Jamie Callahan

Ugh. I’ve been pushing too hard.

To be clear, Pete Hegseth just essentially threw out the Military Code of Conduct.

Whiskey Tango Alpha Foxtrot did I just watch?!?

I’ve been reflecting lately on how much I have always enjoyed the collegial aspects of being an academic & the extent to which my employers have manipulated that joy to coerce me (& all academics) to work for free, anticipating (mostly rightly) that they can maximize their profit from us this way. 💔

One thing that feels underrepresented in our conversations around AI/education is the not-insignificant number of students who have a negative reaction to the idea of using AI—especially being compelled to do it by teachers.

They deserve a voice in this conversation, too.

A bowl of peanut butter frosting

A chocolate layer cake

It’s my birthday & I’ll bake if I want to!

Vegan chocolate layer cake with decadent peanut butter “butter”cream filling and chocolate “butter”cream frosting.

Party got canceled, so I’m taking the cake to work.

The shadow economy behind the international student boom A lucrative revenue stream for universities has led to an industry of unregulated agents now under scrutiny for making lofty promises

Higher education is broken.
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'Outwith' is the best word ever. Thank you, Scotland!

Agree mosquitos. They slip in when you open a door; worse at night. When I visit my mom in FL I make sure to run a fan over my body so they can’t get me. They can’t fly through the breeze. The minute I turn it off, I start hearing bzzzzz.

When you finally finish marking dissertations at 12:30am and go to crawl into bed—only to realize you had stripped the bed for laundry and did not remake it 🤦🏼‍♀️😭

The ballot is *NOT* just on pay. It is on:

1. A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects
2. Protect national T&Cs agreements
3. Pay uplift: at least RPI+3.5% or £2500 on all pay points

@ucu.org.uk @unitecommunity.bsky.social @unison.org.uk @gmb.org.uk @eisunion.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social

And it was the discussion about THIS image that was seen as so offensive to the student who raised the complaint.

An image of the Gender Unicorn depicting what gender identity, gender expression, assigned sex, and physical/emotion attraction are.

A professor of English at my former university was fired for discussing this image with her students; her HoD & Dean were removed from their posts. Shame on @tamu.bsky.social for denying verified science, standing against #LGBTQIA people, & contributing to fascist authoritarianism.

Opinion | Stop Acting Like This Is Normal

This is not normal. Get a plan, Democrats. You’ve got about 3-weeks left.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...

I 💯 agree that publishers are raking in obscene profits. But I don’t think the answer is to be okay with researchers paying the price. Publishers are happy w/ £; universities are happy because they also profit from free research-related labour while they pile on the teaching.

Win-Win-Lose

I actually secured a grant for a PhD student to study this phenomenon. She left the PhD programme after data collection without giving us access to the data & refuses to communicate with the supervision team or the university. I would love to be able to finish the analysis!

If I had more word count, I would have put promotion guides in quotes 😉. I was cutting it fine!

I think you mean ‘and have you seen’?

My university just instituted a new workload model that explicitly states external service work, like journal editing, is not to be considered part of paid workload allocation. Yet such service is still listed on promotion guides. When will academics get fed up with working for free?

Join #UCU

The US: we don’t have enough $ to pay for healthcare & food for poor children

Also the US: we are rebranding the Dept of Defense to the Dept of War, costing billions (worldwide: name plates, signage, letterhead, emails, websites, etc)

🤔🤦🏼‍♀️

This is beyond appalling. A union engaging in union-busting. All TUs should be calling on UCU to cease and desist, and settle with @uniteucu.bsky.social for the sake of the movement @tuc.org.uk @yourparty.bsky.social #rReclaimUCU

Well, this touched my heart! The cookies are a nod to an exercise I do called “The Chocolate Chip Cookie Logic Model” to teach about evaluations rubrics in training. I love my kind & clever students!

Oh, and pro-tip: you can claim tax relief on 67% of your UCU subscriptions, thus reducing your net cost of being a trade union member!

Graph showing how adjustments in local subscriptions will make trade union membership fairer across all salary bands.

Graph showing how adjustment to the local @ducu.bsky.social subscription rates makes trade union membership fairer for all salary bands.

Graph depicting how lower salary members were paying a higher proportion of their salaries to be trade union members than higher paid members.

Graph depicting how lower salary members were paying a higher proportion of their salaries to be trade union members than higher paid members.

@ducu.bsky.social new local subs have hit. We are now leading the sector in working to make TU membership subscriptions less regressive. Now all of our members are paying subs more equitably. Well done, branch, for recognising the unfairness & voting to do something about it! #UCU

Either AI has gotten better at reflecting since March or my students have gotten better at framing queries. Well written reflection on experience -- but no, I can assure you I have never used the words you've just ascribed to me & those references don't exist. But can I *prove* AI use? Nope.

This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America.

The problem is not that America lacks abundance.

The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance.

www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...

Gee, Jamie, how’d you spend your Saturday?

8hrs hand cleaning 280 crystals & hanging them on my family heirloom chandelier that I finally had hung on a hoist 2 yrs after I got my household goods from storage.

I tend to lean MCM, but I decided to go eclectic 🤷🏼‍♀️😊.

#ISD Instructional design ideas needed. 8, 2hr45min #experiential #workshops have been banned. I now must do 10, 1hr45min + 4, 45min sessions. 2/3 of my students do not speak English well enough for discussion-based learning. What the hell do I do w/ this timing?

US air force to grant military honors to Capitol rioter fatally shot on January 6 Move to provide Ashli Babbitt with funeral honors marks another step in Trump’s aggressive reframing of the attack

I am a #USAF #veteran. Individuals killed in the act of insurrection should not receive military honors.

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