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alulaauburn.bsky.social
Reading, writing and herding cats. Trying to advocate for students and humanist pedagogy in a tiny flailing way. She/her.
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I wrote about the Sweet Briar College Vixens, and how they are better than the adults in charge lithub.com/lydia-kiesli...

submitted 12 hours ago • 23 comments

disabled people deserve to live fulfilling lives no matter their productivity to society

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

Harvard. MIT. May all Illinois universities stand up like this. Students and alumni, urge your schools to defy the fascist Trump administration!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Allowing these bad faith folks to weaponize the academic rules of "decency" in order to give themselves space to make arguments beyond decency has always been a terrible thing that erodes the ability to seek truth through debate and discussion. Now, it's actively dangerous

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

I love being constantly scolded that we are "working from a place of scarcity" by the same person who has, multiple times, promised and then reneged on a) a title change, even with no pay raise, b) rejected multiple projects that would cost nothing besides what I'm already budgeted for 1/ #EduSky

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr and the “MAHA” movement are wrong about health and disease at the most fundamental level, and their “strategy” to achieve a healthier country won’t just abandon the most vulnerable; it will target them. Read my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

I'm getting ready to start what is possibly the last ten or eleven weeks in which I can technically call myself an educator. It's. . .sad. And disorienting. And scary. #EduSky

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Chicago is out in full force today #handsoff

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

For every person who needs insulin to stay alive, Donald Trump just gave big drug companies and pharmacy benefit managers a green light to keep ripping you off. It's outrageous.

submitted 19 days ago • 56 comments

this is what I was saying earlier: there is a gendered dynamic in the responses to "AI". When women are critical, their critique/resistance is often also framed as us not "understanding AI" because only manbrains can understand the potential of AI, apparently

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

attn Chicago one of you please go get this man!! he's been sponsored so he's free! look at his little face!!

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

One of the reasons why I am against Shitty Abusers in Politics, even if they claim to be on my side, is that they are actually on their own side. Not mine.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

Clio having a normal one #cats

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

AI can't do student peer review because the non-thinking, pattern-matching machine is not a peer. Also, the chief point of peer review in building a writing practice is not to receive feedback, but to give it. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

I want to be clear: dismissing professors’ current concerns about students’ reading habits as fogeyish ignores decades of very real policy changes leading to this moment. And it ignores teachers who have tried, mostly in vain, to alert the public to their working conditions.

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

submitted 23 days ago • 179 comments

The additional benefits of choosing Team *We Do Not Throw People Under Buses* is that this is also the side that has fun, creates excellent cultural production, dresses well, and has luminous skin. I have no idea why one would choose the alternative.

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

Clio is very offended that my friendslack told her that being under an in-process baby blanket does, in fact, make her baby, so she told me to ask here--she is a Dignified Elder Lady! #Cats #Crochet

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

So, uh. . .has anyone else's therapist ever asked in all seriousness if your institution intentionally is pushing you out for being too ethical? Asking for, uh, a friend. Who needs a new job. #EduSky

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

How much of these tech hype cycles we go through are made possible only because our tech journalists are really, really gullible?

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

"Did Trump just defy a court order?" YES, motherfuckers. Why in the fuck is that so hard for people to say? The judge told him to stop doing something, he did it anyway, IN DEFIANCE OF THE JUDGES RULINGS! WHY ARE PEOPLE COMMITTED TO ADDRESSING FASCISM IN THE PASSIVE VOICE????

submitted 35 days ago • 177 comments