The current administration at the New College of Florida lack the necessary experience to run a higher ed institution. "Not only do the folks running New College not have what it takes to run a higher education institution, they don't trust the people who do know what they're doing."

AI slop. it's what's for dinner. Thanks tech overlords! Keep looking in the mirror while you sing the song about your utopian genius!

One way to donate to flooding relief in Hat Yai, Thailand friendii.art/milkteatha

Check out @tcpress.bsky.social's Professional Learning catalog, with offerings from me and other TCP authors. Do you and your colleagues want to know more about document-based, thematic history teaching? Let me know! #sschat www.tcpress.com/filebin/PDFs...

The #US just terminated the #TPS for #Myanmar. This means, that the government considers Myanmar a safe place to return #refugees and all other immigrants from Myanmar to whose presence is now "opposed to ... the national interest of the US". An absolute disaster! www.uscis.gov/humanitarian...

Here’s the plaque at West Point with the relevant text highlighted

Our legal victory in AAUP v. Trump ensures that the Trump administration cannot use civil rights laws to pull federal research funds from universities, which undermines our 1st and 10th amendment rights. AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal explains why this is a major victory for higher ed workers.

Great panel discussion the other night at Humboldt University IAAW about the #MilkTeaAlliance. Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social and other panelists! Refreshments = Milk tea from Myanmar, Hong Kong, Taiwan, & Thailand 😀

Breaking news: “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026, CBS said in a statement. The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News.

More than two thirds of New Yorkers are tenants. Andrew Cuomo compared them to hotel guests. We need a Mayor who will bring our city together around an agenda to lower costs for everyone, whether they rent or own.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

Local 6741 is in the BlueSky house! We are an @aaup.bsky.social & @aft.org local, composed of all non-collectively bargaining AAUP chapter & at-large members of AAUP. Follow us for news on & organizing resources for faculty in pre-majority union contexts. Check out our website too! local6741.org

Today the Missouri Senate has the extremist gun bill #HB1175 on their formal calendar. So I'm joining gun violence survivors and @momsdemand.bsky.social supporters in calling on #moleg to oppose SAPA. Sheriffs, police chiefs and unions from across the state went to Jeff City to testify against it👇

@profpaulboxer.bsky.social and David Salas de la Cruz to deserve our thanks for drafting the Mutual Defense Compact. Academic freedom and shared governance, our rights as instructors and our students' rights, are worth standing up for. @aaup.bsky.social

This is where we are. It’s time for patriots to stand up for the principles in the Constitution.

Ideas entering the country illegally? I don’t think a wall will stop that…

Those of us who can must speak out against the termination of international students' visas for free speech or minor driving violations. Grateful for @aaup.bsky.social guidance as we support our students.

#HandsOffOurDemocracy Columbia MO

New open-access article out with Ma Maysi and Joe Decker, on #Myanmar refugee-background students and their access to higher education in the US.

“We are now witnessing a tax on academic freedom that is new in our lifetime,” say Mizzou @aaup.bsky.social chapter president Stephen Karian, in a General Faculty Meeting focused on academic freedom.

The couple million dollars Trump promised won’t do much good given to a corrupt and inept regime with no USAID staff on the ground to make sure it reaches people.

www.facebook.com/share/14wbYG... one option for donating to earthquake relief in #Myanmar

Let this be a lesson to everyone: Trump won't relent if you give in; he's a bully. The only thing that will get him to back off is to punch him back.

This is why self-described MAGA "conservatives" often feel uncomfortable in modern academia. Because amongst humanists and social scientists, the idea that race is a biological reality has generally been considered discredited nonsense longer than any currently living American has been alive.

1/2 - After today's devastating 7.7 earthquake in central Myanmar, the next few days may see significant aftershocks. Please share these images with those who may be impacted in Myanmar & the border regions. #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar

If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...

Tons of honks of support at Columbia, MO @neatoday.bsky.social rally to Save Our Schools. I won't stand by and watch a Sec. of Ed. who doesn't even know what IDEA stands for dismantle the DOE. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!

Joining a Red for Ed rally tomorrow morning! Educators are fighting back against dismantling the DOE and the important service as it provides.

Once you establish that people can be punished because the administration doesn't like their speech, expanding the bounds of who can be treated that way becomes inevitable.

This isn’t funny but sanctioning the UN Human Rights Council for finding Israel guilty of systemic sexual violence against Palestinians is straight out of The Onion

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

The AAUP wholly condemns this punitive weaponization of federal grant funding. This attempt to discipline & control a university campus is a transparent hallmark of authoritarian rule & harshly violates the central mission of education to serve the public good. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/n...

From @aaup.bsky.social on FB

Took immigrant and refugee-background students in our college & career prep club to visit a community college today. As higher education implodes, I hope CCs remain accessible & a great value. They need MORE fed support, not less.

Trump: "We brought back free speech in America. Free speech." This is a flagrant lie. Today he told universities they would be punished if they allowed protests of or criticisms of Israel, a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Trump spoke for 90 minutes—and didn't say one word about the stress the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck are facing right now.

The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy & Beijing is available for pre-order from @bookshop-org.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/the-... (I'll post info on June book launches, & on related pre-pub talks, eg one at Northeastern April 10 www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-move...

So glad to see this documentary winning an Oscar. As Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham says, "We live under a regime where I am free under civilian law, and Basel is under military law that destroys his life...there is a different path, a political solution without ethnic supremacy." #FreePalestine

Here's what Mizzou's @aaup.bsky.social chapter will share with legislators in Jeff City on our Advocacy Day on Thurs. To quote Mr. Isseks from the inspiring documentary Middletown (check it out!), we have to keep acting like we live in a democracy. #academicfreedom

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Always been nothing more!

Financially supporting media is more important now than ever. My list: @theguardian.com @nytimes.com @newyorker.com @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social Breaking Points, and my local media (Columbia Missourian, public radio) to name a few...please put other suggestions in comments.

Beautiful and inspiring version of @timothysnyder.bsky.social's On Tyranny illustrated by Nora Krug. I love the advice to "defend institutions." The one I'm defending today is the university where I work, where academic freedom is being threatened by executive orders.

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

Campus leaders who are throwing academic freedom out the window take note: "The Department of Education can, of course, criticize speech it disagrees with. But the First Amendment does not allow the government to restrict speech based on such disagreement, including by conditioning funds."

Bezos bends the knee. Pathetic.

Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.