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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 06/08/2026

One could write an entire journal article just unpacking and critiquing the layers of nonsense uttered in these few sentences by someone who is nominally looking out for education as a public good.

Teaching educators about AI is a “moral imperative”, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president. She argues that AI training empowers teachers to make informed decisions about how, when or whether to use AI in their instruction. And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.

“There was no fairy godmother philanthropist that was sprinkling millions of dollars on us to actually create a mechanism to educate,” Weingarten said. “I am not promoting the use of AI. Educators need to know the tool.”

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 23/06/2026

I get folks not involved in education might not realize how severe the current situation is but... The speed and magnitude of how capitalism driven AI has infiltrated education is horrifying.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Every regulation that you don't understand why it exists/think is dumb was written in someone's blood.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

One thing I WILL criticize US educators for is that we have thousands of ed researchers & public scholars across thousands of institutions, many with extensive publishing capacity, & yet we frequently act like we must count on sportswriters, business reporters, & influencers to tell our stories.

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Jen Garrett-Ostermiller @jengo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Join Loving Day #Vermont’s celebration honoring the 59th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage! Friday, June 12, 5-8pm at Zero Gravity Brewery in Burlington. All supporters are welcome!

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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

imagine how much more we can shake them

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Dr. Jennessa Hester 🍒 @cherrypoppunk.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Texas Tech is starting to reveal which texts are banned under its new prohibition against "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity" research. Among them are six books of the Bible: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, and Galatians. 🧵 of other banned works. Yes, this is real.

Image of the Holy Bible with chains locked around it.

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vtmama.bsky.social @vtmama.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Small group of us pushing back against Amazon in #Vermont

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Death to Data Centers @rumicouldneva.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Just yesterday, I found a 2018 academic paper that seemed to be misquoted in a 2024 paper. I looked up the quote from the 2024 paper and the search returned... You guessed it - the 2024 paper with that quote highlit. Because the quote didn't exist in the 2018 paper, which I read in its entirety.

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Important study suggesting a link between teachers' use of language rich in strategy suggestions, metacognitive references, and discussion of memory and students' better self-regulated learning behavior growth across first and second grade. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/mac0...

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition" titled "Deliberate Memory Strategy Development: The Interplay of Children’s Self-Regulated Learning Abilities and Teachers’ Cognitive Processing Language."

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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

For reference.

Instagram reel by Tressie McMillan Cottom (@tressiemcphd) on what AI refusal practices can learn from black refusal. The caption reads, “My most daring idea is to refuse. Refuse that the end is here. Refuse that AI is the future. Refusal is hope and refusal is in my bones. In the tradition of every badass Black revolutionary women — from Sister Harriet to Septima Clark — I humbly refuse to let the wealthy and powerful tell us that our future is theirs. The future is what we make it.”

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

One of the things that I think will puzzle future historians is how a man who inspired such fanatical cult-like loyalty also made no secret of the fact of his utter contempt for his fans and his total indifference to what happened to them.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19/02/2026

the discovery process in lawsuits against doge is not going to be kind to them, these guys ruined a lot of people’s livelihoods for the most arbitrary and capricious of reasons, and those people are going to remember that

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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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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

this country's so evil

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Setting aside elementary curriculum & instruction for the moment, we've known for decades much of what it takes to encourage reading in and out of school by secondary students regardless of gender, and instead of doing this, we've plied them with edtech, apps, test prep, and devices they carry 24/7.

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Why Boys Are Behind in Reading at Every Age

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Teaching exercise that is helpful with my policy students. Based on the solution, hiring this fella to a fancy position and giving him $$$ in this environment, what is the root of skepticism with higher ed that Yale is attempting to solve? Whose skepticism do they seek to assuage?

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Genel Jumalon 🍉 Fan X Salt Lake @geneljumalon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images. This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

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Jen Garrett-Ostermiller @jengo.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I often say "who would want to be a higher ed Provost/President in today's climate?" I have known Brian a long time and can imagine the incredible value he and his colleagues bring to leadership development. This is the kind of support that seems essential for #highered leaders, today.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

The overlap between places we want to dominate and places that have oil is striking

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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Why isn't there more shouting about this? This is the USPS undermining mail-in ballots. They find every opportunity to subvert voting and democracy. Ballots, tax returns and other important mail may not get postmarked the day you turn it in, USPS warns www.cnn.com/2025/12/31/p...

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Ballots, tax returns and other important mail may not get postmarked the day you turn it in, Postal Service warns | CNN Politics

If you rely on postmarks when casting your ballot, filing your taxes or paying bills, a new US Postal Service rule makes it clear that you should plan ahead.

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

No wonder they wanted colonialism off our syllabi

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

In 2026 let’s normalize masking for public health. If we could admit that with healthcare being gutted, vaccine access restricted and previously eradicated diseases coming back… having an extra layer like a respirator makes good sense. Let’s also normalize not mocking people who mask!

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

once again the best trump rejoinder is “fuck you, make me”

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 13/12/2025

All my admiration to the great @robinince.bsky.social, watching this guy quote James Baldwin and Audrey Lorde as he resigns from the BBC in solidarity with trans people makes me want to stand up and cheer

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Smart thread on larger issues plaguing the world of research and knowledge production- and how reliance on AI for manuscript reviews is a symptom of these larger issues

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Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

I’m not sure why AI is so prominent in this article since a historian did the lion’s share of the archival digging and AI simply verified what experts already confirmed. At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/s...

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At Last, a Name for the Murderous Face in a Holocaust Photo

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/11/2025

evergreen

Tweet from @PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: my entire house is smart

Tech workers: the only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize

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Jen Garrett-Ostermiller @jengo.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Thank you @sdsirens.bsky.social for gathering your supporters group and making two out-of-town NWSL fans feel right at home at your watch party. It was a blast being with other woso peeps for the final.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

This video is so overwhelming I had to sit down & stare at the wall awhile. I was physically shaking. I had heard some of these anecdotes before - Proctorio & Tubman bot - but Tanksley synthesizes them (with much much more), revealing undeniable regime of EdTech racialized surveillance & policing…

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

A screenshot of a Facebook post where a person named Andy ask the Well now “What the hell is transgender?”
The Royal Canadian Air Force account response with “That’s a pretty big question asked in a pretty small way, Andy.

‘Transgender’ putting describes someone whose gender – who they know themselves to be – doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. It’s not new, and it’s certainly not a fad. People have lived this experience for as long as people have existed; we’re just finally talking about it openly.

You don’t have to fully understand it right away, most learning takes time, but we can always start from a place of respect. That’s how decent folks handle things they’re still getting used to.”

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 15/11/2025

This is a really good piece on how higher ed employees are affected when their colleagues are laid off. As much of higher ed is tightening its collective belts, this is certainly worth reading.

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Anxiety and Exhaustion Stalk Those Spared From Layoffs

What it’s like to be one of the “lucky” ones.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.

Instagram post: This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing.
Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin.
We need more stories about us and our culture.
You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 05/11/2025

From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything. Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Hmmm. Anyone think we’ll now get the punditry class to engage in weeks long debate about the need for the right to moderate and move more to the center to improve its electoral chances? …Anyone??

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