Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

Faculty should strike. Shut it all down. We teach from research not the whims of dummies.

Whoever at Texas Tech is reading this right now: Join your #AAUP chapter: www.ttuaaup.com. WALKOUT. PROTEST. STRIKE. Whoever at any other university is reading this right now-- Join YOUR local AAUP chapter and get ready. www.aaup.org/chapters/fin... #edusky #academicsky

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PolSciSky Any recommendations for scales relevant to ✳️ nationalism ✳️ patriotism That are widely accepted in psychology and/or political science?

Even though most H1-B visa applications are from industry, these fees will still hit academia HARD. "Nearly one in four scientists and one in five computer programmers are college-educated people from other countries. More than 10 percent of college professors were born elsewhere." #academicsky

Social scientists often bemoan falling survey response rates. A big part of the story has to be the proliferation of survey requests. I took every survey I was invited to in an 8 day period and took 27 surveys totaling 33 minutes.

Heartening to see so many students sign our open letter openletter.earth/open-letter-...

The federal government has censored the work of dozens of scientists, including work by my lab, on the impacts of climate change on Acadia National Park. Signs have been removed from Cadillac and Great Meadow. They’re also removing signs about the Wabanaki’s sacred connections to Cadillac.

Here is a map of universities that have fired or suspended faculty/staff for their speech on social media since September 10th. (Chronicle of Higher Education) This is a purge, and the SE is ground zero. bit.ly/3VvMqXn #academicsky #edusky

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my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

I'm not sure if any of you have noticed, but this stephen miller guy is a fucking asshole

Student-led demonstration for #academicfreedom TOMORROW at Texas A&M 6pm! 👏✊👇

So is now not a good time to pitch my "Cancerous Communist Woke Academy" charter school idea? #edusky

Deleted the below posts out of an abundance of caution. Despite the words of the Proclamation, an unnamed White House official told New York Times that they intend to apply the $100,000 only to new applicants only. If that is correct, the implications are not as urgent.

Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

People keep talking about tech firms in relation to the H1-B $100k fee but it’s gonna really sink universities.

The more I think about this, the more I realize how damaging it is. This is really very bad. Among the groups most affected will be scientists and professors. #academicsky

In a video shared to Twitter, ICE is shown throwing congressional candidate @katmabu.bsky.social to the ground

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

If you pronounce Likert correctly (lick-urt) people will often think you don't know what you are talking about because the incorrect pronunciation (lie-kurt) is so common. Are there other good examples of this kind of thing?

Tell state and federal legislators to stick with Standard Time! #DitchDST

In our First Year Experience course today, the topic was sleep! I love that sleep health is part of every first year's formal education. To get more circadian morning sun, I asked the students spend 15 minutes of class on our beautiful @uofstthomasmn.bsky.social campus & send photo proof.

This list now includes >2 dozen professors fired or suspended for social media posts since Charlie Kirk's death, across 20+ different universities. This is mostly in red states, many in the South. Pressure from local politicians is clearly a driving force in some cases. #academicshy #edusky

no one needs a fridge with a screen

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

I believe in free speech. That doesn't mean I have to ACTIVELY INVITE heinously offensive and factually challenged speakers in. Students & faculty should be free to invite who they want. Beyond that, we are under no obligation to represent all viewpoints equally. #academicsky

Here's a partial list of university faculty who have been fired or suspended this week. 🧵 How are free speech and academic freedom doing at your university? #academicsky #edusky #aaup #freespeech 1/x 1. A tenured Professor at Florida Atlantic:

Stephen Miller’s wife says Utah State University is to blame.

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Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Millions of dollars worth of contraceptives destined for low-income countries were destroyed at the direction of the Trump administration.

You cannot get more un-American than this. I refer to the State Department edict. Remember, this new policy curtailing free speech is brought to you by the very people who spent the last decade whining like children about their free speech being abridged and Democrats allegedly hating free speech.

🗣️📢PRESS RELEASE: “Texas A&M University Caves to Political Pressure, Violating Faculty Rights to Academic Freedom and Due Process.” 🧵 1/5

“This isn’t about academic freedom; it’s about academic responsibility.” This is about what a professor may teach in class within the subject matter of her course. If that’s not about academic freedom than nothing is.

A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure. The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.

Too many professors think academic freedom and tenure will always protect us. We need to be better organized as workers.

Academic Freedom is over at Texas A&M. Talking about transgender people in a lit class is now a fireable offense. The content of ALL courses will now be "audited" to ensure "they align with the course descriptions". (Only a fool would believe that rationale). #academicsky #edusky

"Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given." -Timothy Snyder The #NIH doesn't have to literally "ban" words. Scientists -- under a cloud of fear and suspicion, their cities threatened by military occupation, losing other funding already -- will excise whatever words the regime wants.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

This all makes me sick to my stomach. But the worst of it is how the toxic environment of misinformation, hate, and ignorance promoted by our government is affecting young students. Teachers -- don't give up. The students need us to say the truth now more more than ever. #academicsky #edusky

1. The HHS Appropriations Bill is out and it contains several devastating anti-trans provision. It would bar federal funding for trans youth and adult care nationwide, which could be used to bar hospitals from providing it at all. Will Democrats stand firm, or cave to avoid a shutdown?

Happy to report the AI adoption rate for large firms is going in the right direction — that is, down down down 📉 (according to US Census data)

ANSWER: 0 (yes, ZERO!) This is a result of an analysis done by a student in my grad seminar, using a large dataset (N=307,313). What this result might mean: Nobody's personality is truly "average," and people's personality profiles (at least Big 5) might be more "jagged" than we think. (🧵 1/5)

Excellent visual explainer article on the flaws of David Geier's anti-vax pseudoscience. Will have my psych research methods class read this -- hammers home the real-world meaning of poorly designed controls, lax ethics, bias, replication. #metasci Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Dr. Paul Offit, a prominent voice on vaccines and frequent critic of RFK Jr, is blocked from participating in FDA’s vaccine advisory committee. HHS says his special government employee status expired. Offit says FDA had asked him to stay on 2 more years: www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/h...

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey of 4,000 professors in 12 states has revealed the significant impact of political attacks on faculty work and recruitment. The findings show a widespread climate of fear & ongoing desire by some to leave the region for other jobs. 1/x