Rebekah Fitzsimmons
@drfitzphd.bsky.social
Associate Teaching Professor, Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. Interests include children’s lit, Digital Humanities, innovative pedagogy. Also pet pics, fiber arts, craft beer, and coffee.
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Preliminary data from @umich.edu survey on student AI use for class.
Most rarely/sometimes use AI & always follow class policies, but think others frequently use AI & only sometimes follow policies.
Perceptions of misuse ≠ reality
Misperceptions may provide implicit permission for misuse.
Most rarely/sometimes use AI & always follow class policies, but think others frequently use AI & only sometimes follow policies.
Perceptions of misuse ≠ reality
Misperceptions may provide implicit permission for misuse.
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Preliminary data from @umich.edu survey on student AI use for class.
Most rarely/sometimes use AI & always follow class policies, but think others frequently use AI & only sometimes follow policies.
Perceptions of misuse ≠ reality
Misperceptions may provide implicit permission for misuse.
Most rarely/sometimes use AI & always follow class policies, but think others frequently use AI & only sometimes follow policies.
Perceptions of misuse ≠ reality
Misperceptions may provide implicit permission for misuse.
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai
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October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
CAIL = prerequisite knowledge for a critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims. For example, the idea that human-like systems are a sensible or possible goal is the result of circular reasoning and anthropomorphism. olivia.science/ai
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Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social
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Friends! With the looming SNAP cutoff, I'm also going to do this -- send me a food bank donation receipt and I'll match up to $500.
Alright, team Bluesky: US foodbanks are about to have staggering demand when SNAP ends Nov 1st. We need to help them prepare.
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
I'll match donations: DM or reply with a receipt showing your own donation to a food bank of your choice, and I'll donate to match, up to a total of $500. 💪🥗🍲🥚🥧🥪🥣🥛
#NoHunger
October 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Friends! With the looming SNAP cutoff, I'm also going to do this -- send me a food bank donation receipt and I'll match up to $500.
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When SNAP runs out on Nov. 1st, hundreds of thousands of people in Pittsburgh and across SWPA will struggle to afford food. I compiled (with the help of community members) a non-exhaustive list of where people can find help, including sites in Pittsburgh & outer counties.
Please spread this.
Please spread this.
Here's where to get help with food in southwestern Pennsylvania
When SNAP benefits expire because of the federal government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of Western Pennsylvanians will struggle to afford food.
www.cbsnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
When SNAP runs out on Nov. 1st, hundreds of thousands of people in Pittsburgh and across SWPA will struggle to afford food. I compiled (with the help of community members) a non-exhaustive list of where people can find help, including sites in Pittsburgh & outer counties.
Please spread this.
Please spread this.
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I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
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Have you backed up your files lately? Consider this your reminder.
a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to back up your files written on it
Alt: a woman stands in front of a white board with the words you need to back up your files written on it
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October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Have you backed up your files lately? Consider this your reminder.
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A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
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COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy conferred benefits for mother and baby without increased risk, according to an umbrella review of meta-analyses comprising more than 1.2 million women.
www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...
www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...
Mom's COVID Shot Aided Baby, Too, Large Review Confirmed
Vaccination during pregnancy was safe for both mom and baby
www.medpagetoday.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy conferred benefits for mother and baby without increased risk, according to an umbrella review of meta-analyses comprising more than 1.2 million women.
www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...
www.medpagetoday.com/meetingcover...
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“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
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“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”
AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds
The AI industry's claims about AI coding assistants boosting productivity significantly appear to be massively overblown, per a new report.
futurism.com
September 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”
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Should we change the way we assign writing this fall to deter unacknowledged use of AI? A new blog post from the MLA/CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI, following up on questions from our webinar. aiandwriting.hcommons.org/2023/09/22/a... @writesantonio.bsky.social @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
Academic Integrity and Assignment Design – MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on Writing and AI
aiandwriting.hcommons.org
September 22, 2023 at 4:31 PM
Should we change the way we assign writing this fall to deter unacknowledged use of AI? A new blog post from the MLA/CCCC Task Force on Writing and AI, following up on questions from our webinar. aiandwriting.hcommons.org/2023/09/22/a... @writesantonio.bsky.social @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
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AI Search Has A Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... via @columjournreview.bsky.social
AI Search Has A Citation Problem
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.
www.cjr.org
March 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM
AI Search Has A Citation Problem www.cjr.org/tow_center/w... via @columjournreview.bsky.social
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I love this
September 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I love this
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For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )
September 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )
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NVIDIA is making a $300B "investment" in OpenAI that essentially pays OpenAi to buy its chips. OpenAI says it will now embark upon a buildout of data center clusters requiring 10GW of power, adding to the many GWs of data center demand already in the pipeline. What could possibly go wrong.
Nvidia to Invest Up to $100 Billion in OpenAI
The companies say the partnership will enable OpenAI to build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of Nvidia systems for its artificial intelligence data centers to train and run its next generation of mo...
www.wsj.com
September 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
NVIDIA is making a $300B "investment" in OpenAI that essentially pays OpenAi to buy its chips. OpenAI says it will now embark upon a buildout of data center clusters requiring 10GW of power, adding to the many GWs of data center demand already in the pipeline. What could possibly go wrong.
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Heinz College students teamed up with the National League of Cities in Prof. Chris Goranson’s Policy Innovation Lab to launch a campaign and platform helping low-income taxpayers claim the EITC.
www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2025/A...
www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2025/A...
Students Create Marketing Campaign, Platform to Help Low-Income Taxpayers
Each year, low-income earners can reduce the taxes they owe by hundreds or thousands of dollars through an IRS tax credit. But a lack of information about the benefit has caused many eligible taxpayers not to claim it, leaving a collective $7 billion on the table annually.
www.heinz.cmu.edu
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Heinz College students teamed up with the National League of Cities in Prof. Chris Goranson’s Policy Innovation Lab to launch a campaign and platform helping low-income taxpayers claim the EITC.
www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2025/A...
www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2025/A...
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What makes health care collaborations succeed over time? A new study coauthored by Heinz College’s Anna T. Mayo finds health care collaborations thrive when the same reps stay involved, building trust, sharing knowledge, and strengthening outcomes.
www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2025/S...
www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2025/S...
Study: In Interorganizational Health Care Collaborations, Stability of Representation Is Key
Interorganizational collaborations are increasingly used to tackle some of society’s most complex challenges. In health care, this takes many forms, such as strategic alliances, interorganizational networks, joint ventures, and public-private partnerships.
www.heinz.cmu.edu
September 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
What makes health care collaborations succeed over time? A new study coauthored by Heinz College’s Anna T. Mayo finds health care collaborations thrive when the same reps stay involved, building trust, sharing knowledge, and strengthening outcomes.
www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2025/S...
www.heinz.cmu.edu/media/2025/S...
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Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.
This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122
This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122
Prestige over merit: An adapted audit of LLM bias in peer review
Large language models (LLMs) are playing an increasingly integral, though largely informal, role in scholarly peer review. Yet it remains unclear whether LLMs reproduce the biases observed in human de...
arxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases.
This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122
This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions.
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
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Beyond Citation: Describing AI Use in Your Work from the MLA Style Center @mlanews.bsky.social sends the message that "Indicating where and how AI has touched your research and writing is just as much a part of academic integrity as citing your research sources is."
style.mla.org/describing-a...
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Beyond Citation: Describing AI Use in Your Work | MLA Style Center
Learn about acknowledging substantive use of AI in your work
style.mla.org
September 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Beyond Citation: Describing AI Use in Your Work from the MLA Style Center @mlanews.bsky.social sends the message that "Indicating where and how AI has touched your research and writing is just as much a part of academic integrity as citing your research sources is."
style.mla.org/describing-a...
style.mla.org/describing-a...
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you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩
September 16, 2025 at 3:31 PM
you don’t understand bro, if we didn’t lie, no one would buy our product 😩
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My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...
August 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...