Cyndi Kernahan
@cyndik.bsky.social
Social Psychologist, Educational Developer
@lindaholmes.bsky.social just listened to your conversation about After the Hunt and kept thinking of this column www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...
Opinion | The New Julia Roberts Movie Seethes With Anti-Woke Resentment
www.nytimes.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:07 PM
@lindaholmes.bsky.social just listened to your conversation about After the Hunt and kept thinking of this column www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...
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💙📚🤎 Highlighting Black Authors that I love in February #BookSky #BlackBookSky
Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want To Talk About Race
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Both must-reads on your anti-racism journey.
#NonFiction #AntiRacism #Politics #Sociology #Education 💡📚
Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want To Talk About Race
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Both must-reads on your anti-racism journey.
#NonFiction #AntiRacism #Politics #Sociology #Education 💡📚
February 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
💙📚🤎 Highlighting Black Authors that I love in February #BookSky #BlackBookSky
Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want To Talk About Race
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Both must-reads on your anti-racism journey.
#NonFiction #AntiRacism #Politics #Sociology #Education 💡📚
Ijeoma Oluo
So You Want To Talk About Race
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Both must-reads on your anti-racism journey.
#NonFiction #AntiRacism #Politics #Sociology #Education 💡📚
www.oupress.com/978080619469...
This book is getting lots of love and should get lots more! It is truly so good and so needed at this point in time. Thank you @liznorell.bsky.social for providing us with a way to think about where we are right now and how to move forward.
This book is getting lots of love and should get lots more! It is truly so good and so needed at this point in time. Thank you @liznorell.bsky.social for providing us with a way to think about where we are right now and how to move forward.
The Present Professor - University of Oklahoma Press
It’s hard to learn when you’re under stress, and a lot harder when your teacher is struggling with stress, too. In a world where stress is unavoidable—...
www.oupress.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
www.oupress.com/978080619469...
This book is getting lots of love and should get lots more! It is truly so good and so needed at this point in time. Thank you @liznorell.bsky.social for providing us with a way to think about where we are right now and how to move forward.
This book is getting lots of love and should get lots more! It is truly so good and so needed at this point in time. Thank you @liznorell.bsky.social for providing us with a way to think about where we are right now and how to move forward.
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It's amazing* how so many people who should know better have just cast aside any pretense of critical thinking and jumped headfirst onto the hype wagon.
*it's not, I guess, but still
*it's not, I guess, but still
I am increasingly distressed by academia's uncritical adoption of what are marketed as AI tools, as it is increasingly clear how many of the adopters (both individuals and uni reps purchasing services) have no idea what they're actually buying.
January 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It's amazing* how so many people who should know better have just cast aside any pretense of critical thinking and jumped headfirst onto the hype wagon.
*it's not, I guess, but still
*it's not, I guess, but still
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Online Degrees Out of Reach
Fewer than half of students at the largest nonprofit online institutions earn a degree after eight years. Is it an unfortunate reality or a cry for accountability? #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4260aMV
Fewer than half of students at the largest nonprofit online institutions earn a degree after eight years. Is it an unfortunate reality or a cry for accountability? #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4260aMV
At large online colleges, students struggle to earn degrees
Fewer than half of students at the largest nonprofit online institutions earn a degree after eight years. Is it an unfortunate reality or a cry for accountability?
bit.ly
January 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Online Degrees Out of Reach
Fewer than half of students at the largest nonprofit online institutions earn a degree after eight years. Is it an unfortunate reality or a cry for accountability? #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4260aMV
Fewer than half of students at the largest nonprofit online institutions earn a degree after eight years. Is it an unfortunate reality or a cry for accountability? #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4260aMV
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I just wrote a long thread about being treated as unreliable in the professional sphere; this describes the horrific way victims are discredited and dismissed in campus rape. Very different subjects/seriousness, but it's the same problem of not being treated as credible/ competent when you speak up.
I talked to @nbedera.bsky.social about her devastating research into Title IX offices & new book On the Wrong Side: “There’s this myth men’s lives are ruined when they’re accused of sexual violence—it isn’t just untrue, it becomes justification for giving them benefits to compensate for that."
Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
www.jezebel.com
December 31, 2024 at 12:38 AM
I just wrote a long thread about being treated as unreliable in the professional sphere; this describes the horrific way victims are discredited and dismissed in campus rape. Very different subjects/seriousness, but it's the same problem of not being treated as credible/ competent when you speak up.
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Part of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language.
So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks?
Start calling these folks pro-segregation.
So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks?
Start calling these folks pro-segregation.
December 22, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Part of fighting back is being both intentional, accurate, and forceful with our language.
So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks?
Start calling these folks pro-segregation.
So anti-woke, anti-DEI efforts and activists? Especially when those efforts result in demonstrably lower numbers of qualified Black people the ranks?
Start calling these folks pro-segregation.
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For my last Substack post of the year: a Festivus-style “airing of grievances” and an experiment with podcasting! In this episode, @josheyler.bsky.social, @liznorell.bsky.social, and I share all the ways grades have let us down over the past year. emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/an-airing-...
An Airing of Grievances: Grading Edition
In which my colleagues and I observe a Festivus tradition
emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:33 PM
For my last Substack post of the year: a Festivus-style “airing of grievances” and an experiment with podcasting! In this episode, @josheyler.bsky.social, @liznorell.bsky.social, and I share all the ways grades have let us down over the past year. emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/an-airing-...
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i am pretty confident that it will soon become the law that any effort to remedy racial inequality, private or public, will be illegal anti-white discrimination. fairness is, of course, when our institutions are lily white and male
“DNH is seeking a declaratory judgment that the scholarship violates the Equal Protection Clause and Title VI, as well as a permanent injunction "barring Defendants from seeing or considering applicants’ race when selecting the recipients" for the scholarship.”
www.foxnews.com/politics/sch...
www.foxnews.com/politics/sch...
Scholarship programs slapped with lawsuits for alleged discrimination against White men
FIRST ON FOX: Nonprofit organization Do No Harm is challenging two separate scholarship programs over their use of race in candidate qualifications.
www.foxnews.com
December 15, 2024 at 4:31 PM
i am pretty confident that it will soon become the law that any effort to remedy racial inequality, private or public, will be illegal anti-white discrimination. fairness is, of course, when our institutions are lily white and male
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I was in a workshop last week where, with a straight face, the speaker put up a slide listing all the recent “innovations” that were supposed to revolutionize edu and said, “AI will be different! This time, it will work!”
My eyes almost rolled out of my head.
My eyes almost rolled out of my head.
December 8, 2024 at 12:31 AM
I was in a workshop last week where, with a straight face, the speaker put up a slide listing all the recent “innovations” that were supposed to revolutionize edu and said, “AI will be different! This time, it will work!”
My eyes almost rolled out of my head.
My eyes almost rolled out of my head.
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"The list names an Army officer who traveled to 14 historically Black colleges to expand recruitment"
Since these people are literally using "woke" to mean "entertained the thought of hiring a Black person," opposition to DEI, affirmative action, etc. should be understood as support for segregation
Since these people are literally using "woke" to mean "entertained the thought of hiring a Black person," opposition to DEI, affirmative action, etc. should be understood as support for segregation
Lists of military leaders to be targeted because they support increasing diversity in the military. This is very serious. @apnews.com @nytimes.com @washingtonpost.com and other outlets please don’t take up the description of these ofcrs as “woke.”
apnews.com/article/hegs...
apnews.com/article/hegs...
Military leaders are rattled by a list of 'woke' officers that a group urges Hegseth to fire
Military leaders are rattled by a list of “woke” senior officers that a conservative group is urging Pete Hegseth to dismiss for promoting diversity in the ranks if he is confirmed to lead the Pentago...
apnews.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:59 AM
"The list names an Army officer who traveled to 14 historically Black colleges to expand recruitment"
Since these people are literally using "woke" to mean "entertained the thought of hiring a Black person," opposition to DEI, affirmative action, etc. should be understood as support for segregation
Since these people are literally using "woke" to mean "entertained the thought of hiring a Black person," opposition to DEI, affirmative action, etc. should be understood as support for segregation
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What does it mean to write a book as a contingent scholar? It means to do something that's already hard enough on its own, but also to do it without the (admittedly eroding) supports of full-time tenure-track employment--time, funding, library access, and a steady job.
Recognize this work. 🗃️
Recognize this work. 🗃️
2024 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
contingentmagazine.org
December 3, 2024 at 9:03 PM
What does it mean to write a book as a contingent scholar? It means to do something that's already hard enough on its own, but also to do it without the (admittedly eroding) supports of full-time tenure-track employment--time, funding, library access, and a steady job.
Recognize this work. 🗃️
Recognize this work. 🗃️
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I realized a long time ago that people who ridicule liberal arts don't actually think that those majors inevitably lead to poor economic outcomes. They think they SHOULD lead to poor economic outcomes. It's a value judgment, rejecting the any sentimentality that might hold back ruthless advancement.
April 14, 2024 at 12:51 PM
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There are a lot of problems that beset academia. This 👇 is one of the worst. How can we defend ourselves from the Rufos and DeSantises of the world when many of us can't even respect our colleagues enough to help equitably distribute labor?
A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
Women end up doing the academic housework
kifinfo.no
April 5, 2024 at 11:27 PM
There are a lot of problems that beset academia. This 👇 is one of the worst. How can we defend ourselves from the Rufos and DeSantises of the world when many of us can't even respect our colleagues enough to help equitably distribute labor?
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The youth are not just going to automatically save the world if they are drowning in disinformation
Cool to be far right? Young Europeans are stirring a political youthquake.
Polls show that young Europeans are fueling the growth of the far right across Europe. The first test of their influence is in Portugal’s election on Sunday.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2024 at 4:04 PM
The youth are not just going to automatically save the world if they are drowning in disinformation
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In today's your Tea for Teaching podcast, Constanza Bartholomae and Terri Hasseler join us to discuss some of their professional development activities and how they focus on creativity, community, and kindness in their roles. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/educationa... @cyberthread.bsky.social
February 28, 2024 at 3:54 PM
In today's your Tea for Teaching podcast, Constanza Bartholomae and Terri Hasseler join us to discuss some of their professional development activities and how they focus on creativity, community, and kindness in their roles. teaforteaching.podbean.com/e/educationa... @cyberthread.bsky.social
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I am pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming excited to join the Syracuse University Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence! My new position as Director begins on August 1.
Jessamyn Neuhaus Named Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence — Syracuse University News
Jessamyn Neuhaus, an experienced academic and higher education administrator with a track record of innovation and collaboration, has been named the next di ...
news.syr.edu
February 27, 2024 at 11:55 AM
I am pinch-me-I-must-be-dreaming excited to join the Syracuse University Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence! My new position as Director begins on August 1.
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yeah, also, the *white* part of white rural resentment cannot be overstated. most of my extended family is rural black folks and they aren't reactionaries!
February 27, 2024 at 6:30 PM
yeah, also, the *white* part of white rural resentment cannot be overstated. most of my extended family is rural black folks and they aren't reactionaries!