Jennifer Juszkiewicz, Ph.D.
@jenniferiwj.bsky.social
WPA/WCD at Saint Mary’s College, IN. Periodically ineloquent short bio writer. Found some driftwood that looked like a whale and wanted to share.
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“Any type of attempt on my end to censor or manipulate any content from a student media outlet is literally against the law. This is First Amendment stuff.” www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS
Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.
www.idsnews.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
“Any type of attempt on my end to censor or manipulate any content from a student media outlet is literally against the law. This is First Amendment stuff.” www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
Indiana NPR lay offs - this is my primary way of getting state news.
July 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Indiana NPR lay offs - this is my primary way of getting state news.
Indiana State Library - a nonpartisan institution providing literacy and archival services to a state where (esp. in our rural areas) these are desperately needed - has been gutted. Knowledge is being lost. History is being closed. www.reddit.com/r/Indiana/s/...
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June 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Indiana State Library - a nonpartisan institution providing literacy and archival services to a state where (esp. in our rural areas) these are desperately needed - has been gutted. Knowledge is being lost. History is being closed. www.reddit.com/r/Indiana/s/...
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NEW: The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned en masse to protest what it called unprecedented interference by the Trump administration
Fulbright Board Quits, Saying Trump Aides Blocked Scholarships
The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board resigned en masse to protest what it called unprecedented interference after the Trump administration denied a significant number of US academics from receiving the prestigious awards.
bloom.bg
June 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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This is really niche…perfect for #AcademicSky … and I know academia is facing myriad full-on attacks … but I don’t think anyone has really grappled with how such drastic cuts to grant programs will impact faculty evaluations or promotions.
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
May 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is really niche…perfect for #AcademicSky … and I know academia is facing myriad full-on attacks … but I don’t think anyone has really grappled with how such drastic cuts to grant programs will impact faculty evaluations or promotions.
A particular vein of the argument regarding AI use:
It’s really nice to see people sharing this resource guide!!! It warms my heart!!&
I give my students a handout: "A Brief Account of the AI Industry and Generative AI: Reasons Not to Use Chatbots"; reasons range from how they impede leaning and are designed to get things wrong to environmental costs to security etc. with links to the research/studies.
March 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
A particular vein of the argument regarding AI use:
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This is a genuine marvel of technology affecting our daily lives, a triumph of computational skill and knowledge applied efficiently and effectively.
And the techbros hate it.
Just think about that. Please think about that.
And the techbros hate it.
Just think about that. Please think about that.
March 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This is a genuine marvel of technology affecting our daily lives, a triumph of computational skill and knowledge applied efficiently and effectively.
And the techbros hate it.
Just think about that. Please think about that.
And the techbros hate it.
Just think about that. Please think about that.
The trends are nearly all negative for overall safety, quality of life, and access measures for Indiana, especially for counties without a major metro center.
iyi.org/resources/in...
iyi.org/resources/in...
2025 Interactive County Dashboard - Indiana Youth Institute
A snapshot of youth well-being in every Indiana county.
iyi.org
February 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The trends are nearly all negative for overall safety, quality of life, and access measures for Indiana, especially for counties without a major metro center.
iyi.org/resources/in...
iyi.org/resources/in...
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a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
web.archive.org
February 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job
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Further to librarians — www.ala.org/news/2024/11...
ALA vows to defend intellectual freedom and access to information against political threats
In response to results of the 2024 United States election, the American Library Association vowed to continue its defense of the core values of librarianship in the face of political threats.
www.ala.org
February 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Further to librarians — www.ala.org/news/2024/11...
Hey, #hoosiersky, esp. Muncie and Kokomo, your rep co-sponsors this bill. You think our state education chaos is bad enough, without the federal DOE, it will be 10X worse. Reach out to Rep. Spartz. Save the DOE.
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Hey, #hoosiersky, esp. Muncie and Kokomo, your rep co-sponsors this bill. You think our state education chaos is bad enough, without the federal DOE, it will be 10X worse. Reach out to Rep. Spartz. Save the DOE.
“The first step, though, is to be informed about how these systems work, what your obligations are under copyright law, and to be willing to advocate for rights to your own work.” - Cheryl Ball
kairos.technorhetoric.net/29.2/disputa...
kairos.technorhetoric.net/29.2/disputa...
Kairos 29.2: Ball and Eyman, Getting Your Work Read: Ethically Circumventing Paywalled Publishing Practices
A short guide for authors about how to share their academic work legally and ethically, regardless of where it was first published.
kairos.technorhetoric.net
February 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
“The first step, though, is to be informed about how these systems work, what your obligations are under copyright law, and to be willing to advocate for rights to your own work.” - Cheryl Ball
kairos.technorhetoric.net/29.2/disputa...
kairos.technorhetoric.net/29.2/disputa...
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The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
blog.archive.org
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
“I’d come home after all day playing soldier and I’d paint a picture, and I could paint the kind of world that I wanted. It was clean, it was sparkling, shiny, beautiful, no pollution, nobody upset — everybody happy in this world.” —Bob Ross
Images of Minnetrista in Muncie, IN, where Ross filmed.
Images of Minnetrista in Muncie, IN, where Ross filmed.
January 31, 2025 at 3:41 AM
“I’d come home after all day playing soldier and I’d paint a picture, and I could paint the kind of world that I wanted. It was clean, it was sparkling, shiny, beautiful, no pollution, nobody upset — everybody happy in this world.” —Bob Ross
Images of Minnetrista in Muncie, IN, where Ross filmed.
Images of Minnetrista in Muncie, IN, where Ross filmed.
“You have to take responsibility for what you’ve written.”
Retired professor Max Westler responding to Adriana Trigiani’s question about why he had his students had to read their poetry aloud in public to people they didn’t know.
(Saint Mary’s Literary Festival, 2019)
January 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
“You have to take responsibility for what you’ve written.”
Retired professor Max Westler responding to Adriana Trigiani’s question about why he had his students had to read their poetry aloud in public to people they didn’t know.
(Saint Mary’s Literary Festival, 2019)
This is the most recent photo on my roll - a screenshot I apparently took this morning. And how is your day going so far?
January 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
This is the most recent photo on my roll - a screenshot I apparently took this morning. And how is your day going so far?
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Rob Nelson, who currently holds the title belt for best commenter on my Substack, has some interesting insights on using AI in his teaching here. The point about the teacher not always being best feedback provider is worth ruminating on.
One reason I used an LLM to teach last fall was that I wanted to offer my students an alternative to ChatGPT. Another was my curiosity about what educational value, if any, an LLM tool might add to my active in-class learning approach to teaching.
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What is an LLM doing in my classroom? Part 3: Learning
This essay is the third in a series about how I used generative AI in a class I taught in the fall term of 2024.
open.substack.com
January 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Rob Nelson, who currently holds the title belt for best commenter on my Substack, has some interesting insights on using AI in his teaching here. The point about the teacher not always being best feedback provider is worth ruminating on.
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The Indiana State Teachers Association is battling a right-wing state House Republican’s bill to dissolve public school districts where more students are attending charter and private schools or being homeschooled, combined, than attend public schools. www.peoplesworld.org/article/indi...
Indiana teachers battling right-wing bill to dissolve public school districts
INDIANAPOLIS —The Indiana State Teachers Association is battling a right-wing state House Republican’s bill to dissolve public school districts where more students are attending charter and private sc...
www.peoplesworld.org
January 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
The Indiana State Teachers Association is battling a right-wing state House Republican’s bill to dissolve public school districts where more students are attending charter and private schools or being homeschooled, combined, than attend public schools. www.peoplesworld.org/article/indi...
My joy is watching people think carefully or seeing evidence of people’s thoughtful care.
a group of women in dresses are standing next to each other on a stage giving the peace sign .
Alt: The three Schuyler sisters from “Hamilton” singing “I want to see a mind at WORK!”
media.tenor.com
January 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
My joy is watching people think carefully or seeing evidence of people’s thoughtful care.
Tried to explain to the 10yo that yes, the inside of your nose can feel frozen because your snot freezes. “But what if you don’t have any snot?” Fair point, kid; I have no idea.
January 20, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tried to explain to the 10yo that yes, the inside of your nose can feel frozen because your snot freezes. “But what if you don’t have any snot?” Fair point, kid; I have no idea.
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To borrow from Anne Lamott, here's my "shitty first draft" of a Bluesky starter pack for writing center folks. No clue how many other interested parties are out there, but let me know if you'd like to be added because I'd love for this to be representative of the field!
January 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
To borrow from Anne Lamott, here's my "shitty first draft" of a Bluesky starter pack for writing center folks. No clue how many other interested parties are out there, but let me know if you'd like to be added because I'd love for this to be representative of the field!
LLMs that serve as the foundation for generative AI simply regenerate common patterns of writing, patterns established in part by the repository of student work collected by TurnItIn over years. Thus, we have students trained to write like robots and robots trained to write like students.
a cartoon character is standing on a wooden floor holding a cane and wearing a top hat .
Alt: a cartoon character with sad eyes and a scout uniform dancing like a robot across a wooden stage
media.tenor.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
LLMs that serve as the foundation for generative AI simply regenerate common patterns of writing, patterns established in part by the repository of student work collected by TurnItIn over years. Thus, we have students trained to write like robots and robots trained to write like students.