Transpennine Express: the Crimes of Grindleford

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"The class hierarchy that manifested during Tiananmen extends to its artistic remembrance...perhaps because only the relatively privileged can leave China and write from the safety of distance, where they must also speak in the language of Western liberalism to reach a broader audience." My latest:

Far more important than their language programs of course

37 years after #June4, who gets to write about it, for whose consumption, and to what end? For @chinabooksreview.com, I examine Tiananmen in novels. The real question is not whether historical accuracy can give way to poetic license, but what truths are sought and revealed by the imaginary accounts.

“When somebody wants us to lose funding, we’re going to lose it anyways. The difference is, did we lose it while bending the knee, or did we lose it while standing up for our values?” Chavarria said. “Either way, the outcome will be the same.” apple.news/AntBFGjBgTYe...

With Chicago's new AI investment, soon everyone on campus will be able to make maps like this

I mean

eww, Globus

So I hear that James Bond has commissioned a new telescope?

The problem of course is that the people who could fire the administrators wanted them to do the illegal things in the first place

It's not like they don't know this; they're just willing to destroy things and hurt themselves as long as it lets them Show Who's Boss

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.

How to recognize University IT's phishing test attempts

I would consider this a straightforward violation of expectations of academic integrity. Wonder if the people who commissioned the "Texas Statement on Academic Integrity" would see a problem.

Apparently they are going to put a university in the former Berlin Tegel airport terminal and I am wondering how I can get a job like that

Approximation of exchange: Previous Shift Leader: we will need to do the heavy ion van der Meer program Me: no problem, just let the excellent luminosity group handle it PSL: but doctor I am the heavy ion luminosity group

I won't have many more chances to do this in LHC Run 3, so...

If there is an Academic Social Contract that makes the university something beyond a training center, it must surely be that the university can turn a clear mirror on society. Authoritarians demand that the mirror only show what they want to see.

To add to the pile-on: Yale's famous report (mildly positively referenced in the piece) changes the university's mission statement to remove the notion of engaging with the world outside their campus

"Stewarding Our University’s Voice" - I'm pretty sure your whole thing is that the university isn't supposed to have a Voice, President Davis?

consider e.g. university administrators

I finally got a chance to study the Yale Report on Trust in Higher Education. A quick thread about the trope of "trust" in this context: Who/what does the conceit that universities have "lost the public trust" and must atone for it really serve? The Yale report (inadvertently) has answers. 1/5

This is a very strange ad to try to understand if you're convinced the object in question is a garlic press

I was assured that everything would be fine if we just fiddled with admissions procedures and arrested students who got out of line

Best birthday present

Angry letter about withholding donations to Cornell Alumni Affairs and Development sent

Theft

Yes. Despite what some organizations might want you to believe, the main thing that "suppressed" certain speech on campuses was just that few really cared to hear it and many disagreed publicly with it. What these people want to force others to listen and to stop them from talking back.

Hearing about DOE HEP university grant continuations for this year starting to come out with significantly reduced numbers compared to previous years

CapMetro has begun reassembling a more than 100-year-old historic bridge from our track over Walnut Creek to Springdale and Bolm Rd. This allows us to preserve the bridge and complete essential track work while improving visibility for our customers and the community.

I'm happy that Servette's had a good run of form but it would have been nice *before* they wound up in the relegation group

I look forward to the next mandatory faculty FERPA training including the section "how the people who picked the LMS got it very wrong"

Extremely curious what NSF is in a position to offer "early career scientists" who apply for their "vacancies" (which, one suspects, exist because they cut the rotators)

The most fascinating part of grading an exam is when there is an extremely common divergence from what you discussed in class and you can't for the life of you figure out where it's coming from

Me running a college seminar: concrete examples, please

Campus IT Cloud Service Compliance Matrix, you had one job

It's interesting that we hear about the Public Loss of Confidence in one of these institutions but not the other (Gallup polls of public confidence news.gallup.com/poll/1597/co...)

Austin FC fans: Mikkel Desler, terrible back pass, can you imagine Marc Guéhi: hold my beer

xG is a weird kind of stat because it's only really validated over a large sample of shots, but people try to make it meaningful at a per-shot level. Also FotMob has since changed 3.14 to 2.19. Also if you tell me Becher's shot had the same chance of scoring as a penalty, well...

It's fascinating that we're nearing an administrative consensus that everyone has free speech at universities except for faculty

We've achieved the Weekend Win Trifecta (Newcastle/Austin FC/Austin FC II) so something bad must be coming down the pipe

This I'm sure says something about me, but I genuinely think lying like this should get you permanently banned from the academic enterprise

If UT admins are trying to convince us that UT is not acting as an arm of the Republican Party, it can do better than a last-minute cancellation of an event planned months ago.featuring an opposition party speaker.

Watch what is happening in Texas closely and make a plan for when (not if) these attacks come to your campus www.youtube.com/shorts/vQ8l8...

This Canvas "PDF accessibility" tool has decided that the ISO standard for accessible PDFs is not actually accessible, so that's been a waste of money and time