Yael Harlap
@yaelharlap.bsky.social
Canadian academic in Norway. I research higher ed teaching and learning, race, inclusion, equity, power. Discourse analysis. Otherwise: Knitting. Figure skating. Trying to keep my plants alive.
I love this.
December 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I love this.
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I have never seen an episode and I intend to keep it that way, but kudos to @washingtonpost.com columnist @monicahesse.bsky.social for this masterpiece. It's one of the best-written columns I've read all year.
You don't have to read it - you deserve to read it. Here's a gift link: wapo.st/4r0oLwH
You don't have to read it - you deserve to read it. Here's a gift link: wapo.st/4r0oLwH
Column | ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ is essential viewing. Seriously.
The Hulu reality show about the Mormon wives of TikTok is a perfect distillation of America’s political and cultural moment.
wapo.st
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I have never seen an episode and I intend to keep it that way, but kudos to @washingtonpost.com columnist @monicahesse.bsky.social for this masterpiece. It's one of the best-written columns I've read all year.
You don't have to read it - you deserve to read it. Here's a gift link: wapo.st/4r0oLwH
You don't have to read it - you deserve to read it. Here's a gift link: wapo.st/4r0oLwH
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This ad about the importance of using the best lightning solutions for your workspace is brought to you from 1530 Wittenberg. The desk user M.L. recommends the illuminating dove to help you stay on task. #skystorians #academicchatter
October 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
This ad about the importance of using the best lightning solutions for your workspace is brought to you from 1530 Wittenberg. The desk user M.L. recommends the illuminating dove to help you stay on task. #skystorians #academicchatter
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
This is a stunning opinion piece, and you really, really need to read it.
This is a stunning opinion piece, and you really, really need to read it.
Opinion | Mourn, or Else
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
This is a stunning opinion piece, and you really, really need to read it.
This is a stunning opinion piece, and you really, really need to read it.
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Rest in peace, Jane Goodall. 🌎🌱🦍
#Naturalist #Humanitarian #Philanthropist #Archeologist #Paleontologist #Scientist
#JaneGoodall
#Naturalist #Humanitarian #Philanthropist #Archeologist #Paleontologist #Scientist
#JaneGoodall
October 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Rest in peace, Jane Goodall. 🌎🌱🦍
#Naturalist #Humanitarian #Philanthropist #Archeologist #Paleontologist #Scientist
#JaneGoodall
#Naturalist #Humanitarian #Philanthropist #Archeologist #Paleontologist #Scientist
#JaneGoodall
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If ever there was a great force for good in the world, it was Jane Goodall. It's sad that we won't have her gentle voice here, reminding us to have empathy for our fellow creatures. I'm so grateful for all that she did. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91
www.nytimes.com
October 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If ever there was a great force for good in the world, it was Jane Goodall. It's sad that we won't have her gentle voice here, reminding us to have empathy for our fellow creatures. I'm so grateful for all that she did. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Do I know anyone who is really experienced with NVIVO? Using queries and attributes and stuff like that? I have a few QUESTIONS :p
#nvivo #qualitativeresearch
#nvivo #qualitativeresearch
September 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Do I know anyone who is really experienced with NVIVO? Using queries and attributes and stuff like that? I have a few QUESTIONS :p
#nvivo #qualitativeresearch
#nvivo #qualitativeresearch
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incredible and depressing how fast the decade of progress under trudeau — as slow and flawed and not enough as it might have been — is being dismantled before our eyes
Exclusive: Canada may drop oil emissions cap as part of new climate plan, sources say reut.rs/4nyj2Mh
Exclusive: Canada may drop oil emissions cap as part of new climate plan, sources say
Canada's government is in discussions with energy companies and Alberta about eliminating a federal cap on emissions from the country's oil and gas sector if the industry and province reduce their carbon footprint in other ways, three sources with knowledge of the talks said.
reut.rs
September 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
incredible and depressing how fast the decade of progress under trudeau — as slow and flawed and not enough as it might have been — is being dismantled before our eyes
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The latest episode of John Oliver’s show is on higher ed and scientific research, so well worth watching if you’re in either space. My favorite moment was when he showed Trump saying he would “make Harvard great…again…probably”
If every university president watched, we would be better off
If every university president watched, we would be better off
John Oliver on Trump’s attack on higher education: ‘No capitulation will be enough’
Last Week Tonight host looks into the administration’s attacks on universities’ public funding in the name of ‘fighting antisemitism’
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The latest episode of John Oliver’s show is on higher ed and scientific research, so well worth watching if you’re in either space. My favorite moment was when he showed Trump saying he would “make Harvard great…again…probably”
If every university president watched, we would be better off
If every university president watched, we would be better off
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I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
September 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
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Et mer en dobbelt så sterkt Frp bør være et alvorlig varsko. Høyresida i Norge går samme vei som i resten av verden, i mer ekstrem retning. Det krever seriøse mottiltak.
September 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Et mer en dobbelt så sterkt Frp bør være et alvorlig varsko. Høyresida i Norge går samme vei som i resten av verden, i mer ekstrem retning. Det krever seriøse mottiltak.
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So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌
This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
The Less You Know About AI, the More You Are Likely to Use It
AI can seem magical to those with low AI literacy, a new study finds. That, in turn, might make them more willing to try it.
www.wsj.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
So new studies showcase that the more you know how GenAi works, the less likely you are to use it! 😌
This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
This reminds me of ai advocates who claim that those who refuse to use GenAi do so because they dont know how it works, yet it’s the opposite!
The less you know the more you are likely to use GenAi
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This is sick: The wannabe King of the World is actively trying to undermine other countries global warming efforts with tariffs, levies and other mechanisms to get them to burn more fossil fuels.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
Trump, With Tariffs and Threats, Tries to Strong-Arm Nations to Retreat on Climate Goals
www.nytimes.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is sick: The wannabe King of the World is actively trying to undermine other countries global warming efforts with tariffs, levies and other mechanisms to get them to burn more fossil fuels.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/c...
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I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
Oh this, yes, exactly. And what to do with this.
If writing instruction is to continue to be valued, as well at may, then there will have to be a widespread demand for it. That demand can’t be artificially maintained, merely through force of rhetorical insistence. +
August 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Oh this, yes, exactly. And what to do with this.
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I wrote our head of IT in the fall saying that faculty and students needed a way to block copilot..he said he would bring it up with Microsoft as it could only be done at an administrative level. Still no response. I wrote him and our union last week to say we should consider dropping Microsoft.
If universities were taking our concerns seriously, then they would give us an option to block gAI from at least some classrooms, I dont know, but no, once more, the priorities of tech fields in the university dictate where the entire fucking university must go, and damn the rest of us
It can be blocked?? Why dont universities do this?
August 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I wrote our head of IT in the fall saying that faculty and students needed a way to block copilot..he said he would bring it up with Microsoft as it could only be done at an administrative level. Still no response. I wrote him and our union last week to say we should consider dropping Microsoft.
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Could be spin or divide and rule. Many here are in those fields: openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
openletter.earth
August 1, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Could be spin or divide and rule. Many here are in those fields: openletter.earth/open-letter-...
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Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.
Israel’s new measures do nothing to stop the starvation crisis in Gaza, say aid workers
Humanitarian workers say airdrops and corridors to allow trucks into region have done little to stop the rising death toll
www.theguardian.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.
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"The Columbia University Board of Trustees’ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat."
National AAUP Statement on Columbia
www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
National AAUP Statement on Columbia
www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster
Never in the history of our nation has a university so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. All who care about higher education must stand up and fight back against this unprecedented continuin...
www.aaup.org
July 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"The Columbia University Board of Trustees’ concessions to the Trump administration are a disaster . . . . Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat."
National AAUP Statement on Columbia
www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
National AAUP Statement on Columbia
www.aaup.org/news/columbi...
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how many times do we have to remind people that South American trans activists came up with Latinx not Americans in academia!!!!!
The claim that gender-inclusive Spanish began in the 2010s w/ leftist Dems is headache-inducing. The implication is that these changes would be more authentic if they came from Latin America or Spain.
But feminists in those regions have been calling for gender-inclusive Spanish since the 1970s!
But feminists in those regions have been calling for gender-inclusive Spanish since the 1970s!
July 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
how many times do we have to remind people that South American trans activists came up with Latinx not Americans in academia!!!!!
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it's never been about antisemitism
Linda McMahon on Columbia settlement: "This is a monumental victory for conservatives who wanted to do things on these elite campuses for a long time because we had such far left-leaning professors."
July 24, 2025 at 12:15 PM
it's never been about antisemitism
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new paper 🔓! Teachers are having to put *considerable* amounts of work into making GenAI outputs suitable for their classrooms ... amidst the going hype we need to talk more about what GenAI clearly *cannot* do, and the uniqueness of teacher expert knowledge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
![When the prompting stops: exploring teachers’ work around the educational frailties of generative AI tools
Neil Selwyn, Marita Ljungqvist and Anders Sonesson [1]
Abstract: Teachers are now encouraged to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools to complete various school-related administrative tasks, with the promise of saving considerable amounts of time and effort. Drawing on interviews from 57 teachers across eight schools in Sweden and Australia, this paper explores teachers’ experiences when working with GenAI. In particular, it focuses on the large amounts of work that teachers put into reviewing, repairing and sometimes completely reworking AI-produced outputs that they perceive to be deficient. Rather than reflecting teachers’ lack of skill in prompting GenAI effectively, the paper shows how this work foregrounds the educational limitations and frailties of AI and other automated technologies – with teachers having to act on a wide range of complex professional judgements around pedagogical appropriateness, social relations and overall educational value to bear on AI-generated content. The paper concludes by considering the need to challenge ongoing industry and policy claims around the labour-saving benefits of artificial intelligence in education, and instead focus on the ways in which these technologies are dependent on the hidden labour of humans to co-produce the illusion of automation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y6hdumjyq5qq566lpzcgm5oc/bafkreigekoonls6r72cp2u5ijx43qaubp546k7x6a34svbiz4i4phkpytq@jpeg)
July 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
new paper 🔓! Teachers are having to put *considerable* amounts of work into making GenAI outputs suitable for their classrooms ... amidst the going hype we need to talk more about what GenAI clearly *cannot* do, and the uniqueness of teacher expert knowledge: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A complete and total capitulation of an institution, a brand, the commitment to free speech, academic freedom, and dignity. This is unimaginably terrible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...
Columbia Agrees to $200 Million Fine to Settle Fight With Trump
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A complete and total capitulation of an institution, a brand, the commitment to free speech, academic freedom, and dignity. This is unimaginably terrible.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/n...