Does anybody know of a good short article or essay that captures what it looks like to "teach" (mentor, apprentice, etc.) outside of school (workplace, community center, etc.)? TIA

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So, let me get this straight... Educational institutions are supposed to prove the "return on investment" for their programs, and AI companies, whose products harm the environment and labor market, are artificially propped up by venture capital and seen as "highly valuable"?

What if they just made an entire guy out of red flags?

I'm telling you: if you like someone's book or article, straight up email them that. It'll make their day. There are not enough compliments in academia.

I am saddened to learn about the passing of one of two @swarthmorecollege.bsky.social professors who most influenced my life, Professor Gene Klotz. www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/...

I really enjoyed this conversation between @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, @brockcolyar.bsky.social and Nadja Spiegelman on widespread political paralysis in the face of a vanishing American Dream. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Switching to partisan school board elections in NC led to declines in female and Black representation on school boards and to increases in schools' use of exclusionary discipline. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

"Departed" presumes a person was "there" in the first place 🤔

Excellent article in The Atlantic about what's going on at NSF. Share with people in your circle--too many aren't aware!

Among the many lost opportunities I observed — repeatedly — across decades in the academy: how infrequently universities recognize or tap into resident experts and local knowledge. Faculty expertise is valued mostly as a funding magnet or PR opportunity; it's rarely seen as locally applicable.

As a teacher I can tell you the reason every single one of these technologies failed to revolutionize education is because they are all passive. Learning requires active engagement not passive audiences. That's how our brains work, and especially the brains of children.

what is wild to me is how few universities with schools of education are turning to us for our expertise in pedagogy. most seem to just be hopping on the AI train and largely ignoring the downstream consequences for our teaching

[GIFT LINK] mucking up the "reflecting pool" in the seat of our declining democracy by focusing on "style" (as tacky as i find it) over functioning is kind of a perfect metaphor for this moment. we won't be able to reflect because it will soon be gunked up. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

keep fighting efforts to censure and erase our history. it works.

C'mon, man....

LLM sycophancy is partly explained by its removal of friction. Everything looks, sounds, feels correct when there is no friction. If you ask for advice, it will give you the advice you asked for. Requires constant work to stay ahead of the sycophancy and even then, we're still behind.

🚨 "More than $1 billion of the currently unapportioned Education Department funds will expire and return to the Treasury if OMB doesn’t release the money in the next four months." by @marklieberman.bsky.social www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

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Historian here this is literally about gutting the Reconstruction amendments especially the consequential 14th amendment piece by piece.

more and more my job seems to be just explaining to 100% disbelieving ppl that the job of research is actually literally doing all the reading, even when it takes forever, even when it is boring, even when it requires a new skillset and the response I get is like telling people we breathe underwater

“Instead of student loan forgiveness we’re doing a coup forgiveness program”

Republicans spent about 20 years scaremongering about reparations (they called the ACA reparations) and Trump makes a Neoconfederate reparations fund and it’s fine

The societal myth of a longstanding conflict between Jews and Muslims is just that - a MYTH. They want you to believe Jews and Muslims have been fighting and hating each other nonstop for centuries. It's a way of whitewashing Christian history and manufacturing consent for Zionism.

[GIFT LINK] "The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come" via @tressiemcphd.bsky.social The AI "revolution" may have unveiled the truth about girlboss influencers. They "aren’t paid to actually solve the riddle, only to make the riddle seem solvable." . www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

This was an incredible and moving episode that pulled no punches about what is going on in Tennessee. The state legislature cannot wait to oust truth tellers like @brotherjones.bsky.social, so I am grateful to @theferocity.bsky.social and @zachstafford.bsky.social for giving him a platform.

And some powerful people do not think experience matters—in fact, they think the opposite. There’s a fantasy that teaching can be so standardized that experience doesn’t really matter—now that I’ve taught long enough, I get how bonkers that is, but I found it persuasive myself for some time.

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The English dept in my school has the worsts turnover because they are constantly under pressure to raise scores AND they are often novices or early career teachers who don't get proper support (structural issue rather than purely a campus shortcoming). Burnout, churn, rinse and repeat.

My hot take on this thread: The modal years experience for US teachers is 1. When i was in school, it was 15. This means that teaching is a profession of novices who don't get to hone their craft, get better at reaching kids, etc. Turnover is worse in lower income communities. #EduSky

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

RFK called moms. gov a "one-stop shop" for mom/child health, but it's real aim seems to be "asserting Trump’s pro mom bona fides while preying on vulnerable women with thinly veiled propaganda of an anti-abortion, anti-vaccine, and anti-feminist bent."--my latest for MSNOW www.ms.now/opinion/moms...

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

we heard you hate AI, so at LFP we've been making resources for turning off AI features across the web. but we also don't think AI problems can be solved at an individual level, so we included some of our fav tools for community resistance as well. more to download free at libraryfreedom.org

it's not a coincidence that studies about how to identify and impede misinformation are in this administration's crosshairs. kudos to my colleague @lkfazio.bsky.social for her work and her continued efforts to educate people, despite grant terminations.

When I think I've answered an email but it was only in my head, I call that an ESPmail.

Rep. Justin Jones burning a Confederate flag during the special session on Tennessee redistricting Jones: “It’s a form of Jim Crow terror — this is about race. This is about power. This is about silencing communities that have historically been excluded”

1. Hegseth testified in Congress that the cost of first 60 days of the Iran War cost $25 billion. Internally, the Pentagon says its $50 billion. Popular Information crunched the numbers, and the real cost is much higher: At least $72 BILLION.

POP QUIZ! This emailed response to a customer service request means: 1️⃣ the robots ("Hugo") don't know how to do their jobs 2️⃣ companies are not even faking customer service anymore 3️⃣ we live in hell

This episode is an excellent analysis of the grift that was grit about a decade ago. #EduSky

Happy May Day. Here's the story of how it started.

this seems fine

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.