A little thread on AI and #HigherEd 1. "All in" may not be the most prudent approach when it comes to ai, especially if the players involved aren't sure of what that actually means via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m... #highered

Appreciated this conversation between Mishal Husain and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social about privacy as vital for democracy and free society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC4S...

Did I mishear and think it was “drinking in the kitchen?” Yes. Was I hoping sandwiches were involved? Also yes. On this Pop & Play Srikala and @wargojon.bsky.social get salty, paddle the highball right out of my hand, and teach the not so ancient art of Pickleball. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

“Ryan Atwood explains crypto to the masses” was not on my bingo card. #theoc www.rottentomatoes.com/m/everyone_i...

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Appreciated this episode featuring @add-hawk.bsky.social in conversation with Pop and Play co-hosts @haenyyoon.bsky.social & @snowdaylearninglab.org A fave bit: profs who (unironically) assign Foucault & then set up heavily surveilled test environments 😆 #goplay podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Humane research innovation that leverages emerging tech to pose new Qs & address familiar Qs in new ways. That’s the premise of the Early Researcher Innovation Network (ERIN) we launched last fall at @tcdigitalfuture.bsky.social Learn more: www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur... #highered #community

"Art is supposed to pierce us." -- Ada Limón

Censorship of motion pictures was enough of a concern in the early 1900s that The People's Institute issued a report, The Menace of Motion Picture Censorship, containing pointed political cartoons that serve as a rallying cry against censorship and aims to appeal to readers' sense of logic. #HR7661

Rooster may keep me watching simply because of the title song sung by Michael Stipe. ... And sure, I'm also a sucker for tv that attempts to capture the academic experience. ... *attempts* ...

Well played, Mother Nature. Well played.

Take 30 minutes and enjoy the latest pop-off episode of Pop & Play in which co-hosts @snowdaylearninglab.org and @haenyyoon.bsky.social ponder the *totally uncontroversial* question: What counts as reading? #readingwars #literacy #whatisreading #reading #dopeoplestillusehashtags #shrug

This was an excellent plenary talk by @alondra.bsky.social in which she artfully reframes what can often seem like a binary abyss of bad and worse choices regarding ai: www.youtube.com/live/IZFurJB... (First ~ 30 mins) #iaseai26

As always, thorough and thoughtful reporting from @jillbarshay.bsky.social "The damage is cumulative and will unfold over years. ... the deeper loss belongs to the children and teachers who will never benefit from the knowledge that would have been generated."

We are all…

A refreshing critique of Haidt's oft-cited tome that refers to an entire generation of youth as the anxious recipients of unregulated access to smartphones. "We’re not “anxious” just because of TikTok. Sometimes, the world is just objectively overwhelming — phones or not."

Learning requires friction. Good learning environments reduce unproductive friction. They also provide support so learners can work through productive friction. Using AI to remove all friction removes the learner from what is to be learned. Doing difficult things is entirely the point!

Apparently we are doing this tomorrow (see @snowdaylearninglab.org's post 👇) It's been a while since I last stretched a social media muscle, so expect a rusty and clunky performance on the part of yours truly. I assume I'll go full Buscemi. #popplaypod

Sobering and important interview with Tom Brock, Director of Community College Research Center at @teacherscollege.bsky.social on how loss of federal funding stalls research insights that impact educational policy, practice, and overall student experience. www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

More on the impacts of fed funding cuts, via @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/what-the-whi...

Always happy to join Haeny Yoon & @snowdaylearninglab.org on Pop & Play. In this pop-off, we discuss the direct & immediate impacts of federal funding cuts to research infrastructure & related programming (afterschool, extracurricular) that directly serves children and their communities.

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET. www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...

200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watch

Having observed various social science 'turns' - social, cultural, narrative, digital, material - I brace for the eventual (inevitable?) emergence of "the 'artificial' turn" as an explanatory phrase in written scholarship.

Playful, participatory, collective, invitational -- block off 26 minutes and enjoy story time, courtesy of your Pop & Play co-hosts and their Season 5 guests.

All of these podcasts will be featured in a session at #AERA2025 in a roundtable session: Podcasts as Public Scholarship: (Re)Imagining Theories in Everyday Life (Table 6) Now, more than ever, facility with multi-platform and transmediated communication that reaches broad(er) audiences is needed.

Whilst pondering the space between the unsayable & "must be said" w/regards to the recent EOs... I offer this 🧵 on edu podcasts that promote the fullness of education flourishing in multiple forms - playful, silly, embodied, invitational, unsettled. (all produced at @teacherscollege.bsky.social)

The number of young people in detention is lower than before — Still: Racial disparities in youth incarceration are the widest they've been in decades www.npr.org/2025/04/24/n...

Reflections on recent federal funding cuts from over a dozen researchers across a range of fields and research areas, detailing the loss of data, new scholar training resources, incomplete evidence of program effectiveness, and more. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Useful explainer about the function of indirect costs in university research federal funding Tl;dr best roi in town Via @aaup.bsky.social youtu.be/NtqK8SyxFMc?...

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." -- Henry Miller

Article from @chalkbeat.org detailing the immediately felt effects of recent funding cuts hatchet job. “in several instances, the decision to cancel contracts affected more than researchers analyzing data in their offices — it affected students.” www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/26/t...

Taking a brief break from simmering rage at the gross and violent mangling of words ("data", "intelligence", "protection", "freedom") for the purposes of craven self-aggrandizement, to share yet another cautionary tale about unregulated creep of ai into daily life. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/h...

Missed this when you first posted - thank goodness for re-posts. A) belated birthday wishes 🎉 B) holy cow, that trailer. Thrilled to see how the film has developed. Can’t wait to see the full length version! Congrats. (And your voice is beautiful, T.)

Incredibly incredibly honored to be a part of this upcoming @washingtonpost.com live event early next month on the toll of gun violence on children and families in the U.S. (1/2) www.washingtonpost.com/washington-p...

We just published a NEW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social on how to PROMOTE EQUITY in #STEMed — based on the powerful @nasem-education.bsky.social EQUITY IN K-12 STEM ED report. Be sure to explore the detailed equity assessment tool included! ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/101 PLS RESKEET #SciEd #NGSS

The current administration took the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) offline. The Public Environmental Data Project posted the latest version publicly so that this important resource could still be accessed. Thank you!! ➡️ edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/...

Here's @penamerica.bsky.social's statement condemning last night's "Dear Colleague" letter from the Department of Education, threatening to withhold federal funds from educational institutions that engage in DEI programming, training, or other activities. pen.org/press-releas...

PhD students in social sciences studying "metascience" and AI: This looks like an *AMAZING* opportunity. Fully funded research postdoc that can be housed at whatever university you can find an appropriate mentor. sloan.org/programs/dig...

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Great new resource from @debeaumontfndtn.bsky.social on public health comms - with both well-tested language, and actionable tips. This is FABULOUS. debeaumont.org/resources/co...

On Feb. 13 at 3pm Eastern, MuckRock will host an event with organizations that are helping lead the efforts to preserve the public’s data.

In case you thought your kids will be safe in a blue state--our future Secretary of Education is proposing moving special education under RFK Jr. at HHS.

Sen. Markey: "DOGE stands for Department of Gutting Education" While questioning McMahon about whether she would uphold funding for public education and resist cuts proposed by admin. @markey.senate.gov

We are excited to let everyone know that we have a new website: www.datarescueproject.org/about-data-r... It includes the resources from the Google doc (that will stay live for a bit) and ways to stay in contact with us. Feel free to share! #LoveData25 #DataRescue

Mark Graham, director of Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, will join this conversation ⬇️

NEW: Washington’s governor signed an executive order forming a team to evaluate data centers’ impact on energy use, tax revenue and job creation. It follows a @theseattletimes.bsky.social and ProPublica investigation on the state’s power-guzzling data center industry.