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

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@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.

No university should sign on to this compact

The erasure of due process harms all of us. It doesn’t matter if you’re here legally or are a citizen if you have no opportunity to prove it. In addition, *no one* should be assaulted for a civil violation.

Election Day is just four weeks away, on November 4. Our Know Your Rights guide to voting in California, available in English and Spanish, has key information including WHO can vote, HOW to register to vote, WHEN and WHERE you can cast your ballot, and tips on being an informed voter.

Huge win for free speech, thanks to @aaup.org for fighting the fight!

So, at the very least, we all need to be joining or starting an AAUP chapter: www.aaup.org/chapters/fin...

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

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

Professors should not be fired for speaking the truth. In this case, not only was the professor fired by the department head and school dean were also both demoted, followed by the resignation of the university president…all because the professor dared to teach about gender.

The plan for NSF is to demote its director to an advisory role to what a former senior figure compared to a Soviet political commissar. Also, greatly reduce the role of rotators from academic departments to consolidate administration power. This is a disaster for science and innovation.

So much for international post-docs at American universities. I guess US Science will slip even further behind. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

Working with so many friends and strangers to build a durable sense of what is happening across—so far—eight zones of American life bc of the administration’s demolition of democratic governance at @unbreaking.org. unbreaking.org

another day and another professor in Texas is fired. This time it is a historian from Texas State fired for comments he made at a conference. If you are a faculty member protect yourself. Join @texasaaup.bsky.social in Texas and @aaup.org nationwide www.president.txst.edu/communicatio...

"Work from home is bad for everyone Only a few people retain productivity Intangible office connections are gone Young people r further isolated and lonely City centers decay" -Vinay Prasad, the FDA Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, who barely comes into the office.

In a new #ScienceExpertVoices article, Seth Berkley unravels the arc of vaccine progress. https://scim.ag/3VrCDBx

This should be viewed as part of the assault on science and higher education because that’s what it is.

A reminder that PhD students are also teachers. It'll be much harder to run undergraduate programs too with this change.

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

AAUP President Todd Wolfson denounces planned academic cuts at the University of Oregon, laying out several concerns. @uauoregon.bsky.social 🧵

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 Mr. Kim’s release. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-st...

TBT: Remember when Turkey's inflation rate hit 80% because of their President Erdogan’s "unorthodox belief that high borrowing costs lead to higher prices — the opposite to established economic theory." Let's don't be like Turkey!

There's a very good reason the Federal Reserve Board is legally independent: we need data driven monetary policy. Monetary policy driven by political loyalty, namely this president's pressure campaign to cut interest rates despite rising inflation (due to his policies), is a recipe for disaster.

Not great. A strong leader would actually effectively run this life saving organization and address these criticisms, but here we are.

We at @standupforscience.bsky.social are hosting a Virtual FEMA Rally with special guests — including several of our brave FEMA Dissenters. Let's stand in solidarity with them. 8PM ET tonight! act.standupforscience.net/events/virtu... #FEMA36 #31DaysOfAction #StandUpForScience #SUFS

Susan Monarez was confirmed by the Senate last month. Now she's being fired because she "refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts." Quite literally saving American lives is “'not aligned' with the president’s agenda."

FEMA Employees Warn That Trump Is Gutting Disaster Response www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c... SIGN ON TO PROTECT FEMA HERE: www.standupforscience.net/fema-katrina...

This from the former EiC of Science and Director of NIGMS.

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