Eric Van Wyk (@ericvanwyk on BlueSky)

Professor, Computer Science, University of Minnesota @UMNComputerSci, Extensible Programming Languages, He/His.

[Eric Van Wyk (@ericvanwyk on BlueSky) @ericvanwyk]

Big news @UMNComputerSci - we no longer require - nor accept - GRE scores on graduate applications! If you're interested in programming languages please get in contact. Also here are Gopalan Nadathur and Favonia. Lots of fun and exciting things happening.

[Eric Van Wyk (@ericvanwyk on BlueSky) @ericvanwyk]

RT @semihsalihoglu: Two recent PhD admits to @UWaterloo were recently killed in Gaza. Their names were Sally and Dalia. To honor Sally and…

[University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, AAUP chapter @umn_tc_aaup]

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's Assault on Academic Freedom Harms Us All. https://t.co/XwVIvVs9yf. @mayorfrey @umnews @umncla

[Eric Van Wyk (@ericvanwyk on BlueSky) @ericvanwyk]

So, I'm @ericvanwyk.bsky.social over on Bluesky. Time to say goodbye here. Noticeably more content on Bluesky this week. It feels real this time. https://t.co/f58wrwLl5b

[Irene Zhang @schemeprincess]

The University of Washington CS school is an unsafe environment for women, so as grad application season starts, please tell your students not to apply. There are at least 3 men in the systems lab that have sexually harassed numerous women and they continue to do so.

[Global Black Studies at Duke @DukeAAAS]

A Cornell Graduate Student Faces Deportation After a Pro-Palestine Action

Momodou Taal, who is attending the university with a F-1 visa, was suspended after a September 18 protest under a new policy seeking to quash Gaza solidarity actions.
https://t.co/KeGztTn9B3

[SLE Conference @sleconf]

Call for Participation for the 17th SLE

October 20-21, 2024
Pasadena, California, United States

https://t.co/kFxn02Ww4H
https://t.co/S2rCaxlhY5

[MMitchell @mmitchell_ai]

"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation[...]The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."-@ErykSalvaggio
https://t.co/XXRL6FuVuF

[Shayoni Mitra @ShayoniMitra]

Sorry I was MIA. Was changing the syllabus of my postcolonial drama class to include how the British made some great points, and drew most excellent borders in Kenya, Nigeria and India

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

Tempted to make a bingo card for all the male researchers (and other men famous for their association with "AI") the phrase "stochastic parrots" gets attributed to.

[Aws Albarghouthi @awsTO]

If you include the tens of billions of dollars of aid, too, we’re talking about two Manhattan Projects worth of weapons to slaughter a native population trapped in a reservation.

[Eric Van Wyk (@ericvanwyk on BlueSky) @ericvanwyk]

@cristalopes Walls!

[Sasha Yanshin @sashayanshin]

I just cancelled my Adobe licence after many years as a customer.

The new terms give Adobe "worldwide royalty-free licence to reproduce, display, distribute" or do whatever they want with any content I produce using their software.

This is beyond insane. No creator in their right mind can accept this .

You pay a huge monthly subscription and they want to own your content and your entire business as well.

Going to have to learn some new tools.

[Tijs van der Storm @tvdstorm]

Wrote a poem. Got published in @ieeesoftware 🤪😎
(Proof: https://t.co/dHK7dO6nYs) #software #polyglot #programming #poem

[Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin]

Edward Said, “Representations of the Intellectual”

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Google AI overview suggests adding glue to get cheese to stick to pizza, and it turns out the source is an 11 year old Reddit comment from user F*cksmith 😂

[Matt Lech @MattLech]

This should be every moment of his remaining life.

[olivia ebertz @oliviaebertz]

Reeling from these disciplinary letters, faculty members at @BrownUniversity say administrators are threatening their academic freedom. Many have doubled down on calls for the school to adopt a more expansive model of shared faculty governance.
https://t.co/jeIn1bCNcm

[AYMAN @AymanMSNBC]

As the political establishment and mainstream media pundits attempt to discredit and marginalize Gaza solidarity encampments on U.S. campuses, @AymanM breaks down the false narrative surrounding pro-Palestinian protesters.

[SLE Conference @sleconf]

The Call for Papers for the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE'24) is out!

🔗Check it out here: https://t.co/r2DnmdV6X5

📆Submission deadlines:
- Abstract: June 14, 2024
- Paper: June 24, 2024

[Eric Van Wyk (@ericvanwyk on BlueSky) @ericvanwyk]

@UMNComputerSci I was looking forward to it! But then the administration closed buildings and thus cancelled my last class. So far the greatest disruption to campus life related to the protests has come from the administration.