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Tamara Tate

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Associate Director Digital Learning Lab, UC Irvine. Tptate.com. Generative AI and writing.

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Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 18h
If the problem is not polarization but authoritarian extremism, then the solution is not encouraging civil dialogue between racists and anti-racists; the solution is "to recommit to the project of pluralistic American democracy"
The vision of taking the United States back to a time when women and people of color “knew their place” is both unsupported by a majority of Americans and the cause of animosity between Democrats and Republicans. The solution is not to reduce the animus between pluralists and far-right extremists, but to recommit to the project of pluralistic American democracy. The movement against recent progress represents a minority of citizens, many of whom were disengaged with politics before the appearance of Donald Trump.24 In the most optimistic view, the United States is at the precipice of the most pluralistic democratic society in its history—but only if voters understand this and cast their ballots for leaders who support equal rights for all citizens.
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Want to learn more about our new IRS Center? www.ocregister.com/2026/09/20/c...
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Can AI help college students become better writers? A first-of-its-kind research center at UC Irvine is set to find out
Over the next five years, the WRITE AI Center will develop approaches to help colleges make informed decisions about how to adopt AI to strengthen classroom writing instruction and learning.
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Digital Learning Lab has been awarded a $10 million, five-year grant from IES to establish a national research center on the effective and responsible use of generative artificial intelligence in postsecondary writing instruction! More details at writeai.center @uci-education.bsky.social
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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We'd also like to highlight our sister project, PapyrusAI out of UC Irvine, led by @drtate.bsky.social and Mark Warschauer. www.genaied.org
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Generative AI in Education
Generative AI Changes What and How People Learn
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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Whatever your feelings about AI, we invite you to consider the Peer & AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social approach. Students build skeptical AI literacy by engaging with AI feedback alongside human feedback. We'll share our materials and invite input in a free webinar August 18. +
Five-step diagram of the PAIRR (Peer and AI Review + Reflection) process, shown as stacked hexagon banners: Step 1, AI Policy & Readings — the class discusses their AI policy and selected readings about AI. Step 2, Peer Feedback — students provide and receive peer feedback on an early draft. Step 3, AI Feedback — students dialogue with a chatbot on their early draft, using the instructors' feedback prompt and assignment criteria. Step 4, Reflect — students compare, evaluate, and reflect on the feedback and plan revision. Step 5, Revise — students revise drafts and write a revision reflection. Image created by Nicholas Stillman.
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Scientists who use AI are morons who aren't reading" I'm a computational social scientist and I feel like LLMs are a lot of things, but one thing they can be is a computational tool for text-based information in science. Here is what I am doing this morning
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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Celebrating the release of Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library, edited by @mettalrose.bsky.social and Brian Gogan. Because... *Prompting is writing. *Prompting is one way to shape AI to do more good and less harm. *People who study writing and rhetoric can help.
Book cover for Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library, edited by Anuj Gupta and Brian Gogan. Against a dark charcoal background, an abstract composition of large angular, faceted shapes in warm oranges, reds, and yellows with cooler lavender accents, overlaid with closely spaced radiating lines that give the surface a rippled, pleated texture.
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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
One-minute lesson narrated by @sifill.bsky.social on the significance of the 14th Amendment in the @250to250.bsky.social series by @hcrichardson.bsky.social Learn more by following The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social at Howard University Law School. youtu.be/l347V4pJF5E?...
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Fourteenth Amendment, Narrated by Sherrilyn Ifill
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Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Anthropic is retaining user data for 30 days with Mythos, supposedly for safety review, including on enterprise plans with zero data retention. This may be a nonstarter for many campuses and industries.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Week Two of 250 to 250:
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Week Two in 250 to 250
This was the second week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Great opportunity for students to use AI to improve their writing based on research based pedagogy. Anna, Eric, and the entire PAIRR team is doing amazing work. Try it for yourself.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
May 24, 2026
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For a while now, I’ve been hinting that my team was up to something.
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New substack post by @markwarschauer.com open.substack.com/pub/digitall... @uci-education.bsky.social
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Why AI Makes Coding Education More Important, Not Less
By Mark Warschauer
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
And of course it’s the fifth circuit that decides for women everywhere in the country, Mifepristone no longer available unless you can pick it up in person. Reminder: in Dobbs, the court said this should be up to each state. That’s not what this does. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
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Appeals court limits abortion pill access nationwide
A federal appeals court issued a ruling that would temporarily block people from accessing abortion pills through telehealth providers and via mail.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/04/2026
Today marks the 111th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. As we honor the 1.5 million Armenians murdered by the Ottoman Empire across modern-day Turkey, Syria, and Armenia, we must refuse to let history repeat itself.
In 2020, the military forces of Azerbaijan and Turkey attacked the Armenian population in Nagorno-Karabakh. In 2023, Azerbaijan expelled over 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh, continuing the genocidal campaign that had begun over 100 years prior.
On this day of remembrance, we reaffirm the right of the Armenian people - and all people — to freedom, safety, and self-determination.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 23/04/2026
1. In a draconian new policy, Texas Tech is banning writing about LGBTQ+ topics. The ban is the first don't say gay or trans policy to apply to students themselves. It applies to any thesis/dissertation moving forward. They are using AI to scan everything. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics
The ban applies to theses and dissertations, and is expected to begin going into effect on a rolling basis.
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
New paper alert! Tate, T.P., Ritchie, D.R., & Warschauer, M. (2026). Generative AI as a Mediational Agent: Rethinking Learning in Sociocultural Theory. @markwarschauer.com @uci-education.bsky.social doi.org/10.35542/osf...
Infographic titled "Human-First AI Habits" showing five practices: think first, engage purposefully, supervise, verify, reflect
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 20/04/2026
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
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Marc Watkins @marcwatkins.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
The federal government just extended the deadline for enforcement for a full year. No one thought this through. www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
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Public Inspection: Extension of Compliance Dates for Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities
Extension of Compliance Dates for Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability; Accessibility of Web Information and Services of State and Local Government Entities
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
At #AERA2026? Check out @markwarschauer.com and our Digital Learning Lab team talk about integrating generative AI into multiple contexts in ways that preserve and promote learning! @ucirvine.bsky.social
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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️
The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.
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Nomadic Warriors for Pritzker @nomads.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Wanted to share a personal project I've been working on: I love classic literature, and I'm also taking an AI class here at UIUC, so I trained an LLM from scratch on Victorian lit from 1837 to 1899. This is Mr. Chatterbox, the Victorian Gentleman Chatbot: huggingface.co/spaces/tvent...
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Mr. Chatterbox - a Hugging Face Space by tventurella
Type your questions or conversation starters into the chat box and receive replies written in authentic 19th‑century style. The bot replies with text based only on Victorian literature, letting you...
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This moment, post-No Kings, is a great time to talk about the importance of persistence and diverse tactics in social justice work. We can win. But only if we *sustain* the work in a *consistent* way with a *range* of approaches. Many concrete suggestions & resources in my latest:
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Persevere.
Making change needs consistency, just like everything else
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/03/2026
7. This is the second org to correct the record and announce reaffirmation of support for trans youth. The American Psychological Association has recently done the same. www.erininthemorning.com/p/american-p...
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American Psychological Association Reaffirms Support For Trans Youth Care, Pushes Back Against NYT
A recent article from Jesse Singal in the New York Times seemed to indicate the organization might be quietly retreating from supporting trans youth care.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/03/2026
1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary. It disavowed the New York Times reporting. Incredible development for trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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The Largest Physician Organization In The US Reaffirms Gender-Affirming Care Is Medically Necessary
The American Medical Association is setting the record straight on trans people’s health care—expressing its full support of keeping decisions in the hands of doctors, patients, and their families.
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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
If you're curious what the Peer & AI Review + Reflection @pairrfeedback.bsky.social approach consists of, how we got started, what we've learned so far, and how you can view, try, and/or adapt our materials, check out the slides for our recent #4C26 session. Slides: pairr.short.gy/4C26
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Peer and AI Feedback as Ongoing Conversation.pptx
Intros – all 1 Peer and AI Feedback as Ongoing Conversation: Using PAIRR to Shape Students’ Revision Processes and Critical Engagement with Generative AI Hogan Hayes, Sacramento State Anna Mills, Coll...
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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Love the framing here: Iterative Prompting, AKA "Be the Boss" from @drtate.bsky.social and colleagues at the UC Irvine Digital Learning Lab Wonderful handout on how students can push back against AI writing suggestions and get more out of AI feedback. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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HE_Iterative Prompting.docx
Iterative Prompting (aka “Be the Boss”) Overview These materials provide students with sentence starters to help them iteratively prompt, interrogate, and engage with generative AI output. What Stude...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/02/2026
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Great nuanced thread on Ai and coding that parallels a lot of what we are finding in our writing research too.
Research poster describing work integrating ai into writing courses. Description includes process of thinking first, good enough prompting, pushing back, corroborating and reflecting. Then layers on self regulating learning.
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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Strategies for reducing AI misuse may involve intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, or a combination, as @leoflores.bsky.social @hollyjhassel.bsky.social, Liz Losh and I have discussed. Here's my recent Southwestern College presentation slide deck: link.annarmills.com/Southwestern
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Title: Strategies to reduce AI misuse: 
Extrinsic to intrinsic motivation
Content: Intrinsic motivation strategies
Pedagogy
Guidance on appropriate AI use
Combined extrinsic and intrinsic 
Policy clarity
Nondigital and multimodal assignments
Extrinsic motivation strategies
Process observation and restrictions
AI detection
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.
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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We covered pros and cons of a range of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation strategies for reducing AI misuse in today's panel for #MLA26, sponsored by the @modernlanguage.bsky.social Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The chat was lively! Slides: mlaai.short.gy/2026 (The polls are open)
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When do we need to know what is AI and what is student writing? How can we know?
Anna Mills, presider Elizabeth Losh, Holly Hassel, and Leonardo Flores, speakers Sponsored by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching Modern Language Association Convention, January 9, 2026 ...
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Thank you to @ryancordell.org for my new office decor. Gorgeous print.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
I just condensed my thoughts in the wake of Renee Nicole Good's murder-- and links to the pieces for taking action, and ways to stay fortified, even now -- into one piece. “The world will not be destroyed by evil people but by good people who do nothing to stop it.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana
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hold steady. ❤️‍🩹
we know what to do, even now.
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Anna Mills @annamillsoer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Agentic AI browsers are here: will we let them complete quizzes and homework in online spaces designed for learning? It was great to talk with @jryoung.bsky.social about what educators can do in this strange moment and how AI and ed tech companies can help.
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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The study analyzes survey responses from 816 verified research paper authors, examining LLM use across research stages, demographic differences, perceived benefits and risks, disclosure norms, and model preferences. (2/6 🧵) 📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2411.05025 #AIResearch #LLMs
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LLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers' Usage and Perceptions
The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led many researchers to consider their usage for scientific work. Some have found benefits using LLMs to augment or automate aspects of their research pipe...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
When Rebecca Solnit asks you to turn a thread into an essay, you fucking do it. jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f... bsky.app/profile/rebe...
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Debating Away Our Humanity
CBS News wants to know if "feminism failed women." Here's what they're really asking.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I am not reading that yet. It is still the holidays.
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 22/12/2025
As someone who’s probably on Bluesky blocklists for saying something other than "burn it all down" about AI, it also seems clear that asking for more nuance in these discussions in Dec 2025 is like asking for more nuanced discussion of immigration as masked ICE agents toss people in unmarked vans+
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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
How are researchers actually using large language models today, and who benefits most? In our latest WiAIR episode, we speak with Dr Maria Antoniak (@mariaa.bsky.social) about a large-scale survey on LLM use across academia. 👇 (1/6 🧵) #WiAIR
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/11/2025
ICE vs the clergy
Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim VondruskaA masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. 

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Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
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Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents
The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in October 2025.
Software, specifically learning management systems (LMSs), is as important to teaching and learning as physical classrooms and facilities. The recent and hasty integration of generative AI features into those systems is already redefining student and instructor relationships, evaluative standards, and instructional outcomes—with no compelling evidence that any of it is for the better. At the same time, so-called agentic browsers are becoming widely available to the public. These offer AI “agents” that can navigate LMSs and complete assignments without any student involvement. All of this is unfolding at a time when contractual arrangements between institutions and commercial vendors often lack transparency, with worrisome implications for data collection and student privacy.
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The Modern Language Association therefore unequivocally
1. Advocates for full faculty and instructional involvement, including faculty of languages, literatures, and the humanities, at all levels of decision-making in the selection, procurement, and responsible implementation of instructional technology systems and software, including those incorporating AI.

The instructional mission cannot be fulfilled in the absence of faculty expertise, and this expertise extends not only to the “content” of the curriculum but also to the infrastructures and environments—virtual and otherwise—in which learning happens.
 
2. Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate in order to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed.

Without dedicated outside cooperation from lawmakers and technology providers, academic institutions may not have the technical capacity to do so on their own.
If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a learning management system, AI-generated content is submitted by an agentic AI on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 19/10/2025
This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/10/2025
Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law. They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Such strong moral leadership. Bless you Rabbi for your work.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
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Tamara Tate @drtate.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Remember when journalists cared about facts? And they still haven't revised the incorrect, inflammatory headline on the original article.
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