Duke University Press has made “Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times” available for pre-orders–and with a 30% off discount if you use the code: E26FCLTS. The book won’t be available until November but if you order now, the paperback is only $18.17. Here’s the link: dukeupress.edu/faculties (NB: 50% of all royalties … Pre-Order “Faculties” Today–with 30% Discount Code
One day last week, after an intense and sometimes emotional time sorting through files and papers and deciding what to keep, what to shred, and what to send to my archived papers, I decided to take a while and visit an art installation at the Park Avenue Armory. “Clinamen,” by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot. I … Ambient Intelligence
We are beginning to put together the details for a book tour for Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times by Cathy N. Davidson and Jody Greene (Duke University Press, October 2026). We will be adding details and new appearances as they become available. If you are interested in scheduling a book … FACULTIES : Fall-Winter Book Tour Schedule
It’s Not Just For the Birds What are those chirpy zebra finches saying to one another? Now we know. Thanks to the diligent and creative research by Dr. Julie Elie, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies interspecies communication, we humans can understand what other zebra finches have always known: that those … Active Learning in the Age of AI
In the stunning mural by Polish multidisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga, “Make Tofu Not War” (2018), exhibited currently at the Prada Foundation in Milan, one sees one set of images if one looks with the naked eye and something else if one looks with 3-D glasses. I took this selfie in 3-D glasses. Wearing these ironic … Democracy in 3-D Glasses
Pictured, Stanford Computer Scientist Yejin Choi who advocates “Small Language Models.”
Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times One of the most exciting moments in the life of a book is the cover reveal! Here it is, the spunky, feisty, powerful cover for Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times (Duke University Press, November 2026). Jody Greene and I began … Cover Reveal!
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