Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

"People have always been largely ignorant and had beliefs about the social order which were utterly devoid of truth or justice. But the extent to which you can quite deliberately create and propagate specific lies, advantageous to you and your immediate goals, is very much a novelty."

Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed, yet little has changed. Perhaps it is time for new approaches? Our new paper on post-critical approaches to grading with @margaretbea.bsky.social, Rola Ajjawi and David Boud is out in Higher Education! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In two weeks I am organising another PaTHES seminar! This time we will talk with Agata Zysiak on her recent book and utopian visions of socialist higher education 11.02 9:00 CET, Zoom: t.co/CVHdtpXDAH @tdelaquil.bsky.social

I’m very pleased to share my latest article in the @ejir.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1354... I use Southeast Asia's long historical position between the East Asian and Indian Ocean worlds to revisit foundational questions about the making of modern international order.

If you haven't signed up yet and would like to attend, please join the Philosophy & Theory of Higher Education Society's December webinar (ntnu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...). If you can't join us, we will be recording the webinar, so you can watch it later too!

I'm coorganising a seminar on Marxist critique of university in December! All are welcome

If you're free December 19th, do come to our PaTHES webinar with Krystian Szadkowski & Jakub Krzeski @scholarlycommrg.bsky.social on their new book "A Marxist Critique of the Ruined University" (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...) - register here: ntnu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Development Studies...often neglects both the past and the future, and its technocratic orientation inhibits exploration of alternatives to, e.g. the global capitalist world order." ✍️From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387

We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Are governments & universities still willing to commit time, space, the environment, funding, &freedom of research and collaboration required for advances in basic #research that win #NobelPrizes, write @philipaltbach.bsky.social & Tessa DeLaquil #NTNU www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Phil Altbach & I ask what Nobel-prize winning scientific research requires in terms of time, funding & international collaboration. Can universities maintain the kind of scientific discovery that has recognized benefits to humanity? www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Pub day! My new book, Authoritarians in the Academy at @hopkinspress.bsky.social, is now officially out and available for purchase. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The real sin of American univs is not that they are too "woke," it is that they are putting their financial interests ahead of their values and appeasing authoritarian regimes. At @theunpopulist.net @aaronrosspowell.com talks to @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social www.theunpopulist.net/p/chinas-aut...

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

Plus, this was a v. cool finding from the paper - the sheer number of societal connections from the humanities faculty & through the deans specifically!

The 3rd article from my postdoc @au.dk w/ Lynn McAlpine, Søren Bengtsen, & @agtgibson.bsky.social, titled “How do deans of humanities understand and enact societal engagement within their broader experiences of leading? A Danish case study” is out and available open access here: lnkd.in/dkfqzS5t

New pub w/ @hannukarhunen.bsky.social & Steve DesJardins. We examined what happens when tuition fees are implemented on intl students in 🇫🇮. Focusing on intl std price sensitivity, we model (DID) the effects of the implementation of tuition fees. It’s open access link.springer.com/article/10.1....

#New journal article, just published in the Minerva journal! #openaccess Dynamics of International Research Collaboration in Higher Education in the Global Majority Systems: Evidence from Three Contexts Link: doi.org/10.1007/s110...

@helendecruz.net (1978-2025), RIP open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

For those who don't know, there is a gofundme set up for Helen's family. They are very humble to not mention it, so I will. www.gofundme.com/f/support-he...

Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

On AI as a symptom and a cause of grief and trauma -- pandemic related and otherwise 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/grief-and-tr...

Fans of @helendecruz.net should try to attend this very unusual and lovely online event to honor her life while she is still with us. It's unclear whether she will be able to join but this feels much more meaningful than a memorial to me

Georgi Gardiner is hosting an online event to celebrate the philosophical art of @helendecruz.net next Tuesday, 6/24, at 11 a.m. CT. All are welcome! Details at www.georgigardiner.com/helen.

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

A structurally strange blog post today, as I basically repost an old post from a previous blog on method in the humanities, and then use that as a launching pad for entering into my academic middle age. I hope that I am aging with grace, but who knows. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/06/meth...

It has been a wonderful first day at my new role as associate professor with the Uniped group in the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in the beautiful city of Trondheim!

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

New publication. Not just for people interested in engineering! But for anyone in HE interested in how students come to understand their disciplines.

"Kennedy said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet...were 'corrupt'...'Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house'”

New blog post by Sam Illingworth! 🚨 "If we want to improve retention, we need to support our educators – by fostering a culture where learning is shared, creativity is valued, and development feels both personal and powerful" teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/d...

@scholarlycommrg.bsky.social has an open call for a postdoc looking at the role of IOs (the OECD, World Bank, IMF, and European Commission) shaping academic capitalism in Poland's higher education and science systems - no Polish required and a great team to work with! sc.amu.edu.pl/open-competi...

Tommorow is our next seminar, everyone is welcome!

Political theory/philosophy job in our Department! Deadline 26 May. Happy to answer questions by email. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Akira Kurosawa on writing

📣 Upcoming UCL IOE / PESGB London Seminar 🗓️ 30 April | 5:30–7:15 PM (Room 739, 20 Bedford Way) We are pleased to welcome Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social for a seminar titled: 📚 From Rhythm to Rhuthmòs: An Exploration of Ethico-Pedagogic Forms of Learning in Contemporary Universities Join us !

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

There are so many ways one could provide context for this data. For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...

Ever felt uneasy about how concepts & measures of "grey zone" autocracies are used interchangeably across the literature? Then check out my 🚨new paper🚨 in @democratization.bsky.social and get some substance to back up your gut feeling: tinyurl.com/ypdm2kna Or at least read the main points below ⬇️

On 28th of April I will host PaTHES seminar with Martin on his exciting new book "The public university as real utopia" We definitely need more realistic and utopian thinking about university, so join us!

Registration link: t.co/OODCZD22VU Thanks with help with organising @tdelaquil.bsky.social

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

📢Call for Abstracts –Glasgow-Peking Comparative Higher Education Symposium 2025 🌟Theme: Co-imagining Shared Futures of Higher Education in Diverse Contexts, Histories, Cultures, and Traditions 📅22–23 July 2025 📍University of Glasgow ✍️ Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 April 2025 ➡️ Details on poster

Read my blog post about what 'time inheritance' is and why it matters!

Come work at @ucddublin.bsky.social with @seaneens.bsky.social We are #hiring a 1-year #postdoc to support @guide-cohort.bsky.social Search 018435 for www.ucd.ie/workatucd/jo... Due noon on 11th April Thx for RTs #PhDSky #DevPsych @eadp.bsky.social @srcdorg.bsky.social