Paul Mabrey
@paulmabrey3.bsky.social
Director, Student Success Analytics & Associate Professor, Communication Studies | James Madison University | #highered #rhetoric #studentsuccess #debate #data #analytics
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I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries IMLS
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
librarytechnology.org/pr/31973
Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries
Press Release: Court permanently blocks Trump's executive order to dismantle federal agency for America's libraries. The U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Adm...
librarytechnology.org
November 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone.
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Killing IMLS could have killed ILL.
This is great news. 📚
Love the transparency here & great to see students integrating for improvement! Really good model for learning & student success.
finals are almost here & so I’m sharing my common feedback letter for any one assigning final papers. it’s a collection of comments I write on papers over & over—I give it to students upfront. I’ve noticed a huge improvement.
feel free to adapt & share!
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feel free to adapt & share!
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Common Feedback
Alicia Andrzejewski William & Mary apandrzejewski@wm.edu What Dr. A is Writing on Papers Over & Over Again First things first. You must work to establish an authoritative, stylish writer’s voice th...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Love the transparency here & great to see students integrating for improvement! Really good model for learning & student success.
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Interesting report: Virginia K-12
Enrollment Overview
www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpub...
Will have implications for in-state higher ed enrollment.
Also, @joshua-goodman.com , thought you might be interested in the changes around the pandemic.
Enrollment Overview
www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpub...
Will have implications for in-state higher ed enrollment.
Also, @joshua-goodman.com , thought you might be interested in the changes around the pandemic.
November 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Interesting report: Virginia K-12
Enrollment Overview
www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpub...
Will have implications for in-state higher ed enrollment.
Also, @joshua-goodman.com , thought you might be interested in the changes around the pandemic.
Enrollment Overview
www.doe.virginia.gov/home/showpub...
Will have implications for in-state higher ed enrollment.
Also, @joshua-goodman.com , thought you might be interested in the changes around the pandemic.
Can't wait to dig into this - title and abstract definitely make us feel "seen" in our student success work collaborating across departments and divisions in attempt to leverage data & technology for closing student success gaps.
Our new working paper is out and free to access! The paper is about all of the the human collaboration that is working "behind the scenes" of a technology-based student-support intervention.
📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Behind the scenes of student success interventions: Faculty & staff collaborate and make key changes that strengthen low-touch supports
🔍@ellenbryer.bsky.social, @catherinematah.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1314
🔍@ellenbryer.bsky.social, @catherinematah.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social
📄 edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1314
November 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Can't wait to dig into this - title and abstract definitely make us feel "seen" in our student success work collaborating across departments and divisions in attempt to leverage data & technology for closing student success gaps.
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Sigh. I shouldn’t do this while I’m in grad school, but I WANT TO.
Disabled library folk:
Disabled library folk:
Call for Chapter Proposals for Disability Justice in Libraries. deadline December 1, 2025
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CFP
Call for Chapter Proposals for Disability Justice in Libraries This call for chapter proposals is an invitation for abstract submissions for Disability Justice in Libraries, an anthology examining t...
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November 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Sigh. I shouldn’t do this while I’m in grad school, but I WANT TO.
Disabled library folk:
Disabled library folk:
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“We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches…”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
<span>We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research</span>
We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu
papers.ssrn.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
“We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches…”
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
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October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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"43% drop in peanut allergies"
Good example of how science evolves.
And "how a public health recommendation can change children’s health.”
And how good research (support, pls) informs policy.
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
Good example of how science evolves.
And "how a public health recommendation can change children’s health.”
And how good research (support, pls) informs policy.
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"43% drop in peanut allergies"
Good example of how science evolves.
And "how a public health recommendation can change children’s health.”
And how good research (support, pls) informs policy.
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
Good example of how science evolves.
And "how a public health recommendation can change children’s health.”
And how good research (support, pls) informs policy.
Peanut Allergies Have Plummeted in Children, Study Shows www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...
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If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
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ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15.
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf
Wow! "Whether as infrastructure in our educational system or as guide in our daily lives, AI, with its sleek reordering of time, narrative sequence, and attribution, is creating new challenges to historicity and truth."
“I worry that such use of AI is normalizing new ways of thinking and making us susceptible to new grammars of reality and truth telling. It distorts our comprehension. It allows the dead to pass as living and lets fragments scraped from the past be assembled in the present tense.”
Patricia J. Williams: “When AI Speaks for the Dead”
Patricia J. Williams on the shape-shifting nature of generative AI and its troubling commodification of the dead—in the courtroom and beyond
yalereview.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Wow! "Whether as infrastructure in our educational system or as guide in our daily lives, AI, with its sleek reordering of time, narrative sequence, and attribution, is creating new challenges to historicity and truth."
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Faculty and admins should play Freaky Friday at least once in their careers. It’s not easy either way
September 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Faculty and admins should play Freaky Friday at least once in their careers. It’s not easy either way
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9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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The full write up is here:
Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo
open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo
open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
August 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The full write up is here:
Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo
open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
Was It Something The Democrats Said?
A Response to Third Way’s Political Language Memo
open.substack.com/pub/dcinboxi...
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I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.
August 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I point this out for clarity. I also have a long-term interest in how my crafting of ideas is sometimes confused for the very serious idea being crafted. So to be clear: AI is political attack on labor with few limited cases for social value and an absolute ecological disaster.
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We’re excited to announce the launch of our essay collection, Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity.This collection grew out of a 2-day workshop where experts across disciplines and industries gathered to explore the past, present, & future role of AI: doi.org/10.18130/03d... (1/n)
Libra Open | Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity
Libra Open Content: Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity | Authors: Jess Reia, Yingchong Wang, MC Forelle Artificial intelligence (AI) is
doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
We’re excited to announce the launch of our essay collection, Reimagining AI for Environmental Justice and Creativity.This collection grew out of a 2-day workshop where experts across disciplines and industries gathered to explore the past, present, & future role of AI: doi.org/10.18130/03d... (1/n)
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Call for Papers! 🧵
The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)
Abstract Deadline: Sept 19
www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...
The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)
Abstract Deadline: Sept 19
www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...
Public Science
Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy
www.ias.edu
August 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Call for Papers! 🧵
The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)
Abstract Deadline: Sept 19
www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...
The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)
Abstract Deadline: Sept 19
www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...
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Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Critical AI Resources - bookjockeyalex.com
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August 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wanted to share a critical AI spreadsheet I've been working on for a little bit now. It has a list of resources and links to materials I thought were interesting or that I used in my schools Critical AI LibGuide. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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“He also pans the use of Turnitin as a scare tactic. ‘We see this with the criminal-justice system,’ he said. ‘Deterrence doesn’t actually work.’ What does work, he argues, is building trusting relationships with students. ‘Turnitin immediately fractures that relationship with students.’”
June 27, 2025 at 10:50 PM
“He also pans the use of Turnitin as a scare tactic. ‘We see this with the criminal-justice system,’ he said. ‘Deterrence doesn’t actually work.’ What does work, he argues, is building trusting relationships with students. ‘Turnitin immediately fractures that relationship with students.’”
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June 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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This morning we drove to Bozeman Pride for @zoandbehold.bsky.social to speak, then went down to Yellowstone and saw incredible sights.
Then, on the drive back to Missoula at 1AM, the heavens erupted.
Naked eye visible aurora. The northern lights told us Happy Pride :)
Then, on the drive back to Missoula at 1AM, the heavens erupted.
Naked eye visible aurora. The northern lights told us Happy Pride :)
June 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This morning we drove to Bozeman Pride for @zoandbehold.bsky.social to speak, then went down to Yellowstone and saw incredible sights.
Then, on the drive back to Missoula at 1AM, the heavens erupted.
Naked eye visible aurora. The northern lights told us Happy Pride :)
Then, on the drive back to Missoula at 1AM, the heavens erupted.
Naked eye visible aurora. The northern lights told us Happy Pride :)
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#TeamRhetoric ! New publication: In "A Data Feminist Pedagogy for Composing the Rhetorical Life of Statistics," I theorize and report on teaching quantitative writing for public audiences in contexts of activism/advocacy: compositionforum.com/issue/55/dat...
A Data Feminist Pedagogy for Composing the Rhetorical Life of Statistics – Composition Forum
compositionforum.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
#TeamRhetoric ! New publication: In "A Data Feminist Pedagogy for Composing the Rhetorical Life of Statistics," I theorize and report on teaching quantitative writing for public audiences in contexts of activism/advocacy: compositionforum.com/issue/55/dat...
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careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... Come here and work with us:) critical communication studies or cognate, in heath or environment with global, Indigenous, and/or disability studies perspectives encouraged.
Two-year Limited Term Appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Communication Studies
Two-year Limited Term Appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Communication Studies
careers.wlu.ca
May 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... Come here and work with us:) critical communication studies or cognate, in heath or environment with global, Indigenous, and/or disability studies perspectives encouraged.
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Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.
Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023.
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."
Utah lawmakers’ own study found gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Will they lift the treatment ban?
The Utah Legislature's own newly-released study found that gender-affirming care benefits trans youth. Now, will lawmakers lift the treatment ban?
www.sltrib.com
May 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.