Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath? Character isn't something you tell people about. It's something you live.

This is a really thoughtful piece on the process of closing a college in the most ethical way possible. As the rate of closures is likely to tick up at least a bit, it's well worth leaders' time to read this.

I’m really looking forward to this!

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

New episode of PCWB is live with Professor Safiya Noble, Ph.D. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiEu...

My paper is part of a special issue on mechanisms of racism, guest edited by Amanda Lewis and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, for ERS. Here’s their introduction to the issue: www.tandfonline.com/doi/permissi...

Really well done this defector.com/higher-eds-r...

SESP faculty member Jen Munson received a five-year, $815,789 CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to design spaces that make math as enjoyable as recreational reading. ✅ Here's why Munson thinks Yahztee 🎲 🎲 🎲 🎲 🎲 and Legos add up to math: spr.ly/6187AfvBD.

I have looked at this a ton and he's right! There are NO rigorous peer reviewed studies showing faculty political leanings translate into skewed teaching or any form of vindictive grading or censorship on a systemic scale. Yes there are anecdotes, no there is NOT evidence of a widespread issue. 🗃️

Chicago is so much of a war zone that we just won best big city for the 9th year in a row.

This is smart! Some nuggets: building where you live is hard; it all goes down at the Piggly Wiggly (I’d Hardee’s and a he post office); politics is what you do. Fantastic conversation.

New Hometown Holler drop: We sit down with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social - scholar, writer, truth-teller. From North Carolina roots to national influence, Dr. Cottom talks about home, politics, and the power of paying attention. Don’t miss this one. #home #community #politics #whiskey

@cantb.bsky.social and I shared some thoughts/concerns about the proposed higher education compact in this @chronicle.com piece. But I still think that quite a few red-state publics would sign up, if for no other reason than state legislatures would expect it.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social With a perfect summation: “That anyone with a rudimentary understanding of history, politics, economics or even pragmatic common sense would call the way these provocateurs operate civil debate says just how poorly prepared any of us are for what lies in front of us.”

news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025... I’m thrilled that @sesp-nu.bsky.social faculty member Uri Wilensky has been named a Yidan Prize winner. This recognition is well earned and well deserved. #SESPLove

www.csis.org/analysis/lef... This report is framed irresponsibly and distorts the reality of extremist violence. The header is that left-wing terror is on the rise, and of course that will be the bite-sized takeaway. (1)

Go, Jackson, go!!! I love this new program and I’m thankful for student athletes like Jackson. #SESPLove

ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

"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...

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Had a lovely time talking with @kathleenduval.bsky.social about her Pulitzer, Bancroft, and other award-winner book at the Printer’s Row Lit Fest in Chicago. This is a fantastic book and Kathleen was smart and insightful.

We have a new article out today titled "Implementing climate change education in the United States: A meso-level analysis of school systems." Basically: why has uptake of climate change education has been so sluggish in the American educational system? Enjoy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

More than 85 scientists say that a recent U.S. Department of Energy report is full of errors and misrepresents climate science.

New article! Inspired by @gowder.io and @bennettcapers.bsky.social I think about how originalism imagines fictional pasts, so I turn to fiction to think about constitutional futures northwesternlawreview.org/issues/const... I am lucky to be in an issue with amazing folks, read them all!

Professor Shirin Vossoughi was named co-editor of the journal Cognition & Instruction. 👏 🎉 Read her transition letter: ➡️ spr.ly/6185fAihV

DO NOT PUT CHILDREN ON TV TALKING ABOUT A SHOOTING THEY JUST LIVED THROUGH The media who do this are heartless bastards

A federal court ruled that ANTHROPIC illegally copied MILLIONS of books to train its AI. All authors and publishers whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirate websites are subject to receiving compensation. This could involve your work. For more info: authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

This is a gift! Thank you, DB!

This evening into tomorrow morning, the weather brings a chance of heavy rain and the potential for flash flooding for western NC. 
Please stay safe and make sure you have emergency alerts turned on.

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: projects.propublica.org/impact-of-ho...

I will be in Vancouver next month for a book talk and signing! 7-8:30PM on Tuesday, August 19 at Massy Books (@massybooks.bsky.social). Please stop by! Details 👇🏽 www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-swa... #OnTheSwamp #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice

Reporter: How do you feel about the Columbia settlement? Dominique: Let me tell you about public universities in Republican-led states... I appreciate that I get the kicker on a lot of these stories because I'm the most grim www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Need her sounding like this

It feels very funny to celebrate these days, but I know connection is more important than ever. My book comes out in 2 weeks and there will be a launch party and I would love to see NYC parents, teachers, and community there. greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-0...

The #AERA2026 submissions deadline has been extended one week to August 1, originally scheduled for July 25. We hope this extension will provide support during a time of funding losses and disruptions to work. www.aera.net/Events-Meeti...

🧵 Insightful #NativesInSTEM thread… being, doing, mentoring.

holy shit lmao

Go, Jim, go!

SESP scholar athletes Maddie Zimmer (🏑) and Madison Taylor (🥍 ) were named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America At-Large teams! Graduate student Annabel Skubisz, a goalkeeper on the field hockey team, was also selected. 🏑 💜 💜💜 🥍.

I rarely comment on these things, but these are unusual times. 249 years ago the Declaration called Natives "Merciless Indian Savages.," and the Constitution excluded us from protection while enabling our dispossession. We remember this history not to cause harm, but to grasp the consequences./1

According to a new report by those hippies at Morgan Stanley, in the past year 55% of North American companies have experienced a #ClimateChange related event that impacted their operations or business. That's a lot!

😳 “as many lives lost as WW1” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Warnock: If I'm honest, there are days when I have to ask people of my faith tradition as a Christian, are we reading the same book?  The book I know says I was hungry and you fed me. I was sick, I was in prison and you visited me, I was a stranger and you welcomed me….

Y’all. This episode is incredible. We know that TMcMC is a genius.The thing about this interview though is how pedagogical TMcMC is; she takes complicated ideas and analyses and explains them with deep clarity. That is such a gift! Katie is so good as a thought partner. Excellence!

I could watch this double slide from the Phillies all damn day long - with all the replays