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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I read that Gruber post the other day and was completely WTF, man? It was sooo weird. I appreciate Bode here clearing that weirdness up for me.

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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I'm so excited for the session @josheyler.bsky.social @cjdenial.bsky.social @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and I are hosting tomorrow, Resisting the Use of AI in Education: Taking a stand for our students and our colleagues, at 1:00 pm ET. Are you registered?

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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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tis the season here at Mizzou.

The columns at Mizzou with black and gold homecoming banners

Long shot of the homecoming banners on the columns

Handsome as fuck me in front of a giant inflatable Truman the Tiger, who is also handsome as fuck.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Screenshot of the article website. Title is: Polarization Is Not the Problem. Author is Lilliana Mason. Journal is the Journal of Democracy, Volume 37, Number 4, October 2026. From Johns Hopkins University Press.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One more share for anyone in the night crowd. Thanks to everyone who read and shared today.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is a tremendous piece of writing and you could substitute the name of hundreds of institutions in the argument. Let's have the deep conversation about what these institutions are supposed to do, and who they're meant to serve. (Hint: everybody.)

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good and gutting. (No, really, it is very good—you should read it) David Perry, UMN student advisor, on what the university is for and how deeply the planned budget cuts will mess with that www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...

And mostly, it’s worked out for the best. Even if we just assess for dollar value, a 2025 analysis found that for every $1 invested in the U, the state reaped $16.75. In other words, every Minnesotan benefits from our robust systems of public higher education.
It’s been striking to me that while conversation about the budget inside the U has been substantial, I haven’t yet seen Minnesotan politicians addressing these potential cuts as a crisis. Part of that is because public universities like the U have made a trade-off, growing increasingly corporate and independent (despite publicly appointed regents) as public funding has collapsed. As a share of the budget, state funding has plummeted over the decades, falling to about 15%, compared to 39% in 1997. If that’s what you want, then fine. But did we ever have a public debate about whether that’s what Minnesotans actually want?
If you don’t want to more significantly fund the university, which bits are you eager to cut away? If it’s instruction and student services, here’s what happens.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm from Missouri and I approve this professional bio.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Jason Rosenbaum @jasonrosenbaum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good morning. In case you missed it: The United States Supreme Courts ruled yesterday that Missouri must use a congressional map passed in 2022 — not the one lawmakers approved last year at the behest of Donald Trump.

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U.S. Supreme Court again blocks Missouri from using Trump-backed congressional map

This is the third time the high court has stymied efforts to implement a map aimed at ousting Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reason 452 on why I like working at a university. I met a screech owl named Agnes on campus today.

Agnes the screech owl. She copper colored with white streaks on her face and white patches on her belly. Her ear tufts are perked up and her attentive grey—blue eyes have noticed something in the distance. She’s a little guy so she’s cute as fuck. Perched on her handlers glove with red brick academic buildings in the background.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is breathtaking. Like many things these days it is hard, but necessary, to figure what is a continuity and what is a rupture. EdTech has always been a private sector parasite feeding off the public sector. The rupture is AI EdTech is experimenting on the rich instead of the poor.

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NPR @npr.org · 20/09/2026

Students: It's time to turn on the mic and hit 'record.' Send us your podcasts and we'll pick the best ones. It's $5,000 for our grand prize and $500 for our finalists. n.pr/4hiah7i

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NPR's College Podcast Challenge is back for 2026

Students: It's time to turn on the mic and hit 'record.' Send us your podcasts and we'll pick the best ones. It's $5,000 for our grand prize and $500 for our finalists.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got a birthday present in the mail from my brother yesterday. Were you aware that Macho Man Randy Savage recorded a rap album in 2003 and that you can get it on special edition vinyl? This is precisely what brothers are for.

Album for Macho Man’s album, Be a man. It’s a muscley ex wrestler holding chain for reasons that are not apparent.

And here’s the actual vinyl. Is predominantly yellow with poorly done black and red streaks mixed in. And yes, it has another picture of macho man in the center label all muscley and holding chains.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...

A fake AI generated article about me in the July 2026 Times of India. No i did not quit writing to become a gardener, as they claim!

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We want money and housing and healthcare, not a shortcut to living the most basic unfulfilled human existence that a coked up programmer can devise. Some of us are happy. Others of us fully imagine that we can become happy. Many of us aren’t afraid of what that costs.

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

My first long-form video is up: Myths Around AI and Productivity! Based on the work we’ve been doing at @dairinstitute.bsky.social with The Luddite Lab, we dispel 5 common myths around AI and labor by looking at what studies actually say about AI’s impact on labor. youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU

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Myths Around AI and Labor

YouTube video by Dr. Alex Hanna

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St. Louis Public Radio @stlpublicradio.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has halted a temporary restraining order issued this week that only allowed Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to use a Trump-backed map lawmakers drew in 2025. That means the 2022 Missouri congressional map is back on.

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U.S. Supreme Court effectively throws out Trump-backed Missouri congressional map

The U.S. Supreme Court has halted a temporary restraining order issued this week that only allowed Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to use a Trump-backed map lawmakers drew in 2025.

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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Have you ever wanted to hear @cjdenial.bsky.social, @thetattooedprof.bsky.social, @liznorell.bsky.social, and me talk about the need for resisting AI in education? If so, you're in luck! On October 13th, we're doing a reprise of a session on this topic, and we're hosting it on Zoom FREE OF CHARGE.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda. I had the "gold" version on the Nintendo. My favorite game ever. I don't game much, except for the Zelda games. Love them. It's also the 45th anniversary of me. I learned to that I share my birthday with the Legend.

40th anniversary banner for the legend of Zelda, featuring the original link and a modern symbol of hyrule.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We woke up thinking about the long shadow of all the workers’ wins and even their losses. We made it free to watch the short documentary that dominated my life this year. Happy Labor Day. vimeo.com/1224659811/7...

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Power to the People, Y'all [Happy Labor Day]

Power to the People, Y’all is a character-driven documentary that explores aging, legacy, and resistance through interviews with five founding members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of the Black Panther...

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Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This corruption is why nothing works for ordinary people.

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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Congrats to Sara Misgen, who has gifted the world a remarkable deep dive on the handwriting vs. typing debate, out now from the Engaged Learning Collective. Grab your favorite beverage and give this one your attention. It's *fantastic*! engagedlearningcollective.substack.com/p/handwritte...

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Handwritten Notes Aren’t a Magical Solution

The research on handwritten notes and student performance isn’t straightforward. Why are people pretending like it is?

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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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Report – AI and Education

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica...The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’” -Jennifer Nelson (quoted in the linked booklet, alongside other extraordinary pieces)

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Economic Policy Institute @epi.org · 26/08/2026

NEW: Teachers earned 25.2% less than comparable college graduates in 2025, according to our new report with @cepr.org. This decades-long teacher pay penalty has taken a heavy toll on public education. 1/4

Teachers earn 25.2% less than comparable college graduates.
Public school teacher weekly wage penalty (or premium) for all teachers and by gender, 1979-2025
Note: Figure shows regression-adjusted weekly wage penalties (or premiums) for public school teachers (elementary, middle, and secondary) relative to their college-educated, nonteaching peers. Data points for 1994 and 1995 are unavailable; dotted lines represent interpreted data. See Allegretto and Mishel 2019, Appendix A, for more details on data and methodology.
Source: Author's analysis of Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Group data accessed via EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 2026.6.10 (EPI 2026a). https://microdata.epi.org

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is gutting. There are few people universally beloved. Dolly Parton is one. She made our country a better place. I've dreaded this day because of the unique way she was admired and loved by so many different people. We'll grieve together now, and it's an awful feeling. people.com/dolly-parton...

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Dolly Parton, Country Music Legend, Dies at 80, Just 4 Days After Saying, ‘I Still Have so Many Things I Want to Achieve’

Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. The country music legend was known for songs including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You” and “9 to 5.” She also starred in movies like ‘Steel Magnolias’ and ‘T...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Some academics used AI to write op-eds. I spoke @chronicle.com. Making complicated things legible to broad audiences is the whole goddamn work and no, you can't outsource it to LLMs. www.chronicle.com/article/prof...

But to David Perry, associate director of undergraduate studies in the history department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the author of a book on public scholarship, using AI to “edit” or “condense” is synonymous with using it to write. Cutting down an article or generalizing it for a broader audience is “what writing and thinking is about,” he added.

“Writing complicated things that are accessible to a public audience and that are short enough for public-audience attention spans is hard — it is harder, in many ways, than writing at length and writing only for your 20 most compatible colleagues,” Perry said. “It’s just a practice. You have to decide to put in the work.”

The work of being an academic, Perry said, is to make complicated things coherent. Michael Socolow, chair of the communications and journalism department at the University of Maine at Orono, agreed, calling it a “cop-out” for a writer to say they “only” used AI for the basic mechanics of composition. He added that he’s concerned about what senior academics model for both junior academics and their students when using AI.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24/08/2026

The real "administrative bloat" in education is the money that schools are being forced to fork over to tech vendors that can just keep jacking up their prices year after year, because it would cost even more to rebuild the systems and retrain the people that were built/trained on that tech.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21/08/2026

FYI @theflytrapmedia.com is extremely hostile to AI so if you’re into hostility you should definitely become a subscriber so we can continue to find our profligate lifestyle (paying freelancers fair rates and trying to get our candle budget under control).

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So we know AI helped a negligible number of students. But how many did it harm? I've crunched the raw data provided by the lead researcher, and what I've found is that ~9,500 students using AI studied less than even the *least* studious, non-AI using student. This should shock the conscience.

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Eddy Conroy @econroy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🧵1/n On the threat to academic freedom that the proposed accreditation changes pose, and some suggestions on comments The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking went up today, so there are 30 days to comment. Submit comments if you can public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17001.p...

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Courtesy of @ddmeyer.bsky.social, we now know that students at Alpha School’s public charter school in AZ are scoring at 10% proficiency in math. That’s not only 50 points below what they promised, it’s well below the state average. These schools are a joke.

Graphic showing Alpa School’s promised 60% proficiency rate for students in math. They got 10% instead.

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Very good development that this thinking is breaking through to the mainstream, as illustrated by @danagoldstein.bsky.social's article in today's Times. Many of us writing teachers have been issuing these warnings for years and now we're having a better conversation. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing?

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I spent years fighting for tech in the classroom for disability access reasons, arguing that no, accommodation wasn't enough, go for universal design. I've given up. I've lost. AI humping motherfuckers ruined it. As they ruin everything.

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Jerod Quinn @jerodq.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

There was an accident at work today.

Mo Willems the Pigeon, and a collectible Royals baseball bobblehead lays shattered on the desk after an unfortunate bookend failure.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...

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Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)

The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

New article and a HUGE SALE! My book “Hiding in Plain Sight” is on sale for $2.99 anywhere eBooks are sold. Read a free excerpt here! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/still-hidi...

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Still Hiding in Plain Sight

A free excerpt of my history book about the future.

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

"Here’s the reality: If you, as an administrator or professor, care little about whether the education you offer is a quality product, and if you have little faith in the transformative power of that education, then these kinds of changes are going to be acceptable to you."

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As with so many things, it is critical to realize this is not bumbling or ineptitude or not thinking through policy implications. On the contrary: making it impossible for foreign students to do the doctorate here is THE WHOLE POINT. It’s about starving higher ed under the guise of America first.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Thread. The question I think about a lot is not so much why students use AI, but rather why so many students seem to have decided their own voices and faculties are, and always will be, inadequate to the task before them. What leads them to think not using AI is an automatic disadvantage?

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A quote from my book THE VIEW FROM FLYOVER COUNTRY. There's an ebook sale on this book now for only $2.99 -- get it cheap while it lasts:

"When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those that struggle to live." -- Kendzior View From Flyover Country essay

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Daniel Sparks @jdsparks.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

(+) calls out net prices at 4yr colleges haven't gone up in 10 yrs (+) engaged w/ research on loans & tuition (-) no real critique this is part of bad faith efforts to punish colleges not support students (-) no mention more state funding could limit tuition w/o increasing private student loans

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Can the Trump administration make college cheaper? : Planet Money

Will limiting how much students can borrow force schools to lower their prices? The Department of Education thinks so. It has a new plan to bring down tuition costs. Starting today, July 1st, it’s goi...

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Dr. Liz Norell @liznorell.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Update: We have more than 500 people registered! They represent many countries, including the USA, Canada, Honduras, Colombia, Uruguay, Ukraine, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates, and Australia. WOW! sites.google.com/view/virtual... #VirtuallyGather26

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Leading With Our Values: Cultivating Connection in a Time of Upheaval

July 8-10, 2026, on Zoom

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