Howard Lutnick on new H1B visa fees: "If you're going to train somebody, you're going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land." How does that work when you're simultaneously defunding research and training programs at all American universities?

I think we are dangerously underestimating how many jobs we will lose to AI and how deep the spiritual cost will be. The industry tells us strong restrictions on AI will hurt us and help China. I wrote this to explain how they pulling one over on us. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/in-our-scr...

AAUP faculty at #NoKingsNola !

Tulane making the news for all the wrong reasons.

This is absolutely insane. As faculty face funding cuts, the University of Michigan is spending millions to hire incompetent undercover investigators to surveil student activists.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This math does not math.

At #handsoff New Orleans with my son rocking his Weezer shirt

ELECTION COVERAGE: Louisiana voters reject 4 constitutional amendments, handing Gov. Jeff Landry a major policy defeat. @jsodonoghue.bsky.social & @greglarose.bsky.social report. lailluminator.com/2025/03/29/l...

Rally in New Orleans! #standupforscience2025

And now they're coming for the statisticians... "The longtime head of the American Statistical Association (ASA), Ronald Wasserstein, says these panels also serve an important role as watchdogs. 'Disbanding them eliminates an important check on how well the government is doing its work,' he says."