yes of course we expect authors to check every citation what the fuck are you talking about

when I say things like “this is downstream of Dems not believing in anything” people jump into my replies and say Dems believe in abortion, fighting racism, and LGBT rights, and the answer to that is: not according to the scoreboard

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“Lose a month of sleep over one negative student evaluation despite receiving thirty-seven positive comments from the same class.“

Under-appreciated and unmentioned dimension of this story: the deprofessionalization of, and attacks on, teachers in the United States. This country does nothing but attack its educators and then sits back and marvels at the consequences. That context is entirely missing from this analysis.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Also, this weird attempt to rationalize the decent into authoritarianism erases the fact that for trans people, immigrants, and a lot of academics fully fledged authoritarianism is already here. A lot of people have already had their lives completely ruined. They're not only halfway to it.

This week, I will officially graduate and earn my doctorate from Texas Tech—but I will not be walking the stage. Why? The university's unending assault on trans folks like me. 🧵 on all the bigotry

Just stripping away anything that works well, presumably to make consumers so desperate for structure that AI tools will seem appealing.

The people living next to this data center also just got disenfranchised through redistricting.

A very Strength In Numbers-coded article today: It looks like Republican Supreme Court justices made a very rudimentary, but willful, statistical error in their effective invalidating of the VRA in the Callais decision. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-08...

I don’t see how this is a university.

Higher Ed also has a responsibility to remind employers that our job is to educate, not to provide training in highly specific job skills. You know whose job it is to provide job specific training? Employers!

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

By popular (?) demand, I've updated (and cleaned up) my suffrage and citizenship timeline with recent events and some additional clarifications. Feedback welcome! I will make the file available on my website (christinawolbrecht.com) by COB.

This is the same story as computers. They didn't erase all the labor that goes into organizing our lives and bureaucracies. They just moved that labor around, individualizing it, so we all have to (poorly) deal with Concur instead of one admin with expertise doing it.

Yup why do you think they have such a hatred for the US Postal Service

This should be a bigger story. I didn't know Isaiah but almost everyone in my lab, my TA, and a few close colleagues knew him well. They all say he was a sweet guy who was just really into herps. This is a tragedy.

People think that you’re looking down on them when you say this, but I truly don’t think it‘s that useful for academic writing. I use it solely to generate code for SPSS and STATA.

Today, the Court erected a new standard: Prove the green segment in the below is not part of the yellow circle

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

There still is absolutely no plan for how to finance & operate our universities without foreign students or restored federal funding, & the public still has zero awareness of the magnitude of this existential crisis, because our leaders have been totally absent from the public stage.

Ah. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

BREAKING: Fidelity won't let customers donate to the SPLC anymore via their charitable gift/donor-advised funds, citing Trump admin indictment of SPLC. No response yet from Schwab, Vanguard... but soon. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/b...

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

In addition to the bigotry and horror of this, it is absolutely incredible that they are trying to alter reality by institutional fiat. Their very need to try and fix gender into a binary presupposes, and acknowledges, that something other than a binary exists.

Yale fires adjunct faculty, "the instructors most directly tasked with supporting our education. To implement Trust report while eroding the foundations of intellectual life is like giving a blood transfusion to a patient whose wounds haven’t been stitched shut: You’ll end up with a corpse anyway."

Good morning! This, right here, is fascism! Source: www.congress.gov/118/meeting/...

More horrific actions taken to try & suppress & erase LGBTQ+ community members through higher ed policies…

I think this is pretty spot on and gets at what stopped working in social justice work without blaming the underlying ideas or values of that work.

There’s something fascinating about the enduring ease with which academics in other fields shit on education researchers. (I’d say “some” academics in other fields, but they’re not doing nuance so I’m not either)

I’ll never forget reading an econ textbook in my PhD program that proudly claimed that theory was not necessary in studies because economists could just “use intuition.”

In this new piece in the inaugural issue of the journal Teaching Educational Research Methods (TERM), Kamden and I argue that those of us teaching research methodology courses can and should make four moves given our current political moment. (1/6)

In this new piece in the inaugural issue of the journal Teaching Educational Research Methods (TERM), Kamden and I argue that those of us teaching research methodology courses can and should make four moves given our current political moment. (1/6)

Accountability metrics can be used by those not in power, too. Either the numbers mean something or they don’t.

✨✨meritocracy in action✨✨

The surveillance state is here, and it's not here to protect us.

"You should be writing."

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That college education is still valuable and important for growth as a person, exposure to new people and things, and critical thinking. And it shouldn’t be reduced to just taking classes in a specific major and only gaining specific knowledge/skills to obtain a job (often favoring STEM education).

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

Thread. This is the way.

it's wild that we live in a society where people can just like... do this. At the risk of revealing my childlike naivete, IT SEEMS BAD that we got ourselves into a situation where people can just buy up resources enjoyed by lots of people and then like... destroy them. 🤔

I'm writing my first book chapter for a European editorial team and there's some confusion about the use of postsecondary versus higher education, which we often use interchangeably in the U.S. They've asked us to pick one and stick with it.

The answer to problems in sociotechnical systems is not always "more software", "better software" or "open source software". A lot of the time the best solution is _less software_ and sometimes even _no software_.

Academic friends: do you have grad students working on survey methods questions (ones we can help answer with Survey 160 data)? Please share with them this fellowship opportunity. Applications for first round are closing soon. www.survey160.com/survey-160-r...

Due process violations don't get worse than this. Appalling stuff from Virginia State, every administrator involved should lose their job