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make it stop.

People always say "stop doomscrolling," nobody ever says "stop the Doom" Doesn't even cross their minds.

Bad Keyboards Thread: So I like to make intentionally bad keyboards, in part because of my unfulfilled blood feud with mechanical keyboard enthusiasts, but mainly because I like being a chaos gremlin. Most recently, the Juggling Keyboard: bsky.app/profile/foon...

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai "CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

Author copies for Dictating the Agenda: The Authoritarian Resurgence in World Politics by me & @cooleyoneurasia.bsky.social arrived today! If you re-post this by Sept 30 we'll put you in a drawing & send the winner a free signed copy anywhere they happen to be on the planet.

Newsletter: My 16,000 word opus - How To Argue With An AI Booster, a comprehensive guide to arguing with AI boosters, addressing both their bad faith debate style and their specific (and flimsy) arguments as to why generative AI is the future. www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue...

#ECER2025 Belgrade Keynotes will be livestreamed on Wednesday, 10 September and Thursday, 11 September 11:00 – 12:00 (CEST). Click here for info on the speakers and their keynotes and the links to the livestreams. https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2025-belgrade/keynote-speakers

Beyond ourselves with excitement! @crmethodsjnl.bsky.social is LAUNCHED TODAY!!!!

Do you have a project (research, curriculum, advocacy) or want to distribute a call for proposals/chapters/etc? On our contact page is a Blog Post Proposal form - we welcome contributions from our community! www.civicsoftechnology.org/contact

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Bans on words like “female”, “disability” and even “safe drinking water” are part of escalating attacks on #DEI in US higher education. This resource explores how staff can respond with resilience, creativity and care amid the hostility. www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/doing... #Academicsky

Huge shout out to @civicsoftech.bsky.social for their excellent online conference this past week! 👏🏾👏🏾 Also, check out their website which has a true abundance of resources for educators at every level who want to look at tech with a critical eye. www.civicsoftechnology.org

Such a useful and important article when assessing tech for accessibility Disability Dongle: Another Thinking Tool for the Technoskeptical Toolbox. Via @civicsoftech.bsky.social www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/disabil...

Very happy to share this open access publication from myself, @sheenahyland.bsky.social & @geraldineoneill.bsky.social in Educational Action Research - featuring visuals from our collaboration with @visualthinkery.bsky.social

Amazing call for papers!! Culture Machine Vol. 25 Call for Papers: University as Infrastructure culturemachine.net/vol25-cfp-un...

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar 2025: ohhh ok

Speculative methods (specifically speculative fiction) can be used to think about the impact of learning design roles and imagine strange but bright university futures for and of them. #EERAblog. #LearningDesign #EdResearch #EduSci https://blog.eera-ecer.de/the-future-of-learning-design/

📚 Discover the Library at Seamus Heaney HomePlace — a warm and welcoming space to read, write or reflect. Browse over 800 handpicked books and explore the Digital Archive of radio and TV broadcasts featuring Seamus Heaney. Come explore and be inspired.

👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬 Huge congratulations to Dr Edith Kubik, Dr Jing Lyu, Assistant Professor Camille Nadal, Dr John Greaney, and Dr Matteo Leta on securing over €3 million in funding through the Research Ireland Pathway programme. @researchireland.ie www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

📊 How is AI transforming assessment in Irish education? Talk 4 features experts from @micireland.bsky.social‬ & TUS. Join the AI in Education SIG for free at www.t-rex.ie #TREXIreland #AIinAssessment #EdTech #IrishTeachers

Here’s last night’s story about the AI-generated content that’s taking over the internet, why it can be harmful, and the heartbreaking tale of a single AI cat father. He made us feel again. youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc

Super post from @evanshieh.bsky.social in the @civicsoftech.bsky.social newsletter this week! Stop calling it “AI literacy” if it doesn’t teach history www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/stop-ca...

Amazing: MIT researchers revealed how ChatGPT etc are destroying our brains and booby-trapped the report to expose those who want to use AI to ostensibly summarize the results. t.co/JXeTALBPds

"Effective teaching requires strategies beyond matching instruction to supposed preferences, instead focusing on adaptable, evidence-based approaches that support learning." #edtech

This US based work came out in 2018 but I think is a good companion to the current attention to UK commuter students alastore.ala.org/content/acad...

Denmark’s Ministry for Digitalization is looking to get off Microsoft products by the end of the year, starting with the adoption of LibreOffice. It follows similar moves by Copenhagen and Aarhus.

The entire special issue of Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education on Slow Academia is fantastic - just starting to read through! www.peterlang.com/journal/27/7-1

Brilliant: Not at the Same Time: Lalanga/weaving Indigenous, Anti-ableist and Geological Temporalities to Re-think Time in Higher Education (by Sonia Fonua, Tim Baice, Emma Sadera, and David Fa’avae) www.peterlang.com/document/157...

I can’t be at @iltasky.bsky.social #edtech25 in person - but thanks to the flawless livestream, I can watch the @gasta.me in the palm of my hand at 35,000ft!! ✈️ Bravo to all!!

Really interesting work by Dr Fiona Concannon @teltales.bsky.social at #EdTech25 on surveying students about their digital learning experience

You don’t have to be in Dublin to benefit from the online materials at the National Library of Ireland 🌎🌏🌍 I’m in Philadelphia and love this digital access #authors #readers #literature #history

Who's behind our new microfiche scanning livestream? None other than Sophia Tung @sof.is, the creative mind behind the viral robotaxi depot livestream! 🚕 Check out how Sophia pulled it all together, and why the work is so important at this moment in time ⬇️

One of the most important surviving medieval manuscripts written in Irish goes on public display after a two-year long project to conserve it

We’re kicking off our Conference on Misinformation and Disinformation with an opening talk by @sachaltay.bsky.social (University of Zurich): "Rethinking the Problem of Misinformation and Generative AI" Stay tuned for updates throughout the conference! #Philsky

Want to propose a conference session? You can do so here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Or on our conference page: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference Proposals are due by June 14th, will be reviewed, and invitation letters will be sent by early July.

~Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems~ Join us for our 4th Annual Online Virtual Conference! Featuring two amazing keynote speakers: Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social & Chris Gilliard @hypervisible.bsky.social www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/2025-co...

Dereliction is a social crime Call it out #DerelictIreland

Thrilled to see my new article in @pspolisci.bsky.social, published open access on first view today: ‘Student Choice in Assessment: Is There a Subject-Specific Case for Using Assessment Optionality in Political Science Education?’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I can't recommend this exhibit highly enough - the video game is one of the most interesting, engaging, striking, thoughtful, amazing pieces of art/literature that I've seen in quite a while!

Schools are flooded with edtech. But it's not only sold to them. Emerging "edtech brokers" do intermediary work to build teachers' trust in edtech, synchronize their practices to platforms, and shape teachers' professional identities as pedagogic "innovators". New paper doi.org/10.1080/0962...

R.I.P. Jill Sobule and thank you for the music.

Rude! But also what an own goal if you follow to even two possible conclusions a) if everything that fed it is worthless why engage? b) the incentive for authors to create new work is now..? I am being wilfully pedantic but this is one where the parts are better than the sum -show some respect meta

Good morning! I will be posting from the @dcuclimate.bsky.social conference taking place in @dublincityuni.bsky.social in Dublin today. The theme is "dispatches from a changing climate: engaging society through activism, storytelling, and the arts".

SCOOP: I got hold of the absolutely incredible training video the Social Security Administration produced to train staff on how to use the agency's new generative AI chatbot. Watch it, in all its Web 1.0 glory, here: www.wired.com/story/social...