University presidents it’s time for a united front. I mean, it’s past time. What are you going to do.

The ruling itself is remarkable, but it closes with something I've never seen: a 12-page assessment of Trump himself as an ignorant bully, braggart and threat to free speech and the republic writ-large. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Here's my comment--join me. This would effectively remove foreign PhD students and postdocs from our labs. please share

public goods "47% have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher ed institutions, w a net positive rating of 33—up 13 points since 2023. more confidence in higher ed than in the police (44%), the medical system (38%)+large tech companies (25%)" www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

A visa limited to just 4 years means that no international students could enroll in a history PhD program at a US university. Not to mention the postdocs and faculty who contribute so much to US higher education. Please let the federal government know what you think about this proposal! 🧵🗃️

proud of my union every day

Extremely valuable work!

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

The NYT runs an obit on #Florida's most distinguished food historian, who took his own life after losing his university position, and treats it as an excuse to write about the origin of the Cuban sandwich. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/d... via @nytimes.com

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

The results are out. It's not good, folks. www.aaupgeorgia.org/policy-resou...

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

Absolutely insane.

Here’s a 🧵 on key points in Judge Burroughs’ order in the AAUP/Harvard AAUP’s lawsuit against Trump’s DOJ for ideological funding cuts at Harvard: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

#Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous wasted more than $200 million on his environmentally destructive Everglades concentration camp stunt jasongarcia.substack.com/p/the-state-... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social

I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”

An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!

This is what a post-university sounds like.These could be corporate lab employees. One standout: “From my background as a German, I [saw] what is happening from Day 1, and I was much more concerned than other people around me. There has been too much complacency.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

"By rewriting what counts as harm, the administration is signaling that it’s acceptable for some species to die as the cost of doing business." The Trump administration's proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act’s regulations are a serious threat to endangered species.

Professor life, 2025: "Will I be able to make this deadline if the President invades the city?" Is a real thought I just had.

A new report from @epi.org shows that states with high union density also have: ✊Higher incomes ✊Greater access to health & unemployment insurance ✊Higher spending on education ✊Greater access to sick leave ✊Fewer restrictions on voting rights #WorkersDeserve

LFG!

Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...

We're seeing sales creep up for The AI Con (thecon.ai) and for that, we're really thankful! Let us know if you've put it on a syllabus, or shared with your AI skeptic friends who are wondering what all this mess is all about. @emilymbender.bsky.social

Reading is revolutionary praxis www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

Today, the Executive Committee of the George Washington Chapter of the American Association of University Professors (GWU-AAUP) released a statement rejecting the Department of Justice’s attempt to chill academic debate & crush academic freedom on the GWU campus. 🧵

Lots of people are talking about how this (obvs clueless) guy seems to really like Cellini: twice. But DYK Cellini's autobiography is basically considered highbrow smut?

going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations

This is pretty clearly a case of university administration using the Trump admin as cover to do something they've wanted to do for a long time: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/15/b...

James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

A woman who was 20 weeks pregnant fed her toddler son raw milk. He contracted Campylobacter and then passed the infection to her; she progressed to sepsis, and had a miscarriage. She is suing the business that sells the raw milk, saying she didn’t know the risk. Don’t feed your kids raw milk.

what a gift to all of us! thank you!

Schrödinger's humanities: Simultaneously moribund and dying in a world in which students increasingly only want to major in STEM and business, and also so powerful that they can inculcate dangerous, subversive ideologies like gender theory and post-colonialism in impressionable young people.

Honestly it seems the reverse. Sure the humanities are getting bossed around but whole branches of the natural sciences - mRNA vaccines, climate science - are being actively eliminated

Trump plans to sign an executive order mandating universities turn over applicant data to prove they’re not carrying out affirmative action. Despite colleges already reworking their processes post-SCOTUS' 2023 decision—this would go even further, ceding enormous control to the state.trib.al/BOP15TX

I am reading a lot about Ed tech and AI this month, to get caught up. And I want to say one thing — this is every previous wave of ed tech extraction at one time, on steroids. Not even the Apple/microsoft school wars comes close.

The first one went so well that MTC will be running two more of these workshops over the summer. Sign up here: mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...

Somewhere around a decade ago, a conservative activist told me that it was his mission to end abusive FOIAs of activists fishing through the emails of professors at public universities. I think about that often.

Why don’t more scientists support Republicans? We may never know

Two-hundred page account of the Trump administration’s effort to arrest, imprison, and deport foreign students who had the audacity to exercise their First Amendment rights. @knightcolumbia.org @aaup.org @mesa1966.bsky.social knightcolumbia.org/content/post...

Niall Ferguson, who 60 Minutes was holding up as a champion of campus speech a few months back, also a signatory on a Manhattan Institute manifesto to allow Trump to take over higher education. www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-manhatta...

Don’t drink raw milk. There is absolutely no benefit unless you enjoy getting sick to “own the libs”.

Yep. I think the wording is vague & will be seeking clarification, but the status quo for Canvas's in-house AI features was that they had to be turned on/off by systems administrator, not instructors. So, depending on your institution, this may be a vector for faculty organizing, like, now.

"I mean, what are we going to do next? Make Medicare fraud illegal? Come on!"