Hey guess what?! Today I passed my national registry exam and I’m officially an EMT! Probably one of the few former literature profs to join an ambulance crew. You’re never too old to try new, batshit loopy things, people!
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Robin DeRosa
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I’m at my first conference in my new Executive Director role trying to fake that I am a grown-up and professional being, when the presenter pops this slide up and I am exposed for the wise deep thinker that I am. #oer
I just logged into an account I have, and the URL had "authuser" at the end, and for a moment I misread, and assumed I had named myself "Althusser" in the application. You can take the girl out of literary theory, but apparently you can't take the literary theory out of the girl.
Thousands of AI‑written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel‑writing machines’ https://theconversation.com/thousands-of-ai-written-edited-or-polished-books-are-being-sold-an-eerie-echo-of-orwells-novel-writing-machines-276008
To say that I am not a fan of AI in education is both a gross understatement and a massive oversimplification, but perhaps still useful shorthand as I let you know that I will be keynoting this AI + OER Institute in August. It is free, virtual, and open to all: https://cptc.libguides.com/TLC/AIOER2026
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@rgulick note that my excellent uni has world-renowned experts on cybersecurity, and highly skilled instructional designers. But all of this was farmed out to a third party, which is why it could hardly run inside our canvas without everything breaking. Another example of how we hire consultants to sell us what we could do better ourselves but think we can’t “afford” to support internally.
I’m traveling from NH to MN today to meet some of the team at my new job. I’ve already done the first carpool leg and I’m onto the bus now! Airplane to come! Expected 10 more hours of joyful journeying. Buckle up and join me for a thread of observation, consternation, and transportation! 🚗 🚍 ✈️
In a couple of weeks, I'm headed to #Ireland for the first time. Renting a car and visiting: Cork, Dingle, Doolin, Kinvara, Galway, Rock of Cashel, and Clonmel in County Tipperary.
Anything you want to suggest along that route, have at it!
"Through the framework of vocational awe, I will explore how an expanded workload created by the implementation of generative AI can lead those in higher education to burnout."
AI Fatigue and Vocational Awe in Academic Libraries by Greyson Pasiak https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/03/04/guest-post-ai-fatigue-and-vocational-awe-in-academic-libraries/
I am stumbling my way from the US to Europe through a variety of airports and the amount of facial recognition scanning is sucking away my will to exist. We could have built any world we wanted. Gahhhhh
Hope Is a Choice: Practical Tips for Avoiding Despair - Choice 360 https://www.choice360.org/tie-post/hope-is-a-choice-practical-tips-for-avoiding-despair/
Perhaps this mandatory PI training from my institution is going to be more time-consuming than I first imagined it would be...
"Our students here in West Virginia would rather buy feed for their animals than textbooks, and you can't really blame them there." Taylor Miltenberger, Blue Ridge Community & Technical College
Taylor's work on OER and digital connectivity in WV is fantastic. Really impressed and excited for it to be published.
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@nyhan@fediscience.org The co-opting of "open" for things that are the opposite of inclusive, access-oriented, and in service of the common good. It's why we have to lead with values rather than tools/tricks/tech.
The Britney Spears soundtrack playing under this fancy hotel breakfast in Ireland is 🔥
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I nimbly pop up and leave both men alone and stupid and find a row all to myself and sprawl out.
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Pro tip: if you want to go from looking like Adam Sandler late for a bus to Adam Sandler watching his pet dog get hit by a bus, try watching Hamnet on your first flight of the day. Really adds to the fashion statement, all the bawling and puffy red face and such.
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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @nyhan@fediscience.org yeah free is not the same as open. I would also argue that free and openly-licensed is not the same as "open" as I understand it. This is all going to be even thornier as AI scrapes everything and regurgitates it out as free and public domain. Becomes even more important to really name what we think is important about our vision for the future of "open" education.
Just finished reading The Correspondent on the bus. A bus is far from the worst place for crying, luckily.
What a book.
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@ZS SCORM was a new term for me and it was at the root of the whole fiasco I have learned
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Or I stay in the middle and contemplate my options for the full duration of the flight, while silently fuming and wondering why some people—meaning both the man and myself—can’t just make a move to clearly improve their own lives.
And then write a thread about it here.
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I ask the man to BE A MAN AND HAVE THE BALLS TO GET HIMSELF A ROW FOR HIMSELF
Also I am on day one of a two week trip and I like to read big fat print books on trips even though they’re heavy and I left my big fat print book on the first plane and now I am bookless and I was very worried about losing my passport WHO LOSES A 600 PAGE HARDCOVER BOOK????? Gahhhhhh
@funnymonkey@freeradical.zone like Adam Sandler on time for the bus??
An illustrated guide to resisting "AI is inevitable" in education
https://buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/an-illustrated-guide-to-resisting
Library on Quebec-Vermont border gets new entrance after U.S. limited access for Canadians https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/historic-library-straddling-canada-us-border-gets-new-door-after-trump-admin-limited-access/
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My guy and I lumber awkwardly out of the tiny row and climb over this man and go find space.
It's Indie Bookstore Day and https://bookshop.org/ is giving free shipping all weekend. Just FYI!
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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @nyhan@fediscience.org (And neither free as in freedom nor free as in no-cost is accurately ascribed to "free" AI outputs.]
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@kfitz@hcommons.social it was so good on a million levels! (FYI the other one (House in the Pines) was awful! And I like most everything!)
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@cogdog@cosocial.ca Also at first I actually thought oh this is going to be brilliant, what a terrific way to teach students how problematic AI is and maybe even critique textbooks, power, pedagogy, etc. But no. Just the opposite GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Florida uses public universities to build conservative civics pipeline ahead of ‘America 250’ https://prismreports.org/2026/05/06/america-250-civics-education-florida/
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@cogdog@cosocial.ca So many things wrong with this, it's hard to know where to begin gahhhh