Dominique Baker
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv She/Her Personal account https://www.dominiquebaker.com/ (I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
We have reached the point in the summer when the fall talk I agreed to in order to give me a deadline to make progress on a project is less than a month away...
SCOOP: The CDC has linked six additional states to a large outbreak of cyclosporiasis associated with iceberg lettuce — Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina — bringing the total tally to 15. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/w...
C.D.C. Expands Cyclospora Outbreak to More States (Gift Article)
Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina are now among the states linked to the outbreak associated with iceberg lettuce.
nytimes.com
i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys
The credulous engagement with that letter yesterday sent me to reread Morrison's Racism and Fascism plus watch this reading of Clifton's why some people be mad at me sometimes voca.arizona.edu/track/id/57991
"why some people be mad at me sometimes" | Lucille Clifton - November 1, 2007
voca.arizona.edu
Big assoc between evaluation and prestige & paper topic "...raises an important question: To what extent do the editors and reviewers at elite journals tend to overlook great scientific contributions that lack these advantageous author and manuscript characteristics?" www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals
Analyses of deidentified data reveal complex interactions that quantify success at elite general science journals.
science.org
I think this thread is basically what I believed when I began covering the consumer system and while a lot of what Nathan is describing is factually correct as to the mechanisms by which the system itself works, I’ve eventually had to admit that a lot of people also do just love cheap bullshit
Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 2d agoI think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference
NEW from me: Last night, the AAUP filed its second lawsuit against a Texas higher-ed system in recent weeks. This time, it's asking a federal judge to block what it calls a “prophylactic ban on politically disfavored speech related to race, gender, and sexual orientation" at Texas A&M.
‘What Are We Even Doing Here?': New Lawsuit Challenges Ban on Race and Gender Topics at Texas A&M
Plaintiffs included four faculty members whose courses were canceled or not offered.
chronicle.com
The latest from Sophie Fischer, holiday cat carer. I don't quite know what to make of this one, to be honest...
in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say
The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.
mynbc5.com
Fae: “Tell us your true name.” Me: “…Just my name? No birthdate, no SSN, no fingerprint scan, no address, no mother’s maiden name? Are you sure you’ve even got the right Olivia Waite? There’s like six.” Fae: “What the hell kind of bargains have you been making?” Me: “They call it health insurance.”
When you’re reading a romance involving Fae bargains and you start to hear a sweet little distant melody chiming through the air… Then you realize it’s an ice-cream truck. Then you remember you live on a side street backed up against the woods and have never once seen an ice-cream truck here.
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Forgive me for bragging, but I too have been known to wear a fish in my front pocket
Mondo Mascots@mondomascots.bsky.social · 2d agoNana-chan, a cat with a fish in its front pocket, is the mascot of Obama City, Japan.
"As for the letter’s insistence that admissions be 'based on merit'? 'They mean they think too many Black people have gotten into places they never should have gotten into,' she said." I have gotta learn to be more straightforward www.chronicle.com/article/for-...
For Higher Ed, Trump’s Compact 2.0 Is Either an Olive Branch or a Gloved Fist
The White House has promised there will be no direct penalties — or rewards — for making the statements asked for, but some are skeptical.
chronicle.com
Saw the headline and was like. Wait. Didn’t @bakerdphd.bsky.social *just write about this??!! how dare??!!* and WELP YES DEAR READER it is in fact her piece and well worth reading 😅🤣
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d agoOn the day that Barbara Synder, Douglas Girod and Ronald Daniels and the @aau.edu capitulated to the Trump administration, it's worth looking back at history. First. The Red Scare. @aau.edu was there to bend the knee to Senator Joe McCarthy and HUAC. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Relatedly, if anyone has millions of dollars they wanna hand me, I'll happy found and run a liberal arts school for the current era.* *I have no idea what this means, but I'd have fun figuring it out!
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 2d agoI'll give AI this: It has somehow managed to make those of us who went to small liberal arts colleges even more smug about it than we already were.
I couldn't even include everything in this piece (e.g., I got copies of presidential correspondence from AAU member institutions during the Red Scares from the archives) because my benevolent editor had already let me go way over my word limit. I wish they had learned from their past actions.
Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d agoOn the day that Barbara Synder, Douglas Girod and Ronald Daniels and the @aau.edu capitulated to the Trump administration, it's worth looking back at history. First. The Red Scare. @aau.edu was there to bend the knee to Senator Joe McCarthy and HUAC. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.chronicle.com/article/purd...
Purdue’s Mitch Daniels Warns Against Conditioning Research Grants on Reforms
Daniels, who is back at the university as its interim leader, believes higher ed should change but says government pressure can risk harming “the advantages of the world’s best research.”
chronicle.com
AGB (Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges) has entered the chat
Bryan Alexander@edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d agoHere's the Association of Governing Boards' statement on the McMahon letter: agb.org/news/press-r...
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
wapo.st
How dare people build absolutely gorgeous apartments on this stupidly expensive land??
Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 2d agoCity leaders of a place where shitty mid-century ranch houses sell for $4M....didn't expect anyone to build multi-story buildings once they were legalized? I sympathize, who could have foreseen this
Reason number 19,208,138 we love librarians:
Lisa Rabey@pookiebear.net · 2d agoOK. Since I'm a librarian and I must ORGANIZE ALL THE THINGS, I took all the titles mentioned by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, @ali-alkhatib.com, and the Library Freedom Project and put them in a single list on bookshop.org: bookshop.org/wishlists/53.... (I did not coin "data politics," Tressie did.)
New science fiction franchise that's just a school of Arts & Sciences that is fully staffed
I deep-cleaned my Jura coffee maker with pipe cleaners yesterday and it was pretty much my only activity the entire day. Worse, I kind of want to talk about it.
Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d ago🎵 Cleaning my breville tea maker in the wee hours like a really cool person 🎵