Reposted by LJ_MIOlivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 25/09/2026As an academic, it feels like some colleagues have lost the ability to engage deeply: they don't want to read an article unless it directly answers a question they already have... basically like using a chatbot they only want an answer to a current issue & not to actually learn anything or explore. 2332142
Reposted by LJ_MINancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 23/09/2026In personal news … socialmediacollective.org/2026/09/23/s...socialmediacollective.orgThe Social Media Collective Comes to a CloseIt is with both celebration and sadness that we announce that the Social Media Collective, our research team of critical, humanistic social sciences at Microsoft Research’s New England lab, is comi… 3218
Reposted by LJ_MIJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026From my point of view as someone who works in this space and writes on these issues the forward looking approach is to concentrate on what we know we should still be doing: teach writing, not automation assisted document production. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...insidehighered.comWriting Classes Are About Writing, Not AI-Aided ProductionIf we want students to learn to write, AI tools shouldn’t have much of a role. If we don’t think students need to learn to write anymore, I’m not sure what we’re doing here. 1153
Reposted by LJ_MIJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Very 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...nytimes.comWhat 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. 16127
Reposted by LJ_MIMatthew Sag @matthewsag.bsky.social · 13/08/2026My new textbook on Copyright Law in the Age of AI is now up on my website as a free pdf. I will move it to a dedicated website soon, but for now matthewsag.com/copyright-la...matthewsag.comCopyright Law in the Age of AI – Matthew Sag 67929
Reposted by LJ_MISneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The AI for disability is also a significant way it’s being normalised in universities - as a “reasonable adjustment” that is actually more discrimination. 12512
Reposted by LJ_MIMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“Students are concerned that we’re going to be closed in two years, three years… They’re worried they’re not going to get courses they need because we don’t have the faculty to teach them.” I’m so sad to hear this about my former institution. But not surprised. chicago.suntimes.com/education/20...chicago.suntimes.comIllinois Institute of Technology cuts 160 faculty and staff just before fall semesterUniversity officials say finances have taken a hit from declines in research funding and foreign student enrollment. Faculty say leaders’ slow response and lack of transparency have deepened the crisi... 8296103
Reposted by LJ_MITressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs. 181659300
Reposted by LJ_MIG Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 05/08/2026Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe 682757338
Reposted by LJ_MIKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026If you read just a few comments on any article about Graham Platner it should become crystal clear why victims don’t come forward earlier. The level of cruelty people direct at victims is gutting 6262031114
Reposted by LJ_MICharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026i’ve never experienced a collective enthusiasm and fun like this month of the world cup. just consistently blown away how universal the enjoyment is and how deep people are plunging down the rabbit hole. doesn’t matter who i’m with or where i am everyone’s locked in and it rules 542881286
Reposted by LJ_MIFor the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A cat will comfort you when you're sad then knock something off the table or counter to remind you who's in charge. 933609266
Reposted by LJ_MIJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/06/2026I don't want to say smart watches are not quite accurate with their fitness metrics, but I was just awarded my daily step goal for the hand motions I made while eating potato chips. 2173463246
LJ_MI @lj-mi.bsky.social · 31/05/2026“If using AI to write is, at its worst, an industrialization of the mind, then AI detection, at its worst, becomes a surveillance system for thought.” mail.cyberneticforests.com/its-not-just...mail.cyberneticforests.comIt's Not Just X. It's Y.Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs a... 000
Reposted by LJ_MIErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/05/2026hey, maybe AI *is* like a calculator 416538
Reposted by LJ_MIHarper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026From this month’s Harper’s Index. buff.ly/GjALrXt 28339
Reposted by LJ_MIOlivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 14/05/2026Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things 772477612
Reposted by LJ_MIMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 28/04/2026As someone who’s not heavily involved in discussions of online pedagogy, I’m confused about when and how we decided that an “online course” means a reconfigurable set of video and quiz modules, rather than discussion and attention from a real human. There’s a lot of talk from the teaching + 4608
Reposted by LJ_MITressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I am tired. #LowerEd #4eva 626725
Reposted by LJ_MIJames Chase Sanchez @jamescsanchez.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Maybe deciding that education should be inherently tied to the internet was a bad idea in the first place? 142
Reposted by LJ_MIKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/05/2026A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it. 361495471
Reposted by LJ_MIMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.arstechnica.comInfluential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flagsThe retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times. 2325491388
Reposted by LJ_MIThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/05/2026The vast data breach at education platform Canvas this week exposed the vulnerability of student information as hackers increasingly target school systems, colleges and the tech companies they rely on in hopes of scoring big ransom payouts.washingtonpost.comCanvas hack exposes schools’ vulnerability to cyberattacksThis week’s hack into information from almost 9,000 schools included personally identifying data. It was not the first big edtech breach. 45027
Reposted by LJ_MIJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 10/05/2026So idk anything about fashion or magazines but I do know that the Devil Wears Prada 2 (a brilliant movie) really nails it in terms of our current nightmare where seemingly the only option to save legacy cultural institutions (such as universities, say), is to find a friendly billionaire. 512917
Reposted by LJ_MIMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 09/05/2026I’d love to say something smart here but instead I’m just going to screaaaaaaaaaam 212636
Reposted by LJ_MIMatthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Avery telling line in official university comms: “Based on the information currently available, we believe Instructure has taken Canvas offline as a preventative measure.” In other words, the institution has had no real info from the entity to whom it has outsourced its instructional platform. 23814
Reposted by LJ_MIMiriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 08/05/2026The timing of this Canvas hack made me laugh, since this is my class’s very next assigned reading (which they now can’t access lol) eric.ed.gov?q=lms+AND+k1...eric.ed.govERIC - EJ1254094 - The Case of Canvas: Longitudinal Datafication through Learning Management Systems, Teaching in Higher Education, 2020The Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) is used in thousands of universities across the United States and internationally, with a strong and growing presence in K-12 and higher education markets. ... 426043
Reposted by LJ_MIJessica Zeller (she/her) @jessicazeller.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Prediction: most university emails regarding the canvas situation will be written in passive voice, because surely it isn't their fault for forcing faculty to operate their courses through LMSs despite widespread resistance to that idea and concern for faculty and student security.... 072
Reposted by LJ_MINick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education 251553356
Reposted by LJ_MIJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/05/2026Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...insidehighered.com“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed VendorThe criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak. 8620581026
Reposted by LJ_MIClayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 04/05/2026Texas nights should belong to Texans, not Big Tech. Data centers bring permanent daylight, drain water, and drive up power bills. People deserve dark skies, clean water, and land that stays in local hands. 26348101782
Reposted by LJ_MIAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 02/05/202615 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding. 160111702112
Reposted by LJ_MIBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I do wish it was better understood by now—especially by folks in the media—that these "warnings" from large AI corporations in fact function as "advertisements" www.axios.com/2025/04/22/a...axios.comExclusive: Anthropic warns fully AI employees are a year awayManaging those AI identities will require companies to completely reassess their cybersecurity strategies. 642175534
Reposted by LJ_MIEsther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. – Anita Koddick 031
Reposted by LJ_MIAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 26/04/2026"No matter how rapidly technology changes, I am coalescing around some core beliefs: 1. Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. 2. Things that are done well require time and effort. 3. You make meaning through the doing. 4. Ideas are common; effort is not. 5. There are no shortcuts." 18521
Reposted by LJ_MIlibrarypunk @librarypunk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Every day I watch the tech industry build The Boot On the Neck Of Humanity Machine and watch universities say “we are going to sustainably and ethically prepare our students to become innovators in The Boot On The Neck Of Humanity Machine space” 2630228
Reposted by LJ_MIGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/04/2026"A.i." is gonna fuck up family historians for generations to come. Falsifying people's voices, introducing misinformation and pure bullshit. We're losing so much. 8973192
Reposted by LJ_MIJes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Not to keep banging on about this, but we're basically seeing zero academic jobs in the humanities, with only a few term positions across multiple fields, while jobs like Chair in AI Studies go forward with high salaries because universities know they can squeeze money out before the bubble pops. 1203
Reposted by LJ_MIJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026This is a call for measuring teaching effectiveness that ignores the most meaningful criteria we could use: What percentage of your faculty makes a professional wage and has a teaching load consistent with disciplinary norms? I taught college for 20 years and never achieved either. 3227
Reposted by LJ_MIKaren K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 21/04/2026It is weird how so many things keep getting worse and everyone is expected to keep sending emails and maintain "normal" levels of productivity. 725329
Reposted by LJ_MINick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Did I accidentally end up having the last word on a humanities panel & state my position on Ai was burn it to the ground? I did. I said we shouldn’t conflate answers with learning & give away what makes us human for efficiency (which isn’t). It’s all anti-human spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy... 36410
Reposted by LJ_MIJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Thread that illustrates one of my mantras for humans working in a world with AI. Rather than pledging yourself to higher productivity, considering doing less that matters more. 1151
Reposted by LJ_MIJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 18/04/2026The specifics of this example aside, I find these articles are often written in a way that seeks to discredit the work of anyone working inside of education so to make educators even more subject to the views of those on the outside. The message is that no educator can be trusted with their own work 45414
Reposted by LJ_MIJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Sal Khan's vision for higher ed is MOOCs + TED Talks + standardized assessment with a curriculum approved by tech behemoths and management consultants. Please explain to me how this demonstrates any interest in "education." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...insidehighered.comSerial Failure Sal Khan Wants to Take Over Higher EducationAnd anyone who cares about human-centered education should hope he fails. 3246
Reposted by LJ_MIAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Remember, his skill is in manipulation and being an ad man. 512325
Reposted by LJ_MIMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/04/2026No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this. You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history. 812548713