If I hear one more university leader say they're making "tough decisions" about redundancies or worsening our employment conditions, I will scream. They are not making tough choices, they're making the easiest decisions in the world. Tough decisions would be fighting the inevitability of job losses

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

AI is being built into hiring, housing, medicine, courts, classrooms-the institutions social science has spent more than a century studying. Social science didn't invent AI, but the social worlds AI is trained on, sold into, and reshaping-those are ours. The future of AI is a social science problem.

Amazing that after decades of hype about tech in education, we still have to get Larry Cuban back out reminding everyone that tech has *never* transformed the classroom or helped reform teaching - and no, AI doesn't make it different this time larrycuban.wordpress.com/2026/05/16/l...

If big tech and edtech firms are treating schools as public testbeds and trial sites for their AI technologies, then are they going to make the data available for independent analysis? Because there are real risks here of marking their own homework.

This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people 3 people are producing most toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive and amplified by engagement based algorithms. The other 97 quiet voices disappear thenoisyroom.com

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Once you've discovered the features of AI, it's time to put the technology to work and transfer your skills across domains. #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation#AIEdu#AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu

Student Success | Teaching AI by Doing, Not Studying A new library-based initiative at the University of Virginia embeds hands-on AI learning and workforce skills across disciplines. https://bit.ly/4tMR7f5 #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Notion has 100 million users. For academic research, it's the wrong choice. Here's why Obsidian wins — and when Notion actually makes sense.

Science for the win!

OK this piece by @reckless.bsky.social about why AI is unpopular among most people (anyone who's not inflicted with "software brain") is just solid gold from start to finish

This week patter has been reading about knowledge production as place making patthomson.net/2026/04/20/p...

"The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by an AI right now."

An important paper.

Frank Lloyd Wright exalted the individual and made ordinary life beautiful. But his life was marked by scandal and grief. An Essay by Andrew Deming

Ok, so I knew it would be an anger-inducing and triggering watch, but OMG. Bravo ABC Four Corners, and the brave souls that spoke out on the show. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

"Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities, wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs, and undermining the sector's principles of public good." - www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... thx @onslies.bsky.social for the link!

Tiny toot on the horn blogs.deakin.edu.au/cradle/three...

New publication. Open access. Early & mid career researchers navigating participation in #interdisciplinary research. doi.org/10.1080/0307...

I avoid being negative about other people's research on here. It just isn't helpful. But I will say: it's past time we be very skeptical of studies of relations between self-regulated learning and performance that involve nothing but self-report measures. There's just too much risk of bias.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

International Women’s Day is a good moment to recognize the many women whose work, mentorship, and leadership shape science and academia, despite many structural barriers. I'm grateful for the colleagues, collaborators, and students I get to learn from every day.

Opinion | Beyond the 2 Cultures Design is higher education’s missing foundation. By Joseph Squier https://bit.ly/4734YVh #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

New post: Expert Signals. I've been thinking about what human experts actually do that AI can't, drawing on James C. Scott's distinction between techne and metis. Read more... #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEducation#AIEdu#AIEdu #AIInEd #AIInEdu

youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?... In the wise words of Metallica, "sad but true".

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised people take this Alpha School thing at all seriously. Does no one remember Rocketship or AltSchool or the other attempts at this digitally automated schooling? Time to re-up this from the AltSchool days. www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

A majority of teens AND PARENTS think it is okay for students to use #GenAI for homework/learning. Companies must design GenAI to help people actually learn, rather than offload learning. And we must educate people about when it is and is not a good idea to use GenAI for learning. #EduSky

I like this term, 'the instrumentalisation of everything'.

"Politicians should condemn financialization as not only harmful but also absurd. That will lose them support from several very rich donors but gain them support from many more constituents. Same goes for university leaders." [Gift link]

A song for the times. youtu.be/cX8szNPgrEs?...

Cognitive offloading is the norm for AI users at work, leading to reduced development of expertise, *EXCEPT* when it is used to build comprehension (by asking follow-up questions, requesting explanations, or posing conceptual questions). It's a tool. It's how you use it that matters.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university (I'll try this again) -Innovations in learning tech & practice -learning tech research frontiers -Systems, change & learning -dssign for learning -existential lit

"When asked about the possibility of the AI model confabulating fake citations, Weil acknowledged that “none of this absolves the scientist of the responsibility to verify that their references are correct.” They're placing the blame on the user (and subsequently on editors), not on the technology

“When your ‘bug’ consistently affects anti-Trump content, Epstein references, and anti-ICE videos, you’re looking at either spectacular coincidence or systems that have been designed to flag and suppress specific political content.”

A thoughtful and thought-provoking piece on university libraries doi.org/10.1080/0307...

I switched to DuckDuckGo recently BECAUSE I can disable the AI slop. I don't want it, never will. voteyesornoai.com/vote/no

"We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports." Junk AI work again overwhelming volunteers.

When you use AI to cut corners in academic publishing, you disrespect editors' and reviewers' time and endanger their reputations. You will be judged and it will be justified. Your aim should not be to get published. It should be to produce something worthy of publication.

@nteunion.bsky.social I've been working with technology in HE for more than 40 years & a member of NTEU for 20. This new essay piece by Cory Doctorow is timely, readable and important. I'd recommend drawing it to the attention of every NTEU branch, today.

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X. The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

DO YOU HAVE ANY TROPHIES OR AWARDS I CAN HAVE?

Tomorrow's AI is the worst AI you will ever use.

I just finished a three-year term as an editor at an international relations journal. I began at the start of the LLM era but ended right in the middle of it. Our volume of submissions tripled and our desk reject rate rose to 75%. I have some thoughts. open.substack.com/pub/hegemon/...

👀From 2024... "If you’re an academic who is still using X, I would gently suggest to you that it is time to let go. The platform will either fold ~ or complete its evolution into the central engine of a politics, that compromises your professional credibility through association." #X #AcademicSky

This is where the AI push into schools feels quite parallel to all other reforms of past decades: 1️⃣ introduce new policy/system/tool without evidence 2️⃣ then claim need for data/evidence to support success 3️⃣ THEN blame teachers/schools if it isn't successful (#3 is already happening, btw)