@sgunning
Associate Professor of #techcomm and Director of M.S. Professional Writing & the Communicating Complex Information certificate @ Towson University, MD. Loves: outside, plaid, wool, weird perfumes, gardening all the things, seeing new places, reggaeton
Intelligence is more than fact or information. Intelligence is the spark of the eternal in us all that pushes forward—with fact and info—into something new, moving our spirit, experimenting, playing, curiosity, cleverness. Nonsense songs are intelligent. This guy wants to meter humanity.
18 feedbacks to go out of 42. CAN I DO THIS. I have already done the quantitative part; just need the qualitative part.
I need a break
Not everyone needs to, nor wants to, use LLMs in academic research, and Taylorizing the scholarly enterprise does nothing positive for the pursuit of a better understanding of society and the world.
2h later, I am done w 1 class. Onto the next.
giving feedback to my 691 Methods literature reviews and they are pretty darn solid for the most part! Thinking as an argument.
Nellie MacKay! She can call me anytime
LIGHTS A6.
Same.
$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year:
-1.4 million people on Medicaid
-19 million kids getting free school lunches
-1.4 million people getting affordable housing
-1.1 million hungry seniors fed
-0.8 million children given free child care
honestly there are so many Graduate Assistant positions today on Handshake that I got tired of copy and pasting them in to an email for students! Go look!💰
sleeting/snowing after being 85F yesterday; need to bring in my delicate celery seedlings 🌱
0 meetings today: first free day in 8 workdays wo any meetings! ♥️
jus me & Blackboard
EW no
We spent months entrenched in the super-shady and ridiculously confusing cesspool of counterfeit beauty products sold online. Your chances of buying an item that isn’t what you think it is are shockingly high. nyti.ms/3MVhoaU
“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”
I don't know if others have already cited her in this context, but Tonia Sutherland's Resurrecting the Black Body feels even more urgent. www.ucpress.edu/books/resurr...
New from 404 Media: here is the memo approving ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot in the Senate. Raises questions about how sensitive data will be handled; memo says staff can use AI in all sorts of work, like drafting, research, etc. Has been approved to use "Senate data" www.404media.co/heres-the-me...
will the partner read it? probably not, but I told the editor it was a good example for their management portfolio.
“Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.”
― Jane Yolen
#WritingSky
tabata ride today 🥲💀
a student perfectly handled a peer feedback assignment for a partner's Ai-generated slop project. Lots of great examples cited re: how it impacted the author's ethos, attention to detail. Well done.
today's tasks:
✅set up 318 work for W7
☕download all the editing work for 318
☕infographic formative feedback to 8
☕write out my brain
✅lovely pup walk in the light rain ☔
🚲bike 7.5
☕TA call about feedback norming, class
🎶a show
I don't know why new program students aren't auto-loaded to the appropriate program director's advising screens. So wack.
waiting for the box office to open so you can buy tickets to a show in the 90s
I love a reflection assignment
#writing #design
So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity
"Rain on me" was in his playlist this AM and he was giving the camera lewks. it was all britney and madonna
the directions are not mine 🥲
goodness, just follow the clear directions.
I cannot today