"no statistically or substantively significant bias against conservative students in efforts to establish politically-oriented registered student organizations (Study 1) or secure campus space for a guest speaker to lecture on political issues (Study 2)" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Read Mythologies by Roland Barthes; starts with this quote: “The emphatic truth of the gesture in the great circumstances of life."

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

More than a million travelers could pass through Portland International Airport this month. Anyone who's traveled this time of year knows it can be stressful, but a group of volunteers are helping to remedy that with the help of their four-legged friends spreading comfort and joy.

When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

Believe the women.

Further down thread it says 170 fac have been given offers (buyouts, retirements). If not enough take them there will be “involuntary separations.” 170! Think of the collective yrs of training, specialization, teaching, the number of students taught, advised, mentored, the wealth of KNOWLEDGE.

I agree. This is professional misconduct every bit as much as plagiarism, but with even greater direct costs. @uvalibrary.bsky.social's Sarah Falls says 15% of their reference questions now contain hallucinated citations. Multiply that by every academic library in the world and it's mind-blowing.

My Senator says it all…

The latest from #UKSGInsights "Thoughts on how scholar‑led publishing can overcome the effect of the prestige economy" by Andrew R Du Rocher, @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social dub.sh/GyOFC1N

This is a good move towards accessible self-published ebooks.

I had forgotten most of the products Google has killed off. (The list continues past what's visible ⤵️. About ten scrolls worth.) Google Cache was one of my most important research tools, enabling tracking breadcrumbs along an investigative path. I had blocked out its death 2 years ago. 😢

just in case you wondering what's coming next...this week, in the park blocks that are public spaces within our campus, there were a group of maga supporters (red hats) wearing sweatshirts that read: Deport all liberal white women.

People experiencing miscarriages in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. (Published Dec. 2024)

If you missed yesterday's #UKSGForum2025 in Brighton then fear not, I have pulled together some of the highlights in the post below! www.linkedin.com/pulse/unlock...

Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.

79-year-old Paul Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a WWII German refugee camp. His family legally emigrated to the U.S. when he was 5. He’s been taken by ICE in Florida. www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/11/16/s...

This is why it's very important that the first thing you do when you review a manuscript or paper is to ctrl-f and search for your own name (also this stinks sorry)

@becca61.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/caju... Fucking outraged!!!!!

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

#Libraries #SafeSpaces

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This is fucking batshit evil bananas

“Trump’s continued abuse of our military to intimidate Americans in their own neighborhoods — the very same Americans he expects to foot the bill for these deployments — must end immediately," @duckworth.senate.gov told @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/11/c...

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

The DOJ completed a study on political violence that found right wing violence had increased to become the most violent group, with over 500 deaths since 1990. The report vanished from the DOJ website without explanation. #FuckTrump

rollcall.com/2025/10/21/a... Arizona 7th district has no representation & shouldn't be paying taxes.

I once curated an exhibit of WWI propaganda posters, and this is my favorite one that I had on display

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

The problems were so pervasive they abandoned their review and instead began investigating how widespread image duplication was in their field. Widespread image reuse, manipulation uncovered in animal studies of brain injury

BATTLE STATIONS PATRIOTS, CAESAR THE NO DRAMA LLAMA HAS BEEN DEPLOYED IN PORTLAND REPEAT, THE LLAMA IS LIVE AND ARMED

While gaggling with press on AF1 at 2am ET, Trump claimed an anonymous “great US citizen” paid $130M toward the US military salaries amid shutdown. US DoD annual budget: $170B for active-duty, reserve, and related pay costs $14B/month or $3.3B/week ~$466M/day $130M covers 6.7 hrs for 1.3M+ troops

"Since Trump’s election, Binance has been a key supporter of the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture, a business that has driven a huge leap in the president’s personal wealth..." www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

The post from the Reagan Foundation is just complete gibberish. The ad did not, in fact, misrepresent Reagan's views. But the idea that anyone needs the Reagan Foundation's goddamn permission to use the publicly broadcast official remarks of a former president and/or edit them for brevity is crazy

I'll leave you from Portland with one last video of the @unpresidentedbrass.bsky.social, the unofficial house band of #NoKings

Juneau now

Imagine being the largest newspaper in Washington, DC with the motto "Democracy Dies in Darkness" and thinking to publish this today. You might think WaPo editors would look out the window and realize something more important is happening. But perhaps democracy already died over there.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

BREAKING: No King's Day numbers are approaching the critical key 3.5%... Political scientists' "3.5% rule" states that no government has EVER held power after 3.5% of voters took to the streets. Let's go!!!

The President of the United States, who is very obviously in poor physical and mental health, just posted a video that makes the infantile nickname "Diarrhea Don" an accurate representation of his political career

After what I saw today here in Chicago and across our great, vibrant land: We are ALL #Portland. We are Frogtifa.

The crowd did not disperse, an instead started playing Tubthumping by Chumbawamba — I get knocked down, but I get up again.

Oregon’s Third is loud and clear: NO KINGS

The community of #ForestGrove came together to reject a monarchy! I’m so proud of these patriots who gathered to exercise their First Amendment rights. Well done @indivisible.org’s Forest Grove chapter. 💙