That is one of the hardest parts for me as an educator, to see how much it has affected students' confidence in their own skills and abilities. So many don't believe they can produce something as good as the LLMs.

if conservative sociopaths can override faculty governance and professional expertise, you aren't running a university you are running a propaganda factory

Yes, this!: "this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning" I'm finding that I don't have just to change assignments. I have to **abandon my entire teaching strategy**, which has always been built around scaffolded independent projects across the semester.

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Literally no other discipline is less suited for AI, this is a fucking joke

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

Clemson University administration's actions in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's killing are an incredible portrait of cowardice, but these days not unusual or unexpected. www.chronicle.com/article/insi...

Physical copies arrived! My Conflict and Correspondence with @univnebpress.bsky.social is now out in the world. #mexico #guadalajata #jalisco #history #skystorians #academicsky #urban #city Check it out here: share.google/mkZuTC4aGXLP...

The New School was founded by Columbia University professors who wanted a university run by the faculty with minimal administration. For over 100 years it has been a unique institution with progressive values and incredible students and faculty from Ai Weiwei to Hannah Arendt. We are devastated.

Everytime I read something like this it makes me so angry. The fact that a society has been letting this happen for so long and so often that there are now regularly people who live through a second mass shooting before even finishing their education is the most shocking indictment of US politics

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

What a fucked up world we've created

Yes we all agree that this is the reason colleges are in trouble

they say there are no teachers or medics in the region and they'll be preventing the army from undertaking eradication of poppy crops while the government doesn't do anything to prevent farmers becoming destitute

What I love about @gingerthompson.bsky.social’s project is that it shows the power of a journalist’s curiosity and sincere search for truth, beyond expected narratives. Immersing in a story, and changing as you discover more information, more history, more nuance. There’s no substitute for this.

The decision reflects a major disconnect between the AHA’s leaders and its members—and underscores the growing irrelevance of an organization unwilling and unable to advocate for a beleaguered discipline and all of its practitioners. 2/2 www.historians.org/news/respons...

As someone who lives in a place experiencing a creeping crisis of uninsurability, I am glad to see people are working on this

Imp thread about why UC administrators might have tried to keep faculty out of this fight: lack of respect for shared governance and the desire to do things they wanted to do anyway but blame the feds will resonate with faculty beyond the UC system

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I’m just a foreign policy wonk, standing in front of the GOP, asking them to read at least one fucking book about the history of US interventions in Latin America. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

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We launched a PAC! “This PAC is an extension of our fight to ensure a future for American higher ed through bipartisan legislation that recognizes that college can be tuition-free, debt-free, welcoming to all, conducive to academic freedom & offer jobs with dignity.” - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Also: This widely obscures the role that the US often has in the countries we later declare “failed.” Often, their mess is our mess.

Peru: Two former presidents jailed in two days

“Without a true reckoning of what happened in Afghanistan, it became clear the US could easily deploy the same failed tactics in some new country against some new threat.” Very disturbing report on tactics, including night raids, whose main goal was to terrorize Afghan civilians.

Kudos to whoever runs the UFW account.

"$1,000 a month as part of a state program experimenting with giving homeless youths cash payments for two years with no strings attached." "Of the 117 youths [..] who completed Oregon's two-year pilot program, 91% reported being in stable housing." #Oregon #USA #Housing #Nonprofit

Sorry, MAGA doesn't even support democracy here anymore, I'm supposed to believe they support it in Venezuela? bsky.app/profile/katz...

"Brazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília, amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

With the Trump administration reportedly considering the assassination of Venezuelan president Maduro, we published documents on Presdient Ford's effort to quash publication of the 1975 Senate report on CIA assassination plots (the Church Committee report). nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Exactly this👇

Sorry, I’m sure I sound abysmally negative in a celebratory moment, but it’s important to know that UC admin have fought us every step of the way as we attempted to stand up for our university. It’s become very clear to many of us that they view the values we cherish as impediments to their work.

Remember: "Don't let the bastards grind you down!"

When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.

“This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students”—AAUP, one of the parties that brought the case against the Trump administration

If you haven't joined your local AAUP, now is a great time to do so.

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

🔔 NEW: “The Texas State University chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP-TXST) has issued a formal appeal urging the Texas State University System Board Regents to abide by its own rules and reverse the summary dismissal of tenured history professor Dr. Thomas Alter.”

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.