"I have researched the cost of bulletproof vests." Responses from @umich.edu faculty on a survey about censorship and self-censorship in the era of Trump and "institutional neutrality" @jordanackermi.bsky.social

Ann Arbor

my entire life i have waited for this email (it’s an LLM thing, sigh)

give wiki your money www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

The lamestream press is finally asking the right questions.

Good morning from Trotsky, aka The Pony

been saying for years now that Schlissel was a far better president than I realized at the time. The man has convictions and speaks them, which has become a rarity in upper university administration circles.

triumphant start to the week

Very welcome court ruling allows Civil Rights suit calling out @umich.edu for engaging in the most egregious Palestinian Exception suppression to go forward. michiganadvance.com/2026/03/20/c...

we should be so lucky www.jns.org/opinion/a-ma...

seeing journalists grill a reform dude until the entire audience howls in laughter at his ridiculousness is like watching a fascinating unknown culture, perhaps a multiverse event

In my yard today ---beautiful red-tail 🪶

good morning, lift every voice and sing 🎶 🪶

reading facebook comments by maga chicks makes me think perhaps we should pass the save act after all. to a woman, they appear to believe their DL or realID proves their citizenship.

in the reeds 🪶

The slurping sound as an entire generation’s mind is sucked into the machine

These memes are dumb, Europe gets most of its oil through the Strait of Hormuz, and they have a very strong incentive to help with this. Otherwise, it's back to Russian oil.

i had lunch with him in the 1980s and he patted my knee and called me little lady. RIP.

conjuring my pioneer girl spirits to make coffee as we enter hour 14 of no power

chance of a lifetime.

„Das Denken ist eines der größten Vergnügen der menschlichen Rasse“ - Bertolt Brecht ("Thinking is one of humans' greatest joys")

And once everybody knows how to fast-slop their scholarship, the defining hiring criteria will be "what can you do that AI cannot?" (in addition to the prestige of your university and your advisor's connections)

i’d get out of bed if i could. but it is not possible

“i can help with michigan,” Epstein wrote. “i=dont want your money.” (Narrator: he could not help with Michigan.)

I read the Guardian's hymn to "Vladimir" and got very excited, and OMG, it's TERRIBLE, so very very bad, just unbelievably awful. People who think they know universities because they went to college have to be banned from doing campus fiction.

I think this is right. I think we will win. But I also suspect that we will lose again shortly thereafter, because we won't be able to fix anything in two or four years, and Americans will lose patience and take out their immense resentment on whoever is in power for an even worse gander at fascism.

Now that's a proper sales pitch.

the rapprochement continues. we’re at the tail on tail stage.

@umich.edu Center for American Dialogue inaugural panel. Or rather the Center for White Americans who mildly disagree with each other. this would have been unthinkable a year ago, and it’s heartbreaking how quickly my university has fallen

Ohio State chasing Michigan traditions again.

Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg just sent an AfD dude to the state parliament on the direct vote* -- with 22% and the CDU and the Greens splitting the vote. Any chance my people can get a handle on tactical voting or nah? *Germany apportions some seats directly, some proportionately to party vote.

I don't see a lot of women participate in this "can AI feel" or "is AI sentient" or "should we give our AI coffee breaks" discourse, and I wonder whether that is because women, on average, have a clearer sense of the ways mental and emotional processe are embodied?

unpleasant day at the hospital, brightened by a parting gift. remember when dentists gave you 20 of those after a root canal?

happy with this quote though do not recall taking with CBS

A bit like the Hall of Peace in Münster, site of the Westphalian Peace after the 30 year war -- in danger of being either bombed or burnt for fuel, the carvings were evacuated and re-installed years after the war.

A friend fed Claude some disorganized notes and fragments and demanded some kind of synthesis; Claude complied and, without prompting, added this "note on method" Disgusting.

I have wood carver and country doctor, that's a pretty good combo, no?

Sneezing is so pleasurable the first five times or so, and then it gets progressively more unpleasant, and then it really hurts, and this must be an allegory

On the Noem hearings -- I don't get why none of the Dems is taking the opportunity to bring up WHY they're refusing to fund DHS, letting Rep's score points off the partial shutdown. Their demands are popular. It would be easy to get Noem to admit that DHS would be funded the moment they were met.

we are on hegseth’s list of acceptable schools, and i wonder if we’ll ever learn what shady deal we made to land there.

Is anyone familiar with proudofus.co.uk? It's a compilation of AI generated videos of British accomplishments Brits never shut up about, presented as forbidden knowledge. Did you know the Brits ABOLISHED THE SLAVE TRADE? Did you know the Brits INVENTED SOCCER?

awww, that's so sweet

my pleasure! (fuck ICE)

The there-is-not-enough-lemon-curd-in-the-house crisis has been averted

Going through my feed and blocking everybody who says this is somehow Schumer's fault. Not because I think highly of Schumer, but this level of idiocy is becoming unbearable, and I generally like it here.

Went to Kensington Metropark today to visit the Sandhill Cranes, and met a few other folks. 🪶/

@umich.edu is inaugurating its "Center for American Dialogue" with a talk by David Brooks. I guess when there are too many sandwich choices, you have to go with mayonnaise on white. president.umich.edu/news-communi...

My birding group is the best thing about facebook (plus the birthday reminders). Look at this image of three hooded merganser dudes dancing for the lady merganser! (photo: Jacie Rose Sanders)

Anna acted honorably, FSU should be ashamed to the core

they hate it, too, but they love that we’re hating it more