Tim Monreal
@timmonreal.bsky.social
Former MS 👨🏻🏫 • profe @UBGSE • Posts about Latinx ED (teachers/SSE), beisbol, rocksteady, space • Dad de 3 • Type1 • Chicano • 559 raised • posts are my own, not my employer’s
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dreaming of a day after these horrors end.
it is coming. we will win.
it is coming. we will win.
December 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
dreaming of a day after these horrors end.
it is coming. we will win.
it is coming. we will win.
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The current American political system
sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers
December 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
The current American political system
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It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books
We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.
www.publicbooks.org
December 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
Santa Claus And His Old Lady
YouTube video by Cheech & Chong - Topic
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December 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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A better framework is to address the broader project of AI to displace interpersonal contact, thought, negotiation; and to normalize this project. This aspect of AI is essential to the economic agenda that it underpins. 2/n
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A better framework is to address the broader project of AI to displace interpersonal contact, thought, negotiation; and to normalize this project. This aspect of AI is essential to the economic agenda that it underpins. 2/n
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Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science
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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
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UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
December 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
UPDATE: Another Chicago-area church has put up an immigration-themed Nativity scene.
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
A church member at Urban Village Church sent this one along, where Mary, Joseph and Jesus are gone and replaced with a sign that reads: “Due to ICE activity in our community, the Holy Family is in hiding.”
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César Chávez Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College 2026-28, due 2/1. Had this fellowship in 2008, and so many good things came from it. lalacs.dartmouth.edu/our-fellowsh...
César Chávez Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-28
lalacs.dartmouth.edu
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
César Chávez Dissertation and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dartmouth College 2026-28, due 2/1. Had this fellowship in 2008, and so many good things came from it. lalacs.dartmouth.edu/our-fellowsh...
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Hundreds are getting trained to help with school safety patrols to protect kids and families. It's really something.
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Hundreds are getting trained to help with school safety patrols to protect kids and families. It's really something.
Coming to Buffalo tonight!!
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Coming to Buffalo tonight!!
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Monreal, T. (2025). “No me dejaran ir porque they needed me here”: Spatializing corrective representatives by critiquing Latinx teacher role model discourse. Race Ethnicity and Education, 28(1), 56–75.
doi.org/10.1080/1361...
doi.org/10.1080/1361...
“No me dejaran ir porque they needed me here”: spatializing corrective representatives by critiquing Latinx teacher role model discourse
This article examines the formations and tensions of Latinx teacher role model subject positions in spaces with relatively few Latinx teachers. To address the under theorization of space and Latinx...
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December 21, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Monreal, T. (2025). “No me dejaran ir porque they needed me here”: Spatializing corrective representatives by critiquing Latinx teacher role model discourse. Race Ethnicity and Education, 28(1), 56–75.
doi.org/10.1080/1361...
doi.org/10.1080/1361...
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“Never trust a professor who makes their grad students pay for their own food or coffee.” -the immortal Chris Krueger, sending me off to grad school
What’s the most significant advice you received from a teacher?
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
I had a Geology prof who always said “have strong opinions, loosely held”
Be passionate, assess alternatives with conviction, take sides. But don’t fall so in love with your opinions that you can’t change them with better data.
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“Never trust a professor who makes their grad students pay for their own food or coffee.” -the immortal Chris Krueger, sending me off to grad school
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I think that's part of why I'm so shocked that someone can't see how political this is. You know real life people whose grants were canceled and that money is likely being repurposed to fund you.
November 15, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I think that's part of why I'm so shocked that someone can't see how political this is. You know real life people whose grants were canceled and that money is likely being repurposed to fund you.
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Looks like a dream gig! Apply!
Position Available: Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Fresno State University
Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies.
careers.fresnostate.edu/en-us/job/55...
Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies.
careers.fresnostate.edu/en-us/job/55...
Fresno State - Details - Chicano and Latin American Studies Assistant Professor
careers.fresnostate.edu
November 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Looks like a dream gig! Apply!
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Education colleagues: I am partnering with middle- and high-school math teachers in DE, PA, and MD to look at how belonging-supportive instruction shapes students' math experiences (see infographic). Teachers can participate in 2025 or early 2026. Please share w/ teachers who may be interested!
November 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Education colleagues: I am partnering with middle- and high-school math teachers in DE, PA, and MD to look at how belonging-supportive instruction shapes students' math experiences (see infographic). Teachers can participate in 2025 or early 2026. Please share w/ teachers who may be interested!
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ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
November 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections
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Love to my Canadian pals - that’s brutal
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Love to my Canadian pals - that’s brutal
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The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.
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Reading this paragraph--written by the editors of Wired, the most well-known tech publication--at BOE meetings in districts rushing AI seems like a good idea.
Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.
Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.
October 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Reading this paragraph--written by the editors of Wired, the most well-known tech publication--at BOE meetings in districts rushing AI seems like a good idea.
Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.
Ask why they are treating children like guinea pigs while pretending they can predict a future those most knowledgable about tech cannot.
"So it's more than a little embarrassing to see schools – primary, secondary, higher education alike – embracing "AI," parroting the industry's marketing at the expense of their actual mission statements..."
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/now-is-the-t...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/now-is-the-t...
Now Is the Time of Monsters
"AI slop is winning," writes The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel.
By volume alone, slop may be the most visible and successful by-product of the generative-AI era to date. It is also a hallmark of what I’v...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"So it's more than a little embarrassing to see schools – primary, secondary, higher education alike – embracing "AI," parroting the industry's marketing at the expense of their actual mission statements..."
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/now-is-the-t...
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/now-is-the-t...
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🗃️ Socialist of the Day: India Walton is a New York politician and the former Democratic nominee in the Buffalo mayoral race. Walton is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and defeated Democratic Incumbent Mayor Byron Brown during New York’s primary in June 2021.
October 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
🗃️ Socialist of the Day: India Walton is a New York politician and the former Democratic nominee in the Buffalo mayoral race. Walton is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and defeated Democratic Incumbent Mayor Byron Brown during New York’s primary in June 2021.