While I agree with this post, I had flashbacks reading it. Haven't we been saying this for well over a decade? Possibly two. Perhaps we just need to keep saying it. #oer #repositories Why Can’t OER Just Be All in One Place? medium.com/creative-com...

The paintings of Mitjili Napurrula, Indigenous Australian artist from the Northern Territories #WomensArt

“Nowhere is it written that a multinational conglomerate with a market cap of roughly $4T is fated to command our public schools, or to grant fellowships to the leaders of those schools, or to monetize the inefficient children who attend them.” ⬇️

like the global geo-political climate, public discourse around AI is fast deteriorating and I feel it everyday 1/

Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see! Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...

“Many discussions still approach AI primarily as a digital technology, but in many of these countries, AI is becoming visible through the infrastructures that sustain it: data centers, mineral extraction, energy demand, water-intensive cooling systems, and digital labor chains…”

Incredible, sharp, critical reflection on Habermas’ legacy from Nancy Fraser. This is the postmortem I’ve been hoping would come and also sums up so much of my relationship to his work

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

"From Tressie McMillan Cottom to Bernardine Evaristo, these Black women writers are shaping literature today—along with the Black-owned bookstores carrying their work." Yesssss

The episode also had me thinking of this article by @eam0.bsky.social and Stephen Gow on Authoritarian EdTech and how it "revolves around the oppressive foreclosure of choice, consent, debate and deliberation".

thanks for sharing, Charles. the podcast also reminded me of @audreywatters.bsky.social post from *nine* years ago: Ed-Tech in a Time of Trump hackeducation.com/2017/02/02/e... prescient as always: "We must rebuild institutions that value humans’ minds and lives and integrity and safety."

“As tech bros shake hands on billion-pound deals and race to stake their claim on the future of AI, it is women and marginalised genders who are left to absorb the real-world fallout.”

“In his new book Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance, George Washington University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson warns that digital life is creating a form of self-surveillance far beyond what constitutional law was built to handle.”

ON COURAGE is the story of how they became dissidents and how we can too. We wrote this for communities to take action – and hope you’ll read it with your friends, coworkers, book club, anyone who’s witnessed the assaults on democracy and asked: what can we do? There is so much we can do together.

Lifting up the life of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson. Hard to lay out the range of his work and contributions and how much he inspired. They are leaving us one by one, exhorting us to pick up the mantle with courage & determination. Justice work is a lifelong commitment. Thank you Rev. Jackson.

If you weren't around at the time and never heard what Jackson's oratory was like, this is what it was like. If you heard it before, you know you want to hear it again.

NEW: The story of America’s largest national strike for 100 years. Here are the biggest protests from Jan 30, 2026. And national news still did their best to ignore the scale of what happened yesterday. Soundtrack courtesy of The Boss 💪

"the economic system, including companies, financial institutions & other economic actors, does not exist for its own sake... [it] exists to ensure that all people can live a good & meaningful life, in a just society & within the ecological limits of the planet" thank you @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social

Good morning! Get your day started on the good foot with the one and only genius James Brown.

Sharing a letter published in yesterday's @irishtimes.com, written by my amazing daughter Sarah Cronin Rodger, in support of a housing movement in Ireland.

So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year. It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

beautiful by Rebecca Solnit: “The fabric of this country is forever being torn apart by hate & exclusion; it is forever being stitched into new patterns, new connections, new relationships… a quilter's art of bringing the fragments together into a whole” thinking of Frances Bell & #FemEdTechQuilt

What a wonderful President we have. #translivesmatter #transrightsarehumanrights

brilliant news! 👏👏👏

"This work is not easy, it is risky, and there’s no guarantee that those who do it will see its benefits. But it is essential." I am grateful for those in #HigherEd who stand alongside me. In the work. And now, when the work is trying to leave me behind. catherinecronin.net/reflecting/p...

So lovely to see images of the #femedtech quilt peppered through @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social keynote this morning - here's a post about it from a previous conference howsheilaseesit.net/oer/transcen.... #altc25 - @lornamcampbell.bsky.social @francesbell.bsky.social @catherinecronin.bsky.social

Two days to go for submissions (closing 22 October) - please consider submitting a proposal - #Springer #OpenAccess On-Demand Learning in a Changing World: Philosophical, Technological, and Practical Perspectives on Workforce and Vocational Education iasle.net/call-for-cha...

Can't work because AWS? It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

The nomination is absolutely lovely and so, so true: “In a world of overwhelming content and increasing educational precarity, MYFest offers something different: a space of possibility. It is a deeply human, thoroughly open practice—responsive to community, designed for care, and grounded in equity

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

We explore these dynamics in our workshop report: www.ias.edu/sites/defaul... And we invite you to watch the public event which preceded the workshop: “RARE/EARTH: The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals and the AI Supply Chain” held at IAS on June 2, 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxVM...

I wrote this thread because I sat at my desk and thought, "Fuck it, we're cooked." But then I remembered something I say in my book that "writing is feeling" and I managed to rekindle just enough spirit to get going on the work and that work will continue to stoke the fire. I want that for students.

Doing DEI when you can't use the D word, the E word, or the I word: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/doing...

Sharing your location is a personal choice, “but when you do it through a platform owned by Meta, you should understand that information will also be used to target you with ads” & could be demanded by the government, EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told @huffpost.com.

Tomorrow: Carole Cadwalladr meets author of 'Empire of AI' Karen Hao 12pm BST, Live on Substack @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social More here: citizensreunited.substack.com/p/next-week-...

Read this interview with a personal hero, Professor @daniellecitron.bsky.social: "we have essentially presumed that data collection is a good...We have long ignored this important inclination that collection itself is endangering our privacy and civil liberties" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

this came out this week. :) my sabbatical research project on belonging. what an absolute privilege to spend a year focused on culture, place, & the intentional, relational use of digital tools...especially in the midst of the current force-fed AI speculation bubble. www.uhi.ac.uk/en/media/new...

Good interview with @abeba.bsky.social

Enjoyed this conversation very much... @karenhao.bsky.social (author of Empire of AI) and @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social (co-authors of The AI Con) discuss how to challenge AI hype and tech industry power –– via @datasociety.bsky.social datasociety.net/events/chall...

Great summary of #oer25 what a great get together - will post when I get back from leave

If you thought the free, online @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference keynotes - Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard - were 🔥🔥🔥, you should look at the incredible sessions occurring on July 31 and August 1. Love to see all the ways folks embraced the theme "Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems".

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

so important – thank you @archive.org sustaining the availability of cultural materials that "only memory institutions preserve without regard to commercial viability" #OurFutureMemory

“The stunning reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere confirms the global climate system has entered a catastrophic phase>' This is very very bad news: www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...

difficult to sum up #OER25, but I have tried my best. it was a joy to meet friends and colleagues, old and new, as well as sobering to truly face the challenges for open and higher education. warm thanks to all for the opportunity to think/talk/plan/be together. catherinecronin.net/conferences/...

Following the conclusion of #OER25 this week, we are pleased to invite submissions for our upcoming online conference, “Speaking Truth to Power: Open Education and AI in the Age of Populism”, continuing the critical conversations sparked at the Conference. Learn more: buff.ly/nwHNPHY #altc #OER

Helen Beetham’s #OER25 keynote, “When speaking truth is not enough: repurpose, rebuild, refuse”, explores the deep links between the AI industry and the politics of populism. Learn More: buff.ly/E4uAGpq #OER #altc