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Dani Friedrich

@danifriedrich.bsky.social
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Associate Prof. of Curriculum @TeachersCollege, Columbia U. Comics addict. Views expressed here are my own.

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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
My brother is a biochemist in Argentina studying pesticides and cancer. As in the US, the far-right gov there has completely defunded science, thus crowdfunding is needed. Please contribute and/or share: experiment.com/projects/help-us-expose-how-pesticides-weaken-human-immune-cells-in-the-lab
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Help us expose how pesticides weaken human immune cells in the lab
The project is focused on the impact of worldwide pesticides (like glyphosate) on human health, particularly on the immune system. First, the immune system is crucial not only to prevent infections bu...
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A shortened an updated version of our letter was just published here. Really proud of my colleagues! #edusky www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
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Trump threatens all education, not just universities
On April 21, former interim University President Katrina Armstrong <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03/21/columbia-to-acquiesce-to-trump-administrations-demands-amid-federal-fundin...
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Just yesterday I was telling some students to continue demanding but not to expect our admin to take a public stance on the issues at hand, and yet today's Daily shows how the president of Princeton is doing exactly that, in a very public way: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...
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The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Couldn't be prouder to call Ash Moyse a friend sojo.net/articles/opi...
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The Powers and Principalities Manipulating Columbia University
As a professor at Columbia, I cannot remain silent about the crisis my university is facing.
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
NYC against fascism
Sign of Elon doing the Nazi salute "There's only one immigrant taking away American jobs"Sign reads "Billionaires are the parasite class"Sticker on a garbage can that says please and a no Tesla, no Nazis and no wlon
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Proud of my brilliant colleague and friend
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
In the NYT right now, from a Justice Dept lawyer: “I will tell you right now that Columbia has not in my opinion — and the opinion of the Department of Justice — has not cleaned up their act,” Mr. Terrell said. “They’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
"acceding to the ... demands is not going to restore the funding." From @danifriedrich.bsky.social in @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/faci...
Dani Friedrich, an associate professor of curriculum at Columbia’s Teachers College, said that while the university has had “struggles ... with different kinds of discrimination and different acts against Jewish students, against Muslim students, against protesters,” agreeing to the Trump administration’s demands “is not the way to go.”

“The university should know, and it’s become very obvious, that acceding to the Trump administration’s demands is not going to restore the funding,” Friedrich added.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It’s an extrajudicial killing of a university. And it’s a self-inflicted mortal wound. Both.
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are fucked. Columbia caved to fascist demands. How do they think this will satisfy them and the money will be returned? This will lead to radical change in the nature of the university and, I hope, to mass resistance. [The views are mine and not my institution's, but they fucking should] #edusky
Images of a PDF with Columbia's response to the federal government
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
A statement by Teachers College faculty. Please share widely " docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty
A Statement by Teachers College, Columbia University Faculty The Attack on American Education, from our Perspective as Teachers College Faculty March 19, 2025 We are a group of Teachers College faculty with expertise in the areas of education, health, and psychology. We write in response to the a...
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
And just so we're clear, in Argentina it's not that a few generals fooled 30 million. There wouldn't have been a dictatorship without the support of a large portion of the public, and another large portion who didn't care enough to oppose it.
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Seeing this video is impossible not to think of the Disappeared in Argentina. Agents in plainclothes, taking a man into an unmarked car, without a warrant or anything. It's terrifying.
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Cartoon by Paz & Rudy in Spanish, with a man sitting on a chair and stating: "Cruelty is how fascists boast"
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
New book w @joco513.bsky.social is out! Really proud of this work. We took TV eps about school and paired them with articles from Curr Studies from that same year, 1979-2020. We put theory to work, aimed mostly at students being introduced to the field brill.com/display/titl... Discount code: 72535
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TV as Curriculum Studies
"TV as Curriculum Studies" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Can't recommend this highly enough. In my view, the best live action Superman ever. Yeah, including the classics.
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
My 8yo is in DC with my wife. She left her backpack (w 🧸!) in the metro. Someone found it, found her public library card, contacted NYPL, left his contact, and they reached out to me to get the bag. AMAZING! All the love, once again, to #NYPL
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Has anyone else gotten a desk rejection that took several months form one of the biggest journals in our field? I found out I'm not the only one and trying to see how systemic this is with this one journal. If it's happened to you, pm me. #EduSky
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Does every single office and every administrator have to send their own Happy Holidays email? Can't they just send one on behalf of the university? Nevermind, that would be efficient.
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Dr. Sarah B. Shear @profsarahshear.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
On behalf The Critical Social Educator (TCSE), we’re thrilled to share the first of two issues on "play and joy" guest edited by Drs. Tran Templeton @trantempleton.bsky.social & Harper Keenan @harperkeenan.bsky.social, along w/ Nicole Fox & Akiea "Ki" Gross. www.tcsejournal.com/issues
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Just got a paper rejected after an internal review that took them 5 months. So disrespectful to take this long to not even send it out for review.
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a cartoon character with a very angry face and the words `` me right now '' .
ALT: a cartoon character with a very angry face and the words `` me right now '' .
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
It's so weird, I've never felt like this about a store closure in my life. It was my favorite place (not just eatery) in the area... Perhaps in the city #AbsoluteBagels #AbsoluteForever www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/n...
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A Bagel Shop Closes, and the Upper West Side Is Absolutely Losing It
The neighborhood reaction to the sudden, mysterious closure of a Manhattan bagel shop was intense: “No no no no no no no no no no no!!”
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The election was bad... But this is absolutely unacceptable. IYKYK
Absolute Bagels is closed for good
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Ok, Connections, you crossed a line today. WTF? Drawings, really?
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a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' .
Alt: a man is covering his face with his hand and saying `` seriously '' .
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I've said this before, but we have too many pop culture stories that are "All the experts told me it couldn't be done, but I believed in myself and proved them all wrong." We need more "I believed in myself, but they are experts for a reason and I was a dumbass."
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Today we say goodbye to my favorite live-action Superman #SupermanAndLois And yes, I did grow up with Christopher Reeve and love him, but this one kept adding more and more layers. An evolution that loved what came before.
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a man in a superman costume talks to another man and says thanks my mom made it for me
Alt: a man in a superman costume talks to another man and says thanks my mom made it for me
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just turned in our kid's high school app. Those of you with kids in NYC will understand why this feels like a grant app. Those of you not here, you have no idea.
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a man with a beard wearing a gump hat is tired and walking down a road
Alt: Forrest Gump at the end of his run saying he's pretty tired and going to bed now.
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
I'm surprised I'm not seeing more people talking about how amazing Shrinking is. Anyone here enjoying it?
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I do not give Bluesky permission to use my pictures or posts, both past and future. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). What?? Why are you all looking at me like that?
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The proofs are here! The proofs are here!
White page with the text "TV as Curriculum Studies. Putting Curriculum Theory to Work. By Jordan Corson and Dani Friedrich"
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Looking forward to dig into the newly published "Bangalore Girls: Witnessing the Rise of Nationalism in a Progressive City," by the always amazing Supriya Baily. #Cies #CriticalEducators rowman.com/ISBN/9781538198018/Bangalore-Girls-Witnessing-the-Rise-of-Nationalism-in-a-Progressive-City
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Bangalore Girls: Witnessing the Rise of Nationalism in a Progressive City
Bangalore is looked at in depth in Supriya Baily's exploration of one of India’s most dynamic cities. Booklist praises the book, saying,
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Scott Jarvie @scottjarvie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“Through a critique of the affective workings of learning, the authors consider how these discourses can prove counterproductive for the work of teaching for social justice.” #EduSky www.routledge.com/Affect-Learn...
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Affect, Learning, and Teacher Education: Getting Stuck in Social Justice
This volume inquires into student teachers’ “stuck moments”—moments of felt crisis—as they occur within the context of a university-based social justice teacher education (SJTE) program. The book comp...
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
For me, @tomtaylormade.bsky.social is the definitive writer of friendship in comics. I'm really curious how he'll write Batman, a character with a family, but not defined by friendship. Really enjoyed his first issue of Detective!
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Changing topics: I think we're in a Wonder Woman golden age. What @tomking.bsky.social and @sampereart.bsky.social are doing in the main line, and what @kellythompson.bsky.social and @cleanlined.bsky.social just started with Absolute is such amazing work. I don't remember being this invested
Screenshot of a page from Absolute Wonder Woman #1 with baby Diana being attacked by a small dragon and her kissing it in response
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Been thinking a lot about Bernie's indictment of the Dems. I used to believe he was right: if only the party would move to the left, if only they'd do what I want them to. I'm not sure I believe that anymore. I want to, but maybe it's wishful thinking. Maybe this country is truly, deeply fucked.
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Anyone else notice what a difference it makes not to see ads?
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Dani Friedrich @danifriedrich.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I guess I'm trying this one now, while still wondering why do this at all.
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a man leaning against a white brick wall with the word hault written below him
ALT: a man leaning against a white brick wall with the word hault written below him
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