An incredible loss of talent. Self-inflicted brain drain. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees. Here’s how it works 1/

Getting on my official ethicist soapbox to proclaim that war is bad, actually, and we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening

Really distressed to read about our Tartan Scholars program being so under-supported that the student ambassadors would resign en masse. CMU just opened a $100M robotics center in Hazelwood, we can't afford more than 2 full-time staff to support this important program??

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

"Static" non-ideal theories of exploitation take structural injustice as a fixed background. Danielle M. Wenner and Derrick F. Gray argue this inadvertently serves an ideological function, reinforcing unjust conditions rather than challenging them.

Columbia says DHS entered a dorm at dawn today under false pretenses, detaining a student in violation of the law and university policy.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

It is 1954, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental” It is 1981, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental” It is 2002, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental” It is 2017, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental” It is 2026, gender-affirming ca

CMU increasing daily administrative burden by now making us sign into every single microsoft office product, even if already signed into a CMU account on the computer, the CMU network, CMU email, and every other CMU server already wtf are we doing here

Excited to announce publication of new JHPPL special issue: Public Health Under Siege (ungated) that explores the fate of public health during the second Trump administration: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

Nagel (L) and Feinberg (R), each writing in 1973, expressing very different views about the likely future place of Rawlsian liberalism in political theory

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

The Superbowl, it is gatekept by the talented athletes! *clutches pearls*

When a student says they're having fun in class discussions and really enjoying the challenge of our readings: this is what it's all about folks

Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition. TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’ www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

Finding multiple grammatical errors introduced in a previous round of proofing during a round of proofing at which edits are no longer permitted 💀💀💀

Few people have as much contempt for academic research as university administrators

It’s an affront to the idea of a written constitution that this case will reach oral argument.

I'm really fucking tired of grading AI slop from students. Why even come to university if you don't want to learn? You are wasting your time and mine.

We need to talk about the rise of "smol bean fascism" where you have all the guns and the immunity but the really scary people are the ones with whistles and phone cameras and they're giving you generational trauma and ptsd by filming you killing people for no reason

hey look a university that understands that coming to campus requires actual functional access to transportation

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

If you’re a Democrat looking to run for president in 2028, now would be a good time to find the nearest microphone and state clearly that you will prosecute every Trump Administration official enabling this state sponsored terrorism to the fullest extent of the law.

One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!

American survived without ICE from 1776 to 2003

did Wiley buy out Polity press? or why is Polity telling me to go to wiley.com to buy one of their books?

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

My loose info so far is that the Minneapolis General Strike today had about 80 unions sign on, and it might be one of the biggest labor actions in decades depending on your definition

fund research on menopause you cowards

CMU preemptively declaring that school will be open on Monday despite the predicted 10-14 inches of snow that is not forecast to end until roughly rush hour Monday morning is just *chef's kiss*

Update: The minibus that included HHS funding passed the House without any anti-trans riders. This almost guarantees the HHS bill will pass the Senate with no anti-trans riders. A huge victory for trans people despite tons of anti-trans attack ads.

Oklahoma and North Carolina only got around to criminalizing spousal rape about a year before this book was published.

It has not been lost on me that the two preeminent contemporary uses of LLMs is the infinite generation of 1) CSAM and 2) media that serves no purpose other to publicly denigrate, humiliate, and dominate women and minorities.

somewhat striking to me that there's still not (as far as I can find) much in the way of political theorists unpacking trump's behaviors in a realism v moralism frame in a public-facing venue. I've found a few things but tbh the best & clearest explanation came from Mark Carney at Davos yesterday

Going on record with the controversial but obviously correct take that we should abolish whiteboards #TeamChalkboard represent

we are officially at "show your papers"

Johnson is correct that ICE is doing what ICE is designed to do, and that is why we must abolish it wholesale. There is no reforming this.

If you're a member of a union I'd *highly* recommend contacting your rep about your organisation or company's continued use of X. *Particularly* if you're required to use/monitor the platform as part of your job. Question whether it's ethical or legal to maintain a presence there...

Is there any task more mind-numbing than building a Canvas site, hit "like" if no, repost if no

Last week I sent an email to CMU president Farnam Jahanian asking him why CMU is still on X given the now ubiquitous deepfake porn content spreading around the site. In response I was told "we are reviewing" the matter. What is there to review? X is a platform of abuse. Get @cmu.edu off of X, now.

Excellent

OK yinz asking for thoughts on two competing ideas for trying to stem AI use in a lower-level survey course with writing assignments:

I would really caution anyone against implying that paywalling this feature is a legitimate response to public outcry. The paywall is an endorsement, not a restriction. Musk is saying "this thing you're all talking about is valuable. Pay me for it." The actual material effect is just monetization.