This will indeed be very good! (Great work by Sarah Johnson!)

Elon Musk has also disrupted, by which I mean brutally ended, the lives of over a million poor children and adults globally by means of destroying USAID, but who gives a fuck, right?

Non-consequentialists be like

How it started / how it’s going — Jay Bhattacharya edition. 2025: “We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree" 2026 : Bhattacharya “has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits”.

Come work with @ruthgreenwood.bsky.social and me! Apply to be a Clinical Instructor in Harvard Law School's Election Law Clinic. The job offers amazing opportunities to litigate novel election law theories and train the next generation of election lawyers. careers.harvard.edu/job/clinical...

Announcing the ETHICS/PEASoup Discussion (4/29 and 30) on “Justice for Girls: On the Provision of Abortion as Adequate Care” a free article by Alyssa Izatt and Kimberley Brownlee at doi.org/10.1086/7396..., with a précis by Japa Pallikkathayil, peasoupblog.com/2026/04/anno... #philsky

Relatedly, if your entrenched tyrant can lose everything in a wave tyrannicide, you are not living in a tyranny!

The university administration has begun an ideological crackdown in the vein of "divisive concepts" laws at the unit with the weakest governance and academic freedom protections—the Lab School. Read our full statement here: www.uchicagoaaup.org/statements/l...

"The Times’s analysis shows that the damage was often caused by strikes in crowded neighborhoods" "In most instances examined by The Times, the intended target of a strike was not clear. In some cases, schools and health care facilities ... were directly hit." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Allow me to alert you to the existence of this paper on why democratic equality requires DC statehood and the scholar, @emamet.bsky.social, doing the hard work of outlining perhaps the most significant gaps in basic democratic representation under the American flag: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

And she has since been deported. Link here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

This is one of the most vile things I have ever read.

This & the cancellation of Title VI/FLAS funding for foreign language & area studies pose existential threats to the social sciences at every R1 university in the country. And it's been ~total 🦗🦗 from our university presidents/chancellors & a total lack of public collective action.

Just so everyone knows, the Solicitor General straight up lied about the 1921 law review article he kept talking about. quick thread:

I mean, good, but it’s still a sign of profound dysfunction if this isn’t 9-0. A justice who will sign off on this is effectively announcing there’s nothing too flagrantly unconstitutional to get their blessing if a Republican president does it.

Additional objectives achieved in this war: -Iran running a toll booth in the Strait -Iran retaining HEU & more motivated to build a bomb -Iran regularly launching missiles and drones -Iranian hardliners elevated and empowered

just a few minutes away from Bret Stephens getting another prediction wrong

At this point it’s no longer hilarious that Italy is missing the World Cup. It’s sad they won’t be there!

like i cannot understate that major sources of social science research funding for PhD candidates are just - gone over the last few years, much less NSF support - ford /national academy of sciences fellowships - ssrc international dissertation fellowships - USIP dissertation fellowships (?)

I can believe this vignette because Emanuel functionally tore apart video evidence of Laquan McDonald's murder by police with similar "intensity and ferocity," aiding the cover-up with "intent and verve and without mercy."

The President of the United States is once again threatening to destroy civilian infrastructure, including objects indispensable to civilian survival, as an act of collective punishment. All States must condemn this madness and act now to end this lawless war.

”it’s already… about halfway through fiscal year 2026...anything that the NIH has left unspent by the end of September may go back to the Dep. of Treasury. Not giving the NIH enough time to fund enough grants would effectively cut the NIH budget even though Congress did not allow that.”

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

True Whiskey Fridays with Tom Dokoupil has never been tried.

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

"Three Is Company: a Four-Hour Feature Film" is gonna be lit.

I cannot overstate how much I admire the courage of faculty like the one quoted here.

We have now killed at least 1,443 civilians, including at least 217 children, in this illegal war. www.en-hrana.org/day-24-of-u-...

This is not fucking okay

General sanctions kill and otherwise harm civilians, almost always in violation of standard just war principles.

Can’t believe that after all these years, AFCON is where Mike Pence finally had the courage

Don't often agree with Andreessen, but when he's right, he's right.

Political stakes aside, this is an important, compelling account of the costs of professors’ inappropriate behavior: “Gradually, without ever really being honest with myself about why, I decided graduate school in math wasn’t for me, after all…”

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

This is an incredible documentation of the systematic, intentional collapse of American health science, by Elizabeth Ginexi. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Israeli strikes have killed 850 people and wounded 2,105 in Lebanon over the last 12 days. - 107 children killed - 66 women killed - 32 medical workers killed Per the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

Read why NIH colleagues resigned. Brave writing from Sylvia Chou, Alexa Romberg, Paul Grothaus and Vani Pariyadath. 🧪 #science #standupforscience #integrity www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

My latest on the Iranian threat to the Strait of Hormuz in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/hormuz-...

Epically disastrous for higher education. Maybe something that the country's leading university presidents wanted to bother speaking up, loudly & collectively about, at any point in the past 15 months 🤷‍♂️

Pains me to say it, but the world should definitely boycott the World Cup. Would be great if U.S. soccer players and institutions took the lead in calling for this. #BoycottWorldCup

Iran will not take part in the 2026 World Cup. Iranian sports minister Ahmad Donyamali on state television: "Considering that this corrupt regime [the US] has assassinated our leader, under no circumstances can we participate in the World Cup”. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Political philosophers who try to introduce Wilt Chamberlain to young people in lectures already know about this lack of video 🙁

I'm seeing another tweet from the Energy Secretary. Markets please adjust accordingly.

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

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The article also points to the corruption of the selection process for new NEH grants.

The US–Israeli war against Iran is “clearly and unequivocally unlawful.” We spoke with OONA A. HATHAWAY (@oonahathaway.bsky.social), Professor at Yale Law School, about the international legal order and Europe’s reluctance to call the attack on Iran illegal. verfassungsblog.de/the-unwillin...

I believe this means Doc Rivers has joined more public statements calling for the defense of higher education against the Trump Administration than has the President of the University of Chicago.