The Toledo Museum of Art (@toledomuseum.bsky.social) does a feature where they send you a "weekly art minute" that's usually a short piece about collection works that are not on public display and I really enjoy that as a way of making more of the collection visible!

Recommend this very thoughtful piece by @ericrettberg.bsky.social on "the utterly preposterous and contentious battle between teacher and student that the belief AI detectors can stop the deluge of student AI use has produced," which showed up right in time for fall syllabus work

Eric Rettberg@ericrettberg.bsky.social · 17h ago

Following up on my last post about Shady AI Policing, I explore the toxic culture that teachers’ and schools’ use of dubious AI detectors is creating. teaching-the-internet.ghost.io/the-anxious-... 1/3

Check out this CFP for a new journal issue on "Social work and artificial intelligence." They're open to critical explorations of #surveillance too. think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Increasingly common experience as someone who thinks a lot about surveillance and AI: having to break it to people that the specific futures they are worried about are actually the present

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last wk.

My 9-year-old: Do you know one reason why I'm worried about AI? Me: What's that? 9: I'm worried it'll go rogue. Me: It already has. 9: It already started hacking?!? Me: Yup. 9: Then why isn't anyone doing anything about that?!?

If this gets instituted, we’re going to see a study in a few years that says, “Black children, and children of color, were pepper sprayed at nineteen times the rate of white children,” and mfers are going to act surprised, despite how clearly every data point says this will be the case.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“The drones wouldn’t break up a schoolyard fight…But if one of the students pulled a knife, they could.”

*whispers* you know we can do this cultural debate about art thing all the time, right? Websites and news organizations used to have culture critics on staff whose entire job was writing about books, movies, and TV. People read them and then discussed them. We have the technology to do this again.

‼️ Current funding proposals fall short of projected needs for #WIC to serve ALL eligible families in FY 27, which means hundreds of thousands of moms and kids could lose access. YOU can take action against this by contacting your reps: bit.ly/fundwic27

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

The waste of teaching talent caused by universities’ obsession with low-wage contract work (which drives people out of the profession long-term) is almost unimaginable. A societal disaster.

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.

public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 3w ago

it does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption

When you say “AI models went rogue,” you manage to skip the part where OpenAI manually removed its cybersecurity blocks and ran tests on a machine with a live network connection. Remember that when they insist they’re the “AI safety” people.

One of the things I try hardest to teach students — and model myself — is saying “I don’t know” when I don’t know something. And being open to feedback. These are key skills for education and for improving at anything.

Just spent some time with the #AP English Lit exam and teaching materials and we have not talked enough about how AP pedagogy is probably contributing to the decline in humanities majors/enrollments. Because if this was what I expected college English to be? I would never have majored in English.

the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3w ago

a bad thing is running a phd program with brilliant international students who must reckon with a volatile xenophobic saboteur government in fresh ways every day, no thank you, 0/10

I really hope that people in positions of reviewing the tenure files of colleagues think about the EXTRAORDINARY amount of labor that GenAI has added.

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

Reading for today included this truly remarkable meditation by Nyuol Lueth Tong on nation, home, form, and the idea that "A country that does not study itself becomes mere territory; a poem that does not study its own means becomes mere gesture." lareviewofbooks.org/article/coun...

How Does a Country Sound? | Los Angeles Review of Books

Reading Robert Frost in a newly independent South Sudan.

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As always: if there's any class of people who do not have due process rights, then *nobody* has due process rights, because the government can just claim someone is in that class and there's no process to establish otherwise.

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 4w ago

I need people to understand that this administration’s litigating position is (1) federal law currently mandates the detention, without bond, of every noncitizen who is allegedly unlawfully present and (2) constitutionally, they don’t get a day in court. they’re generally losing, but they’re trying.

everyone seems to be responding positively to this and i hate to burst anyone's bubble, but i recently went to a Luddite festival in NYC and this is something organizers specifically warned about: don't let capitalists sell your hatred of capitalism back to you

The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian@janus.bsky.social · 4w ago

Hatred of AI now reaching the level of cultural consensus that becomes attractive to advertisers

The thing is, the NYT absolutely *does* participate in racially-motivated smear campaigns against Black scholars. The instigators of these campaigns are proudly open about both their racist intentions and how easily they get outlets like NYT to do their bidding www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...

Historian Kerri K. Greenidge and Her Book ‘The Grimkes’ Come Under Fire (Gift Article)

Kerri K. Greenidge appeared to lose her professorship at Tufts University after scholars began scrutinizing her 2022 book, “The Grimkes,” which is no longer listed on its publisher’s website.

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Official editorial communication: The New England Review of Boats, a handmade regional zine about the vessels and people who go down to the sea for adventure, work, or pleasure--seeks submissions for its inaugural issue.

I hope everyone facing forced AI adoption knows about this wonderful set of resources from AAUP www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

Artificial Intelligence

The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope...

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good morning contingent faculty, aka 75% of faculty! the National Education Association has a new contingent caucus! you can join for the *suggested* fee of $5 DM / @ me to cover that via zelle etc everybody get in formation docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

We live in an era where testing, grades, writing, teaching conditions, and reading are all simultaneously in forms of crisis, and, to my mind, the common denominator is a complete lack of focus and intention on learning as the desired outcome of education.

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

every time I see this grifter I think about how good Matthew Rhys is gonna be in the biopic

Dennis "dejay" Koch@dennisjkoch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Anthropic Is Still at Odds With the White House Over Claude Fable 5 Anthropic leaders flew to Washington, DC, to meet with White House officials on Monday. After high-level talks, they’re still split on the risk Claude Fable 5 presents. www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Too many people have the idea that #surveillance is about the gathering and processing of information. But it's *never* just been about that. Often, the main purpose is Intimidation and internalization of control, reducing the ability and willingness to think, organize, act and fight back.

Global Voices@globalvoices.org · 2mo ago

Digital surveillance stops people from safely developing and expressing their identities, breeds trauma that can last for generations, and fractures the mind. By Gina Romero, UN Special Rapporteur for the rights to freedom of assembly and of association. globalvoices.org/2026/06/23/d...

New theory about why mid-career academics stop going to conferences:

Ryan LaRochelle@rlarochelle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Nothing makes you feel old like being at a conference and one of your fellow panelists tells you they were born in the late-1990s.

The Kennedy Center Tarp reminds me of the time they arrested the FIFA president for corruption in Zurich and hung giant bedsheets along the hotel exit so the press couldn’t get pics of him being perp walked.