# @feministscience on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65473699-feministscience-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-02-09T19:24:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Feminist Science (@feministscience) — https://gondola.cc/feministscience

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For decades colleges resisted technology in the classroom--made us write computer code in Blue Books, banned cell phones & calculators in class, and were so paranoid about us cheating they made a student take off her rainboots before a chem exam. I only was allowed to use a laptop once in class for an exam in 2017 in a grad school teaching class. 

They made us feel like FAILURES for typos or missing a semicolon in a computer code but allowed us no tools as it was equated with 'cheating'. 

I work in academia and nitpicking and heavy critique are norms; but now they are just throwing their hands up and embracing LLMs--using them to revise manuscripts, write grants, and incorporating it into classes.

This is what the systemic devaluing of humanities has wrought.

Oh yeah, #bringbackcursive so students can handwrite exams again without hurting themselves.

#aisucks #womeninSTEM #academia #collegelife #womeninsteam #academicwomen #highererducation
#feministscience #womeninstem #womeninsteam #highereducation #academicwomen #equityinscience #feminism #academicfeminism #sciencefeminism #feministsciencestudies 

Read more on my AI thoughts on my FREE #feministsciencesubstack 

https://feministscientist.substack.com/p/when-computers-talk-part-2

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