Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher!

Los Angeles County Office of Education will lose $198,433,390 in 2026.

LACOE provides special education for LA Co districts that do not have the resources to provide them to their disabled students. They also educate students in juvenile court schools.

This will be devastating.

Honey, I Have No Clue What You’re Talking About—I Did NOT Use AI to Write My Wedding Vows Kasey — From the moment I first saw you, I knew my life was about to change. You were beautiful—also intelligent, funny, and kind. Not long after w...

My friend @mpershan.bsky.social totally did not use AI to write his wedding vows.

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hon...

Petition by UC Faculty Association for the UCs stand up to Trump govt demands. UCs are a gem, and contribute so much to CA and USA. We need to protect them from gov't takeover/meddling (I cant believe that is an accurate statement!)All can sign! sites.google.com/view/ucstand... #EduSky #AcademicSky

a little better at 3 months, then a little better at 6 months, then a constant state for their toddlerhood (or other babies creating sleep crisis mode) and then i woke up one day and I was not sleep-derived and worried all the time. Brain working great! Then came menopause (repeat brain fog) . . .

Kennedy Cancels Nearly $500 Million in mRNA Vaccine Contracts That kind of shot was first used during the Covid-19 pandemic, but the health secretary has been sharply critical of the technology.

This is so harmful. Scientists are developing mRNA-based cancer vaccines that could save so many lives.

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Post from "The Rundown" July 18 at 5:30 PM · DuckDuckGo has introduced a new feature allowing users to filter out AI-generated images from search results, addressing growing concerns over synthetic content overwhelming authentic visuals online. The filter can be activated through a dropdown in the Images tab, search settings, or by using a dedicated AI-free domain: noai.duckduckgo.com. The system relies on curated blocklists, including uBlockOrigin’s Huge AI Blocklist, to detect and suppress AI-generated imagery. While not perfect, it significantly reduces synthetic content visibility. This move sets DuckDuckGo apart from competitors like Google and Bing by giving users direct control over their exposure to AI-generated material. Source: TechCrunch

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

We knew this was coming. The admin is going to want to fold immediately, so it’s up to the students, staff, faculty, and alumni—the people who really *are* the university—to agitate for our integrity.

This is a great document for resisting the "AI is inevitable in K-12" discourse. Also, I love how this is organized. Excellent point that AI is a tool less like a calculator, and more like a smart phone. ♾️ #EduSky

www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

A new Senate report released today by Sen. Blumenthal finds that the "DOGE" initiative cost taxpayers at least $21.7 billion.

I'm here for annotation as counter-storytelling - and an annotation activity like this is something teachers and students can do together to analyze the rhetorical moves in Big Tech press releases about AI in education too.

Fantasy and dystopia prepares us to fight tyranny. Love this thread that accurately assess many leaders in academia having not internalized the lessons of fantasy!

Screenshot of title page of an article published in the Journal of Educational Psychology titled: "Combining Generative Tasks and Retrieval Tasks."

"In the present experiment with university students, combining generative tasks and retrieval tasks proved to add statistically identifiable value over using either type of task alone—irrespective of choice of sequence." #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

@sjjphd.bsky.social‬ coined the word!

wow that is definitely the wrong person! SORRY

Quit doomsplaining! (nice word coinage @sjpdfb.bsky.social) We have limited energy and a world to fix.

Science and Democracy Under Siege Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions

We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.

Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again.

But inside our borders.

Nick Offerman Is Sounding the Alarm: America’s National Parks Are Under Attack | The Daily Show YouTube video by The Daily Show

Such a great video by screen luminary Nick Offerman

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm

Terrible Friday news dump.The wealth of expertise. The decades of scientific progress. The emerging and urgent challenges we were focused on tackling. It is all so short-sided and cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

Thanks friends! Melynee you know so much about this work, you have done it well for years! You need to quote yourself on how to make algebra accessible!

Instead of inviting people who are classroom-adjacent to keynote every educational conference, pay some current classroom teachers to discuss what’s working and what’s not while teaching under a fascist administration.

Stop cuts to science!

There have been SPED teacher shortages for a long time now, and I believe the workload and emotional labor is a big part of it.

Research on teachers' time use shows "time compression" -- meaning, teachers work well over 40 hrs/wk during the school year (commonly 50-60), equal to a FT annual job.

Free Jonathan Caravello! BY HANK REICHMAN Dr. Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in mathematics and philosophy at California State University, Channel Islands, was beaten and arrested on Thursday, July 10, in an ICE raid on a …

“Caravello’s student, Angelmarie Taylor, said she saw several agents jump on her teacher after he attempted to retrieve a tear gas canister lodged under a protester’s wheelchair.”
@aaup.org blog post from the great @hankreichman.bsky.social
academeblog.org/2025/07/13/f...

Kristi Noem must resign now.

confirmation over here with birder family member

CA educators, here is an action for you! Petition to sell Tesla stock from CalSTRS. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...

Maybe instead of learning alone from videos you learn together with other people IRL? Or maybe all the videos are in reverse, and new mathematics emerges? SO much to imagine here