Tell Congress: Require ICE to unmask and display clear identification Contact Congress today!

Make Congress take action and unmask ICE!

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Ask yourself, why Memphis... notice what local organziers are fighting

a black and white photo of a woman wearing a turtleneck sweater and a dress . ALT: a black and white photo of a woman wearing a turtleneck sweater and a dress .

I’m in the midst of these conversations, too. Folks I mentor are trying to find jobs. Will our publication record prevent them from getting hired by folks complying with censorship?

What will future conferencing look like? Find out by submitting to #ISLS26! ISLS Annual Meetings feature cutting edge in-person and virtual (accommodation) designs. Our hybrid designs are facilitated to ensure smooth interaction across modalities. Check us out! 2026.isls.org

The submission deadline for the 2026 ISLS Annual Meeting, covering all ICLS and CSCL formats, has been extended. We recognize the significant academic and personal challenges that many are currently facing. We therefore extend the deadline for submissions to October 13, 2025 11:59PM AOE

I work at the pace my partnerships allow. Time for last minute caregiving shifts, adjustments for the hustle of everyday life, time out for life changes (new schools, homes). And accommodating disabled and chronically ill mindbodies.

And my work is better for it.

#SlowResearch
#SlowLS

I’m a learning geek. I adore children’s perspectives + expertise. I’m grateful everyday for family partnerships. I’m in awe of the work teachers do to cultivate children’s brilliance. I’m a science nerd.

I’m a disabled, queer, scholar.

All of this leads me to a #SlowResearch approach.

Hey fellow disabled scholars! The ISLS accommodations process is SUPER EASY. As someone who was BEEN THROUGH IT with invasive processes, this is not that. If you have concerns, please reach out!! ISLS is making sure that remote presenters are deeply integrated in conference activity! Don't miss out!

Submit to #ISLS26 in Irvine! Can’t travel due to disability, caregiving duties, or visa challenges? No problem! ISLS has an easy, quick accommodations process for scholars to present their work virtually! See a previous info page: 2024.isls.org/isls-2024-re...

Some how, our uni president is letting us keep our faculty senate. But we’re only an advisory body with no real power thanks to the new TX law.

The extra-official work is going to be KEY in coming years.

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

This is a friendly reminder that research paper submissions for the ISLS 2026 Annual Meeting are due in one month - October 5. You can see the full calls on the in-progress website now: 2026.isls.org

I think I know that person!

Ashita Bawankule is a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She graduated with her bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Purdue University and received her master’s in education from UIUC. She is an international student from India and loves to read and bake. Her research interests include maker education, informal STEAM education, computational identity and empowerment, and family engagement. She works as a research assistant for the NSF funded Connected Spaces project, where she works on developing empowerment and identity driven computing curriculum for maker camps with middle and high school students. She has worked as the graduate research assistant for the UIUC’s Grainger College of Engineering’s Outreach and Engagement department, where she conducted community engaged outreach and research.

Seth is a PhD student at UC Irvine where he designs learning experiences and tools using participatory design research methods that center the values, desires, and aspirations of the groups that will engage with them. For his dissertation, he is working to co-design analytics that illuminate how people participate in and learn during collaborative design activities. Seth received a B.A. in Chemistry and a minor in Science and Mathematics Education from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to UC Irvine he worked as a research assistant at the Concord Consortium and BSCS , conducting design-based implementation research and engaging in co-design with youth, informal science educators, science content experts, and researchers. Outside of research, Seth loves to ride and race bikes, go camping (usually somewhere where it's nice to ride bikes), and find new places to drink really good coffee (via bike).

🎉 Introducing our newly elected ILSSA Board for 2025–2026! 🎉

Meet our Membership & Outreach team 👇

🌱 ASHITA BAWANKULE – Membership/Outreach Chair
🤝 SETH VAN DOREN – Membership/Outreach

We’re so excited to have them on board connecting and growing our ILSSA community!✨

What’s happening is a lot of people who thought a little fascism just meant clearing out some undesirables and making the trains run on time are realizing that actually yes they too will be effected and it’s making them slightly nervous.

I’m going to say this louder this time: if you are lying about having a high-risk condition to get a Covid vaccine, all good, do what you want to do BUT show some actual goddamn respect for people who *actually* have that condition and start masking.

Why do you appreciate unions?

I’ll start:

Weekends off
Paid vacations
Work breaks
Sick leave
Paid holidays
No child labor
Safer working conditions
Health care and retirement benefits

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”

Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.

No questions asked.

No proof required.

Pass it on.

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Outside the CDC, people are chanting “USA, not RFK.” They are fed up with having one unqualified person dictate the nation’s health. #USANotRFK

Since the answer to the first question will be "no" for students in 99.5% of all circumstances, maybe stop there?

Artificial Intelligence Report and Discussion Join members of the AAUP’s ad hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions for a discussion of ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), as it continues to become more…

AAUP members are invited to join the Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions for a discussion of member-based research, recommendations & resources for building faculty power over ed-tech decisions at their institutions, including AI!

August 27, 4-5pm on Zoom

Register here👇

This is the definition of a failed social media platform.

Friendly reminder that your fever, cough, fatigue, aches, gastric symptoms may be the highly contagious new COVID-19 variant, XFG, aka “Stratus.” COVID-related emergency room visits are up among all age groups, as the current wave spreads in the U.S., Canada, globally.

September will be rough.