LJHands
@ljhands.bsky.social
Language & literacy education researcher, teacher educator, and Professor Emerita at Illinois State University; knitter, gardener, athlete, breast cancer survivor. Posts my own, reposts not necessarily an endorsement.
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Oooh, look what I just found in the new @tcpress.bsky.social catalog! A lot has happened in the field of literacy research and teaching in the 10 years since my first edition. So excited to get this second edition out!
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Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
February 9, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."
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explaining my dream to my shrink
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 AM
explaining my dream to my shrink
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Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH.
Good god what a child
Good god what a child
February 9, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Imagine being the most powerful man in the world and being this much of a whiney victim BITCH.
Good god what a child
Good god what a child
Resistance hat complete! #knitsky #resistance Malabrigo chunky with a strand of Rowan Kidsilk haze.
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Resistance hat complete! #knitsky #resistance Malabrigo chunky with a strand of Rowan Kidsilk haze.
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Who Owns Your Image and Narrative? Naomi Klein & Yanis Varoufakis — Live tonight (18.30CET) Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iRc...
Who Owns Your Image and Narrative? Naomi Klein & Yanis Varoufakis — Live
YouTube video by DiEM25
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February 4, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Who Owns Your Image and Narrative? Naomi Klein & Yanis Varoufakis — Live tonight (18.30CET) Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iRc...
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These kids should be going to school. Playing with their friends. Eating dinner with their families.
Detaining them is cruel and inhumane.
Detaining them is cruel and inhumane.
January 30, 2026 at 2:19 PM
These kids should be going to school. Playing with their friends. Eating dinner with their families.
Detaining them is cruel and inhumane.
Detaining them is cruel and inhumane.
Oooh, look what I just found in the new @tcpress.bsky.social catalog! A lot has happened in the field of literacy research and teaching in the 10 years since my first edition. So excited to get this second edition out!
January 29, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Oooh, look what I just found in the new @tcpress.bsky.social catalog! A lot has happened in the field of literacy research and teaching in the 10 years since my first edition. So excited to get this second edition out!
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"Anthropomorphizing AI gives people the wrong idea about what these systems actually are. And that has consequences. When we begin to assign consciousness and emotional intelligence to an entity where none exists, we start trusting AI in ways it was never meant to be trusted."
Stop Talking About AI as if It's Human. It's Not
Commentary: Instead of pretending AI is a cognizant being with emotions, let's examine the actual risks and limitations.
www.cnet.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
"Anthropomorphizing AI gives people the wrong idea about what these systems actually are. And that has consequences. When we begin to assign consciousness and emotional intelligence to an entity where none exists, we start trusting AI in ways it was never meant to be trusted."
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An extended cri de coeur about how public universities just "clicked Accept"; they've "drifted from their democratic mission" by uncritically incorporating AI, effectively reducing education to a "franchise of a global tech empire": tinyurl.com/2bnu668h
December 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
An extended cri de coeur about how public universities just "clicked Accept"; they've "drifted from their democratic mission" by uncritically incorporating AI, effectively reducing education to a "franchise of a global tech empire": tinyurl.com/2bnu668h
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
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Here it is because eff paywalls: static1.squarespace.com/static/558d0...
November 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Here it is because eff paywalls: static1.squarespace.com/static/558d0...
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Jon Wargo and I are guest editing a collection for The Reading Teacher: LGBTQ+ Literacies: Affirming Identities, Advancing Justice with P-K-6 Learners. We’d love to read your scholarship. Guiding questions below
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Jon Wargo and I are guest editing a collection for The Reading Teacher: LGBTQ+ Literacies: Affirming Identities, Advancing Justice with P-K-6 Learners. We’d love to read your scholarship. Guiding questions below
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📢 Publication Alert!
Volume 74 of Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice is now live at: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LRX/curr...
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Volume 74 of Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice is now live at: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LRX/curr...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
📢 Publication Alert!
Volume 74 of Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice is now live at: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LRX/curr...
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Volume 74 of Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice is now live at: journals.sagepub.com/toc/LRX/curr...
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📢 Publication alert!
🗒️Dr. Alfred Tatum’s Presidential Address “Troubling the Dark: Un(bounded) Black Male Literacy Development” is now live!
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🗒️Dr. Alfred Tatum’s Presidential Address “Troubling the Dark: Un(bounded) Black Male Literacy Development” is now live!
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November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
📢 Publication alert!
🗒️Dr. Alfred Tatum’s Presidential Address “Troubling the Dark: Un(bounded) Black Male Literacy Development” is now live!
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🗒️Dr. Alfred Tatum’s Presidential Address “Troubling the Dark: Un(bounded) Black Male Literacy Development” is now live!
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📢 Publication alert!
🗒️The Integrative Research Review titled “Good Trouble, Necessary Narratives: The 2024 LRA Integrative Research Review Panel” is now live!
🗒️The Integrative Research Review titled “Good Trouble, Necessary Narratives: The 2024 LRA Integrative Research Review Panel” is now live!
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
📢 Publication alert!
🗒️The Integrative Research Review titled “Good Trouble, Necessary Narratives: The 2024 LRA Integrative Research Review Panel” is now live!
🗒️The Integrative Research Review titled “Good Trouble, Necessary Narratives: The 2024 LRA Integrative Research Review Panel” is now live!
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What's striking isn't the growing number of studies finding negative effects from using AI - in this case, to have it summarize research for you (vs. searching individual sources yourself) - but the kneejerk tendency of those reporting them to ask how best to use AI (vs. whether we need it at all).
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
What's striking isn't the growing number of studies finding negative effects from using AI - in this case, to have it summarize research for you (vs. searching individual sources yourself) - but the kneejerk tendency of those reporting them to ask how best to use AI (vs. whether we need it at all).
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The hed now reads "Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace" and the dek reads "And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?"
✌🏾Conservative feminism✌🏾 is an oxymoron.
✌🏾Conservative feminism✌🏾 is an oxymoron.
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The hed now reads "Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace" and the dek reads "And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?"
✌🏾Conservative feminism✌🏾 is an oxymoron.
✌🏾Conservative feminism✌🏾 is an oxymoron.
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Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
October 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Pope Leo calls on journalists to report facts and expose disinformation.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
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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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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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College of Education: Professor (Open-Rank) – Secondary Literacy
Duties and Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
September 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
🔵 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
Please boost! 🚀
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
Please boost! 🚀
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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
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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,…
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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
#PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Inevitability of hallucination ?
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Inevitability of hallucination ?
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“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 Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.
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.
jpaladino.substack.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“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 Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.
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"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...."
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...."
September 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
"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...."
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...."
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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.
No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.
September 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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.
No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.