If you're an academic on social media, you've probably heard that Twitter is dying thanks to Elon Musk. This may or may not concern you, but for many academics it is painful to watch and fatiguing to think about starting over someplace else. Am I sad to leave Twitter? Hardly. My final tweet I joined … Continue reading #B*tchBye: Leaving Twitter for Mastodon
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ChatGPT Wins Best in Class for Making Shit Up
If you're involved with the education industry - even if your head is currently buried under a pile of grading - you've probably recently caught wind of something called ChatGPT or what many see as the end of learning as we know it. ChatGPT-3 is a natural language processor that's been trained on a lot … Continue reading ChatGPT Wins Best in Class for Making Shit Up
My Low-Key System for Managing Academic Projects
As promised in my summer planning post, here is a description of the method I use to track my various projects. This method was originally inspired by two academic Gantt chart enthusiasts (one, two). However, I found that the traditional way of setting up a gantt chart (with the projects on the left and "steps" … Continue reading My Low-Key System for Managing Academic Projects
NeMLA Roundup: All Things Digital
I attended my first large virtual conference recently at Northeast MLA where I chaired a panel and presented a paper. Even though I didn't get to attend all the sessions and meetups that I had ambitiously added to my conference agenda, I was able to make it to a good number of excellent panels. The … Continue reading NeMLA Roundup: All Things Digital
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