I sneakily googled and found which institution. That's fantastic! One of my pals is in the Eng department there, too. Seems like a really good place to work.

I did not realize you were out on the West Coast! (Sorry I called you a turd!) I'd sympathize re: gloom, but when I lived in Victoria, I studied outside by blooming roses in December, and here we're expecting 10cm of snow tonight and 20 next week. Then again, I do not miss the wet cold out there.

ChatGPT writes, "If you want, tell me: which creators you actually followed (or want to pretend you followed *eyeballs*) ...and I can help you plug them directly into your draft so it sounds natural and specific.

To check if it spat out something like the paper I was marking, I plugged my prompt for the assignment (a term project about disabled content creators on social media) into ChatGPT. It immediately produced the generic response the student submitted, and then it followed that up with this:

Except for Vancouver and Victoria, the turds.

Holy crap, amazing. (I'm a Saskatchewanian and I had no idea about this stuff.)

PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki...
@rs4vp.org #Victorian

Disabled academics: how often are you made to pay for accommodations out of your ProD account (money that your colleagues get to put toward research travel, conferences, etc.)?

Gorgeous!

me to grad students: share your work with each other, talk, exchange ideas!

me to me: no one can ever see this draft it's garbage and they'll think i'm garbage and then i'll have to move into a dumpster where i belong

On left, burgundy background with text that says: Kylee-Anne Hingston, “Blindness and Irish National Identity in the Textual Afterlife of F. W. Burton’s A Blind Girl at a Holy Well,” Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 2, summer 2025. On right, The Blind Girl at the Holy Well, ca. 1869, print, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, https://lccn.loc.gov/2003674284.

In VPR 58.2, @kyleeanneh.bsky.social traces reproductions of F.W. Burton’s 1840 watercolor “A Blind Girl at A Holy Well” to consider how #periodicals deployed its sentimental depiction of blindness in mid-century debates about Irish culture and nationhood: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Truth before reconciliation: 8 ways to identify and confront Residential School denialism Residential school denialism is the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schools to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts.

One of the most important things settlers who are committed to reconciliation can do today is to stand up to and call out denialist tactics. My colleague @seancarleton.bsky.social alongside Daniel Heath Justice explain more here: theconversation.com/truth-before...

Put less intelligently, the objection to the so-called AI boom is not about the technology being shitty (although it is). It’s about the shitty people who are using their shit technology to treat other people like shit.

I use Zotero for citations, but when I download a pdf, I tend to save in a folder of everything related to whatever research project I'm working on. I end up downloading the same article about 7 times because of poor file naming and new folders for new projects.

I haven't heard of Milanote before. I will have to look it up.

The system I developed in grad school for saving and organizing pdfs of 2ndry and primary research is no longer serving me (probably because the "system" is equivalent to the red-string conspiracy theory meme). What do you folks do for keeping stuff logically organized and easily findable?

Sounds fascinating!!

Ditto! I spent 8 years on the West Coast and thought I'd never come back, but I am so glad I did.

That seems mighty odd, considering the four principles of Catholic social thought/teaching jsri.loyno.edu/catholic-soc...

"Coming"? Heeeere, friend. Sadly, here

🧪 How many times and in what different ways do we need confirmation that genAI is crap for anything except the simplest tasks?
*Because it doesn't read, or comprehend, or think*.

(also, hilariously, it's the same AI Oxford Uni has just paid some huge sum to licence for all staff & students)

For the avoidance of doubt, this is just a silly pun that amused me. I do not wish plagiarism (or heretical pelagianism) upon any university during this crisis era in UK higher education. But I do find it astonishing that AI is being rolled out without the slightest concern for consequences

A plagiarism on both your houses!

The alt text on this is 👌

Hmm. The link doesn't clearly indicate what field the job is for and looks like it is for Indigenous studies, when that's not the case. The college is looking for an Indigenous assistant professor in either economics, English, history, languages, philosophy, psychology, or religion.

Come work where I do! (Spread the word, please.)

Every single time I email myself, this happens to me.

By gum, I love dashes, and editors--who recommend using them sparingly--will have to pry them from my cold, dead hands.