"Talent and grit matter, but so do structure, transparency, and care." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4nCiPYg

📢 Our open letter reminds public higher ed leaders + administrators that their actions must follow the law, not political rhetoric. The First Amendment protects the teaching of controversial topics. Executive orders and legislation to the contrary cannot override this constitutional protection.

"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...

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/09/10/a...

Are you a doctoral student planning an academic career? The application deadline for the prestigious University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for 2026-2027 is November 1, 2025. Read more: ppfp.ucop.edu/info/

Texas faculty, staff, and graduate students - Consider joining Texas AAUP-AFT to have the free legal guidance and protections. Link to join: connect.aft.org/app/memberfo...

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

"One could make the argument we should have sided with Hitler," a guest told Tucker Carlson's podcast last month. Yair Rosenberg writes about the MAGA influencers who want to rehabilitate the Nazi leader—and what they hope to gain by doing so.

Emory announces it is closing its DEI offices. And, they put the responsibility for announcing it on Leah Ward Sears, former Georgia Supreme Court justice and the new interim president of Emory as of yesterday. "The standards are clear, and we must act accordingly." Well, not really, but.

Breaking News: At least 15 people are dead and 18 others injured after a popular funicular in Lisbon, the Elevador da Glória, derailed and crashed. nyti.ms/4n6YDxo

AHA members Linda K. Kerber (Univ. of Iowa) and David W. Blight (Yale Univ.) co-authored an op-ed for the Des Moines Register protesting the Iowa legislature’s planned closure of the state historical society. 🗃️

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301

Good news! KU's IRACDA program was reinstated! We are now taking applications for postdocs. Please spread the word. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

📢📢Hiring 2 Research Assistants & 2 Postdocs at Emory University in Atlanta to study cytoskeletal biophysics/biochemistry. Please RT. RAs: great for recent bachelor's/master's in Physics/Bio/Chem/Biochem. Email CV and interests to [email protected]. More info: www.shekharlab.org

Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime US permanent resident, has been in ICE detention for over one month! The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding his release from ICE. Read full statement at link: @texasaaup.bsky.social

🍸 Texas Democrats found the perfect place to take their DPS escorts… and it wasn’t the House floor: bit.ly/462tu8B

Local woman, green card holder, with US citizen husband and kids. Locked up for the past 3 weeks apparently due to a 22 year old misdemeanor pot charge for which she completed probation. Marijuana is legal in MA fwiw

Conservatives have tried to argue that when companies go “woke” they end up going “broke,” but Target’s fumbles show the opposite. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

I am actually shrieking www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

@jengreitz.bsky.social l & my lab want to co-hire a computational biologist/biostatistician with project management expertise to help map the regulatory code of the human genome and discover genetic mechanisms of disease. Details below careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/computa... Plz RT

The latest from Texas Observer cartoonist Ben Sargent. Read more Loon Star State: www.texasobserver.org/topics/loon-...