I am disgusted by the ways that Columbia has caved and in the process weakened academic freedom for us all. History will not look on the Columbia university administration and trustees kindly. Conceding to authoritarianism opens up all of higher education to a horrific future.

Call for Papers for special issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics, “Constructing Transnational Feminist Resistances in Times of ‘Crises’.”Please submit your work & help spread the word! Deadline: 5/1/25. @isanet.bsky.social @sriprateekraj.bsky.social www.ifjpglobal.org/cfp-ifjp2025...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

It has been a joy to be (a small) part of this collective project with @feministonmarx.bsky.social @shirinmrai.bsky.social Sara Stevano & others www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Today is a great day to unsubscribe from the New York Times (if you haven't already) and subscribe to/follow: @evanurquhart.bsky.social & @assignedmedia.org @erininthemorning.com @imarajones.bsky.social & @translash.org @michaelhobbes.bsky.social @parkermolloy.com @katelynburns.com

So trans, queer & intersex people have been erased from the US govt page. Link: travel.state.gov/content/trav...

As a Sociologist, I need to tell you the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.

So this kind of “affirmative action” is acceptable?!?

Here's the OMB memo about reporting back by noon today. www.opm.gov/media/yvlh1r...

35 minutes until the deadline for all agencies to explain how they're going to be "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism." Meanwhile, the Secretary of Transportation announces funding preferences to communities with higher birth and marriage rates.

📢 ISA Headquarters has released a statement on social media and upcoming changes. Scroll ➡️ for the full update.

What is a "controversial" belief or policy? According to a new bill in Ohio, examples include climate policies, electoral politics, foreign policy, DEI programs, immigration policy, marriage, or abortion. chroni.cl/40TaN4D

Call for Papers for special issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics, “Constructing Transnational Feminist Resistances in Times of ‘Crises’.”Please submit your work & help spread the word! Deadline: 5/1/25. @isanet.bsky.social @sriprateekraj.bsky.social www.ifjpglobal.org/cfp-ifjp2025...