Laura Barrio-Vilar (she/her)

I am Captcha: "ghost" students and the AI machine (opinion) Adam Bessie and Jason Novak capture the higher educator’s dilemma in the age of generative AI.

Opinion | I Am Captcha: ‘Ghost’ Students and the AI Machine

Adam Bessie and Jason Novak capture the higher educator’s dilemma in the age of generative AI. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3XaL5X8

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a baby girl is making a funny face while sitting on a couch . ALT: a baby girl is making a funny face while sitting on a couch .

Nothing like a plagiarism case to send me down a downward spiral of binge eating dark chocolate. Ugh.

Audre Lorde raising her hands

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

--Audre Lorde

What Keeps Stressed-Out Faculty Members Going? Their Students. Professors like teaching. It’s all the other stuff that’s burning them out.

You've read all about it: Teaching today's students can be incredibly frustrating. But a new survey by The Chronicle finds that working with students can often be faculty members' chief source of joy. chroni.cl/41k91K9

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

When explaining the similarities between lynching and anti-LGBT violence, know-your-place aggression is key. American culture’s message is clear, and it is most forcefully sent when marginalized groups are successfully claiming space as citizens.

The message is: “Know your place! You don’t

In FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE, I trace know-your-place aggression toward African Americans, but @projectmuse.bsky.social is making my essay that explains it via racism, sexism, heterosexism, tran antagonism, Islamophobia, and ableism FREE for Black History Month!
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One of my new goals this year is to treat myself to something fun once a month. Last night I went to my first Arkansas Pen Club meeting with my friend René and had a wonderful time, trying new fountain pens and meeting new people. I even came back with some goodies. 😁

The US stopped allowing passport gender marker changes. Here are some of the people affected For transgender Americans, passports just became a lot more complicated. President Donald Trump issued an executive order saying there are two sexes, male and female, and rejecting the idea that peopl...

Inaccurate IDs can expose transgender, nonbinary, and intersex people to harassment and discrimination.

We're taking the Trump administration to court to defend our freedom to be ourselves.

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Celebrating international day of women and girls in science !

We belong !!!! #sciencesky #edusky

In the midst of so much chaos, yesterday it felt good to "teach" my first card-making class at my neighborhood library. Crafting is the cheapest form of therapy and self care, folks.

Undocumented and international students worry about their fate in second Trump term Some Minnesota college students from foreign countries are concerned how changes to U.S. immigration policy could affect them.

“We think it’s very important to hold the sanctity of our campuses and to protect students no matter what.”

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Campuses no longer off-limits to ICE The Trump administration cleared the way for immigration enforcement officers to take action on campuses, sowing fear among undocumented students. Higher ed leaders are struggling with how to respond.

Campuses No Longer Off-Limits to ICE

The Trump administration cleared the way for immigration enforcement officers to take action on campuses, sowing fear among undocumented students. Higher ed leaders are struggling with how to respond. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4hnSgDy

USPS suspends incoming parcels from Hong Kong and China Americans are likely to pay more for products from popular Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu as the U.S. Postal Service said it would stop accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong.

Americans are likely to pay more for products from popular Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein and Temu as the U.S. Postal Service said it would stop accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong.

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Trump plans to invoke obscure 18th century wartime law in bid for mass deportations Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings.

The Alien Enemies Act was last invoked during World War II to justify the internment of thousands of Americans of Japanese ancestry.

Resurrecting this 18th century law to carry out the president's mass deportation agenda would be unlawful.

Crockett: I am tired of the white tears. When you compare me to Marjorie Taylor Greene or me to Lauren Boebert, there is no comparison. So the only people that are crying are the mediocre white boys that have been beaten out by people that historically have had to work so, so much harder

#resist

With all the uncertainty around ICE raids, we need to ensure that we spread information, not fear.

If ICE comes to your workplace, stops you on the street or knocks on your door, you have rights! #KnowYourRights

📲Download these infographics on our website: weprotectusny.org.

“Trump Favors Blunt Force in Dealing With Foreign Allies and Enemies Alike”

“Trudeau Details Canada’s Retaliation Plans in Emotional Rebuke of Trump Tariffs”

Note the masculine-feminine coding in @nytimes.com headlines on Trump (“blunt force”) vs Trudeau (“emotional”). The gendered coding of the US vs Canada is reinforced by the imagery of fist-pumping Trump vs Trudeau’s strained face and open palm.

Love this! 🫶🏾

ICE On Your Campus Questions to Ask Your Administration 1. What is campus policy with regard to working with federal immigration authorities? 2. Who should faculty contact in the event that they are approached by ICE agents? 3. What private/limited-access spaces can you make available where ICE agents cannot enter unless they have a valid warrant? 4. Are you planning to communicate with students, staff, and faculty about their privacy rights? These rights include the right to deny immigration officers entry to their homes (including dorms) unless officers have a judicial warrant, and the right to not respond to the questions or statements of an immigration officer who is seeking to enter their home without a judicial warrant. 5. Are you planning to communicate guidance that, if a federal immigration enforcement officer seeks to enter a limited-access area on campus, students and workers should ask the officer for their name, identification number, agency affiliation, and business card, and inform the officer that they are not obstructing their process but need to contact the campus legal counsel for assistance? 6. What campus authority should students contact if they are contacted by ICE? What Chapter Leaders Can Do Now 1. Provide to faculty any campus plan or policy and any campus authority contact. 2. Create a list of immigration attorneys who can be contacted in case of emergencies day and night. 3. Distribute a family preparedness plan template to your members. Example: aaup.org/ILRC-plan 4. Conduct Know Your Rights sessions for your members; these do not have to be done by an attorney. Recommendations for Organizing on Your Campus Engage members via a petition, open letter, high-participation meeting, in-person demonstration, or other collective action to demand that your campus administrators: 1. Not comply with ICE to detain or deport students, faculty, or staff unless legally required to do so. 2. Ensure that noncitizens understand the difference between an …

From @aaup.bsky.social, what to do if ICE is on your campus.

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Everyone can organize.

Everyone can contribute to social movements.

Everyone can do something, from somewhere.

None of this is about "professionalism" or policy"expertise. That is counterinsurgency, demobilizing logic.

Everyone can organize and has something to offer.