readywriting
@readywriting.bsky.social
I do digital pedagogy things professionally, coach swimming for my sanity, sew my own clothes amateurishly, parent the best I can.
Co-host of the All The Things ADHD podcast, editor of the National Teaching and Learning Forum.
Co-host of the All The Things ADHD podcast, editor of the National Teaching and Learning Forum.
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@readywriting.bsky.social
· Aug 14
Of Many Minds
Neurodiversity and Mental Health Among University Faculty and Staff
press.jhu.edu
It's my birthday today and I can't think of a better way for you all to celebrate it than to PRE-ORDER OUR BOOK! press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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If you are writing an opinion piece about higher education and the three example institutions you use are Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, please just throw your writing in the trash. You are not writing about higher ed, you are writing about a tiny elitist unrepresentative sliver of higher ed.
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If you are writing an opinion piece about higher education and the three example institutions you use are Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, please just throw your writing in the trash. You are not writing about higher ed, you are writing about a tiny elitist unrepresentative sliver of higher ed.
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In case you missed it over the weekend, my op-ed on the federal budget.
GIFT LINK - My Toronto Star op-ed on the federal budget, and the failure to account for provincial action on post-secondary education. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Mark Carney’s budget is blind to the real causes of Canada’s problems
The prime minister's first budget emphasizes infrastructure and resource extraction but fails to leverage our most significant economic drivers.
www.thestar.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In case you missed it over the weekend, my op-ed on the federal budget.
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Brilliant idea - when you're a tiny community group it can be so hard to cover those boring but essential costs like insurance!
Look at this great fund. £200 for really small charities to spend on boring things. Easy, quick to apply.
Link below.
Please share :)
Link below.
Please share :)
Boring Fund | Christina Poulton
Applications now open!
£200 grants available for small charities, CICs and voluntary groups towards some of those boring but hard-to-fund costs.
www.christinapoultoncreative.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Brilliant idea - when you're a tiny community group it can be so hard to cover those boring but essential costs like insurance!
WTF cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
WTF cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app
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NEW: As a wise Supreme Court justice (Robert Jackson) once said, "emergency powers...tend to kindle emergencies."
www.thebulwark.com/p/which-cons...
www.thebulwark.com/p/which-cons...
Which Conservative Justices Will Fall for Trump’s Tariff Power Grab?
Emergency powers “tend to kindle emergencies,” as a great justice of yore once observed.
www.thebulwark.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
NEW: As a wise Supreme Court justice (Robert Jackson) once said, "emergency powers...tend to kindle emergencies."
www.thebulwark.com/p/which-cons...
www.thebulwark.com/p/which-cons...
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What is the posing as an ICE officer compared to being an ICE officer?
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
What is the posing as an ICE officer compared to being an ICE officer?
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"It's part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking... If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"It's part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking... If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”
Whew. They really made this actor look and sound like Michael. This is going to be an interesting one to see.
The first teaser for “Michael,” the long-waited Michael Jackson biopic, is out:
November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Whew. They really made this actor look and sound like Michael. This is going to be an interesting one to see.
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Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Armed US immigration agents drive off with toddler after arrest of father
‘Devastated’ family demands answers after two-year-old driven by armed agents from LA Home Depot parking lot
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Billionaires are a menace to society.
SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point:
www.wired.com/story/mark-z...
Mark Zuckerberg Opened an Illegal School at His Palo Alto Compound. His Neighbors Revolted
Neighbors complained about noise, security guards, and hordes of traffic. An unlicensed school named after the Zuckerbergs’ pet chicken tipped them over the edge.
www.wired.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Billionaires are a menace to society.
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NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech?
Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.
Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.
RSVP to THE LUDDITE TRIBUNAL | Partiful
It's time to put technology on trial, and to smash it if necessary. Join Paris Marx, Jathan Sadowski, Ed Ongweso Jr, Veena Dubal, Brian Merchant, and special guests for an evening of booze, discussion...
partiful.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech?
Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.
Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.
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One of the great joys of Zohran's victory is that NYC finally has a mayor who doesn't give a shit about what the New York Times thinks of him
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
One of the great joys of Zohran's victory is that NYC finally has a mayor who doesn't give a shit about what the New York Times thinks of him
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Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!
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This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...???
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...???
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The nerve of this guy to (checks notes) insist on the rule of law.
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The nerve of this guy to (checks notes) insist on the rule of law.
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Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
November 5, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."
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Last month I interviewed @readywriting.bsky.social about their new co-edited book. It's taken a while to edit the audio and the transcript but it's almost ready to be published. If you are on my newsletter list, you'll be the first to know. jovanevery.co.uk/newsletter
Newsletter - Jo VanEvery
Join My Newsletter Want to hear from me regularly? My newsletter includes a monthly article about academic life and work, and prompts at the end of every month to help you notice what you’ve accomplis...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Last month I interviewed @readywriting.bsky.social about their new co-edited book. It's taken a while to edit the audio and the transcript but it's almost ready to be published. If you are on my newsletter list, you'll be the first to know. jovanevery.co.uk/newsletter
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Fun fact: it has been 56 days since I notified the editors of Neurology about glaring statistical errors in this peer-reviewed study on sweeteners and cognitive health.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Fun fact: it has been 56 days since I notified the editors of Neurology about glaring statistical errors in this peer-reviewed study on sweeteners and cognitive health.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.
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Interested in resources to help students learn what "counts" as an argument when interpreting a text. Because they're accustomed to more empirical modes of argument, they struggle with the difference between "interpret" and "just say your opinion." Any resources that outline this in a helpful way?
November 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Interested in resources to help students learn what "counts" as an argument when interpreting a text. Because they're accustomed to more empirical modes of argument, they struggle with the difference between "interpret" and "just say your opinion." Any resources that outline this in a helpful way?
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Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education."
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
October 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education."
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT!
Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...
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Interpassivity
This is a very good article about the real trend of people who use chatGPT for literally everything, and outsource their whole life to it including dating, texts, work emails, hobbies etc etc, and tries to understand why....
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
www.thecut.com/article/woul...
The People Using ChatGPT to Cheat at Their Hobbies
Why are so many of us letting AI have all the fun?
www.thecut.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Interpassivity
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My take on the transformative gift that is MacKenzie Scott and her almost $1Billion in giving to HBCUs since 2020, and why what she is doing goes far beyond philanthropy--it is protecting the future of Academic Freedom, and Diversity. READ: www.forbes.com/sites/sophia... @forbes.com #HBCUs
With Nearly $1B In Gifts, MacKenzie Scott Transforms America’s HBCUs
Her unrestricted philanthropy gives historically Black colleges the freedom—and responsibility—to strengthen endowments, expand research, and reimagine their futures.
www.forbes.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My take on the transformative gift that is MacKenzie Scott and her almost $1Billion in giving to HBCUs since 2020, and why what she is doing goes far beyond philanthropy--it is protecting the future of Academic Freedom, and Diversity. READ: www.forbes.com/sites/sophia... @forbes.com #HBCUs
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Title says it all: "Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat: Cheating just got a lot easier with AI agents."
elissawelle.bsky.social shows that the companies could do something, and so far they don't want to.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... 1/
elissawelle.bsky.social shows that the companies could do something, and so far they don't want to.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... 1/
Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat
Ready, set, cheat.
www.theverge.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Title says it all: "Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat: Cheating just got a lot easier with AI agents."
elissawelle.bsky.social shows that the companies could do something, and so far they don't want to.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... 1/
elissawelle.bsky.social shows that the companies could do something, and so far they don't want to.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... 1/
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