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Luke Waltzer
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Director, Teaching and Learning Center, Graduate Center, CUNY. Faculty in Digital Humanities and Interactive Technology and Pedagogy.

Posts about higher ed, pedagogy, ed tech, history, sports, and funky music.
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**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social**

Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond.

Applications due February 1, 2026.

Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social**

Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond.

Applications due February 1, 2026.

Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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One of the more disruptive outcomes of genAI flooding the zone is the mass conflation of facility with expertise and wisdom, and the elevation of voices (including many hucksters) who have been quick to seize that opportunity.
judah-grunstein.bsky.social Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 3d
I think this is an advantage auto-didacts have, in that they are forced to develop these steps early and often. But it's a double-edged sword, because it can also devolve into "doing my own research."
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d
I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently.

In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?”

And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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I so appreciate this attention to what we’ve been doing with ed tech at CUNY and the notion that the higher ed ecosystem can benefit from it. Too many folks to name have been involved in those projects over the years, and it builds upon work and commitments at CUNY that goes back generations.
mkgold.bsky.social Matt Gold @mkgold.bsky.social · 10d
Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure

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November 6, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Hell yes, @mattseybold.bsky.social.
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Thank God. #NJ
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Deeply appreciate this work, tho in an environment where shared governance is all but non existent it will require faculty orgs and unions to become informed and then to forcefully assert/demand access to procurement/contracting/review. Will not be easy.
mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12d
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
Screenshots of the following text: Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in October 2025. Software, specifically learning management systems (LMSs), is as important to teaching and learning as physical classrooms and facilities. The recent and hasty integration of generative AI features into those systems is already redefining student and instructor relationships, evaluative standards, and instructional outcomes—with no compelling evidence that any of it is for the better. At the same time, so-called agentic browsers are becoming widely available to the public. These offer AI “agents” that can navigate LMSs and complete assignments without any student involvement. All of this is unfolding at a time when contractual arrangements between institutions and commercial vendors often lack transparency, with worrisome implications for data collection and student privacy. Screenshots of the following text: The Modern Language Association therefore unequivocally 1. Advocates for full faculty and instructional involvement, including faculty of languages, literatures, and the humanities, at all levels of decision-making in the selection, procurement, and responsible implementation of instructional technology systems and software, including those incorporating AI.

The instructional mission cannot be fulfilled in the absence of faculty expertise, and this expertise extends not only to the “content” of the curriculum but also to the infrastructures and environments—virtual and otherwise—in which learning happens.
  2. Calls upon law- and policymakers, LMS vendors, and companies offering agent-based AI browsers to cooperate in order to prevent misuse and to ensure that academic institutions have the ability and option to block agentic AI when needed.

Without dedicated outside cooperation from lawmakers and technology providers, academic institutions may not have the technical capacity to do so on their own. If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a learning management system, AI-generated content is submitted by an agentic AI on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work on behalf of the instructor.
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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Oh sports. #sports!
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Oh sports. #sports!
November 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Fela Kuti: Fear No Man is a remarkable piece of research and story telling. This episode, on the foundations of Fela’s politics, includes Wole Soyinka… whose visa was just revoked.

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4: Vengeance of the Vagina Head
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October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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@karenhao.bsky.social and John Borthwick's conversation on Empire of AI last week at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social was really fantastic.

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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI - Karen Hao Speaks with John Borthwick
YouTube video by CUNY Graduate Center
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October 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Oof. This one hurts. Singularly talented, deeply representative of my generation, soundtrack to so much joy and exploration in my own life.

Rest in Power, D'Angelo.

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D'Angelo and The Vanguard - 1000 Deaths (Audio)
YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO
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October 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Academic librarians, come join us in the CUNYverse! We have a few jobs open in CUNY libraries:

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cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

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I’m not at these campuses but happy to answer questions!
October 7, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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🔥 Job at CUNY:

Asst Prof, Black & Latino Studies @baruch.cuny.edu. Focus on how emerging technologies intersect with structures of power, race & gender. Digital archives/preservation, data justice, surveillance/critical AI studies, cultural politics of algorithms & more.

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October 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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a cartoon tiger is holding a sign that says detroit tigers on it
ALT: a cartoon tiger is holding a sign that says detroit tigers on it
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October 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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"Trump Assembles Entire Military Leadership, Declares War on Major American Cities" should be the banner headline across every news website today
September 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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PTA gave the Christmas Adventurers Club waaaaay too much credit
September 30, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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I learned yesterday that most people don’t know that CUNY is migrating to Workday for financial and HR operations, so sharing it here. Full university cutover: 1/1/2027. RF is going live in Workday on its own on 1/1/2026.

Good luck to us all.
September 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Shout out to @kmichael.bsky.social and @jojokarlin.bsky.social for making this happen via their @gc-dh.bsky.social course @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Trump’s plan to militarize police will increase surveillance of Black children
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Trump’s plan to militarize police will increase surveillance of Black children
Trump’s unsupported and false assertion of a “crime emergency” in Washington D.C., Chicago, and other progressive cities across the country will decimate communities already besieged by racist and tar...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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The Guardians own my Tigers, I’m bereft and salty about my team’s collapse, and all I have is this

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Joakim Noah- Cleveland
YouTube video by Trent “LaceUp SportsBlog” Robbins
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September 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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a man wearing headphones and a hat with a lion on it is standing on the sidelines of a football game .
ALT: a man wearing headphones and a hat with a lion on it is standing on the sidelines of a football game .
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September 23, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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M Gessen’s piece rises above the cacophony and captures the moment. A must read.
Opinion | I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger
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September 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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I talk at length here about our approach @gctlc.bsky.social to cultivating critical AI literacies across CUNY via cuny.is/criticalai.
September 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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a baseball game is being played with movieclips.com written on the bottom of the screen
Alt: a baseball game is being played with movieclips.com written on the bottom of the screen. The clip is Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs rounding the bases after his home run in The Natural, lights exploring.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:13 PM