Bryan Alexander
edufuturist.bsky.social
Bryan Alexander
@edufuturist.bsky.social
Futurist, academic, writer.
Another article about baby boomers and genZ, with Xers not even mentioned:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...
Opinion | The Boomers Are Protesting Trump. Where Is Gen Z?
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Still off caffeine, 13 years later:

bryanalexander.org/personal/sti...
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Has anyone else been getting some of these Facebook errors lately?

I've hit a bunch of them over the past week.
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This Anand Giridharadas article about Epstein emails is very powerful, especially as an analysis of elites.

But don't miss the key role he sees higher ed playing:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Nice to see my old blog posts about giving up caffeine went back up on Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4601...

I should write a followup.
A year without caffeine (2013) | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
One glimpse from above:
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Greetings from somewhere over the east coast, as this flight hurtles towards DCA. (assuming the WiFi works)
November 23, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I am leaving the POD meeting regretfully.
Definitely the warmest, kindest, most friendly academic meeting I have ever experienced.
November 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Roger Williams University is mandating that most of its full-time employees take a one-week unpaid furlough to tackle its $3.5 million budget deficit."

-Boston Globe
November 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
So let's not talk about it:
"This translates to existential risks for billions of people. Not far in the future, but within the next few years for extreme events, and within decades for tipping points"
"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into “overshoot” within the next few years. The world is going to become more turbulent and more dangerous. So, what comes after failure?" Some thoughts from Johan Rockstrom & me 10 years after Paris Agreement.

theconversation.com/the-world-lo...
November 22, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Listening to a heartbreaking presentation by faculty developers from Green Mountain College, describing how they processed that school's shutdown.
November 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
RFK keeps making things worse.
Hey, why don't we just go full-bore 17th century reenactment?
November 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
This week's vanishing point, Florida:
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
A student told me she collected old CDs and I swear I felt several of my dark hairs turn grey.
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Reposted by Bryan Alexander
Democratic messaging to our military about killing civilians extrajudicially is too polite. Soliders, sailors and Marines need fair warning that at a future point, a restored military judicial process will review these slayings, and those executing an unlawful order will be subject to that process.
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Learning about and from the CHLOE report on the Future Trends Forum just now:

1) They are shifting from annual to every two year issues. Every *other* year they'll dive into some specific issue.
2) Rising campus offerings of non-credentialed online learning: certificates.
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
30,000 students walk out of school to protest ICE in North Carolina:

www.kptv.com/2025/11/18/o...
Over 30,000 Charlotte students absent from school in protest of ICE operation, reports say
Over 30,000 Charlotte students were absent on Monday, according to school officials.
www.kptv.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Ah, The Onion:
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 AM
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Ceredwyn presenting on her new #AI project for the first time at OLC.
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Enjoying a presentation on the new CHLOE report about online learning.
Some takeaways:
-rising in non-degree online learning (certificates)
-relatively few IT ppl become COLOs
-only 23% of campuses have AI strategy
November 19, 2025 at 4:55 PM
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
How is online learning changing?
This Thursday I'm hosting the authors of the new - 10th! - CHLOE report to explore their work. Join us from 2-3 pm ET:

georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Cloudflare just now: "Monitoring - A fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved. We are continuing to monitor for errors to ensure all services are back to normal."
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Hitting some #Cloudflare issues here in Florida.
November 18, 2025 at 1:37 PM