Natalia Cecire
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Academic in Hove.
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Dominique Baker
about 6 hours ago
When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern
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Lori Emerson
about 6 hours ago
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! đ
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Faisal ÙÙŰ”Ù
about 7 hours ago
This is correct and also this is true beyond US
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Keegan Cook Finberg
about 13 hours ago
I am about 40 minutes in and I recommend this to every student, faculty member, and person who cares about the future of higher ed
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Josh Fruhlinger
about 14 hours ago
the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD
about 11 hours ago
I am very proud to say that I worked for months as an expert witness on this case. I am very pleased by the outcome.
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Jury orders Meta and Google to pay woman $3 million in social media addiction trial
The verdict marks the end of the first-ever jury trial over whether tech giants should be held accountable for social media addiction. It may influence the outcome of 2,000 other pending lawsuits.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5746125/meta-youtube-social-media-trial-verdict
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Miriam Posner
about 13 hours ago
Ah
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Dan Greene
about 10 hours ago
A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth
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N.Y.U. Professors Reach a Deal on a Contract to End Strike After 2 Days
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/nyregion/nyu-professor-strike-ends.html?utm_source=dash+hudson&utm_medium=instagram&utm_campaign=likeshopme&utm_content=ig-nyt_nyc&fbclid=PAZnRzaAQxCrBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAaenqUzTnKbL5BPmADOKVvZnFEns3K7Cjln0AcwLq1f8Yj1N0yaDrD89GGb_ig_aem_vO-0xd5hsjRd3LlbHEwruQ
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Sarah Dowling
1 day ago
Wowâthere are SO MANY good books in poetics coming out these days. Feels like a real high-water-mark moment!! Here are just 2:
@keegancf.bsky.social
âs Poetry In General from
@columbiaup.bsky.social
and Amy DeâAthâs Behind Our Backs from
@stanfordpress.bsky.social
Exciting times!
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Annie McClanahan
7 days ago
I wanted to take a moment to let folks know that Ted Martin's extraordinary book _American Literature's War on Crime_ is out! The book surveys almost 100 novels to explore how the War on Crime was waged on the page & how fiction made the policies & ideologies of crime control legible. It's amazing!
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American Literature's War on Crime | Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/american-literatures-war-on-crime/9780231211819/
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Sarah Brouillette
about 14 hours ago
sharing the cover designed by Courtney Baker đ
www.dukeupress.edu/content-mach...
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS)
about 14 hours ago
Registration for Weird Modernisms in Loughborough is now open! You can find the registration link on our conference website, including hotel, travel, and events info. Please don't forget to first become a member of BAMS or MSA.
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The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
https://www.moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/
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"it's not really just gambling online that has been legalized. What has been legalized is extraction, and the new methods of extraction that are possible using the internet and mobile devices"
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staring blankly into the abyss
about 18 hours ago
Actually existing AI is making people's lives measurably worse:
www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Canada rejected her permanent residence application. Her job duties were made up â by Immigrationâs AI reviewer
Immigration Department decision, which openly said it used Generative AI, cites job duties of applicant that bear no relation to her actual tasks.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canada-rejected-her-permanent-residence-application-her-job-duties-were-made-up--by-immigrations-ai-reviewer/article_3f1ea5be-0b3d-4541-ac00-0a1b8484d877.html
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Charlie Thomas
1 day ago
Oh wow, yeah I want to get this.
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Rankings are austerity
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Daniel Kane
about 18 hours ago
My review of Steve Malmude's "Red Carpet," edited by Miles Champion, out now. Click on "View PDF" to get the article with correct formatting.
@nysnetwork.bsky.social
@carcanet.bsky.social
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Thomas Cheney
about 20 hours ago
Back on strike today, big
@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social
@ucu.org.uk
rally at Monument at 1pm. University management want to take ÂŁ100k out of my pension or cut my pay by ÂŁ7500! Fuck off quite frankly, especially as theyve walked out of talks.
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Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden
about 19 hours ago
This sounds amazing for anyone who's looking. In Utrecht.
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Karen Gregory
about 21 hours ago
Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal:
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...
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Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal
Academics raise concerns over ChatGPT ownerâs links to US military and claim tools are âlooking to replace knowledge workersâ
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinburgh-staff-urge-university-ditch-openai-deal?ref=edinburghminute.com
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7 days ago
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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âThese connections are overlookedâ: how British companies profited from slavery in Brazil long after abolition
Britons learn about the countryâs involvement âalmost as a self-congratulatory narrativeâ, says historian Joseph Mulhern
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/17/connections-overlooked-how-british-companies-profited-slavery-brazil-after-abolition
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Benjamin Pope
1 day ago
It's totally true that there is explicit demand for this from students! But it's also interesting that the actual content - statistics and computer science - are not appealing to the same applicants, because the foundations of AI are obscured behind a frictionless user experience
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Moby Dick
1 day ago
does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself?
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CHOAM Shareholder (non-voting)
1 day ago
Saw the numbers and thought âthat canât be rightâ but no, 498 schools hit by US/Israeli bombs in Iran. 281 hospitals. sourced to the Red Crescent by Al Jazeera. Unspeakable
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Iran war updates: Trump claims talks ongoing, Iran hits central Israel
These were the updates on the US-Israeli war on Iran on Tuesday, March 24, 2026.
https://aje.news/b79m9v?update=4430790
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Meade Krosby
1 day ago
>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom Iâve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they)
1 day ago
The downfall of *Theory and Society* is a networked event. A nicely orchestrated campaign. Thread of some of the links. 1/
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Robin James
1 day ago
Adding this to the âAI is just the Hegelian master/slave dialecticâ folder (i.e., the point of using AI is to perform the status of the master, whose frictionless existence is subtended by the friction-full labor of subordinates). AI âdemocratizesâ this position of mastery.
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Ben Wurgaft
1 day ago
A common thread in our times. There's a way in which arguing for "classical" education, or using an AI tool with a cartoon Einstein on it, or Jordan Peterson's stupid suits, are all efforts to capture "the appearance of intellectualism without the substance."
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Sarah Brouillette
1 day ago
obsessed with this article
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I truly think that the best comparison for what Grammarly did--attributing fake writing advice to real writers without their consent--is deepfake pornography.
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Margot Finn
2 days ago
'Graduates who received free school meals will earn almost ÂŁ3,000 a year less than their more affluent peers with similar qualifications working at the same companies, says a new report that suggests class influences pay disparities more than demographics or degree outcomes.' 1/2
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Graduates from deprived backgrounds âearn less with same degreeâ
Degree-holders who grew up in poverty paid thousands of pounds less than peers despite similar qualifications, finds Resolution Foundation
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/graduates-deprived-backgrounds-earn-less-same-degree
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Rahul Rao
2 days ago
Britainâs version of ICE⊠is even called the same thing
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âThey singled out non-white, foreign-born workersâ: the restaurants raided by Britainâs version of ICE
Theyâre not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Officeâs immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are t...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/24/restaurants-raided-britain-version-ice-immigration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Margot Finn
2 days ago
In the worldâs worst conflict zones, gifted young women study in hiding, swerving militias, earthquakes, power cuts, internet outages and the threat of starvation. Ironically, they want to study in the UK...so they can develop skills to help strengthen the fragile infrastructure back home'.
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âThe UK is saying the same thing as the Talibanâ: the women banned from studying in Britain
The Home Office has blocked new study visas for applicants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Myanmar and Cameroon. It means many women will miss out on life-changing opportunities â as five female academics ex...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/23/women-banned-from-studying-britain-taliban-afghanistan-sudan
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Courtney Milan
4 days ago
This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.
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Matthew Borus
2 days ago
Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of
@uaw.org
members and supporters, incl lots of students. Theyâre picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.
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QM_UCU
3 days ago
Where on earth is the Office for Students. These courses have been advertised, applicants have been engaging with the advertised material. The Consumer Protection Law as applied to
#UKHE
(đ€ą) declares that universities have to be accurate in their information from the first contact with applicants.
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Mica Rosenberg
3 days ago
NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trumpâs immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained â and thatâs an undercount. 1/ đ§”
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Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids
A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-family-deportations-ice-citizen-kids
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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities
3 days ago
We're hiring! đż The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities at the University of Stavanger invites applications for a 3-year postdoc in Environmental History. See thread for more details.
#envhist
#envhum
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental History (297163), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Monday, April 20, 2026
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/297163/postdoctoral-fellow-in-environmental-history
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Elizabeth Lopatto
2 days ago
"How do I make more dollars? If my 'taste and judgment are more valuable than ever,' where do the extra dollars come from?"
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QM_UCU
4 days ago
NOUS has a track record of cutting programmes which lead to cutting jobs & departments. Their Cookie Cutter University model means the only differentiation is the (superficial) prestige institutions have from simply being old. The strength of academic research&education is gone.
#UKHE
#SaveHE
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Charlotte Lydia Riley
3 days ago
Itâs the last week to see Emergency Exits at the Imperial War Museum, which explores decolonisation in Kenya, Cyprus and Malaya and which I was lucky enough to consult on as a part of a team of imperial historians. Go and see it if you can â itâs really great!
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Emergency Exits: The Fight for Independence in Malaya, Kenya and Cyprus
At the end of the Second World War, a wave of independence movements swept the British Empire. Emergency Exits focuses on three often overlooked independence movements. These were brutal conflicts bet...
https://www.iwm.org.uk/events/emergency-exits-the-fight-for-independence-in-malaya-kenya-and-cyprus?utm_source=cheapskate-london.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=cheapskate-london-monday-23-march-2026&_bhlid=132c0bdd0e554b8b0e50cc7fbc0ef7e25792ba30
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Prisonculture
3 days ago
This is the logical extension of "I'm going to do my own research" culture. And I'm sorry to say that expertise actually matters. And some people have been bamboozled into believing that saying this makes you an "elitist" which once again shows that people don't know what words actually mean.
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Ted McCormick
3 days ago
Most of what a university can offer that students canât get elsewhere is stuff they donât know to âdemandâ ahead of time precisely *because* it isnât available elsewhere. Judging the value of a university program by how much it appeals to people whoâve by definition not encountered it is backwards.
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Ted McCormick
3 days ago
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
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John Rogers
3 days ago
The real theme of the modern age is "Nobody Wants This". AI, ICE in airports, ICE in general, the Iran War, data centers sending actual cities wiht people into blackouts -- "nobody" wants this. And yet here we are.
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Liesbeth Corens
4 days ago
"the survival of the AI industry depends upon you, the generation coming of age right now, agreeing with them that you have essentially no say in your own future." On refusing powerlessness and seeing through the rhetoric of the 'inevitability' of the AI take-over:
medium.com/center-on-pr...
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Maria Bustillos
3 days ago
The tech goons took everyone's hopes for an egalitarian future and squandered them all on weapons and surveillance so they could get richer and humiliate themselves by pretending to be 'intellectuals' Subpar writing on every level in this timeline
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