Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanAERA Writing & Literacies SIG @writinglit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Play in a Digital Age is just 2 days away: 8/25 at 8-9:00pm EST/ 6-7pm PST! We hope you will add your voice to the conversation! #literacies 033
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Great to chat with @amandalenhart.bsky.social & @jillbarshay.bsky.social for this season of the Pursuing the Public Good podcast. We talk AI, children & adolescents, the learning inside and outside classrooms. Listen on Apple, Spotify, & here at this link: www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur...tc.columbia.eduHow AI Is Changing Learning, Childhood and Human Connection | Media | Digital Futures Institute (DFI) | Teachers College, Columbia UniversityTeachers College Digital Futures Institute (DFI) is an interdisciplinary hub for digital innovation, with a mission to advance more just social futures that is driven by research, pedagogy, and public... 120
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 30/07/2026via @npr.org tiny desk www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFlM...youtube.comGlen Hansard: NPR Music Tiny Desk ConcertYouTube video by NPR Music 010
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Re-posting this here while watching the clock count down the minutes until @aeraedresearch.bsky.social proposals are due... "The Architecture of Academic Overproduction: Toward Post-AI Scholarship www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #DigitalHumanismlinkedin.comThe Architecture of Academic Overproduction: Toward Post-AI Scholarship | Teachers College Digital Futures Institute📖 Publication alert: The Architecture of Academic Overproduction: Toward Post-AI Scholarship Academic publishing has been racing toward "more" for decades — more articles, more co-authors, more journ... 010
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 29/06/2026A little thread on AI and #HigherEd 1. "All in" may not be the most prudent approach when it comes to ai, especially if the players involved aren't sure of what that actually means via @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m... #higherednytimes.comA University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. 110
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Appreciated this conversation between Mishal Husain and @meredithmeredith.bsky.social about privacy as vital for democracy and free society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC4S...youtube.comAI Wants Your Life: Tech Boss Meredith Whittaker Says No | The Mishal Husain ShowYouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts 000
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanNathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 19/05/2026Did I mishear and think it was “drinking in the kitchen?” Yes. Was I hoping sandwiches were involved? Also yes. On this Pop & Play Srikala and @wargojon.bsky.social get salty, paddle the highball right out of my hand, and teach the not so ancient art of Pickleball. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...podcasts.apple.comIs Pickleball all about Dinking in the Kitchen?Podcast Episode · Pop and Play · May 19 · 34m 143
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 19/05/2026“Ryan Atwood explains crypto to the masses” was not on my bingo card. #theoc www.rottentomatoes.com/m/everyone_i...rottentomatoes.com 000
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries libraries #nationallibraryweek 161
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Appreciated this episode featuring @add-hawk.bsky.social in conversation with Pop and Play co-hosts @haenyyoon.bsky.social & @snowdaylearninglab.org A fave bit: profs who (unironically) assign Foucault & then set up heavily surveilled test environments 😆 #goplay podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...podcasts.apple.comCan Rules in Games Help Us Find Deeper Freedom?Podcast Episode · Pop and Play · April 14 · 44m 032
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Humane research innovation that leverages emerging tech to pose new Qs & address familiar Qs in new ways. That’s the premise of the Early Researcher Innovation Network (ERIN) we launched last fall at @tcdigitalfuture.bsky.social Learn more: www.tc.columbia.edu/digitalfutur... #highered #communitytc.columbia.eduGetting to Know DFI's Early Research Innovation Network (ERIN)In this interview, learn more from Dr. OreOluwa Badaki, Co-Director of this new program that supports early career scholars in multimodal research at the Digital Futures Institute—Teachers College, Co... 100
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Censorship of motion pictures was enough of a concern in the early 1900s that The People's Institute issued a report, The Menace of Motion Picture Censorship, containing pointed political cartoons that serve as a rallying cry against censorship and aims to appeal to readers' sense of logic. #HR7661 111
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Rooster may keep me watching simply because of the title song sung by Michael Stipe. ... And sure, I'm also a sucker for tv that attempts to capture the academic experience. ... *attempts* ...media.tenor.coma man in a white shirt is dancing in a dark roomAlt: michael stipe dancing 120
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Take 30 minutes and enjoy the latest pop-off episode of Pop & Play in which co-hosts @snowdaylearninglab.org and @haenyyoon.bsky.social ponder the *totally uncontroversial* question: What counts as reading? #readingwars #literacy #whatisreading #reading #dopeoplestillusehashtags #shrug 111
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 26/02/2026This was an excellent plenary talk by @alondra.bsky.social in which she artfully reframes what can often seem like a binary abyss of bad and worse choices regarding ai: www.youtube.com/live/IZFurJB... (First ~ 30 mins) #iaseai26youtube.comIASEAI'26 - (Room I)YouTube video by UNESCO 120
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 02/12/2025As always, thorough and thoughtful reporting from @jillbarshay.bsky.social "The damage is cumulative and will unfold over years. ... the deeper loss belongs to the children and teachers who will never benefit from the knowledge that would have been generated." 120
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 21/11/2025A refreshing critique of Haidt's oft-cited tome that refers to an entire generation of youth as the anxious recipients of unregulated access to smartphones. "We’re not “anxious” just because of TikTok. Sometimes, the world is just objectively overwhelming — phones or not." 131
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanNathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 18/11/2025Learning requires friction. Good learning environments reduce unproductive friction. They also provide support so learners can work through productive friction. Using AI to remove all friction removes the learner from what is to be learned. Doing difficult things is entirely the point! 053
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Apparently we are doing this tomorrow (see @snowdaylearninglab.org's post 👇) It's been a while since I last stretched a social media muscle, so expect a rusty and clunky performance on the part of yours truly. I assume I'll go full Buscemi. #popplaypodmedia.tenor.coma man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulderALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder 042
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Sobering and important interview with Tom Brock, Director of Community College Research Center at @teacherscollege.bsky.social on how loss of federal funding stalls research insights that impact educational policy, practice, and overall student experience. www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...insidehighered.comCommunity College Research Collateral Damage at ColumbiaThe Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College lost several million dollars of federal funds. Director Thomas Brock describes how the center is pushing forward. 000
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 15/06/2025More on the impacts of fed funding cuts, via @hechingerreport.org hechingerreport.org/what-the-whi...hechingerreport.orgWhat the federal freeze on spending means for educationSeveral programs, such as Pell Grants, Title I funding for low-income schools and special education funding are not subject to the federal freeze. 011
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 13/06/2025Always happy to join Haeny Yoon & @snowdaylearninglab.org on Pop & Play. In this pop-off, we discuss the direct & immediate impacts of federal funding cuts to research infrastructure & related programming (afterschool, extracurricular) that directly serves children and their communities. 032
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream Beginning Weds May 28, at 1 p.m. ET, the “Weather and Climate Livestream” will span five days, ending on Sunday, June 1, at 5:30 p.m. ET. www.youtube.com/@wclivestrea...youtube.comYouTubeShare your videos with friends, family, and the world 011
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanHank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 29/05/2025200+ scientists are in the middle of a marathon livestream to show why weather and climate science is so important and needs all our help to continue. It is here: wclivestream.com/watchwclivestream.comRedirecting to: https://www.youtube.com/@wclivestream/live 3248441342
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Having observed various social science 'turns' - social, cultural, narrative, digital, material - I brace for the eventual (inevitable?) emergence of "the 'artificial' turn" as an explanatory phrase in written scholarship.media.tenor.coma black and white photo of a woman covering her face with her hand ..Alt: a black and white photo of a woman covering her face with her hand .. 020
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Playful, participatory, collective, invitational -- block off 26 minutes and enjoy story time, courtesy of your Pop & Play co-hosts and their Season 5 guests. 032
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 24/04/2025All of these podcasts will be featured in a session at #AERA2025 in a roundtable session: Podcasts as Public Scholarship: (Re)Imagining Theories in Everyday Life (Table 6) Now, more than ever, facility with multi-platform and transmediated communication that reaches broad(er) audiences is needed. 032
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Whilst pondering the space between the unsayable & "must be said" w/regards to the recent EOs... I offer this 🧵 on edu podcasts that promote the fullness of education flourishing in multiple forms - playful, silly, embodied, invitational, unsettled. (all produced at @teacherscollege.bsky.social) 173
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 24/04/2025The number of young people in detention is lower than before — Still: Racial disparities in youth incarceration are the widest they've been in decades www.npr.org/2025/04/24/n...npr.orgRacial disparities in youth incarceration are the widest they've been in decadesThe number of American children and teenagers in juvenile detention has sharply declined over the last few decades, but as overall numbers decrease, data shows Black and Native American youth are far ... 000
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Reflections on recent federal funding cuts from over a dozen researchers across a range of fields and research areas, detailing the loss of data, new scholar training resources, incomplete evidence of program effectiveness, and more. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...insidehighered.comFederal Grant Cuts in Researchers’ Own Words (opinion)Researchers whose federal grants have been terminated since the start of the Trump administration describe some of the myriad impacts. 032
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 08/03/2025Useful explainer about the function of indirect costs in university research federal funding Tl;dr best roi in town Via @aaup.bsky.social youtu.be/NtqK8SyxFMc?...youtu.beFacilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs ExplainerYouTube video by Association of American Universities 011
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 07/03/2025"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself." -- Henry Miller 000
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 05/03/2025media.tenor.comtwo women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this worksALT: two women are standing in a living room and one of them says that 's not how this works 130
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Article from @chalkbeat.org detailing the immediately felt effects of recent funding cuts hatchet job. “in several instances, the decision to cancel contracts affected more than researchers analyzing data in their offices — it affected students.” www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/26/t...chalkbeat.orgA teen with autism and his mom were getting help planning for college. Then came DOGE.A federally funded research program helped students with disabilities prepare for life after high school. DOGE’s sweeping Education Department cuts brought this and dozens of other studies to an abrup... 100
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Taking a brief break from simmering rage at the gross and violent mangling of words ("data", "intelligence", "protection", "freedom") for the purposes of craven self-aggrandizement, to share yet another cautionary tale about unregulated creep of ai into daily life. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/h...nytimes.comHuman Therapists Prepare for Battle Against A.I. PretendersChatbots posing as therapists may encourage users to commit harmful acts, the nation’s largest psychological organization warned federal regulators. 130
Lalitha Vasudevan @lmv.bsky.social · 22/02/2025Missed this when you first posted - thank goodness for re-posts. A) belated birthday wishes 🎉 B) holy cow, that trailer. Thrilled to see how the film has developed. Can’t wait to see the full length version! Congrats. (And your voice is beautiful, T.) 121
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanSonali Rajan @sonalirajan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Incredibly incredibly honored to be a part of this upcoming @washingtonpost.com live event early next month on the toll of gun violence on children and families in the U.S. (1/2) www.washingtonpost.com/washington-p...washingtonpost.comThe toll of gun violence on American children and familiesGun violence is now the leading cause of death for young children and teenagers in the United States. On March 6, join Washington Post Live for conversations about how gun violence has impacted commun... 1154
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanPhilip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025We just published a NEW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social on how to PROMOTE EQUITY in #STEMed — based on the powerful @nasem-education.bsky.social EQUITY IN K-12 STEM ED report. Be sure to explore the detailed equity assessment tool included! ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/101 PLS RESKEET #SciEd #NGSS 32815
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 18/02/2025hechingerreport.org/proof-points...hechingerreport.orgDOGE's death blow to education studiesResearchers say students and schools will suffer without vital data 03816
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanPhilip Bell @philipbell.bsky.social · 17/02/2025The current administration took the Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) offline. The Public Environmental Data Project posted the latest version publicly so that this important resource could still be accessed. Thank you!! ➡️ edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/... 063
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanJeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Here's @penamerica.bsky.social's statement condemning last night's "Dear Colleague" letter from the Department of Education, threatening to withhold federal funds from educational institutions that engage in DEI programming, training, or other activities. pen.org/press-releas...pen.orgPEN America Condemns Education Department's Threat to Defund Colleges and Universities Over DEI Programs - PEN AmericaPEN America Denounces Department of Education Letter That Would Ban Ideas About Race 411262
Reposted by Lalitha Vasudevandanah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 13/02/2025PhD students in social sciences studying "metascience" and AI: This looks like an *AMAZING* opportunity. Fully funded research postdoc that can be housed at whatever university you can find an appropriate mentor. sloan.org/programs/dig...sloan.orgCall for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan FoundationOur mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge. 19065
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/ 9639345
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanMegan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Great new resource from @debeaumontfndtn.bsky.social on public health comms - with both well-tested language, and actionable tips. This is FABULOUS. debeaumont.org/resources/co...debeaumont.orgCommunicating About Public HealthCommon gaps in understanding, research-tested messaging to address them, examples to make it tangible, and practical tips for real-world communication scenarios 1413862
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanMuckRock @muckrock.com · 10/02/2025On Feb. 13 at 3pm Eastern, MuckRock will host an event with organizations that are helping lead the efforts to preserve the public’s data.muckrock.comFederal data is disappearing. On Thursday, meet the teams working to rescue it and learn how you can help.Since the start of the new Trump administration, hundreds of federal data sets and government websites have gone offline without warning, sometimes returning with major changes and sometimes not… 26424
Reposted by Lalitha VasudevanJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/02/2025In case you thought your kids will be safe in a blue state--our future Secretary of Education is proposing moving special education under RFK Jr. at HHS. 1120479