More importantly, what are you going to do about it.

"Failed, following protests" are three very revealing words. Our enemies ain't invincible, y'all.

Dartmouth’s response to the Trump admin’s corrupt contract, short and sweet: “You have often heard me say that higher education is not perfect and that we can do better. At the same time, we will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves.”

By my read, the only way for a university to comply with this compact is to gut their social sciences, arts, and humanities, and a good chunk of their sciences, too. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

U. Colorado Boulder Dept. of Computer Science is hiring faculty in: - #Quantum computing (scope include quantum CS theory): jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... - Computer architecture & systems: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Come join us! #🧮 🧪 ⚛️ #AcademicSky

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

When you take a leadership position, that means that when people have complaints, they will lay them at your feet. Calling that “harassment” is an announcement of incompetence and weakness. You want people to populate your site/protocol where people share opinions, Jay …

"Bioethicists have a big job to do in the current climate, where experts are dismissed and pseudoscience is weaponized to serve a political agenda."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charlie Kirk, uAlberta, and Me @floralashes.bsky.social cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2025/09...

Melissa Ramirez’s journey from first-generation college student to university professor Graduate student Ramón Gudiño García talks with this computational and synthetic organic chemist about how being a Latina in science has influenced her career. #HispanicHeritageMonth cen.acs.org/education/ou...

Open Science Professor ship at HU Berlin www.academics.de/jobs/w2-prof...

⚗️ 🧪 #AcademicSky

hope EU member states take this historical opportunity to NOT be weird xenophobic loser-monkeys and instead fast-track citizenship for researchers who relocate (as well as for their families)

This is probably a desired goal for the Trump regime? They have inconsistent preferences mind you so there's another sense in which this is undesired. But "drive out the intelligentsia and weaken academia" is, under this aspect, a favoured policy goal of theirs. www.politico.eu/article/euro...

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’

I spoke to Wasim and read the book and last week put out a newsletter about the book and our conversations. You can read more about the aspiring astrophysicist 🔭🧪 and why you should read his book here: news.chanda.science/archive/gaza... #BookSky

The Department of Energy has now banned the following words and phrases: climate change, green, decarbonization, energy transition, clean energy, emissions, sustainability, tax breaks, carbon footprint. This is dystopian and should terrify anyone paying attention.

“Should I pretend I, as an intersex person, don’t exist?” - Georgiann Davis www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.

A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸 How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data. www.science.org/content/arti...

Our new discovery reveals electronic interactions that drive catalysis cse.umn.edu/college/news...

#Postdoc at U. of Vienna in philosophy of science, with focus on scientific modeling, interdisciplinarity &/or philosophy of engineering, w/ Prof. Tarja Knuuttila. English & German language proficiency required. Deadline: Oct 9th #philsci jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

"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...

‘Unprecedented in history’: global academic freedom group warns of dismantling in US #academicsky share.google/J3YpkPAD9a0q...

Come along to this free webinar tomorrow evening! I will be one of the speakers, talking about FWS and its practical implications. Free Webinar - For Women Scotland Decision: What Unions, Lawyers and Employers Need to Know | Garden Court Chambers share.google/4wIImm9a3T6M...

Robustness of 'small' networks arxiv.org/abs/2509.23670

Published in PNAS, the Laura Gagliardi Group has revealed the Weighted Active Space Protocol (WASP), a powerful new algorithm that fundamentally improves the efficacy and accuracy in catalysis simulation, accelerating the discovery of next-gen catalysts for sustainable energy. shorturl.at/fQagQ

#AcademicSky #PhDLife Cross-national graduate student survey finds 43% (overall) experience discrimination/harassment as part of their studies www.nature.com/articles/d41... My Ask #1: check in with your students. They okay? My Ask #2: check yourself. Are you causing their problems?

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Cabrillo College and UC Santa Cruz have officially broken ground on Costa Vista, a $181 million, 624-bed joint student housing project aimed at combating homelessness and housing insecurity among students.

#ScienceUnderSiege subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

i love ta-nehisi coates so much

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

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Defect calculations have many pitfalls and key considerations for achieving good accuracy 🎯 In this perspective, we discuss these issues, how to avoid and how we can make defect simulations more reproducible – particularly important with more ML developments! 📊 chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

It’s interesting how we are asked to justify why there is an English Department at a college but not why there is an athletics program I think both are valuable but it’s interesting which one is more likely to be on the ropes, again, at a college

Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

Last Friday, we published the 500th article of Peer Community Journal! 🥳

As educators in Wales think about what the new science & tech curriculum wants our learners to be - ethical and informed citizens. Also that learners “need to develop the ability to meaningfully ask the question, ‘Just because we can, does that mean we should?’”

✴️For the first time since 1945, UT does not have a representative faculty council. Our press release on the replacement of an elected Faculty Council with faculty advisory bodies composed entirely of appointees of President Davis. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The e book is available link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

New from the Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... 1/2

“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...

To really habituate users to an infrastructure often requires exemplars to produce conviction in others. OpenAI's NextGenAI is a global marketing initiative leveraging the brands of ivory tower universities to give it legitimacy in education, and attract future customers openai.com/index/introd...

This post is why, when people say “am I really a writer when I’m not writing?! I haven’t written in weeks?!!” I’m like, chill. You’re always a writer, if you’re a writer, even when you haven’t written in years.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"