Erin E. Kelly
@eekelly.bsky.social
Associate professor of English and director of the Academic and Technical Writing Program at University of Victoria. Associate editor of Early Theatre. Ask me about weird, old plays
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November 15, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Too many smart people have impostor syndrome and too many dolts have columns and podcasts and it's basically this
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Too many smart people have impostor syndrome and too many dolts have columns and podcasts and it's basically this
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Before AI, we linguists used large scale corpora to study relationships between words and all sorts of other things. Some of them are at risk of going down because of reduced interest, including the most used (COCA), so I bought it. I also added five of old and middle English.
Alpha test, fiddling
Alpha test, fiddling
Explore English Language History
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October 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Before AI, we linguists used large scale corpora to study relationships between words and all sorts of other things. Some of them are at risk of going down because of reduced interest, including the most used (COCA), so I bought it. I also added five of old and middle English.
Alpha test, fiddling
Alpha test, fiddling
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Help me share to 100 (big number!) You know you want to 😀
#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
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#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
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Chef Michael Twitty on The Untold History of Southern Food | Recipes from The American South
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October 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Help me share to 100 (big number!) You know you want to 😀
#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
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#RecipesfromtheAmericanSouth
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July 25, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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🔊ON & UP
😍👇🏾'The Git Hoan Dancers (People of the Salmon) fr Metlakatla/Seattle r known for their theatrical performances and put on incredible shows during #Celebration in Juneau, AK. #Cele'
(FB Reels: #Tlingit & #Haida. June 12, 2024)
#GitHoan #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations
😍👇🏾'The Git Hoan Dancers (People of the Salmon) fr Metlakatla/Seattle r known for their theatrical performances and put on incredible shows during #Celebration in Juneau, AK. #Cele'
(FB Reels: #Tlingit & #Haida. June 12, 2024)
#GitHoan #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations
May 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
🔊ON & UP
😍👇🏾'The Git Hoan Dancers (People of the Salmon) fr Metlakatla/Seattle r known for their theatrical performances and put on incredible shows during #Celebration in Juneau, AK. #Cele'
(FB Reels: #Tlingit & #Haida. June 12, 2024)
#GitHoan #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations
😍👇🏾'The Git Hoan Dancers (People of the Salmon) fr Metlakatla/Seattle r known for their theatrical performances and put on incredible shows during #Celebration in Juneau, AK. #Cele'
(FB Reels: #Tlingit & #Haida. June 12, 2024)
#GitHoan #NativeAmericans #Indigenous #FirstNations
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“I look ridiculous.”
“I think you look adorable.”
“I won’t be made a fool, Steve.”
“Just one more picture.”
“Fine, but after this...”
“I know, I know. Nevermore.”
“I think you look adorable.”
“I won’t be made a fool, Steve.”
“Just one more picture.”
“Fine, but after this...”
“I know, I know. Nevermore.”
March 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“I look ridiculous.”
“I think you look adorable.”
“I won’t be made a fool, Steve.”
“Just one more picture.”
“Fine, but after this...”
“I know, I know. Nevermore.”
“I think you look adorable.”
“I won’t be made a fool, Steve.”
“Just one more picture.”
“Fine, but after this...”
“I know, I know. Nevermore.”
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I'm sorry, WHAT?! A new piece of the Bayeux Embroidery has been found?! OMG!
March 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm sorry, WHAT?! A new piece of the Bayeux Embroidery has been found?! OMG!
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I'm incredibly patriotic, which is why I teach all the ways America has failed to live up to its ideals and promises and dreams, in hopes of inspiring the next generation to do better, to be more, to make America a place that may one say be great.
March 4, 2025 at 2:35 AM
I'm incredibly patriotic, which is why I teach all the ways America has failed to live up to its ideals and promises and dreams, in hopes of inspiring the next generation to do better, to be more, to make America a place that may one say be great.
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Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
March 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual.
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.
February 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year.
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Casually hanging out with my absolute favorite portrait of #AnneBoleyn, hoping she’ll reveal all her secrets… #LoveMyJob
January 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Casually hanging out with my absolute favorite portrait of #AnneBoleyn, hoping she’ll reveal all her secrets… #LoveMyJob
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Cogito, ergo sum.
Cartoons by Grant Snider
Cartoons by Grant Snider
February 11, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Cogito, ergo sum.
Cartoons by Grant Snider
Cartoons by Grant Snider
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Microvolunteering opportunity!
On Douglass Day, February 14, join a transcribe-a-thon to be part of a group working together to transcribe items in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress so that they can be more searchable and accessible. douglassday.org
On Douglass Day, February 14, join a transcribe-a-thon to be part of a group working together to transcribe items in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress so that they can be more searchable and accessible. douglassday.org
Douglass Day
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January 28, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Microvolunteering opportunity!
On Douglass Day, February 14, join a transcribe-a-thon to be part of a group working together to transcribe items in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress so that they can be more searchable and accessible. douglassday.org
On Douglass Day, February 14, join a transcribe-a-thon to be part of a group working together to transcribe items in the African American Perspectives Collection at the Library of Congress so that they can be more searchable and accessible. douglassday.org
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Langston Hughes
February 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Langston Hughes
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For troublesome priests, we give thanks to the Lord.
January 22, 2025 at 5:56 PM
For troublesome priests, we give thanks to the Lord.
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The first finished copies I've seen of More Than Words arranged as artfully as I'm capable of doing. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
January 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The first finished copies I've seen of More Than Words arranged as artfully as I'm capable of doing. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...
David Lynch? Even before he was born, his way of seeing was part of America, and his sense of our world as wild at heart and weird on top is exactly right — so how can he have died?
January 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
David Lynch? Even before he was born, his way of seeing was part of America, and his sense of our world as wild at heart and weird on top is exactly right — so how can he have died?
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YES
Another example from a librarian I heard this morning: the patron who came in with a list of ILL requests, half of which were unfulfillable because the LLM they queried MADE THE BOOKS UP 📚
Another example from a librarian I heard this morning: the patron who came in with a list of ILL requests, half of which were unfulfillable because the LLM they queried MADE THE BOOKS UP 📚
Yep.
The number of research clients I see making requests asking us to find resources/duplicate search results they found conducting their own searches using Chat GPT or similar is **deeply** concerning.
The number of research clients I see making requests asking us to find resources/duplicate search results they found conducting their own searches using Chat GPT or similar is **deeply** concerning.
January 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
YES
Another example from a librarian I heard this morning: the patron who came in with a list of ILL requests, half of which were unfulfillable because the LLM they queried MADE THE BOOKS UP 📚
Another example from a librarian I heard this morning: the patron who came in with a list of ILL requests, half of which were unfulfillable because the LLM they queried MADE THE BOOKS UP 📚
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I also really want to point out: if you see this and are wondering, that Highlights? Yes! That Highlights!
Did you know that Highlights has been running a scholarship for trans women and transfemme people who want to write children's and YA? You can apply here, or share it with your friends, or donate if you're so incline!
www.highlightsfoundation.org/trans-women-...
www.highlightsfoundation.org/trans-women-...
Trans Women Write Scholarship - Highlights Foundation
www.highlightsfoundation.org
January 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I also really want to point out: if you see this and are wondering, that Highlights? Yes! That Highlights!
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Admit it, it's cute
January 15, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Admit it, it's cute
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A Mexican magician told his audience he'd disappear on the count of three.
He began counting: “Uno… Dos…”
*POOF*
He disappeared without a trace.😀
He began counting: “Uno… Dos…”
*POOF*
He disappeared without a trace.😀
January 14, 2025 at 7:02 AM
A Mexican magician told his audience he'd disappear on the count of three.
He began counting: “Uno… Dos…”
*POOF*
He disappeared without a trace.😀
He began counting: “Uno… Dos…”
*POOF*
He disappeared without a trace.😀