PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine against-a-i.com

My favorite speech by MLK, and possibly his greatest.

I love my Broncos folks, truly. But the Bills had that shit straight up stolen from them. I had no dog in that fight but I've never seen a less just outcome.

I don't understand how this isn't possession and down by contact. Fuck.

This is sickening. UB scientist being held by ICE despite valid visa and no criminal history. Just for making a wrong turn. www.investigativepost.org/2026/01/14/w...

they’re abducting our neighbors and putting them in concentration camps and they’ll shoot you in the fucking face if you don’t cheer them on while they’re doing it.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Wait so Disney buys stock from OpenAI and OpenAI pays Disney in stock to license its characters? Amazing

More evidence that universal pre-school is good for students and good for the economy in short (and long) term.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

The suggestion seems to be that we should restrict faculty and make their jobs worse to make it…fairer? No, I tend to think we should make more jobs, including more higher ed jobs, better by extending the same types of rights to more people.

Basically, higher ed could a case for being—still—one of the most democratic workplaces in the country. That’s not saying a ton, but it’s saying something. The goal, I think, should be leaning into that strength.

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.

Working at my UG student newspaper is *the* reason I work in higher education today. I’d encourage all of you to pay close attention to what’s happening to student-run news on your former (or current) college campuses.

People ask what they can do in this moment: here's a crucially important election. There are 52,000 elections taking place next month, many of which will be determined by turnout.

For non-academics, let me explain that it's rare for a grad student to take an undergrad class, that's it's almost unheard of for a grad student to take an undergrad class in an entirely different field, and that it's totally insane for a grad student to hijack the class with political sea lioning.

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers. Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*. tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

Important story about University of Nebraska’s plan to cut its educational administration department, which is home to a highly regarded higher education program. www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

New from @jessicablake.bsky.social: more than 2,000 TRIO programs didn’t get their funding Sept. 1 as expected. Lawmakers are demanding ED release the funds and warning the freeze could lead to “irreparable damage.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

ravens already lost their super bowl in week one that's tough

Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes. “The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”

The ed-tech vision: Everything and everyone is a machine to optimize and control. Everything and everyone is a market to be exploited. Teachers and students are utterly, utterly expendable 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-prime-di...

My union is working with technofascists who would destroy our profession. Not thrilled about it. This thread is insufficient @rweingarten.bsky.social sincerely, an AAUP member and AFT affiliate.

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They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission. They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again. And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

Kinda shocking how schools are willingly undermining their product. This won’t end well.

my hottest educational take is that schools should actively, non-punitively teach students how to admit when they don't know something, aren't sure or have made a mistake, with various teaching frameworks adapted to support this ideal, because people who can't admit fault are breaking the world

We're working hard to raise the funds needed to add Jenn to a town board in desperate need for her voice, expertise, and knowledge. If you have a few dollars to donate, please support in honor of her 50th birthday.

A Democratic Mayor arrested. A Democratic Congresswoman indicted. A Democratic Senator tackled and detained. A Democratic State Representative killed. A Democratic State Representative in critical condition. We can all see where this is going.

The tagline of this post could be: The things you probably sensed were bad all along, yeah, you were right, now they’re being used to enslave us.

This WSJ story about the decline in search traffic because of AI summaries is so grim. Every single outlet spent 15+ years contorting their coverage to cover the same things as everyone else trying to grab SEO, only for Google to rugpull them, just like social networks did. tinyurl.com/bdpzc399

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

happy pride #booksky!! if you want a transfem read in june, consider ONE OF THE BOYS, my debut YA about a football player named grace! by several objective measures - NYT bestseller, 3 starred reviews, a 4.5 rating on goodreads and storygraph - it is Quite Good! read it imo!!!!!!!

The US Administration has indefinitely blocked *all* student visa applicants from getting a visa interview. Worldwide, unconditional, no end date. All. International students are crucial to the US university system, American innovation, and future US prosperity.

On the grad enrollment side, ChatGPT is *very bad* at helping students craft statements of interest/research statements for grad school. It is usually abundantly clear whose actually written about their involvement in a project/research goals, and what a GPT has produced. nymag.com/intelligence...

The narrative that anti-vaxxers or QAnon weirdos will come back from the brink if we're nice enough to them isn't tenable morally and doesn't hold up empirically. Ostracizing people whose beliefs harm others is a critical aspect of a functioning marketplace of ideas.

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I wrote about education, citizenship, and the administration’s sledgehammer approach to the gains we’ve made since the civil rights era for @nytopinion.nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/o...

“It’s become Buffalo’s version of the Springfield monorail.” Do read @JimmyVielkind’s piece on the Tesla factory in Buffalo, whose lease is up for renewal. gothamist.com/news/elon-mu...

Again, Elon Musk is pushing the *exact* white supremacist conspiracy theory that motivated the mass murders at the Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 and a Buffalo supermarket in 2022. And he's pushing it with the full support of Podcaster and Part-Time Senator Ted Cruz. This is vile and dangerous.

Being snatched off the street for your opinions. I'll say it again. We are deciding, right now, whether the aspirations we hold for this country are finished. Whether we're going to let these hoodlums and grifters throw what's left of the American idea into the garbage for their own profit and gain.

apparently the DOD recently warned about an attempt from Russian intelligence to hack Signal chats through a phishing-style exploit. lol talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/and-t...

my takeaway from reading this is that i have to assume that every half-competent intelligence agency in the world has an almost real-time glimpse into what the white house and the pentagon are doing

#edusky colleagues, higher ed or K-12, please share. We are at Columbia, but we know that this struggle matters for education across the lifespan. A Statement from Teachers College Faculty on the Attack on American Education docs.google.com/document/d/1...