Join us for this session with the amazing @leaton01.bsky.social! Teaching in Stereo: How Open Education Gets Louder with AI #Opened #AI Dec 3

Our final Brew & Banter session of 2025 is coming up. Dr. Lance Eaton will explore how open education and artificial intelligence can work together to expand access, creativity, and student agency in teaching and learning. Learn more and register: bit.ly/43tIkDv

Over 1,000 young girls were raped, sexually abused, & victimized by very powerful men. Over many years. Those young girls are the ONLY victims in this horrible story.

If you think we’re heading toward dictatorship… you’re wrong. We’re already living it. Wake up.

youtu.be/U4rr6LewdIU?... Music for inspiration to leave the world better than we found it. ❤️🎵

“The truth is that artificial intelligence, no matter how sophisticated it may appear, is still massively dependent on the most precarious human labor on the planet. An untold number of digital workers, estimated by the World Bank to be well over one hundred million globally.”

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

"If this can happen to Colbert and a storied franchise, this can happen to anyone": www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Mayor Brandon Scott has reduced crime in Baltimore by 62%, and now has the lowest homicide rate in Baltimore history. How did he do it? NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs. Socialism works

We're kicking off public feedback on a new framework we're developing: 🌱 CC signals. CC signals are designed to give stewards of large content collections a clear way to express how they want AI developers to give back to the commons.

This incredible and easy to use #fact-checking tool developed by @mikecaulfield.bsky.social who is a recognized global expert on fact-checking, is a GAME CHANGER! I highly encourage you to share it with your colleagues, students, family, and communities. #OpenEducation chatgpt.com/g/g-684fa334...

The amazing Carlos Goller speaking about #metagenomics at the @alleninstitute.org #OpenScience in Undergraduate Education Symposium! @rioscommunity.bsky.social

Looking forward to day 2 of the Open Science in Undergraduate Education Symposium at @alleninstitute.org. So much great discussion about #openscience and #openeducation from @karencang.bsky.social Carlos Goller Davida Smyth Melissa Aikens @rpenton.bsky.social and many others.

Most higher ed #BiologyEducation research is done at 4 year institutions even though most biology education in higher ed happens at #CommunityColleges. Presented by Noah Courtney at the @alleninstitute.org in the #OpenScience in Undergrad Educ symposium.

Sam Donovan delivers an awesome keynote at the Allen Institute #OpenScience in Undergraduate Education Symposium. A brilliant articulation of the Open Ecosystem as connections between networks, gateways, community, science ed reform, #OER, #OpenScience & #OpenEducation providers, and so much more.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

San Diego #NoKings

#NoKings Springfield, MA

“Pretty much wherever you are, you’re probably less than 30 minutes away from your closest No Kings event.” - @leahgreenberg.bsky.social with @democracynow.org We hope to see you at your local #NoKings Day mobilization on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

TODAY 6/14/25, we peacefully make our voices heard... NO KINGS!* 🇺🇸 *Also NO: CONVICTED FELONS/PATHOLOGICAL LIARS/DRAFT DODGERS/ADJUDICATED RAPISTS/SHORT-FINGERED VULGARIANS/MALIGNANT NARCISSISTS & ANYONE WHO INCITED AN INSURRECTION IN AN ATTEMPTED COUP AGAINST HIS OWN COUNTRY a/k/a TRAITORS ✊

Very excited to have a blog post posted that was led by @suegenenoh.bsky.social summarizing and outlining #RIE2 development of undergrad teaching modules for evolution. ecoevoevoeco.blogspot.com/2025/06/unlo... and cross posted here genestogenomes.org/unlocking-un... 🧬🧪👩‍🔬👨‍🔬🔬#newPI #Evolution

If you teach ecology and evolution and you are not aware of #RIE2 (Resources for Inclusive Evolution Education) it is time to take a look. This blog post is a good intro to the project and their first round of modules. genestogenomes.org/unlocking-un... qubeshub.org/community/gr... #BioQUEST

A unique new and open resource that brings a #Decolonization focus to teaching in #STEM #Ecology #EnvironmentalScience @rioscommunity.bsky.social qubeshub.org/publications...

Looking for suggestions as I plan for my next semester of synchronous online classes! (Please do not say “blue books” because this is a totally online class.) #EduSky #BlackEduSky #HigherEdSky #teaching #AI futurism.com/ai-destroyin...

Honestly, let them cook.

Another amazing podcast brought to you by the @rioscommunity.bsky.social

Self-Restraint As a Learning Outcome: Yes, We Can, But Should We? (What Matters More Than AI) blog.mahabali.me/pedagogy/cri...

Generative AI has been very toxic for the student-teacher relationship and we're all trying to figure it out. But the answer to a frayed social contract isn't to add to it. AI detectors don't work and they make things worse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/s...

For decades the NIH has led a public health campaign credited with saving thousands of babies from dying in their sleep. The administration's cuts come as sleep-related infant deaths have been rising.

"now son do you know why i pulled you over tonight?" "no officer, what seems to be the trouble?" "well it's just a routine checkpoint son, i'm going to have to ask you a few questions. first off, in herman melville's moby-dick what is the white whale an allegory for?"

Fascism is a lot of things, but at heart it's the political application of being a dumb asshole

This is horrific.

I was lucky to attend Bryan's keynote in person. He is an incredible colleague and we are so fortunate to have his wisdom and leadership in @rioscommunity.bsky.social

Coinciding with it's "No" letter Harvard has refashioned its university homepage into essentially an advertisement for the social benefits of university research. This is the current front page.

Do you like to shop around for the cheapest textbook? Here's some facts #students should know about automatic textbook billing, a.k.a. #InclusiveAccess.

This is exactly the problem. The horrible human motivations, not entirely the tech itself. We need to focus on teaching students values. er.educause.edu/articles/202...

Hi @biblioracle.bsky.social I admire you so much and have often quoted you in my presentations and writing. I am wondering what you think about this article that I wrote recently as I greatly value your opinion. I appreciate your time. er.educause.edu/articles/202...

“they know he’s lying… they’re thrilled with the idea he’s able to say whatever he wants…”

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Do you want to integrate opensci with open pedagogy in your classroom? Then, this #RIOSLearningCommunity is for you. It starts on 2/26. It focuses not only on teaching students effectively, but helping to guide their scientific knowledge towards efforts serving their communities: bit.ly/41eOkQ1

Every @audreywatters.bsky.social newsletter fills me with a mix of alarm and righteous anger and that combination is - oddly enough - hugely energizing when it comes to digging in and fighting for the values that I think help humans thrive. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-coup/?re...

Excited to report that my article, 'An AI-Driven Optimism for Transforming Higher Education (It's Not What You Think)' was just published today in Educause Review! #Ungrading #HigherEd #OpenPedagogy er.educause.edu/articles/202...

“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”

Trump's freezing of all civil rights cases at the DOJ is not part of an anti-DEI agenda, but an anti-civil rights agenda. DOJ was *founded* to protect Black rights during Reconstruction. That this difference is unclear speaks to the success of conservative propagandists and the failures of liberals.

The landscape around us is rapidly changing - will we comply or will we resist? #ReclaimDEI #HigherEd #STEMed

Yep. We have been out of contract with Elsevier at MIT for 4.5 years now, at substantial savings to the Institute. Happy to share our experience with any library interested in following suit.

Ready to level up your skills in 2025? Join the “Pathways to Open Science” series by @official-bweems.bsky.social, @openscapes.bsky.social & , Black in Marine Science starting next Thursday! Build data science skills, community, and more! Register via QR code or link in bio! 💻✨

Last year, the Open Culture Platform took bold steps toward our vision of “25 for 2025”—inspiring 25 institutions to embrace open access by 2025. You can read more in the Open Culture Platform 2024 Year in Review here: loom.ly/ayx01u4