"And I am not pleased // I am not very pleased // None of this fits into my notion of // 'things going very well'" – June Jordan, "The Bombing of Baghdad" poets.org/poem/bombing...

"There is no condition in which the university is under attack that the whole of U.S. educational infrastructure, public and private, from pre-K up, is not under attack. And there is no condition in which education is under attack in which civil society can remain unimperiled."

It is extremely hard in the midst of events to properly reflect, historicize and contextualize. But there was nothing inevitable about the current level of struggle in the US. Other countries where the costs to resistance were lower and left infrastructure more resilient haven't gone nearly so haed

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Merry Christmas, one and all!

I wrote much less this year than I've written in the past five, so there's not a whole lot to revisit. This piece, though, I still think is probably the best article I've ever written, even if it was a dumb professional move to write it [free to read] www.patreon.com/posts/empero...

hey Canadians, sign this parliamentary petition to ask the federal government to stop Alberta and Saskatchewan from denying care to trans youth. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

maybe one upside of the creeping death of google scholar? it could help get rid of the myth that (A) much-cited work is better research and (B) papers that cite more texts are better. shoddy work can rack up big metrics! poor arguments can have long bibliographies! you gotta read it to find out

i feel like this kind of scholarly malpractice only becomes possible because of the twin developments of (1) publish-or-perish neoliberal academic economies and (2) the advent of tools like google scholar making masses of publications immediately accessible. if you compare bibliographies...

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

rly excited about this one! the last publication from my MA research has been released as part of this new collection of queer geography scholarship, along with the work of such brilliant colleagues as @queergeog.bsky.social @sagebrice.bsky.social & @joejukes.bsky.social !! doi.org/10.4337/9781...