Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.
Rob Taber
@robtaber.bsky.social
Historian of Haiti 🇭🇹 and democracy in the Americas at Fayetteville State. Working for a welcoming + transformative UNC System & NC. Views my own. Formerly US ED Partnerships. Occasional live-poster of obscure panels and events.
I would like to propose the Taco Bell Principle When a person/institution Did A Problem, & IMMEDIATELY fesses up & takes proactive steps to solve it That's exactly what we want them to do? So how bout we let them live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w agoA quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
This thread, and also: 1) A very quick way to lose public trust is to cozy up to a guy whose disapproval rating is nearing 60%, whose approval rating hasn't cracked 40% in months, and may very well see his party lose one, if not both, chambers of Congress in a few months.
SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon@sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 2d agoA few hot takes on the letter, which I will refer to as Compact 2.0: 0) I appreciate the shift from outright extortion to (theoretically) open-ended questions. 1) Nevertheless, both the framing of the questions and wording of several rest on a thin evidence base and unexamined assumptions.
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
"The letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, asks schools to publicly pledge to make sweeping changes that include reexamining admissions practices, hiring more conservative faculty, cracking down on student protests, combating grade inflation, reducing foreign donations and lowering tuition."
McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...
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Which Senate Dems STILL haven't signed onto S.4814 to #ExtendTPS #ProtectHaitians? Schiff (CA) Baldwin (WI) Hassan & Shaheen (NH) Heinrich (NM) Kaine & Warner (VA) Kelly & Gallego (AZ) Klobuchar (MN) Fetterman Peters & Slotkin (MI) Rosen (NV) Murphy (CT) & Ossoff (!) HAITIANS NEED US - ☎️✊
Alyssa S.@drsepinwall.bsky.social · last wk.THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS & we can still stop it. Please call your Senator NOW & ask that they sign onto S.4814 & extend TPS for Haitians for 3 years. This will be a catastrophe for our neighbors who have been here legally!! Here's the call script! drive.google.com/file/d/1XXEs...
Happy "Sunday Scaries, but for the whole school year" to all who celebrate.
This is terrifying and disgusting. Haitians are being convoked to appointments, to wear ankle monitors from now on to prepare for deportations. And our tax dollars pay for the ankle monitors to line the profits of the GEO Group. investigations.resistmap.com/p/breaking-i...
BREAKING: ICE Is Using GPS Ankle Monitors to Prepare a Mass Roundup of 350,000 Haitian Refugees
Haitian refugees being summoned to check-ins are being fitted with GPS monitors and sent home — making them easier to locate and round up for mass deportation later.
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Hear me out: we want our senior military officers to have a robust liberal arts education, including multiple perspectives from history, literature, and the social sciences, and to know that civilians sometimes know things.
Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says
The Pentagon is considering a sweeping remake of military higher education, including an end to civilian tenure and a "line-by-line" review of courses, according to a draft memo obtained by CBS News.
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Harris Teeter and Organic Valley, taking advantage of how no one understands imperial units anymore.
Let me tell you, I was already pretty radicalized against car insurance companies' offers to "monitor your drive." Then I spent the summer wrestling with RoadReady...
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d agoCompanies are all in on selling folks the idea that it’s in your best interest for your products to “know you” as if you are getting a dedicated servant but what you are really getting is a spy.
Delighted this morning to get to the next episode in my @relationscapes.bsky.social to find that it's with @aditaferrer.bsky.social talking about her memoir, sharing her family's story.
Life Between the Cracks of History: An Immigrant Family's Story (with Ada Ferrer) | Relationscapes: Exploring How We Relate, Love, and Belong
History is often told through revolutions, presidents, and wars. Historian Ada Ferrer tells it through the experience of her own family. When Ferrer was just 11 months old, her mother fled Cuba with h...
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You know what's a supportive online community? The Jeopardy! subreddit, helping fans who just got back into the show via streaming and needing guidance on all of the post-season tournaments.
Today's one of my favorite teaching days all year: the day I get to see my students' Unessays for History of Latin America. This year's bunch includes TWO data visualization animations and TWO fully-built microsites plus other cool collages, scrapbooks, drawings, etc.
I encourage more faculty to take a few minutes to read the Chicago statement on institutional neutrality, because: 1) It supports the scholarly rigor and honesty that Michael speaks to in his post and the stronger foundation of academic freedom that Henry Giroux lays out in the piece and...
Michael Oberg@michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 6d agoIt is not the job of a scholar or student to argue a position that a thorough, open-minded, and honest assesssment of the relevant primary & secondary sources leads them to conclude is wrong. We read all sides and argue one side. truthout.org/articles/hig...
"Voters don’t think college professors, journalists, and academics are actually among the elite. Instead, that label is reserved primarily for billionaires and celebrities, with significant agreement for grouping 'elected officials' and 'business executives' among them as well."
The elites aren't who you think they are
The Argument's latest poll undermines the notion of the liberal elitel
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Did another stream this morning, talking about why Taylor Farms is lashing out at everyone & everything right now. This one is less "let's catch up on current events," & more How The Food Safety Sausage Actually Gets Made. youtube.com/live/r2KK_-j...
Farm to Taber is live!
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TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...
ICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources say
The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.
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Americans have more confidence in higher education than in big tech companies, and the gap is growing rather than shrinking. The higher ed-doomsday pundits need to get on board with the real vibe shift in public trust that is happening right now.
Mark Copelovitch@mcopelov.bsky.social · last wk.I look forward to all the reports & coverage about all of the internal problems & mistakes of all of these other institutions, in the same way that universities are constantly blamed (& blaming themselves) for “declining trust.” “Compared to what?” news.gallup.com/poll/712436/...
"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice.
Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
Brookings: "Perhaps [having comparatively few randomized controlled trials] helps explain why only 1 in 5 edtech products in classrooms have any evidence that they can improve teaching and learning outcomes." Me: "I can think of some other reasons..."
“For many years, Kolchin has argued that we need to read more and write less”: advice from my father that is more relevant than ever. LLMs remove some of the friction between data and publication, but we don’t need lots more hastily-written papers; we need more carefully considered papers.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
Worth watching in full.
Jim Ambuske@jimambuske.bsky.social · 2w ago"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...
"Ours is a beautiful, ancient craft essential for any society's needs for self-understanding. We are equipped with a host of modern methods, but guided ethically by very old rules that no authoritarian political project ought to be allowed to profane." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbz2...
WATCH: David Blight makes opening statement in hearing on how Smithsonian presents history
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision
Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 12mo agoone of the most depressing things of the last decade or so is realizing how many friends/ colleagues/ leaders are (a) actually sympathetic to bad faith fascistic attacks (on public goods, education, vulnerable peoples, etc.), or (b) just simply not up to the moment we find ourselves in
*spins wheel* The Muppets will open for *spins wheel* BTS, who will segue to *spins wheel* Ted Lasso