Manifesting Dr. Tara

Born and bred in LA. Phd Candidate at UC Santa Barbara in 20th century US History, African American History, African American humor, Race and Ethnicity

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

@TiredBambooLaw She might as well live on the moon. I live in DTLA and dating anyone west of K-town requires a kind of energy and budget I do not possess at the moment. 😂

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

None of this is new. This was the mindset when people were buying papers 10 years ago. Asking someone to defend their own work is a part of the process. If I gave a student a C and they felt they deserved an A, it would be on the student to come challenge the grade after class.

[baldylocks @upintheAeris]

This “guilty until proven innocent because of AI and you should be happy about it” mindset is shocking

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

Who has the time to do what is necessary to make sure you get a good grade on the essay you supposedly worked really hard on when it’s flagged for Gen AI? Why should you pretend to care about a place you applied to get into…a place you asked to be in?

[North Badu @Haliwa_Saponi]

Asking a student to make time to come to office hrs to tell you what a paper is about (when they don’t need or want your help) is nuts when you could do your job and just read the paper…

This is why so many ppl are turning away from traditional school. Who has the time?

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

If you don’t show up to defend yourself, then yes she will fail you because the AI app told her to. That’s how this works.

[BIG UNC @CJ_Urbane]

Or what? she's gonna fail me because an AI app told her to. Let's see what happens then. Y'all be letting these professors treat y'all like anything, huh

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

Why does everyone keep taking it back to “why should we have to read the source” when the issue is ppl citing sources that aren’t real? If you even glanced at it you would know it’s not real. No one is asking STEM to read cover to cover, merely to verify sources before publishing

[Serafim Batzoglou @s_batzoglou]

@michaelbilleaux To be a successful PI in bio it usually (not always) requires writing 10-20 high profile papers a year, each one with ~80 citations. No bio PI reads each one of these citations cover to cover. That would be absurd.

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

Write your essay with a program that saves your document history (word, google doc). If your prof or TA flags it, you can send them the document history that shows how the document changed as you wrote it. Also, being able to speak on your work with referring to it helps.

[kitty @kittykareninas]

i hate ai detection programs so much. my fully HUMAN WRITTEN essay shows up as 87% ai written. what are you even supposed to do if your teacher brings it up? how can you disprove them?

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

Currently writing my dissertation and I have yet to cite a source I didn’t read. I would like to point out that his side of college campuses get WAY MORE money than mine and he’s out here asking why he gotta read sources…

[James Miller @JimDMiller]

I've gotten a lot of comments like this, so forgive me if this isn't very kind, but I'm at my limit. If you're a serious academic, you've spent a lot of time looking at citations, and you know they often contain errors. You know that it's very common for professors just to copy citations they found in other papers and put them into their own papers because they need a lot of citations to look credible. Given that this is going on, it's kind of silly to think that we should have a kind of death penalty for having an LLM, hallucination mistake What you're doing is virtue signaling and pretending that citations are somehow sacred to what academics do, when in fact they're mostly just poorly put up window dressing. You're being dishonest. Perhaps with yourself, perhaps with me.

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

If this is the world we live in now and PIs can’t be trusted then yeah. You’re talking about one source from years ago and people are talking about robots generating sources out of thin air. If this is the new AI dominated dystopian future stem threatened us all with then yes.

[Lenka Zdeborova @zdeborova]

@eiszett Have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess.

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

Rose isn’t a boomer. She was born in 1895. She’s a Gilded Age baby. This is a level of excess and extravagance that would make even baby boomers clutch their pearls. Chucking $100 million in the ocean ain’t nothing to her. She was dining with an Astor.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

I used to think this ending was unrealistic

why would anyone just throw away $1,000,000s of dollar worth of their children and grandchildren’s inheritance for a brief moment of relief

then i learned about boomers and it all made sense

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

@cobratatts @ImDBro @solarystix You said teenage didn’t exist. I clarified that it did. Now you are moviing the goal post. Mildred and Richard are a weird case and no one in this U.S. historical field celebrates them. We just teach the history — their case led to anti miscegenation laws to be overturned.

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

@cobratatts @ImDBro @solarystix Actual US historian here. Teenagers were a thing in the 1950s. Life magazine wrote whole articles about teenagers in high school. Happy Days from the 1970s was about teenagers in the 1950s. Teenage existed in the 1950s https://t.co/YStPTigmMY

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

Her being unmarried and alone, thus lacking protection from all the people accusing her of kidnapping these children, is a major point in this film. She’s considered a witch — a term historically used to demonize unmarried women. That’s why it was written on her car 🤷🏽‍♀️

[Isobel Fox @pet_wife]

@sadhydra i saw the film. the character being unmarried had little if any salience

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

As a U.S. historian, this makes me so mad because what do you mean you couldn’t understand violence being the answer when it took a violent civil war to end slavery? Nonviolent resistance didn’t end it.

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

Stem majors tend to not do well in history 🤷🏽‍♀️

[XMT @metal25x]

@ppyowna You will never hear a Math major say "My English and History classes are too difficult"

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

1800s? Imagine showing this to someone from 1995 😂

[dee @everpascal]

my god… imagine showing this to someone from the 1800s😭

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

There’s so many different things wrong with these lyrics it’s hard to pick just one and start… 😬

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Jessie Murph performs “1965” on ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.’

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

I’m screaming 😂

[Manifesting Dr. Tara @Lastate_ofmind]

A specific segment of Gen Z is acting like scam calls are a specific generational problem they faced instead something that’s been happening since the invention of the telephone in 1876. Robocalls, or automated phone solicitation began in 1977. None of this is new, actually.

[the afterist @the_afterist]

@offbeatorbit What is proper etiquette when like 80% of the phone calls you’ve received in your life are automated and triggered by you saying something? I can’t bring myself to blame the people answering when it’s the environment that’s awful

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

A country built by immigrants is now treating its newest class of immigrants like second-class citizens. From Ellis Island to ICE raids, the flag waves the same, but the welcome mat keeps getting pulled.