one of the major arguments for a liberal arts education

Like you’re literally a tool without it
themagicfolf.bsky.social ✨️The🌟Magic🌟Folf✨️ @themagicfolf.bsky.social · Feb 9
A bunch of needs in labcoats:

"If we comply with the fascists demands they'll surely let us keep up our research"

Those same scientists months or years before:

"Eh, I'll skip history class. I wanna be a scientists. Not a historian lol"
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Feb 9
Besides being cruel, anticipatory obedience doesn’t work www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
February 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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I direct a graduate writing center, and I’ve had multiple students come to me this year in serious distress because a professor “found themselves wondering” if they’d used AI in something they wrote.
January 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Spring appointment schedules are up @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ! Meet with us at any stage of the writing process on any project. From abstracts and cover letters to essays and dissertations, we're here to support you. Learn more and access our scheduler here: https://buff.ly/4gRzxQ5 #GCWrites
Writing Consultations
UPDATES We have switched to a new scheduler, WCONLINE! If this is your first time using WCONLINE, please read the registration instructions here. Overview Our graduate writing consultants meet with…
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January 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Cheers to the last weekend of the year! For those of you looking to get cozy, here are some ways to embrace hygge season:
It's hygge season: How to embrace the Danish lifestyle of rest and coziness
The weather is cooling down and it's time to take a load off and snuggle under the blankets. NPR's Life Kit podcast shares 11 ways to embrace leisure and relaxation this fall season.
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December 28, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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I wrote a ton this year that you won’t be able to read for a bit, but my edition of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility came out! I edited this with lower-division and high school courses in mind. Reach out if you want to chat about it or bring me to class.

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Sense and Sensibility (The Norton Library)
Part of the Norton Library series, Sense and Sensibility (The Norton Library), Jane Austen, Stephanie Insley Hershinow, 9780393893878
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December 18, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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How do you turn an essay into an article @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social ? We're glad you asked! Remember that your goal is to make a new intervention so prioritize argument, clearly position yourself in relation to other thinkers, and use signal language to clarify your structure. #AcademicLife
December 17, 2024 at 6:24 PM
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Today is our last workshop of the fall semester @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social but stay tuned for announcements about our winter and spring programming! #WritingCommunity #GCWrites
December 16, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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If you're working on final papers and feeling overwhelmed @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social we have strategies that can help. One of the most intimidating aspects of starting a project can be staring at a blank page. Here are some tips for overcoming that initial hurdle: https://buff.ly/4icoG4K
December 10, 2024 at 2:09 PM