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Dr. Heather Leslie

@heatherleslie.bsky.social
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Learning Designer. Purveyor of pedagogy. Educator. Lifelong learner/forever student. #ungrading Humanity not AI

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 05/10/2026
> Why should I use this technology? Does this tech­nology help me solve a real problem in my work? Are there external factors (e.g., financial incentives) pressuring me to use this technology?
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Lawrence Culver @lawrencecphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Students want to be involved in climate action, in environmental literacy, in green careers…They’re often doing the work already but don’t have the recognition. They didn’t see a sort of pathway to continue that work and embark on that as a potential career.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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More than 1,200 Colorado students have earned a climate ‘seal’: ‘We’re the ones growing up in this world’
A statewide initiative pairs climate-focused coursework with community service – and is spreading to other states
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ElizabethwithaZ @elizabethwithaz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"If you set up a machine such that any question you put in will lead to an answer coming back out…you are setting up a view of the world and of knowledge that says, 'All questions have a discrete, knowable, objective answer,' and that's just not true and has no place in education." ❤️😍💯
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R Worthen 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 💗📚️ @rworthen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Banned Books Week 2026 - Unite Against Book Bans uniteagainstbookbans.org/banned-books...
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Banned Books Week 2026 - Unite Against Book Bans
October 4 – October 10 is Banned Books Week 2026! Banned Books Week 2026 is an opportunity to inform communities about this escalation in censorship while also highlighting the importance of the right...
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Instituto Universitario de Estudios Feministas y de Género @ifemgen.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
POSTERS: Have you considered NOT using AI? zenodo.org/records/1711... Thanks, @olivia.science 🫶 olivia.science/ai/#activism
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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is your reminder not to let those joyless fucks convince you that human experience, knowledge, intellect, and art can be reduced to a pre-chewed paste of stolen labor.
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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just because you/I don't understand AI doesn't mean that no one does. So many people buy into this 'poorly understood' line that lets commercially-motivated tech companies off the hook for harms & near-catastrophes. Kudos to @emilymbender.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.blacksky.app for this.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There's a real and important dividing line between people who want to write, and people who want to be A Writer. AI is a gift from heaven for the latter, letting them skip the part where they have to think thoughts and write sentences and go (they hope) directly to the book tour.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/09/2026
This is such an important point: > AI boomers vs. doomers: A false dichotomy It's exhausting within academia too with people who claim that the technology has good purposes we're ignoring, when everybody sensible knows so-called desirable properties are a function of the labour and days theft.
AI boomers vs. doomers: A false dichotomy

The AI cult’s adherents are no more monolithic in their beliefs than followers of any religion are: there are many subgroups who vigorously debate and contest each other’s beliefs. Yet these subgroups share enough common beliefs that we can usefully group them into a single category, even as it is helpful to understand the main theological disputes between the different currents. Indeed, Gebru and Torres describe the disparate strands behind each letter of “TESCREAL” as a “bundle” of “interconnected and overlapping ideologies” with roots in 20th-century eugenics. Émile Torres’s newsletter helpfully summarizes the bundle’s commonalities and differences:
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Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The goal was to destabilize U.S. educational infrastructure and carve out a large space for reactionary indoctrination within it.” When you don’t have a teacher—a thinking person—in a classroom, endless ideological reproduction is easier.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How do we design online courses using biomimicry? I explore this topic and share an example of using a tree as my muse and branching as personalized learning medium.com/@heatherlesl...
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Designing with Biomimicry: Branching as Personalized Learning
Designing with Biomimicry: Branching as Personalized Learning The seasons wheel is now spinning into autumn where trees and plants slow their growth, the sun sinks lower into the sky, the air begins …
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026
These are the same weirdos who are trying to take over the process of regulating AI and setting US tech policy. little-flying-robots.ghost.io/why-we-cant-...
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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI
Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Autumn Equinox 🍂🍁✨ I’ve been doing some research on regenerative schools and programs and thought I would share some examples that stood out to me, and that I have personally had the opportunity to collaborate on. medium.com/@heatherlesl...
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Regenerative Education Schools and Programs
I have been researching regenerative schools and programs, that is, schools and programs designed using regenerative principles, immersive…
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Aphrodite Godde @aphroditegodde4.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#witchsky
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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Join @cjdenial.bsky.social @josheyler.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and me for a free webinar on Resisting the Use of AI in Education on October 13, 1:00-2:00 pm ET. Register now! olemiss.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Announcing a live webinar on Resisting the Use of AI in Education: Taking a Stand for Our Students and Our Colleagues. Event takes place on October 13, 2026, at 1:00 pm ET. Speakers are Cate Denial (University of Minnesota Rochester), Joshua Eyler (University of Mississippi), Kevin Gannon (Queens University Charlotte), and Liz Norell (University of Mississippi).
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Art, writing, research, coding, and mathematics are all increasingly work being delegated to AI. I think we’re going to miss our flow states.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Every chatbot prompt box says "check answers for accuracy." But increasingly, "humans in the loop" refuse to do that. Instead, they become complicit in the AI industry's project of destroying the provenance of information. But you are person, and it is an app. It can't take responsibility for you.
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Assigning agency to AI means surrendering your own
Claude is not a colleague, collaborator, or sentient being. It is a SaaS product.
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When we finally have the tribunal for the tech oligarachs and techno-fascists, I think they should have to live out in the far depths of nature without any technology. Mother Nature will be their greatest teacher and humble them into realizing they can’t dominate her.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you to The Teaching Professor for publishing my article about designing for authentic over artificial learning. Lets center our human learners, not AI www.teachingprofessor.com/topics/stude...
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God Save the Keen: Designing for Authentic over Artificial Learning – The Teaching Professor
Growing up, I was drawn to punk rock because it effectively expressed the angst I felt with things like curfews and homework, to say nothing of the raging hormones of being a teenager. I loved how it ...
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Rolling Scones
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
CALLING @olivia.science & @irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Even as a scholar and teacher of English, I do not believe that I am uniquely equipped to detect impersonation of human writing by LLM and other forms of AI. As a publishing writer, it seems I am mostly powerless to keep my work from being harvested against my will and repackaged by the major AI companies. I oppose the ways our unique human voices are being exploited for the concentrated profits of a few companies and executives.
I invite you to see a clear moral value in writing done by humans, as I do. If you do share this belief, please join my class and hold yourself to your own high and admirable standard. If you do not, please do not enroll.
In the English Department, we believe “Writing is for Humans.”
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026
In just the first week after the 9/11 attacks, 645 separate acts of hate against members of South Asian communities in America were documented. This site captures those stories, from across the country: post911.org and also compiles the narratives into a groundbreaking report.
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What happened the week after 9/11?
Documenting hundreds of hate incidents against Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans in the week after September 11, 2001.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This summer I led a series of conversations in my lab about "AI" and our research. Some colleagues have shared "AI policies" for their labs and we discussed whether this would make sense for us. We decided it did not, and came up with a different approach. Please feel free to share & adapt!
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Crockett Lab Statement on AI and Scientific Research
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Here is a more useful take from my colleague Jordan Sand: www.hnn.us/article/ai-i...
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AI Is an Anti-Primary Source Machine
Real voices from the past are threatened by chatbots designed to amplify — and ultimately become — the loudest voices in the room.
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
I got a library copy through interlibrary loan, but you can also read the entire book for free here via Bloomsbury Open Access: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
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Pedagogies of Collapse
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
👋🏻 The @civicsoftech.bsky.social is accepting proposals for our weekly blog on issues at the intersections of teaching, learning, (ed)tech, and society. Share ideas-in-progress, reflections on a classroom experience, research, and more. We’re also always happy to hear from students. More info 👇🏻
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Blog Post Proposal Form
We welcome guest contributions to our blog! Please use this form to propose your post. We will get back to you as soon as we can
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What a great illustration of the scam of technosolutionism! 👏 @ahoyuniverse.bsky.social
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The idea of a Black academic being hounded to death for alleged acts of plagiarism in an era when universities are entering into contracts with AI companies and encouraging AI use among students, while Big Tech is stealing EVERYTHING humans write...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Battles over evidence in education have raged for years. But with AI it seems "evidence" is now a matter of rapid implementation followed by accelerated scaling. Not so much "what works" but "make it work." My post on this: codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/e...
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Evidence experimentation in AI evaluation in education
Photo by Bozhin Karaivanov on Unsplash The introduction of generative AI into school settings remains highly controversial almost four years after the launch of ChatGPT. One source of growing publi…
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Even if you've already started your school year, sitting down and creating one of these document can still have value (template in post) and it also makes for a great activity to bring into the classroom to share with students, too! thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/a-vision-d...
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A Vision Document for Your Classroom
a tool and template I used this year that I found really valuable as a teacher
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 08/08/2026
exactly 💯 on LLMs: they simulate the output we call language, not the cognitive capacity we call language!
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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
This is an incredibly good argument. Maybe not to first-year writing students, but to anyone whose reputation and maybe job is based on their writing
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
do they sell tshirts because
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Updated for the fall semester - my bibliography of readings, both academic and popular, about the many problems with and pitfalls in using Generative AI. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
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Against Generative AI – Cate Denial
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Katherine Yngve ❌👑 @purpletiger.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The evidence about AI in education remains terrible as a basis for policy or practice. As schools in some places come back from summer next week (oh Scotland it's too early), here's a wee roundup on just how truly woefully AIED research has stood up and why educators shouldn't call on it 1/
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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
A theory of AI adoption: “those who control the technology will never allow it to eliminate their own positions. Instead, they'd rather weaponize it against everyone else, presenting it as inevitable progress.” collectivefutures.blog/the-infrastr...
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The infrastructure of meaninglessness
Listen, there are two realities that we should be aware of. AI exists to make your job obsolete because the alternative is that AI makes managers obsolete. Let me try to break down this theory, which...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...
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Chris Chapman @cchapman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
100% same, when I learn someone is using LLMs routinely, it is a struggle not to impute all sorts of intellect and ethical questions And I share the aesthetic position. I wrote about the incommensurate claims re utility, ethics, aesthetics, and social power here: quantuxblog.com/four-areas-o...
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Four areas of (UXR) thinking about AI / LLMs
This post is my attempt to make sense (largely for myself) of various trends and responses about AI / LLMs, and thematic disagreements that I observe among UX Researchers discussing LLMs. I structure ...
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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Preprint broken down very clearly in the thread & version updates as they follow available at arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
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Labrys of Aëlla @aellalabrys.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The authors formalize the problem of hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLMs) and show that their complete elimination is fundamentally impossible. arxiv.org/abs/2401.11817
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Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models
Hallucination has been widely recognized to be a significant drawback for large language models (LLMs). There have been many works that attempt to reduce the extent of hallucination. These efforts hav...
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Corey Brickley * Blight's Hollow Dot Com @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
again, it's the "sounds smart until it talks about something you have expertise in" phenomenon www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EA3...
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Hank Green is using ai but Knitters aren't surprised
YouTube video by Adelaide Ordell
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Fantastic paper demonstrating how LLM editing is gradually distorting our writing and the way we think to write: arxiv.org/abs/2603.18161
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How LLMs Distort Our Written Language
Large language models (LLMs) are used by over a billion people globally, most often to assist with writing. In this work, we demonstrate that LLMs not only alter the voice and tone of human writing, b...
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
How do you create community and authenticity in asynchronous online courses now that generative #AI has become so ubiquitous? Here’s my attempt medium.com/@heatherlesl...
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Come As You Are: Designing for Authentic Community in an Artificial Era
Come As You Are: Designing for Authentic Community in an Artificial Era Lately I’ve been reflecting a lot on community. Now that generative AI has become more ubiquitous in online spaces such as …
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A resource I update for educators, parents, students, and all who are looking to push back on AI teaching tools:
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Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (“AI” is used loosely here, as it is by many purveyors and boosters....
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