there’s only like two sentences between “excel is incredibly important to worldwide business” and “we have a 57% accuracy rate”! What are we doing!

if you aren’t super tuned into COVID news it is unlikely you know just how easily the newest variant spreads. vaccinate. mask. act like it is 2021. or you are probably going to get it. (ask me how i know!)

I just need everybody to stop making things worse for one goddamn minute so we can all catch our breath

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

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it is worth mentioning that many of these laws are written so broadly as to define any discussion of LGBT topics as pornographic

As always: the primary goal of disinformation isn't to make you believe the fake thing. It's to make you believe that everything is fake, so you shouldn't even bother attempting to discern truth.

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

This whole section really.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

I’m always saying that!

Can't we just get healthcare

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves. A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

The fundamental problem with the HBR-business/tech genre of AI studies is they all start from the premise that "learning" = "transfer of content" and thus "learning" is measured by "quantifiable restatement of said content," and that's just...not how learning works

Three-year VAP in Medieval Middle East/Islamic History at Colby's History Department jobs.chronicle.com/job/37887745...

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

My department is hiring an associate/full professor of Early Modern/Modern Jewish History. Please apply and please share within your networks. I have been told to say we're very interested in the early early modern. Note: I am not involved in the search but am happy to answer general questions.

At my institution, the Teaching and Learning Center's programs are now primarily focused on integrating AI into teaching. This includes their funded workshops. These used to be on different topics, and are one of the only ways for adjuncts to get some extra cash. Now they're almost all AI.

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

there’s a lot of talk about big tech and corporations but so many international academic colleagues are also on H1Bs. no university is going to pay 100k extra a year to keep them. if this holds, it would essentially mean the end of foreigners on tenure track jobs at US universities.

this exists it is called thinking

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️

You don't say? #medlibs

Concerned by this #UKHE -wide drive. It clearly is a way of removing representation from governance structures (a Department has a voice, committees, & governance structure, a 'subject area' does not), however much consultants/HR deny it is. Would be good to know how people protect representation.

The main function of AI is to make all text on the internet untrustworthy unless you personally know the source. We will boil the oceans and price people out of heat in winter for this.

We are thrilled to announce that beginning with our winter issue in January 2026, the Jewish Quarterly Review will become fully open access, including future issues and our whole 136-year back catalog! Learn more about this exciting change on the blog: katz.sas.upenn.edu/resources/bl...

This number one tip on this advisory is to set public online profiles to private when facing harassment, which bsky does not allow, and which really should’ve been a feature implemented on day 1.

AHIP members committing to keep paying for all of the vaccines they've been paying for, throughout all of 2025 and all of 2026, with no copay or coinsurance, regardless of the action RFK Jr. takes is what passes for good news in September of 2025. www.patreon.com/posts/139083...

I didn't know who this person was 10 minutes ago but i love her

Look, PSLF absolutely needs reworking. As it currently stands, it's inaccessible for many LIS workers. That said, the proposed changes are going to make it even harder for us. The administration could potentially disqualify public and academic libraries, without any challenge process.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more

Just FYI: while CDC is no longer tracking much of anything, wastewater data is still being reported. COVID-19 levels have just been nationally upgraded to “high”

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

Reminder for Louisiana and others: the pertussis vaccine in current use crosses under 50% vaccine efficacy at around 4.5 years after your last dose and is virtually 0 at 8 years past, and that's in people whose priming (childhood) doses were the whole-cell vaccine.

Update 3: I just walked into the same CVS that denied me. I didn't have an appointment. They didn't ask me to attest to having an underlying medical condition. I just my COVID shot. If you have trouble, call your reps. You can speak up and change things.

Breaking: Missouri House passes new gerrymandered US House map giving GOP 90% of seats in state Trump won with 58% of vote. Destroys district held by Black Rep Emanuel Cleaver, one of 2 Dems in state Texas was just start of Trump’s sweeping plan to rig midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

hell yeah: "A Georgia judge on Tuesday said he will toss the racketeering charges against all 61 defendants accused of a yearslong conspiracy to halt the construction of a police and firefighter training facility that critics pejoratively call “Cop City.”" apnews.com/article/atla...

I realize I post a lot about public health even though my professional expertise is in physics and I definitely don’t want to misrepresent my expertise! It’s just that I am experiencing the world from INSIDE A HUMAN BODY and so are ALL OF MY FRIENDS which is, honestly, more than a little concerning.

THANK GOD UNIVERSITIES ARE DISSOLVING RELIGION DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE WHY THE FUCK WOULD ANYONE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS IS DOING. BOY THIS IS GREAT!