one google data center in virginia two million gallons of water per day information only released under court order & risk of contempt

Important study suggesting a link between teachers' use of language rich in strategy suggestions, metacognitive references, and discussion of memory and students' better self-regulated learning behavior growth across first and second grade. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/mac0...

For reference.

“We bombed a school and killed all 100+ students inside because an AI chatbot said it was a military facility” is yet another true thing you can’t say to offline normies without sounding like a crazy person

One of the things that I think will puzzle future historians is how a man who inspired such fanatical cult-like loyalty also made no secret of the fact of his utter contempt for his fans and his total indifference to what happened to them.

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

the discovery process in lawsuits against doge is not going to be kind to them, these guys ruined a lot of people’s livelihoods for the most arbitrary and capricious of reasons, and those people are going to remember that

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

this country's so evil

Setting aside elementary curriculum & instruction for the moment, we've known for decades much of what it takes to encourage reading in and out of school by secondary students regardless of gender, and instead of doing this, we've plied them with edtech, apps, test prep, and devices they carry 24/7.

Teaching exercise that is helpful with my policy students. Based on the solution, hiring this fella to a fancy position and giving him $$$ in this environment, what is the root of skepticism with higher ed that Yale is attempting to solve? Whose skepticism do they seek to assuage?

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

Designing #STEM classrooms where students pause to reflect on their progress and share their learning stories takes intention – but the impact is huge: more engaged, capable and confident learners: https://ow.ly/OH5350XRW4s#STEM#HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky

I often say "who would want to be a higher ed Provost/President in today's climate?" I have known Brian a long time and can imagine the incredible value he and his colleagues bring to leadership development. This is the kind of support that seems essential for #highered leaders, today.

The overlap between places we want to dominate and places that have oil is striking

Why isn't there more shouting about this? This is the USPS undermining mail-in ballots. They find every opportunity to subvert voting and democracy. Ballots, tax returns and other important mail may not get postmarked the day you turn it in, USPS warns www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/p...

No wonder they wanted colonialism off our syllabi

In 2026 let’s normalize masking for public health. If we could admit that with healthcare being gutted, vaccine access restricted and previously eradicated diseases coming back… having an extra layer like a respirator makes good sense. Let’s also normalize not mocking people who mask!

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

once again the best trump rejoinder is “fuck you, make me”

All my admiration to the great @robinince.bsky.social, watching this guy quote James Baldwin and Audrey Lorde as he resigns from the BBC in solidarity with trans people makes me want to stand up and cheer

this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down

Smart thread on larger issues plaguing the world of research and knowledge production- and how reliance on AI for manuscript reviews is a symptom of these larger issues

I’m not sure why AI is so prominent in this article since a historian did the lion’s share of the archival digging and AI simply verified what experts already confirmed. At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...

evergreen

Thank you @sdsirens.bsky.social for gathering your supporters group and making two out-of-town NWSL fans feel right at home at your watch party. It was a blast being with other woso peeps for the final.

This video is so overwhelming I had to sit down & stare at the wall awhile. I was physically shaking. I had heard some of these anecdotes before - Proctorio & Tubman bot - but Tanksley synthesizes them (with much much more), revealing undeniable regime of EdTech racialized surveillance & policing…

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

This is a really good piece on how higher ed employees are affected when their colleagues are laid off. As much of higher ed is tightening its collective belts, this is certainly worth reading.

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything. Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.

Hmmm. Anyone think we’ll now get the punditry class to engage in weeks long debate about the need for the right to moderate and move more to the center to improve its electoral chances? …Anyone??

one problem w/so many analogies is that we intuitively gravitate to useful stuff; there's no easy shorthand for something as obviously counterproductive and disastrous that still tracks. it feels more like saying "DraftKings is collaborating with Cal to register undergrads to bet on course outcomes"

Who would of thought spending nearly $1B on LLM textbooks would get you rubbish?

AI snake oil that could get kids killed www.wbaltv.com/article/stud...

Great article on how the AI bubble is just the latest ed tech grift that's part of a "broader effort to snatch away decision-making power over teaching, learning, and research from subject matter and pedagogy experts and give it to donors and administrators."

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

Think of this as equivalent to removing the merit system from government employment. Your tax dollars deployed to serve the goals of a personalist authoritarian system. All the talk about banning DEI because of merit shown to be nonsense when they also remove merit-based processes.

Just another "Pro-LGBTQ" Democrat coming out very strongly against the trans community. Harris claims she can discriminate against trans girls without vilifying kids, while repeating incorrect transphobic ideas and vilifying kids.

yeah, i’d take an old school recipe card over this any day.

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

also imagine being a graduate student and willingly degrading your own learning by using gAI; it is genuinely alarming to think of how it is going to impact generations of creativity and original thought

“You can have a verbal conversation like you would with a professor” We have office hours for this exact purpose.

I enjoyed it when the student said it doesn't damage her critical thinking skills, and then 2 paragraphs later says she uses it to summarise difficult topics. Students don't know how much this is going to ruin the key skills they're paying a premium at University to develop.