@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
An excellent analysis of the war on Black studies that also includes a deeply perceptive critique of the neoliberal logic of valuing disciplines based on # of undergrad majors: www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
Videos included DOGE members unable or unwilling to define DEI; discussing how they used ChatGPT and terms such as “black” and “homosexual” to flag grants for termination but not “white” or “caucasian,” and acknowledgements they failed to achieve the stated goal of lowering the government deficit.
doneeee ✅
1 to grade!
2 more to grade ☕
3 to grade. Really pleased with how ~85% of these infographics are done for version1.
4 to grade. ugh not going to finish by the time I need to leave for this play. BUT I am doing as much as I can.
5 to grade!
today's tasks:
Spring break hasn't started til I post these last grades...
✅walk pups
✅seedlings outside
✅grade 11 docs
☕grade 7 more docs
☕post grades x2
🎭play
☕walk pups again
🚲pelo
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 🥲💀