Sara Vogel
@saraevogel.bsky.social
Brooklynite, bilingual & CS education researcher. She/her #blacklivesmatter
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On behalf of our @cuny.edu community, I extend heartfelt congratulations to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on a remarkable and history-making victory. Your inspiring leadership marks a new chapter for our city.
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
On behalf of our @cuny.edu community, I extend heartfelt congratulations to Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on a remarkable and history-making victory. Your inspiring leadership marks a new chapter for our city.
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I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Trump Is Shutting Down the War On Cancer
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
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Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
“The ability to quickly generate a lot of bogus content is problematic if we don't have a way to delete it just as quickly.”
www.404media.co
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...
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Morning! We're going to skip the last Poets.org selection because, as @heymrsbond.com rightly pointed out to me and @thevogelman.bsky.social, "Nikki Giovanni has to appear in a month where we talk about poetry."
So that's what we're doing! Today's #PoemADayJuly:
"Legacies" by Nikki Giovanni
So that's what we're doing! Today's #PoemADayJuly:
"Legacies" by Nikki Giovanni
July 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Morning! We're going to skip the last Poets.org selection because, as @heymrsbond.com rightly pointed out to me and @thevogelman.bsky.social, "Nikki Giovanni has to appear in a month where we talk about poetry."
So that's what we're doing! Today's #PoemADayJuly:
"Legacies" by Nikki Giovanni
So that's what we're doing! Today's #PoemADayJuly:
"Legacies" by Nikki Giovanni
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They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
Justice Dept. Asks for 1-Day Sentence for Ex-Officer Convicted in Breonna Taylor Raid
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be.
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...
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“And ultimately, what I fear,” Mamdani said, “is that if this is what Donald Trump and his administration feel comfortable about saying about the Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City, imagine what they feel comfortable saying and doing about immigrants whose names they don’t even know.”
July 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“And ultimately, what I fear,” Mamdani said, “is that if this is what Donald Trump and his administration feel comfortable about saying about the Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City, imagine what they feel comfortable saying and doing about immigrants whose names they don’t even know.”
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WATCH: Brad Lander responds to Mayor Eric Adam's statement on his arrest by ICE agents.
June 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
WATCH: Brad Lander responds to Mayor Eric Adam's statement on his arrest by ICE agents.
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“I’ve been thinking why the Maker movement lost its momentum. Maybe it’s because we rushed to make it without taking the time to understand. Real learning —the kind that sticks —takes time. Time is in short supply in most schools, squeezed out by pacing guides, test prep, and competing priorities”
Origami: The Case for Slower, Smarter STEAM Education
Why I’m rethinking 3D printing, Lego, and what ‘making’ should really mean in STEAM education.
substack.com
June 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
“I’ve been thinking why the Maker movement lost its momentum. Maybe it’s because we rushed to make it without taking the time to understand. Real learning —the kind that sticks —takes time. Time is in short supply in most schools, squeezed out by pacing guides, test prep, and competing priorities”
A tourist was trying to follow directions provided by ChatGPT to get from Manhattan to Brooklyn. I told her to throw them in the garbage... I have no idea where she would have wound up....
May 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A tourist was trying to follow directions provided by ChatGPT to get from Manhattan to Brooklyn. I told her to throw them in the garbage... I have no idea where she would have wound up....
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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
www.bloomberg.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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the lie of an objective, neutral summary runs parallel to the lie of the objective, neutral reporter
Summary itself when taken to its most effective form is not a line of best fit pulled from a corpus, it is itself imbued with the argumentative perspective of the writer. These tools are anti-perspective machines that leave no space for the student to develop their own intervention.
May 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
the lie of an objective, neutral summary runs parallel to the lie of the objective, neutral reporter
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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Katie's right, but I want to nuance the issue.
Students come into college with an understanding of writing that is mechanical and algorithmic. It mistakes mastery of the basic form of an essay for using that form to articulate that point. Part of this is due to the culture around student writing.
Students come into college with an understanding of writing that is mechanical and algorithmic. It mistakes mastery of the basic form of an essay for using that form to articulate that point. Part of this is due to the culture around student writing.
I SAY THIS EVERY DAY: THERE IS AN ILLITERACY PROBLEM THAT IS ONLY GETTING WORSE.
death to chatgpt for exacerbating the issue.
death to chatgpt for exacerbating the issue.
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
May 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Katie's right, but I want to nuance the issue.
Students come into college with an understanding of writing that is mechanical and algorithmic. It mistakes mastery of the basic form of an essay for using that form to articulate that point. Part of this is due to the culture around student writing.
Students come into college with an understanding of writing that is mechanical and algorithmic. It mistakes mastery of the basic form of an essay for using that form to articulate that point. Part of this is due to the culture around student writing.
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Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.
My Brain Finally Broke
Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.
www.newyorker.com
May 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Jia Tolentino writes about how Donald Trump and “his lieutenant content-generator Elon Musk” harness the internet to damage our sense of the real.
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Yesterday, I joined my brilliant colleagues at #AERA2025 for a panel, "AI and Educational Justice: A Critical Conversation." An audience member asked for more concrete ways to resist the imposition of AI on teachers/students - ahem, Trump's EO on AI - and I wanted to expand on my answer. 🧵
April 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Yesterday, I joined my brilliant colleagues at #AERA2025 for a panel, "AI and Educational Justice: A Critical Conversation." An audience member asked for more concrete ways to resist the imposition of AI on teachers/students - ahem, Trump's EO on AI - and I wanted to expand on my answer. 🧵
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Today is the day that funding expires for ERIC with no renewal at all. After that, there will be no new updates to the indexing of the database. This is bad for all of Education research #EduSky #AERA2025
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat
Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week
hechingerreport.org
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Today is the day that funding expires for ERIC with no renewal at all. After that, there will be no new updates to the indexing of the database. This is bad for all of Education research #EduSky #AERA2025
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
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this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
April 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview
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New York Dept of Education says it will not comply with the US Dept of Ed's order to certify their schools are getting rid of DEI programs.
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
April 4, 2025 at 11:58 PM
New York Dept of Education says it will not comply with the US Dept of Ed's order to certify their schools are getting rid of DEI programs.
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
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Whoever pulled the trigger on the decision around Amber WHCD knew to do it on a damn Saturday morning fully knowing we tape on Friday nights and wouldn't be able to talk about this week. New @HignfyUS up now on @StreamOnMax w/ Guest Sam Seder & Sam Jay.
March 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Whoever pulled the trigger on the decision around Amber WHCD knew to do it on a damn Saturday morning fully knowing we tape on Friday nights and wouldn't be able to talk about this week. New @HignfyUS up now on @StreamOnMax w/ Guest Sam Seder & Sam Jay.
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Open letter by 700+ Jewish faculty in US on Trump's Columbia funding cuts, supposedly against antisemitism: "Not on our behalf. Harming US Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers does not protect Jewish people."
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E-0lkZ…
March 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Open letter by 700+ Jewish faculty in US on Trump's Columbia funding cuts, supposedly against antisemitism: "Not on our behalf. Harming US Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers does not protect Jewish people."
"The trump Administration is stoking anti-semitism in the name of combating anti-semitism, and we must not comply...we won't be your scapegoats" - Rachel Paradis, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social
www.facebook.com/reel/4511839...
www.facebook.com/reel/4511839...
16K views · 51 reactions | “Not this time.” Listen to Rachel Paradis, Columbia University nursing student and longtime JFREJ member, talk about the Trump administration’s effort to scapegoat Jews in t...
“Not this time.” Listen to Rachel Paradis, Columbia University nursing student and longtime JFREJ member, talk about the Trump administration’s effort to scapegoat Jews in their authoritarian &...
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March 26, 2025 at 12:55 AM
"The trump Administration is stoking anti-semitism in the name of combating anti-semitism, and we must not comply...we won't be your scapegoats" - Rachel Paradis, @jfrejnyc.bsky.social
www.facebook.com/reel/4511839...
www.facebook.com/reel/4511839...
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We want to spread the word about the nationwide mobilizations on April 5. Tell us why you will be taking to the streets: bit.ly/April5socials
March 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
We want to spread the word about the nationwide mobilizations on April 5. Tell us why you will be taking to the streets: bit.ly/April5socials
🚨Right wing billionaire money pouring into NYC council races against women of color.
Proud of @indivisible.org and @goodbetash.bsky.social and his "run of the mill Jews" team for pushing back
www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Proud of @indivisible.org and @goodbetash.bsky.social and his "run of the mill Jews" team for pushing back
www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Progressive group calls on Democratic City Council candidate to return money from Republican donors
The candidate, Maya Kornberg, has closer ties to one of those donors than previously disclosed.
www.cityandstateny.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
🚨Right wing billionaire money pouring into NYC council races against women of color.
Proud of @indivisible.org and @goodbetash.bsky.social and his "run of the mill Jews" team for pushing back
www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Proud of @indivisible.org and @goodbetash.bsky.social and his "run of the mill Jews" team for pushing back
www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
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🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
March 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
🚨 EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
Columbia/Barnard faculty, Jewish community leaders, immigrant advocates, and rabbis are demanding the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil from ICE custody.
We will not be silent or cower in the face of American Fascism. #FreeMahmoud
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When Republicans attack our education system, they're attacking our future.
We won't let them silence marginalized voices, erase historical facts, or limit our children's potential.
Dont Defund Public Schools
We won't let them silence marginalized voices, erase historical facts, or limit our children's potential.
Dont Defund Public Schools
March 4, 2025 at 4:43 AM
When Republicans attack our education system, they're attacking our future.
We won't let them silence marginalized voices, erase historical facts, or limit our children's potential.
Dont Defund Public Schools
We won't let them silence marginalized voices, erase historical facts, or limit our children's potential.
Dont Defund Public Schools