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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026

The US higher education system is not equipped to correct for the effects of systemic injustice and underfunding at the high school, middle school, and elementary school levels.

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Switched to @thestorygraph.com years ago for this very reason (and highly recommend)

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You have GOT to be kidding me

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Side thought that AI should be banned by campuses for cybersecurity reasons and FERPA violations even if they do not care about pedagogy.

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And he uses the stage to uplift others. Of course.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

After reading some of the recent pubs and discourse around US higher ed.… I should just stop right here. But here are the three major fallacies of much of what’s out there, three contexts that are missing, and the one big thing that is driving me around the bend (actually already there, but). 1/

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

These dayes the greatest danger to the future of universityes ys universityes. Remembir the missioun, remembir the studentes, remembir those who have come bifor and will arryve aftir, remembir teachinge and learninge and dialogue. A universitye ys much more than a corporation wearinge a mortarboard.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026

I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

Just a reminder, for no one particular reason and not at all necessarily inspired by any real events, that "interdisciplinarity" does not just mean "which other flavours of STEM can we partner with."

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Switch Diet Coke for coffee and…yeah.

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How stupid are people, exactly?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m old enough, and privileged enough, to have gone to college in a “your major doesn’t determine your future” way, but as Tobias points out, in many cases your major doesn’t even determine the bulk of your education.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026

Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.

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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This!!!! As someone in education, I promise there are multiple people who have studied and researched and have recommendations ready for almost every 'problem' you see in a school. Except school drop off/pick up lines. You'll have to ask urban designers and transport folks for answers.

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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Perfect description of what's going on.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We owe her so much. And we still have so much work to do.

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

More than 70,000 people are currently in more than 200 concentration camps in the United States. What? You say: We don't have concentration camps in the US. Ah, but we do. Historians define concentration camps as sites of mass civilian detention without trial, based on group identity.

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Suzanne Conklin Akbari @sakbari.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

👇 This is necessary reading - about the closing of one particular program, but giving insights into the bigger war on education:

Starting with the last claim first, about “financial return,” closing the department will supposedly save Virginia Tech $121,185 per annum—barely a rounding error in an institutional operating budget of $2.5 billion. The neoliberal university may function like a corporation, but budgets are always moral documents that demonstrate what an institution values. So, if we’re talking about such a small portion (0.004%) of the budget, and yet “financial return on investment” was supposedly a driving factor in the decision, then we have to ask about those institutional values. Or, to put it another way, it’s fair to ask what Virginia Tech received for its $121,185.

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Have a spine? That’s one solution.

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How soul-less must you be to purposefully destroy any bit of nature you find

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky

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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Neutral in the culture war"

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Feels like the only sensible thing to do today is sit and read from 9 to 5… - Michael

I always loved books. I don’t remember learning to read, it was just something I always did - Dolly Parton

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, one of the greatest singer-songwriters in country music who was also much cherished for her philanthropy, has died aged 80. Read more: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Why do we lose the good ones?

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

At jury duty in SF, one woman was making small talk with another, saying “My school starts soon. But I’m not technically a teacher; we’re called ‘guides,’ because the students do all their learning on AI modules.” And the other said, “Well you’re certainly not a teacher.”

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Tim Smyth @historycomics.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

After teaching history for 25 years, I’ve finally figured out my “why”…

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

So much more of this, please

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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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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I am well aware, every time I come to Europe

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Leave it to London Transport to ruin my last night in the city. Stopped my card because “it might have been stolen if you haven’t used it lately” - despite using it all day - can’t help at the gate, don’t have a working phone #, can’t reset online, so I had to buy a £7 single to get home. F* stupid.

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Prof Shoff @profshoff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The utter intellectual laziness of people makes my head hurt

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Good morning. We are open. 📖☕️

Collect books even you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important that an unread library.

- John Waters

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