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university writing instructor | composition studies, peace studies, Appalachian literature, queer(ing) pedagogy | she/her | views my own | emilybrier.com
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So this is part of the reason I and many other folks I know don’t raise the alarm on every single thing in our ineffective / unconnected networks because the point is to have us all frothing mad, say “oopsie nope :)” and then I’ve wasted hours of my limited emotional capacity.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

My therapist asked me what it’s like to present & write on trans & queer things in these times and I had to struggle to explain that I refuse to assume a contrarian / defensive stance because I refuse to deem it valid to be freaks and weirdos about trans and queer things.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

I try to be really careful about judging my colleagues too harshly in public. I know some of you laugh at that assertion. Heh. But what concerns me is the uptake of AI among education professionals signals, how much bureaucratic control the administration has usurped from the profession.

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Led a faculty workshop today 😈

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

The ideal number of chapters in a class textbook for a 15-week university course is either 12 or 24.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Oh we’re in a RECESSION recession, huh.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Call me a closed-minded, technophobe crank, but these AI models are machines, not creatures, and machines may display simulations of consciousness the same way they now simulate intelligence and writing, but they will never not be machines. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/t...

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Imagine paying tuition and getting this

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

absolutely compounded grief recently. grief piled on grief.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

We’re eliminating programs that save millions of people from disease And ending a lot of research that has cured diseases and will cure more Because we need to funnel resources into AI Because someday it may be able to figure out cures for disease Do I have that right?

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

I just think the term "AI literacy" is cooked when it's being used by tech bros and their government surrogates alike.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

It took 4 visits to become a regular with a regular order at the local queer coffee shop. This is how I WIN

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

No offense to everyone but reading through these comments as a comprhet person is horrifying ☠️ some of y’all have been getting and giving really bad writing advice.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

The worst word in any recipe is “‘meanwhile” 😑

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

I’ve tried to stay out of this because it is particularly popular among groups of people that I love and respect. But the courses and coaching is just pure grift.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Sometimes you should be sorry for cross posting. I've gotten an email about a single conference's CFP from 6 different streams.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

watching a candidate come to do a campus visit up against an internal hire is so painful. like I hope you at least enjoyed a good dinner out of it. (they never get hired)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

was called a big pharma shill for being against wellness camp! lmao!

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I'm so thankful for this innovative tool.

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Its not just skipping the humanities, ethics and the arts: they are taught that those ways of seeing the world and understanding it are inferior and useless. Ive seen way too many CS students laugh at these fields. They are taught that their way of seeing the world is not only superior, but complete

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

I can't believe the body isn't even cold on Cs and we have to think about proposing for next year.

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come to work with me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF66...

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grading queue: 30

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

⌨️💾🧚🫡

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

submitted 2 days ago • 661 comments

I use "y'all" in work emails because I refuse to lose my accent. Once, a contractor asked where exactly I was from, and then said "Well we don't hear many accents like that around here anymore." I live inside of Appalachia. And I'll talk Appalachian until the day I die.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I can’t believe I’m going to have to homeschool or put my kid in private school to avoid AI.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

For the nth time: No one needs to be trained to use AI. It's self-explanatory. Students need to be trained not to use it.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

i constantly find myself thinking about people who earned PhDs, then went to work for companies like google, anthropic, etc... to write "AI safety" paper-shaped objects that meanderingly describe and document dangerous things that AI maybe could do someday in the future (if you give us money please)

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Unfortunately my default setting when someone is unkind to me can be summed up as "now we're both crying"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

if you like AI, I am not the one for you

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A quick reminder that there was a massive "pure milk" campaign in the early 20thC., largely organized by women, because children were dying from adulterated milk or TB-infected milk in significant numbers.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

This is why treating schools like job centers where employers can externalize the cost of training will always be a disservice to the public and the economy's long-term health.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I love to be in a field that's like -- "Oh that's [Name], we all know they're lecherous."

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

come work with me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=80Zv...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

grading queue: 41

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

So I can't help but notice that all this brouhaha about single sex spaces and trans exclusion from them is eliding the axiom underlying the panic. Namely: taking the normalization of men's violence against women as a given that cannot be meaningfully ameliorated except through sex-segregation.

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments