Monisha Pasupathi
@monishaslc.bsky.social
Wife, Mom, Sister, Daughter, Friend, Academic. Sometimes in the wrong order.
Interests: Politics, Philosophy, History, Science, Literature, Poetry, Cats, Animals.
Skeets reflect personal views.
Interests: Politics, Philosophy, History, Science, Literature, Poetry, Cats, Animals.
Skeets reflect personal views.
Earning your keep actually means filling in for cost overruns in the stem majors. Your sin is in being a one time profit center that isn't maintaining the cash flow....in the face of longstanding attacks on your programs with which we admins have been complicit, right?
October 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Earning your keep actually means filling in for cost overruns in the stem majors. Your sin is in being a one time profit center that isn't maintaining the cash flow....in the face of longstanding attacks on your programs with which we admins have been complicit, right?
Out west here, we are chanting the mantra "durable skills" as the new label for what humanities give students and capitalism like a verbal talisman against the coming of the end times.
October 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Out west here, we are chanting the mantra "durable skills" as the new label for what humanities give students and capitalism like a verbal talisman against the coming of the end times.
You are bursting my fantasy that if I just were faculty all this (waves around) would be easier to cope with.
October 7, 2025 at 12:40 PM
You are bursting my fantasy that if I just were faculty all this (waves around) would be easier to cope with.
Part of me agrees. But part of me also thinks this may be a divergence point between publics and privates. Publics are considered among the states amenities, especially in smaller places with fewer events venue options. I'd prefer scholars for sure, though, over non academic public figures
September 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Part of me agrees. But part of me also thinks this may be a divergence point between publics and privates. Publics are considered among the states amenities, especially in smaller places with fewer events venue options. I'd prefer scholars for sure, though, over non academic public figures
I'm old so know the books from childhood, so def needed some context.
September 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I'm old so know the books from childhood, so def needed some context.
Might be an Asimov Foundation reference? That's the only way I can make it make sense.
September 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Might be an Asimov Foundation reference? That's the only way I can make it make sense.
Lol, and I whine about undergrad handwriting.....
August 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Lol, and I whine about undergrad handwriting.....
I think I expected an hour and a half of YouTube. Which is about correct. I find that most things at the moment feel like fiddling while Rome burns. I keep trying to adjudicate versions of the fiddling....restorative? Obscene? Shame filled?
August 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I think I expected an hour and a half of YouTube. Which is about correct. I find that most things at the moment feel like fiddling while Rome burns. I keep trying to adjudicate versions of the fiddling....restorative? Obscene? Shame filled?
Exculpatory dehumanization is great. I'm just in love with that phrase. I like how it feels to say it and how it sounds. That it carries/conveys a useful meaning is a bonus.
August 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Exculpatory dehumanization is great. I'm just in love with that phrase. I like how it feels to say it and how it sounds. That it carries/conveys a useful meaning is a bonus.
Not about tipping, but for years journalists were calling me about why astrology was so popular again, and I kept saying, but it isn't, is it?
July 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Not about tipping, but for years journalists were calling me about why astrology was so popular again, and I kept saying, but it isn't, is it?
Make humility a virtue (again). Why I loved teaching research methods.
July 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Make humility a virtue (again). Why I loved teaching research methods.
And comp.sci people are also dealing with the hype, hysteria, and media/colleagues treating these things as human Otoh, funding in their world remains available and nobody is saying AI isnt important or worth funds. My two cents from outside computer science.
July 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
And comp.sci people are also dealing with the hype, hysteria, and media/colleagues treating these things as human Otoh, funding in their world remains available and nobody is saying AI isnt important or worth funds. My two cents from outside computer science.
I've been really impressed with my faculty approaching this with some nuance - and reading the science papers to boot. And distinguishing between where it's pedagogically stupid and where it may be useful, given conversations with our computer science faculty who have relevant expertise.
July 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I've been really impressed with my faculty approaching this with some nuance - and reading the science papers to boot. And distinguishing between where it's pedagogically stupid and where it may be useful, given conversations with our computer science faculty who have relevant expertise.
I admit to fangirling about gebru, zitron, and doctorow. We are running a faculty journal club next year alongside a first year program that decided to go hardcore non AI, with paper journals and real books to avoid temptations of online journaling and built in AI summarizing for all books.
July 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I admit to fangirling about gebru, zitron, and doctorow. We are running a faculty journal club next year alongside a first year program that decided to go hardcore non AI, with paper journals and real books to avoid temptations of online journaling and built in AI summarizing for all books.
Just reread Galapagos. Can confirm that end. Not willing to revisit Hesse.....
July 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Just reread Galapagos. Can confirm that end. Not willing to revisit Hesse.....
This is making me a bit despondent.....the persistence of such resonances across literary and artistic time and space says something about human potential.....
July 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
This is making me a bit despondent.....the persistence of such resonances across literary and artistic time and space says something about human potential.....
Anne Lamott says Bird by Bird.
July 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Anne Lamott says Bird by Bird.
Pretty sure that expression is also one I've seen on photos of you!
June 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Pretty sure that expression is also one I've seen on photos of you!
Caffeine can come over to my house when they're done at yours. And do some ironing.
June 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Caffeine can come over to my house when they're done at yours. And do some ironing.
Well that explains everything.
June 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Well that explains everything.
When we did this it did not look like that picture.....in any dimension.....
June 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
When we did this it did not look like that picture.....in any dimension.....