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time for a different group of people to write a report on higher ed
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 7d agoI don't think it is possible for a report on the American university sponsored by academic leadership to accurately diagnose what is wrong with higher ed. Please read the critical university studies scholarship, which has been ignored in all these reports. provost.cornell.edu/_files/initi...
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law that requires large companies to disclose if they or their predecessors profited from chattel slavery. cal.news/4zjLwPL 📸 Semantha Norris
James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Congratulations to the winners and to the field of neuroscience, today!
Nobel Prize@nobelprize.org · 6d agoBREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Via Ariana Figueroa: An unprecedented increase in cooperation this summer between local and state law enforcement and federal immigration officers through 287(g) agreements drove immigration arrests to their highest levels since President Donald Trump took office. https://ow.ly/MvzQ50ZU2G6
“Mainstream Republicans from William F. Buckley to George H. W. Bush to John McCain did distance themselves, somewhat, from the most egregious racists, anti-Semites, and whack-jobs. At the same time, they tried to harness those groups’ energy with coded outreach to their fears and prejudices.”
You Can't Build a Better Politics on Bad History
Sarah Longwell's "How to Eat an Elephant" offers useful advice for Democratic politics. Yet it is also based on a false history of the GOP.
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"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
I went to the grand reopening of the African American Civil War museum this week and the timing is just right — its mission to preserve Black history is more relevant now than ever
The African American Civil War Museum Reopens To Honor The Black Soldiers Who Changed History
The museum recently held its grand reopening in Washington’s historic U Street Corridor.
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This is why folks should not waste time designing the perfect and optimized system of higher education and R&D investment. That’s unnecessary when an underinvested system is under attack. We should start by setting core guiding objectives and tripling the investment, and adjust as needed.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last wk.I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · last wk.It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.
I should probably do something to … update this. Or make it more accessible. Or something lol medium.com/@chanda/deco...
Decolonising Science Reading List
In the last couple of weeks, a lot of people have been asking me about what I’ve been reading as reference points for my commentary on the…
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Killed. NSF’s SBE was killed, in violation of law. The President does not have the power to choose to kill programs at a whim by defunding them. The imperial presidency was a mistake and we are in a separation of powers constitutional crisis.
Erin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴@wamsleylab.bsky.social · last wk.The fiscal year is over. The dying Social, Behavioral, and Economic division of NSF ended up awarding 90 total grants this year, as opposed to ~700-800 in recent past years. Source: grantwitness.org/nsf/analyses...
Scientists who comprehend the pleasures of discovery—the human part of science—are the bringers of progress, as Nobel biologist P.B. Medawar showed so entertainingly and well, back in 1969 Had a lot of fun revisiting this favorite writer for @flaminghydra.com flaminghydra.com/issue-661/
Supreme Court Will Consider Trump’s Mandatory and Indefinite Immigrant Detention Policy | Lower courts have rejected the policy more than 20,000 times, and a @stateline.org review found even many Republican appointees were releasing prisoners held under the new policy, finding it unconstitutional.
Supreme Court Will Consider Trump’s Mandatory and Indefinite Immigrant Detention Policy - Bucks County Beacon
Lower courts have rejected the policy more than 20,000 times, and a Stateline review found even many Republican appointees were releasing prisoners held under the new policy, finding it unconstitution...
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11/ Orr also connects this story to Thiel. Byline Times documented a Thiel donation offered through Orr while Cambridge was considering him for a job. Orr joined the university in 2019. Again, I cant prove it was pay to get Orr hired but 2+2=4. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
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Crafting the California Public Banking Act with Sylvia Chi (In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, Ep. 4)
Crafting the California Public Banking Act with Sylvia Chi (In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, Ep. 4)
In this episode of In the Loop: Revolutionizing Public Finance, we sit down with lawyer, organizer, and policy architect Sylvia Chi to unpack the landmark passage and radical possibilities of&…
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
Trump administration revokes $810M approved by Congress for refugee aid and more
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has, once again, infuriated lawmakers from both political parties by using a controversial maneuver to cancel funding previously approved by Congress.
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What would real projections of open expression on campus look like? While committees and the provost deliberate behind closed doors, here are the 4 basic principles that members of AAUP-Penn and GETUP-UAW want to advance together out in the open: aaup-penn.org/real-protect...
Real Protections for Open Expression at Penn | AAUP–Penn
These principles are cosponsored by GETUP-UAW. [Note: AAUP-Penn is working to grow our coalition to advocate for real protection of open expression at Penn. This issue affects us all – if you are inte...
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A better future won’t just be built by billionaires. "We aren’t screwed. A good tech future is still possible. We know that because Rose, Iara, Rudy, and countless others are already imagining a future worth building and then making it happen." www.mozillafoundation.org/en/what-we-d... #BlackskyNews
Mozilla @mozilla.org · 2w agoWhile billionaires are cosplaying as astronauts Mozilla Fellows are bold enough to build alternative futures. Watch our for Rudy, Iara and Rose and you make your way through UNGA this week 👀 the future is still ours to build. https://bit.ly/4d0r6m7
Hundreds of thousands of Texas voters were not properly registered after a major error by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Subscribe to our free Democracy Docket newsletters to stay up to date on the latest voting rights news.
The Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia — the oldest natural history museum in the U.S. — has closed its doors after nearly 200 years 6abc.com/post/philade...
I’m in this webinar and, academics, take some time and learn who Marc Rowan is and how he steers our pensions into his company’s maw with one hand, while helping Trump come up with punitive policies aimed at hostile control of universities and curricula.
AAUP@aaup.org · 2w agoJoin us on Monday, 9/28 to learn why billionaires like Marc Rowan want to destroy academic freedom & how faculty, campus workers, & students can fight back to defend the freedom to teach, learn, research & speak out without government censorship. RSVP 👇 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
While the Trump administration is framing the policy as “accountability” for higher education, and some are welcoming the move, others see it as an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary. trib.al/1wK2qs8
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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There is nothing you can do to convince me to put my unpublished work into this. My biggest worry is reviewers or editors disrespecting my intellectual property. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/s...
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.
A very timely and important new paper: “How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How decades of corporate capture enabled today's assault on universities in the United States
Universities in the US have never been free of corporate, military, or political influence. But over the past fifty years, corporate libertarian donor…
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How many women does your employer have in management positions? Are a retail chain’s Black workers as likely to be in public-facing roles as its White workers? It will soon be much more difficult to answer these and other questions related to gender, race and ethnicity in workplaces.
Does your employer discriminate? It's about to get harder to find out.
Congress created the EEOC to enforce civil rights laws in the workplace. The 61-year-old agency is about to stop collecting the data it has relied on to identify systemic discrimination.
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