I love this so much -

Stephen Curry@scurry.bsky.social · 5h ago

The importance of good feedback. ‘Burnham recalled being an MP in his early 30s and thinking he had done well in interviews, only to find a text message from his wife that said, in capital letters: “ANSWER THE F***ING QUESTION.”’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1

The 2026 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are faculty in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas please take a second to fill it out: forms.gle/iLheVskd4wcA...

2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...

bloomberg.com

Very astute piece -

Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · 5d ago

In my personal newsletter: Zooming out a little bit on the state of the Democratic Party & why winning in November is necessary & important -- but won't solve our core problem around trust. amandalitman.substack.com/p/zooming-ou...

August as an academic

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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if any academic faculty reading this and would like to help or collaborate with me in putting together some open letter or other sort of thing that could get in the newspaper, that points out and condemns the WVU american civics center being made into a literal duginist cell, please let me know

NEW: Haley Stevens and other Democratic campaigns are paying fundraising consultants who run a Google- and Amazon-backed nonprofit that gives Google, Meta, Palantir and other AI companies direct access to the staff writing AI legislation. readsludge.com/2026/07/29/d...

Democrats' Fundraisers Are Also Running AI's Congressional Access Operation

Consultants paid by Rep. Haley Stevens and other Democratic Senate campaigns are also managing a nonprofit that gives Google, Meta, Palantir, and other AI companies direct access to the congressional ...

readsludge.com

breathtaking -

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

reposting - as usual - for @jacobuzman.bsky.social and @jnuelle.bsky.social

Casmilus@casmilus.bsky.social · last wk.

LinkedIn is having blazing rows about the 7 lessons that thought leaders can take from Odysseus's logistical decisions.

People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference

I say this with nothing but love in my heart for the fatherland but can you imagine any other country looking at wildfires and thinking "quick, get a philosopher on the line"

Reposting for @akifuzman.bsky.social - this is wild ....

excellent piece -

Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · 2w ago

I talked with @rachelleingang.bsky.social about who gets the latitude to make mistakes and who doesn’t. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Local plumbers two steps ahead of every university administrator in america 👏

Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago

Guys. GUYS. 1. This is shitposting 2. It is the stuff of myth and legend

reposting this for the folks in my lab working on The Crazy Project .... and also for those working on The Other Crazy Project

Bruce Hamilton@bahome.bsky.social · 2w ago

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two projects diverged on a lab whiteboard and I — I took the one that nobody else was going to do if I didn’t, And that has made all the difference (Apologies to Robert Frost) www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/...

Write a comment to the copy-cat NSF proposal to follow the OMB rules 3/n bsky.app/profile/drk-...

Dr. K. Lotterhos@drk-lo.bsky.social · 3w ago

OUR WORK IS NOT DONE. In unusual move, NSF issued a request for information on plan to conform grant policies to the proposed (unfinalized) OMB rule. Plan includes changes to grant termination provisions & disallowing publication costs. Comments due August 24. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Kevin Durant: You The Real MVP Meme

Alt: Kevin Durant: You The Real MVP Meme

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Daniel Gorelick@danielgorelick.bsky.social · 3w ago

The 1996 Development issue reporting the zebrafish screen (and the special issue commemorating it 25 years later) are now free to read, thanks @biologists.bsky.social journals.biologists.com/dev/collecti...

🚨🚨🚨 How & when does this stop? What are representatives doing? "...a new report lays bare the scale of the use of these crowd control weapons during anti-immigration demonstrations across the US, including hundreds of incidents that resulted in lasting and traumatic injuries." #TrumpRegime #Pinks

‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds

Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’

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reposting - with eyerolls - for @jacobuzman.bsky.social and @jnuelle.bsky.social

JOIN US TODAY! With @aaup.org and @aft.org

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 4w ago

Monday, July 13th is the LAST DAY that you can leave a public comment on Russell Vought's science-destroying OMB Grant Proposal. Join us from 2 - 3PM ET to learn what comes next, hear from experts, and learn how the proposal will affect you. Register at the link in our bio or go here:zurl.co/tH8hn

I submitted my comment last weekend - Terry McGlynn's is vastly better. But every comment is important! Please submit yours before Monday

Terry McGlynn@hormiga.bsky.social · 4w ago

If you have time to browse bluesky this weekend, you have time to submit your comment on the proposed OMB rule to politicize science funding agencies. This one is important. Here's my comment if some inspiration will help. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/submit-your-...

To be clear: it is the job of Houston's city, county, state and federal officials to make sure that video footage is released and that Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's family gets the truth about what happened

You're 9 minutes into your Chotiner interview. He's smiling. By God, it's going well. Great, even. Then he says "but". You wake up coughing through thick smoke partially buried by rubble. Your ears are ringing. The interview is already published. You have 390 missed calls from your boss.

Check out the F99/K00 Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Transition Award, to support promising graduate students as they complete their doctoral research training and transition into mentored postdoctoral career development opportunities (please share) 1/n files.simpler.grants.gov/opportunitie...

I am thrilled to share that UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint initiative in Computational Biomedicine! cdss.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berk... We will soon be recruiting new faculty and postdoctoral fellows. Please repost to help spread the word.

UC Berkeley and UCSF Launch Computational Biomedicine Initiative

UC Berkeley and UCSF have launched a joint program called the Bakar Computational Biomedicine Initiative to develop the frontier of AI and biomedicine, tremendously accelerating advances in clinical c...

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