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Matthew Boedy@matthewboedy.bsky.social · 2d ago

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...

“If faculty are constantly looking for the exit door, that’s going to have devastating effects on the quality of teaching and research that takes place at that institution.” — Isaac Kamola, director of the AAUPs’ Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom.

Professors Notch Court Wins Over States Banning ‘Woke’ Teaching

Courtroom victories for public university professors over state teaching restrictions on race, gender, and unconscious bias are beginning to define the bounds of unlawful political oversight of higher...

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Rest in power, Johanna. 🖤

jentrification@jentrification.com · 4d ago

"Dr. Johanna Fernández, the Dominican American historian, prison abolitionist, and movement scholar, died on July 30, 2026, after a years-long struggle with non-small cell lung cancer. She was 55."

Often my academic friends ask how they can help when they learn how Texas is restricting teaching and denying tenure. The answer: Join AAUP. Your dues—small as they are (~$30)—help build collective power to fight for legislation, policy, and in the courts for students, faculty, & staff. Join us!

Not sure if you missed this, but our paper "Making Indecent Persuasion Visible: How Evaluation Metrics Shape UX Designers’ Ethical Reasoning" with Rhomberg, and Nissenbaum was awarded the *best late breaking work* (1 out of 25 accepted). dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... hauke.haus/assets/pdf/P...

It's finally out! At a time when basic research funding through the NSF and NIH in the US is under threat, it's important to understand what "basic" means in the context of more available DoD funding. For a lot of academics, the DoD's "basic" might not be be as basic as you think!

🌶 David Gray Widder@davidthewid.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Dr. Iván Chaar López: “If you want a productive university…that supports the state, its citizens, its neighbors, I’m not sure that you want the workers in this institution to be nervous, to be looking over their shoulders… Academic freedom is not under duress—it’s being dismantled.”

Prof Denied Tenure: Academic Freedom at UT Being Dismantled

Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.

insidehighered.com

"AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact." A nice corrective in Jacobin by @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer jacobin.com/2026/07/ai-n...

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI

AI is not a neutral technology whose benefits need to be redistributed. It is a weapon of class war from above, designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power. Nationalizing it does nothing to change...

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for the record, Dublin's housing crisis has become severe and immigrants, not big tech all with European headquarters in Dublin, are blamed for it

RTÉ News@news.rte.ie · 2w ago

Google has unveiled plans to open a new office building in Dublin's Docklands

the constant fearmongering about chinese AI is so stupid. dawg they have like at least three times as many people and a functioning economy and they actually teach math there. of course they're going to be better at this

This is a great read, and it's also a lesson. This is what everyone could be doing, at every level. This is the possibility open to every one of us, while every single cry of "we had no choice" was and is a cowardly lie.

Kyle Goon@kylegoon.bsky.social · 2w ago

In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

2/4 AIES accepts. Kinda bummed about the rejected two, which are good work and got good reviews, but oh well! More time to make good work into excellent work.

“Rather than rushing to monetize content, ACM prioritized protecting the integrity of the ACM Digital Library and understanding the views of authors and volunteer leaders.” friendly reminder that ACM are an educational and scientific professional organisation. no kudos for not ‘monetizing content’

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 3w ago

We are opening a consultation on the inclusion of ACM publications within AI licensing agreements for access and training purposes. We have published this piece as to why we believe it is the right time now to enter into these discussions. buff.ly/VTatuda

The LAPD announced on Saturday that it will not renew its contract with Flock Safety, after an audit found that officers had investigated 161 people within a two-month period whose cars Flock cameras had mistakenly flagged as stolen.

LAPD Regularly Pulled Over Innocent People Because License Plate Readers Flagged Their Cars As Stolen

The Los Angeles Police Department let its Flock contract expire over the weekend in part because it was regularly "investigating" and surveilling innocent people.

404media.co

Excellent account of the doublespeak necessary to make it possible for researchers to agree to do the science of killing more people faster.

🌶 David Gray Widder@davidthewid.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I love it when companies offer free shovels to dig your own grave.

Anthropic is giving teachers free access to premium Claude features, details here - 9to5Mac

Anthropic is providing free access to premium Claude AI features to K-12 teachers in the United States. The effort is...

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Ah, the freedom of choice in the marketplace of ideas… If you build a conservative think tank on campus & no students want to attend, just make a law forcing them to. 👀 #academicsky

Cirino wants university civic center classes to be mandatory

The new bill would broaden the authority of Ohio's controversial civics centers despite low enrollment so far.

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we effectively cured AIDS and have a pancreatic cancer vaccine that just passed phase 1 trials

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Look closely. Do you see it? This is not the same man.

U haven't read seeing like a supply chain yet??? Dude, why????

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 4w ago

Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.

Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

The nuclear option is gaining traction as web traffic collapses and Google refuses to negotiate with content creators

adweek.com

In case anyone is curious to study how network effects lose critical mass, search inclusion is a good opportunity to update scientific theories of collective action

Rachel Holliday Smith@rachelholliday.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm been wondering if it would come to this and apparently it has. huge move from cloudflare, which hosts a fifth of all websites on earth.

Very important work on the relationship between AI research and war. Happy to see it finally published!

🌶 David Gray Widder@davidthewid.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

An important article for learning scientists that’s also a reminder that Roger Schank’s and Daniel Edelson’s “A Role for AI in Education: Using Technology to Reshape Education” (1990) was funded by DARPA (and those trustworthy consultants at Arthur Andersen!).

🌶 David Gray Widder@davidthewid.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Isn't this how we killed all those schoolgirls?

Death robots can fk off.

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🌶 David Gray Widder@davidthewid.bsky.social · 4w ago

🚨Finally published: How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war? @siree.sh, Lucy Suchman and I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...