Sara Monahan

Spotted outside Sherman, NY @chrisbohjalian.bsky.social

@chrisbohjalian.bsky.social safe travels and good luck as you start your tour for THE AMATEUR today! Hope to see you next week in Doylestown. It’s a little under 2 hours but so is everything when you live in NEPA.

Grief is hard. Healing is intense and takes time. It hurts, but I commend your courage. Be gentle with yourself, please. 🧡

Trump just shrunk Bears Ears by 91% and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 90%. Bears Ears was the first national monument co-managed by tribes. Five tribes spent years building that partnership. It's been walked back. 100,000+ archeological sites now exposed to mining and drilling.

Baruch Dayan HaEmet. Johan Sebastián and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should still be alive.

There’s a technical term for “the most senior Catholic in the U.S. government.” In the Church, they call that a “layperson.”

I want all the absolutely heavenly vibes from New York put straight into my veins

"83% of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. When the LLM group was forced to write without AI in a follow-up session, their brain activity did not bounce back to baseline; the researchers coined the term 'cognitive debt' for the lingering deficit."

While no longer an adjunct (thank god) I am also outside the tenure stream, and let me tell you the angst I feel every May when I get the email titled “Important Information Regarding Your Employment” like first of all could you call it something less ominous

This is what we call “not great, Bob.”

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

@chrisbohjalian.bsky.social thinking of you, your father, your grandfather, and all those who are not here.

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Don’t fuck with Bob from Chicago.

Today is Wednesday, April 8 Good morning ❤️ *deep breath in* eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back *slow exhale out* We are still here. This is still real. Let's build a home for each other and fight like hell.

personally I think "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn" is a bad thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Happy St Patrick's Day to the Irish-American tradition that's about solidarity with oppressed peoples and opposition to imperialism, and *NOT* to the part that's about integration into American whiteness via exercises in domineering racism.

This is who we’ve always been

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why: They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course. The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

An associate dean told English faculty “literature with major plot lines that concern gay, lesbian or transgender identities should not be taught in core-curriculum classes…faculty may assign textbooks with chapters that cover transgender identity, so long as they do not talk about the material.”🙃

Today is Monday, Jan 5 Good morning ❤️ Well, the regime sure chose a hell of a way to start the year. And our job remains: eat take your meds hydrate tell your people you love them let them love you back We are here. This is real. Let's build a home for each other & fight like hell.

Deep is a wise and lovely former colleague. When he speaks, listen.

By any reasonable historical standard — including that of the technology industry! — ChatGPT should be pulled from the market and its product managers and executives held accountable for creating a product that ROUTINELY tells teens to kill themselves. This is a basic, common sense standard.

“Whale hive, do your thing”

It's utterly insane, but statistically probably unsurprising, that there was more than one Brown student who had previously experienced a mass school shooting, including one who was actually shot, @miatretta.bsky.social. It doesn't have to be this way.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

Wait. So he knew about the island and refused to go, but didn’t say anything to anyone about what he knew was going on there?

Now it’s a party.

I’m not sure what this list was for but it seems like a good time

Drove by an establishment in France called ‘Pain and Snacking’, which also happens to be my writing process.

People reallye ynto Gen AI summaryes seeme to thynke of bookes as annoyinge litel labyrinths whose onlye benefit ys that thei leade to a tastye magical glowing orb called "informacioun" that when consumed doth turne you into a man wyth a bow tie and the righte to talke over everyone else.

We have had a lot of conversations in my department about how to deconstruct the idea of an essay as a “product” and reconstruct what we were always using it for to begin with: how to teach critical thinking, audience analysis, support with evidence, research, source evaluation and scrutiny, etc.

Be safe, my Midwest babies. Wish I were home with you.