Liz Gross (she/her)
@lizgross144.bsky.social
Founder & CEO of Campus Sonar. #HigherEd social intelligence strategy, leadership, and transformation. Vegetable gardener, home cook, reader. Equity accomplice. Senior Swiftie: Gelsenkirchen N1.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
So many screaming children in this gate area.
November 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
So many screaming children in this gate area.
Guess what I just did
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November 29, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Guess what I just did
This was the turkey I ate for Thanksgiving. Between my husband and I, we finished the entire thing.
November 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This was the turkey I ate for Thanksgiving. Between my husband and I, we finished the entire thing.
Hoping for six hours of sleep before the very early AM alarm goes off to get to the airport.
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hoping for six hours of sleep before the very early AM alarm goes off to get to the airport.
I woke up around 4am rattled from a dream in which the piece I submitted to a column in one of the higher ed trades was somehow replaced with AI slop when published and I was frantically demanding it be taken down.
So I had to check that what’s running today appeared as intended.
So I had to check that what’s running today appeared as intended.
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I woke up around 4am rattled from a dream in which the piece I submitted to a column in one of the higher ed trades was somehow replaced with AI slop when published and I was frantically demanding it be taken down.
So I had to check that what’s running today appeared as intended.
So I had to check that what’s running today appeared as intended.
This just blew my mind. I can’t imagine trying to read this way. 🤯
And I had no idea that most (i.e., more than half) 12th graders in the USA can’t read proficiently.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
And I had no idea that most (i.e., more than half) 12th graders in the USA can’t read proficiently.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This just blew my mind. I can’t imagine trying to read this way. 🤯
And I had no idea that most (i.e., more than half) 12th graders in the USA can’t read proficiently.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
And I had no idea that most (i.e., more than half) 12th graders in the USA can’t read proficiently.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
Reposted by Liz Gross (she/her)
Higher education is exactly the same.
Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Higher education is exactly the same.
Reposted by Liz Gross (she/her)
Every sector of the 🇺🇸 economy & polity is exactly like this. Ronald Reagan & his lazy, selfish, juvenile talking point & his acolytes’ worn copies of Atlas Shrugged have done untold damage to our politics & society.
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Every sector of the 🇺🇸 economy & polity is exactly like this. Ronald Reagan & his lazy, selfish, juvenile talking point & his acolytes’ worn copies of Atlas Shrugged have done untold damage to our politics & society.
Lady next to me in the airport: I took a friend’s scrap jewelry to the “scrapper” and I got a few dollars… like $10,000
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Lady next to me in the airport: I took a friend’s scrap jewelry to the “scrapper” and I got a few dollars… like $10,000
I think most people know what rotten eggs smell like, but far fewer people have actually smelled rotten eggs.
Deep Thoughts, by Liz Gross
Deep Thoughts, by Liz Gross
November 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I think most people know what rotten eggs smell like, but far fewer people have actually smelled rotten eggs.
Deep Thoughts, by Liz Gross
Deep Thoughts, by Liz Gross
It's the last year of the Farmer's Almanac. End of an era.
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It's the last year of the Farmer's Almanac. End of an era.
So, are they saying without actually saying it that the Department of Homeland Security international student visa are fishy, and we aren’t being told the truth by the government?
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
International Graduate Student Enrollment Drops
Some colleges report dramatic declines in enrollment among master’s-level students amid visa issuance and immigration challenges in the U.S.
www.insidehighered.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
So, are they saying without actually saying it that the Department of Homeland Security international student visa are fishy, and we aren’t being told the truth by the government?
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
If you're in open enrollment and your healthcare costs have stayed the same or only gone up a couple of percentage points, thank your benefits manager.
I just did.
I just did.
November 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
If you're in open enrollment and your healthcare costs have stayed the same or only gone up a couple of percentage points, thank your benefits manager.
I just did.
I just did.
A happy story for your timeline… especially all the former musical theater kids.
www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...
When Broadway flops get a second life as student musicals
Each year, many more Americans see live theater in local schools than on Broadway. So when a show has a short run in New York? It's not over.
www.npr.org
November 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A happy story for your timeline… especially all the former musical theater kids.
www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...
Called 21 people to thank them for their donation today. Spoke to about 5. Hope the rest actually listen to their voicemails.
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Called 21 people to thank them for their donation today. Spoke to about 5. Hope the rest actually listen to their voicemails.
I think I just accidentally started a new genealogy hobby.
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I think I just accidentally started a new genealogy hobby.
Wonder what that will do to UF’s national rankings that they’ve been so focused on.
Florida's governor is telling public universities to stop hiring anyone on a H-1B visa. Expect other red states to follow suit.
Florida’s Public Universities Should No Longer Hire Foreign Employees, DeSantis Says
The Republican governor’s directive on H-1B visas comes as President Trump has initiated his policy of charging employers a new $100,000 fee to hire people from outside the United States.
www.chronicle.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Wonder what that will do to UF’s national rankings that they’ve been so focused on.
What do you think is the lowest possible client to partner/supplier ratio a professional conference can sustain?
October 30, 2025 at 2:29 AM
What do you think is the lowest possible client to partner/supplier ratio a professional conference can sustain?
Reposted by Liz Gross (she/her)
OpenAI laying the groundwork for an IPO
"I think it's fair to say it is the most likely path for us, given the capital needs that we'll have," [CEO Sam Altman] said.
A Russian nesting doll of shit. The capital needs to run a business to create capital needs to run
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
"I think it's fair to say it is the most likely path for us, given the capital needs that we'll have," [CEO Sam Altman] said.
A Russian nesting doll of shit. The capital needs to run a business to create capital needs to run
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM
OpenAI laying the groundwork for an IPO
"I think it's fair to say it is the most likely path for us, given the capital needs that we'll have," [CEO Sam Altman] said.
A Russian nesting doll of shit. The capital needs to run a business to create capital needs to run
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
"I think it's fair to say it is the most likely path for us, given the capital needs that we'll have," [CEO Sam Altman] said.
A Russian nesting doll of shit. The capital needs to run a business to create capital needs to run
www.reuters.com/business/ope...
My mom died just over 11 months ago.
This week she (well, I) received yet another bill for her care.
She was in a $14K/month nursing home, and received hospice care there through medicare.
This week she (well, I) received yet another bill for her care.
She was in a $14K/month nursing home, and received hospice care there through medicare.
October 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My mom died just over 11 months ago.
This week she (well, I) received yet another bill for her care.
She was in a $14K/month nursing home, and received hospice care there through medicare.
This week she (well, I) received yet another bill for her care.
She was in a $14K/month nursing home, and received hospice care there through medicare.
I thought I had a brilliant idea to book a slightly non-conventional flight combo for husband and I with CC points. Many point transfers later, I realized I was seeing double inventory, so now he has a flight home and I do not. Gonna let it ride and see if I can make it work out.
October 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I thought I had a brilliant idea to book a slightly non-conventional flight combo for husband and I with CC points. Many point transfers later, I realized I was seeing double inventory, so now he has a flight home and I do not. Gonna let it ride and see if I can make it work out.
“Us messes have all the best answers.”
Greys, Season 14
Greys, Season 14
October 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
“Us messes have all the best answers.”
Greys, Season 14
Greys, Season 14
An acquaintance of mine just posted that it's her last day working at Amazon Web Services (she did some education sector work for them). She worked there 4.5 years, and that's apparently longer than 71.4% of their employees globally.
I had no idea corporate turnover could be that high.
I had no idea corporate turnover could be that high.
October 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
An acquaintance of mine just posted that it's her last day working at Amazon Web Services (she did some education sector work for them). She worked there 4.5 years, and that's apparently longer than 71.4% of their employees globally.
I had no idea corporate turnover could be that high.
I had no idea corporate turnover could be that high.