Your favorite thing is down because DynamoDB at Amazon's AWS US-EAST-1 Regionwoke up with Main Character Syndrome. This is the default /legacy backbone for a ton of things. Including Amazon's own stuff. Massive outages. Here's what's going on & what we know 1/

Today is the 1st day of Prison Banned Books Week, a week examining the catastrophic impact of censorship on information access in carceral facilities. Go to prisonbannedbooksweek.org for updates & actions this week, and SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKS TO PEOPLE IN PRISONS GROUP via books, $, volunteering!

"Exposure to more unvetted views does not automatically bring one closer to the truth..“Disciplines do not create expert knowledge through a marketplace of ideas in which content discrimination is prohibited and in which all ideas are deemed equal” ..some ideas are better than others." #academicsky

Students stand up against hypocrisy at Northern Michigan University buff.ly/jY579VO 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #BlackEduSky #FeministSky

Participants need! Higher education staff, administrators and faculty. 10 min survey for research study. #HigherEd #EDUsky #academicchatter #sustainability baruch.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

"Now we are seeing an effort to turn universities into instruments of propaganda for government ideology in the name of fostering a free marketplace of ideas." Read the latest from Kumble Subbaswamy, STHE co-chair & Chancellor Emeritus UMass Amherst buff.ly/VduYYO4 #AcademicSky #Academia

Served as his TA in a « Ways of Knowing » interdisciplinary first-year student curriculum. A brilliant physicist and leader.

Many universities are swiftly, even eagerly slipping into the wave of repression against free speech and press. U. of Indiana and Purdue U. are two of those. Bravo on the Purdue Exponent for coming to the support of IU's beleaguered student newspaper. Makes this alumnus proud. #AcademicSky

The Black Outside newrepublic.com/article/2014... via @newrepublic.com New poem by Joy Priest in The New Republic. @dalai-mama.bsky.social

Grew up with Schoolhouse Rock and maybe it should be revived again. No more kings.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R1t...

No Kings protest in tiny State College

The Pentagon told reporters to sign a pledge restricting their reporting. Major news outlets refused to play along, handing in their badges rather than bowing to censorship. This rare show of unity is proof that resistance is alive and well in America. #Velshi

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

On Tuesday, October 21st—Ursula's birthday—we'll announce the recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction! Join Theo Downes-Le Guin and guest host Ebon Moss-Bachrach on YouTube for a live announcement at 9 am PDT. The announcement will happen here: www.youtube.com/@ursula.k.le...

MSU lawyers edited the findings of Title IX investigations into sexual abuse by Larry Nassar to reduce liability in civil lawsuits brought by survivors. 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #BlackEduSky #FeministSky

A must read! This epitomizes how bringing university complaints is often David vs. Goliath. buff.ly/5g6TTxR 🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #BlackEduSky #FeministSky

Dartmouth becomes the 6th university to reject Trump’s higher education compact president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

As the world discovers the Faroe Islands, there's a push for local food (I can tell you my whale hunting kinspeople in the Faroe Islands do not WANT to be discovered. Which will just egg you on.) apnews.com/article/faro...

#academicsky #researchsky

kykernel.com/118671/news/... Kentucky Kernel on Gurney Norman. Guy Mendes, Berry Center leader discuss his impact.

Well done articles with amazing graphics. #academicsky #birds #migrationpatterns

🚨 Breaking News | After four universities rejected the Trump administration's compact for higher education, the White House is planning to meet Friday afternoon with the remaining five that have yet to respond. Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4qhCtLd #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

#VisualScience #AcademicSky #GraphicDesign #SciArt #Scisky #SciComm 🧪

JOOOOOOOBS! come join us at SUNY Binghamton! #GeoSky #AcademicSky Assistant Professor in Human and Environment Interactionshttps://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=193940

open.spotify.com/track/1CVgbT... Nine Pound Hammer covering Ace’s cover. Because Ace is behind all of it here… boys sound good.

This is my favorite desert tortoise haiku. And I know from desert tortoise.

Meet the trans performer who took on the LAPD in 1960s Los Angeles. Nearly 50 years before RuPaul brought drag into the mainstream, Sir Lady Java challenged LA’s anti-drag law, setting a precedent for LGBTQ+ employment rights.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/b...

There are so many reasons to not use AI.

I just realized this makes me an Award Winning Author 🥳

Ace Frehley, Kiss' original lead guitarist and founding member, dies at 74 apnews.com/article/ace-...

Trump's administration fired almost all 60 staff at a college-prep program for low-income students, including the TRiO programs that serve 900,000 students in programs like Upward Bound + Talent Search. These employees are part of the 4200 shutdown layoffs. #AcademicSky #EducationNews

Trump’s Layoffs Gut Office of Postsecondary Ed College-access advocates say that TRIO and other student support services will face major disruptions as a result. https://bit.ly/4qetVVm #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

#EnvironmentalImpacts #STEM #AcademicSky #Sustainability

For the most common of Commonwealth reasons. Keeneland is in and it would scare the horses.

Opinion | The Compact to Destroy Academic Freedom The fight against Trump’s totalitarian compact isn’t just a fight for the autonomy and freedom and preservation of American universities. https://bit.ly/4qhs82a #AcademicSky #EDUSky #HigherEd

Singapore has become the first Asian country where students can take a music PhD that combines artistic practice with academic research as universities seek to support cultural ambitions, reports Tash Mosheim #academicsky https://ow.ly/pPQ950XbStH

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules apnews.com/article/pent...

Our 2nd year PhD students will be sharing presentations on their qualifying paper research, the first milestone required of our PhD students! GWS is excited to come together to share and recognize our graduate students' exciting research. #AcademicSky #UWMadison

Screenshot of the Indiana Daily Student social announcement.

‘Kind and generous,’ Gurney Norman, Kentucky writer and teacher, dies at 88 kentuckylantern.com/2025/10/14/k...

Penn State Coach Gets $45M Buyout https://bit.ly/3IKQujX #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

‘Professor of possibility.’ Gurney Norman’s legacy lives on in KY writers he mentored

Deliberate ignorance is "the conscious decision to forgo available, potentially highly relevant information." The authors seem to align deliberate ignorance w/critical ignoring, but the "highly relevant information" part != critically ignoring unhelpful information. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

"I've heard that @coldwarpod is worth a listen..." coldwarconversations.com

Another significant environmental crime Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork jrnl.ie/6805578