When El Salvador’s Prisoners Go Free, She’s There to Pick Them Up www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/w...

I blame Reagan for everything.

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

HAPPENING NOW: The AFT and @aaup.org are in Texas launching our new Nnational Higher Education platform ahead of the 2026 midterms. Read more in the release here, and follow along in the thread below. @afthighered.bsky.social

🔔Lilia Rosas, Latino/a Studies prof, “If you think ethnic studies and women’s and gender and sexuality studies are the only programs to go, pay attention…This university is reinventing itself around a lens less committed to knowledge-making.” ⬇️ thebarbedwire.com/2026/04/13/a...

Is Keiko ever going to stop running for president? Good grief.

Reminding folks that one of the first signs of Orban’s authoritarianism was his attack on universities, including closing the highly-regarded gender studies MA program at the Central European University in Budapest. That program left Hungary & continues today in Vienna.

As Hungarians have shown they want a better future, I also hope we see the death of the negative stereotype of "totalitarian dictatorship Eastern Europe." The close relationship b/t Orban and the US (incl. CPAC) should tell us authoritarianism is not just a domain of the former Eastern Bloc.

Wow. Are we at the peak of the global authoritarian turn? Are things going to turn around? Not holding my breath but very happy for Hungary tonight.

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

For generations, Texas has been sold to the country — and to itself — as the ultimate red state: a place where conservatism, capitalism and rugged individualism are simply part of the state’s DNA. But writer David Griscom says that story is incomplete. Listen at👉 ebx.sh/UYSSKa

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

With 35 candidates in the race, Peru is set to elect its 9th president in less than a decade. Amid rising corruption and crime, voters are left asking: Can this election finally break the cycle? n.pr/3OkAEit

men can’t understand what it’s like for women to see story after story after story of women being victims of sexual violence in a culture where it’s routine; what it’s like to live in a world that is fundamentally hostile to our existence. it’s a wonder we leave the fucking house, let alone thrive.

I'm very glad Claire Cain Miller was able to include my figures in this NYT story: "Women in Their 20s May Not Be Having Babies, but by 45 Most Probably Will," including @karenguzzo.bsky.social, @alisongemmill.bsky.social, and @marthajbailey.bsky.social. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep

So much AI propaganda about “saving time” is capitalist propaganda. You need to do things faster so you can make more money because work has been devalued and full-time jobs are harder to come by. But AI isn’t going to make YOU rich. It’s already devaluing the work and the jobs even more

“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.

It's a timely reminder that every kind of work we do can be for the good of humanity. You might not be a politician or an activist, but innovation, solidarity, and hope are also born from science, art, storytelling, and a deep commitment to helping humans do audacious, beautiful, impossible things.

There is no future for humanity in which the basic conditions for life for millions of people can be destroyed on one person’s whim.

Sent our full revised book manuscript back to the publisher today so that’s a win. When it’s officially forthcoming I’ll say more. 😎

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Why do fascists hate sociology? Because it makes transparent everything fascists don't want you to know. A sociological imagination makes us harder to control. Long live the sociological imagination.

Forty years ago, and again today, Boston University finds itself on the wrong side of Massachusetts law and history when it silences student and faculty dissent. dailyfreepress.com/03/30/22/219...

Missed this when it dropped a couple weeks ago. There’s a lesson here for Laredo too. Also can we agree that it’s way past time for Texas to vote the GOP out?

We all know this is fascism.

When every university follows the same bad advice from the same consultants with agendas separate from their institutional mission ... they lose their identity as well as their independence. They lose the ability to play to their own strengths when the consultants' agenda causes systemic failure.

Pope Leo on Palm Sunday: “This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying: ‘Even though you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood’ (Is 1:15).”

This week was perhaps the lowest point in my entire academic career. Can’t get into the details but let’s just say the censorship is out of control here in Texas.

The annual observance marks how far into the new year women must work to make what men earned in the previous year. This year, it's March 26, a day later than it was in 2025. n.pr/4t9rLqU

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

There is no university without faculty and administrators often seem to forget they have no job without us.

Partners to engage not problems to manage. Wow, that really captures it. 🔥🔥🔥

“Higher ed workers & students together are becoming a new political force in our society.” —Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

"AI cannot coexist with education--it can only degrade it" YES OMG YES

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

Awful: Stephen Miller is privately urging Texas lawmakers to restrict funding for the public education of undocumented kids. This has long been a right-wing dream: They want to get SCOTUS to reverse Plyler v Doe and further chip away at 14th Amendment. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2081...

I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are already in a regional war. And why is it that there’s always money for war but never for the things that actually make society better?

Teach history, don’t erase it. It’s one thing to rename monuments. It’s another thing to never talk about an important historical figure.

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Denton County and its economy are built around the University of North Texas. Denton County also went 56/43 for Trump in 2024. That's because most voters there wanted to get rid of immigrants. Now, as international students disappear, the university is collapsing. They burned down their own house.

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

As a person with Irish heritage I love this.

Immigrants pay more into the system than they receive in benefits. Stephen Miller is lying because he is deeply impure of heart. The real reason debt/GDP is going up is because of the Bush and Trump tax cuts. Without them, we’d have enough revenue to support our aging population indefinitely.

Literally any one of you reading this post would make a better president

The "nobody's talking about" style post is really grating right now because like my brother in christ, we're all triaging horrors right now.