Faculty and staff cannot allow our college/university leaders to make these odious side deals with the federal govt. Please join us at Stand Together for Higher Ed: www.standtogetherhighered.org. It’s free. And we’re building collective power to stand together against this madness.

❤️ this! You’ve met confidence intervals before — in polls: “Candidate A 52% ± 3%.” That ± 3% is the ring: we’re 95% sure the real number’s somewhere inside it. Polls dance round and suppose. The truth sits in the middle and declines comment. #statssky #polling #academicsky

Robert Frost was certainly more familiar with iambic pentameter than he was with estimated parameters, but in 1942 he wrote a couplet that sounds very much like a poet's perception of a confidence interval: #statistics #statssky #academicsky

Meet our new scholar-mentor pair: Laurie & Michael! Laurie is studying Biology at UMass Boston. She’ll be supported by Michael, a graduate student at UMass Boston pursuing his Master’s in Molecular Biology. #AcademicSky #MentorshipMatters #HigherEd #StudentSuccess #EduSky #BostonNonProfit

📣 STHE wants to hear from you! Join us for one of our upcoming brainstorming sessions focused on how to respond to the White House compact. We would love to hear your thoughts and feelings on how our community should be responding. Register at buff.ly/R9VHdrm #AcademicSky #Academia

Many institutions, organizations, & individuals are standing together to say NO to the White House Compact. Faculty fellows at leading Institutes for Advanced Studies are adding their voice to the choir with a new open letter: #AcademicSky #Academia

So UVA rejects the Compact but still makes an odious side deal. We invite all UVA faculty and staff to join Stand Together for Higher Ed. It’s free, and we’re building community and strategies to stop this madness www.standtogetherhighered.org

#academicsky, particularly #Purdue, should you happen to be visiting #Boston for any reason in the near future, here's a little something you might consider doing on any Wednesday. #StandUpForScience.

🙌 Yes, this. The people, the lives, the health of our planet, the pursuit of just and fair outcomes and human rights and a better world. Legal storytelling helps us understand what is and imagine a better way. ❤️

Researchers at Duke Cancer Institute are looking at obesity's impact on breast cancer and whether GLP-1 drugs might help jump-start a more robust immune response. 🔗 Read more: https://medschool.duke.edu/stories/obesity-weakens-cancer-immunity-can-glp-1-drugs-turn-it-back #AcademicSky #MedSky

Fellows at Institutes for Advanced Study have issued a letter calling on universities to reject the Trump admin's Compact (loyalty oath). If you're faculty/staff at a US college or university, please join Stand Together for Higher Ed (it's free). www.standtogetherhighered.org/news-updates...

At a moment when higher ed as a pillar of democracy is under political attack in the US, we cannot allow college and university leaders to try to control the student press or any kind of student expression. www.standtogetherhighered.org

Proud of the Penn faculty!!! www.inquirer.com/education/up...

MIT!!!!! YES!!!!!!! www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Thoughts and prayers for Donald J Trump

The federal govt is trying to take over US universities. This is called “authoritarian consolidation.” We CANNOT let it happen. Sign this @aaup.org petition. Say no to loyalty oaths. www.defendingourcampuses.org

Please repost: Sign this petition against university loyalty oaths. Then if you are faculty/staff at a US university, join Stand Together for Higher Ed (it's free!) at www.standtogehterhighered.org. We are doing great things together to defend and renew higher ed. www.defendingourcampuses.org

PLEASE REPOST: An alumni petition you can sign whether you attended one of the 9 universities asked to sign a Trump admin loyalty oath. We are in dangerous times. And we must resist. Please sign and share widely.

Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freedom across America. alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/tr...

"It’s not the journalists’ burden to keep the government’s secrets for it," @seth-stern.bsky.social told @columjournreview.bsky.social. "That is the opposite of the press’s job, which is to tell the public what the government doesn’t want the public told."

Yes to all of this! Stand Together for Higher Ed is building a resistance strategy. Faculty and staff across US higher education: please join! It's free and we must all stand together. www.standtogetherhighered.org

Please join Stand Together for Higher Ed if you are faculty or staff at these institutions--or any other higher ed institution in the US. We are building a campaign to resist. Joining is free. www.standtogetherhighered.org

We are organizing to resist The Compact. Faculty and staff at all US higher ed institutions: stand with us. It's free. www.standtogetherhighered.org #academicsky #highered www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Are you frustrated that the NYT isn't covering the actions of this Trump administration as authoritarian consolidation? Consider reading my Substack posts on the subject. The NYT needs to cover democratic erosion plainly and clearly. kathyrobertsforde.substack.com/p/more-on-wh...

Mandami Momentum! @perrybaconjr.bsky.social Perry Bacon's political analysis of Mandami's campaign (and coalition-building skills!) is super smart. @newrepublic.com Zohran Mamdani Is Threading One of the Trickiest Needles in Politics newrepublic.com/article/2009... via @newrepublic.com

"Why Doesn’t the New York Times Have a Democracy Desk?" MAGA is consolidating authoritarian power in the US. Democratic backsliding is happening fast. Why won't the NYT cover this breakdown of US democracy with the clarity it deserves? kathyrobertsforde.substack.com/p/why-doesnt...

“Some faculty, student and alumni groups, however, have begun to stand up and make their voices heard.” Yes we have. Stand with us; we commit to educating for freedom. Thank you, Michael S. Roth. @standhighered.bsky.social

Wouldn't it be great if the New York Times created a Democracy Desk to cover so much of what's happening as what it clearly is: the rise of an authoritarian regime and the rapid erosion of democracy? Would love to get your thoughts on my Substack on the subject open.substack.com/pub/kathyrob...

Stand Together for Higher Ed stands with Emory AAUP. If you’re faculty at Emory, please join. AAUP is fighting for higher ed. We are not powerless!!! Please consider joining standtogetherhighered.org (staff welcome, too!). Free and we don’t share names or teams publicly.

Stand Together for Higher Ed stands with UT Austin AAUP President Pauline’s defense of free inquiry and against state repression of institutional autonomy, free speech, and freedom to learn. If you are #highered faculty or staff, join our movement: standtogetherhighered.org

THIS is what it looks like to report clearly on democratic erosion in the US. As always, @perrybaconjr.bsky.social is on it. So glad he’s now @newrepublic.com where his political reporting skills and sensibilities have wider latitude.

Page One of today's NYT:

"What's happening now is what happened in Hungary and Turkey, which is using regulatory threats and lawsuits as a way to capture the media, and to capture the information ecosystem. We should be all very, very concerned," says @krforde.bsky.social. newrepublic.substack.com/p/kimmels-su...

"Ownership matters. When you've got Paramount that has all these other business interests, they have made deals to protect their other interests. Same thing with Bezos. Same thing with the Walt Disney Company. I'm hoping the New York Times is going to hold the line," says @krforde.bsky.social.

@perrybaconjr.bsky.social always asks such great questions. His writing is great, too—smart & incisive &pro-democracy all the way. Read him @newrepublic.com

Join us at Stand Together for Higher Ed, if you're faculty or staff at an HSI or any US college or university. We are building the defense, for HSIs and other institutions, too. Membership free. And we don't publicly share names. standtogetherhighered.org www.chronicle.com/article/hisp...

Our senior adviser to Stand Together for Higher Ed, and the former chancellor at UMass Amherst, on the fundamental importance of academic freedom. Kumble ("Swamy") Subbaswamy is an inspiration. Please read and share. www.kentucky.com/opinion/op-e... #academicsky #highered

The leaders of the Rutgers MADC and broader MADC movement: how to defend higher ed! resistingproject2025.substack.com/p/defending-...

@lastweektonight.com“if this administration’s actions have taught us one thing so far, it’s that no capitulation will be enough...I’d argue that to the extent they can, these institutions need to stop yielding, stand firm, and fight back.” Stand with [email protected] tinyurl.com/49vjwkde

While Trump and the right-wing attack higher ed as "woke" and "ideological," guess where the conservative legal movement that has stacked the US Supreme Court with anti-democracy justices has received HUGE support? Ivy League law schools.

Watch, laugh, and then join us at Stand Together for Higher Ed if you're faculty or staff. If you're not and want to support us, please repost and then call your legislators to demand their support for research, science, free inquiry, and students. ❤️www.standtogetherhighered.org

Just in case you care about the defunding of public media in the US. kathyrobertsforde.substack.com/p/dont-let-p...

Harvard AAUP (& the AAUP) won a HUGE victory against the Trump administration that will make it hard for the Harvard Corp and President to cut a deal. Everyone in higher education owes a debt of gratitude. Their efforts & courage protect us all. ❤️ www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Hey, wonderful followers! I need your help. If you agree we need to defend higher education in the US, and if you have access to the NYT, please "Recommend" my comment to this wonderful op-essay. We're trying to get US faculty & staff to join our movement. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

We invite all Columbia AAUP Chapter members ‪@aaupcu.bsky.social‬ to join us at Stand Together for Higher Ed. We are fighting alongside the AAUP and building faculty and staff power across all US higher education: standtogetherhighered.org. We are building coalitions across states, universities

@aaupumiami.bsky.social Hey, AAUPMiami! Check out this Forbes article on our national movement to defend higher education and join us at standtogetherhighered.org www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

@osuaaup.bsky.social Check out this article in Forbes about our national faculty-led movement to defend higher ed. Then please join us at standtogetherhighered.org www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

www.democracyworkspodcast.com Check out Stand Together for Higher Ed on the Democracy Works podcast. Then join us at standtogetherhighered.org! #academicsky #highered #democracy

@pennstateuniv.bsky.social Thanks to the Democracy Works team at Penn State's McCourtney Institute for Democracy for highlighting our movement at Stand Together for Higher Ed www.democracyworkspodcast.com/episodes/kat... Join us at standtogetherhighered.org