Teddy Roland
Postdoc @ School of Information Sciences, UIUC
American Literature, Media Theory, Data Science
I publish under "Edwin Roland" but don't tell anyone.
- This is the real story. People’s careers were interrupted or destroyed but institutions of Arts & Humanities persist 1/3
- It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow.
- Reposted by Teddy RolandStudents showed me this morning that UIUC has a service where they can run a Jupyter notebook on an H200 backed by 141GB VRAM. Free (for our students). My jaw dropped enough to communicate, I think, that this is not the norm.
- Reposted by Teddy Roland“It became clear to us that if faculty members are to continue to design pedagogy to cultivate human reading and writing, we need to have a say in shaping digital learning environments, and we need tech companies to cooperate." Read the statement at www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...
- Reposted by Teddy RolandMicrosoft Research NYC is hiring a researcher in the space of AI and society!
- This is the moment for public-facing DH! All those projects you worked on that remain trapped on your laptop now can get new life and wide distribution. Claude Code is a game changer for web apps and UI.
- As a media scholar, I must now name a child Telegraph
- One Laptop for Every Child will soon be written off as an experiment from a bygone era of tech-optimism Ending elementary laptop programs is starting to feel like common sense the way smartphone bans in high schools does
- Northeastern bought Mills College in Oakland. Now Vanderbilt buys California College of Arts — based in SF but with a satellite campus in Oakland that has been vacant for a decade. [Thom Yorke voice] 🎵 Big fish eat the little ones 🎵
- oh no I love modernism. I listened to Rite of Spring and fell for it all over again. Now I need to revisit the Golden Bough footnotes to The Waste Land
- Hello, bad science. Allow me to introduce sensational media.
- proud of the scaffolded assignments I developed for this class ... and lamenting the volume of grading I made for myself. Sorry future me!
- 1-in-8 Americans are taking GLP-1s *right now* Just a staggering number of ppl changing their lives and relationships to their bodies … and the environment and economy I genuinely need someone in medical humanities to help me make sense of this
- on reflection, I'm surprised that the phrase "always already artificial" doesn't get kicked around more
- Reposted by Teddy RolandCheck this out. New bestseller list for independent publishers. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
- Reposted by Teddy RolandGreat question! It’s not just about whether or not the gyre is widening – its that the falcon cannot hear the Falconer. In today’s blood-dimmed world, it’s a game-changer that many don’t consider. The kicker? A beast that is rough, slouching, and born.
- Delegate Assembly is sparsely attended this year. Hundreds of seats for observers, but just a dozen or so are filled.
- Each year the MLA budget includes projected revenue from ads in the Job List. In the fiscal year just ended (2024-25), the job ad revenue fell short by an eye-popping 30%
- Reposted by Teddy RolandIf you're headed to #MLA26 in Toronto, come check out these two DYNAMITE panels I'm a part of... On Saturday at 12:00, we've got PUBLIC CANONS, featuring @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, Tess McNulty, and Autumn Womack!
- Reposted by Teddy RolandGetting started with History of the Database today! Ten weeks to get from card catalog to cloud. miriamposner.com/classes/is29...
- Heading out for MLA. If you’re reading this and you’re in Toronto hmu!
- Now officially published! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...
- Reposted by Teddy RolandHarperCollins will use AI to translate Harlequin romance novels. “I will tell you that the author community is up in arms about this, as we are anytime an announcement arrives that involves cutting back on human creativity and ingenuity in order to save money,” author Caroline Lee told 404 Media.
- TIL about micro-dramas. They are such weird fascinating little vignettes of predigested human conflict that I have to think more about the genre. Anyone writing on it? variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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New paper in AI & Society w/ @hoytlong.bsky.social + @teddyroland.bsky.social! We simulated 101 "AI authors" to see how LLMs imagine creativity & cultural distinction + compared them to real historical authors. What do AI authors want & how do they pursue success? link.springer.com/article/10.1... - Reposted by Teddy RolandWelcome to the Public Domain, ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930) 🎭 😂 Nothing to do with soup. The Marx Brothers return in this 1930 adaptation of their stage musical. Laughs abound in the public domain. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
- Reposted by Teddy Roland01 Jan 2026
- Reposted by Teddy RolandChange over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
