I don’t mean to bash this guy’s record in particular. My point is that when your whole critique of higher education is that it’s selecting on cultural and political preferences, you probably should not be clearly yourself selecting on cultural and political preferences.

Is this a normal record for someone for someone hired for meritocracy?

It’s kind of amazing any of us are still alive.

From Stanford to Gallup, nearly every organization that produces good information about anything of importance is in one way or another beholden to federal contracts. They are also deeply connected to elite political and economic networks thorough interlocking directorates and affiliations.

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

Is Steven Miller getting his war with Mexico?

Who would want to be a department chair under these conditions? www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Do podcast companies pay attention to how often you listen to shows and up the density of adds for the ones you listen to often?

Stanford is doing this because it wants to

Maybe I’m being a Pollyanna but these little things do give me hope.

🧵: We've been talking a lot - rightfully - about police abuse in light of the ICE/CBP madness. But let me share a story about how tensions between police and community in the dark blue university town (err green) East Lansing.

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"But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." Well the AAU is gonna love this (miniest of threads) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

We’ve got a woke Arnie Duncan alert 🚨

Your periodic reminder that Michigan is a border state. BTW: Canada paid for most of the bridge, but that’s not enough for Dear Leader.

1/2 Years ago I had a had an on an on and offline argument with ed tech and student success people over forcing faculty to work with l course designers. It is step to authoritarianism, I argued, not because course designers are bad but because it opens a path to surveillance and curricular control.

UNC is close to finalizing its policy which outlines permissible circumstances to *SECRETLY RECORD FACULTY IN THE CLASSROOM.*

Maybe some donors will pay for me to keep my name, image, and likeness out of public view?

Cottage cheese is making a comeback.

🚨New article in @sociusjournal.bsky.social. Annabel Ipsen & I study how the executive orders in Trump's first 100 days use the logic of reactionary colorblindness to dismantle environmental and climate protections. Open access here - doi.org/10.1177/2378...

This is one of the most egregious cases of overt censorship by the government.

One take away is that if you need some data on who to trust, it’s Black Protestants

Is Keir Starmer the only politician who will face consequences over Epstein?

I’m open to this idea but am also cognizant that it would have downsides if widely implemented down the line, the most notable being poorer rates of retention and completion www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Whenever I read @drkevinrmcclure.com's excellent work on academic work I'm left asking, why is it this way? Keven offers some good explanations, but I think it's also this way because people like it: politicians like it, students and especially the public are indifferent at best.

Mariah Carey sang the opening ceremonies of the Milan Olympics yesterday.

Matt Yglesias thinks the half-time show should have been about grocery prices.

Pan-American liberation at the Super Bowl?

who needs an algorithm

First NFL game I’ve watched this season. Is it always this boring?

Whoever said that the private market would reduce bureaucracy never had to sign up for a one month trial of ESPN Unlimited to be allowed to buy a subscription of MLBTV and then remember to cancel ESPN Unlimited before getting hit with a $30/month fee.

We don’t really watch much football in the house but every Super Bowl Sundaythe kids and I make bar food.

This is very good 🎁 🔗 hhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion/bad-bunny-super-bowl.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Maybe this kind of shit won’t destroy the global economy like CSOs and CDSs did 20 years ago (and maybe it will) but it’s sure to run countless families.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

–Clinton: sex pest, killed welfare, economic growth –W. Bush: not sex pest, contributed to global financial crisis, did giant awful wars –Obama: not sex pest, flawed but BFD healthcare, liked to use bomber drones too much -Trump1: sex pest, chaotic, ended with a coup

Google would like to let you know that Gemini allows you to rush through museums. How big could the market of people who both want to go to museums and to use AI to rush through them possibly be?

The Gadsden flag bros now say the government *must* be able to enter private property without a warrant

Felony conspiracy charges are increasingly being used to quash protest, says a legal scholar. They are “now really effective at going after social movements and coordinated action amongst activists.”

FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month.

My view: We should not celebrate people who do clearly reckless things that predictably result in bad outcomes. I hope she is fine but, yes, this is a Lindsay Vonn post.

Midwest dad update: The dog and I took a 2+ mile walk at 7 this morning. It was 3F/-16C. And she was taking her sweet time, 40 minutes, because she was sniffing and switching back. My fingers were cold.

Amazon has hacked my life. We try not to use it but so many of our routines are organized around the capacity to have specific items handy on sort notice that are not easily acquired locally. Today’s example: v60 coffee filters.

The Rise of Oligarchy in one graph.

A more passive endowment management strategy would increase university independence.

I guess Bari is doing the fucking news

So profoundly awful that we get gambling advice *from the same company that you can place bets with* while watching the Olympics.

Apparently there are figure skaters from Ann Arbor and I’m being scolded for not knowing them.

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)