doctor of softboyology
@vea.bsky.social
researcher of learning, emotion, and design. personal account.
I don’t care one way or another about what Jasmine Crockett chooses to run for, but I will never forget that she made her career on gender policing MTG’s “butch body”
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I don’t care one way or another about what Jasmine Crockett chooses to run for, but I will never forget that she made her career on gender policing MTG’s “butch body”
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“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
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Wow. Tracy Beth Høeg, the FDA's new acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) just put this slide up during her presentation to ACIP.
We have left reality.
We have left reality.
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wow. Tracy Beth Høeg, the FDA's new acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) just put this slide up during her presentation to ACIP.
We have left reality.
We have left reality.
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On every front this administration is filled with the most reprehensible people.
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
On every front this administration is filled with the most reprehensible people.
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TODAY! NOW! DO IT!
We're trying something new at #ISLS2026- Erica and I are organizing an arts-based track for submissions!
We would love to see and showcase your work alongside more traditional conference submissions. And since I'm in charge, I'm going to try to get weird with it.
2026.isls.org/arts-gallery...
We would love to see and showcase your work alongside more traditional conference submissions. And since I'm in charge, I'm going to try to get weird with it.
2026.isls.org/arts-gallery...
Arts Gallery & Performance : Call for Submissions | ISLS 2026
New to ISLS in 2026, the arts gallery and performance track provides a space for scholars and practitioners to explore and communicate ideas through new, creative mediums beyond the familiar conferenc...
2026.isls.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
TODAY! NOW! DO IT!
Current 10-day forecast calls for rain every day until day 10
December 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Current 10-day forecast calls for rain every day until day 10
It’s going to be ok. The solstice is coming soon. But dang I need more sunlight than this.
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 AM
It’s going to be ok. The solstice is coming soon. But dang I need more sunlight than this.
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ISLS 2026 Extended Deadline Reminders:
✨This Thursday✨ December 4, 2025
🔸 Workshops & Tutorials
🔸 Interactive Tools & Demos
🔸 Doctoral Consortium
🔸 Early Career Workshop
🔸 Mid-Career Workshop
🔸 Arts Gallery & Performance
January 20, 2026
🔸 Alt-Academia Career Workshop
2026.isls.org
✨This Thursday✨ December 4, 2025
🔸 Workshops & Tutorials
🔸 Interactive Tools & Demos
🔸 Doctoral Consortium
🔸 Early Career Workshop
🔸 Mid-Career Workshop
🔸 Arts Gallery & Performance
January 20, 2026
🔸 Alt-Academia Career Workshop
2026.isls.org
We're thrilled to announce financial support for ISLS meeting participants attending our Alt-Academia career workshop, made possible by The Wallace Foundation. Conference registration fees along with travel costs of up to $1,500 are available for eligible attendees.
Alt-Academia Career Workshop : Call for Submissions | ISLS 2026
The Alt-Academia Career Workshop is a new professional development workshop that will support participants to pursue new opportunities or deepen existing roles in the learning sciences outside of trad...
2026.isls.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
ISLS 2026 Extended Deadline Reminders:
✨This Thursday✨ December 4, 2025
🔸 Workshops & Tutorials
🔸 Interactive Tools & Demos
🔸 Doctoral Consortium
🔸 Early Career Workshop
🔸 Mid-Career Workshop
🔸 Arts Gallery & Performance
January 20, 2026
🔸 Alt-Academia Career Workshop
2026.isls.org
✨This Thursday✨ December 4, 2025
🔸 Workshops & Tutorials
🔸 Interactive Tools & Demos
🔸 Doctoral Consortium
🔸 Early Career Workshop
🔸 Mid-Career Workshop
🔸 Arts Gallery & Performance
January 20, 2026
🔸 Alt-Academia Career Workshop
2026.isls.org
ISLS 2026 Extended Deadline Reminders:
✨This Thursday✨ December 4, 2025
🔸 Workshops & Tutorials
🔸 Interactive Tools & Demos
🔸 Doctoral Consortium
🔸 Early Career Workshop
🔸 Mid-Career Workshop
🔸 Arts Gallery & Performance
January 20, 2026
🔸 Alt-Academia Career Workshop
2026.isls.org
✨This Thursday✨ December 4, 2025
🔸 Workshops & Tutorials
🔸 Interactive Tools & Demos
🔸 Doctoral Consortium
🔸 Early Career Workshop
🔸 Mid-Career Workshop
🔸 Arts Gallery & Performance
January 20, 2026
🔸 Alt-Academia Career Workshop
2026.isls.org
We're thrilled to announce financial support for ISLS meeting participants attending our Alt-Academia career workshop, made possible by The Wallace Foundation. Conference registration fees along with travel costs of up to $1,500 are available for eligible attendees.
Alt-Academia Career Workshop : Call for Submissions | ISLS 2026
The Alt-Academia Career Workshop is a new professional development workshop that will support participants to pursue new opportunities or deepen existing roles in the learning sciences outside of trad...
2026.isls.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
ISLS 2026 Extended Deadline Reminders:
✨This Thursday✨ December 4, 2025
🔸 Workshops & Tutorials
🔸 Interactive Tools & Demos
🔸 Doctoral Consortium
🔸 Early Career Workshop
🔸 Mid-Career Workshop
🔸 Arts Gallery & Performance
January 20, 2026
🔸 Alt-Academia Career Workshop
2026.isls.org
✨This Thursday✨ December 4, 2025
🔸 Workshops & Tutorials
🔸 Interactive Tools & Demos
🔸 Doctoral Consortium
🔸 Early Career Workshop
🔸 Mid-Career Workshop
🔸 Arts Gallery & Performance
January 20, 2026
🔸 Alt-Academia Career Workshop
2026.isls.org
My brain is fried and my anxiety is talking shit about me. Time to go home!
December 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
My brain is fried and my anxiety is talking shit about me. Time to go home!
“It’s just a tool; it can be good or bad depending on how you use it” is the thing you say to sound smart when you haven’t done the reading.
This was said over and over again in my applied ethics of ed tech class, and it was always wrong upon scratching the surface 1 millimeter deep.
This was said over and over again in my applied ethics of ed tech class, and it was always wrong upon scratching the surface 1 millimeter deep.
December 1, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“It’s just a tool; it can be good or bad depending on how you use it” is the thing you say to sound smart when you haven’t done the reading.
This was said over and over again in my applied ethics of ed tech class, and it was always wrong upon scratching the surface 1 millimeter deep.
This was said over and over again in my applied ethics of ed tech class, and it was always wrong upon scratching the surface 1 millimeter deep.
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So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade
OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay
www.oudaily.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.
This is…
This is…
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would be a real service for someone to maintain a university grudge list for those of us who need help keeping track of universities to not visit or volunteeer service for
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 PM
would be a real service for someone to maintain a university grudge list for those of us who need help keeping track of universities to not visit or volunteeer service for
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Night library vibes.
November 30, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Night library vibes.
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I’m old enough to remember… oh never mind. These hypocrites don’t give a damn about their hypocrisy. They spend years falsely accusing various members of “the left” of doing what they have absolutely no problem and no shame doing themselves. The “censorship industrial complex” scam.
The White House web site now includes a "media bias" tracker with a leaderboard and an offender hall of shame. www.whitehouse.gov/mediabias/
November 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I’m old enough to remember… oh never mind. These hypocrites don’t give a damn about their hypocrisy. They spend years falsely accusing various members of “the left” of doing what they have absolutely no problem and no shame doing themselves. The “censorship industrial complex” scam.
Yes, and also that man has chemistry with everyone just saying
My unpopular opinion is that erivo and Jonathan have real chemistry.
November 29, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Yes, and also that man has chemistry with everyone just saying
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Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
Who’s your favorite goat professor and why is it Dr. Peter Dinklage
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Who’s your favorite goat professor and why is it Dr. Peter Dinklage
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fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
fuck you
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
the memories of a generation lost because of Reagan's homophobia will not be erased
i think we should do something in DC that would make david wojnarowicz proud tbh
Pocket full of leaked gherkin brine on the transit ride home from the cheese shop
November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Pocket full of leaked gherkin brine on the transit ride home from the cheese shop
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Reinstate Dr. McCoul. Now.
Faculty committee finds A&M lacked cause in firing instructor
A faculty appeal council found that Texas A&M lacked cause to fire a professor after she discussed different genders in a children's literature course.
www.houstonchronicle.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Reinstate Dr. McCoul. Now.
I don’t understand how this latte art is even possible
November 25, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I don’t understand how this latte art is even possible
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It’s noteworthy that ChatGPT “fills in the gaps” in obviously delusional belief systems, but over the long term it’s not necessarily better that it also fills in the gaps in *plausible* or widely shared belief systems.
In neither case is the necessary thought or criticism going on.
In neither case is the necessary thought or criticism going on.
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It’s noteworthy that ChatGPT “fills in the gaps” in obviously delusional belief systems, but over the long term it’s not necessarily better that it also fills in the gaps in *plausible* or widely shared belief systems.
In neither case is the necessary thought or criticism going on.
In neither case is the necessary thought or criticism going on.