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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/09/2026

The slop factory is now claiming to have invented iterative, abductive research design… 20th century ethnography would like a word, sir.

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Anthropic coined a new research term: "self healing studies."
Historically, it was hard to adapt research studies after they launch. The researcher writes the study guide, the interviews run, and if users raise something new along the way, it has to wait for the next study.
In a "self healing study", there is a continuous feedback loop between interviews and the study guide. Each round of interviews identifies new topics, they are added to the guide, and the next interviews explore them.
Nothing waits for a follow-up study - the guide keeps evolving with the study.
And the researcher sits above all of it as the guardrails.
The study proposes additional topics, and the researcher uses their judgment to decide which ones deserve exploring.
The term comes from Jane Justice Leibrock's team at Anthropic, from their churn interviews on Claude Code.
Before we even had an MCP, Anthropic built its own plugin to run Listen studies because they wanted them running around the clock.
That's the future of research.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Happy #internationalcatday! Dorothy was feeling left out of this post, but loves being the centre of attention (until she doesn't).

A large black and white cat with a black nose laying on her back with her paws up in the air and her white belly on display.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 02/08/2026

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

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The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Emily Bender gives us language connecting what those who make LLMs take from what belongs to humanity as a whole AND she lays how they're used, *even when deployed solely rhetorically,* to reorganize power, people's lives, and environments. It can be hard to hold all of this in your head. LLMs...

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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

We are replaying a past Intentionally Equitable Hospitality series. For 30 days, we will repost from a previous year, incl a video & an activity. Today is session 13 "Be spontaneous and live session today (no live session actually)." by Alan Levine myfest.equityunbound.org/month/may/da... #MYFest26

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Daily Nourishing Reflection #13: Be Spontaneous & Live Session Today! - MYFest26

Welcome to day #13 of the Intentionally Equitable Hospitality (IEH) series for May 2024! We are excited and looking forward to seeing you today for our live session! Daily Facilitation Tip: How do I b...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/06/2026

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

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Why nurses' unions are fighting for AI guardrails

Nurses' unions in Michigan and New York City are winning contract language that gives them oversight of how AI tools are deployed in their hospitals.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Such a tremendous joy to share this work! @booksyarnlogic.bsky.social Other collaborators, Jenny and the mushrooms, are not on BlueSky.

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This Fat Mom Bikes @vocame.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It’s like “how DARE these cyclists all join together and ride slowly along OUR streets ONCE a year on a weekend?!” lol like can you imagine if #ldnont did more regular critical mass rides?? 🤣 drivers would lose their ever loving minds.

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violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It's honestly blackpilled me a little how the last couple of years have revealed that so many people are just fundamentally averse to reading and writing and thinking as worthwhile human activities.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Now consider the discursive effect of this in terms of neurodivegence and other ways of knowing. How are people's voices being shifted towards a norm? How are different epistemologies being illegitimized?

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 21/02/2026

"Our system is an investment in human dignity. Yours is a GoFundMe waiting to happen" is a bar

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

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Draw a horse, watch it run!

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Starting a new project with mushrooms. This week involved creating monotubs (basically plastic buckets with strategically placed air holes), collecting substrate (the growing materials that provide nutrients) and transplanting spawn. I have no clue what I'm doing, but I'm certainly enjoying myself.

A slightly greyish mushroom with many small nodules and golden droplets of liquid.

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Centre for Society, Technology and Values @uofwaterloo @cstv-uw.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The disruption that generative #AI has brought to #education indicts the dominant "knowledge factory" model and should prompt educators to consider different (even old-school) instruction and assessment practices, argue @danid.bsky.social & Mark Daley theconversation.com/ai-disruptio...

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AI disruptions reveal the folly of clinging to an idealized modern university

Alternative educational movements offer insights about how to help university students find purpose and hope as they navigate an increasingly complex world.

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Kevin Veale 😷 (Toitū Te Tiriti) @krveale.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 13/11/2025

I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back! linkletter.org/update-33-th...

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Update #33: The lawsuit is over! | Stand Against Proctorio's SLAPP!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/08/2025

Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...

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AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers

Software and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

'It is less that AI is the cause of degradation in reading and thinking, and more that the creation of a culture that views knowledge primarily in an instrumental manner has made it easier to misuse AI.'

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AI thrives where education has been devalued | The Observer

A culture that views knowledge as a means to an end invites the misuse of new technology

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 31/07/2025

enjoying being in community with folks who are, if not hardline refusers, at least extremely critical of AI in ways that are hopeful and intent on shifting perspectives of those who uncritically take to AI tools. appreciate what @civicsoftech.bsky.social is doing to foster this conversation :)

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I took a short break from my self-imposed writing isolation today to attend the @civicsoftech.bsky.social conference today. I love the conversations on resisting Ed Tech narratives.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A friend shared the following exhibit with me that highlights the legacy of techno-trash. What will we leave behind? How will nature reclaim it? The exhibit focuses on material waste (electronics), but it got me thinking about information trash as well. nathanielstern.com/artwork/the-...

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The World After Us - nathaniel stern

The World After Us: imaging techno-aesthetic futures is a traveling solo exhibition...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11/12/2024

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration. www.vox.com/technology/3...

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An AI that sees what you see
Microsoft wants an AI companion to follow you around the web. This is only the beginning.

To me, though, the ambition here feels somewhat limitless. What if an AI assistant could see your whole world, know what was what, and help you navigate it? That’s the big idea behind Copilot Vision. Letting an AI watch you browse the web is just a step toward putting an AI companion on your shoulder everywhere you go.

In a recent interview, Suleyman explained why collaborating with AI is the future of computing. This is frankly something I’ve heard tech companies pitch for years. But the way things are heading, I’m finally starting to buy it.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

New blog post from #HESA speaks volumes to how elistism is a design feature of HE institutions. As higher education institutions reduce barriers to access, they are becoming less prestigious & less appealing, which threatens their financial security. higheredstrategy.com/the-meaning-...

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The Meaning of 2025 | HESA

So, was that a fun year, or what? From Marc “Tonya” Miller and the federal government knee-capping the postsecondary sector … Continued

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

A candid moment with ChatGPT today which admitted that "It's a simulation of understanding, not the real thing." (I was going to say "who admitted..." but it's not really a "who" is it?

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today was listening to fantastic presentations at Innovations in Education, facilitating with an amazing colleague on the importance of an intersectional approach to inclusive pedagogy, and.... snow. mi.mcmaster.ca/innovations-...

A snowy street in a residential neighbourhood where the entire image is nearly whited-out due to snow. There are trees and houses barely visible due to the blowing white flakes.

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Most folks don’t realize this, but a single pound of beef is responsible for about 100 pounds of greenhouse gas pollution. That’s 50x worse than coal, on pound for pound basis.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm honoured to be included on a list of amazing educators. Great place to start for folks rebuilding community on BlueSky!

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A common question about alt text is whether or not it's appropriate to mention attributes like race or skin tone. A common response is, "It depends." In this post, Tolu Adegbite explains how race can be relevant and important in providing context. ux.shopify.com/the-case-for...

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A return to Bluesky which seems to be having a mass influx (is there not a better antonym for exodus?) Let’s get to know each other better. What is your all time favorite TV Show? Quote share your answer only in GIF form.

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a woman with dreadlocks and white paint on her face is wrapped in a white cloth

Alt: A woman with dreadlocks and white paint on her face is wrapped in a white cloth. A man bald man with glasses steps in front of her waving two slices of cheese in front of him.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

I fear that a lot of points are going to be missed if we focus too much on what AI can do and not enough on what AI should be used for.

A post on Twitter with an image of a partially finished Keith Haring painting. The text reads "Keith Haring died of aids aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. His last piece of art, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, I quantifiable loss to the arts due to aids".

A Twitter conversation.
"Whenever I see this now, I fear the 3rd para is going to be that AI can fix this".
"It's happened. AI has 'completed' the painting".
"AI is really good for missing the point".

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Arguing with GenAI today about making a picture face right instead of left. It strikes me that spatial orientation might be a very human concept. It has me wondering what human concepts are simply never going to be machine translatable.

A conversation with ChatGPT where it provides a picture of a purple robot facing right. Then provides exactly the same picture facing the same direction, but states that it's facing left.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

Every semester, I'm amazed at how insightful students are on critical education topics, but I shouldn't be. Today, my favorite Ss submission compared their experiences about learning in two different locations in their home; one was better for efficiency, the other better for creativity. #placeful

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

So many Ss, in our meetings, talked abt "participation" in specific speech-producing terms. Some are shy. Some are English-language learners. Some are just...different. The idea of lots of speech as the only form of engagement is ideological. #LanguageIdeologies

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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Nuts are an major part of Thanksgiving. The climate crisis has to be addressed at the global level, but consumer choice plays a role. One thing we can do is switch from almonds (R in photo) to pecans (L). Both are similar in nutrition, but it is water use and geography that makes a difference. 🌍 1/4

Tree nuts: pecans, Carya illinoiensis, and almonds, Prunus amygdalus on a white surface. Copyright Tom Kimmerer

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

Reflecting on place in online education, students were invited to share their favorite places of learning. I've seen couches, cafes, workplaces, cosy library nooks, cabins overlooking lakes. The reflections on why these places are ideal learning spots are fantastic. Online learning is placeful.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I am lamenting the loss of community and engagement on the blue bird and finally find myself here. Last year, Twitter offered the opportunity for my students to engage in TweetChats about Open Ed. They were interesting, insightful, and well attended. This year, I have found no great alternative.

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Dani Dilkes @danid.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

A powerful message from @bonstewart.bsky.social at #TESS2023. My take-away: we need to start paying more (and deliberate) attention to the tech and educational practices we're adopting and who is controlling them.

A picture of a presentation slide. On the left is the text "Because some futures are not freedom. Or empowerment. Thank you. :)"
On the right is a picture of a tree with a crown around the trunk and a skull at its base. The text reads: "We live in capitalism - its power seems inescapable. But so did the divine right of kings. Ursula K LeGuin"

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