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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1h

As an expert on help-seeking, I'm not surprised that AI makes it harder for students to develop strong relationships with teachers. Because AI means they can get help without asking an actual human teacher, but it doesn't address the distrust that makes it hard for many students to ask. 1/

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 21h

Would love to program A COUCH IN NEW YORK and LET THE SUNSHINE IN, Juliette Binoche in two gloriously weird auterist riffs on the rom com

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Chris Sprigman @cjsprigman.bsky.social · 1d

My friend @sivav.bsky.social with a sharp essay in the New Republic explaining why universities that sign Trump's noxious "compact" are not only cowards but utter fools. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 1d

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 1d

I also had that today. It‘s a meaningful thing.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 2d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

www.publicbooks.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 2d

Hmmm it’s almost like cooperating didn’t work out as planned

(from Robert Sklar‘s Movie Made America)

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 2d

A screenwriter/director (not a novelist), but Billy Wilder was born in what is now Poland!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 3d

brown alums sign and share standstrongbrown.org/reject-trump...

Brown must reject Trump’s so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence” – Stand Strong Brown

standstrongbrown.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 4d

Was just thinking about this! And Pokerface — a dudette

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Matthew Boedy @matthewboedy.bsky.social · 6d

Still time to register for Monday's @aaup.org webinar on the state-backed threat to independent higher education accreditation www.aaup.org/event/politi...

Politicizing Accreditation in the South and Beyond

This webinar will explore the historic importance of independent accreditation systems for maintaining professional norms and standards for public higher education and examine the threats a politicize...

www.aaup.org

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 4d

hi, it’s me, joining team ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, there’s just a lot to love about this movie

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 4d

Omg 😭😭😭

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 4d

absolutely (for now, at least) and am v grateful for that in the midst of it all!

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 4d

FWIW things aren’t much better in a blue state, it’s depressing and infuriating. Solidarity!

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 5d

ah so only “some” see it this way, can’t wait to hear about that other side

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

www.nytimes.com

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

If you're interested in Paramount, CBS News, the Free Press, or the right-wing takeover of the media, please help spread this around and let's see if we can find out anything interesting :-)

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

If you work at CBS News and have anything you'd like to share, please text me on Signal premthakker.35

Your anonymity will be protected

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 6d

Ok, I think I’m ready for a Charlie Cale-Lee Raybon crossover episode

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 6d

For a minute I thought the people lined up down the block tonight at MoMA were there, like me, to see Akerman’s D’Est — and not a new A24 film — and I was deeply impressed by the dedication of NYC Chantal-heads

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 7d

fall flair

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 7d

It’s so back!! At least until next week when it’s 79 again🫠

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 7d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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