ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

Wow! "Whether as infrastructure in our educational system or as guide in our daily lives, AI, with its sleek reordering of time, narrative sequence, and attribution, is creating new challenges to historicity and truth."

Faculty and admins should play Freaky Friday at least once in their careers. It’s not easy either way

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

The full write up is here: Was It Something The Democrats Said? A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...

I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.

We’re excited to announce the launch of our essay collection, Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity.This collection grew out of a 2-day workshop where experts across disciplines and industries gathered to explore the past, present, & future role of AI: doi.org/10.18130/03d... (1/n)

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

“He also pans the use of Turnitin as a scare tactic. ‘We see this with the criminal-justice system,’ he said. ‘Deterrence doesn’t actually work.’ What does work, he argues, is building trusting relationships with students. ‘Turnitin immediately fractures that relationship with students.’”

“The past isn’t a frozen moment but a site of competing possibilities: What could be done, what was allowed & what was punished…History is not only about events that occurred, but also about boundaries that defined what responses to those events were thinkable“ www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

This morning we drove to Bozeman Pride for @zoandbehold.bsky.social to speak, then went down to Yellowstone and saw incredible sights. Then, on the drive back to Missoula at 1AM, the heavens erupted. Naked eye visible aurora. The northern lights told us Happy Pride :)

#TeamRhetoric ! New publication: In "A Data Feminist Pedagogy for Composing the Rhetorical Life of Statistics," I theorize and report on teaching quantitative writing for public audiences in contexts of activism/advocacy: compositionforum.com/issue/55/dat...

careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... Come here and work with us:) critical communication studies or cognate, in heath or environment with global, Indigenous, and/or disability studies perspectives encouraged.

Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain  economist.com/science-and-...

Job alert! We're now accepting applications for a Postdoc Research Fellow who will work with restricted and hard-to-access data related to the sources of class-based income #inequality on cutting-edge research topics. Apply by June 15! 👇 myumi.ch/155qg #academicjobmarket #nowhiring #academicsky

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Medicaid cuts are “the greatest threat to public higher education since the Great Recession.” That’s because of the state budget crises it’ll cause. archive.is/2025.05.06-0...

Just Education Policy is coming back! We’re excited to announce that we are planning for an *in-person* Just Education Policy Institute this Fall 2025. Applications & more details will be released in early May. For more info. about the Just Education Policy Institute, visit justeducationpolicy.org.

"These $25,000 grants are for activities to address immediate needs following grant cancellations, including completing a wave of data collection, analyzing already collected data or writing, thoughtful project closure with community partners, or preparing grant proposals to continue the research."

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

More than 1500 students have had visas revoked?!?!?!

“The study models the collapse of nearly $13 billion in U.S. funding for health programs in developing countries, including for the treatment and prevention of HIV and tuberculosis; family planning; and maternal and child health.”

The loneliness epidemic is a byproduct of hypercapitalism. Hypercapitalism relies on intense competition, which can lead to social isolation, alienation, and loneliness. Collaboration is a core skill to teach & learn. #hypercapitalism #collaboration #codeshift #wisdomwednesdays #academicsky

So weird to see colleges promoting their USNWR grad school rankings today like grad students aren’t being disappeared by their government.

Agreed and really highlights JMU's leadership development program IMPACT3 as a real strength. www.jmu.edu/groups/impac...

Just talked about this in research methods class where an article’s limits were shallow and obligatory, even doing damage to own research because repeated scarecrow argument about qualitative research.

It’s sad that it requires courage right now for a university president to file something as straightforward as this, but it does. Thanks to Tufts University President Sunil Kumar for filing this. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!

Seriously considering dumping my entire book manuscript and starting a whole new book based entirely on this picture I saw shared from from a research-focused education conference. Holy rich text, Batman.

OPINION: In schools, our era is defined by loneliness, polarization and social fragmentation. hechingerreport.org/opinion-why-...

In addition to being morally wrong this is also just plain old wrong as shown by research by @kevinshih.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Former chair of the Tennessee Libertarian Party 👇🏽

We are in the midst of an authoritarian takeover. From holding universities hostage to stealing your Social Security to tanking the economy, everything we hold dear as Americans is being stripped away. Nobody is going to save us; we have to save ourselves.

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Amidst all the chaos and upheaval in the education policy world, @annenberginstitute.bsky.social will be hiring several senior research associates in the coming months. Hopefully this helps some of the stellar education policy people find their footing again!

Having a toolbox of strategies to support students in public speaking can be game-changing for both students and teachers. @edutopia.org Easing Students’ Anxiety About Speaking in the Classroom www.edutopia.org/article/easi...

Listening to @gregsargent.bsky.social with the daily blast this morning and his guest, Tom Malinowski had an excellent line related to the CR. “Musk and Trump are already shutting down the government” Voting against a CR that would give even more power to the executive is the hard but best choice

One of Husserl's students, Hannah Arendt, was jailed by the Gestapo for her research on antisemitism prohibited by the Nazis and on her release, fled Germany. “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.”- Hannah Arendt #AcademicFreedom 3/n

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

Quick intro: I'm an education researcher who currently leads the data science and research team at Common App, a national platform for college applications in the U.S. Follow me for: deep dives into college data, computational social science (especially NLP), and all things R and data viz!

ICPSR at University of Michigan has been one of the longest-running secure data archives in the world and is stepping up to the challenges being presented in the current U.S. environment to keep government data as a resource for researchers and policymakers. isr.umich.edu/giving/suppo...

This is how you support your scientific community, @ametsoc.org. Excellent work! 🧪🌊 Note to other professional societies. Speak out, yes. But, words are not enough in these times. Help your members, and that includes those in underrepresented groups.

With so many crazy things happening, focusing on them all is impossible. So, I am trying to pay attention to the things I have expertise The new admin floated handing over FAFSA and student loan repayment guidance to AI. Here is why that is a terrible idea #EduSky www.newamerica.org/education-po...

Key line from ED Dept "Dear Colleague" letter: "This guidance does not have the force and effect of law and does not bind the public or create new legal standards." Ed.gov/media/109506 Letter coercively threatens fed. funding based on misstatements of law. States can't just ignore but must resist.

I built a free URL shortener for teachers bc we don't need ads when we're just trying to help each other out Edushare.ing No redirecting to ads, no stealing your traffic, no registration or log-in, no charge I hope you find it useful. Please share with teachers freely #TeachersHelpingTeachers