please stop with the ai images to put your head on some other body. i refuse to rip poorly photoshopped pics. they were lovely in their jaggedness. long live poorly photoshopped pics!

almost nothing more satisfying than the end-of-semester closing-of-264-tabs ritual

It's not that "no one was ready" it's that literacy efforts don't get funded, fact-checking is now "censorship", grants got killed, taxing companies to mitigate social impact =nonstarter in the US, politicians focused on the wrong things. Trust & social norm breakdown the are major non-tech issues.

truer words have never been spoken

Many congrats to Dr. @philnichols.bsky.social and team for receiving the 2025 Arthur Applebee Award at the Literacy Research Association conference! You can read the winning article here (ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) #literacies

✈️ Heading to the Literacy Research Association annual conference? 💡 Here are LR:TMP co-editor, @anna-phd.bsky.social 5 Ideas for Turning LRA Presentations into LR:TMP Papers! 💻 Submission to LR:TMP are open to LRA presenters and are due February 6, 2026 at mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lrtmp

The editors set such a beautiful & vital vision for vol 8. Highly recommend checking out the whole handbook! Such an honor to be invited back for Theories, Models, & Practices of #Literacies, Vol 8.

I think there's an interesting study of media to be done looking at who gets labeled an "expert" and who gets labeled a "skeptic". Certainly for coverage of "AI", but I wonder if there are other topics that would make interesting comparisons.

Can someone point me to the official list of degrees no longer deemed professional? I am only seeing news reports and social media posts and want to see the full list. Thanks!

A3: I asked folks in my English Ed methods class to speculate on the future of literacy education and their role in that future via story. I noticed how the speculative gave them space to really consider not just what they perceive as wrong in the field but also how they challenge them. #literacies

Join us for our December slow chat! This will be an informal #literacies touchpoint before the start of the holidays. Let's continue the conversation!

A1 so many favorites! This semester I taught a critical issues PhD course and I got to fangirl by reading some pf my favorite scholars @deroomat.bsky.social @karismjones.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social @joshcoleman.bsky.social @scottstorm.bsky.social @amystorn.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social

A1: Inspired by many scholars! @amystorn.bsky.social @anterobot.bsky.social @ebonyteach.blacksky.app @anna-phd.bsky.social @dlowliteracy.bsky.social @wargojon.bsky.social @aleciamarie.bsky.social @srtoliver.bsky.social @alexcorbitt.bsky.social @sarahejerasa.bsky.social Many more! #literacies

they are dismantling the department of education, full stop www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

Final call! We have to manually send out the invite, so sign up sooner than later! We'll do one last send out tomorrow afternoon.

📢 Publication alert! 🗒️The Integrative Research Review titled “Good Trouble, Necessary Narratives: The 2024 LRA Integrative Research Review Panel” is now live!

📢 Publication alert! 🗒️Dr. Alfred Tatum’s Presidential Address “Troubling the Dark: Un(bounded) Black Male Literacy Development” is now live! 1/3

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50. I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman. #GiftLink wapo.st/49WOdx1

💔 Alice Wong’s last words: “Don’t let the bastards grind you down.” We can never thank Alice enough for fighting all the good fights and especially all the hard fights. We all learned so much from your brilliance, your courage, and your indefatigable leadership. We will never forget you.

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Don’t miss our final speaker this fall!

Our final speaker in the Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series this fall is Dr. Cynthia Bennett, Google Research "Opportunities and Challenges at the Intersection of AI, Disability, and Accessibility" on November 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm Don't miss it! Register today: tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

Know a future doc student? Please share! Come study & do important work with my awesome colleague, Dr. Natalie Shaheen!

#Literacies conference thread! Who will we see this year at #NCTE25 and #LRA25?

Final call for sign-ups!

We've got a book club coming up on Tuesday at 8:00 PM ET! Come talk about @neilselwyn.bsky.social's Digital Degrowth, led by @charleswlogan.bsky.social Register on our events page! www.civicsoftechnology.org/events www.wiley.com/en-us/Digita...

Super happy to see the @lrtmp.bsky.social Volume 74 go live online right now. Let's go! Check out the editors' volume introduction below and share today! #literacies

Seriously. Not to be missed! #literacies @civicsoftech.bsky.social #edusky

Okay, who put me on a list or starter pack? 60+ new followers in the last hour… 🤦‍♀️ Hope y’all enjoy, I guess!

📢 Publication Alert! Volume 74 of Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice is now live at: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LRX/curr... 1/4

Seriously. Not to be missed! #literacies @civicsoftech.bsky.social #edusky

“Imposing an age limit ‘reflects a classic move in the tech industry’s playbook: move fast, launch a product globally, break minds, and then make minimal product changes after harming scores of young people.’”

Beyond grateful for the opportunity to reconnect (and learn Bluesky). Thanks to all who attended and I can't wait for futrue collaborations. #literacies

very happy and relieved to confirm: the second printing of #othernetworks will be available on the Anthology Editions website November 21st and also available to order from your favorite independent bookstore shortly after shop.mexicansummer.com/merch/495898...

Yeah this is awful and scary.

A6: I agree! I imagine classrooms where every learner’s language, identity, and creative expression are valued as part of meaning-making. Our task is to enact that future now through scholarship, pedagogy, and community that foreground connection over compliance. #literacies

A4: For those of us who can travel & continue participating in in-person conferences, let’s host #literacies happy hours & hangs! I know I’m excited for #LRA25, but I am even more ecstatic for #WRAB2026! Would love to widen the circumference of impact by fostering more international connections.

I think this is a sentiment shared by many! So much so that @carolinebr.bsky.social invited @deewellington1.bsky.social and I to write a whole paper about all the connections and opportunities hosting #literacies chats provided for us. eric.ed.gov?id=EJ1448943

#literacies chat homecoming attendees, one more thing before you go: Check out this #literacies Starter Pack and let me know if you aren’t on there and want to be! (And feel free to find more connections while you’re in there.) bsky.app/profile/anna...

Whew, still thinking about the #literacies chat homecoming. What a joy to reconnect! And wow, @esp-phd.bsky.social, we had no idea in 2012 what our little chat idea would become, did we? Thank you for everyone who joined us through the years. Okay, cue the tears again…

I love this idea. #literacies chat that moves into making collective responses. Ties to @rabani.bsky.social idea too!

Is the #literacies chat hour over? It went by so fast! Thank you to everyone who came out to #literacies Homecoming. Expect my posts to keep coming as I revisit what I missed. And let's keep collaborating & building collective responses to the now that move us toward the futures envisioned tonight!

Exactly. I have felt less alone by engaging with my fellow #literacies community. This has to be a collective response. I nominate @wargojon.bsky.social as host!

I love hearing about connections and extensions from #literacies chat I didn't know about!

Yes! Love this! Or, what #literacies questions have been living rent free in your head? 😂🤣

A6: Looking toward futures that (continue to) disrupt traditional singular ways of thinking about “literacy” in classrooms, paving the way for the multitude of more equitable #literacies learning designs we might have instead

Hoping to continue to build community while co-constructing knowledge. #literacies

A6: Envisioning #literacies! "Relational witnessing" as pedagogy: the attunement to a child's meaning-making; methodologies that can bring the child's process, embodied labors, and materiality into the same frame... how we go back to the children.

Nights like these it's worth staying up late to remember that #WeAreInThisTogether <3 #literacies

Especially right now. I am finding it particularly challenging to navigate as a scholar, teacher, and university employee. How can we continue this critical work in #literacies when words and voices that matter are being stripped away.