Laura Hollister
@xenolith.bsky.social
Mother, Wife, Geoscientist, Feminist, & Educator. NAGT-TED Past President, 2009 OEST Recipient. BS /MS Env. Geoscience
There are so many great resources about learning here. Bookmarking this to read and share.
Trevor Aleo@mraleosays.bsky.social · yesterday@covingtonedu.bsky.social & I wanted to share some research, resources, & media for folks following our reflections on Sold A Story Season 2. While not comprehensive, it provides a glimpse into the scholarship, theories, and philosophies that inform our perspective. substack.com/home/post/p-...
@covingtonedu.bsky.social & I wanted to share some research, resources, & media for folks following our reflections on Sold A Story Season 2. While not comprehensive, it provides a glimpse into the scholarship, theories, and philosophies that inform our perspective. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Paired Texts for Sold a Story Season 2
Recommended research, resources, and media that complicate the case for Direct Instruction
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What ‘Sold a Story’ Misses About Direct Instruction is new @edweek.org post by @jessenathaniel.bsky.social www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...
What ‘Sold a Story’ Misses About Direct Instruction (Opinion)
A veteran educator takes issue with Emily Hanford's stance on a contentious instructional system.
edweek.org
Tree roots are hugely important for the functioning of the Critical Zone. Our latest post to Substack shows how geophysics can help us better understand the distribution of roots non-invasively. 🧪🔬🌲 Radar Reveals the Secret Architecture of Tree Roots criticalzonenews.substack.com/p/radar-reve...
Radar Reveals the Secret Architecture of Tree Roots
Picture an old tree on a clear morning.
criticalzonenews.substack.com
Right, so, male influencers are being sent out to tell Black people that resisting data centers is wrong actually because people don't understand how to really measure their water use. It’s an appeal to scientific expertise intended to intimidate Black people.
Hi all: Given the quickly expanding use of AI in education, I am sharing a new @stemteachingtool.bsky.social that can help deepen our thinking about these efforts. IMO the stakes are too high not to! Please share as makes sense. 🌿 stemteachingtools.org/brief/109 #EquityFirst #AIinEd #SciEd #STEMed
@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?
"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."
The Shire-Reckoning@shire-reckoning.bsky.social · 4d agoElrond tells the long story of the One Ring, from its forging in the Mountain of Fire, to its betrayal of Isildur at the Gladden Fields. Frodo is startled to learn that Elrond himself marched with Gil-Galad in the Last Alliance against Sauron, more than three thousand years ago.
"You know you can do better, but you silently suffer watching yourself decline professionally." If you're a teacher and you need to read something that makes you feel seen/affirmed (*raises hand*) this is the thing today:
Full piece here, with truth after truth after truth that those outside of the classroom consistently gaslight about: pasteeatersblog.substack.com/p/yes-class-...
🚌 Yes, Class Size Absolutely Matters
As usual, those who argue for larger class sizes never have to teach them.
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It’s so maddening to know how they just blatantly break the law all the time, but to know that they are preparing to defend themselves against it is just …
Clue: Flames on the Side of My Face
ALT: Clue: Flames on the Side of My Face
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Holly Brewer@earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 4d ago“Several conservative organizations …— including the Heritage Foundation and American Moment — have pressed White House counsel to either prepare pardons or put in place funding for the legal fees necessary to defend junior staffers from criminal and congressional probes or potential lawsuits.”
This week our district sent out a survey about Generative AI. It had five questions about our knowledge level of AI and a list of what we thought we should be learning about AI as teachers.
Hey you. Do you live in Philly & enjoy taking walks? Join the #SaveTheAcademy street team We need people to hang posters in business windows, home windows, street poles, and anywhere else. We want reopening the museum to feel inevitable. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Interventions to promote risk-taking will never succeed until grades are eliminated. As long as the goal is to get an A (or its equivalent), students' rational response will be to *minimize* risk. (And then we blame *them* for lacking a "growth mindset" or some such.) tinyurl.com/27nch2vt
Helping students get comfortable with taking risks
A New York University professor says teachers can model "productive discomfort" and encourage students to have a growth mindset.
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JUST POSTED: A Russian energy giant has secretly moved to acquire a position in a massive Alaska gas project. Its part of talks between Witkoff/Kushner & Putin. But CEO of US company resigns after learning of Russian money in the project. A wowzer of a story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
In U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges
Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.
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There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more
Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app · 5d agoSocial media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
Peak application of dendrochronology. 10/10, no notes.
Markus Eichhorn@markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 5d agoScandal in Nottingham as Ye Olde Trip doesn't even make it into the top ten oldest pubs in England. Even worse is that it's beaten by a pub in Southwell. The shame.
Every single American already has a stake in an aerospace company, it's called NASA
CNN@cnn.com · last wk.Elon Musk has said he will give every child in America a stake in SpaceX, his $2 trillion aerospace and artificial intelligence company, as tech firms face intensifying scrutiny over their impact on society. https://cnn.it/4yWTjTJ
You may see low-flying aircraft over parts of eastern California this fall — here’s why. ✈️🏔️ CGS is partnering with USGS through the Earth Mapping Resources Initiative on a new high-resolution airborne geophysical survey across parts of Fresno, Inyo & Mono Counties. www.usgs.gov/news/state-n...
Media Alert: Low-level Flights to Image Geology over Eastern California
RESTON, Va. – Low-level airplane flights will begin in early October over eastern California and a sliver of western Nevada to image geology using airborne geophysical technology.
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CA's State Geologist Jeremy Lancaster explains how rapid heavy rainfall can create devasting flash floods & debris flow in areas previously burned by wildfire; & what we are doing to mitigate these hazards. Watch The Weather Channel story here: x.com/weatherc.../... @cageosurvey.bsky.social
With heavy rains in the El Nino forecast, CGS is using geoscience to take proactive steps to protect people and communities from landslides and debris flow hazards.These new landslide hazard fact sheets offer tips and valuable info to keep Californians safe! www.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/landslides
NPR did a short piece on subsidence today. theworld.org/segments/202...
Why hundreds of cities across the globe are sinking - The World from PRX
The ground on which many urban areas rest is “subsiding” or sinking lower into the earth — a phenomenon frequently linked to water extraction. A study out this month by a research team in China used s...
theworld.org
This whole thread is incredible— beginning with Alpha School and arriving at “humane education”—but this excerpt from the linked essay is absolutely vital for us as educators to actively embrace. We can’t stop at just “containing the wolves”; we need an affirmative vision for what we want instead.
Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 6d agoWe will chart a new course. I've spent my entire adult life in education, taking about accountability, metrics, personalization, now AI. All this stops. We return to wild embrace of wonder and imagination. We use these words sincerely. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/reclaiming...
Kiddo today expressing her wishes to be a reader, even if she’s not (it’s boring). “Because I know it makes you richer inside.” I asked her to repeat the last part for the class again. Richer inside. I suspect, during a different season of her life, she’ll be reader. 🙂
As I've dug into this story, I've realized Alpha is just part of a larger terminally online ecosystem that has abandoned public schooling as something worth preserving. That in my view is the big story here, Alpha may live or die, but the Silicon Valley intellectual ecosystem will endure.
If our votes didn't matter, they wouldn't work so hard to suppress them or spend so much to buy them. #VOTE
🤯 How science publishing dies: "This work began as a test of whether an AI agent can carry out a planet search, its vetting and its write-up with minimal human input. The author is a software engineer who works extensively with AI agents, not a researcher, and has no training in astronomy."
Dr. Jessie Christiansen@aussiastronomer.bsky.social · last wk.Shot: "The author has not independently checked the analyses and does not have the expertise to verify every technical detail" Chaser: "The author takes responsibility for submitting this paper and for the accuracy of this statement." arxiv.org/pdf/2610.28575
