Lisa Dush
@lisadush.bsky.social
Writing professor at DePaul U. in Chicago and Faculty Director of HumanitiesX
Current projects: the experiential humanities, when writing became content, rhetorics of grant funding
TreeKeeper #1669
Current projects: the experiential humanities, when writing became content, rhetorics of grant funding
TreeKeeper #1669
Great piece, from a student journalist's perspective.
New feature article from TNJ (nation's best student magazine): Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI thenewjournalatyale.com/2025/10/insi...
November 17, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Great piece, from a student journalist's perspective.
Trade show despair meets AI despair: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
An Age of Hyperabundance | Laura Preston
Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversa...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trade show despair meets AI despair: www.nplusonemag.com/issue-47/ess...
Chapter 18 of Senna's Colored Television--the "Every show lives and dies on it premise" chapter--is a dialogue masterpiece.
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Chapter 18 of Senna's Colored Television--the "Every show lives and dies on it premise" chapter--is a dialogue masterpiece.
What unpleasant and disorienting work it is to give feedback on student writing that might be AI-generated...
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
What unpleasant and disorienting work it is to give feedback on student writing that might be AI-generated...
One task that Claude is great at: converting a pdf export of a handwritten notebook from the Remarkable tablet to text. The tablet's export function does a middling job, but Claude creates a nearly perfect conversion. Big workflow helper for us longhanders
August 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
One task that Claude is great at: converting a pdf export of a handwritten notebook from the Remarkable tablet to text. The tablet's export function does a middling job, but Claude creates a nearly perfect conversion. Big workflow helper for us longhanders
I regularly teach #grantwriting, which seems like one of the most AI-able forms of writing there is. When I see tools like this, I have to wonder how professional writers will not have a much diminished or much altered role in the process: youtu.be/Y67An9VsOGw?...
Using AI to create a grant proposal draft in 5 minutes | Instrumentl Apply
YouTube video by Instrumentl
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April 8, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I regularly teach #grantwriting, which seems like one of the most AI-able forms of writing there is. When I see tools like this, I have to wonder how professional writers will not have a much diminished or much altered role in the process: youtu.be/Y67An9VsOGw?...
Enjoyed reading this open-access interview with Sonja Foss about invitational rhetoric: journals.openedition.org/aad/7975?lan...
Sonja K. Foss: Invitational Rhetoric as a Feminist Challenge to the...
Sonja K. Foss is a professor emeritus in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. Her research interests include contemporary rhetorical theory and criticism, feminist ...
journals.openedition.org
February 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Enjoyed reading this open-access interview with Sonja Foss about invitational rhetoric: journals.openedition.org/aad/7975?lan...
Reposted by Lisa Dush
As part of its new 'transformative' access model for libraries, "...Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries."
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clarivate.com/news/clariva...
Clarivate Unveils Transformative Subscription-Based Access Strategy for Academia | Clarivate
New approach enables broad, simple and affordable access to trusted scholarly content for learning and research
clarivate.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
As part of its new 'transformative' access model for libraries, "...Clarivate will also phase out one-time perpetual purchases of digital collections, print and digital books for libraries."
clarivate.com/news/clariva...
clarivate.com/news/clariva...
This is a good explanation of how data brokers and real-time ad bidding work.
It's time to end this type of advertising and the mass surveillance it's enabling.
To learn more about real-time bidding and the surveillance threat it poses to all, you can read the full article. (11/11)
To learn more about real-time bidding and the surveillance threat it poses to all, you can read the full article. (11/11)
Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How
Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliv...
www.eff.org
January 24, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is a good explanation of how data brokers and real-time ad bidding work.
Reposted by Lisa Dush
A new grant program from NEH’s Office of Data & Evaluation will support data-grounded research studies investigating the state, impact, & value of the humanities in the US. 2 levels of funding (>$75,000 / >$150,000) will support either 1- or 2-yr projects. ow.ly/Kyiy50UKwu8
NEH Announces New Funding Opportunity to Support Research on the State and Impact of the Humanities
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January 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A new grant program from NEH’s Office of Data & Evaluation will support data-grounded research studies investigating the state, impact, & value of the humanities in the US. 2 levels of funding (>$75,000 / >$150,000) will support either 1- or 2-yr projects. ow.ly/Kyiy50UKwu8
Recommended--well researched and considers more than the usual AI blah blah: www.bloomsbury.com/us/feeding-t...
Feeding the Machine
For readers of Naomi Klein and Nicole Perlroth, a myth-dissolving exposé of how artificial intelligence exploits human labor, and a resounding argument for a mo…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Recommended--well researched and considers more than the usual AI blah blah: www.bloomsbury.com/us/feeding-t...