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Rafi Santo @empathetics.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

If there’s one silver lining on AI’s intersection with the education system right now, it’s that we may get a whole movement of students who start thinking critically early on about the purpose of education, and demanding that the institutions they’re in meet their visions for it.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.

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Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism - Niral Shah, David Stroupe, Aman Yadav, Tess Bernhard, Charles Logan, Elizabeth B. Dyer, Peng ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Yes it’s climate change, stop asking

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Believe it we're actually living in a time when we have some of the best magazines & publications available: @wired.com, @propublica.org, @hammerandhope.bsky.social, @readlux.bsky.social, @nplusonemag.com, @truthout.org, @hellgatenyc.com, @boltsmag.org, @inquest.bsky.social, @thecityreporter.nyc...

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Black Mirror Writers Room teaching exercise has some updates! More "Light Mirror" emphasis, additional options for scaffolding with some more explicit prompts (including for encouraging more grounding and solutions-oriented thinking) and (actual) Black Mirror examples. bit.ly/blackmirrorw...

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The Black Mirror Writers' Room: A Speculative Ethics Teaching Exercise

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Ever seen a news story about AI and thought “this could be an episode of Black Mirror”? We're running a research study where we ask people to imagine generative AI futures and pitch their own science fiction story. More detail at the link and please share! www.internetruleslab.com/black-mirror...

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Black Mirror Survey Study — Internet Rules Lab

We're recruiting for a survey where you pitch your own Black Mirror episode about the future of generative AI!

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Rafi Santo @empathetics.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

How do we help K12 students push back on the idea that 'tech is inevitable'? I'm excited to share this new article "A Sociotechnical Vision for Ethical, Responsible, and Critical PK-12 Computing Education", recently published in ACM InRoads, that speaks to this question: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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A Sociotechnical Vision for Ethical, Responsible, and Critical PK-12 Computing Education | ACM Inroads

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Deborah Fields @stareyes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

First (beta) version of our AI Auditing for High School lessons: piloted in high school CS classrooms, with resources for more information. bit.ly/k12aiaudit-lessons #cseducation #aieducation Created with amazing CS teachers, Yasmin Kafai, Danae Metaxa, Daniel Noh, Luis Morales-Navarros

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Part 0: Introduction to the Algorithm Auditing Lessons

Introduction to Algorithm Auditing: Lessons for High School Computer Science (beta version) Creators (listed in alphabetical order) Helen Butapetch, Deborah Fields, Sheri Hanna, John Landa, Luis Mora...

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Rafi Santo @empathetics.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Excited to share a new offering at #ISLS2026 (International Society of the Learning Sciences): Alt-Academia Career Workshop. If you're in the learning sciences and interested in careers outside the traditional tenure track, this workshop is for you! Apps due 11/15: 2026.isls.org/alt-academia...

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Alt-Academia Career Workshop : Call for Submissions | ISLS 2026

The Alt-Academia Career Workshop is a new professional development workshop that will support participants to pursue new opportunities or deepen existing roles in the learning sciences outside of trad...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Since tomorrow is Labor Day and school is in session, I'd like to argue (again) that teaching about GenAI should include discussion of the extractive, exploitative labor conditions that make the technology possible. 🧵

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

There are four main arguments for AI in education: 1. Efficiency, saving teachers time 2. Equity, making education inclusive 3. Improving outcomes by personalizing learning 4. It's inevitable Is it true? Nope. Micro 🧵

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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"The current AI hype bubble is being driven by little more than emotions. Instead of being awed by speculative promises around AI futures, we need to engage with current forms of AI in terms of their values and politics" ... criticaledtech.com/2025/07/12/w...

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We need to talk about AI in terms of values, not vibes

The current AI hype bubble is being driven by little more than emotions. Instead of being awed by speculative promises around AI futures, we need to engage with current forms of AI in terms of thei…

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Climate One @climateone.org · 02/07/2025

Big companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google pledged a few years ago to cut their emissions. But, as this chart from @bloomberg.com shows, the heavy pivot to artificial intelligence is pushing their emissions higher instead 🧪

A chart from Bloomberg makes clear how AI investments are imperiling climate goals for Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google, whose emissions have increased by 40%, 18%, 44%, and 70% respectively from FY 2020 through FY 2023.

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Rafi Santo @empathetics.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Absolutely heartbreaking, and terrifying. If I’m reading this right, the program I received my PhD in—Learning and Development Sciences—is set to be eliminated. Along with literally hundreds (!) of others. This is arson on the part of fascists, plain and simple.

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This is theft, plain and simple. They stole this from you. Every deletion, every erasure, every website that goes dark is a crime against the American public

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Rafi Santo @empathetics.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Kudos to @bcmerchant.bsky.social for some absolutely essential reporting from the frontline of AI’s enshittification of our culture (not to mention our software). Worth the long read.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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Rafi Santo @empathetics.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

What a mensch. (But we already knew that)

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Rafi Santo @empathetics.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Tonight, I can’t help but think of how much joy, and hope, this victory would bring to Michael Brooks.

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 18/06/2025

BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

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Rafi Santo @empathetics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Given this was a full, good faith effort sunsetted bc it didn’t sufficiently reduce algorithmic bias, I wonder whether it should be considered a failure of responsible computing, or, a success? Not deploying systems that don’t alleviate harms as intended seems like “responsible computing” to me.

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

My local coffee shop is not playing around.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

A reminder that submissions to this year's @civicsoftech.bsky.social free, online conference are due on Saturday, June 14. This year's 🔥🔥🔥 keynotes are Audrey Watters and Chris Gilliard . The theme is Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems. Submit here: www.civicsoftechnology.org/2025conference

A screenshot from the Civics of Technology that reads, "We seek proposals for sessions that advance the conference theme of Communal Resistance to Artificial Systems. This may include proposals which...1) Share examples of how communities are critiquing, resisting, and/or repurposing artificial systems. 2) Examine how to raise the consciousness of individuals and communities. 3) Engage our community in conversations about taking action against artificial systems. 4) Present how you are engaging in resistance, reclamation, or refusal in your own life and work. Proposed sessions can have a variety of formats, including traditional presentations, workshops, panels, or other creative options. Sessions can address issues, share curriculum, or share research.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/06/2025

I wrote about the 23-year-old crypto bro with effectively no relevant work experience, who @alondra.bsky.social revealed is sitting in meetings, not paying attention, and then giving the thumbs up/thumbs down on whether they can get their NSF grants...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

Senior Researchers 60,400 --> 16,900
Other Professionals 14,400 --> 4,100
Postdoctoral Associates 5,500 --> 1,000
Graduate Students 41,500 --> 12,400
Undergraduate Students 37,300 --> 8,000
PreK-12 Teachers 42,900 --> 8,200
PreK-12 Students 128,100 --> 39,400
Total Number of People 330,100 --> 90,000

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

🧪 BOOM: The AAU, ACE, APLU, and 13 universities just filed suit today against NSF for slashing to 15% indirect rates. Full compliant: www.aau.edu/sites/defaul... Updates: www.aau.edu/resources-aa... A similar group of plaintiffs won a *permanent* injunction against a similar change at NIH.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

🧪 What the f is going on with NSF right now??? 🚨🚨🚨 There's been so many NSF updates within the past 48 hours that it's hard to keep track. It feels like an onslaught. It *is* an onslaught. But it's still vital to remain focused, organized, and strategic. So here's my recap of past 48 hours...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

🧪 Tip: You have the right to contest a grant termination, even though NSF says you don't. 🧵 On Friday, NSF terminated 402 grants (per Musk's DOGE). The notification letters had one of the most egregious violations of fed regulations I've seen so far in these cases: "not subject to appeal"

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Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 22/04/2025

National Science Foundation grant cancellations come two months after Sen. Ted Cruz's office released a list of "questionable projects that promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda." chroni.cl/4jfvw9H

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The Trump Administration Has Canceled Millions in NSF Grants

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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 21/04/2025

We still only know about a fraction of the damage this round of cancellation has done. If your #NIH or #NSF grant has been terminated, please report! bsky.app/profile/scot...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🧪🚨 NSF's Directorate for STEM Education (EDU) has halted making nearly all new awards since inauguration day. Among *many* other things, EDU runs the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). We need to protect the education & training of the next gen of scientists #StandUpForScience Thread👇🧵

Graph between 1/20 and 2/28 of fiscal year 2024 and 2025 new awards in the EDU directorate.

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