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Dr Susan D Blum
@susandblum.bsky.social
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Writer, observer, educator, anthropologist, sourdough baker, gardener, linguistic anthropologist. Obsessive about the planet, politics, justice, health. Fascinated by humans. Photo by jan_huber on unsplash
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Dec 19
I've been obsessed with trying to figure out how people can learn well even in alienating systems. My book Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning (Cornell 2024) is my latest thinking about it. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
cover of book, Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning, by Susan D. Blum. Image is of a bank of battered gray school lockers with one replaced by vibrant flowers.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 18h
2/2 But heartbreaking, for those of us who still believe in the ideals of learning-with-others.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 18h
1/2 The absurd conclusion of all this GenAI stuff is faculty creating courses entirely w AI; students completing assignments w agentive AI; faculty grading w AI. No humans need be changed in this process. No learning will be required. Easy peasy.

#GenerativeAI
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 2d
My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely!
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School Story Lab
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 9d
We've had evidence of this for ages, right? Frankly this feels like those endless UBI studies where they all demonstrate UBI works but that's not the answer the people in charge want to hear so nothing changes.
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Annie @anniearmstrong.bsky.social · 9d
www.psypost.org/students-rate-identical-lectures-differently-based-on-professors-gender-researchers-find/# #AcademicSky - it never ends.
Students rate identical lectures differently based on professor's gender, researchers find
When philosophy students were asked to evaluate identical lectures assigned to men or women professors, their responses varied by gender. The study suggests gender bias plays a role in how teaching is...
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 9d
The world we desire will not come about unless we dream it first. Here are some thoughts about higher education.

#highereducation

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Magic Wand
Dreaming of What Higher Education Could Be
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 11d
Promise??? 😬
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 18d
www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

“The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect.”
The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA
Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.
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Jason Tiedje @peaceendspoverty.bsky.social · 20d
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 22d
Release the Epstein Files. They are filled with disgusting depravity but we need to know
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22d
BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just announced that Democrats now have the votes to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.

Sept. 23 — the discharge petition will be entered into the record. 7 days later — the House votes.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 26d
I'm not sure it saves time but it makes the work more meaningful.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 28d
This new book, The Ungraded Classroom, edited by Carlo Ricci and Gina Riley (with a foreword by @susandblum), has just been published! It has many examples, beautifully and honestly presented, of ways educators have included ungrading in their classrooms. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FQHZKJZ...
The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning
The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning [Ricci PhD, Carlo, Riley PhD, Gina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Ungraded Classroom: Feedback, Reflection, and Authentic Learning
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 8
If the Democrats wanted to win, they would do whatever they needed to do to convince Mira Nair to do all of their video campaigns
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Aug 2
“Both of them.”
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 8
Lying brazenly is a job requirement in this dictatorship
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Rebeccat @acceber.bsky.social · Sep 6
FIRE RFK Jr!! WE WANT THE CANCER VACCINE!!!
“New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes”
Story below
New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Delivers Stunning Results, Sparks Universal Treatment Hopes
A new mRNA cancer vaccine wiped out tumors in mice and may offer a path toward a universal treatment.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7
On the belief that I should not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good, I got a Pfizer covid vaccine rather than waiting for Novovax. I’m afraid they are going to take them away in Indiana, b/c of our administration’s fealty to the orange menace, so I decided not to wait
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7
An experience at a campus theater production made me think about higher ed as practicing being in society. I know this is not news! But it struck me forcefully, and in a great way. My latest Substack post:

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The rich pleasures—and lessons—of a college campus
Mini-universe, mini-society, humans gathering together, led by art
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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · Sep 7
TRUMP & EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS!!! I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7
It’s time to shut down the government. Democrats have weeks to prepare about how to make the case to the people. Watch how Pres Bartlet did it in The West Wing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7
Immoral, plus illegal. Enforced by….karma?
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7
#AICon in #education: we’re not all fans.

www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The… | Ben Willi...
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies https://lnkd.in/djEr2f7e Methodology, Legend, and Rhetoric: The Construction...
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 7
They lie, steal, cheat, boast, destroy, even kill. #TheReckoningWillCome and we’ll clean up our house, de-MAGAify, the way the Germans denazified. Sooner would be good. There will be one defector, then another, and it will accelerate. Gradually, then all at once.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Sep 7
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 6
Sickening sycophants
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Sep 6
Simpering cowards one and all.

This is almost unbearable to watch.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · Sep 6
Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Sep 6
For all the people, especially Democratic leaders, who keep saying, "Trump can't do that! It's illegal!"

Authoritarians can do anything they want. They don't care about laws, order, rules, or civility.

Once they have power, they flex it.

I hope Dems finally understand this.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · Sep 6
I stand with #Chicago and the rule of law. I stand with truth. I stand with peace.

#EjectTrumpTheTraitor
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