The Trump administration is asking for years of admissions records from our medical school (as well as Ohio State and UCSD). This is a continuation of their attacks on higher ed. If they have it their way, higher ed, as we know it, will cease to exist.

After ordering the videos of DOGE depositions removed from the internet, the judge has now ruled they can be published again. This is a win for freedom of speech and the public interest.

The federal government has undermined research in almost every area, to the tremendous detriment of the American public.

“While it’s proven that diverse faculty can improve research innovation, student success, and institutional accountability, Black professors remain underrepresented and structurally unsupported, according to those leading the study." - @blackenterprise.bsky.social https://ow.ly/aUic50YwrC7

So I'm from Virginia. I currently live in TN and I also lived here as a teen. It's a little complicated. Anyway, the Rutherford County PUBLIC library is where I spent a lot of time as a tween/teen. It shaped me. It saved me. This is a PUBLIC LIBRARY not even a school. And I'm proud of *Luanne.

My quote of the day It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose. John Sulston

We are standing against RFK Jr. and his quackery. Will you stand with us??? We are rallying RIGHT NOW in Washington D.C. to Save Science, Protect Health, and Defend Democracy. JOIN US!!! : fight2win.standupforscience.net/DC-March/ Not in D.C.? Find your local rally at standupforscience.net/march7

Not only has the NIH terminated hundreds of grants, they’re also giving out far fewer grants than appropriate for their budget. Some researchers will have to close their labs or severely cut back their research. This is a self-inflicted wound.

From our Founder & CEO Colette Delawalla (@cdelawalla.bsky.social ): "We want to make sure that science is not only well funded but is also used appropriately for the good of the public and to better the human experience across the world." Join the fight at standupforscience.net zurl.co/j4V6K

The politicization of science is harmful for the scientific enterprise itself and also decreases the public’s trust. Many are savvy enough to distinguish scientists from politicians, but decreasing trust in these institutions will have long-term negative consequences.

Congress has restored funding for international-education and foreign-language programs that had been slashed by the Trump administration and moved to block the executive branch from making unilateral cuts to spending. https://chroni.cl/4bh5Nfj

“The central administration has done not nearly enough to just ensure that international students… are able to be on campus without being concerned that federal agents are going to target them and take them away.” —Jonathan Feingold, Boston AAUP

“Viewpoint diversity” is a misnomer: “The Trumpian M.O. is to disguise everything as its opposite, but surely by now we’re wise to that. “Viewpoint diversity” is not a defense of viewpoint diversity, but an assault on it.”

“If…Geology collectively determines that the flat-Earth theory doesn’t meet its standards, geologists do not, simply for the sake of “viewpoint diversity,” need to continue to hire flat-Earthers …The scholarly pursuit of truth, over time, requires that some “viewpoints” become extinct.”

That so many dumped those efforts immediately proved just how shallow their support was. They would have fought hard and long to protect DEI if they believed in its merits and it mattered to them.

"The university presidents who hasten to concede that their campuses have lacked 'viewpoint diversity' don’t acknowledge that it was their administrations who paid a mint to purchase the very practices they now say limited academic speech." —Jessica Riskin, @stanfordaaup.bsky.social President

"Those who support the current attacks on academic freedom often do so out of an actively propagated misunderstanding about who academic freedom protects: mistaking it for coddling of entitled professors, when in fact it serves the common good." —Priya Satia, @stanfordaaup.bsky.social

This is a huge win for higher ed! Unfortunately, many institutions complied in advance and already folded many of their DEI efforts. This is an example of why it’s so important to resist until there is no other option. Most of the programs that were terminated won’t be resurrected. What a loss.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has struggled to convince observers he has the agency’s best interests in mind—and is truly in charge. https://scim.ag/3MMXDSh

LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?

Important essay by @stanfordaaup.bsky.social colleague Jessica Riskin. The three lessons that universities must learn: 1. Solidarity 2. Integrity, not Neutrality 3. Student Speech stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...

🔑 3 key lessons Stanford must learn, from the co-president of @stanfordaaup.bsky.social 1️⃣ Solidify solidarity 🤝 2️⃣ Prioritize integrity ❤️‍🔥 3️⃣ Let students speak! 📣 stanforddaily.com/2025/11/16/a...

"The Stanford Daily et al. suit comes on the heels of a major First Amendment victory; The American Association of University Professors sued Rubio, and the court held that the Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens for deportation based on pro-Palestinian speech."

It’s a shame BBC hasn’t yet learned that caving to bullies won’t prevent them from coming after you.

📢📢The AAUP chapter at the University of Houston has sent the following letter to admin: “We are deeply concerned that the directives outlined in Chancellor Khator's email present significant risks to academic freedom, to the integrity of our teaching mission + to the University’s legal obligations.”

“I think this initiative has as much to do with scientific research as the early [antisemitism] initiative had to do with protecting Jews. This is an extortionist move to try to hold institutions that are heavily dependent on federal funding, as research institutions are, to have leverage over them.

Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been <totally absent from the public square> on this issue. It’s maddening: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

this moment calls for deep solidarity — a kind of collective politics faculty haven't been used to practicing. proud to stand with colleagues across stanford and across the country today.

Spotted at our @stanfordaaup.bsky.social teach-in today!

Stanford Teach-In: A thread... 👇🏼🧵 #DefendHigherEd

Thread from one of our members on what federal funding changes have done to science—this was a sobering part of our teach-in today

We’ve started our Teach-In as part of the @aaup National Day of Action with @palumboliu.bsky.social talking about the implications of institutional neutrality in this moment. If we don’t engage with topics such as immigration, freedom of speech, etc, we are letting our whole community down.

Reminder! This is happening today! Hope to see you there

💥💥💥 DEFEND HIGHER ED STARTER PACK! We are building a movement to defend US higher education & have created a starter pack of AAUP chapter & ally accounts to follow. Please Share! (This list is not exhaustive. If you have suggestions, please shoot us a DM!) #DefendHighEd ⬇️⬇️⬇️ go.bsky.app/3YidJ7k

@stanfordaaup.bsky.social @stanfordpress.bsky.social @stanforddaily.com.web.brid.gy @aaup.org #SaveHigherEd

Hope the folks in our Stanford community can join us for a teach-in this coming Friday as part of the @aaup.org National Day of Action for Higher Ed! 12-1pm at White Plaza. Please share!

My wife teaches at a CSU and got her first papers this week for her Native American history class. Paper based on a widely-available online source. About half the papers had the exact same argument. Prose was different, but argument was the exact same. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

Perhaps a new phase in anti-academia actions

The research that led to these is the sort of basic research that the Trump administration is cutting, robbing future generations of scientific, technological, and health innovations. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Important thread by former Science EiC, Jeremy Berg.

As we’ve said before, no university should sign on to this compact, certainly not our own. @gjmartin.bsky.social and other Stanford AAUP colleagues explain why in this editorial👇

This @stanfordaaup.bsky.social is so necessary in this moment of attack on higher ed: "This compact is better understood as an attempt to subordinate some of the country’s most important civil society institutions to the executive branch of the federal government." stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

Agree 100% @stanfordaaup.bsky.social! “When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.” stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

“When it inevitably comes time for Stanford to choose, we must remember that we owe our loyalty not to any executive branch official but to our own foundational principles. We must be ready, when it’s our turn, to walk away.”

From @gjmartin.bsky.social (writing for @stanfordaaup.bsky.social) laying out why no university should sign Tr*mp’s “Compact” stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

It will take a generation to rebuild the United States federal government after this demolition ends, supposing that good faith elections happen again and normal humans are elected.

Calling for solidarity against "the compact for academic excellence in higher education" ‼️ @stanfordaaup.bsky.social @stanforddaily.com.web.brid.gy @aaup.org #SaveHigherEd stanforddaily.com/2025/10/12/f...

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them. 1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

I talked to Bill Nye — yes, former “science guy” — about President Trump’s proposed cuts to NASA funding and what they would mean.