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Knowledge Commons has been honored to host HASTAC in recent years. I hope that everyone associated with HASTAC — HASTAC scholars, HASTAC fans, and more — know that you have a home for continued community-building and resource-sharing with us. hcommons.org

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 15h

I look forward to discussing "Optimizing Learning for a Volatile World" with the other extraordinary recipients of the 2025 McGraw Prize in Education at noon EST on Oct 6. This webinar is free and open to the public. Register here, and thx for passing this on: www.gse.upenn.edu/events/optim...

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Optimizing Learning for a Volatile World

2025 McGraw Prize winners, from left, Cathy Davidson, Joe Wolf, and Frederic Bertley For more than three

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veery @veery.bsky.social · 21h

yes you could say i’m a centrist

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 22h

We're live! On the @insidehighered.bsky.social podcast w @saracuster.insidehighered.com "How Faculty Can Be Agents of Change" www.insidehighered.com/podcasts/key.... Focusing on our book "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times" @dukepress.bsky.social

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Ep. 215: How Faculty Can Be Agents of Change | Inside Higher Ed

In their new book, Faculties: A Dialogue on In

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 30/09/2026

A policy expert described Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s push in favor of private schools as a “great American heist,” funneling money from public schools: “It’s a strategic theft of the future of our country, our kids and our democracy.” (Published Oct. 2025)

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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, we announced that HASTAC is closing as an interactive social network after 25+ years of innovative, exciting, and equitable learning, scholarship, and community focusing on technology and its impact on society. educational-cultural-institutions.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/09/29/s...

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Sunsetting the HASTAC Network After 25+ Great Years: Farewell and Appreciation From HASTAC Co-Directors Cathy N. Davidson and Shelly Eversley – Educational and Cultural Institutions

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I try to help people understand this so we don't just automatically suggest lowering tuition as a silver bullet college affordability remedy when lots of public institutions already have low tuition

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026

Klobuchar has Schmitt dead to rights: "The game in fact was in Maryland. For a senator to have false information & imply, based on confusion about name of a team, that you were in another city & somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia & call you a 'dirtbag' deserves an apology"

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you want to say that clear statements of what's going on with LLMs aren't getting enough media attention, then do something about that and lift up the work of those of us who have been researching and speaking about this, from a place of expertise. >>

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Ella Dawson @brosandprose.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

NYC! Celebrate banned books week with your favorite romance authors! Tickets are still available to my romance read-in at Book Club Bar on 10/5:

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Romance Read-In to Benefit Authors Against Book Bans

It's Banned Books Week - so we're calling on romance readers to support Authors Against Book Bans and fight back against censorship!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

In response to our reporting, Susan Collins has mustered a defense that is full of incorrect and misleading claims. We’ve reviewed FBI evidence, examined thousands of pages of records and interviewed dozens of people. Here are the receipts.

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ProPublica Debunks Susan Collins’ Claims About FBI Anti-Corruption Probe

ProPublica revealed that the FBI was circling Sen. Collins over a defense contractor’s donations — until President Trump gutted the unit in charge. Collins has since mustered a defense with a series o...

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm excited to join the other 2025 McGraw Prize in Higher Education winners Frederic Bertley, Joe Wolf, and Rapelang Rabana at 12pm on Oct 6 for “Optimizing Learning for a Volatile World,” a dynamic Zoom panel moderated by 2014 McGraw Prize winner Chris Lehmann: upenn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When was the last time our Secretary of State for Culture displayed anything approaching this degree of public enthusiasm for our world-class arts industry? Has she been seen anywhere? Given impending charter renewal... did she even bother to visit a single prom?

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When you want to write, "The AI wants to hurt people," remember that you mean to write, "The AI company profits off of hurting people."

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/09/2026

DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We’re making them pay $131.5 million — the largest worker settlement in City history. This is New York, where hard work pays and greed will cost you.

DoorDash messed up.
They repeatedly left more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers underpaid or paid late, causing them immense stress and financial difficulty.
That's unacceptable.
We've secured a $131.5M settlement from
DoorDash - the largest worker settlement in NYC history and largest delivery worker settlement in
American municipal history.
Every worker will be paid what they are owed, and every company will be forced to abide by the laws of this city.

LOGOS:
The OFFICE of the MAYOR of NYC
NYC Consumer and Worker Protection

Mayor Mamdani and Deliveristas representatives stand behind a podium.

Three delivery workers holding a giant fake check for $131.5M.

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is amazing news! If I were younger I’d apply!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I cannot say this enough. If you are currently doing life-affirming work and organizing in your communities, keep doing that work. People who are working their asses off keep reaching out to me asking what more they should do. YOU ARE DOING IT.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

At sea some days, captain others, rowing against the current a lot of the time. #SeaScrolling #Breathe

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Inish View @inishview.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Looking down Tullagh Bay towards Binnion Hill, Inishowen, Donegal.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

j.lulu_photography ..Lulu🦋 Anna Maria Island, Florida Sunset, Gulf of Mexico

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Katherine @wordwatcher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Sunrise at Portland Head Light, Cape Elizabeth, ME

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Panic and fury are not the same thing. That’s why I used one word and not the other. this also responds to something that isn’t happening — it’s not that people aren’t furious; it’s that they are. And they are organizing around it. Manufactured panic is an op.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Jody Greene and I are recording a podcast later today w @saracuster.insidehighered.com and that got me thinking about all the incredible challenges of effective faculty coalition- building on the way to institutional change: "Leading Together." cathydavidson.com/leading-toge...

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Leading Together: Creating Community Guidelines To Promote Institutional Change - Cathy N. Davidson

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Good morning, @bsky.app. (I love spending a few minutes looking away from the news and the outrage, at photos of oceans, esp, but also lakes, forests, mountains, flowers, birds, animals, anything lovely that isn't a bot...Joy is a necessity. Especially now. Pass it on!) #SeaScrolling. #Breathe.

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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🙏🌹💔🕯️💙💟

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday at UERU for a thoughtful and lively conversation about “Faculties”We need coalition building in these destructive times and learning how to fight back.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm listening (again) to poet Ross Gay's eloquent, real, and necessary "Inciting Joy." Highly recommended. #SeaScrolling #Breathe.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Today I signed up for an online writing course and an AI activist group. Both have codes of conduct; violators are asked to leave.That's Lesson #1 of "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in destructive Times": Free Webinar. Tues Sept 15, 12-1 Register: ueru.org/ueru-events/...

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 11/09/2026

On this day in 1895, South Carolina officials met to rewrite the state constitution. Their work resulted in a new constitution that successfully disenfranchised Black voters for nearly 70 years.

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Sep. 11, 1895 | South Carolina Officials Rewrite Constitution; Disenfranchise Black Voters

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The answers from AI chatbots to "how can AI wipe out humanity" are chilling. AI is programmed for exploitation of us all. With no safeguards, no guardrails, no healthy and safety regulations. Criminal. www.businessinsider.com/how-ai-could...

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We asked AI how it could kill humanity

We asked four of the most-used generative AI tools what an AI doomsday could look like.

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Join me and Jody Greene on Tues Sept 15, 2026 | 12:00pm ET | Virtual Town Hall, for a lively conversation based on our "intentionally provocative" book @dukepress.bsky.social "Faculties: Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times." Sponsored by UERU. Register here: ueru.org/ueru-events/...

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Whale to the left, dolphins to the right, menhaden everywhere. #SeaScrolling #Breathe Also #Organize

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