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For whoever needs to see this 💗
December 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Gen Z grad unemployment rate high. Skilled gov workers (mainly millennials and X) shoved out. Artists with decades of experience have had careers eroded (e.g. “The Gen X Career Meltdown”). Science/research taken hits.

Kids getting a message that nothing matters but speed, not accuracy nor learning.
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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The problem with “kids who use gen ai learn less” is that kids may no longer care if they learn less. They’re told to prioritize speed and quick answers. Worse, if they regularly see the people who “learned more” before gen ai gain no actual benefit from it, the incentive to “game” school increases.
December 1, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Sunday is one of my writing days. Today I’m finishing a handbook chapter, compiling notes for an article revision due soon, and sketching out articles for the spring. There’s a half of a foot or more of fresh snow outside. So, I’m choosing to be inspired (rather than annoyed) by nature’s beauty.
November 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
There is (1) research that aims to prove antiblackness is real and (2) research that seeks to reveal the mechanisms that reproduce antiblackness. Overlapping circles, and other types. The literature is flooded with (1). I don’t ask why anymore. Nod to June Jordan’s note on Host-Parasite relations.
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Whew, you talking good, Pastor!!! The student-as-customer also shifted the idea of learning for the value of learning to a kpi and quarterly goal, if you catch my drift.

I’m ready to build something different because this ain’t it and it’s wearing my spirit LOW.
November 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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This entire thread is soberingly accurate. I teach class now, and most days I just want to find something else. I love teaching. I’ve also seen this coming since 2010/11 when I taught high school right by after undergrad. There is a real timeline to this but we’re experiencing the symptoms of a
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
📌 this.
It’s easy to do theory on things you dislike. Can you critique something you love? Can you hold the duality of loving it and understanding it? Or that’s what I was trying to do. Hope springs eternal!
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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A tactic of this system is to humanize what’s not human and dehumanize actual humans. Doing this normalizes the sociopathy of the elites and aspiring elites.
November 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
📌 New paper: “Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research,” published in Qualitative Inquiry.

#EMCA (EMCA-adjacent) #LSI #QualitativeInquiry

doi.org/10.1177/1077...
Producing Trustworthiness: Locating the Adequacy of Findings in Interactional Research - Francesca A. Williamson, Danielle Layton, Jessica Nina Lester, 2025
This article explores the notion of research trustworthiness for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) studies. Informed by radical reflexivity, we ...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Get a library card!
November 19, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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"We are not our ancestors" is not gonna yet us through this moment. You better wish you were your ancestors who survived the middle passage, chattel slavery, who consistently revolted, who made ways as maroons. We definitely need to connect with Black legacies of survival for now.
November 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Alice Wong, a writer and activist who was born with muscular dystrophy and who fought relentlessly for equal rights and access for people with disabilities, died on Friday. She was 51. nyti.ms/4r9WqEr
November 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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This country and the social contracts we’ve all lived under can never be reinstated.

We’ve shown the fallacy in them by letting this shit show run amuck. You can’t talk about merit ever again. The rule of law? Baby… might as well forget about it.

Society in decline and nothing can patch it up.
November 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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I wish we could take the rest of the year off.

Like, as a species let’s sit down and rethink this lived experience because we don’t have to live like this.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Rosalind Franklin, 1920-1958

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Rosalind Franklin - Wikipedia
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November 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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I think you should join in with others especially when it's easy to do.
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Three high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them
Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years later, many of the books have been reshelved and parts of the law can't be enforced.
n.pr
October 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Me ready to destroy a presenter with a tough question (jk!). In all seriousness, I had the best time at @lansi2024.bsky.social sharing about @francescaorfw.bsky.social my upcoming book, "Race talk in institutional settings: A language and social interaction perspective" and learning from others!
October 18, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM