“The key to America’s economic growth is research and development. Removing or barring top researchers from the country would transfer that talent (and the research and development) to other countries.“ Thanks to our UTampa colleagues, Drs. Coon and Hall! www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/12/01/c...

Why yes, I AM rolling into the last day of class today with an excessive amount of caffeine, sugar, and 2000s rap…

We're accepting applications for a new assistant teaching professor for a few more days! If you, or someone you know, has experience in creative digital media, please check out our job call and consider applying: tinyurl.com/FTcreative

“Higher education is a public good. It’s good for democracy, it’s good for the economy. And so it’s worse for all of us if it gets controlled one way or the other from the outside”

Come and work with us at UTampa! We're looking for someone to fill a TT role in Strategic Communication, with preference for science communication! utampa.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

I have a writing deadline coming up (an R&R) and I’ve been allowing other things distract me from getting it done. Today’s the day it gets done! So, please, feel free, ASK ME HOW THE WRITING IS GOING TODAY! 🤣😬🤣

Just a few images from our #solidarity event this #LaborDay!

Watch live now: Supporters cheer CDC staff as they walk out following firings by Trump administration: www.youtube.com/live/KZ7QvPH...

I’m honored to have received the Outstanding Faculty Service Award from the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Tampa this afternoon. What a blessing to have found my academic home!

Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, the university president announced www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

We’re seeing #KillTheCuts flyers popping up on UTampa doors this morning! Please feel free to add yours in the replies!

“Bending the knee and precomplying will not stave off these attacks. Acquiescing to censorship will not stop the threats. Only engaging in collective, bold, public, strategic struggle & disruption has the potential to do so. We did not pick this fight, but this is the fight that we are in.”

What a wonderful talk this evening! Thank you to @loriemerson.net for coming to @uoftampa.bsky.social to discuss your new book! #othernetworks

I have to admit, watching universities cave, watching friends go quiet on some of the most egregious actions, and all because we’re supposed to be terrified of folks who can’t follow the PowerPoint on SCIFs & handling classified materials or check the random number in the group chat? Sigh.

🚨 BREAKING: Last night, @aftunion.bsky.social filed a lawsuit against @usedgov.bsky.social for illegally denying student loan borrowers’ access to affordable loan payments through IDR and blocking progress towards PSLF for public service workers. Statement: protectborrowers.org...

Hot take: This was piloted with New College (and others, to be sure) a couple years back and no one moved to stop it. The FL publics didn’t band together to fight it. Two years on, and we have a clear example of what will happen if we all don’t come together now. #dontcomplyinadvance

My senior portfolio students called me out for not having updated my personal website in years. 😳 So I spent this morning updating my personal website a bit. Looks like I might have a larger summer project to add to the list! 😬 These young folks keeping me honest…

The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's

NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.

The NSF’s Higher Ed Research ‘Hit List’ Senator Ted Cruz has released a database of more than 3,400 National Science Foundation grants he believes push “a far-left ideology.” Free speech advocates and researchers say it’s a scare tactic that... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3Qxe0RH

Weeks and Months After Natural Disaster, Colleges Stand By Their Students Students say they are still being impacted by wildfires and floods that cost them their housing, jobs and transportation weeks or months ago. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43brkCS

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Watched this OpEd and really appreciated it! Also, glad to see traditional media actually working with TikTok here: www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yj3NTf/

The last couple of days has just solidified my belief that I should never be in charge of a country. I would not have called and cajoled him. I would have just posted “play stupid games, win stupid prizes” on my socials and watched the tantrum. 😬

Every time I hear news that overwhelms or enrages me now, my new thing is to do an act of self-care. Fired 1100 EPA agents? CDC data gone? Liter of water! Healthy homemade breakfast. Tried to break into a SCIF at USAID? Laundry done and put away! Stock market crash? Skincare and moisturize…

Saw a TikTok from yesterday that the passport application system (website) is down (“for maintenance”) and fillable form is expired. Confirmed it myself this morning on the Travel State gov website.

Academics: Do you imagine you're in the clear b/c you've played it safe, avoided commenting on so-called "controversial" issues, and/or don't teach or write on one of "those" subjects? Think again. It may start with x, y, or z "issues" or subjects. But rest assured that will be just the beginning.

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

"A group of researchers and students at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is gathered today for a data preservation marathon, scraping and downloading data related to health equity from U.S. government agency websites before they disappear." journalistsresource.org/home/researc...

How many 🚩 can you spot today? www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YRLTKo/

Happening in Duval county, FL. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YdRY8r/

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

I won’t equate my or my colleagues’ experiences as academics* with the more vulnerable communities targeted by the Trump administration. But there are some developments I’d like to share as an academic in a red state working at a public university. 1/

Thanks. This clarifies nothing.

“NSF has received an email from its director to ignore the judge's stay of Trump's order and implement the spending pause.” x.com/BBKogan/stat...

Scrolling through the full list of feder programs that are "under scrutiny" and possibly frozen but for a temporary judicial order, is ....well, it is something. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This was my experience yesterday with my youngest daughter. I prey that things can change at least a little come the midterms. We have to let our state reps and senators know that WE have the power, not them.

I see a lot of people across social and news media right now, telling folks to take a deep breath, touch grass, don’t crash out—that this is going to be a marathon and not a sprint. I understand what they’re saying, but at the same time I have been a federal employee (in research)…

Marching orders from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny.

It was a pleasure to present this morning about communication strategies that foster & augment resilience! Best thing about presenting 1st is now I can listen to the rest of the great speakers at the 2025 Resilience Conference held by the Association of Continuity Professionals- Greater Tampa Bay!

The “A” in DEIA stands for accessibility. Federal workers with disabilities, including many veterans, deserve respect and the opportunity to work in public service. A diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible workplace makes public service better and makes everyone’s lives better.

I wake up early this morning (from a nightmare), and see that federal research grant funding is being halted, FEMA is on the chopping block, there’s no more civil rights in the workplace, and Musk will have access to classified information. So… I need someone to wake me up for real, please!?!

Hi. This is the shit you should be mad about. NIH work is critical.

I am always open to tips about how the Trump administration is harming disabled, chronically ill and aging people for my work at @motherjones.com. You can reach out via email at [email protected] or DM me for my signal.

Parece que Miami también está en la lista de ciudades para la deportación masiva como espectáculo a partir del martes. Okay, so it looks like Miami is also on the list of cities for mass deportation as spectacle starting as early as Tuesday.

Okay, not an economist or mathematician here obviously, but what if the 170 million US users chip in and we buy 50%? If the $220 billion valuation is true, that would be about $650 per user, right? 🤣

My husband is thriving during the great social media purge of 2025 (making homemade focaccia and bringing it to me warm, with butter and orange blossom honey drizzled over it) and I… I’m posting about it. 😕

And there it is. We can finally drop the nat sec concern pontificating now. All about controlling yet another social media platform and getting that money.

My husband brought me breakfast in bed this morning. I couldn’t sleep last night after the TikTok ban. I kept thinking of all the social good the app brought about. I think it may be important to list it out, so we remember this wasn’t some little silly dancing app. Things I witnessed firsthand:

All that we're likely to get from abled people is more scorn about this, and ridiculous comments about how online communities/activism aren't "real" and we "need to get out and make real friends" because it is apparently that simple