I’m a learning geek. I adore children’s perspectives + expertise. I’m grateful everyday for family partnerships. I’m in awe of the work teachers do to cultivate children’s brilliance. I’m a science nerd. I’m a disabled, queer, scholar. All of this leads me to a #SlowResearch approach.

Submit to #ISLS26 in Irvine! Can’t travel due to disability, caregiving duties, or visa challenges? No problem! ISLS has an easy, quick accommodations process for scholars to present their work virtually! See a previous info page: 2024.isls.org/isls-2024-re...

Learning scientists! 🗓️🙀 About one month left until the submission deadline for ISLS 2026, to be held in Irvine, CA, USA. Friends don’t let friends miss deadlines. 2026.isls.org

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

This is a friendly reminder that research paper submissions for the ISLS 2026 Annual Meeting are due in one month - October 5. You can see the full calls on the in-progress website now: 2026.isls.org

🎉 Introducing our newly elected ILSSA Board for 2025–2026! 🎉 Meet our Membership & Outreach team 👇 🌱 ASHITA BAWANKULE – Membership/Outreach Chair 🤝 SETH VAN DOREN – Membership/Outreach We’re so excited to have them on board connecting and growing our ILSSA community!✨

What’s happening is a lot of people who thought a little fascism just meant clearing out some undesirables and making the trains run on time are realizing that actually yes they too will be effected and it’s making them slightly nervous.

I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.

Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK

Since the answer to the first question will be "no" for students in 99.5% of all circumstances, maybe stop there?

AAUP members are invited to join the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions for a discussion of member-based research, recommendations & resources for building faculty power over ed-tech decisions at their institutions, including AI! August 27, 4-5pm on Zoom Register here👇

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.

Friendly reminder that your fever, cough, fatigue, aches, gastric symptoms may be the highly contagious new COVID-19 variant, XFG, aka “Stratus.” COVID-related emergency room visits are up among all age groups, as the current wave spreads in the U.S., Canada, globally. September will be rough.

Reading the awful news out of University Chicago's Division of Arts and Humanities and the formation of a committee that is apparently exploring the question, "Is there language teaching that we can do via ChatGPT?" should make it clear that GenAI is an anti-worker technology of austerity.

My books and articles are in this database. You?

To all academics and writers, you may want to join this potential class action lawsuit if your IP was sucked into AI training without your express permission. I have dozens of pieces in the LibDem database. (There is a gift link to the Atlantic article in the thread.) bsky.app/profile/ruth...

I have four pieces that were ripped off by AI! A JLS audible, C&I article, and two IDC conference publications. @islsnews.bsky.social thank you to the publications committee / board / founders for whatever you’ve done to keep us off this list.

Many people in power are not offering an honest assessment of where we are politically in this country because that assessment would call on them to do things they simply refuse to do. That's where we are right now.

I don't mind paying my taxes when the poor can't. But I do mind paying my taxes when the rich won't.

It’s worse than “Gaza is being starved and destroyed and no one cares.” It’s that hundreds of millions *do* care and are powerless to stop it. We need a world where that can never happen, where the masses actually have political power.

Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release. This is censorship and cowardice. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Genuinely, I can’t imagine anything in the files that could make me think less of 47. But I gotta say, this admin is doing the most to convince me otherwise.

"It’s not too much to say that just as the House has been shut down to avoid more Epstein cover-up votes, the exec branch is now more or less exclusively focused on trying to shut down the Epstein story: MLK documents, a meeting w/Maxwell, a new Hillary/Obama treason probe. It’s all they’re doing."

I agree with this. The problem is that this is in fact the country that the elites want and also regular people haven't built enough power to overthrow the current order. The elites support fascism.

This is a hot tip. They really hide that “no AI” is an option until you threaten to leave.

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

Call it whatever you want, but once you have destroyed 70%+ of the buildings in a place, it feels clear to me that the “target” was the people of that place. (From Haaretz)

Job opportunity as a Lecturer in Primary Science/Mathematics Education in Adelaide: workingatunisa.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm... #EduSky @mcls-official.bsky.social

I was thinking about this the other day. The absurdity that the wealthy ruling convinced the rest of us it’s better to fight for tiny bits of power(money) rather than chose to ditch the system in favor of relational care. Why do we believe that survival for me only happens at the expense of you?!

Kinda sucks knowing half this country would rather live under fascism than have the most basic social safety net.

Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."

Gutting funding for public media will cut off news sources for millions of Americans. That’s exactly what Trump wants: to exert even more control over the news and information that the public receives – or doesn’t even receive at all. It’s a hallmark of dictatorship.

22 years later he would be running our country with near-total impunity. 🇺🇸

😖😖 Touching more people?!

I feel like maybe they could have come up with a better campaign idea for a sex pest than “touching more people.”

I am so excited to join the Executive Committee as the new Secretary of @islsnews.bsky.social! The learning sciences has always been an intellectual home for me, and I'm so happy I get to serve the Society in this role! education.wisc.edu/news/uw-madi...

Flamboyant dress. Stand out disability aids (neon glasses frames, colorful wheelchair wheel art). And now cake. Let’s do this.

WHEW I am here for *this version* of Obama who just told university presidents and DNC leadership to act like they have a fucking spine, and defend freedom of speech, which is definitely about Palestine. www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/p...

Our hearts are heavy for the grieving family of Jaime Alanis, who died from injuries sustained during a chaotic raid on Thursday. We will do everything we can to support them. We continue to work with the hundreds of farm worker families navigating the aftermath of this violent raid.

A farm worker dead as a result of an ICE raid & a university professor disappeared by ICE during a protest. The scale of this catastrophic police state is massive & growing. We need to put a stop to it. There must be strong accountability for the people responsible for this fascist violence.

The American Gestapo killed this man.

Sadly accurate.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut. If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Could it have something to do with the lavishly funded, meticulously planned, deliberate, persistent campaign of disinformation waged against science by far right figures who announced their intentions, which was abetted by centrist media platforming it uncritically in the name of “objectivity?”