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Academic Dad

@AcademicDad

Tenured at a slipping state college in the US. Married with a 7 and a 9. Pro-worker. Anti-lecture. Clem Fandango's middle initial is H.

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Academic Dad
Academic Dad@AcademicDad·
People say, "You're a professor, you must be rich.", and I say uh...no...I'm not...but I *live near* rich people and teach their children, and I've studied them, and I've seen how they make other people's lives miserable, including mine.
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Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD
Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD@Nicole_Lee_Sch·
If genAI is so "good" then lets put a tag on everything produced with it. Tag your products, tag your writing, hell tag your college diploma. Lets see what the market actually thinks when AI usage is fully disclosed.
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Academic Dad@AcademicDad·
I’m sorry I thought we knew we were being used every time we clicked on the panels containing bicycles and buses.
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Academic Dad@AcademicDad·
I read IHE a lot when I first became a professor and then over time was like huh OK weird take but they can't all hit then was like wow they sound a bit like my administration there and then eventually realized oh OK they're a mouthpiece bye.
Inside Higher Ed@insidehighered

Student Success | How Libraries Shape AI Literacy on Campus At institutions like Bryn Mawr College, libraries are emerging as AI sandboxes where students and faculty experiment with the tools and learn responsible use. bit.ly/4scMUAv

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Academic Dad@AcademicDad·
@paytonsun @walterpayton This run is a great example of how different people can be physically gifted and develop those gifts, but only a tiny number of them have the spirit of a champion and nobody was like 34. ❤️
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Trae Crowder
Trae Crowder@traecrowder·
How I imagine the war updates are going at the White House
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Academic Dad@AcademicDad·
I say I don't go to meetings because I don't have the time/money which is pretty much true but even if I did I wouldn't go to meetings because I'm too embarrassed to see people I know based on my pathetic professional record over the past 10 years.
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Academic Dad@AcademicDad·
@juliettemm Here in the US it's nbd. Where you are...have you called an ambulance yet?
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Academic Dad@AcademicDad·
Looking back it's wild how permanent and grounded and untouchable my little alma mater seemed to us as students. A 20-acre universe that would never stop existing.
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David Sirota
David Sirota@davidsirota·
Liberals like this are thisclose to getting it, but they still can't let themselves take the next step. They still can't let themselves understand how turning hope & change into more of the same was a key moment of demoralization that catalyzed the subsequent disaster.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

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Academic Dad@AcademicDad·
Are you rich or does your car show this no matter which or how many doors are open
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Academic Dad@AcademicDad·
It’s weird to shame professors for wanting to grade student writing and not a machine’s response to a writing assignment. Like get fucked.
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Fred I. Lee 李志興
Fred I. Lee 李志興@fredleept·
You'd think some would have figured out by now: intensified and increasing work for those still working is the dominant tendency of _every technology_ deployed under the control of capital.
Nav Toor@heynavtoor

🚨BREAKING: Berkeley researchers spent 8 months inside a tech company watching how employees actually use AI. The promise was simple: AI will save you time. Do less. Work smarter. The opposite happened. Workers didn't use AI to finish early and go home. They used it to take on more. More tasks. More projects. More hours. Nobody asked them to. They did it to themselves. The researchers sat inside the company two days a week for 8 months. They watched 200 employees in real time. They tracked work channels. They conducted 40+ interviews across engineering, product, design, and operations. Here's what they found. AI made everything feel faster, so people filled every gap. They sent prompts during lunch. Before meetings. Late at night. The natural stopping points in the workday disappeared. People ran multiple AI agents in the background while writing code, drafting documents, and sitting in meetings simultaneously. It felt like momentum. It felt productive. But when they stepped back, they described feeling stretched, busier, and completely unable to disconnect. 83% said AI increased their workload. Not decreased. Increased. 62% of associates and 61% of entry-level workers reported burnout. Only 38% of executives felt the same strain. The people doing the actual work absorbed the damage while leadership celebrated the productivity numbers. Then came the trap nobody saw coming. When one person uses AI to take on extra work, everyone else feels like they're falling behind. So the whole team speeds up. Nobody formally raises expectations. But the new pace quietly becomes the default. What AI made possible became what was expected. The researchers gave it a name: workload creep. It looks like productivity at first. Then it becomes the new baseline. Then it becomes burnout. AI was supposed to give you your time back. Instead it's eating more of it. And the worst part? You're doing it to yourself. Voluntarily.

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Sam DeRosa
Sam DeRosa@savemeishbia·
White Sox Grid Day 9: Nick Swisher was the winner for day 8. The Rules remain the same as before and Today's Square is on the grid. Let's finish strong.
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Hadas Weiss
Hadas Weiss@weiss_hadas·
@PhD_Genie is this "human knowledge" in the room with us right now
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PhD_Genie
PhD_Genie@PhD_Genie·
Unpopular opinion: Being an academic is actually a meaningful job. You are developing human knowledge and educating future generations.
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