If you are finding yourself increasingly bored with or exasperated by the AI hype and the AI hysteria, you might want to check out social media satirist “Husk” who, on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram posts wickedly amusing satires of AI.* His typical set up is to ask a ChatGPT chatbot some seemingly harmless question that … AI Has No Sense of Humor (But some Social Media Comics Do!)
I began my teaching career in what was the worst academic job market until the present moment. I was unemployed for three years, fired (technically, I wasn’t renewed) from my first job for hosting a women’s day that administrators felt crossed a political line. I subsequently worked various part-time jobs (including at Fermi National Accelerator … AI Ate My Homework: Big and Small Solutions for Educators Now
The Marquand House Collective, Auditing AI. MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series, 2026. Auditing AI is the book I’ve been searching for–and I believe it will be useful for any and every reader who wants to move past hype and hysteria to really understand what tools we need to hold various AI systems accountable for what AI … Auditing AI: A Great Book That Holds AI Accountable—And Shows How We Can Too
Having posted two blogs on HASTAC about AI, I’ve decided to write an (ir)regular series of posts on this topic, entitled “Intelligent Artifice: Thinking Wisely and Well With, Through, About, Around, and Despite AI.” I’ll be posting this on HASTAC Commons as well as on this author blog. Neither an AI booster nor an AI … “Intelligent Artifice”: Announcing a New Blog Series
I’m very proud to have my author blog featured on Reclaim Hosting’s Women’s Showcase. It’s great to see how many other women are using Reclaim Hosting for their businesses, nonprofits, institutions, or other uses that promote women. I also want to give a shout out to all of the people at Reclaim Hosting. Their customer … Proud to be Selected for Reclaim Hosting’s Women’s Showcase
Faculties Can be Pre-Ordered Here: at Bookshop. org. Fellow authors will appreciate and, I hope, join us in this bit of joy in a horrific time. Jody Greene and I have had a second great “blurb” for Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times.” For those who aren’t authors, the “blurbs” are … More Advance Praise for “Faculties”
On Thursday, Mary 5, 2026, I keynoted the CUNY Women’s Conference, CUNY Women Lead Loudly: Voice, Vision, and Valor . I was introduced by Chancellor Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, with whom I’d had the honor to work for three years as his Senior Advisor. The conference was organized by co-chairs Dolly Martinez and Shirley … Ten Moves To Jumpstart Your Revolution
I want to share some nice news: Jody Greene and I have received our irst external appraisal (i.e. “blurb”) for “Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times” (forthcoming, Fall 2026, Duke University Press), and it is from someone I admire very much, Wesleyan President Michael Roth. President Roth has been an eloquent … Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times. Our First “Blurb”
Artificial Ignorance A recent exhaustive study of AI use by computer programmers conducted by Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin (“How AI Impacts Skill Formation”) shows that using AI may speed some aspects of your programming but, it, at the same time, “impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains … “Artificial Ignorance” and Data Sycophancy
“The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” –Audre Lorde I begin with this famous quote from the late Audre Lorde, one of America’s most inspiring writers and activists, and a professor who taught at my own university, City University of New York, because it encapsulates higher education’s aspiration for each and … 2025 McGraw Prize in Higher Education: Acceptance Speech Nov 13, 2025