Aireale J. Rodgers, PhD
@airealejoi.bsky.social
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Learning Scientist of Higher Ed // Asst Prof at UW-Madison // Educator. Consultant. Freedom Dreamer.
Faculty colleagues, if you have a union but havenât yet joined, I urge you to think seriously about it. Nowâs the time to build power, deepen relations, and get ready. Weâre up for a fight, and there is no thriving in isolation.
21 days ago
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Puff the Magic Hater
about 1 month ago
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, âLibraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.â My piece on whatâs at stake and how to fight back:
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You Canât Fight Fascism While Defunding Libraries
âLibraries embody everything that we need right now to fight back against fascism," says Sara Heymann.
https://organizingmythoughts.org/you-cant-fight-fascism-while-defunding-libraries/
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Lauren Underwood
about 2 months ago
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone â period.
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2 months ago
Tonight, in Chicago, North Side rapid responders and community members held a vigil. At least ten people were abducted by ICE in Rogers Park alone today. We uplifted the message RESIST ICE in lights. We spoke out, sang together, grieved, and reaffirmed our commitment to defending our neighbors.
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Eman Abdelhadi
2 months ago
Turns out you can turn out people to vote if you give them someone worth voting for....
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Chicago Sun-Times
3 months ago
Body-camera video appears to contradict the governmentâs claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
https://trib.al/9Sxu9IN
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Puff the Magic Hater
3 months ago
CALL PRITZKER TO DEMAND HE REMOVE ILLINOIS STATE POLICE FROM BROADVIEW: (Chicago) 312-814-2121 or 312-814-2122 (Springfield) 217-782-6830 or 217-782-6831 Hearing impaired (TTY): 888-261-3336 I called and talked about how the state cops joined ICE in brutalizing protesters today.
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3 months ago
Your state troopers participated in Friday's fascist photo op attack at Broadview. Get the false charges against protesters dropped immediately!
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3 months ago
All charges brought against protesters at Broadview today must be dropped. When cops and agents attack crowds without provocation, they make shit up to justify their attacks (in his case, an attack waged on a cooperative crowd to produce fascist social media content). These charges must be dropped.
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ACLU
3 months ago
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
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Prisonculture
3 months ago
Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.
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Al Jazeera English
4 months ago
BREAKING: At least 72 Palestinians have been killed in relentless Israeli attacks throughout the besieged Gaza Strip since dawn, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. đ´ LIVE updates:
aje.io/gikgd0
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4 months ago
Iâm on the ground near Broadview. Because of illegal fence, we are at a nearby intersection.
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4 months ago
I'm not asking people to stop talking about Kimmel or the coming repression tied to their latest martyr projectâall of this is important. I am just saying, can we work in more discussion of our neighbors being hunted and protesters being gassed, beaten, and shot with pepper balls in Chicagoland?
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Block Club Chicago
4 months ago
In Little Village, residents are blowing actual whistles to warn neighbors about ICE.
blockclubchi.co/46mVKSq
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Texas Conference of the AAUP
4 months ago
âWeâre going to teach the truth,â Prof. Leonard Bright said. âWe donât know what the consequences of that may be...But we do know that if we were to censor the truthâŚthatâs going to damage our society. Thatâs going to damage our students.â đđ
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/15/t...
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Faculty, advocacy groups fear Texas A&M firing threatens academic freedom
The firing happened over two years after Texas A&M stressed its support for academic freedom and amid a changing higher education landscape.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/09/15/texas-am-professor-firing-melissa-mccoul-academic-freedom/
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4 months ago
Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation overâwhile waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.
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Al Jazeera English
4 months ago
BREAKING: At least 53 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since the early hours of this morning, report our team on the ground, citing sources at local hospitals. đ´ LIVE updates:
aje.io/224nz2
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I may act like an adult, but really Iâm just a girl who wishes should could lay in the safety of her Grannyâs lap one more time.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Someone asked me what victory against the forces seeking to occupy Chicago looks like. Obviously, those forces being repelled is the goal, but there are layers to what success looks like in these deteriorating conditions. The first is to successfully resist the normalization of military occupation.
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As we prep for the start of fall classes, I want to take a moment to shout out all the wonderful university librarians and library staff who work tirelessly to ensure we have easy, open access to all we need to teach, learn, and research. This professor is grateful for all that you do! đ¤
5 months ago
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Phil Lewis
5 months ago
Sheryl Cole, one of the Texas Democrats who broke quorum:
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Charles Logan
5 months ago
If anybody in the learning sciences (or beyond) wants to write a paper for ICLS (International Conference of the Learning Sciences) about how Google and others invoke our field (or a version of it, anyway) to sell their products and what that means for learning scientists, HMU, because I'm curious.
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Syllabus prep in full swing! So excited to teach our department's version of a proseminar for first-year PhD students! Do you have any favorite readings, activities, or offerings I should consider including?
#backtoschool
#graduateeducation
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Who is doing counter-recruitment organizing for ICE? As the economy worsens, those jobs and the loan forgiveness offer will become more attractive to unpoliticized individuals. There needs to be a clear social cost for even considering joining those ranks.
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I am so excited to join the Executive Committee as the new Secretary of
@islsnews.bsky.social
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UWâMadisonâs Rodgers appointed Secretary of International Society of the Learning Sciences
UWâMadisonâs Aireale J. Rodgers, an assistant professor in the School of Educationâs Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis, has been appointed to serve as Secretary of the Internati...
https://education.wisc.edu/news/uw-madisons-rodgers-appointed-secretary-of-international-society-of-the-learning-sciences/
6 months ago
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
6 months ago
People have no idea, not really, how this budget is about to wreck their very foundations.
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Apparently, as part of the ADHD diagnostic evaluation I'm pursuing, I have to complete a 500+ question personality test, which feels like a particularly ironic and ableist way to treat someone who likely has ADHD...
7 months ago
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Heba Gowayed Ůب؊ ŘŹŮŮŘŻ
7 months ago
Never has it been clearer that âno one is free until Palestine is freeâ is not a chant but a warning, as we all stare into the abyss of another world war.
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7 months ago
If you have a copy of Let This Radicalize You, pls note that there is an appendix in the back that talks about what to do if the police or any agent of the state shows up at your door. A trusted movement attorney wrote this section. Nothing will keep us 100% safe, but pls be aware of best practices.
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Cynthia D'Angelo
7 months ago
If you're going to be in-person in Helsinki next week for
#ISLS25
and you want to be a Hybrid Ambassador, there's still time to help out! We recorded a webinar yesterday that can get you up to speed. Also here's a link to the tech guide for presenters and HAs:
2025.isls.org/isls-2025-te...
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ISLS 2025 Technology Guide for Presenters and Hybrid Ambassadors | ISLS 2025
https://2025.isls.org/isls-2025-technology-guide-for-presenters-and-hybrid-ambassadors/
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7 months ago
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Letâs boost this!
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8 months ago
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vee.soy
8 months ago
3 years ago I took an air ambulance from VA back to NV hooked up to monitors. Itâs hard to look at these pics sometimes. Iâve come a long way. I turn 32 Monday. At one point I didnât think Iâd see 30 or 31. Iâm grateful to be alive. If you feel like donating to my fundraiser Iâd be appreciative â¤ď¸
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Join your local union and get involved! So much love to RĂźmeysa!
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8 months ago
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IKYFL.
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8 months ago
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Pam Herd
8 months ago
Brutal account of what itâs like to teach at the University of Florida right now in the NYTâextraordinary climate of fear. People afraid to say intersectional and talk about lynchings. Fake students trying to entrap Muslim faculty or just making things up altogether.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/o...
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Heba Gowayed Ůب؊ ŘŹŮŮŘŻ
8 months ago
The democrats have done exactly nothing to win the disaffected of us back. Nothing. In fact theyâve further proven what many of us already saw in them when they zealously financed a genocide & practically ended asylum: theyâre fully on board for fascism.
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Witnessing folks continually say we are in âunprecedentedâ times is not only factually untrue, itâs infuriating. These times are indeed precedented, and many of the same outraged folks helped lay the groundwork for our material and ideological capture. The imperial boomerang strikes againâŚ
9 months ago
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
9 months ago
A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. đ§Ş
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Al Jazeera English
9 months ago
Israeli settlers have stormed the Bedouin village of Ras Ein al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, walked their sheep among the homes of residents and destroyed property, according to the Wafa news agency. đ´ LIVE updates:
aje.io/ahokud
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Prof Dynarski
9 months ago
Resistance with slides: when presenting scientific evidence created by federal data and/or $ tell your audience what they wonât be seeing more of Slides templates here
https://sites.google.com/view/tobeclear/
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So grateful to have been part of this conversation at UW-Madison yesterday. Folks, we gotta talk about the ways this administrationâs policies and practices are impacting us. We gotta make plans to proactively care for each other. And we gotta hold our leaders accountable to doing the same!
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9 months ago
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Gayle, please donât pmo.
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9 months ago
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⨠Iâm teaching la papersonâs A Third University is Possible today, and I hope students are ready because Iâm about to go IN. â¨
9 months ago
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