My friend Constanza introduced me to Freddie a while back. He attends a virtual reading group I organize sometimes, and I can affirm that Freddie brings enormous energy, passion, and gratitude to everything he does. You should bring him to your campus! 💜 www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Currently experiencing a weird flutter in my chest. I think it's called....joy?! Hope?! 🥹🥰

Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education." Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT! Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

Actual amount of hatred I have for Daylight Saving Time.

This is so deeply evil, cruel, and cannot possibly be legal.

I haven't read this book, but I feel like this summary gives Maurice a *bit* too much of a pass on his hubristic assumption that isolation at sea was a good thing.

We *loved* having friend-of-CETL (and actual IRL friend!) @geekypedagogy.bsky.social visit us last week. Here's a recap from her session at UM. umcetl.ghost.io/recap-real-t...

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

The (pedagogical) question of how does one ethically engage AI (in the classroom) is sort of like asking how does one ethically engage child labor or burning styrofoam (in the classroom).

"Uncertain," by Maggie Jackson, is available on Kindle for $1.99 today--and it's a book that both came highly recommended (by @dradamame.bsky.social) and that I highly recommend.

Those in #HigherEd who push genAI tools uncritically need the look closely at the ways our national mental health crisis can be accelerated with these tools. Normalizing the use of ChatGPT et al. can make it all the easier for Ss to anthropomorphize the tools, to their detriment.

it would be good if, say, the New York Times reported that all of this stuff is *wildly* illegal under the Hatch Act.

A fabulous dinner after my #SnafuEdu book talk at @olemiss.bsky.social! Huge thank you to the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, @josheyler.bsky.social, @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social & @liznorell.bsky.social for inviting me & to everyone who attended the event.

#CRAEwebinar #archive Supporting Autistic University Students: Policy and Practice with Felicity Sedgewick (3-Oct-24)

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

I just deleted or archived about 125 work emails, and there are no words to capture how much my stress level went down. As someone who experiences a good deal of FOMO and wants to know what's happening, but who also has limited time and bandwidth, managing my inbox is a constant struggle.

Very excited to share a new paper led by my amazing former honors student, @pach-selina.bsky.social, with Silvia Bunge. Selina asked: for kids living in poverty who are high-performers in school, are there downstream mental health risks? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Brb adding this book to my shopping cart. 😎‼️

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

— @thejosevilson.com #EduSky #MathSky #ITeachMath

I'm so excited for this conversation to be out in the world! As a bonus, you can spy Ginger in the background in the video version. 🤣🥰 #ThePresentProfessor toph.at/podcast

Lunchtime Listen! The latest episode of The Agile Academic podcast for women in higher ed is out now! Listen to the conversation with OUP author @liznorell.bsky.social now! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is. There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story. My take: it's giving Enron open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

I actually don't really care if AI is useful/interesting/good for some things in education actually - it is besides these things clearly a big problem already that maybe need listing yet again:

The alarm bells are everywhere, as they have been for a long time with respect to a loneliness epidemic. You can trace this back to Putnam's Bowling Alone. AI will not save us.

Seriously cried actual tears. 🥰 Hope is contagious.

I wrote this blog about how feeling like a killjoy whenever I talk about GenAI. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/o...

I’m naming this a Type 3 error.

This whole thread is amazing, but I especially appreciate @tedmccormick.bsky.social's observation here about humanity and its importance in the face of generative AI soullessness.

New on the UM CETL blog today: A recap of last week's workshop exploring when and why students choose to read for class. You can find lots of great resources, including the slides from the event, at Graduate Teaching Fellow Sarah Ligon's write-up! umcetl.ghost.io/recap-when-a...

Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing, @asv.bsky.social !!

Welcome to the era of “Kavanaugh Raids.” www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely! forms.gle/yscpm2vubiEH...

I've done a lottt of travel this year, and a big shout-out/major kudos goes to the AGLS organizers for offering a conference meal that was delicious and pretty darn inclusive! It's hard to do, and they did it well.

Officially endorse. 😎

Well said. substack.https//substack.co...

Someone please alert the Chief Justice that courtrooms are failing to stop discriminating on the basis of race. 🙄 . Bryan Stevenson is the best of us, and I adore him to bits. I am angry on his behalf for the million tiny cuts he experiences doing heroic work.

This is great. Being a political scientist at the moment is a bit like being a climate scientist a few years back. You can see clearly catastrophe is coming, but most people seem blithely unaware of it

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

I'm listening to Anne Lamott read Bird By Bird. Why has nobody ever told me this book is delightful?!?! 🤣 (joking) . But seriously, I had no idea it would make me snort laugh on a nighttime flight.

I appreciated the piece I read yesterday and again this morning about the importance of talking to students about events unfolding around us. Especially the idea of "rigorous empathy": "to ask why people we disagree with believe what they do, and what fears and hopes animate their positions."

#Disability advocate friends: I thought I bookmarked this site, but now I can't find it -- it was a tool for assessing the accessibility of physical spaces, and it was a checklist of sorts. Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone have a link you can share? Help me jog my memory!

Happy Constitution Day to all who celebrate. (Is it just me? It might just be me.)

Today, @olivia.science and her colleagues speak about their efforts to resist the uncritical adoption of AI in academia. Read all about it in today's blog, and see their open letter below: openletter.earth/open-letter-... www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...

This thread might help folks feel (or even be) safer in these times. 🧵

Really important @TimothySnyder column open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

I need to share a story with y'all about an experience I had today at a @barnesandnoble.com store. I buy from indie stores online or direct from publishers, but I also like having storefronts and my family appreciates the variety of things BN sells. So we sometimes go and browse. /1