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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Mar 19

This is a very helpful explainer about what the federal Dept of Education does. (Short answer: it’s not state curricular guidance.) #EduSky

open.substack.com/pub/aubreyhi...

Some Facts on the Department of Education

because even the president seems to have no idea what they do

open.substack.com

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Donnalie Jamnah @talespinningdj.bsky.social · Mar 18

We published as a journalism resource but I know a lot of my #Edusky folks will find this useful too. It has:

- Global perspectives from the journalists keeping you informed about AI
- A break down of pressing AI issues
- A note on the application to education

pulitzercenter.org/hype-reality...

From Hype to Reality: Demystifying AI Through Baseline Research

Artificial intelligence has transformed the way we live, work, and interact. It has been woven into the fabric of our lives, creating the perception that “intelligent” machines could be a solution for...

pulitzercenter.org

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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Mar 18

Do you know what happens when graduate student funding is cut? Often, it means we ALL miss out on their new, promising ideas bc the project doesn’t go forward.

Getting a grant like this is incredible! I’m so sorry this happened to you, Megan. Sorry for all of us who could have benefited.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · Mar 15

With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social on the many implications—all horrifying—of the Trump administration reviving seemingly unconstitutional Red Scare–era laws to abduct and disappear Mahmoud Khalil, without due process, in retaliation against his protected speech. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I want to reiterate something you said, because it's deadly serious: No matter what you think of what Khalil said and did, he was charged with no crime. He was given no notice. He was simply taken from his home and disappeared.
And we have to be really, really afraid when there isn't even an attempt on the part of government lawyers to say there was a crime-when, instead, they simply hang everything on a dusty old statute and a dubious claim that we think he's dangerous to the United States.
Because if they're coming for that, they're coming for all of us.

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 12

This is who was fired from the union workforce at the Department of Education yesterday. Every single number is a person who served the nation and whose life was wrongly disrupted. That's the first tragedy, but it's clearly not the only one.

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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Mar 15

Urgent call for #AERA members whose research uses restricted #NCES datasets: (1) take their survey & (2) call congresspeople ASAP. #EduSky

AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · Mar 14

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 14

Universities: We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Mar 14

Columbia was first, but it seems very likely they're going to effectively use the same playback to retract federal scientific funding. A new hit list from Trump's Dept of Ed. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

The universities now under investigation for allegedly engaging in race-exclusionary practices in their graduate programs include:

Arizona State University – Main Campus
Boise State University
Cal Poly Humboldt
California State University – San Bernadino
Carnegie Mellon University
Clemson University
Cornell University
Duke University
Emory University
George Mason University
Georgetown University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Montana State University-Bozeman
New York University (NYU)
Rice University
Rutgers University
The Ohio State University – Main Campus
Towson University
Tulane University
University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
University of California-Berkeley
University of Chicago
University of Cincinnati – Main Campus
University of Colorado – Colorado Springs
University of Delaware
University of Kansas
University of Kentucky
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

University of Nebraska at Omaha
University of New Mexico – Main Campus
University of North Dakota – Main Campus
University of North Texas – Denton
University of Notre Dame
University of NV – Las Vegas
University of Oregon
University of Rhode Island
University of Utah
University of Washington-Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wyoming
Vanderbilt University
Washington State University
Washington University in St. Louis
Yale University

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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · Mar 14

Here’s another win, from our favorite allergist @rubinallergy.bsky.social

We will have a flu vaccine for next season!!! There was a lot of concern that it wasn’t gonna happen but a meeting was held and they did decide which strains to target

So bravo to the amazing fighters who made this happen

We will have influenza vaccines for next season!

But what happened?

drrubin.substack.com

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · Mar 6

i am once again saying that if you allow polling to define rights, you don't have any real rights at all

ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · Mar 6

the problem with the "trans sports participation is a loser / 80-20 issue" framing is that it ignores how it got that way. it didn't just happen out of nowhere. It's been a 5+ year campaign by Republicans to make it an 80-20 issue, and noone fought back.

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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Mar 6

I know what my call to @shaheen.senate.gov is going to be tomorrow.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Mar 5

Every time you see what sounds like a wild claim about woke research, you can assume a) it will fall apart under the most basic of inspection, b) the person making the claim will never be held accountable for lying, and c) it is a cover to gut useful research that we benefit from.

performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · Mar 5

Trump claimed the Biden administration spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back up this number with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice.

Trump Decried Millions Spent 'Making Mice Transgender.' It Was Cancer and Asthma Research

President Trump falsely claimed that Biden spent $8 million on 'making mice transgender,' but the real research was for human health.

www.rollingstone.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Mar 5

I have warned about the rightwing attack on empathy. It is as dangerous as any attack on democracy. It will accelerate in Musks’ hands. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Free speech is back" says the president who this week posted on social media that he would be banning and criminalizing what he deems "illegal protests" at colleges and universities.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Mar 4

The final vote: 51-45, with 4 people absent.

CLOTURE FAILS, A CONGRESSIONAL SPORTS BAN WILL NOT HAPPEN.

Democrats hold firm, not a single dem voted for cloture.

MAJOR victory for everyone who called in today and this week in support of trans people.

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Mar 4

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors...

Being silent won't protect you.

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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Mar 4

Our research is currently focused on NH, learning about one state's landscape. (Though we do hope to expand in future years.)

We are hoping to hear from NH paraeducators, classroom teachers, specialists, and/or school administrators. Please also share with colleagues in your building/district!

alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Mar 4

Help improve literacy support! The Paraeducator Experience Project is conducting a research study (UNH IRB: IRB-FY2025-73) to better understand how paraeducators support learners & teachers. NH paras & educators, we'd love your input: ~10 mins. #EduSky

Link: unh.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Mar 4

If you ever want to restore your faith in critical thought and debate, ask a group of undergraduates what they think about AI, social media, and their place in education/learning. Truly.

As faculty & researchers, we haven't yet done nearly enough of this kind of listening. #EduSky

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John Teets @suenitos.bsky.social · Mar 4

“Don’t join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book." — Dwight D. Eisenhower at Dartmouth, 1953
🌱📷

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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Mar 4

Literacy: teaching students about platforms. #EduSky

"When 1000s of fake accounts... flood social media... & algorithms amplify these messages, real people may be fooled into believing that they are seeing opinions of fellow citizens. In contrast, the posts shared by real people are buried."

Fil Menczer @fil.bsky.social · Mar 4

IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship
osome.iu.edu/research/blo...

IU's Observatory on Social Media defends citizens from online manipulation – the opposite of censorship

When thousands of fake accounts controlled by an unknown actor flood social media with some story, and platform algorithms amplify these messages, real...

osome.iu.edu

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Feb 24

THE KENDRICK SUPER BOWL CURRICULUM!! 🔥

by Linda J.M. Holloway, Ed.D., NCC & April T. Berry, Ph.D.

Legit great stuff here, teachers / professors:

Class is in Session with Kendrick Lamar- Curriculum Study Guide.pdf

drive.google.com

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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Feb 24

Love YOU, Chaucer! 💜✨

Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Feb 23

Everye daye ys a goode daye to tell your friendes that you love them.

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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Feb 24

Really useful if you need to explain university finances.

60% of research money for overhead isn’t “siphoning,” it’s “budgeting.” Who do you think pays for heat & upkeep in university buildings? The people who specialize in grant payroll & admin so we can focus on the research? Our grants do.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Feb 24

New, at Can We Still Govern?
Defenders of draconian federal cuts to research say that university endowments can cover the losses.
@epopppp.bsky.social explains why this won't work. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/no-univers...

No, University Endowments Can’t Replace Federal Science Funding

How Endowments Actually Work

donmoynihan.substack.com

alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Feb 24

This thread is important bc it means the AFT has brought a case that shows convincingly how DOGE’s seizure of data creates harm, like exposing consequential financial info for our students who have applied for loans.

Private educational data needs to be protected. Thank you, AFT. #EduSky

Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · Feb 24

Breaking news! The court just issued us a TRO in our lawsuit against Elon Musk's DOGE, so that they stop taking the private data of American citizens from the Department of Ed and OPM. More to come.

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alecia 🍁🌿 @aleciamarie.bsky.social · Feb 23

If you (like me) have wanted to new ideas for local actions to show care for your community (because WE look after us; Trump & Elon obviously don’t), this list from @garrettbucks.bsky.social is very useful.

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important

Why? Because others will see you do them, and it will make it easier for them to take their own (slightly less lonely but equally beautiful) action by your side

open.substack.com

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