Sports rule

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Q-knee. It’s pronounced Q-knee. Cooney was a boxer.

I got booed at the Critical AI Institute I’m running today at CUNY for saying I’m a Pistons fan. Respect.

All bagels should be Jewish

Howard Lutnick basically on the Knicks bench is an L for us all

“I think when the creative person ends, he continues in the next existence. I’m a person who believes this life isn’t the be-all and end-all of everything. A spiritual person doesn’t feel like that.” –S.R. (2009) 2/2

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

This World Cup is the Super Bowl of bringing the worst out in everybody www.espn.com/soccer/story...

"AI detection invites us to accept a hidden standard of human writing that is opaque and flattening and treats 'authentic' prose as a fixed object or end product, concentrating suspicion on students whose language practices diverge from 'normative' models of humanlike writing."

At least I won’t have to see Chalamet courtside in Detroit

Happy to see this piece, which quotes some of my favorite people thinking about this stuff… all folks who refuse easy answers on ed tech. (But edupunk hasn’t “lost.” The fight continues. We’re grinding, inspiring new journals and conferences, informing resistance, and holding space for agency).

Many of us have agued against the corporate LMS for decades (e.g. "Against Learning Management Systems" [2009] blog.mkgold.net/2009/03/30/a... ) And we've built alternatives, such as the CUNY Academic Commons (commons.gc.cuny.edu) and Commons In A Box (commonsinabox.org). Check them out!

Always so proud of the work of my team @gctlc.bsky.social. @itstheriles.bsky.social has put together a rich, nuanced, and beautiful collection of essays by @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social students & alums on the relationships between parenting and pedagogy. cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/par...

If FUD is the reason that people organize against the LMS, so be it. The pedagogical/aesthetic/UX/data sovereignty arguments are still there, but I guess FUD always wins....

Maybe Jim Groom’s near death experience a couple weeks ago—during which he was saved by a group of friends who have all built better alternatives to the LMS—is somehow karmically connected to this Canvas situation. bavatuesdays.com/thank-god-im...

Small pieces, loosely joined: still a good idea.

Et tu, Giroux?

Cc CUNY folks. ADA compliance date just pushed back.

PSA to graduate students: when you apply for a job or a fellowship people who have read literally thousands of cover letters will be reading yours. We read for a living. We will know if you used genAI; and if by some miracle we don't see it and you get an interview, be assured we'll realize then.

We built a RAG pipeline for a client that indexed internal wikis and Confluence. The IP question surfaced fast, specifically around contractor contributions mixed into the same docs. Most enterprise contracts have no language for this yet either.

At Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions Conference; lots of talk about AI strategy in bargaining. Does anyone know of any extant contract language that addresses IP implications of RAG within institutional LLM tenants? Or academic policy or procurement that engages this?

"Collective action by universities is impossible. We're too corrupt." Michael Roth keynote on authoritarianism and academic freedom at National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions Conference.

My God.

this was a great conversation. Tune in for some roller coaster comments on the state of higher ed, our disciplines, and accreditation!

Here's @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartalameo on @futuresed.bsky.social podcast discussing "The Campus Crisis Toolkit" with Shelly Eversley during their visit to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social last month. www.youtube.com/watch?v=an-L...

Edupunk lives.

Bankrupt them.

This is a much better, richer, and more sober snapshot of the state of play re: agentic AI and future of social science research than the one that pissed Bluesky off yesterday. From @solmg.bsky.social and @jatucker.bsky.social. www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Kinda mad I didn’t come up with “defective altruism” 😕

Einstein was a mess. Who would want him doing their homework anyway?

FOMO but when there’s zero fear involved and you know you are 100% missing out RIGHT NOW. @thetattooedprof.bsky.social, CONGRATS to you & Lisa! @lukewaltzer.bsky.social thank you for organizing! Everyone watch at 5:30 today & get yer hands on The Campus Crisis Toolkit! sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

If you're in NYC on 2/20 & want to discuss the themes of this book with @thetattooedprof.bsky.social, Lisa Di Bartolomeo & comrades come to the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for one/both of these events. tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/01/20/f... If you aren't in NYC-- we're streaming 5:30 panel.

Begging for a press that realizes these are two different statements

Friends in the NYC area: This promises to be FANTASTIC. I am otherworldly bummed that I can’t be there to meet & commune irl with @thetattooedprof.bsky.social, Lisa, & others whom I admired from afar before having the joy and honor of working w/ them on The Campus Crisis Toolkit. Go go go!

Man, Sly Dunbar and Billy Bass Nelson on the same day? #RIP The afterlife just got immensely funkier.

Some quick guidance from the TLC for GC Teaching Fellows and Adjuncts on the move to emergency remote teaching for Monday 1/26. Stay safe, stay warm. tlc.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/01/25/g...

Monsters.

I am so excited for this event at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social next month, and am deeply appreciative of @lukewaltzer.bsky.social and his colleagues for organizing it. NYC area folks, we hope to see you there!

CUNY/NYC friends! This promises to be a day of excellent, energizing conversation. See you there!

On February 20 we'll host two events @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social to celebrate the upcoming release of _The Campus Crisis Toolkit_ (SUNY Press). @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolomeo will be joining us for a day of reflection, connection, and solidarity.

We're hiring a post-doc at the @gctlc.bsky.social. Open field, demonstrated excellence in teaching, a research interest in pedagogy and the scholarship of teaching and learning, discipline-based education research, educational technology, or related areas. Due by 2/1. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

CUNY Faculty: there's still time to apply to become a Critical AI Literacy Institute Faculty Fellow. Great opportunity for scholars who want our curricula to foster critical awareness of what genAI means for our fields. Deadline is January 26. criticalai.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-par...

The Graduate Center is thrilled to announce it has received over $1M from Google.org as part of a partnership with fellow higher education institutions across New York State to advance AI literacy www.gc.cuny.edu/news/cuny-gr...

Still plenty of time to put together an application. Three scholars held this role previously. Each of them made a significant impact working with graduate student instructors at CUNY, and then moved on to a tenure-track position at other universities.

JFC the horrors this weekend

The thinking here is that the provost will be able to stand up a universal digital project based curriculum that is aligned with distinct (though not-yet-written) departmental learning goals in a university with 40k undergraduates in a matter of months? Lol

All of the hipster latke recipes circulating on my socials may be evidence of a deeper generational rift within American Jewry than the Mamdani discourse revealed…