Hey, @umich.edu, how's it going with the data center plans?

always a good time at Detroit Cutt FC. proper soccer club. @ngsdetroit.bsky.social

The 100K fee for H-1B visas (yearly!) is reported as a hit on tech -- but it is a hit on universities. It will make it impossible for us to hire foreign visitors, or foreign scholars into tenure track positions--I think almost 40% of H-1Bs go to universities and university hospitals.

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

brilliant move

seems bannon won this round

Osprey #bluesky 🪶

Lack of honor.

I really think there are better targets than Will Stancil, y'all.

been staring at this paragraph in @umich.edu ‘s AI guidance on and off. you have an ethical obligation to feed Sam Altman.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

Updated second link: blackzonemagazine.com/not-one-but-...

Ann Arbor people, join us to honor Natalie Zemon Davis and Elizabeth Douvan, who fought the old McCarthyism when they were graduate students at @umich.edu -- a proud legacy which we want to preserve and further.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

one of the finest journalist at WaPo. one of the last fine journalists at WaPo.

timeline cleanser from my yard 🪶

All honor to Elizabeth Spiers and The Nation.

At @umich.edu, all employees, including some student employees, are now mandatory reporters. Third parties can also report "Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation" to U-M. Failure to report is also reportable. The reports will be the database MAGA will request.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Recently, I have not had too many nice things to say about @umich.edu, but this is very good, and I am very glad to see it. Hope everybody holds the line here.

the murder that’s not on every front page nationwide

In minor news: a @umich.edu committee unanimously recommended that our Statement of Students' Rights and Responsibilities be amended to stress that disciplinary processes ought to be "fair." The amendment was rejected by President Grasso. (original; amendment; approved language)

Sources vary on the definition of "unharmed," in particular.

@umich.edu has a large number of faculty on Charlie Kirk’s “professor watchlist,” and I hope we have a plan here, just in case. www.professorwatchlist.org/school/unive...

Does anyone know of middle-high German crash courses or resources that would help an undergrad with good contemporary German to tackle 13th and 14th century texts?

What worries me most about Matt Viser torching his credibility in such spectacular fashion is the fairly clear implied expectation that Trump/MAGA will not relinquish power ever. decision not to show the first-name-only sigs from same period would be baffling journalistic malpractice otherwise.

@umich.edu pravda bringing you the news. eventually… a portion…

/8 Fight, scorn, defy, and obstruct them, because they are the unapologetic forces of ignorance, bigotry, and thuggery.

Yup. I ended up on that right-wing harassment list because of this piece I wrote about right-wing harassment. In many ways, i consider it a badge of honor. But I didn't travel abroad this summer because I'm not sure whether I could expect to return. www.chronicle.com/article/coll...

This is a reminder that if you are faculty in Texas or anywhere else for that matter you need to join @texasaaup.bsky.social and @aaup.org . Your administration will not protect you from right wing attacks

BCH got a subpoena for data about their trans patients and providers quashed. The kind of thing @umich said couldn't be done. Or was too much trouble, I guess.

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘 CHICAGO!! Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below. Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ? 🧵

Diminish a book The Motion to Dismiss

my first foccaccia. pretty damn nice.

I keep asking my university why we are allowing ourselves to be captured by a technology championed by the likes of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. They have yet to respond.

Not quite the birthday present I wanted from Trump, but it'll do for now.

Listening to the RFK hearings, and the soundtrack of his death-rattle breathing makes we want to salute whoever does the sound editing at C-Span.

"A review of the admin. record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of the... 1st Amendment and Title VI."

I think the complete collapse of Gretchen Whitmer as a potentially noteworthy politician is one of the saddest political stories of the season.

"architecting." I despair.

@umich.edu has a new anti-discrimination policy for students that forbids discrim. “on the basis of race, color, national origin (including actual or perceived shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics), 1 age, marital status, disability, religion, height, weight, or veteran’s status.” missing?

Great (and horrifying) thread on AI slop distorting history, art, kids' brains, our will to live

over 25% of United Auto Workers nationwide are ACADEMIC WORKERS! friday, join a UAW phone bank against cuts to science research form.jotform.com/252308957361...

The great joy of introducing first year students to Oedipus Rex: "This play was extremely dramatic, but also one of the most interesting, plot twisting plays I have ever read." Damn straight it is!

I remember a Regents Meeting in December where our chief lobbyist said there were two areas of potential growth for us under Trump: defense (i.e. war foreign and domestic) and energy (i.e. how to burn more fossil fuels). Please find it in yourself to "wish to voice opposition"

absolutely emblematic AI headline and subhead

University of Michigan faculty and staff speak up about what we want in our new president. (post-Ono) @michigandaily.bsky.social @silkyweineck.bsky.social @sbagen.bsky.social @basit-zafar.bsky.social @yiliw.bsky.social @drgigiawad.bsky.social

My hummingbirds in the morning light 🪶

Reluctantly but also enthusiastically, GoBlue www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...