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Dr. Jane C

@janecragun.bsky.social
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progressive, struggling optimist, pragmatist, wife, lifetime educator, UT-Austin alum, PhD/tenure-track survivor. Posts my own.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The trend towards “workforce development” is coming at the expense of an educated society.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 26/09/2026
Trump’s summit with Xi left too many questions unanswered. This is one of them.
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Students can tell when every standard isn't really a standard but a slippery thing that we redefine for convenience and if things don't matter to us, how can we expect them to matter to our students?
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Please Don't Use AI for Reviews" -- by @ffassnacht.bsky.social (repost from LinkedIN)
This goes out to everyone but particularly also to early stage researchers: 

Please do not use AI if you get invited for review papers for a scientific journal. There are several critical problems related to this: 1. It is not allowed to upload unpublished work to LMMs (copyright problems) 2. Be aware - editors will in 98% of the cases know that you used AI and it leaves a very bad impression on you 3. Be aware that editors would be perfectly capable to ask a LLM themselves if they would be interested AI's opinion. 4. An AI-review will force the editor to invite another reviewer and delay the process heavily. 5. Trust in your own capabilities - conducting reviews is actually also a good way to learn. Even a statement like "I cannot follow your thoughts in this section" may be helpful advice to the authors to improve their work. AI will not give such advice and is typically also not great at spotting problems in the experimental set-up.

So please - if you do not have the time to really review a manuscript or you are not capable of reviewing the manuscript adequately, just decline the invitation. Thanks!

AI-free artwork created in MS paint.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“AI” IS impacting labor, but not in the ways you think. In some cases, people generating “workslop” are making their colleagues’ jobs more difficult. Snippet from my video Myths of AI and Productivity, in which we at dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BO0...
There are three stacked screenshots from a video of Alex, a brown trans woman, sitting on a pink chair and speaking into the camera while holding a small microphone. She has short black curly hair and is wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and light tan pants. Behind her is a cat-shaped pillow with an image of a tuxedo cat on it, and behind her chair are rows of books on a light blue wall. Underneath are captions from the video that say: “But generative AI can also reduce wages in other ways, namely by punishing workers who use the tools and pass on ‘workslop’ to their colleagues.”, “...researchers report that receiving generative AI text or images from colleagues results in lower perceptions of the competence of their colleagues.” and “Getting slop from your colleague makes you think worse of them. And if those workers are women or older, or people of color, then it confirms their co-workers’ biases against them.”
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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And how many U.S. adults have delayed retirement until medicare kicks in or chosen to stay in a demoralizing job so they could have health insurance? Feeling tethered to a job to maintain access to "affordable" health care actually benefits the employer more than the employee.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.
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S.E. Sinkhorn @sesinkhorn.com · 20/09/2026
I am forever thinking about how being in college was just me discovering that I like LEARNING. I liked learning things about the world I didn't previously know! it was a lot of fun! and I think of how many students don't get to love learning, they just get to be cogs in a machine.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you need to "check everything" that an LLM spits out in peer review, aren't you just making MORE work for yourself? What is even happening, and why is adding more steps and labor somehow considered the "better" way to do peer review???
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
UVA alum Carrington Epperson: “I recommend anyone to take an African American studies course because you will never understand how much you weren’t taught about it before.”
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
College students are digital natives who have been deprived exposure to analog media forms like printed books and paper. The challenge for them is to learn to make sense of these media forms, not learn how to use digital technology. They already know. It’s the printed book and paper that‘s strange.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026
This is a little mean but I also think the idea that “AI must be taught in college” is an older generation projecting their own tech incompetency and anxiety onto a younger one. It sounds interchangeable from saying “TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat should be taught in college,“ which is just lame.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
University: bro, please use AI. It’s so so great. You’re gonna love it. Use it for teaching, research and everything University, a year later: bro, that stuff is expensive, people are using it too much. We’re gonna start charging for credits. 🤷‍♂️
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Many "existing peer-reviewed studies that say AI is an effective learning tool are based on flawed methodologies and analyses that rely on misapplied, miscalculated or misinterpreted statistics." Good to see the severe limits of research on AI in education covered in IHE here.
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Sam Coleridge @samcoleridge.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the USA's best political writers, bar none. Buy her real books. Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
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There's an Al-generated "biography" of me that is just my book "The Last American Road Trip" plagiarized near verbatim and sold under the byline of a non-existent person. Today I got an Al-generated email from a non-existent Al publicist. It was addressed to the non-existent Al author of my fake biography. They wanted the non-existent Al author to hire them to publicize it. An entire conversation between robots about my stolen work.

I hate Al.
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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have the same questions when reading student submissions these days. AI has not only sown distrust, but also taken the joy out of so much reading.
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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I have consistently heard from students it that they use non university AI because they assume they are under surveillance in university systems. Would be curious to know the numbers on how many are using what universities provide. (But also: that $$ would pay for...a lot of writing centers!)
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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Higher ed seems to have lost the thread…at my campus, we actively running away from point #5 with the soon to be launched updated strategic plan.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/09/2026
"We're poisoning ourselves for productivity" is about as late stage capitalism as it gets. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/c...
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A.I. Data Center Pollution Poses Health Threat, Former E.P.A. Officials Warn (Gift Article)
Air pollution from gas-fired power plants to run data centers is expected to add at least $20 billion in annual health care costs by 2028, the group warns.
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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Though the exact amount may vary by state, the economic contributions and job creation that international students is substantial in EVERY state.
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 07/09/2026
There's a rich scholarship on why facts don't change minds. There's an even richer scholarship on why even when you know the facts it doesn't alter our behaviors.
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Cognitive biases and brain biology help explain why facts don’t change minds
Here are some reasons for the natural human tendency to avoid or reject new information that runs counter to what you already know – and some tips on how to do better.
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Jeff, formerly of MN and MA, still God of Cookies @diasporaminnesotan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
whenever I hear an instructor(!!!) say "It's great for brainstorming ideas" I die a little inside. It's literally the opposite of brainstorming and I just want to scream "Read the goddamn materials and see what strikes you!" Ugh. Everything boils down to "I'm lazy"
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is the equivalent of aliens studying human anatomy, concluding that the only purpose of food is nutrition, and replacing meals with a paste that provides 100% of our recommended dietary requirements. Eat your paste, kids.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/09/2026
AI in Ed advocates should just come out and say it: you want to replace human systems with tech bc humans can’t be as easily controlled. They can make demands, organize, strike, etc. It’s about labor discipline and control. Control higher ed workers and control students, the future workforce.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
there's the abject failure of university+college presidents to come together as a group on day 1 to stand up for the U.S.'s second largest export + most powerful engine of ideas +innovation then there's the abhorrent failure of Darmouth's president in particular www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Dartmouth Exception | Jacob Weisberg
Among its peers in the Ivy League, Dartmouth was perfectly positioned to resist Trump’s attack on higher education. It chose not to.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
There is no common ground to be had with conspiratorial extremists, even if they happen to hate certain things you also dislike. These are not good faith actors. Focus on their actual political project – not on some isolated snippets that make them sound sincere and reasonable.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Heartily endorsing this important piece! As I argued earlier this year, social research did not just emerge from a prior moment of social change, it did crucial sensemaking about that change, up to and including the present. That work must continue and be independent. www.amacad.org/publication/...
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Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool
Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"'The tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We do not see it that way,' Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement."
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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
When you don't know who the president is in 2026...and he's your boss. 👇 #Idiot
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
💯 Knowledge isn't an objective thing out there in the world, the brain is an organ for taking information it perceives as important enough to pay attention to and tries to make sense of it, to give it *meaning*. In being meaning makers, humans are by definition knowledge builders!
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
More than arguable, public education itself represents one of our greatest efforts at "scaling" our collective cognition. What @carlhendrick.substack.com and ed-tech enthusiasts really mean is humans do not "scale" at *zero marginal cost* the way software does, and that is very, very revealing.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Here’s an opportunity to move past the job-training consensus that has left our universities stripped threadbare and too driven by trends and vibes. But I promise you, students want real educations and will come for them, rather than be forced to listen to a CEO tell them that capitalism rocks."
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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Update your priors, when you see "Johns Hopkins" you shouldn't think "good school" or "medical research," you should think "hedge fund that lives off taxpayer money and drops its claimed standards to collaborate with fascists" because that's what the school decided to make itself.
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Conservative Scholars Are Rare. Johns Hopkins Wants More of Them.
Ronald J. Daniels says the ideological imbalance is bad for the academy and for the country.
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ApocalypticaNow @apocalypticanow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The purging of international students is also an attack on the financial stability of colleges and universities
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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
“…getting their subjects fed to them…” Learning is not passive consumption, but rather requires effortful meaning making and practice for skills development. Educators understand this-people who think of education as a business do not.
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You know what other government banned Sociology? Stalin's
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dorie Miller was only allowed to work in a Navy mess due to segregation, but he leapt to work a gun when the attack happened. In sharp contrast, Donnie Trump got five medical deferments to keep from having to fight in Vietnam. The USS Bone Spurs doesn‘t really sing
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"The liberal arts isn’t cultural enrichment alone. It is preparation for a future in which human judgment becomes increasingly important. Interpret the macro environment. Critical thinking, communication, ethical reasoning, creativity." solutionsreview.com/edtech/2026/...
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Liberal Arts & AI: The Most Criticized Degree is Now Most Relevant
Liberal arts and AI are reshaping the future of education. Tim King explains why what's old is new again amidst the AI revolution.
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Brok'n but still teach'n @historyell.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Why as a teacher would I want to use this? Why would I want to monitor AI instead of giving students my own feedback directly? Why would kids want to write something for a robot & not for themselves & their peers? We write to communicate our ideas with each other. AI in education defeats that
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
my main issue with ai is that i would personally see a larger ROI if those trillions of dollars were spent on healthcare or public transit or schools or road repairs or SNAP or free childcare or free school lunches or EV charging stations or public libraries or housing or clean energy or broadband
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
But we are delusional (and chasing the political cover) so universities are oversupplying AI courses. many of my students are sending it. One of them? Added a creative writing major so they could be sure to “actually learn something the analog way”.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Almost every single student who has found me this week wants to talk about AI. A couple reflections. One student has taken three AI courses in philosophy, health sciences and comm. They’re basically the same class. As it turns out, it doesn’t take a lot of classes to “learn” ai.
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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
"Under systems of intimidation and fear, seemingly impartial processes will tend to reward whoever is least targeted by censorship. When cohorts of leaders are filled with people who were lucky, clueless, or compliers, the fruit of intimidation can last a generation."
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I‘m far from an AI doomer, but it is amazing how many serious voices — on LinkedIn, no less! — are sharing stories about how AI slop is quickly becoming one of the top problems they see in academic writing and research “AI will 10x our research!” doesn’t seem to be surviving encounters with reality
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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Great thread…which builds to this critical point 👇🏼
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Dr. Jane C @janecragun.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
💯 AI is not an”thought partner” because it DOES NOT THINK. It does not understand, make meaning, or respond with any sort of agency or intentionality.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I'd like to see not just investigations, but Democrats putting forward model bills for mass tribunals, asset forfeiture, and retroactive undoing of pardons (let's not argue this one today. The important thing is to convince accomplices there's a chance the pardons won't hold).
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