Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴)

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

The Common Core failed, secondary & higher-ed embraced its own demise, and proponents of “classical” (read, “conservative”) education are ready with their own ideas of what learning. Anne E. Clarks asks: What, now, is to be done?

Maybe a silly question but when did "project" become the normative term for describing a (baggy?) sociohistorical process initiated and advanced by distinct actors with distinct goals (ie national project, racial project, settler colonial project, and so on)?

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

This confused "kids these days" lament that offers very little empirical support for a set of remarkable bold assertions. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

"We created a committee..."

Lighting incense in his memory.

Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11

It's obvious but unsaid that the first 9 schools chosen for the Compact for "Academic Excellence" in Higher Ed were selected so that the federal government can watch how this faustian proposal will play out in different scenarios: public, private, ivy, red/blue state, various endowment sizes.

Most diagnoses of “academia” (and many subfields) are actually just English PhDs yelling at each other about stuff in English departments

Measles definitely caused immune amnesia, wiping out any immunity you may have developed to any other virus.

Autogynephilia, Junk Science, and Pseudoscience plus links to my academic articles, online essays, and explainers on the topic

apparently the new Netflix show Monster: The Ed Gein Story invented an "autogynephilia" backstory for their serial killer (because of course they did!). so time to re-up my collection of writings on this pseudoscientific zombie theory...
juliaserano.medium.com/autogynephil...

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

Sundress Publications Broadside Contest open for submissions. Deadline November 30, 2025

Meet the Judge: Stevie Edwards

We are open for submissions for our annual poetry broadside contest! Submit up to three poems for a chance to win $200 and 20 copies of your letterpress-printed broadside! www.sundresspublications.com/news/2025/09...

Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts Call for Papers Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the ArtsA Special Issue of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts

Call for Papers!

"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...

There are no safeguards against pseudoscience. AI is not capable of detecting emotions, therefore this BS should just be banned.

One of the under-observed parts of the last several years is the switch where wealthy donors claims directive authority over university policy. So they think Trump’s efforts of undermine academic freedom promote their own control. It’s a symptom of oligarchy, and how oligarchy gives way to Tyranny.

a woman is singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her Alt: Tori Amos singing into a microphone with the words let 's go written below her

Hey hey hey!

We're accepting chapbook submissions during the entire month of October.

Submissions are always FEE-FREE so polish up those manuscripts and send them in!

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Thats still thirteen million and more people who think Trump's and RFK Jr's claims that Tylenol causes autism are definitely true.

“I promise, from the bottom of my heart, you don’t need AI to write an email for you. You don’t need AI to make a grocery list for you... And guess what? Ironically using AI to illustrate how ugly and stupid AI is is actually no different from using it in earnest.”

VA’s disability program is an ‘honor system.’ These veterans are defrauding it. Post investigation finds VA’s $193 billion disability program has turned into a rich target for fraudsters. Some fake blindness or paralysis to get as much as $1 million.

WaPo is now targeting disabled veterans (they've previously targeted non-veteran disabled folks)

www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

n+1 Seeks Managing Editor n+1 is seeking a full-time Managing Editor to work in our Brooklyn office. Compensation will range from $58,000 to $64,000 and includes health and dental insurance. n+1 is a print magazine of literatu...

N+1 is looking for a managing editor. Who's got the time? The talent? Healthcare is a definite plus!!

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They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

An early career philosopher turning down a tenure track job at a large R1—when there is not another job waiting. That’s how bad things have gotten at A&M.

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’ SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.

*sigh*

and here goes my alma mater making terrible decisions. again.

History’s shaming fascination for the so-called ‘idiot savant’ | Aeon Essays The convergence of singular talent and profound disability confounded scientists eager to place humans into neat categories

The term ‘idiot savant’ was coined in the 1860s to refer to someone who had an exceptional talent while also being profoundly disabled, and it still has implications in psychological research today

Again in awe of the tremendous good that is the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive. Thank you to Alexander Huber bsky.app/profile/c18a... for this fantastic archive.

#C18L
#poetry

Lisa Moore: "like the medieval monks and nuns who buried precious manuscripts to hide them from the kings who burned their abbeys, we will preserve this knowledge and progress for another time in the future."