We all know the difficulty the HE sector is in. But let’s work together to come up with solutions. The nuclear option damages our students & the reputation of our institutions. @ucflangs.bsky.social & @artsandhums.bsky.social are supporting colleagues www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.

Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.

Sheffield Hallam has stated publicly that it has apologized to me. Here are those apologies.

one major takeaway I've gotten from covering ICE here in Evanston, IL is that the paranoia runs very, very young. elementary schoolers as young as 9 have been keeping tabs on immigration activity. one of the first reports of Halloween-day activity at Asbury & Oakton came from a 6th grader. god

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

Two years ago, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration approached the Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the original caretakers of the land, with an unheard of proposition: Would they like a piece of their land back? 19thnews.org/2025/11/cath...

“The trial ended in an acquittal. But the proceedings felt like a strange sort of performance art—highly amusing and highly menacing at the same time.”

"what this sort of reporting ultimately means is that if you have enough money to get somebody, anybody, to produce a white paper for you, which you can then put on some think-tank stationery? Then, my friend, you are ready to enter into the rushing current of elite reportage."

Free shipping in the UK? Even for Hope Wolf's brilliant SUSSEX MODERNISM? Run, don't walk yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of scales

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

It Happened To Me: I Spilled Kimchi On My Copy of Our Aesthetic Categories By Sianne Ngai 🥬😱

Beyond the job losses (!), what do the students think about being ‘relocated’?!

‘Choose’

A thing about AI in higher ed right now is that half of us are scrambling to deal with the implosion of our information environment that broke reading/writing/source verification, while the other half is trying to achieve a massive institutional buy-in of the very thing that's causing the implosion

"It doesn't matter if the GOP congressman who tweeted footage of 9/11 with the caption 'WAKE UP NEW YORK!' was taking his cues from Cuomo or vice versa."

Automated calipers are, of course, big tech's end game.

In The Writer’s Room (available in North America on 2/17/26), @kdclewin.bsky.social “melds memoir and literary history in her search for writers’ rooms.” Read the full review in Kirkus:

The eugenics imagination is so strong in tech that they are literally dismantling all forms of science that aren't based on statistics and scientific racism

congratulations to mr sandwich

I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

All 6 Branches Of Armed Forces Present At Arrest Of Undocumented Nanny

What is the posing as an ICE officer compared to being an ICE officer?

To quote @helldude.bsky.social "if the judge starts quoting poetry at the beginning of an opinion, you're fucked."

I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries

"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” ~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)

Attention has (justly) gone to the abuses in Chicago but the assaults in Los Angeles never ended. The military left but they were guarding building. DHS paramilitaries remain active in L.A. it's bad.

It’s that confluence of “it’s not worthy of serious thought” and “I need it to communicate that I am rich and fancy” that creates the perfect fetid environment for incubating Bad Taste

Successful design (whether it’s graphic, product, interior, architectural, whatever) requires one to think about context, meaning, history, etc. On the other hand there’s an entire culture that both considers art to be meaningless ornamentation yet fetishizes its ability to connote class and power

We’re leading 5 days of industrial action at the University of Dundee. We’re calling on all our members to participate in this action. You can join us on the picket line or strike from home. You can legally join the strike if you aren’t a member of a union The people united will never be defeated.

“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true." #UKHE www.leicester.news/university-o...

The gall of putting mortgages on there

this is very funny, but to be earnest for a moment: the same guys setting $10M on fire here are the ones who can’t stand the idea of buses being free, of rent being affordable, of anything at all being easier for all the people for whom $10M would be an unimaginably transformative amount of money

These decisions by ICB Sussex are incredibly cruel, and driven by dangerous rhetoric around trans people, and a national culture war. Trans kids deserve better.

big late 2010s Labour Party energy

This statement is true, and Steve also knows what I‘m about to say, so this is just additional commentary not a correction: This is not new. Cops have been doing this for ages. Talk back to a cop and they’ll rough you up. They have been doing this and getting away with it for a very long time.

“Please think about students using chatbots to ‘augment’ their learning and thereby becoming conditioned to expect that their interactions with their educators, whether human or digital, should start from a foundation of obsequiousness.” - @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

Interpassivity

wrote about why the kids are into McMansions now untappedjournal.com/stories/why-...

The tech industry has only one product: Advertising.

🤢 tho

'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

Cicero, Illinois, suburb of Chicago, Sept. 14. @cnn.com posted 19-y.o. Yurithsi Enciso's video. Her siblings–12-y.o. Jasmin and 10-y.o Kevin–cry as their parents and brother sit handcuffed in ICE vehicles. Agents badger Yurithsi with questions. CNN's good web story by Maria Santana & Ray Sanchez.

On Friday, had incredible good fortune to get tour of newly-opened Gay Harlem Renaissance show at NY Historical Society by iconic queer historian George Chauncey, advisor to exhibition. Highlights major LGBT contributions to Harlem's cultural history, go see it! www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/...

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