Yes it’s climate change, stop asking

Believe it we're actually living in a time when we have some of the best magazines & publications available: @wired.com, @propublica.org, @hammerandhope.bsky.social, @readlux.bsky.social, @nplusonemag.com, @truthout.org, @hellgatenyc.com, @boltsmag.org, @inquest.bsky.social, @thecityreporter.nyc...

The Black Mirror Writers Room teaching exercise has some updates! More "Light Mirror" emphasis, additional options for scaffolding with some more explicit prompts (including for encouraging more grounding and solutions-oriented thinking) and (actual) Black Mirror examples. bit.ly/blackmirrorw...

Ever seen a news story about AI and thought “this could be an episode of Black Mirror”? We're running a research study where we ask people to imagine generative AI futures and pitch their own science fiction story. More detail at the link and please share! www.internetruleslab.com/black-mirror...

How do we help K12 students push back on the idea that 'tech is inevitable'? I'm excited to share this new article "A Sociotechnical Vision for Ethical, Responsible, and Critical PK-12 Computing Education", recently published in ACM InRoads, that speaks to this question: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

First (beta) version of our AI Auditing for High School lessons: piloted in high school CS classrooms, with resources for more information. bit.ly/k12aiaudit-lessons #cseducation #aieducation Created with amazing CS teachers, Yasmin Kafai, Danae Metaxa, Daniel Noh, Luis Morales-Navarros

Excited to share a new offering at #ISLS2026 (International Society of the Learning Sciences): Alt-Academia Career Workshop. If you're in the learning sciences and interested in careers outside the traditional tenure track, this workshop is for you! Apps due 11/15: 2026.isls.org/alt-academia...

Since tomorrow is Labor Day and school is in session, I'd like to argue (again) that teaching about GenAI should include discussion of the extractive, exploitative labor conditions that make the technology possible. 🧵

There are four main arguments for AI in education: 1. Efficiency, saving teachers time 2. Equity, making education inclusive 3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning 4. It's inevitable Is it true? Nope. Micro 🧵

"The current AI hype bubble is being driven by little more than emotions. Instead of being awed by speculative promises around AI futures, we need to engage with current forms of AI in terms of their values and politics" ... criticaledtech.com/2025/07/12/w...

Big companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google pledged a few years ago to cut their emissions. But, as this chart from @bloomberg.com shows, the heavy pivot to artificial intelligence is pushing their emissions higher instead 🧪

Absolutely heartbreaking, and terrifying. If I’m reading this right, the program I received my PhD in—Learning and Development Sciences—is set to be eliminated. Along with literally hundreds (!) of others. This is arson on the part of fascists, plain and simple.

This is theft, plain and simple. They stole this from you. Every deletion, every erasure, every website that goes dark is a crime against the American public

Kudos to @bcmerchant.bsky.social for some absolutely essential reporting from the frontline of AI’s enshittification of our culture (not to mention our software). Worth the long read.

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What a mensch. (But we already knew that)

Tonight, I can’t help but think of how much joy, and hope, this victory would bring to Michael Brooks.

Episode 200 of @haveyouheard.bsky.social is a gem. Come for @audreywatters.bsky.social, @biblioracle.bsky.social, and @benjaminjriley.bsky.social…stay for our producer Francisco Rafart, who makes a surprise guest appearance at the end.

BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Given this was a full, good faith effort sunsetted bc it didn’t sufficiently reduce algorithmic bias, I wonder whether it should be considered a failure of responsible computing, or, a success? Not deploying systems that don’t alleviate harms as intended seems like “responsible computing” to me.

More of this pls.

My local coffee shop is not playing around.

A reminder that submissions to this year's @civicsoftech.bsky.social free, online conference are due on Saturday, June 14. This year's 🔥🔥🔥 keynotes are Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard . The theme is Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems. Submit here: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

🧪 BOOM: The AAU, ACE, APLU, and 13 universities just filed suit today against NSF for slashing to 15% indirect rates. Full compliant: www.aau.edu/sites/defaul... Updates: www.aau.edu/resources-aa... A similar group of plaintiffs won a *permanent* injunction against a similar change at NIH.

🧪 What the f is going on with NSF right now??? 🚨🚨🚨 There's been so many NSF updates within the past 48 hours that it's hard to keep track. It feels like an onslaught. It *is* an onslaught. But it's still vital to remain focused, organized, and strategic. So here's my recap of past 48 hours...

On Friday, I joined the scores of other scholars, scientists, and others that have had their research and public efforts silenced by the current administration.

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

National Science Foundation grant cancellations come two months after Sen. Ted Cruz's office released a list of "questionable projects that promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda." chroni.cl/4jfvw9H

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

We still only know about a fraction of the damage this round of cancellation has done. If your #NIH or #NSF grant has been terminated, please report! bsky.app/profile/scot...

🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day. Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience Thread👇🧵