As if we didn't have enough excitement at universities these days. www.vice.com/en/article/a...

Universities allow DHS to surveil football games along with campus protests. This is a (sadly a bit badly written) story about a hugely important topic. Faculty governance must request information on these collaborations on their campus. www.404media.co/dhs-is-deplo...

I spoke with a grad student today who cannot leave the US. Her I-20 is good for five years, but her visa only for two. If she leaves, she needs a new visa. She has to apply in person, and it takes three months at a minimum. And a new visa would be for three months only, single entry. So: Impossible.

Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

This is astounding. The @michigandaily.bsky.social upstages every single legacy outlet in the country when it comes to exposing the underbelly of higher education. Just tremendous work. specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...

she walks on beauty

really good piece on life in chicago now aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

How did I get to close to Medicare age to learn the secret of the most succulent and most crunchy-skin chicken? I'm kinda mad nobody ever told me. I've been on the quest for the perfect roast chicken for three decades. (it's a buttermilk brine)

Chuffed to share that my @umich.edu faculty senate resolution asking for a proper AI strategy passed with 86% of the vote. Tremendous participation -- 46% of the faculty! (the high number of abstentions is due to the fact that a whole bunch of people came solely to liberate us from CTP).

outstanding reporting from our students www.michigandaily.com/news/focal-p...

I keep telling people that the people pushing AI into our brains are the worst people on earth, but engineers tell me it's really useful to cut down on routine tasks, and that Grok sometimes tells Musk things he doesn't want to hear, so can I please shut up

OpenAI does not care if you live or die and occasionally champions the latter. Universities must cut all ties to this dangerous corporation

we’re clearing out a storage room in the German dept and I found Ron DeSantis’ platonic academic ideal. Some truly unfortunate facial hair choices.

Look what arrived today! SOCKS! and a very nice blanket. I feel loved.

first election in a while without a gender split

i dont quite know why of all the many AI horrors, this one horrifies me the most www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/a...

this is the first time i’ve seen a Dem make fun of their DEI bullshit.

ooooh! what is it? Tell me!

Penn development got hacked. what a wasted opportunity.

remember how they used to say “judeo-christian”? don’t hear that much anymore.

which way, @umich?

Farhana Sultana is a tenured , full prof & a prominent critic of right wing supremacies. RW extremists are targeting her for exercising her 1A rights. Worse her institution has shamefully caved to political pressure and placed her on leave. An atrocious violation of academic freedom. Please sign.

my first panettone!

OpenAI’s turn to erotica paying off.

Universities must cut ties with OpenAI. And no, "cocaine is available on the streets, there's no reason we shouldn't dispense it in the dorms" is not a good argument. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...

Very sure ChatGBT doesn't put butter and garlic in the mashed potatoes

AI is more dangerous than MAGA, and I can't convince people who have cozy little chats with their chatgbt friend to stop.

Holy shit. ChatGBT should be forced to post giant warning signs before people can log in. And it should be banned from using first person language, ever. It's a machine, not an "I" www.wired.com/story/chatgp...

It is a joy to report that I managed to convince U-M to remove this absurdity from our website. If faculty governance proceeds triumphantly at this pace, we should have @umich.edu fixed by around the year 2327.

Absolutely wild that it was in 2024 that the New York Times's Confessore decided DEI wasn't working at @umich.edu and that our regents decided to shut it down on the word of that hack.

I have a new grandpuppy, and his name is Winston.

Kudos to my fabulous friend @rebekahmodrak.bsky.social and @sszy.bsky.social, as well the other three excellent colleagues (none of whom are, I believe, on the blue skies).

An architect on the ballroom drawings. From fb (he said he doesn’t like being public, hence unattributed) (All text in first alt)

my people!

damn. that is an impressive finding. hope it can be replicated.

Excellent story. WUSTL asked a faculty task force to merge six departments into one, and they decided that plan was awful, and they resigned, and it didn't happen. tinyurl.com/32tjkcef

twice a week, that deep satisfaction of mastering an ancient art

Universities finally saying no makes me so happy.

Shocker: Ypsi nixes giant UM/Los Alamos electricity suck that comes without jobs or property tax www.wemu.org/wemu-news/20...

check out my restaurant (Lord’s, and by “my” I mean I own a share) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/d...

red-tailed hawk taking off at dusk. 🪶

Dems must stay the course

a play in two acts, performed at @umich.edu

unless you’re a lawyer, or work at Deloitte, or…

A modest proposal from my brilliant colleagues www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

every time you think there’s a good economist, they post something like this. (except for my live-in economist, he is flawless)

it really is people who remember WWII vs people who don’t. we boomers grew up within the deep damage that war wreaked on our parents. My students, by contrast, have never been politically conscious in a world without Trump, and this looks normal to them, even if they don’t like it.

Twitter has seamlessly pivoted from "they're all Hamas antifa" to "they're all white grandmas"

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Texas continues not to surprise. THe most cravenly obedient state in the nation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...