Writing about your life? “To farm it out to a machine that trawls the internet and cobbles together a fake version of you is not just academic dishonesty, it’s a broader degradation of our memories and our humanity.” - The New York Times
Admission of desire for revenge on the page also reeks of shame: it’s the thing that every writer—certainly every memoirist—grapples with but generally never talks about. - LitHub
In 2024, more than 4,600 academic papers were retracted or otherwise flagged for review, according to the Retraction Watch database; during a six-week span last fall, one scientific journal published by Springer Nature retracted more than 200 articles. - InsideHigherEd
The agency provides financial support to a wide array of cultural and educational institutions, including art, science and history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and historic sites. Libraries of all types – public, academic, school and research – also benefit from the agency’s funding. - The Conversation
"I am committed to steering this organization in lockstep with this Administration to enhance efficiency and foster innovation," Keith Sonderling wrote in a press release. - NPR
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House, built in 1904, has been declared a heritage site on both sides of the border and has long been considered a symbol of harmony between Canada and the U.S. The border line literally runs across the floor of the building. - CBC
Navalny’s Patriot, released eight months after his death in a Russian prison, took the autobiography prize. Matar’s My Friends beat Percival Everett’s James for fiction; Carson’s collection Wrong Norma won for poetry; Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space won for nonfiction. - AP
These particular artifacts mostly demonstrate that the people running the empire day-to-day were (pick one or both) thorough, detail-oriented administrators or obsessive bureaucrats. - The Observer (UK)
"There’s also been a noticeable uptick in conversations among shoppers about the general plight of federal workers and the precarity of government employment these days.” - Publishers Weekly
“The phrase, which has religious origins, appeared in hundreds of works before Austen was born. From Britain it traveled to America, and from religious tomes it expanded to secular works. It even became a hallmark of abolitionist writing.” - The Conversation
As a history and literature concentrator, most of my humanities courses strictly prohibit generative AI, viewing it as a shortcut that undermines learning. But it seems that AI is here to stay—so how can generative AI coexist with the goals of humanities education, and what does this mean for the future of writing? - HarvardMagazine
The unique selling point of the publisher, launched in 2011 by QI researchers John Mitchinson and Justin Pollard, and Crap Towns author Dan Kieran, was that it allowed writers to pitch ideas online directly to readers. - The Guardian
