Each tide sketches a forest, each wave erases it — what the sea remembers may include us, too. 🌊 Read more in "A Tree in a Wave, a Wave in a Tree: What the Tide Remembers" #Ecomemory #PlanetaryFutures www.linkedin.com/pulse/tree-w...

Childhood memories as research data! @phoebegilpin.bsky.social @katepahl.bsky.social @psayoungpol.bsky.social @memorystudies.bsky.social @mervikaukko.bsky.social @karenpashby.bsky.social @eecera.bsky.social @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @fohn.bsky.social @coldwarpod.bsky.social

What can Cold War childhood memories teach us about living in the Anthropocene and its uncertain futures? 🌍✨ (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War by Mnemo ZIN is out now! Join the online launch Oct 1st at 8am MST! RSVP & Register 👇 tinyurl.com/2ju6syz3 @microbial-child.bsky.social

Excited for this book talk with Gita Steiner-Khamsi on Time in Education Policy Transfer. How do different temporalities shape global school reform—past, present, and future? A timely and important conversation. Join us! ⏳

Authoritarianism doesn’t just thrive on control. It thrives on silence. My essay in Comparative Education Review reflects on three forgotten books - The Abuse of Learning, Hitler’s Professors, The Making of Nazis - and what they teach us now. 🔗https://lnkd.in/gJgq-xrH #CIES @gesigcies.bsky.social

Discover how time shapes global school reforms—from its historical roots to its contemporary tempo. Join us for a hybrid book talk 🗓️ 15 Sept 2025 | 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST 🌍 Online & Teachers College, NY 👉 Register now buff.ly/bFG4QZM #edusky @isilova.bsky.social @teacherscollege.bsky.social

Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.

The Big Ten Rises UpAgainst Trump newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com

There’s a way to respond to Donald Trump’s brutal and reckless funding cutbacks—and it doesn’t need Washington’s permission, L. Rafael Reif argues.

🌀 What if education isn’t saving the world— …but scripting its collapse? In our new article, we ask whether global calls for “more education” are reinforcing the very systems driving ecological collapse. 📖 journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... #Unlearning #PlanetaryFutures #SDGs #MoreThanHuman

The Trump administration’s pressure on universities echoes past authoritarian efforts in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. A comparative and international education expert explains: buff.ly/zSTmtwz By @isilova.bsky.social, Arizona State 🗃️ #highered #edusky

MISSING KINS www.tuni.fi/en/research/... - Guerilla poster campaign, 2025, various urban locations around Southern Finland @nessling.fi @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social @riikkahohti.bsky.social @tampere.fi @gronroos.bsky.social @microbesinfo.bsky.social @hatsunemicrobe.bsky.social

Here we go again.

A new book about Argentina’s disappeared shows how difficult it can be to reckon with atrocities of the past. Julia M. Klein on lessons from a nation caught between "the drive to forget and the obligation to remember":

Stunning! An 8-hour time-lapse to show the Earth is rotating while capturing the Milky Way.

Academic Freedom Under Threat and the launch of the Academic Freedom Fellows Initiative are happening now! 💡 Access from here: www.norrageducation.org/academic-fre...

Happening Monday, May 26 - in Edmonton and online: Roundtable on Relational Research Methods in the Face of Climate Crisis. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable...

This is a very important text about Trump's authoritarian attitude towards universities and schools. @isilova.bsky.social

Excellent piece. "Within a few years, German universities no longer served knowledge – they served power."

Put this together with Noem's warning to all universities that the end of approvals for all international students is not just a Harvard thing.

All the news I have been reading these days in the U.S. are driving me nuts. #HandsOffScience

“So far, the most energetic opposition has come not from civic leaders but from everyday citizens, showing up at Congressional town hall meetings or participating in Hands Off rallies across the country. “Our leaders must follow their example.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

In its first 100 days, the Trump Administration has relied heavily on ambiguity, misdirection, and plausible deniability to accomplish its aims. It’s a model that has parallels to other countries that have slid into autocracy, Andrew Marantz writes.

Heading to Hope and Resilience Conference at Jyväskylä University in Finland www.jyu.fi/en/events/ho.... 2 art workshop & 2 presentations @riikkahohti.bsky.social @pauliina-rautio.bsky.social @nessling.fi @cssmicrobes.bsky.social @gronroos.bsky.social @journalces.bsky.social @isilova.bsky.social

While some universities may believe compliance with the administration will protect their funding and independence, a few historical parallels suggest otherwise; by @isilova.bsky.social theconversation.com/universities...

History's warning on why, in times like these, universities must stand together – everywhere. When #universities, out of fear, choose to yield to political demands, "they are no longer just reacting to political threats, they are internalizing them." @isilova.bsky.social

SOME OF US RECOGNIZE IT'S ALREADY THERE. www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

"'We've slid into some form of authoritarianism,' says Steven Levitsky, a professor of government at Harvard, and co-author of How Democracies Die. 'It is relatively mild compared to some others. It is certainly reversible, but we are no longer living in a liberal democracy.'"

"The Trump 'peace' plan is no such thing; it is an instrument of surrender, and the Ukrainians are unlikely to accept it," @radiofreetom.bsky.social writes:

Worth noting that a number of universities have now sued over withheld and canceled grants, but no university has yet sued over the arrest, detention, and threatened deportation of its foreign students. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...

38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

#rebellion #50501movement From USA Today: Nationwide "Hands Off!" 50501 protests against Trump continues for second weekend https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/nation/2025/04/19/protest-resist-trump-rally-photos/83173515007/#

On April 23, we launch a special issue on “Policy Perspectives on Education for Sustainable Development” with the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development! Please register: bit.ly/JESD25 #ESDfor2030 @gwu1821.bsky.social @columbiauniversity.bsky.social @unsdsn.org

We named the project G-FORCES for a reason. G-FORCE is what you feel when something begins to move. It’s the pressure of change. The resistance of inertia. The body’s signal that transformation is happening. #NSF #AcademicFreedom www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-e...

"Each decision – each erased name, each revised syllabus, each closed program and department – was framed as necessary, even patriotic. Within a few years, German universities no longer served knowledge – they served power." The U.S. isn’t immune. And it isn’t hypothetical. #AcademicFreedom

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again. 🔗 theconversation.com/universities... #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation

🚨 Well fuck… 1. DOGE has finally setup shop at NSF this week. (everything that’s happened at NSF thus far has largely been *without* direct DOGE meddling) 2. NSF is halting making new awards across *all* directorates to rereview proposals for alignment with exec orders.

🧪 Today’s Science News: 1) NSF starts sending out grant cancelations. 2) WTF NSF Guidance on Broader Impacts 3) covid.gov 4) NIH budget slash leaked. Did I miss anything?

Our NSF grant G-FORCES, a global collaboration to reimagine education for planetary sustainability & justice—was terminated with no warning. “Not aligned with current priorities.” We’re still moving. We names it G-FORCES for a reason. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/d41... #GFORCES #NSF #ClimateJustice

🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪 This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants. "DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature" What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?

A reminder that NSF is explicitly breaking the law if/when they attempt to cancel grants that focus on promoting participation in science by underrepresented groups on that basis, incl women in science programs like NSF ADVANCE. Congress expressly directs the NSF to grant funds for this purpose. 🧪

People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Loved this conversation; the resonance of the perspectives from different countries - Hong Kong, Venezuela, Ukraine, Azerbaijan - and different perspectives - academic, activist, researcher, journalist - and the solidarity, and the hope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCIF...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Higher education required reading for today by Iveta Silova (Follow her at @isilova.bsky.social) theconversation.com/universities...

"Whose knowledge counts" & "whose presence and perspectives are permissible on campus". Trump, authoritarianism, academic freedom & the purpose of universities @isilova.bsky.social theconversation.com/universities...

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.