Erin Michaels
@erin-michaels.bsky.social
Associate Professor UNC-Wilmington sociologist, race, education, immigration, neoliberalism, & the carceral state. PhD CUNY GC BOOK: https://nyupress.org/9781479823390/test-measure-punish/
Fifteen years and i have never seen good evidence of this.
Brendan Cantwell@cantb.bsky.social · 4w agoI keep seeing higher ed commentators saying that students and employers are demanding short-term certificates and other credentials but where's the evidence?
We should all be worried about "dynamic pricing." That's when companies change their prices in real time. If it's hot out, the cost of ice cream could go up. If it's cold, tea bags could go up. It's a way for giant companies to squeeze you even more.
📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477
“The data indicates that 74.2% of North Carolina’s 143,998 private school students received an Opportunity Scholarship during the 2025-26 school year.” We’re living through the resegregation of US education. Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
Most NC private school students now get a taxpayer-funded voucher to pay costs
North Carolina now provides vouchers to nearly 75% of private school students, up from a quarter of pupils two years ago.
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The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
An artist brought 'I.C.E. pops' to a Texas campus. The show was shut down in days
The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
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It's award season at NYU Press! We're taking a moment to celebrate all the recognition our authors and books have been receiving! Find out more on: buff.ly/vsapVze
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 3mo agoNEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...
Wealth concentration was already way off the rails before Musk became a trillionaire. The wealthiest megabillionaires in the country have basically been doubling their wealth annually in recent years. Feels near impossible to maintain a liberal democracy in this kind of situation.
In a few years, will we read the same article about AI’s impacts on education? If AI is used to supplant kids’ social interactions, kids’ well-being will take a major hit.
Opinion | We Liked Remote Work. Then We Looked at the Data.
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The article ends with a list of very concrete, small steps scientists can take in everyday life to resist censorship
The 3-Pronged Attack on Scientific Communication (opinion)
At the NIH, political appointees exercise extensive control over scientific communication, and research on health communication is under siege.
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Congrats Caddie!! This looks great!
Caddie Alford@caddiealford.bsky.social · 3mo agoU of Pittsburgh Press, Dec 2026. Exciting diversity of perspectives + topics: astrology, Christopher Rufo, ancient Egypt, QAnon, + “Afterwards” dialogue of 4 scholars + a journalist. Pre-order + ask library: upittpress.org/books/978082... #TeamRhetoric #AcademicSky #PostTruth
UNCW AAUP President Todd Berliner: “We don’t want politics and politicians interfering in the free exchange of knowledge in higher education — we don’t want politics and politicians deciding what programs universities have and what they teach.” Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
An NC university is eliminating the position of Gender Studies director
Dana Stachowiak’s leadership role will no longer exist, and the center will be brought under the university’s Interdisciplinary Studies umbrella.
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Student cheating is becoming impossible to detect as some A.I. companies coach young adults on how to get away with it. Inside a new arms race: "humanizers" and "autotypers" face off against AI detectors. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era
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Incredibly honored to share that my book, "Test, Measure, Punish," has been awarded the 2026 Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award by the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association!
Incredibly honored to share that my book, "Test, Measure, Punish," has been awarded the 2026 Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award by the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association!
Nearly 1,000 non-tenured faculty at NYU walked off the job for two days this spring. Peter Cole reports that they returned with a strong first contract: minimum $14,000 raises, annual increases and long-term employment guarantees.
The NYU Strike Showed How to Reverse the Downward Spiral in Higher Ed
By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.
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"Inclined" is doing so much work here
Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 3mo agoMicrocredentials Give Grads Edge in Tough Job Market While not all are of equal value, a new survey from Coursera found that the vast majority of employers are inclined to offer higher starting salaries to candidates with microcredentials. https://bit.ly/4ogezPW #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
New reporting from @sanjosespotlight.com confirms ICE is building a detention camp in Gilroy, CA. A trusted source within the DHS contracting world told us that ICE is eying similar “greenfield” projects in the Southwest as the warehouse plan falters. We’re adding this to the tracker.
Blueprints confirm ICE involvement in South County facility - San José Spotlight
The document illustrates plans for an ICE facility with detention areas, detainee processing areas, interview and holding rooms, spaces for mothers with infants, visitation rooms, weapons and ammuniti...
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Read all of this @sifill.bsky.social post. But this point seems to me especially important. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
The SCOTUS Project to Undo Voting Rights Protections is Nearly Complete.
The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Allen v.
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"How have I accomplished this? For starters, I spend sixteen hours a day live-streaming my gym routine while simultaneously giving betting advice on overseas cockfights and state-sanctioned executions."
At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks
“At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200.”
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📢 Dr. Teresa Klein, President-Elect of Texas AAUP-AFT: “Our students understand that having academic freedom is the difference between a complete education that prepares them for long-term careers + civic engagement, and a state-sanctioned spoon-feeding...” 👏 aaup-texas.org/blog/f/stude...
Students Hold Academic Freedom Funerals at Regents Meetings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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There is not one organic Success Story among them, unless you count Rogan, who isn't really a pure product of the right-wing ecosystem but simply slotted himself into it because he's a meatheaded reactionary. It's all a money pit. Look at what the people putting up the money have gotten for it.
The stated cost of the Iran war ($25 billion so far) now exceeds the 2024 annual budget for USAID ($22 billion). What better summary of current US foreign policy? Trump and Elon left hundreds of thousands left to die of preventable illnesses, and spent the money on a pointless war of choice.
What $25 Billion Spent on the War in Iran Really Means (Gift Article)
It exceeds the annual budgets of numerous federal agencies, and the Pentagon’s yearly budget for munitions.
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84% of Iowa students taking public funding to attend private school have never been in public school
Josh Cowen@joshcowenmi.bsky.social · 5mo agoReally helpful new data @centeronbudget.bsky.social @joannalefebvre.bsky.social extends what researchers have known since the early 00’s Most voucher users were never in public school. These are subsidies for existing choices. And add new costs for states.
$900 million to pay companies to not do wind energy and $400 million for the ballroom, that’s $1.3 billion or ~1,300 3 to 4-year NSF awards.
The story here is that Congress rejected Trump’s proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
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How to Build Power through a General Strike (and why #MayDayStrong is important even if it doesn't have a visible aggregate effect on the economic system in the US on May Day): danarfisher.com/2026/04/26/h...
The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
