Luke Waltzer

I just picked up a relatively recent pressing of The Real McCoy... 💨🎹💨

This is good and necessary; our institutions must be aware and take notice.

We appreciate this presidential seal of approval (the dad joke is a nice bonus)

The CFP is now open for the second cohort of faculty fellows in the Critical AI Literacy Institute @gctlc.bsky.social.

We’re recruiting in 3 tracks.

1. Critical Foundations of AI
2. Ecological Implications of AI
3. T(h)inkering with AI

Read the full call here:

cuny.is/cali2-cfp

Oof. Hugs, Ian.

So sorry Matt. May his memory be a blessing.

Boone Gorges calls him “Top Hat Asshole”

teleogistic.net/2015/05/29/t...

CUNY is hiring a University Librarian. Amazing opportunity.

The American Revolution (TV series) - Wikipedia

Not for nothing but the Burns documentary is a veritable smorgasbord for those among us who excel at “whose voice is that?”

Check out this cast: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ame...

depends upon how many convoluted authentication steps in the workflow

Jobs | City University of New York

**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social**

Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond.

Applications due February 1, 2026.

Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

The three scholars who held these roles previously each left a massive imprint on our work, and then moved on to tenure-track positions.

Jobs | City University of New York

**We're hiring a post-doc @gctlc.bsky.social**

Come join a fantastic team of scholars @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social committed to intentional, responsive, and liberatory pedagogy at @cuny.edu and beyond.

Applications due February 1, 2026.

Job call here: cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

One of the more disruptive outcomes of genAI flooding the zone is the mass conflation of facility with expertise and wisdom, and the elevation of voices (including many hucksters) who have been quick to seize that opportunity.

Teachers deserve to be challenged, too (and in some cases, undermined).

Student government should demand participation in academic policy process, and all governance advocacy should push institutions to hold space for refusal. The only way to realize this is collectively.

The headwinds are strong and challenges significant. But I agree with @mattseybold.bsky.social and @mkgold.bsky.social: it's difficult to imagine a better place to pursue this work than CUNY.

Out theory is that this is a solid space from which to assert faculty, staff, learner agency over the "means of knowledge production." This requires collaboration with academic governance, fac/staff unions, and legislative partners. It demands a strong and critical orientation, and elbow grease.

Discussions of "ethical use" of LLM-based tools are insufficient. Universities should be vast enough to accommodate R&D, purposeful adoption, resistance *and* refusal, and to plan and strategize from the productive tensions between those logical and defensible orientations.

This is happening via cuny.is/cali and elsewhere, and includes fac development/communities of practice/mixed-methods multi-discipinary research.

It also includes building infrastructure/capacity to support small, focused applications built on open weight LLMs w/zero data retention & carbon logging

We are currently thinking through how the underlying principles that led to projects like the CUNY Academic Commons, Manifold, Blogs@Baruch, Vocat, OpenLab, CBox, ASHP, and the great OER work happening in CUNY's libraries should inform curricula, pedagogy, policy, and strategy related to genAI.

I so appreciate this attention to what we’ve been doing with ed tech at CUNY and the notion that the higher ed ecosystem can benefit from it. Too many folks to name have been involved in those projects over the years, and it builds upon work and commitments at CUNY that goes back generations.

"I gotta wash up, you save France..."

www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxi1T...

Hell yes, @mattseybold.bsky.social.

Thank God. #NJ

Yes grateful for that

Also so important to include legislators in this. NY, IL, CA (maybe some other states?) all have labor protections on books that faculty need to be aware of and need to be extended into university procurement

Deeply appreciate this work, tho in an environment where shared governance is all but non existent it will require faculty orgs and unions to become informed and then to forcefully assert/demand access to procurement/contracting/review. Will not be easy.

Oh sports. #sports!

Oh sports. #sports!

4: Vengeance of the Vagina Head

Fela Kuti: Fear No Man is a remarkable piece of research and story telling. This episode, on the foundations of Fela’s politics, includes Wole Soyinka… whose visa was just revoked.

open.spotify.com/episode/7ney...