Indiana University is in great financial health, according to a recent independent analysis. The report says administrative costs have grown significantly while instruction and faculty pay lagged. @weiss-a-woni.bsky.social Read more: www.ipm.org/news/2026-04...

The University of Maryland got hit with a ten percent cut in state funding for FY27, resulting in hiring and travel freezes as well as deferred maintenance. Expect more colleges to adopt midyear budget cuts this fall as oil prices stay high and inflation ticks back up.

Hoosiers can track fuel prices in real time using IN Fuel Watch, an online portal documenting gasoline prices at more than 4,600 gas stations across the state. @indianacapitalchronicle.com Read more: www.ipm.org/news/2026-04...

Supreme Court rules Black voters had no rights which the white man was bound to respect

If you are in Clear Creek, you are OK. If you are anywhere in the northern half of Bloomington, you need to be in a safe place now, for about 10 minutes.

#ICYMI The FBI believes an Indiana University researcher caught smuggling biological material was working on behalf of the Chinese government. An IU professor believes his arrest was politically motivated.

Want to know more both Black Republicans & the state of Black politics in this current moment? Join Profs. Katherine Tate, @coreydfields.bsky.social, & me as we talk Black politics & American Democracy. In-person & Zoom! May 18, 4–5:30pm PT Info + RSVP: cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/events/black...

Former Martin University students and staff are suing Martin University, alleging employees did not get paid and tuition did not get refunded when the institution suddenly closed last year.

My book is available for pre-order. Use coupon code E26CRLLO to save 30% when you order from @dukepress.bsky.social dukeupress.edu/the-business...

A series of robberies have hit Hispanic businesses in northwest Indianapolis. IMPD hasn’t made any arrests but has identified persons of interest. www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-...

Here are presidential approvals across issues, and by party. This is our new NATIONAL poll, not Wisconsin. Note the range of approval among Reps: not all the same. Below 50 w Reps on inflation. Low Independent approval is midterm problem for GOP. Inflation/Cost of living #1 issue

I'm quoted in this article looking at a report on state higher ed funding effort heading into challenging times. It gives me flashbacks to Great Recession-era proposals, except for state maintenance of effort provisions not being discussed now.

If you were/are a participant in the US rave scene, please consider submitting your oral history at: ravehistory.org Also see rave history maps for some major cities here: ravehistory.org/maps

Our paper, “The Politics of Black Classification: Sociopolitical Cues and Racial Perception” (w/ Lauren Davenport & @hrendleman.bsky.social), has been conditionally accepted at Perspectives on Politics! Sharing abstract below. Long time coming, but we are really proud of this paper. More soon!

The NYT just doesn’t know how to cover the sector 🤷🏻‍♂️

María Isabel Puerta: "Delcy Rodríguez quiere permanecer en el poder" f24.my/Brg7.BS

Following last week’s news that Project Jupiter will use more water than previously disclosed, Doña Ana County commissioners took swift action on Tuesday to try to learn more. Here’s my report. /1

Second Term Worse than the First. Consumer sentiment is far worse in 2nd term than in 1st. Economic sentiment was a tremendous advantage in the first Trump term and is a tremendous burden in the second. 1/n

Thank you, Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School for a fun conference on America’s Role in the World. As someone who has studied and worked at some gorgeous campuses, I will stipulate that Bloomington in the spring is awfully damn pretty!

This seems like a much bigger scandal that the National press ought to be covering

Five artists you'll hear on tonight's episode of "The Beat with Dave Lindquist": Allison Russell, the Bug Club and Indiana’s Real Peak, Tad Armstrong and Malingo. 7p, @wttsfm.bsky.social! #TheBeatWTTS

Are you in Australia or New Zealand? With the clocks changing, my online co-writing sessions for academics will be at a reasonable time for lots of you. Hurrah! Start your FREE Trial now & join us for *gentle* accountability in your writing every week. academicwritingstudio.co.uk/australians-...

I don't see this said enough: the widespread use of generative AI is not only making our jobs as educators harder logistically, but also emotionally. It is genuinely sad to be suspicious of students when you have spent so much time building a pedagogy based on trust and not being a cop. It sucks.

Happy March 31! www.youtube.com/shorts/_CeUz...

There’s no Republican running in HD95, so it’s very likely the May primary will decide who represents parts of Lawrence and the far east side. mirrorindy.org/indiana-hous...

Sure, the fox motif in Project Hail Mary (film) can be read as symbolizing Ryland’s cleverness and all that. But I like how it echoes with another story about friendship between beings from different planets: The Little Prince

This is real and available for pre-order! a terrific roster of authors help shed light on how we got here

This is grim reading. Even if you dislike aspects of higher education, declines in academic freedom often accompany authoritarianism.

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

The Trump administration is engaged in another effort to ban DEI in universities, this time via the General Service Administration www.highereddive.com/news/gsa-pla...

Remember when people were fired for *reposting* accurate quotes from Charlie Kirk after he was killed.

I’m pretty sure that by the Charlie Kirk death response standard Trump has to be fired

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

Grand opening, grand closing.

Liberation should never, ever, ever come through "icons" but through solidarity, compassion, understanding, and mutual empowerment. Everything else is celebrity and fandom. And all celebrities will ultimately be fickle.

Hey friends, my new paper was just published in JAMA Psychiatry. I draw on biological species classification to sketch a new framework for psychiatric nosology. Brief summary follows below. Full text link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... 🧪 #PsychSciSky #MentalHealth

Resharing again! I'm looking for a postdoc with experience or interests in longitudinal data collection OR analysis: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32132

We needed that win 🥹

LFG VENEZUELA!!! LEO LEO LEEEE

You keep Maduro no matter what, USA. No matter what!

Les comparto un reportaje de @rcienespanol.bsky.social sobre los costos físicos y sociales de la crisis venezolana desde una mirada feminista, basados en una entrevista que tuvimos en enero y la reciente publicación de “Embodying Predation” con @antuliorosales.bsky.social (link debajo) #Venezuela

Full article: From bolibourgeoisie to cryptocrats: how the crisis and sanctions reshaped Venezuela’s ruling elite into a new oligarchy by @benedictebull.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It does seem like this part of the main squall line is bowing outward a little bit, and if that persists then it will be one of the stronger parts and pack the greatest threat for wind. Arrival around 10:45.

For the locals who are wondering, check your radar app. It's there, and it's coming. Will it be at its v. strongest when it gets here? No idea. But forecast is still the same -- big wind, and the little "curly" places in the line can sometimes produce tornadoes. Tornado watch at some point this eve.

"A department generating high credit-hour production across the university but with few declared majors is not an inefficient department. It is a department whose students are not being counted in the metric being used against it."

Happy Pi Day! I'm grateful to the Purdue professor who reached out to the Indiana legislature back in 1897 to stop the state from officially defining pi as 3.2. Public university faculty have a special role to play in advancing knowledge (and stopping nonsense).

At long last, The Postliberal University is available for pre-order! hep.gse.harvard.edu/979889557111...

Trump’s Advice to Venezuela’s Democracy Champion: Don’t Go Home www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/w...

USUALLY presidents getting blame or taking credit for gas prices (or local crime rates, or etc etc) is dumb, because it’s a commodity whose price is set on a global market, USUALLY for reasons having little to do with the White House’s occupant. But this is 100% directly Trump’s fault.