Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026As one of Tom’s students, I am delighted to see him honored in this way. 020
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026North Carolina mountain towns are just crazy cute. 011
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 6936201172
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026For the first time in almost 25 years I received applause from a class — two classes, in fact — when I told them that I am an unapologetic AI hater. 0120
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 · 29/05/2026Makes me think of the old Jerry Tarkanian line that the NCAA was so mad at Kentucky that Cleveland State might get the death penalty. 031
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
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 17/04/2026This is admin-brained and also the endgame of precarious faculty employment where the only thing that gets counted are student evals. 100
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
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 02/03/2026It’s clear that they just mean “the left” and that “campus” just serves as an insult that allows them to maintain a “liberal” public stance. 010
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
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Not sure if it counts as a manifesto exactly, but I love teaching Twain’s “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses” 010
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. 20070891982
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
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 23/08/2025As a lit PhD, I sometimes feel like a relic in my own department of English. 020
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Is that just another way of saying they like to use the n-word? 020
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
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 13/07/2025So, you’re saying my soul is worth 4-5 times my current salary? … give me a minute 010
Shaun Morgan @shaunprof.bsky.social · 06/07/2025The Kroger cart and red basketball shorts have me thinking Indiana. 030
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 · 30/06/2025There is no chance he knows who Jerry Stackhouse is 050
