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🔵 FACULTY POSITION 🔵

U of Illinois is hiring a Secondary Literacy professor (open rank, tenure-track)!

💰 $78K-$130K (rank dependent)
📅 Start 9/2026
⏰ Deadline: 10/20/25

For more info: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

#AcademicJobs #LiteracyEducation #HigherEd #Literacies

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GenAI and misinformation in education: a systematic scoping review of opportunities and challenges - AI & SOCIETY Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) has emerged as a transformative and disruptive force in education and society, with the potential to both create and correct misinformation. In education,…

Kudos to these authors for framing their scoping review of #GenAI effects across individual, community, and system levels. There's not a lot of high-quality GenAI x misinformation research out there, but this review identifies promising future research directions.
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Inevitability of hallucination ?

Kash Patel’s DOJ Scrubbed Study Showing Right-Wing Violent Attacks Outpace All Other Extremism As MAGA world rages about left-wing violence, the government appears to have removed a research paper showing contrary evidence.

“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”

The Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.

"The white Christian perpetrator always retains his humanity.
Even after committing heinous acts of violence, we see these white Christians depicted as human beings, not terrorist 'others.' The media describes their childhood and shows us their graduation photos, not their mug shots...."

Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies.

No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

🧐 Hmmm which book to read first? #BookSky #Technofeudalism #Bloodinthemachine #Teachingmachines

Cognitive scientists and AI researchers make a forceful call to reject “uncritical adoption" of AI in academia A new paper calls on academia to repel rampant AI in university departments and classrooms.

YES. @bcmerchant.bsky.social features @olivia.science and co-authors' new paper: "an excellent resource for educators, administrators, and anyone concerned about AI...And it’s a fine arrow in the quiver for those educators already eager to stand up to AI-happy administrations or department heads."

Ice cream cone holder? 😂

Will Bunch on Trump's DC takeover as a prelude to dictatorship "It’s critical for his whole authoritarian project."

Will Bunch on Trump's DC takeover as a prelude to dictatorship

Republicans in Congress handed Trump a fortune to build up ICE, but in reality, he is creating his own personal army.

He can't legally put the National Guard in blue cities, but he can put ICE there under false pretenses.

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.

But we do need your time. ⏰

zohranfornyc.com/events

Education Now Lab presents Creatively Critical Tech Research + Design + Practice

Friends! Pencil in these dates for @edunowlab.bsky.social's Creatively Critical Tech series! #literacies
10/6 or 7 Kate Hennessy www.makingculturelab.com
10/15 6:30CT Roderic Crooks www.rncrooks.info
11/12 6:30CT Audrey Watters audreywatters.com
11/19 6:30CT Cynthia Bennett www.bennettc.com

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

We’re absolutely elated to release the inaugural issue of Racial Justice in Multilingual Education! All open-access, peer-reviewed, with authors who put so much heart into their work and their words. Enjoy! @rjme-journal.bsky.social

www.rjme.org

LLM companies are beta testing experimental products our children, and educators are facilitating it.

Chicago's mayor pushes back as Trump administration readies immigration crackdown Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city's police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols.

Brandon Johnson signed an executive order barring the city's police from collaborating with federal officers on civil immigration enforcement operations, and U.S. military personnel on police patrols.

Sunlight hitting the knitting 🧶 #Knitting #knittingsndcrochet #yarnarts

Israeli strikes kill 22, including 5 journalists, in a Gaza hospital Israeli forces killed 22 people, including five journalists, in two strikes on Gaza's Nasser Hospital, drawing global condemnation and prompting a rare admission of regret from the Israeli government.

Israeli forces killed 22 people, including five journalists, in two strikes on Gaza's Nasser Hospital, drawing global condemnation and prompting a rare admission of regret from the Israeli government.

Calling all #worldlanguage / #foreignlanguage teachers who have degrees in #education! A colleague and I are conducting a study about the WL/FL education #methods courses taught in undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Structuring Choice Policy, School Segregation and the Two-Staged School Choice Process - Deven Carlson, Thurston Domina, James Carter, Rachel M. Perera, Vitaly Radsky, Andrew McEachin, 2025 School choice is both an important tool for school desegregation policy and an enabler of racial segregation. In this paper, we used a two-stage model of comple...

A new article in AERJ observed the relationship between school choice policy and school segregation, finding that White and Asian families disproportionately used the choice system to avoid schools with large concentrations of Black students. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

This.

Organizers created a letter for education scholars, practitioners, and students to sign to stand up to Harvard Ed Publishing about their censorship of Palestine special issue. Here's the letter to read, sign & share the letter:
academicaccountability.com/2025/08/08/l...

Yup—13 works of mine! Disgusting. People should be sure to search all variations on their name (eg with and without middle initials).

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Yup—similar number for me. Disgusted.

Every time we hear about Trump deploying the National Guard, all we can think of is: “Tin soldiers and Trump is coming.”

What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.

Five articles with fake references found in the British Educational Research Journal They are not good papers

If we allow our flagship journals to fill with AI slop (presumably pushing out excellent or at least competent work in the process) then we are making a better case for our marginalisation than any critic ever could.

open.substack.com/pub/stephenv...

An Annotated Guide to OpenAI's Enshittification of Education 1.

OpenAI claims to be pursuing a "moonshot" in education. Today I provide a short annotated guide to what that "moonshot" entails, with nods to @mikecaulfield.bsky.social @simonwillison.net @audreywatters.bsky.social @leonfurze.com @janerosenzweig.bsky.social and especially @heymrsbond.com