Check out my recent comments in Psychology Today about the importance of cultivating civil discourse in schools. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psyc...

Cultivating Holistic Civil Discourse Amongst Youth

In an era of polarization and rapid digital communication, cultivating civil discourse in schools is essential.

psychologytoday.com

If you are attending #AERA2026 come see me Friday!

I enjoyed speaking about teens and social media on @ctpublic.bsky.social this week! If you are interested in this research, please give it a listen.

James Sims@simsjames.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"How are teens actually consuming social media? And what kind of citizens of the internet are they becoming?" Wesleyan University professor @rbmann.bsky.social joins @ctpublic.bsky.social's "Where We Live" to discuss her research on the topic #highered #education #socialmedia

Thanks for the spotlight @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social

James Sims@simsjames.bsky.social · 7mo ago

With growing concerns about social media’s influence on young people, Wesleyan University’s @rbmann.bsky.social studied how young people actually utilize social media platforms to access news and political information, as well as to shape their evolving identities. #highered #academicsky

I believe this is a golden age of children's literature. There are books being published today that will shape the minds of generations; life-changing books whose readers will change the world. There really is a book for EVERYONE now - if we can just help every reader find those books!

To the employees at JFK that I encountered this morning, I wish you warm socks, 8 hours of sleep a night, and a winning lottery ticket.

I recently published a paper with an elementary teacher about supporting young kids in their understanding of digital concepts off screen. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We talked about it on this local pod:

Ridgefield Tiger Talk 133: Preparing Students for The Digital World Article

Podcast Episode · Ridgefield Tiger Talk · 11/21/2025 · 16m

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I’m at #NCTE2025 and it feels like home! Come see me at 3:15 in Room 710/12

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Super exciting paper showing that high schools vary in their impacts on civic engagement. Schools that are better at improving academic outcomes are also better at creating voters. Kirsten was a @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social postdoc when she began this work, so it's thrilling to see the result.

Kirsten Slungaard Mumma@kslungaardmumma.bsky.social · last yr.

Does where you go to high school affect whether you vote as an adult? My working paper estimating high school effects on civic engagement is now posted on Annenberg: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1260.

Amen Book Wrangler! #TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Booksky #Schoollibrarians #Educators #Books What a book you remember being read to you? That book you could not wait until the next day to hear more?

I’m sorry, but I will never ever ever call the Tappan Zee bridge anything other than the Tappan Zee bridge. Every time I see a Mario C*omo sign I want to scream and it’s been so many years.

"Exciting news to announce! The robbers I let into the house have agreed to give back the money they stole!"

People can have differing politics. You can oppose immigration, have views on limited taxes, be tough on crime, support an Israeli state - you can believe all of these things, but you also MUST have empathy and realize that your political views are not an excuse for intolerable cruelty.

Good news Wednesday! I have never submitted to #LRA, but I did this year, I was accepted to present my paper- “Navigating Digital Realities: Understanding Young People's Engagement with Social Media for News, Political Information, and Identity Formation” 🎉

The problem, of course, isn’t that NPR has a liberal bias, it’s that facts have a liberal bias and today’s GOP is almost unanimous in its opposition to facts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR

The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

nytimes.com

Roosevelt understood that boredom, frustration, and social isolation could easily turn people (and especially young men*) toward violence, hate, and conspiracies.

Eric Blair@protecttruth.bsky.social · last yr.

"You can see that Roosevelt's [New Deal works programs for discontented young men] are immediately defusing rightwing threats, *which is what Roosevelt means them to do.*" [emph me] I went back to this 2021 podcast w/ @rauchway.bsky.social It's so relevant. 1/ deepcast.fm/episode/...

Ma’am. I feel like she should have been a little more frightened, but I’m glad she wasn’t. When I passed, she was still hanging.

Woah. If you need me, I’ll be contemplating my existence for the foreseeable future.

Baby elephants are my new hyper fixation

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

I feel like we all need this ♥️

#booksky

I don’t care what you call it- investment in education, communities, and children will always have positive reverberations.

Pam Keith@pamkeithdc.bsky.social · last yr.

Mayor Brandon Scott has reduced crime in Baltimore by 62%, and now has the lowest homicide rate in Baltimore history. How did he do it? NOT be spending more on police. He did it by MAJOR investment in afterschool and literacy programs. Socialism works

For anyone on the lookout....

Dr. Tiffany A. Flowers@drtiffanyaflowers.bsky.social · last yr.

Thread of Positions in Education in Blue States. Please skeet out to your network. Vice President of Programs HERS (Higher Education Resource Services) wiareport.com/wiajobs/hers...

Make America compassionate and empathetic (for once, not again)

James Martin, SJ@jamesmartinsj.bsky.social · last yr.

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country.

Let media literacy and truth prevail in your honor.

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers the astonishing career of former White House press secretary and long-time public broadcasting journalist Bill Moyers, who died this week at the age of 91.

I ran a literary salon with brilliant youth literary scholars! Check out that work in this new article in Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ)! Youth reveal powerful links between literary interpretation & social justice education! #literacies, #edusky, #iteachenglish, #literacy doi.org/10.1002/rrq....

<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library

Disciplinary literacy explores knowledge-producing communities, but less often considers youth as scholars in their own right, particularly as related to English language arts. Drawing on theories of...

doi.org

Every time a congressperson speaks lately, it feels like “thoughts and prayers”.

betty deville@bettydeville.bsky.social · last yr.

This is only the most recent unconstitutional thing. If I read another congressional statement “condemning” these actions, I’m going to SCREAM. Congress we are BEGGING you to put down your official social media letterhead and ACT. Blood is on all of your hands. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

For World Refugee Day, we'd like to highlight this recent #OpenAccess title in the #CriticalHumanRightsStudies series, published with @hrc-sas.bsky.social & @icws-sas.bsky.social: #Refugee Reception in Southern Africa by @nicholasmaple.bsky.social. Available here: uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...

Refugee Reception in Southern Africa - University of London Press

A new understanding of state-based refugee reception that reflects the complex dynamics of contemporary refugee arrival. It is no longer realistic (if it ever was) to understand persons who flee acros...

uolpress.co.uk

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency@unhcr.org · last yr.

As World Refugee Day approaches, a new Ipsos survey finds that public support for the right to seek asylum remains strong—even amid global instability and major aid cuts.