Saachi, 12, is a head-strong, confident 6th grader when the book opens, but soon she finds herself increasingly frustrated as the social dynamics of elementary school seem to unravel before her eyes. n.pr/4vL9imh

For @npr.org I reviewed a new middle grade graphic novel: Opting Out by Maia Kobabe and co-creator Swati "Lucky" Srikumar www.npr.org/2026/07/02/n...

Using AI to automate aspects of a teacher's job because they have too many students is not a solution to the problem of too many students. It is a choice to accept a degraded atmosphere by using an oxygen mask, rather than working to make the conditions conducive to the humans inside the system.

This is the way (now do all kids).

Enjoyed talking to @jonallsop.bsky.social at @newyorker.com about the recent attacks on public media. Instead of showing why we can’t let government support journalism, this moment shows precisely why we need a strong public media system that can withstand autocracy www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Hi new friends! We broke 1000 followers - that’s fun! Next week we’re going to win a moratorium for kids in NYC public schools. And we’re going to help our friends in LA do it too. Every kid in this country deserves human learning.

Our bicostal allies - the Schools Beyond Screens LA group - have launched their own peititon for an AI moratorium! Let's help them get this done! @gregpak.net @climatefamsnyc.bsky.social @comixaction.com @charleswlogan.bsky.social @lbyock.bsky.social

We are very excited that our new issue, "Writing in the 21st Century," is out today. Abstracts are posted on socres.org. And you can read the issue on Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5... 1/3

Loved writing/thinking about @vauhinivara.bsky.social. Here's an article published just yesterday in Social Research, a special issue on Writing in the 21st Century. "Reading, and Writing, With Judgment: Vauhini Vara's "Ghosts," GPT-3, and Autobiographical Expressions of Everyday Grief

Wow: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Contributions by: ☞ Regina Rini ☞ Matthew Kirschenbaum ☞ John Cayley ☞ Jeff Dolven ☞ Daniel Anderson and Matthew Duncan ☞ Tahneer Oksman ☞ Nancy K. Miller ☞ Otto Kruse ☞ Charles Bazerman Full texts here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/5... 3/3

Tonight! So excited for this!!

Joined the Tech Report to talk about AI ROI and the death drive toward IPO so that investors can dump these terrible companies onto the public markets. youtu.be/qoZvYPYwuhc?...

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Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

✏️ Regina Rini ✏️ Matthew Kirschenbaum ✏️ John Cayley ✏️ Jeff Dolven ✏️ Daniel Anderson and Matthew Duncan ✏️ Tahneer Oksman ✏️ Nancy K. Miller ✏️ Otto Kruse ✏️ Charles Bazerman 2/2

‼️ Our next issue, "Writing in the 21st Century," is at the printer, expected to come out in early June. ‼️ With amazing, very timely writing by: 1/2

The best editor!! This was so much fun!

Chronic explores new ways to live with, and understand the challenges of chronic illness. Join us for this launch! centerforthehumanities.org/event/wsq-ch... @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @feministpress.bsky.social @tahneeroksman.bsky.social @mathewrodriguez.bsky.social @kateschnur.bsky.social

A scroll through someone’s chat queries may paint an incredibly intimate, hyper-personalized portrait of them and their world, from their daily activities to their inner life. For OpenAI, that's information they have users' tacit consent to collect, store, and share. futurism.com/artificial-i...

incredible news!! and so needed!!

Sometimes when I bug my kid especially hard about needing to read more, I picture myself as Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2, preparing her child to save the world post-apocalypse

We heard from a reliable source that dads of Brooklyn were passing around our AI literacy reading list at a bar last night. Here it is again, in case you too need something to chat about at your social gatherings 😂 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Agreed!

This is great! Feel free to take the money for libraries out of what the DOE has earmarked for AI…

So proud of our district 15 friends for doing this work! We love yall! 💜 (previous post rewritten for clarity because Bluesky refuses to give us edit buttons…)

This just in — District 15 becomes the SIXTH CEC to pass a resolution calling for a moratorium. And a little birdie tells me more are on the way this month. @mayor.nyc.gov when will you listen to the folks in this city?

Know why using AI for “research” is bad? Because sources (where information comes from) matter. Full stop.

I’m proud of this special issue of Women's Studies Quarterly, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller: Chronic. This special issue of WSQ takes the contemporary phenomenon of long COVID as its point of departure to consider the social, affective, and political consequences of living with chronic illness.

I'm still waiting for my copy but so happy to see our special issue in the hands of its fantastic authors!!!!

Went to used bookstore today. Shelves are looking sparse. Asked the old lady owner if they're closing. They're not closing, she said they just can't keep books in stock because they're flying off the shelves faster than they're coming in.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Ling Ma’s Severance should be adapted into a film—not because the book isn’t brilliant as is but because it feels like it would make such a great film. Why isn’t it? (I guess for one you’d have to rename it.)

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

Is it any wonder? I have always been a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age, same height, share the same values, but she can sing better. And she has more Grammys. I've always wanted to meet her!

I hate that contract negotiations are not going better, but this is where we are. Today my colleagues and I @propublica.org are walking out. We need management to come to the table with more serious contract proposals that address our real concerns about discipline, job protections and fair wages.

Happy to see the "mainstreaming" of a more thoughtful accounting on whether or not certain technologies in the classroom are actually serving pedagogical goals or in fact harming/getting in the way of student learning: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/t...

NBCC member Leigh Haber wrote a profile of Tayari Jones for the Los Angeles Times:

Glad to see @redgoldsparks.bsky.social’s brilliant Gender Queer in this list. As the most banned book in the US for several year’s running, it’s clearly had a profound impact.

When the Chicago Public School System admins tried to ban Persepolis, students fought back. Up on @npr.org is my review of a graphic novel--WAKE NOW IN THE FIRE--a fictionalized version of real life events: www.npr.org/2026/03/12/n...

Looking forward to my upcoming book talk with the CUNY Academy next Wednesday, March 4 @ 2pm. Zoom details here and below; ignore the big photo of my face! www.shorturl.at/gFUbd

Thank you to @forward.com for sharing HBI's new exhibition WHO WILL DRAW OUR HISTORY? WOMEN’S GRAPHIC NARRATIVES OF THE HOLOCAUST, 1944-1949, guest curated by historian Rachel Perry. forward.com/yiddish/8055... #yiddish #jewishwomen #jewishhistory #holocaust #jewsky #holocaustsurvivor #brandeis

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

What???????????????/

Join HBI tomorrow, Tuesday, 4 PM EST online for a special panel discussion on Jewish Women's Graphic Novels about the Holocaust with Rachel Perry, Victoria Aarons, @tahneeroksman.bsky.social and @cschallie.bsky.social. bit.ly/JewishWomens...

Fantastic preview of just the START of the year in comics publishing from The Beat's Nancy Powell. So many incredible books coming out.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Next Friday at Bryn Mawr!! I can’t wait!