📢 Predoc Opportunity I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy. jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr... Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. #econsky #econ_ra

I’m looking for three PhD students for my new ERC project, starting 1 September. The goal is to understand how firms shape inequality in workers’ careers—using population registers. Please spread the word! Deadline is March 8, more info here (see projects 4-6): ics-graduateschool.nl/vacancies/

What a beautiful thing. Love love. 💕

We academics have done a poor job defending tenure. A solid conversation here about how to fix it. humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/w...

Circulating bad leaders through HE sometimes benefits your community (yay!) but we all deserve better.

Some relief that Britain’s High Court ruled the ban on Palestine Action an unlawful violation of speech. What a shame that so much harm was done to get here.

There is absolutely not a single thing I share in common with this skin bag of steaming garbage other than the color of our skin. Punch Nazis, now and forever.

Wonderful news for NYC. Our new CTO, Lisa Gelobter, is a brilliant technologist and a deeply principled leader who has spent her career ensuring technology serves people, not the other way around. Mayor Mamdani continues to assemble a remarkable team. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/n...

"This past month, I’ve had flashbacks to the ICE abductions at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. I cannot help but think that 👉🏻if this university did not normalize the kidnappings of their own students👈🏻, that things would be different today." laylasaliba.substack.com/p/a-differen... 🎓 🧊

Everything about Leqaa Kordia's arrest and incarceration is abhorrent. CAIR has set up an easy form for you to send your representatives a message demanding Leqaa Kordia's release. secure.everyaction.com/6U1ygBt6eUK-...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

“The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m through increases in arts-related expenditure, productivity gains and reduced reliance on other welfare payments, according to a government-commissioned cost-benefit analysis.”

Oh if only the French brain drain had been designed for social scientists…

Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...

Keith is giving you all the reasons anyone would need to read him religiously and subscribe to Minnesota’s great independent paper.

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

Teachers College alumna no longer in legal jeopardy over her op-ed.

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

Not for nothing but after ten years of researching and teaching about Met Opera operations, I remain totally amazed that they have maintained such a long track record of gross financial mismanagement.

Scholarship FTW! Without the expansion of the university system to make it possible for such expertise to thrive, we’d be worse off.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

If I were within travel distance to New Jersey, I’d be at this event.

LONDONERS! My friend Roshi has been one of the most informative and wisest voices on Iran and attitudes to it for years, also she's an incredible performer and has a great artistic network. This show will be unbelievably great; even if you can't go, you can donate to a ticket for an Iranian refugee.

My heart exploded with joy.

Sociologist @nbedera.bsky.social explains how observing ICE is a 'de-escalation' tactic

Note: Just like Mohsen Mahdawi, ICE snatched Leqaa at what she thought was a routine immigration check-in, after she protested Israel’s genocide of Gaza. They then took her from New Jersey to Texas—where she’s been detained for nearly a year. Now she’s hospitalized and her whereabouts are unknown.

And in an effort to normalize this: I have refused consent many dozens of times and only once was there a need to call a supervisor to confirm my right to this exists.

Study suggests huge increase in NFL player suicides could be due to men fearing getting CTE and taking their own lives. footballplayershealth.harvard.edu/for-former-p...

BREAKING: 4 students at the University of Minnesota are currently chained to Morrill Hall, demanding that their school end all cooperations with ICE and establish itself as a sanctuary campus.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

Gotta love the magical thinking that says flags & traditional decoration are not politically symbolic. One rule for us, a different rule for you, reprise.

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

“Columbia was the test case for this government strategy of kidnapping people first and then asking questions later” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/n...

Big actions in NYC today as a large group of striking nurses were arrested (& SRG used?) and Columbia faculty, staff and students blocked Broadway to call attention to the need for a sanctuary campus from ICE/DHS

As if that wasn’t obviously coming. Sad to see the day arrive and still get goosebumps at the fact that I’m watching the greatest education system since the first century destroyed by idiots

The forced compliance of Portland State admin to reinstate 10 wrongfully terminated faculty members—after initially defying a binding arbitration ruling—is a monumental, hard-won victory for academic labor. @psuaaup.bsky.social

Name them shame them

Episode 49: The Millionaire Next Door In 1996, two marketing professors revealed the characteristics of America's new elite class: They buy the right kind of watch, marry the right kind of wife and were born the right kind of white.

I'm not sure what to make of it, but every Somali I represent in immigration court currently (8 of them) have today had their hearings cancelled and their judges reassigned. They're now all assigned to a video judge from Louisiana and scheduled for court hearing in one month. 🧵

This is great! Fellow scholars, volunteer to guest lecture for Minnesota faculty struggling to teach during shutdown!

New: Susan Collins raised more from AIPAC donors last year than small donors. We asked her campaign about it. They hung up. Last year, we asked if she knew how many Americans the Israeli military had killed. She replied: “I am pro-Israel.” @minnahfarshad.bsky.social @andrewperez.bsky.social

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature

Too many of our Haitian neighbors are stuck in legal limbo. As the fight over Temporary Protected Status continues, we encourage anyone with TPS to use the city’s free immigration legal support and explore every legal pathway available. Call 800-354-0365 to learn more.

Congratulations to Ainehi Edoro, author of the just-published FOREST IMAGINARIES: HOW AFRICAN NOVELS THINK, on being named a keynote thinker for the 2026 African Literature Association conference. bit.ly/4qQSN5y @brittlepaper.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

One of the things bothering me about how people are responding to the Epstein files is that there are tons of conspiracies being created and spread about what’s in them, rather than people just believing the victims like they could have been doing for years now

Nina Simone sings '𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴, 𝗚𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗸' to children on Sesame Street, 1972 #BlackHistoryMonth