Bryan Alexander

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Higher education futurist. Author of _Universities on Fire_ and _Academia Next_.
Blog and links to everything: https://bryanalexander.org/
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Bryan Alexander11h ago

What's happening to Antarctica?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/jun/27/tipping-points-antarctica-arctic-sea-ice-polar-scientist

Bryan Alexander1d ago
One sketch of opposition to AI:
https://www.wired.com/story/generative-ai-backlash/
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger

As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.

WIRED
Bryan Alexander1d ago
Good exercise for academics: thinking through the fact that incoming students were born in 2007.
Bryan Alexander2d ago
Today's infinite corridor.
Bryan Alexander2d ago
The University of Virginia's president resigns, under threat from the White House.
Bryan Alexander3d ago
Conservative governors launch new accreditation body:
https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2025/06/desantis-led-coalition-launches-new.html
DeSantis-Led Coalition Launches New Accreditation Body: Ideology, Outcomes, and a Shift in Higher Ed Oversight

A data-driven source asking tough questions about US higher education. Featured in national publications, including The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Bryan Alexander3d ago

Gallup poll of K-12 teachers using AI:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/691967/three-teachers-weekly-saving-six-weeks-year.aspx

Three in 10 Teachers Use AI Weekly, Saving Six Weeks a Year

Six in 10 teachers use AI tools for their work, and three in 10 are using it at least weekly, saving an estimated 5.9 hours per week.

Gallup
Bryan Alexander3d ago

How are authoritarian governments attempting to suppress higher education?

Here is our full Forum conversation with professor Eve Darian-Smith, author of _Policing Higher Education: The Antidemocratic Attack on Scholars and Why It Matters_.

https://youtu.be/23MR_ggaJYE?si=OBAVBEIPxcBcVVCN

Bryan Alexander4d ago

Back in April we held a conversation about academic labor for that month's Day of Action.

Here's our full discussion:
https://youtu.be/8zAo23CMUk8?si=jJ0BdZP5FIwBt56k

Bryan Alexander5d ago
Re: the Anthropic AI copyright decision, how many LLM companies used a lot of pirated ebooks?