Jennifer Young

It was great to see you in your natural habitat - squinting away at guild mss 🤓 @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social really is the place to see the best books and people 😁

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I have some good news:

The lower half of a manuscript page, featuring a marginal figure dragging a portion of text encircled with a rope into place.

A marginal figure drags an omitted portion of text into place in this copy of Thomas Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes (Arundel MS 38).

the most annoying shift in my academic career

Everyone likes an alliterative early modern name of the day, so say hello to Dorothie Dipper 🙌

This is Albie. He was so touched by his family singing happy birthday in his native language that he didn't notice the cupcakes with his face on them. 13/10 hbd Albie #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: _sallyv)

EPA Unveils Plan To Make Water Chunkier

EPA Unveils Plan To Make Water Chunkier https://theonion.com/epa-unveils-plan-to-make-water-chunkier/

Gen AI ys coole yf you reallye fuckinge hate water

call me a spondee by cause Ich am stressed stressed

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Help Kelly Pannek

This one is for a REAL need and imma hopeful that an auto company gonna step up. KELLY PANNEK from the women’s hockey team got hits by someone who totaled her car. She needs a new car.

Lots of brands commenting that they want to help,, but few truly stepping up. Who can help,??

If we truly believe that higher education has economic, social, and civic value then that value must be shared. Not deferred onto the backs of those with the fewest options but reclaimed from those who have benefited most. Until we are willing to say that out loud, student finance reform will remain a distraction. The problem is not just the loan. The problem is who never has to take one and why.

"But student finance isn’t broken. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do: protect inherited advantage while shifting risk onto those with the least."

Snappy piece cutting directly to the main issue with the whole #UKHE loan system: www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/02/24/s...

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

"Without feminism, the sequence of events that led to Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest would never have happened. It’s a reminder that feminism is powerful and important and even transformative, which is why there’s so much pushback..."

It is one thing for professors to resist AI in education; it is far more powerful when students do. Only a coalition between the two groups of students and teachers —and not the antagonistic one between “cheaters” and “cops”—will be powerful enough to create a movement.

Europeans – well indeed all non-USians – shifting onto @eurosky.social seems like a great idea given the current state of US politics:

For all those outraged by their universities’ embrace of AI, NYU’s full-time contingent faculty are poised to strike over issues that include AI

Just saw Into the Woods at the Bridge theatre - Sondheim leaving us work that soothes the modern soul- see it if you can.

Medieval manuscript illustration featuring a human figure in a patterned robe gesturing towards a rabbit playing a horn. The scene is adorned with decorative floral elements and gold accents.

Medieval manuscript illustration showing a person riding a donkey, followed by a running dog and a wolf. The scene is surrounded by decorative floral patterns with gold leaves. The text above is in Old French.

A medieval manuscript illustration features a person seated, adorned with a gold robe, and gesturing towards a green parrot perched on their hand. The scene is bordered by intricate blue and gold designs.

A medieval illustration depicting a person holding a circular object, possibly a mirror or shield, facing a creature resembling a goat with a long, curved tail. The scene includes decorative foliage with multicolored leaves. The background is parchment-like, typical of manuscript art.

Love Your Pet Day 🐾

Medieval manuscripts are full of dogs, birds, rabbits and other companions. Sometimes helpful, often looking chaotic!

Shelfmark: Bodl. 264, fols. 20v, 57v, 58r, 20v
More pet content coming soon: Pets and Their People opens 11 March at the Weston Library.

‘Very dangerous’: a Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI Overviews Information content manager Rosie Weatherley says harmful inaccuracies are presented as uncontroversial facts

Google "AI" overviews are dangerous. Do not use them!

“Searching online for information wasn’t perfect, but it usually worked well. Users had a good chance of clicking through to a credible health website that answered their query."
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Photo of Silvius and Minima, the Latin mice, cooking pancakes on Shrove Tuesday. Silvius is standing on an upturned pot to reach the table, and he's lifting a pancake with a wooden spatula. Minima is steadying a pile of pancakes on a dish. On the table are flour, honey, milk, a ladle, a whisk and a sieve.

#fabulamurina (mouse story) 490
hodie mures coquunt (Today the mice are cooking). Minima sartaginem in mensam ponit; Silvius lucunculum spathā tollit (Minima puts the frying pan on the table; Silvius lifts the pancake with a spatula). bene sapiat (bon appetit)!
#pancakeday

Wow.

Obnoxious Friend Won't Stop Attaining Major Life Milestones

Obnoxious Friend Won't Stop Attaining Major Life Milestones https://theonion.com/obnoxious-friend-wont-stop-attaining-major-life-milesto-1819574646/

Thank you so much to kind person who send me a station masters hat

I now look rather official

Tiny hat = maximum authority.

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Unpopular opinion - there is no way to use GenAI ethically, and AI literacy should involve helping people to understand why (hint - stolen IP, devastating environmental impacts, exploitation of workers, loss of learning, writing and thinking skills) #AcademicSky #sociology

[Enter Valentine.]

A bonus Daily Cartoon by Jim Benton. #NewYorkerCartoons