Lisa Lebduska

Professor, writer, gardener. Opinions my own.

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

A Heron's Garden announces Coast to Coast: A Young Family Celebrates America, describing how a 1971 family of 6 (kids all under the age of 10) traveled the US in a camper. No broken bones. No divorces. Lots of learning.

https://t.co/iPMqtZm47z
#family #camping #nostalgia #garden

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

#Wheatonma post-convocation barbecue. Biology professor Juvenal Lopez delivered an inspiring speech about experience and the college's WOSS program, aimed at diversifying STEM and reducing barriers to entry into # STEM.

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

Uruguay's Pepe Mujica: "What meaning can we give to life? Man, compared to other animals, has the ability to find a purpose.
Or not. If you don’t find it, the market will have you paying bills the rest of your life."
New York Times. https://t.co/5k83Lwi8BI

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

ChatGPT And Generative AI Innovations Are Creating Sustainability Havoc via @forbes https://t.co/cKUnXrw88o

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

@outerridge Examine environmental effects. Forbes: "ChatGPT consumes over half a million kilowatts of electricity [daily], an amount staggering enough to service about 200 million requests... daily power usage is nearly equal to 180,000 U.S. households, each using abt 29 kilowatts" #chatgpt

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

So much to discover, so much to say. Whose machines, whose programs; what new foundations can be built?

[National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) @ncte]

The Call for Proposals is now available for the 2024 @NCTE_CCCC Fall Virtual Institute: Machine Writing and the Work of Rhetoric and Composition. Deadline: August 9, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. ET—ONE MONTH FROM TODAY! Learn more: https://t.co/bP78I3PBk0

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

@RosenzweigJane Brilliant. Thanks so much for this. I'm going to track it down and see how I can work it into at least one of my classes.

[Adam X. McNeil, PhD (aka Metaphors & Memes) @CulturedModesty]

The Department of African American and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park is recruiting a tenure-track Assistant Professor. The department is seeking to strengthen its capacity in political economy, racial wealth gap, and economic history.

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

#HBCU Fellowships for students and faculty
https://t.co/RrliqrVram

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

@latinoauthor I would love to take you for a celebratory lunch and will ask only for 1 autograph.

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

Congratulations Jose! You. A Pushcart. Yes!
https://t.co/AZC4xaNzIi

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

@RosenzweigJane The implication, too, is that what came before was of no value and no use; nothing about it was worthy of preservation or adaptation or even salvage. The least creative approach to a problem is to crush the life out of it and discard it.

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

High school juniors and seniors, you could study here for 4 weeks this summer. #WheatonMA . Check out the #precollege program via the Wheaton website. Questions about applying Email [email protected]

[Kari Cobham @KariWrites]

.@19thnews is recruiting for our next cohort of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Fellows!

The program gives recent grads, mid-career alums and former HBCU students a full-year-salaried-w/-benefits job in reporting, audience and product.

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

Yes to Firth's extended analogy, to which I'd add that writers, like Columbo, often return to say, "there's just one more thing." #WritingCommunity

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

In the same way that the detective spends each episode working to uncover what he doesn’t know, the essayist does the same. What you don’t know is the place to explore with personal essay—expansive, unchartered, revelatory territory." ~ @AndreaAFirth https://t.co/Vu6I327JSS

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

Blair quotes Noble:"I do not know if an editor ever told John Wilford Noble, 'If God gives you a lead, don’t mess it up.' But he followed that advice nevertheless with this lead:

'Men have landed and walked on the moon."
#writingtips

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

"Keep that first sentence short. Roughly 20 words is a good target, though, as I will demonstrate momentarily, longer sentences can work when the rhythm is right and the meaning clear." ~ Ronnie Blair
https://t.co/9v2qztin7s

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

How does a human "scan" for accuracy? asking for a friend. #AI

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

Eco writers. This. Along with a re-thinking of language. Why say land is "developed" when its tress have been destroyed?
You can read it for free without a subscription. https://t.co/lbQYghkrX9
#environment #ecology

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

Authors note AI makes us ask :"What are our core capabilities as humans?" I'd add: ethics & a sense of fairness, and I'd not label those "soft skills."
https://t.co/aP0SYG2Zmi
#AI #ChatGPT

[Lisa Lebduska @lisalebduska]

@The_Big_Quiet Could it have been the work of
https://t.co/73EDCxGNdd