"I might not have been able to talk, but I knew hundreds if not thousands of words. Pretty silly to assume that just because someone can’t say something, they don’t know it." And yet, this assumption is made about nonspeakers every day in schools, care settings, and communities.

Thinking Person's Guide to Autism@thinkingautism.com · 3w ago

“Presuming competence means doing things like reading literature or school textbooks out loud, holding real conversations that are age appropriate (even if nonspeakers can’t respond), & meaningfully involving nonspeakers in whatever is going on." -Jace Pooley autismspectrumnews.org/the-power-of...

I remember a really frustrating conversation with a generally decent cishet white guy about a news story where a woman was roofied. he went off about wishing he could beat that guy up to avenge her, and I was like "how about start with calling out your friends' sexist tweets?" and he was like 😳

Andrew Schreck @andrewschreck.bsky.social · 3w ago

I don't disagree. But, as I wrote back to these reporters, I am most optimistic about projects that respond to the expressed concerns of students and teachers. These are the people who spend 180 days inside schools each year, and they're the key actors in the process of teaching and learning. 1/n

Matthew A Kraft@matthewakraft.com · 3w ago

New @nytimes.com piece ranks 30 education interventions on both effectiveness & costs. For me, the key takeaway is NOT about what academics (including myself) rated as most effective or least costly. It is about the decision making process districts use. 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

Fed to them? FED to them?!?! 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

Linda McMahon on successful uses of AI in classrooms: "The first couple hours every day students really have on headphones, they're in front of their computers, they're getting their subjects fed to them...the beauty of that is the student almost has a one-on-one tutor...I have seen it work so well"

I think a lot of people don’t understand that the academic freedom that we have — which we have fought for — is not the freedom to say every asinine racist & sexist thing that you think.

Technology that makes cancer vaccines a reality should be treated like Operation Warp Speed. Instead, the government has cancelled $500 million in mRNA vaccine research.

This is ... good?! If only they hadn't also defunded the infrastructure that would help with these things: independent evidence/evaluation, evidence of effectiveness, evidence-based tools, data on dosage. They could STILL fund these things but that would require them to stop impounding funds.

Cara Jackson@carajackson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

U.S. Department of Education Releases Guidance on Responsible Use of Education Technology in the Classroom www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

UGH. In news that will be shocking to no one who has worked at a high school in recent years, this revolting scenario is now happening. Clearly the problem is deeper than the glasses, but the glasses REALLY don't help.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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One of the great joys of my adult life has been realizing that I can just pick up a new skill every so often, take a fun little class in it weekly for a year or two, and simply enjoy meeting people and getting medium proficient and not attempting to become professional in it at all!

THIS. Adults' expectations of young people as "digital natives" and the reality of what young people are actually comfortable doing on a computer are not aligned. Once they're taught the basics, they pick them up quickly. But they need to be taught!

Tara Shea@tsbhoney.bsky.social · 3mo ago

interesting framing of this, a thing we (gen x and millennials) joke about, but I've been teaching college freshman for years and their relationship to computers vs what the world expects them to just know how to do intuitively is really a thing!

It has to be Google, specifically, to be clear. No matter how smug you feel about your alternative search engine, this is specific to Google.

Le Ca-ghoul@lecagle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND SEARCH JIMOTHY ON GOOGLE RIGHT NOW

It's particularly insulting that our entire research and education sector in the US is getting dismantled by such absolute dipshits.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 3mo ago

3. I know this will strain credulity, but at times it seems as if the report's author Michael Kratsios has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. Take this statement. As a former member of a department of biological sciences and a department of life sciences, I have no idea what this means.

So, you see, smoke travels in both directions and every other direction What matters is that we help each other and tackle climate change as humankind www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Smoke from U.S. wildfires affecting air quality in B.C.

Wildfires south of the border are responsible for “much” of the smoke that has prompted an air quality warning in one region of B.C., according to officials.

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Boards! Accreditation! All the sexiest higher ed topics.

Knight First Amendment Institute@knightcolumbia.org · 3mo ago

How can higher education better withstand political attacks? In a new essay, @bakerdphd.bsky.social argues that power must be shifted away from governing boards and governments, and toward faculty, staff, students, and accreditors.

If you, like me, just had a bunch of rain and your AQI didn’t go down as much as you maybe thought it would: AQI isn’t just particles, it is also a few gases. Rain is really good at removing particles, gases less so. Also if your rain came with lightning, it could’ve made more of the gases!

As I said the other day - this story is very much revealing how little folks understand the massive reach and influence of agribusiness and how the food chain works. Framing the story around taco bell is a good ex of news coverage failing to give us the info we need about our corporate food system.

ber month enjoyer 🍂🍁🎃@trickycrayon.com · 3mo ago

This framing is so disgusting and irresponsible. Yes, Taylor Farms supplies Taco Bell. THEY ALSO SUPPLY TONS OF OTHER RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES. People will take "avoid Taco Bell" as the lesson which is NOT HELPFUL. www.wcvb.com/article/cycl...

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Forbes@forbes.com · 3mo ago

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

Comments needed opposing the sale of public land that is culturally and historically significant!

Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨@kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 3mo ago

They just opened a cowardly short 14-day public comment period. Make your voices heard. PLEASE. Link Below 🔗👇🏽 eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...

Re: cyclospora, Taco Bell having ethics and going "you know what, it's always the fucking lettuce, why don't we just pull that until we know what's going on" resulting in all the outlets going "LETTUCE SOLD AT TACO BELL LINKED TO EXPLOSIVE DIARRHEA" is a fantastic way to discourage ethics in future.

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

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Psst reporters: "A universal autistic experience doesn’t exist & reporters should seek out a variety of perspectives for their stories. People require varying levels of interventions & support—& a therapy that is helpful for 1 person may be harmful for another." healthjournalism.org/blog/2026/07...

‘It depends’: Autism reporting requires nuance

Journalists must do more to include autistic voices and recognize the nuance in each person’s disability experience, HJ26 panelists said.

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OMFG

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 3mo ago

B. F. Skinner tried to test his teaching machines on Black children in Harlem to prove the product's profitability. Now this: "The school district serves roughly 1,300 students, including 32 percent who identify as American Indian or Alaska Native and 79 percent who are economically disadvantaged."

Also: this isn’t just about science. This will devastate the entire federal grant funding process, which means all academic research grants, arts grants, community project grants, agriculture grants, conservation grants, etc. Please leave a comment opposing this change.

Karen James@kejames.bsky.social · 3mo ago

TOMORROW (Monday) is the LAST DAY to leave a public comment about the proposed OMB proposal that will be an absolute disaster for science if adopted. Follow the link below for instructions on leaving a good comment.

RE: the transphobic gamete nonsense Academic publishing is not suffering from a dearth of problems but from a metascientific POV, we need more research into the harms caused by academic opinion pieces that cosplay as research and are used to Trojan horse baseless ramblings into academic discourse.

“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education

Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.

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Whoa, over a quarter million people (so far!) have left a comment on the egrgious openly fascist takeover attempt of the OMB. You can too! @standupforscience.net has instructions and everything you need. It's not hard, and it's critically important to science. fight2win.standupforscience.net

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The comment count as of Sunday July 11, 2026 1:05pm ET.

The thing about being neurodivergent is that I Like It. What I don’t like is that the world imposes numerous taxes on me for being like this. I don’t view it as a Me problem.

What a great policy for outing any student needing to use a laptop for accommodations.

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

“University of Chicago Law School announced it will ban phones and laptops in the classroom for first-year students in its new AI strategy.”