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Christopher Powers

@powersglobal.bsky.social

International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own

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Stephen West@stephenwest.bsky.social · last mo.

Abe Lincoln vs. the "heritage American" crowd, 1858: It doesn't matter where your ancestors were in 1776. Americans who read the Declaration and affirm its creed "have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote [it] ...and so they are."

We have besides these men—descended by blood from our ancestors—among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe—German, Irish, French and Scandinavian—men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, (loud and long continued applause) and so they are.
Amanda Katz@katzish.bsky.social · last wk.

Friends! Do you know a lot of PhD-holding nerds?? I'm surveying people who came from abroad to complete a PhD in the US, after the Trump admin announced student visas will only cover 4 years and folks must then seek uncertain renewal from USCIS. Please share! www.porchpartynews.com/p/trump-rule...

Were you an international student who got an American PhD? Take our survey!

A new Trump rule forces foreign doctoral candidates to apply mid-degree for an uncertain visa extension. What will that mean for academia and society—and people’s lives?

porchpartynews.com

Sophia Chen@sophurky.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last Friday, DHS capped internat. students' stay at 4 years. But a physics PhD takes 6+ years. "It's going to make people around the world start questioning whether...to get a higher-level education in the U.S.," one student told me. My May story on their perspective: www.aps.org/apsnews/2026...

Amid visa uncertainty, international students look for support

Proposed changes to the duration of status policy would affect many students and scholars. To raise awareness, five shared their stories.

aps.org

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 3w ago

The costs of international student exclusion will be vast and permanent. It will harm all Conservative Americans and their children; it will harm all Liberal Americans and their children. It is the exact opposite of what our tech-driven economy needs. I summarize my research at @piie.com —>

The US is driving away international students at a long-term economic cost

For generations, students from around the world have fueled universities in the United States, their top destination by far. Those students don't just sustain a $43 billion export industry in higher e...

piie.com

Christopher Powers@powersglobal.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Really interesting article, & this headline is fine. But the one I clicked said “The Science That Explains Why Soccer Players Are Wearing Eye Patches.” And then you get this quote in the piece: “I don’t have the scientific basis to explain certain things to you properly.”

Italy’s footballers are wearing eye patches in training. This is why

The innovation was spotted in an under-21 training session this week, but there is science behind it...

nytimes.com