Under pressure from Texas government officials, Angelo State University in Texas is banning all discussion or mention of the existence of trans people along with banning the LGBTQ pride flag from campus and forced misgendering of trans people. conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

What movie do you consider “perfect”?

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration? This will end it pretty much entirely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Almost certainly illegal and likely to be struck down in court. Congress has only authorized the government to set fees to recover the cost of adjudicating the application. There is no statutory authority to impose fees designed to limit the use of a visa.

I had this exact same experience this morning. Same reporter as Heidi. This is *not* normal. I have spoken to the press on these issues for two decades. No government official has ever demanded to know my identity in order to give a comment on a story.

Dear ICD-ers! Welcome to this platform. I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

considering deleting social media because curbing the urge to say stuff all the time is not healthy

NEW in @chron.com: Hundreds of LGBTQ+ books were found sitting in a surplus warehouse at Texas A&M University, and the university won't say why. As first reported by @joyurcaba.bsky.social, the books include a memoir by Matthew Shepard's mother and academic texts. www.chron.com/culture/arti...

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

“To allow universities to be bossed by political operatives in this way undermines the basic ideals of the university as well as [its] important links to the future of critical thought, dissent, and democracy." — Judith Butler

5- alarm fire for academic freedom in Texas, should be of concern to all. The kinds of attacks on teachers and restrictions on content matter (esp. race and gender) we see in K-12 are invading universities. This week 2 faculty, a chair, and a dean were fired. /1 www.oah.org/2025/02/05/o...

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)

I always thought comparisons to Mao and the tactic of denunciation were a bit much but this is basically that. Teach something the government doesn't like and you will be ratted out by your students and have your life destroyed by the state.

the video in here taken by the student interrupting the professor to say that course content is "not legal" is chilling

excuse my language but you gotta be fucking kidding me

Yesterday, the State Dept took yet another anti-immigrant action. It stopped the helpful policy of allowing individuals to apply for visa stamps at any US consular post in the world rather than just in their home country. Effective immediately, that policy is over. travel.state.gov/content/trav...

Is this Abundance?

these US Open semifinals are sensational

Might as well get it out of the way: I agree:

this piece by @wertwhile.bsky.social I think captures perfectly the great and the not so good of Daniel Levy "Daniel Levy is the best thing to happen to Spurs, and it’s time for him to go" cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2023/1/17/23...

Spurs fucking up on worse targets to land on a much better player is football heritage

Critical journalism studies folks! We're looking for contributors to a new special issue: "Journalism in Ruins: Interrogating norms of ‘independent’ journalism." Editors: Natalie Fenton and Srirupa Roy. Abstracts due Dec. 15, 2025.

"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...

I’m almost a year late, but the Soccer Mommy album from last October hits sooo hard

I spent 70 bucks on a luxury cat scratcher and they just keep scratching the sofa arm next to it. Maybe the sofa maker was onto something?

Similarly, the AI boom has forced teachers who actually care about student learning to radically reconfigure their classes in order to disincentivize students from using the cheating machines they now have easy access to and which systemically undermine student learning. No one asked for this.

Sarr made both goals. I love him.

Really underrated finish by Johnson there

Palhinha being anonymous in possession is not great for us

If you think this can't happen at your institution, public or private, you are dangerously naive.

So which one is worse, Chelsea stealing Willian while he was set to have his medical at Spurs, or Arsenal hijacking the Eze deal because Palace kept him for 1 extra day?

calling him Mr. Easy from now on

Zoey turns five today and she knows it

I’m happy to confirm that my hitherto imaginary pronunciation of Eberechi Eze is in fact correct!

You know would be great? If all the Stand for Science people would stand for humanities right now, as departments are being shut down left and right.

My No. 9!

quite impressed by Jaidon Anthony today

Richarlison, see you in the USA next year

Scotty Parker, Kyle Walker, Marcus Edwards. Burnley are a trip down White Hart Lane.

Come On You Spurs

I love listening to Guglielmo Vicario pronounce his own full name, so maybe Italian is my thing?

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

We’ve reached the point where I saw a reminder to take a survey on AI in classroom and was like, which one?

It’s that time of year, where the academic job applications start rolling out… If you’re a new PhD or a PostDoc on the market, reply with your website, an article, or a blurb about your work and I’ll repost as many as I can. If you are in a department with a new opening, please share!

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ... That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee recently re-shared a video falsely accusing al-Sharif of being a member of Hamas’s military wing. They continue to murder journalists for telling the truth.

That Everton has a policy to prohibit the wearing of Palestine football jerseys—a nation that participates in FIFA events under its own flag—is the most blatant example of discrimination possible, not to mention complicity in genocide.