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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A university that called the cops on its own peaceful students is now set to be represented by one of them in Congress

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Ryan Richard Overbey @overbey.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The toxicity this policy will introduce in both students and faculty will be off the charts. But most of all I worry about how this will impact vulnerable graduate student teaching fellows who do the bulk of the teaching & grading at Harvard. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

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70% of Faculty Vote to Overhaul Harvard Grading With A Cap | News | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard faculty voted to impose a roughly 20 percent cap on A grades beginning in fall 2027, approving the College’s most aggressive attempt to reverse grade inflation and reshape academic standards.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Very rich people getting booed during commencement speeches is my new favorite genre of entertainment.

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 02/05/2026

I know there are lots of good people in college administration, but it's increasingly one of those roles like "private equity lawyer," "oil executive," or "Red Sox fan" where you're really going to have to convince me in each individual case

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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 02/05/2026

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

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essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 29/04/2026

You have to know how to read. Why do you think Che Guevara and Fidel Castro pushed the Cuban Literacy campaign? They knew reading was important. So you should know as well.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

An important essay on how everything from covid to climate to imperial wars the rich, and those who imagine they are or will be, act not only as tho they are insulated from social and very literal ills, that the ills are believed only hurt the poor encourages the rich exacerbate them

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Jennifer Doyle @fromaleftwing.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Where is the class action lawsuit for those of us who teach, and for those of us who learn — the lawsuit that holds companies accountable for the daily violence of AI? For all the ways it turns student thinking into slop and teachers into cops??? Where is that lawsuit and how do I sign on?

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers

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The academy's gerontocracy problem is worse than anyone admits.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 19/04/2026

and speaking of which, here's a great piece titled "AI Is Trash" from my colleague @apasek.bsky.social ---> drive.google.com/file/d/1gg9P...

"All in all, this points to a coalitional approach to anti-AI activism. Trash AI is worth naming and opposing across its multiple registers, and with the multiple constituencies that it impacts. This implies a necessarily coalitional politics, one where it’s never strategic to speak of the environmental impacts of technology without also drawing connections to struggles over working conditions, social trust, land use, racism, sexism, and colonialism."

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Much of what you need to know about the politics of that Yale report can be encompassed in the fact that Heterodox Academy has walked right up to the line of claiming outright credit for its contents. (You should also read this thread).

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Britt Lundgren @brittlundgren.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

No one is going to close Yale if the anti-university flames are fanned even higher. But small public colleges are put at real risk by this largely manufactured narrative. It would help us all out if the wealthy, elite institutions would at least refrain from reinforcing the attacks on higher ed.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It's not just Iran whose surrender is being demanded. It's yours. Your hope. Your belief in yourself and our collective potential. Your empathy. They want to crush those things. They want you to believe their will is inevitable. They want you to surrender.

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october "pre-order The Struggle Is Always Worth It now!" krausch @octoberk.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

please send a few bucks to Priscilla if you can, a comrade of mine who's had her life upended by RICO charges around Stop Cop City for attending a music festival

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

As part of an AI committee at my university, I spent this weekend trying out Claude (Opus 4.6) for writing, and I have to say, far beyond its hallucinations and the usual complaints, it is a baffling experience cognitively. I want to be more precise in my evaluation here than I usually am about AI.

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Made a little zine for the panel called "Writing With Humans as Collaborative and Collective Practice" and you can have one if you attend

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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Tomorrow morning at 10:35 in Room 308 at #AWP26, you will like it Panel is called "Teaching Writing Despite 'AI': The Noncoercive Rearranging of Desire" & includes @eireannmor.bsky.social , Arisa White, @shanayoungdahl.bsky.social & me

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PSC-CUNY @psc-cuny.org · 24/02/2026

PSC/CUNY supports the SJU-AAUP chapter at St. John's University and condemns their administration's outrageous attempt to undermine the union and collective bargaining agreement. (1/3)

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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Only thing I have to say about BS about white men in academia "not being able to get jobs b/c of women and POC" is organizing a labor union will always be a better option than racism and sexism. But I guess that doesn't work for entitled men who think they're smarter & better than everyone already

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

great thread that pretty much nails the relationship between systematic lying and institutionalized hatred of poor people as consummated in those special hells known as phd programs.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

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Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

“At Vincennes there was no hierarchy among the students or the teachers⁠—none at all… It was a place of freedom, wisdom, equality. It was a marvelous, joyous, alive place. I was in charge of appointing the first thirty-six professors… ‘Would you like to join a university of dreams?’”

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Hélène Cixous, The Art of Criticism No. 7

“There’s a feminist discourse that women can't do it all. This is what many women experience, and it’s very difficult. But I am not like that.”

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt? it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere. (from warsan shire “what they did yesterday afternoon”)

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what they did yesterday afternoon by Warsan Shire • Read A Little Poetry

"later that night / i held an atlas in my lap / ran my fingers across the whole world / and whispered / where does it hurt?"

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 10/12/2025

Sign the petition linked below to support higher ed workers at the UNC System in their fight against the requirement to create a searchable repository of all university syllabi, which will endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry across UNC campuses.

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Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities

Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...

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David Carroll @davidcarroll.org · 11/12/2025

Yeah shit’s fucked up at The New School. It’s true. I’m living it. It’s a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere in America. gothamist.com/news/the-new...

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The New School faces identity crisis amid planned layoffs, reorganization

The storied leftist university faces a $48 million deficit.

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Resist transactional education, resist fascism: “Authoritarians may take many things from us, but they cannot take our minds (unless you let them). … You are more than a future source of profit, and humanity's survival depends on all of us understanding this.” ⬇️

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Liverpool Distribution Services at Liverpool University Press @lupdistribution.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

📚 *New* from UGAP's Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South series, 'Protest and Pedagogy' reveals how Black teachers and students in Charlottesville turned classrooms into sites of resistance during the 20th-century freedom struggle. #BlackHistory @ugapress.bsky.social

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Protest and Pedagogy | Home

Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Everybody should read this book by friend of the pod David Backer!

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

AI powered drones from US & Israeli tech companies--as well as the 2000 lb bombs & all our other lethal military technology. It's hard to look into these faces & not feel the horror of what we have done.

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

historians...Not to mention the artists. Who did you think the Palestinians were? With their 10 Universities, 98% literacy rate & more PhDs per square mile than most places on earth. So many. Taken out by 2/

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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This scholasticide was intentional. The world lost astounding minds. I'm so grateful for this tribute, but it could be an hour long & still not include everyone--philosophers, poets, literary scholars of all periods in world literature , physicists, biologists, mathematicians,1/

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined I posted three main figure from the article below www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...

Line graph of the ny times mentions of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and the literal words "community college" which shows that each of those institutions was talked about more than all community colleges. Data goes from 1860 to 2010. Community colleges are basically never mentioned until the 1960s and then plateau at around. 5% of total articles by 1980 (and that continues until 2010). Princeton, Yale, and Harvard start above 0 but before. 5% in the late 1800s but soon jump to vertebrae 1 and 2.5%, generally moving together until WWII when Harvard moves to being the most cited at 2 to 2.5% while Princeton and Yale continue to move together around 1.5 to 1%.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/12/2025

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

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AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

#OTDIH: 21 years ago today the conservative Catholic magazine First Things published Robert P. George’s “pro-choice” moral justification of the vigilante murder of abortion doctors. Stop ethics-washing this guy.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Wrecking young people's reading, writing & analytical skills during their formative years is an economic imperative for AI companies. For many of us who learned these things without AI, slop can't pass for news or entertainment. Destroying standards is essential to the industry's growth & survival.

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Is the “strange and wicked problem” for colleges so-called grade inflation, or is the issue the widespread cultish (and creepily punitive) insistence that grades have any place in learning whatsoever? IN THIS ESSAY, TITLED “ENOUGH OF THIS COP SHIT,” I WILL… #edsky #pedagogy #edusky

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

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erin pineda @erinrpineda.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign

Two posts asking whether university administrators have thought about the consequences of purchasing and promoting AI for college campuses given a well documented college mental health crisis, and pointing out that university investment and endorsement may signal to students that dangerous technology is safe and beneficial

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not your mom @mrscrabapple.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Our latest episode is dedicated to anyone who has ever done work they love in an institutional context where harassment + betrayal are endemic. What pedagogies emerge in/from that dynamic? Can we make institutions that love us back? Jennifer Doyle (@fromaleftwing.bsky.social) talks about it.

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Love Us Back: Queer Commitment After Institutional Betrayal

Podcast Episode · Nothing Never Happens · 11/01/2025 · 1h 20m

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Like student evals, citizens snitching on each other will be felt most by PoC, women, LGBTQ folks, migrants. A lot of mediocre white ppl (ie, men like Kirk w/o college degrees saying Black women’s brains don’t work) will engage in what @profkori.bsky.social calls “know your place aggression”

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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

snitch culture can keep them from getting to learn. Sometimes a student who never takes a professor’s class will snitch (to admin, donors, Congress or some “watchlist”) that they feel too uncomfortable to TAKE a prof’s class bc of their writing! And so they keep ANYONE from taking their classes.

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