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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Sep 14

Like student evals, citizens snitching on each other will be felt most by PoC, women, LGBTQ folks, migrants. A lot of mediocre white ppl (ie, men like Kirk w/o college degrees saying Black women’s brains don’t work) will engage in what @profkori.bsky.social calls “know your place aggression”

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · Sep 14

snitch culture can keep them from getting to learn. Sometimes a student who never takes a professor’s class will snitch (to admin, donors, Congress or some “watchlist”) that they feel too uncomfortable to TAKE a prof’s class bc of their writing! And so they keep ANYONE from taking their classes.

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Sep 14

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 8

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

‘You just have to learn to play the game’: survival, resentment and resignation in women academics’ narratives of precarity

This paper discusses precarious academic labour and its implications for gender and interrelated inequalities, drawing on narrative interviews with temporarily employed UK women academics. It ident...

www.tandfonline.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 1

I saw the greatest minds of several generations destroyed by Immanuel Kant

Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · Aug 28

Philosophers don't want to admit it, but Chidi Anagonye (The Good Place) is a pretty close approximation of many real philosophers.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · Aug 28

an interesting subtopic! which shows/movies are beloved by the profession for Getting It Right! Lawyers famously love MY COUSIN VINNIE, doctors I believe love SCRUBS, apparently Aussie barristers are surprisingly fond of RAKE's depiction of some aspects of the law.

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · Aug 31

“You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.

But […] I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · Aug 29

I quite enjoyed this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I Am An AI Hater

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

anthonymoser.github.io

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Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · Aug 29

As a special practice for the "I can't believe we're supposed to do our routine, capitalism-maintaining things" crowd, of which I am one, let's *do something today that is not one of those things* & that's freaky even for us. (What this is will depend on what your own freak baseline is.)

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · Aug 19

In the iconic words of Jodi Melamed, AAAB: All Administrators* Are Bastards.

*by which we mean high level VPs et. al. as opposed to the mid-level folks doing the thankless poorly compensated labor of keeping institutional life afloat.

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Liberal arts folks are always like “Yay!! We got a Dean / Provost / President with a humanities background!” not yet grasping that this background often makes them more, not less, strategically positioned to murder all our programs.

#AcademicSky

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · Aug 19

ftr, *this* is who they're shutting down. from ACLS:

Virginia Tech Humanities for Public Service Major

How one interdisciplinary department created a new major to better serve its students’ career ambitions

www.acls.org

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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · Aug 18

VT Religion and Culture is truly such a gem of a department and is absolutely stacked with amazing and kind scholars. I’ve benefitted immensely from the generosity of my colleagues and know how much we all have given to our teaching and service. The shortsightedness of this decision absolutely blows

Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · Aug 18

just got word that my department's being shut down. two things:

1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal.

2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · Jul 27

It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · Aug 19

The Religion and Culture department at VA Tech is a standard-bearer in humanities research. It’s full of rad people doing actually interesting things.

This is a devastating loss, seemingly driven by a dean hungry to flex power regardless of the consequences to people and pedagogy.

#AcademicSky

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · Aug 18

Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 12

"We are witnessing authoritarian consolidation—not the rise or threat of fascism, but its enactment. Many people are understandably voicing alarm. In fact, it’s clear that alarm is all some people have to offer, including Democratic leaders." organizingmythoughts.org/you-must-pro...

“We must remember that, no matter what happens, the fascists are the enemy, and that only fascists are responsible for their violence. Whether crime is up, or a protester threw something, or someone entered the U.S. illegally—our enemies don’t care if any of these things are true when they pursue their violence, and we must be equally uncompromising about whether any human being should have their fate decided by a fascist, authoritarian government.” - Kelly Hayes

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Aug 12

If you're trying to make sense of what's happening in D.C., orient yourself in this moment, and figure out what to do next, you may want to read my latest piece.

You Must Protect Anyone Chased by the Fascists

"We have to define the politics of opposition."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · Aug 2

I just posted a free workbook that aims to help university workers better understand when and how to take risks in the fight against fascism in higher ed.

halperta.com/shalperta%20...

Taking Action in Higher Ed

Taking Action for Higher Education is a workbook to assist university workers in assessing personal risk and making decisions about how and when to take action to resist fascism.

halperta.com

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · Aug 11

Absolutely not. Because of the organization of the enterprise of AI in education around the aims of finance capitalism, "teaching AI" will result in the erosion of the educational enterprise and its further organization around capitalist, neo-liberal ideologies.

MEL @thrivingwriter.bsky.social · Aug 11

I don’t disagree, we needed a better educational environment since I graduated from my STEM high school decades ago. My beloved Academics WERE in the position to create it but politics, hubris, and rising tuition made it impossible. AI is here now. Academics can make a difference by teaching AI.

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · Aug 7

need some syllabus inspiration? check out this super thoughtful all-class final project! down with grades! up with building muscles for the futures we want to live in!

Kate Schapira @kateschapira.bsky.social · Aug 6

Get in* babes, we're revising the entire medical system
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

*to my Writing Medical Narrative class this fall

social medicine - assignment sheet

“SOCIAL MEDICINE” GROUP PROJECT For this project, we’re going to work together as a class to draft a design and plan for a more just medical system. What we want to end up with: A description of ro...

docs.google.com

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Rad Pedagogy @radpedagogy.bsky.social · Aug 6

"What if the person who took the average number of turns got the A?": @schooldaves.bsky.social stopped by our latest episode with some tips on grading for communism!

#pedagogy #edusky #academicsky

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Aug 6

Please consider a donation so that parents currently incarcerated in Cook County Jail can still give badly needed school supplies to their kids. bit.ly/Back2SchoolChi

A graphic urges school supply donations for kids with incarcerated parents in Cook County Jail. It highlights that over 5.7 million U.S. kids have experienced parental incarceration. School supplies are shown at the bottom.

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