Reposted by Shaun MorganMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“Do you think HUMAN CREATIVITY matters? Most people don't spend a lot of time thinking about poetry until their father dies, you go to a funeral, you lose a child, somebody breaks your heart & that's when Art’s not a luxury it's sustenance.” — ETHAN HAWKE 6936191172
Reposted by Shaun MorganTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I have seven invitations from student groups to talk about A.I. They know what I think about A.I. That's why they asked me. They aren't feeling it, y'all. 192486468
Reposted by Shaun MorganMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Dependency is the goal. 152852933
Reposted by Shaun MorganJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The chief barrier between students and learning to write is not the existence of AI, but the overwhelming presence of a transactional system of schooling. This was the problem before AI. We have to center this problem, not AI, whatever its capacities. biblioracle.substack.com/p/addressing...biblioracle.substack.comAddressing the Transactional Model of SchoolWe need to attack thoughtless ChatGPT use from the demand side. 1316
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Since I’m not in the South anymore (the northernmost Southern state doesn’t count), fill this out in my place. 020
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Don’t have to give it up if you don’t take it up. 010
Reposted by Shaun MorganSheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It’s syllabus prep season, and I’m thinking about what a privilege and benefit it must be for those academics who get to directly tie their teaching / syllabi to their research / writing. 1/5 27713
Reposted by Shaun MorganErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Is there any research on how being raised within a particular religious tradition’s approach to text shapes the approach you have to text as a scholar (whether you remain in that religious tradition or not)? 53911
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Thinking about my online summer class that starts Monday and that I’m supposed to be updating for new ADA requirements…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. 230
Reposted by Shaun MorganDaniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 01/04/2026The more I think about salary and lackluster raises, the more I think that being faculty is an unviable long term pathway for many. For many faculty, that 1.8% increase raise on avg. still puts their purchasing power below annual inflation. And this 1.8% is before the major state budget cuts hit.media.tenor.coma man wearing a red shirt that says hulkmaniaALT: a man wearing a red shirt that says hulkmania 3134
Reposted by Shaun MorganMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Private equity has been fantasizing about the capture of education for decades. This is the deepest they’ve ever gotten their tendrils into it.open.substack.comThe Secret History of Canvas LMS, Corporate Raiders, & The Chatbot Bubble (Vandal Live at UVU)with Christa Albrecht-Crane, Angie McKinnon Carter, and Chiler Moore 2220110
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 25/03/2026One of skills my middle schooler is developing is self-advocacy because he has to dispute the grades that AI graders assign his work in his English class.😒🤬 010
Reposted by Shaun MorganTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/03/20263. Imagine for a second that the university adopted the same “neutral” stance with respect to grades or plagiarism. Do you think that profs would in practice be free to establish standards, on an individual basis, that students would follow? Or would it not much more likely be a race to the bottom? 091
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 16/03/2026The Bluebell Creamery and Washington-on-the-Brazos combo trip. 011
Reposted by Shaun MorganBen Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I grew up knowing quite a few humanities PhDs who had to pursue non-academic careers; one thing that strikes me is that many careers just aren't as permeable, particularly for people who hold PhDs, as they may have once been. 1173
Reposted by Shaun MorganIneffective Altruist @jddunn.bsky.social · 12/02/2026There's a link between the AI disruption and the authoritarian political attacks on expertise. Highly educated white collar folks considered ourselves to be a powerful culture, on the basis of our expertise & credentials. But that's not where power comes from, and we're learning that the hard way. 624270
Reposted by Shaun MorganChronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com · 09/02/2026A $1,500 raise after a promotion, a celebrated 1% raise, and other tales from the frontlines of higher ed. How have you encountered higher ed's absurd compensation practices? Tell us about it. chroni.cl/3LZAGLPchronicle.comOpinion | Higher Education’s Compensation CharadeWe’ve come to accept illogical, unjust, and occasionally insulting pay practices. Why? 163
Reposted by Shaun MorganDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026"a great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually anything else currently on offer in the US" thepointmag.com/examined-lif...thepointmag.comThe Left Case for Great Books | The Point MagazineA great-books model at the undergraduate level is, in fact, so consonant with Freire’s radical critique that it represents a far better path forward for a left-wing vision of education than virtually ... 0115
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Just completed an institutional survey about attitudes toward AI only to find out after I submitted it that portions of the survey were created with AI.😒 060
Reposted by Shaun Morgan2timesgrumpy_owl @2timesgrumpyowl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This is such valuable advice and put plainly. Please take a moment. TY @tressiemcphd.bsky.social 9511220
Reposted by Shaun MorganRyan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom 1055641585
Reposted by Shaun MorganJohn Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025This piece gets at one of the underlying reasons students turn to LLMs - because they think it makes them sound like they belong in a university setting. It's the same motive that had students overusing the thesaurus pre-ChatGPT. theimportantwork.substack.com/p/chatgpt-an...theimportantwork.substack.comChatGPT and "Inventing the University"What we can learn from the em dash debate 45220
Reposted by Shaun MorganOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...bostonreview.netHow Can We Live Together? - Boston ReviewEzra Klein is wrong: shame is essential. 20070901982
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Shorter Sunstein: “I wanted to write a nice book, and if I addressed the things you bring up it would have been…not nice.” 030
Reposted by Shaun MorganMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/08/2025“I’m not racist, some of my best chatbots are black” 1054870
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2025So I guess trading away your best player is just a Dallas thing now. 000
Reposted by Shaun MorganTim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025People working in universities know a lot of the work that makes the organization function is outsourced to for-profit companies (catering, landscaping) or runs on platforms requiring payments to such companies: Workday, Canvas, Microsoft, Zoom. This thread will be for less obvious examples. 1/ 422278
Reposted by Shaun MorganMcBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 23/08/2025This Cracker Barrel business is a perfect example of how the right wing can manufacture culture wars outrage over absolutely nothing. 18769116
Reposted by Shaun MorganAdrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Tr*mp made them choose what he makes everyone choose: what to them was real and what was nice to have, but kind of ornamental. Foreigners, lefties, homos, POC were nice to have. The core of the university was the money and the research done by people who resemble our upper administrations. (3/4) 1564
Reposted by Shaun MorganLaprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The sheer quantity of bullshit here. The solution to instructor exhaustion and overwork is not outsourcing grading (if that’s not direct mentoring of students, I don’t know what is) but hiring more faculty and reducing class sizes. Give the money to teachers, not Sam Altman 21446136
Reposted by Shaun MorganNick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social · 02/07/2025It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt: 5331621050
Reposted by Shaun MorganJames Leo Cahill @jamesleocahill.bsky.social · 30/06/2025What a horrific act of vandalism targeting a formidable set of public institutions. Solidarity with faculty and students. 0155
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 25/06/2025It wasn’t until I became a professional that I realized how much college financing has in common with used car sales. 130
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 15/06/20251/2 Looking at all the memes comparing trump’s stupid little parade to the much larger ones in other authoritarian countries, I can’t help but notice the lack of fascist architecture and infrastructure 100
Reposted by Shaun MorganDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Hell yeah. Here's my manifesto: close reading for all. On Sigrid Nunez, and Karl Ove Knausgaard, and Erich Auerbach, and why close reading is an answer to AI. Thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, rockstar editor, who rules. For @defector.com defector.com/close-readin...defector.comClose Reading Is For Everyone | DefectorIn Sigrid Nunez’s 2018 novel The Friend, a famous writer kills himself. Not long before, he complains to the narrator about readers: “People talking about a book as if it were just another thing, like... 19456138
Reposted by Shaun MorganMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Being a Mavs fan right now has to be insane. Like you’re 99% happy, but 1% mad that they’re getting away with it? 121138885
Reposted by Shaun Morgan@DrJenHo @drjenho.bsky.social · 09/05/2025My opinion piece in @coloradosun.com is live--I ask when people will speak out against the fascist authoritarianism of this current administration: coloradosun.com/2025/05/09/o... If you're inclined, please share widely -- the more we speak out, the more we can fight the fascism.coloradosun.comOpinion: As a professor with non-native parents, I ask — When will you speak out?We must have the moral and ethical courage to speak out and say the things we know to be true. 055
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 07/05/2025This thread from @mattseybold.bsky.social is a great rundown of how AI preys upon already existing problems in higher ed. I’d only add that these are all exacerbated by precarity and the performance metrics associated with teaching in higher ed which boil down to retention and student satisfaction. 043
Reposted by Shaun MorganJack Schneider @jackschneider.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Latest episode of the pod.m.soundcloud.com#197 Taking America Back (to a Less Educated Past)Play #197 Taking America Back (to a Less Educated Past) by Have You Heard on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud. 154
Reposted by Shaun MorganTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Not hard at all. I may be biased. I have a lot of friends in English. But the AI admin push feels really targeted at how much English courses bedevil their funding models. They’re inefficient, they cannot shuttle it to professional schools, & weirdly students want it. 429651
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I took Díaz off my syllabi for a period of time, but have since brought him back. I feel a bit more conflicted about that than this piece suggests, but it raises some useful frames for thinking about Diaz’s place in literary history and literature curricula. 010
Reposted by Shaun MorganVenus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Very thoughtful piece on Junot Diaz by @rafaelwalker.bsky.social . 043
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Having spent much of my 20s and early 30s working on a dissertation focused on Said, I’ve had a distantly romantic - naive, sure - admiration for Columbia. That is no longer possible. 000
Reposted by Shaun MorganDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025You know, when they describe the Jackie Robinson story as "Woke cultural Marxism" maybe normies will start to notice how insane they are 44945239
Reposted by Shaun MorganDave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 02/03/202510/ If this is happening at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the top university in the bluest state in the country, then I can only imagine how bad it is elsewhere. We need to protect our academic freedom and civil rights. We need to protect research and knowledge that helps EVERYONE. 1336
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 14/02/2025At what point do the dems announce a shadow government a la those in parliamentary structures? 010
Reposted by Shaun MorganFall of the Patriarchy Autumn @uncommongrace25.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Search for grant impact by state (2023 data) www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...unitedformedicalresearch.orgNIH In Your State - United For Medical ResearchSelect a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America. 02718
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Doing mandatory data security training about phishing seems a little silly when all of my data is in the hands a bunch of tech bros. I mean, who’s gonna bother phishing when it’s all unsecured already? 010