Jessica
@jessgino.bsky.social
PhD candidate in comp lit at UNC | russian and east european lit | animal studies | narratology & consciousness | vegan for 🐄 and 🌏 | Слава 🇺🇦
Images on syllabi—yay or nay?
August 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Images on syllabi—yay or nay?
Twin Peaks Day and the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine are the same day, and I don't like it.
February 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Twin Peaks Day and the anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine are the same day, and I don't like it.
UNC getting rid of its "US Diversity" gen-ed requirement in the middle of the semester. Given how obsessed university admin are with enrollment numbers, this is a threat to departments who teach these courses. I am not on campus this semester (and am just a grad student), but hoping to see pushback.
February 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
UNC getting rid of its "US Diversity" gen-ed requirement in the middle of the semester. Given how obsessed university admin are with enrollment numbers, this is a threat to departments who teach these courses. I am not on campus this semester (and am just a grad student), but hoping to see pushback.
We'll take good news where we can find it!
As of 1 February 2025, fur farming is history in Norway!🇳🇴 The country joins a growing movement to end this cruelty.
Millions of animals are still farmed for fur worldwide. We must push for more bans on fur farming, advocate for fur sales bans & promote ethical fashion alternatives.
#FurFreeFuture
Millions of animals are still farmed for fur worldwide. We must push for more bans on fur farming, advocate for fur sales bans & promote ethical fashion alternatives.
#FurFreeFuture
February 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
We'll take good news where we can find it!
I like the Super Bowl because you can go to the grocery store on a Sunday afternoon/evening and it's practically empty.
February 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I like the Super Bowl because you can go to the grocery store on a Sunday afternoon/evening and it's practically empty.
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Since you have to take out a second mortgage to afford eggs these days, this is a reminder that tofu is a great egg substitute.
January 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Since you have to take out a second mortgage to afford eggs these days, this is a reminder that tofu is a great egg substitute.
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Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
January 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
Neither taking nor teaching classes at UNC this semester, but still got me excited to get the Condition 2 email. Happy Snow Day, Tar Heels!
January 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Neither taking nor teaching classes at UNC this semester, but still got me excited to get the Condition 2 email. Happy Snow Day, Tar Heels!
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To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."
January 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
To an asshole, all virtue is "virtue signaling."
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On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
January 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
Day 4 of being sick and my (35F) voice sounds like the kid narrating from Shogun Assassin at the beginning of GZA’s Liquid Swords.
January 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Day 4 of being sick and my (35F) voice sounds like the kid narrating from Shogun Assassin at the beginning of GZA’s Liquid Swords.
Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Two-tiers that raise independently. Top tier is for cars and trams, lower tier for rail and pedestrians.
December 29, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Steel Bridge in Portland, Oregon. Two-tiers that raise independently. Top tier is for cars and trams, lower tier for rail and pedestrians.
Friends, I’ve heard mention in the past of various alternatives to Goodreads. In 2025 I’m trying to do more non-academic reading and I’d like to keep track of it somehow. Any recommendations?
December 28, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Friends, I’ve heard mention in the past of various alternatives to Goodreads. In 2025 I’m trying to do more non-academic reading and I’d like to keep track of it somehow. Any recommendations?
Happy “new planner” week to all who celebrate.
December 28, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Happy “new planner” week to all who celebrate.
This is so tragic. Another awful consequence of animal agriculture. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
20 Big Cats Die From Bird Flu at a Washington Sanctuary
More than half of the cats at the sanctuary in Shelton, Wash., died of the virus over the past several weeks.
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2024 at 12:47 AM
This is so tragic. Another awful consequence of animal agriculture. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
Can anyone point me in the direction of how to pronounce the name "Jakob Johann von Uexküll"? I might need to say it in a job interview and don't want to embarrass myself
December 16, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Can anyone point me in the direction of how to pronounce the name "Jakob Johann von Uexküll"? I might need to say it in a job interview and don't want to embarrass myself
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Nobody wants a student essay as a product; we want students to learn to compose their thoughts in written form as a process. I mean, would you have a machine run your laps or play your scales for you? In which case we would not say you had run or played.
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 13, 2024 at 8:01 PM
Nobody wants a student essay as a product; we want students to learn to compose their thoughts in written form as a process. I mean, would you have a machine run your laps or play your scales for you? In which case we would not say you had run or played.
give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head
December 12, 2024 at 7:58 PM
give me a single image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head
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This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
Reed College looking moody this week
December 11, 2024 at 11:41 PM
Reed College looking moody this week
Vegan apple frangipane tart for my partner’s very lucky German students.
December 10, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Vegan apple frangipane tart for my partner’s very lucky German students.
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December 10, 2024 at 11:52 AM
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Go Carrboro! Excited to learn more about this tomorrow
Breaking: The town is filing a civil action against Duke Energy Corporation.
December 4, 2024 at 12:33 AM
Go Carrboro! Excited to learn more about this tomorrow