Her mind! This from @karenhao.bsky.social should be one of those inspirational quotes that a crafter does in needlepoint. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Astonishing. RFK Jr. adds 8 members to a 6 member FDA advisory panel. 6 of them were sellers of peptides, and the 7th a compounding pharmacist. In an 8-6 vote with all 8 votes coming from these new panel members, the panel approved 4 peptides against the objections of FDA scientists.

FDA Panel Supports Lifting Restrictions on Four Peptides (Gift Article)

In an all-day hearing, the agency’s scientists argued against allowing broad access to unproven drugs that the agency had banned three years ago.

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🚨 New publication alert 🚨 In which I join an all-star group of scholars to discuss the problems with what we call "critical optimism" about AI in education and offer instead three forms of AI refusal: curricular, bureaucratic, and administrative. The article is paywalled, so DM me for a copy.

Refusing Educational Technology: Artificial Intelligence, Inequity, and the Problem of Critical Optimism - Niral Shah, David Stroupe, Aman Yadav, Tess Bernhard, Charles Logan, Elizabeth B. Dyer, Peng ...

Artificial intelligence (AI)—like many technologies before—comes with hope and worry about its implications for education. In this essay, using generative AI as...

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🧵 Our team is about to launch our 4th Annual Summer Design Institute for Climate Teacher Education. We will have 30+ faculty & instructors from dozens of teacher ed programs in WA state working to integrate #ClimateJustice into their courses & programs. You can learn more here: climateteaching.org

I’m looking to speak with people who are resisting the erosion of human thought, creativity, skill, and relationship through AI. 🧵

"A mature university response will protect the right to refuse, cultivate the duty to understand, and treat refusal as evidence that the purposes of learning, teaching, scholarship and governance remain open to public deliberation."

AI refusal in higher education: the right to refuse, the duty to understand and the diagnostic value of non-use

Generative artificial intelligence has made refusal newly visible in higher education. Students, academics, researchers, professional staff and institutional leaders may reject, restrict, contest o...

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Today is a good day to donate to The Trevor Project. Trans kids deserve a world that loves and accepts them fully and unconditionally, just as they are.

Support Homepage

The Trevor Project is a non-profit suicide prevention organization that provides 24/7 crisis support services, research, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ young people.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls from school sports. This is a devastating ruling for trans students across the country who simply want the freedom to play with their friends.

To feel the real essence of an Irish rainforest, go to one in the rain. You'll find yourself immersed in an alternate, magical realm of dripping, lush exuberance.

Today on the @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog: Heidi Reed with a lesson that "helps demystify AI as a sociomaterial construction of natural resources, human labor, habitats of non-human animals, government legislation, toxic chemicals, computer codes, and techno-capitalist ideologies.”

What is AI made of? A two-part lesson plan on asking critical questions about technology — Civics of Technology

Civics of Technology Announcements Book Club this week: Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser. Join us on Wednesday, June 24th at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. Re...

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Conference Organizer: Do you want to be a part of a panel on AI? Me: oh I would love to do an impression of Dave Phillips! Organizer: wut? #ISLS26

Today is #ShowYourStripes day! Created by climate scientist @edhawkins.org, the warming stripes show how temperature has changed over time. You can find the stripes for where you live here: showyourstripes.info Here are Climate Stripes for Seattle where I live & some related educational resources…

Today is #ShowYourStripes Day! The warming stripes visualize more than a century of temperature trends. Each stripe represents a year: 🔵 Cooler years 🔴 Hotter years Share custom stripes for U.S. states, cities, & more with #ClimateCentral's new Dashboard: app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/warm...

No surprises here - #Arctic Ocean stripes are off the scale. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. #ShowYourStripes ➡️ Explore your own climate change stripes: showyourstripes.info (Global) and app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/warm... (U.S.) What's it like in your area?

Next week I’m leading a three-day professional development for local educators on teaching about, against, and with AI technologies, and as I work on the slides and activities, I’m once again grateful for @betterimagesofai.bsky.social:

Better Images of AI

We are a non-profit creating more realistic and inclusive images of artificial intelligence. Visit our growing repository available for anyone to use for free under CC licences, or just to use as insp...

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At #ISLS26 I’m part of a symposium where learning scientists and computer-supported collaborative learning scholars propose provocations for the next decade of scholarship in our fields. Mine: None of this matters if we don’t stop authoritarianism. 💥 Link below

Come join our team! The UW Climate Impacts Group is hiring an early career social scientist to support climate change adaptation projects with our federal, Tribal, state, and local partners. Applications due July 2. Please share widely! ➡️ cig.uw.edu/2026/06/join...

We are selling stickers to raise money for need based scholarships! We are near the registration table! They cost whatever you can afford, and whatever you think is fair for whatever you take! Not in person? Want to support the cause? You can donate here: donate.stripe.com/8x24gA9Nsd8i...

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

Despite attacks on climate science and the rise of disinformation, meaningful climate action continues to move forward. On June 16 at 2PM ET, I'm joining @globalecoguy.bsky.social, with @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, to talk about where climate action goes from here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Where does climate action go from here? A conversation with Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D.. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining ...

Join Jonathan Foley, Ph.D, Executive Director of Project Drawdown, for a conversation with renowned climate scientist and communicator, Katharine Hayhoe, Ph.D. From attacks on climate science by the...

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"AI harm is not accidental but systemic and extractive. We call for rejecting AI inevitability and advancing community-led responses that disrupt algorithmic settler colonialism and reimagine intelligence beyond domination,” write Bronwyn Carlson and Tamika Worrell.

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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I'm a big fan of the 2nd edition of The Science of Learning! Clear, practical implications for the classroom based on well-established principles - all presented in a very readable and usable way. Send it to your favorite educator, trainer, or learner today! @deansforimpact #TheScienceOfLearning2

The Science of Learning | Deans for Impact (DFI)

Cognitive science research on student learning, applied to teaching practices.

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I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo ago

Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.

This is unbelievable. The AI boom is now piggybacking on green colonialism, eating up any contribution to emissions reduction while causing harm to Indigenous communities. The Yakama Tribe has been fighting this pumped storage project for years, only to learn it would primarily power…a data center.

Alex Baumhardt@alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Puget Sound Energy filed an interconnection request with BPA for a 958 MW data center at what appears to be the Goldendale site. If built, the data center could require ~80% of the 1,200 MW of energy the Goldendale pumped storage project could generate. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/05/25/g...

Recently I posted an article about books to read if you want to know more about the science of learning. @vijisathy.bsky.social recommended I make my own list. So here you go! I've intentionally made this list short, with a focus on consensus science of learning and more recent books. (1/n)

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

It’s #ClimateSolutionsWeek at @NPR.org, with stories about how cities, towns, and states are lowering emissions with renewable communities in Utah, Indigenous knowledge in Montana, and sewage as a heating and cooling solution (for real!) in Denver. Check them out!

NPR's Climate Solutions Week

How does climate change affect decisions on where, and how, people live? NPR is dedicating a week to stories about solutions for living and building on a hotter planet.

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"But as Charles Logan, T. Philip Nichols, and Antero Garcia recently argued in Kappan, 'the future [educational technology vendors] selling has not arrived — and perhaps it never will. But de-skilling, surveillance, and extraction — all of that is happening now, in our classrooms, today.'"

The EdTech Backlash Is Here, and It's Just Getting Started

Tech vendors promised personalized, frictionless learning. What American schools got instead was mind-numbing, data-hungry junk software that devalues teachers and shortchanges students. A growing mov...

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We definitely need to transition to renewable energy sources, but we must resist green colonialism as that happens! Indigenous rights must be recognized and upheld in a #JustTransition www.streetroots.org/news-stories...

'It's not built yet': Yakama Nation fights $3.3B energy project and data center development on sacred site

Yakama Nation and its allies have been fighting to stop the project for nearly a decade. New information shows the project is intended to feed the “world's greenest” data center

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Excited to announce our redesigned & expanded collection of CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION resources on @stemteachingtool.bsky.social! Check them out & pls share them through your networks… Climate & Environmental Learning Resources ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/sp/climate-l... #ClimateJustice #NGSS