You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.

The White House has cut or frozen billions in scientific research funds that had been approved by Congress. It’s an assault on the rule of law and on the security, health, and prosperity of all Americans. bit.ly/42ytB9B

Oh is that how it works? One candidate is such a corrupt criminal that his own party tried to purge him, a crook who pardoned a pedophile and is loathed wide and far. But he plays the man card and now it's "front and center" in the race? "Sorry, folks, the crook said we have to talk gender!"

My God this headline breaks my heart ...

public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf "In consideration of this legislative and report language, OMB is not proposing updates to the indirect cost rate negotiation system through this document."

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governm... Scientific peer review is "advisory and does not replace agency discretion."

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

It would be fitting if after years Republicans debasing themselves to please Trump, he will conclude his career by throwing the entire party under a bus. www.cnn.com/2026/05/27/w...

Unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. These funds must be distributed in accordance with the process set out in legislation.

Like a case study in bothsidesism. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

I sometimes wonder if all these social media restrictions by age are focused on the wrong cohort .. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

I would add that the beginning of Facebook was also a great moment in time. Connecting with old friends. Funny memes. Games with friends. Then they optimized for engagement and it all went to hell.

Again, along with the NSF/NIH/DOE budget cuts, these visa/immigration/foreign student policies are all-out existential assaults on American higher education. And the sum total of university chancellor/president public & collective opposition to them has been ~🦗🦗 (Olson 1965, Akerlof 1970) 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

"An email from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future."

Just messing with people’s lives out of bigotry and fear. I am so sorry about how horrible my country has become to immigrants.

Among other things, this rule seems like it would devastate US higher education. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Article on Google AI overviews featuring recent research with @haofeixu.bsky.social and @umariqbal.bsky.social tracking Google AI overviews.

Ok but if we are going to keep bringing back 90s clothing, can I make a quick plea for men's cargo shorts? www.glamour.com/story/90s-em...

A Tennessee man who was jailed for 37 days over a Facebook post he shared after the killing of Charlie Kirk agreed to a $835,000 settlement with the sheriff’s office, his lawyers said. nyti.ms/4tKTI8c

Threats of political violence should have no place in American politics. www.404media.co/township-lea...

The longer you look at this, the worse it gets

I mean I know we are re-running the gilded age here, but I was hoping we could avoid The Jungle.

Even other autocrats are jealous of this level of corruption.

SBE has made only 2 (TWO !!!) awards for the entire year. This despite the fact that Congress funded it at basically the same levels as previous years.

I don't want to wade too much into this, but the chart going around from that FT birth rates article raised my "making causal claims from time series data" alarm. Compare the figure in the article with the raw TFR data from 1960 onward.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

I will vote for whichever presidential candidate that credibly promises to legalize direct-to-consumer car sales.

The theft of $1.8 billion in tax money by an unchallenged executive to fund his personal political operatives is exactly the kind of action that sparked the American Revolution.

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

Do this even if you live in a dem state/district. Add a line about your own work. Took me 5mins. No excuses

I am begging journalists covering Callais to think a LITTLE BIT about how covering only the partisan implications of Callais reinforces the batshit opinion's assertion that the VRA was only about partisan power

Students, every year, in evaluations: We liked that he had us take handwritten notes in lecture. I could focus better. College administrators: You kids want some AI? How about a second computer? What if the walls were also screens?

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

House Democrats secured the necessary signatures to bypass Speaker Mike Johnson and force a vote on a package of Russia sanctions and billions of dollars in Ukraine aid. This is the eighth time in the last three years that a discharge petition has been used to do an end-run around GOP leadership.

The "total (election) procedural war" that Trump and Republicans are conducting has roots in McConnell's total (parliamentary) procedural war in the Senate and, before that, in Gingrichism in the House before that. A full generation of the partisan demolition of democratic practices and norms.

I don't really have much to say about the NY Times covering that NYU students don't want Jon Haidt as their graduation speaker beyond the fact that the paper has not covered this case (or more like it) which involves state censorship of faculty speech. It is monumentally more important.

WashU Source on our article in the latest issue of @ajpseditor.bsky.social, "Speaking their language?: Multilingualism in party communication across democracies" source.washu.edu/2026/05/stud... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Can’t wait to see what happens with political ads….

arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525 and so it begins.....

It is weird to me how many books identify smart people by how many PHDs they have. Like why on earth would any smart/sane person get more than one? (Reading project hail mary)

Barely even a satire ….

Excellent students.

For context, Hoover still won 39% of the vote In 1932.

Really is remarkable what a 36% approval rating looks like in map form. The Economist's MRP model has Trump's approval rating among all adults net negative in all but 6 states www.economist.com/interactive/...

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

Ghouls is right

A year ago, I said it wouldn’t be long before Trump tried to denaturalize someone. Most people told me I was being alarmist. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."