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

I'm a longtime reader/appreciator of @deandad.bsky.social's column in @insidehighered.com and am so glad it's back! He asked his fellow #PoliticalScientists about how they'd teach American Government in Trump II. His piece on how readers responded is lovely: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Today, I gave a talk about authenticity and presence during "turbulent times," a talk I've given many times before. This week has been particularly so--turbulent, that is. Audrey Watters's newsletter this morning was front of mind throughout. I am weary of the turbulence and fear what's ahead.

I cannot emphasize enough how much I needed this video today.

I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078

Does your university have policies around students recording professors without consent?

Preorder "Transformative Coaching for Faculty & Staff in Higher Education," an edited volume in which I have two chapters. Thanks to Karen Gonzalez Rice, Susan Hrach, Katie Linder, and Kitty Maynard for editing such a rich collection! Out Sept. 30! www.routledge.com/Transformati...

A Hero’s Journey

Loving the introduction to Rachel Toor's new column in @insidehighered.com -- too many great lines to quote them all! Here's one, though: "everything else in our society has changed while [higher ed] remain[s] --conservative-- stolidly averse to adaptation." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I'm grateful that I co-edit a journal that isn't owned by a for-profit, so we don't have AI licensing things to manage. But everything else here is true--a steadily increasing submissions rate, challenges finding reviewers, managing it all, to say nothing of trying to be proactive w/the journal.

We need more of this.

In this short piece, I lean on embodied cog sci to argue that we should refuse & resist llms in education (pp. 53-58) unesdoc.unesco.org/in/documentV... "the classroom is an environment where love, trust, empathy, care & humility are fostered & mutually cultivated through dialogical interactions"

This is not a fever dream -- it's real, and it's the kind of action that I'm willing to throw $3 at. More of this, please.

"(That relaxed attitude about bodily autonomy comes as something of a surprise, given the state’s six-week abortion ban, but this is America, where you can do anything with your body unless there’s a uterus in it.)" Dark humor is sometimes the only kind available. Thanks @petridishes.bsky.social

Third & final post in my series on Neurodivergence and Alternative Grading w/ @empittsdonahoe.bsky.social We share some of our thoughts on how to make alt-grading more neurodiversity-informed, based on our research and conversations, plus ideas for future research open.substack.com/pub/beyondth...

This post and its many replies are 🤌🏻🥰

Thank you, @biblioracle.bsky.social, for continuing to be the conscience of #HigherEd: "It is amazing to see accomplished people treat the president of the United States like a toddler in need of a level of affirmation that would make Stuart Smalley blush." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I'm not sure how or when I subscribed to this Substack, but I'm pretty shocked by the cocky assertions of someone who hasn't spent significant time in the classroom (from what I can gather from his LinkedIn). What a dim view of Ss--and humans--he holds. thecheatsheet.substack.com/p/392-nyus-e...

Thanks to @ndg3.bsky.social for sharing this awesome first day of class activity! It's called Learning Together, and it involves students responding to three questions.... (1/2) #HigherEd #Academia #EduSky #FirstDayOfClass #AcademicSky #FacDev #EdDev

It's been a frustrating day re: social media, as Bluesky is no longer available in Mississippi, which is where I spend most of the work week. I can't quite wrap my head around how or why Republican-controlled states afford citizens fewer civil liberties. 🫠 Anyway, glad I've sorted out a VPN.

Day 1 teaching American politics in fall 2025 at @georgemasonu.bsky.social. I used PollEverywhere and asked students to describe the state of US politics and govt today. Left cloud is from the Intro students; Right is from the senior seminar. It's going to be a great semester.

This is *EXACTLY* how I see my piles and bookcases of unread books.

Sorry, y'all, our summer is now at least two weeks longer. 🤷‍♀️

Our latest UM CETL blog post recaps our welcome week workshops for instructors and includes great resources on, among other things, equitable teaching in STEM and introducing your syllabus to students. Happy fall semester, all! #BackToSchool #EduSky umcetl.ghost.io/recap-welcom...

Ok this looks amazing! #AddToCart

It’s been way too busy around here so I haven’t posted, but…my new book came out last week! It’s called One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Celebrate #ConstitutionDay right by joining this discussion on birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed in the 14th Amendment. #KnowYourRights

This was a great webinar by @BrennanCenter on the state of the Voting Rights Act, redistricting, and more circa 2025. www.youtube.com/live/JApY2D8...

I could have never predicted that there's apparently a "gold mine" in the market for ant smuggling. 👀

Come for the article, stay for the scholarly research in the responses. 🤩

My brain had a *REALLY* hard time parsing this headline. For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why the United Kingdom would ever be reasonably expected to comply with the state of Kentucky's anti-DEI law. I probably read it five times before I understood UK=Univ. of Kentucky.

If there's an entrepreneurial/artistic type out there, I'm just saying that you could probably sell the heck out of enamel pins that read, for example, "I AM a divisive concept." See: anti-DEI bills in the US south.

I love, love, love this piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social (sidenote: raise high the buff! raise high the blue!)

This piece is so, so thoughtful. May we all think so intentionally about the pedagogy of how we orient within and occupy spaces, particularly in this time of creeping-then-accelerating authoritarianism.

Great advice for educators in this 🧵

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

Always a must listen!!!

Fwiw, there is nowhere I'd rather spend time right now than in the "treehouse of gloom," at least not when @mjsdc.bsky.social @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and Mediba Dennie are my plusketeer friends. #Slate #Amicus @slate.com

my statement on Ai from the mini-comic I'm making as syllabus for a new class I'm teaching this fall. It's simple, but I pretty much said all I have to say on it - it robs you of decisions and struggle - and the joy of being surprised. It robs you of learning...

Co-sign this entire thread but especially this part.

I'm not generally a fan of Brian on #BachelorInParadise, but he absolutely did the right thing. Wells is right -- this isn't bro code, it's douchebag code. These guys are wrong to blame Brian. The only person's opinion I care about is Bailey's.

Everything about this is fantastic. 🥰

Oh woooooow. This is such a cool opportunity!