Melinda Grimsley
@mgrimsley.bsky.social
Mom, fellowships advisor (🔴WKU), erstwhile historian of “what do we do with poor people?” in 19c Irish context (☘️ND), country person (🌱KY)
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This is unbearably funny
Joke of the day from Moscow: Russia tried to unveil its first humanoid AI robot, Aidol. Key word: tried. The robot collapsed during its debut, forcing organizers to cut the presentation short. Their rushed attempt to lift the prop only made things worse.
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is unbearably funny
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If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
The danger is that degrees are regarded as worthless as nobody believes students have acquired any skills any more, at least not ones they couldn't have hot from just going into an office job from school.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.
One of my ancestors is named Millard Fillmore Balee and now I know I need to read this dense biography and meet this person.
I've seen many things on the New York City subway but this morning I sat across from someone reading a dense biography of Millard Fillmore and I just have many questions.
May 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
One of my ancestors is named Millard Fillmore Balee and now I know I need to read this dense biography and meet this person.
This is not exactly the case according to local reporting. Cuts, yes. Fully staffed last night, also yes. www.weku.org/the-commonwe...
May 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is not exactly the case according to local reporting. Cuts, yes. Fully staffed last night, also yes. www.weku.org/the-commonwe...
My go-to story for demonstrating this to students is thinking I had a whole dissertation chapter until I wrote it out and discovered it was…three paragraphs.
I’d add, anyone who’s done much writing has (often!) had the experience of feeling like they had a very clear idea in their mind, and realizing in the process of getting it on paper that they really didn’t, or that the idea transformed substantially in the process of having to pin it to a page.
Writing is thinking.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.
December 12, 2024 at 5:14 PM
My go-to story for demonstrating this to students is thinking I had a whole dissertation chapter until I wrote it out and discovered it was…three paragraphs.
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This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book*
uh oh
*Frantically starts flipping though pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
uh oh
*Frantically starts flipping though pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
November 6, 2024 at 10:28 PM
This is NOT what America is about. America is about *opens history book*
uh oh
*Frantically starts flipping though pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
uh oh
*Frantically starts flipping though pages*
uh oh. oh no. no no no. uh oh
+1
I love an office hours where students just drop in to update me on how they've been doing or to chat about fun stuff in class.
Just phenomenal.
Just phenomenal.
September 24, 2024 at 5:14 PM
+1
This photo brought to you by Mammoth Cave National Park’s Big Hollow trail, which gives you route options for running the whole thing in the same time it takes your husband and dog to hike half the thing. Happy Sunday Run Day!
September 15, 2024 at 8:20 PM
This photo brought to you by Mammoth Cave National Park’s Big Hollow trail, which gives you route options for running the whole thing in the same time it takes your husband and dog to hike half the thing. Happy Sunday Run Day!
Based on the experience of friends in recent years, I can’t bookmark this fast enough.
When my parents died and I began untangling the web of their estate, I started deadparentswhatnow.com to help others do the same. Recently I quit my job (yikes?!) to focus on it full time. Newsletter launches October 1–sign up please? We’re all going to die someday. Let’s figure it out together.
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September 15, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Based on the experience of friends in recent years, I can’t bookmark this fast enough.