Brendan W. Sullivan
professorbrendan.bsky.social
Brendan W. Sullivan
@professorbrendan.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Mathematics, Emmanuel College (Boston, MA)
🔗🌲: https://linktr.ee/professorbrendan
Her response: "10 is afraid of 11 'cause 11 8 3"
June 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
She has another one!

Q: Why was 7 afraid of 8?

A: Because 8 8 16!
June 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
And fun fact: that plaza at Boston City Hall is where I got to see Neutral Milk Hotel on their reunion tour a while back!

www.setlist.fm/setlist/neut...
May 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reminds me a lot of Wean Hall at CMU (which people also say resembles a turtle eating a cheeto!)
May 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Did the idea of using Grade Point Median go anywhere? Do any schools actually do that already?
May 29, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Reposted by Brendan W. Sullivan
We lament that students are disengaged from the important parts of learning and yet here are professors modeling the same kind of disengagement. Where does this end? I'm very sympathetic to the problems of too many students, not enough time. Those were the circumstances for my entire career.
May 14, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Reposted by Brendan W. Sullivan
...allowing an LLM to make your presentation from your notes is to actively avoid what is, in reality, part of the creation of that presentation. I've been doing a couple of these things a week since January and I can tell you that making the slides always always always results in changes.
May 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Brendan W. Sullivan
2. But the more pernicious risk may be what I call "self-alienation" that is you gradually remove yourself from the experience of your job until you've entirely lost touch with what is and meaningful about this work. Processing student writing with an LLM is not the same thing as reading it...
May 14, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Reposted by Brendan W. Sullivan
1. Faculty who use LLMs for core aspects of their labor are inviting their own replacement. This is obvious and a cycle that will mirror what happened with adjunctification. You are showing you are unnecessary. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...
Great ready for faculty bot-ification
If we want there to be such a thing as college faculty, that is.
www.insidehighered.com
May 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Reposted by Brendan W. Sullivan
If we do not find an alternative source of funding, this means that the US will not be represented in ongoing conversations with the global community about issues in mathematics education.

The isolationism is not just political, it is also intellectual and will have consequences for decades.
May 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM