We are at that golden moment in the semester when "thank you for your patience with my delayed reply" prefaces all of my emails.

It turns out that being a kind human being is a practice.

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Arts education matters.

Oh HELL yes

An astonishing book review of my Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies includes the following sentence, and I am gobsmacked: "Thus, rather than adhering to methods that might be more institutionally acceptable or familiar to readers, Zeller proposes a ballet pedagogy in which... +

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Now updated with more links (thanks to everyone who suggested new material!) and with the years that each article was published. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...

This is such an important conversation. #GiftLink #GiftArticle

I am enormously grateful for the clear writing and ethical perspective offered by my friend Mays Imad, in this vital piece for @insidehighered.com today: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

"With [some AI bullshit] you can go from a rough idea to a structured draft — in just 3 minutes" We're so cooked.

"Funding for this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by annual financial support from viewers like you" <---I bet you hear the exact cadence of your vintage

They're just saying it out loud that their project isn't viable without theft at an epic scale

“When students realize their own humanity is at stake in their education, they are deeply invested in it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...

Very grateful that @ladyofsardines.bsky.social is opening this thread and stirring up discussion particularly among educators. This is #GoodTrouble A short thread on where to go next. 1/

I just wish the brilliant young women I work with could have half of this confidence.

When you've never thought critically about anything, everything looks like a revolutionary discovery

Holy shit this is good. It says it’s a 6-minute read but I recommend taking more time with it. “There is no education in this future – certainly not as a practice of freedom, but not even as a hollowed-out practice of competence.”

Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college

now that i think of it, with claude, grok and chatgpt, they basically stopped making them woman-coded like siri as soon as they wanted them to act like topic based authorities

We are the worst.

GenAI resisters, here's your moment. This is good. openletter.earth/an-open-lett...

There is no ethical AI. The tech is based on stolen intellectual property, anti-solidarity between workers, labor exploitation, environmental injustice, climate destabilization, structural racism, and gender inequalities.

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

I'm still working on the clearest way to communicate this. The "why not" has to be central to any classroom AI policy, and it has to be made to matter to the students in the room.

Why am I squeezing in a conference before I go on medical leave? Because it's my favorite conference of the year. These are the people I want to be with when so many things are going wrong. For those of you who aren't at @socialismconference.org, here are some remarks I shared today.

“It struck me then, perhaps for the first time in my life, that intelligence is really not about what you know. Intelligence is about whether or not you have the capacity to learn or be taught. It is perhaps also about curiosity.” blgtylr.substack.com/p/amateur-hour

I love this so much. I have no idea how it got on my phone or who made it.

Being abroad means instantly understanding the extent to which the US food supply has been poisoned.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

I will turn 50 this September. I was born in 1975, and I represent the only generation of American women born with full rights that have been lost in the same lifetime. My generation has witnessed anti-progress. A cultivated backpedal. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit. www.ft.com/content/7f0f...

This sounds like a bit but I’m being serious: kids using chat gpt for their homework are denying themselves the invaluable experience of learning how to bullshit their way through a problem. You drink some caffeine the night before and figure it the fuck out. That’s a skill. You need it in life.

approximately 49% of all college professors in the United States are only employed part-time

Given the news about T&F swallowing a university press to feed its AI addiction, I ask once again…

I am baffled by some of the unevidenced leaps higher ed institutions are making toward AI. CalState and Ohio St. are acting nuts, IMO. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Fulbright board resigns citing interference by Trump administration reut.rs/402V1Ds

There’s never been a more important time for dance education and dance educators - K-12 needs you!

The article itself is studiously balanced. (To a fault to my mind, but that's my perspective.) But this very dry paragraph in the middle is the whole deal. Why would an educational institution make this leap without any evidence of efficacy?

Should I slow-post my book to increase access? I mean, the publisher sold the catalog to train AI, so it’s already out there…

No, You Shouldn't Let Your Kids Use ChatGPT. A thread. 🧵 1/16

How's this? Too snarky? Greetings! Thank you for your message. I am away for the summer. It’s possible that I’ll check my email before August, but I make no promises to that end. Thank you for your patience with delayed replies. Wishing you well, Jessica

Academics: What are your favorite away messages to put up over the summer?

"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."

It finally makes sense now. It’s a tool for the most incurious people in the world who also like to pretend that they are constantly busy ingesting information.

Well, fuck. myemail.constantcontact.com/NEA-Dance-Ne...

Posting with text and alt text As Trump shuts down the suicide hotline, Canada has broadcasted their national hotline which now has a toll-free American version: 1-877-330-6366

This should be a huge story

AI is about to join the list of inanimate objects with more rights than women.