🚨 PHILLY STRIKE ALERT 🚨 As of 12:01pm, 1600 IBEW Local 614 PECO workers are on strike—the first in the utility company’s 145-year history. “PECO's lack of seriousness over six months of bargaining has forced us to this point. We are officially on strike. We strike strong, and we strike to win.”
Also if you’re looking to support organizations fighting this abuse, we were represented by CUNY CLEAR family defense clinic. They can always use your donations. www.law.cuny.edu/academics/cl...
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🚨👩🎓 We're hiring a Full Professor in Macrosociology! 👩🏫🚨 Join us in beautiful Heidelberg 🏰 starting April 1, 2027. Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions regarding the position www.mwi.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #Sociology #sociologyjobs #AcademicSky
Job vacancy: Full Professorship (W3) in “Sociology, specializing in Macrosociology” (f/m/d) - Max Weber Institute of Sociology
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For Memorial Day a poem by my son’s namesake, Henry Lee, bombed by friendly fire after surviving Bataan: www.parsonsnose.com/radio-theate...
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Radio theater - podcast presentations of classic works and stories from Shakespeare to Twain to Dickens
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"approximately 15% of churches in our sample engaged in direct political advocacy during the 2020 and 2024 presidential election cycles, and about 8.4% during the 2022 midterm" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
Cool, so NSF is now going to be used to essentially launder money to tech bros because universities are just too cumbersome and disciplinary oversight and regulations and accountability are all just too stifling for innovation. $1.5B for “X-Labs.”
NSF X-Labs
NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
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Need a new podcast for your commute? Tune in as former UAW Chief of Staff, Chris Brooks, shares his reflections on organizing in higher education and the auto industry with the hosts of “Reinventing Solidarity.” open.spotify.com/episode/3715...
Episode 67 - How Can Workers Win?
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Every day brings a new AI product, use case or outcome. But one method endures for knowing what these systems actually do and to whom: auditing. Thrilled to share my new coauthored book, Auditing AI-a roadmap for accountability across this dynamic terrain #openaccess mitpress.mit.edu/978026205172...
You know what I don’t need? Drug ads in my dermatologist’s office.
journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TQZDI... One of the particular points of emphasis I raise here is about the centrality of graduate degree holders in the Democratic coalition. The share of the electorate with a grad degree is increasing even faster than those with a BA 2/x
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🚨 I have an article out at APR titled “Educational Polarization in American Politics: More than Just a Diploma Divide” in which i look at how educational attainment shapes public opinion and political behavior across the entire education spectrum, not just the across the degree/no degree binary 1/x
I really hope this doesn’t affect the quality of the data collection process. ACTS notwithstanding, I’ve had almost exclusively positive experiences over the last 20 years with the IPEDS Data Collection System and the Help Desk in particular.
Robert Kelchen@robertkelchen.com · 4mo agoThis is a huge deal in the world of higher ed data. RTI lost the IPEDS contract (effective in just two weeks!) to a much smaller firm. It's worth watching, to say the least. www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_A...
Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.
The conservatives on the court are segregationists.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4mo agoThe sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. https://wapo.st/4tCkcJB
It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...
Management consultants are ruining UK universities
Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education
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“In other words, the perceived worth of higher education has waned just as women have begun to outnumber men within it. Is it really a coincidence?”
Dr Mary McAuliffe@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 4mo agoTake, for instance, fields long dominated by women —gender studies & the humanities & social sciences, the disciplines most frequently written off as ‘useless’, or of ‘no value to society’. Unsurprisingly,these are now among the most aggressively targeted. thenoosphere.substack.com/p/anti-intel...
What was different at No Kings 3 was that war was one of the top motivations listed: 73% of participants reported peace/anti-war as a motivation for joining, making it the third most common motivation behind immigration (76%), and Trump (75%). Here are these motivations since the beginning of 2025:
Consistent with the turnout at protests against the Trump regime since it first took office in 2017, the majority of participants at the event were female, predominantly White, middle-aged, had voted for the democratic candidate in the previous presidential election, and were highly educated
Yesterday, millions of people across the US participated in over 3000 events as part of the third No Kings Day. Here are some of the main findings from our research at the event in DC organized by @freedcproject.bsky.social: danarfisher.com/2026/03/29/a...
Anti-War Sentiment Surges at No Kings 3
Yesterday, millions of people across the US participated in over 3000 events as part of the third No Kings Day. My team and I collected surveys from 198 people who were randomly selected from the t…
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Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 5mo agoMeta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.
The higher ed thinkfluencer-industrial complex churned out thousands of pieces just like this one
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account)@thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 5mo agoRemember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.
Road trip pause for ~5 weeks of conferencing and other nerdy fun in DC 🤓
I'm presenting today at #ESS2026 👀 I'll introduce my new project on WWII-era women lobbyists drawing on initial findings and questions raised through archival work with the @ncjw.bsky.social Washington Office Records 3:30 PM in Salon 2 in the Marriott at Metro Center
Last panel, Democracy Reconsidered, peopling politics, intervention and response. Panelists Marshall Ganz, Hahrie Han, Ernesto Castaneda, moderated by Christine Slaughter.
Now a panel on Agenda Setters: Interest groups and civil society in the policymaking process. Beth Baltzan, @lindsayowens.bsky.social and @carolinewlee.bsky.social
Next panel includes @daniellaurison.bsky.social , @povertyscholar.bsky.social and @dorianwarren.bsky.social on bridging the political disconnect. How do we build a more inclusive democracy?
