Yeah I mean as a faculty member in the South, like…100%. The thing is I’m not sure jobs in “blue” states are better. I see this as an outcome of institutional capture by an administrative class that is disconnected from the academic purpose of these schools. There’s a deeper rot we need to address.

Cool man, lived long enough to see the biggest dumbasses on the planet lock us into a WWI-esque escalation spiral. But hey, nothing to be done because literally everyone with an iota of institutional power has made the bet that no matter how bad things get, somehow they will remain untouched.

I'd be lying if I said this line of thinking hasn't been running through my head while I've been shepherding a 7-year-old these weeks. I have a lot of dueling despondency and rage inside me right now and man, what do we even do with that.

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

Me on social media vs me in the classroom

Just to be clear, Lindsey was a JAG who never even sniffed combat because he was AD during the late ‘80s. So, you know, he didn’t “do” shit. He sure is a fan of sending other people out into harm’s way, though!

I cannot believe we’re going to do this shit AGAIN, I haven’t even finished my mid-life crisis yet. I better see all the assholes who voted for this - particularly the ones who sat out round 1 - strapping up. No more cheering from the sidelines and listening to podcasts tell you how brave you are.

There are lots of days that I'm like "am I doing enough? Am I good enough?" but then I remember that I'm not in front of Congress today being like "yeah I lied about going to pedo island, I went with my kids BUT DIDN'T LEAVE ANY" and I'm like...you know, it's okay, you can watch a movie today.

Something that leaders in higher education might learn from - sometimes the right answer when they come to rip out every value and norm that undergirds your institution is to say “fuck you, fire me”. You know, the opposite of institutional awe! (Credit to John Warner for the term).

The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...

Man at some point, if we get the chance, we really need to think hard about how the dumbest assholes alive got so much money and power. I mean I know, neoliberalism and unfettered capitalism BUT STILL

Cool to see the administration essentially stealing millions of dollars from Central Florida - an outcome I assure you has absolutely nothing to do with these districts doing anything resembling “woke”. Just the rich stealing from the rest, same as it ever was

AERA, in partnership with the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education over the unlawful dismantling of the Institute of Education Sciences. www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

I think we dramatically underestimate how important faith is to educating. March captured this idea when he talked about “irrational optimism”. And buddy…I’m having like the biggest crisis of faith right now. Hard to preach the gospel of human potential when you’re starting to root for the meteor.

Having a really good time as the person who teaches sociology and politics in my school. Really good times. Happily, I long ago accepted the gospel and wisdom of dasharez0ne into my heart and it guides my responses to a number of hurdles these days.

It seems obvious in retrospect because we’re living in a world defined by ubiquitous institutional collapse, but I don’t think there’s a work with more daily relevance to my life than Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. Just living every day with this meme in my head:

My administration, facing down a hurricane, went with "let's just swap to remote classes!" Have we done this for past storms? No. Is there a plan for if power is out? Internet? Nah. Have students received instructions re: tech? Lol. Faculty just have to make it happen, using their own resources.

Think I'm finally hitting the point where it's time to bail on higher ed and go back to K-12. For all the incredible challenges of the K12 system, it is still humanizing at its best. I don't rightly know what HE is anymore, but it isn't humanizing. At this point it's all just feels like extraction

Heeeeey I don't know if we do this anymore but we just published an article in AJE looking at some of the underlying politics of improvement research in education! If that's the kind of thing that you're into check it out and if you're paywalled, just lmk! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I made the mistake of looking up admin salaries at my small private college where they stopped cleaning the classrooms this semester and…I’m going to have one of those veins popping out of my forehead all day now

🚨 Out now in Ed Researcher @aeraedresearch.bsky.social a new study with @bakerdphd.bsky.social Karly Ford&Marc Johnston-Guerrero 🚨 We coded a census of original research from AERA journals (2009-19) to surface hidden patterns in authors use racial terminology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... 1/N

One thing I’ve learned from long experience is if anybody with an ounce of administrative authority starts talking about how you’re all a team and a family then

My manuscript before and after submitting it for peer review

I just realised that I’m now older than Danny Glover was when he first said “I’m too old for this shit.” 😬

Man it's really something watching the ever-growing administrative class hollow out every institution of higher education we have left. I mean it's like a BAD something but fascinating in the way watching like a pirahna attack on Youtube is fascinating. Macabre? That feels like a good word.

Alright the other site got way too gross to be a part of anymore so here's hoping that Bsky really ends up taking off. Threads is cool but I'm not trying to be an influencer so seems like this is the only game for ~professional~ stuff. RIP to the golden age of social media and the academy I guess.