Dr. Whitney Cox
@drcox.bsky.social
I do religion, gender, and sexuality at the slightest provocation (but also at Rowan University). She/her/s, or as the Spirit moves you.
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'It found that using AI in education can "undermine children's foundational development" and that "the damages it has already caused are daunting," though "fixable."'
I hope @rweingarten.bsky.social and the AFT are paying attention. AI in education does NOT serve students.
I hope @rweingarten.bsky.social and the AFT are paying attention. AI in education does NOT serve students.
An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.
The risks of AI in schools outweigh the benefits, report says
A new report warns that AI poses a serious threat to children's cognitive development and emotional well-being.
www.npr.org
January 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM
'It found that using AI in education can "undermine children's foundational development" and that "the damages it has already caused are daunting," though "fixable."'
I hope @rweingarten.bsky.social and the AFT are paying attention. AI in education does NOT serve students.
I hope @rweingarten.bsky.social and the AFT are paying attention. AI in education does NOT serve students.
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if your pedagogical philosophy is “actually, learning, thinking, and being intellectually challenged is fun and can be life-giving,” grades are like a pebble in your shoe.
January 13, 2026 at 8:20 PM
if your pedagogical philosophy is “actually, learning, thinking, and being intellectually challenged is fun and can be life-giving,” grades are like a pebble in your shoe.
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@jamellebouie.net has smart things to say on this topic in his most recent video. It is dangerous to laugh at “a piss baby,” to use Bouie’s excellent term, who is addled with insecurity and engorged with state power, but much less so when we all do it, and refuse to stop.
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new video up on the youtube page youtu.be/N1DVvGlzGEs?...
Everything is Gender
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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January 12, 2026 at 7:41 PM
@jamellebouie.net has smart things to say on this topic in his most recent video. It is dangerous to laugh at “a piss baby,” to use Bouie’s excellent term, who is addled with insecurity and engorged with state power, but much less so when we all do it, and refuse to stop.
bsky.app/profile/jame...
bsky.app/profile/jame...
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The people who mock gender studies are perversely the most compelling case for studying it
Wifi was down at the WH today so I didn’t get to post this, which, once again people: everything is gender.
January 9, 2026 at 1:17 PM
The people who mock gender studies are perversely the most compelling case for studying it
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this is why teaching history feels so important to me right now.
The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.
January 7, 2026 at 10:26 PM
this is why teaching history feels so important to me right now.
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The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.
December 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.
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Happy new year to all my homies:
January 1, 2026 at 4:41 AM
Happy new year to all my homies:
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We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
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That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
December 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That is not dead which can eternal lie,
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
Like Tiny Tim, who did NOT die
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Check out this author discussion I did on @religiondispatches.org with @niac.bsky.social about her gender transition memoir, I Hardly Knew Me.
Very timely stuff here 👇🏻
religiondispatches.org/the-trees-do...
Very timely stuff here 👇🏻
religiondispatches.org/the-trees-do...
'The Trees Don’t Care Who You Are' — From Evangelical to a Transgender Awakening
A week before Christmas—as so many had already begun to tune out the news and focus on holiday plans—the House passed two draconian anti-trans bills fueled by Christian nationalist hatred. So much for...
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December 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Check out this author discussion I did on @religiondispatches.org with @niac.bsky.social about her gender transition memoir, I Hardly Knew Me.
Very timely stuff here 👇🏻
religiondispatches.org/the-trees-do...
Very timely stuff here 👇🏻
religiondispatches.org/the-trees-do...
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If you are reading the NAR article at the NYT please listen to this as soon as you finish. The NAR is a violent movement bent on destroying democracy. @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social
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Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation
Politics Podcast · An Award-Winning Audio-Documentary Series on the Christian Leaders and Ideas that Fueled the Capitol Riot
“Charismatic Revival Fury: The New Apostolic Reformation” is a podcast seri...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If you are reading the NAR article at the NYT please listen to this as soon as you finish. The NAR is a violent movement bent on destroying democracy. @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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December 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Up to date info on affirmative care for adolescents. substack.com/@transcousin...
Your Trans Cousin (@transcousin)
True. Here are some of the findings from the Netherlands long-term followup of trans adults who started blockers (GnRHa) and/or hormones (GAHT) in adolescence (ages 12+):
Decision-making, long-term u...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Up to date info on affirmative care for adolescents. substack.com/@transcousin...
I think I should get an award for the number of times my Religion in America students independently used the words "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln yaoi" in their final reflections.
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think I should get an award for the number of times my Religion in America students independently used the words "George Washington and Abraham Lincoln yaoi" in their final reflections.
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Come work with me! The Philosophy side of my department is hiring for an open-rank TT line in biomedical ethics. Absolute freaks encouraged to apply. Ask me if you have any questions. Tell your weirdest friends. jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...
Rowan HR - Details - Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty Position in Biomedical Ethics, Department of Philosophy and ReligionJob Postings | Human Resources | Rowan University
Rowan University is a Carnegie-classified national doctoral research institution dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.
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December 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Come work with me! The Philosophy side of my department is hiring for an open-rank TT line in biomedical ethics. Absolute freaks encouraged to apply. Ask me if you have any questions. Tell your weirdest friends. jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...
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This quote from the WaPo rocks. Artists with integrity are such badasses.
December 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I showed these to my husband last night and he made me laugh with this one: "He looks like he's in a lover's spat with the lamp and the lamp is winning."
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Marco Rubio just straight up looks like a sad divorced man at a Motel 6.
December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I showed these to my husband last night and he made me laugh with this one: "He looks like he's in a lover's spat with the lamp and the lamp is winning."
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very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
Gotta say it's mindblowing to me that the Brown shooter is still at large and they don't even seem to have identified who they're looking for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:19 PM
very grimly ironic that our government run by podcasters sucks at true crime
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A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard
I overheard someone saying that they used ChatGPT to write a letter of recommendation, and I swear right now before God and all of you that every letter of recommendation I will EVER compose will be so unhinged and specific that no scrap of shitty code could ever have made it.
December 15, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I overheard someone saying that they used ChatGPT to write a letter of recommendation, and I swear right now before God and all of you that every letter of recommendation I will EVER compose will be so unhinged and specific that no scrap of shitty code could ever have made it.
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All a teacher does is stand in front of the class and talk at them, right? So easy to eliminate that role and just use ChatGPT, I am very smart please give me $1B for this idea.
December 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
All a teacher does is stand in front of the class and talk at them, right? So easy to eliminate that role and just use ChatGPT, I am very smart please give me $1B for this idea.
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Misfit candidates and longshots absolutely encouraged to apply. I cannot stress enough that this is the department that houses ME, agent of chaos and nonsense, and not only do they tolerate me, they love me. Please do not make me work with someone boring.
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Misfit candidates and longshots absolutely encouraged to apply. I cannot stress enough that this is the department that houses ME, agent of chaos and nonsense, and not only do they tolerate me, they love me. Please do not make me work with someone boring.
Come work with me! The Philosophy side of my department is hiring for an open-rank TT line in biomedical ethics. Absolute freaks encouraged to apply. Ask me if you have any questions. Tell your weirdest friends. jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...
Rowan HR - Details - Tenure-Track or Tenured Faculty Position in Biomedical Ethics, Department of Philosophy and ReligionJob Postings | Human Resources | Rowan University
Rowan University is a Carnegie-classified national doctoral research institution dedicated to excellence in undergraduate and graduate education.
jobs.rowan.edu
December 11, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Come work with me! The Philosophy side of my department is hiring for an open-rank TT line in biomedical ethics. Absolute freaks encouraged to apply. Ask me if you have any questions. Tell your weirdest friends. jobs.rowan.edu/en-us/job/50...
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This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
December 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.