So thrilled to celebrate these exciting new #GoucherCollege #faculty projects this afternoon. Really excited to hear about this wide ranging research. #scholarship #liberalarts

Mark this moment as the unequivocal return of the thought police.

Listen, I don’t know anything about the upcoming Marky Mark film “Play Dirty,” but it seems gross that they are happy to play the hell out of the Sampa The Great song ‘Final Form’ in the trailer while never once using the chorus which loudly proclaims “Black Power, Louder!”

I don’t need a 3 min ad for a show disguised as a ‘presenter’ for you to shame an award winner to for taking an extra 3 seconds. The bit feels gross #emmy but what else would I expect from a gutless capitulating network like @cbsnews.com (cbs get a Bluesky account so I can yell at you, cowards).

So lucky to have @sonjaardoin.bsky.social join us at Goucher College today to talk with Faculty and staff about supporting #FirstGen college students.

Only the most recent example of why I am and always will be a vocal and committed advocate for #DCstatehood. It is an imperative.

America now has the foreign policy of a personalist dictator. New piece from me in @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

And again, they were about 15-20 times as large as the April 2009 Tea Party protests, so I'll sit back and wait for 15-20 times as many stories from political pundits explaining that this was a decisive rebuke to the sitting president that Changes Everything.

Honestly there were more people lined up at the opening of the new #Rockville #TraderJoes earlier this week. And that was 8:30 am on a Thursday. #MoCo @themocoshow.bsky.social

Today, I opposed the OPM's proposed "Schedule P/C" rule that kills due process rights for thousands of federal employees. Instead of emphasizing empirically the harm this rule will cause (see great insights from @donmoyn.bsky.social), I focused more on legal and constitutional grounds. (1/2)

Ridiculous way to frame the story. Brown in no way disciplined the student. It says so in the article: "Brown eventually cleared all three students of wrongdoing ... the university followed a standard procedure for students accused of conduct violations, and that this case was no different."

I’m prepping for a talk I’ll be giving in a few weeks about the way Directing a #Teaching&Learning Center—and being an academic administrator more broadly—can cause us to complicate our view of our own academic professional identities. #HigeherEd #FacultyDev [Thread]

Goucher and our university-based retirement community are getting some national attention on @npr.org's @marketplace.org! Love to see the work we've been doing to create meaningful co-generational learning experiences getting noticed. #HigherEd #LiberalArts

Update: turns out in the original 1982 book Steven King even got the 2025 year correct.

Can’t believe that it is going to turn out that the only thing the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger film “The Running Man” got wrong was thinking that we would be at this point in the hellscape by 2019 instead of 2025. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

“Bending the knee and precomplying will not stave off these attacks. Acquiescing to censorship will not stop the threats. Only engaging in collective, bold, public, strategic struggle & disruption has the potential to do so. We did not pick this fight, but this is the fight that we are in.”

Today is the day: Goucher Symposium featuring more than 150 presentations of undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative works. One of my favorite days of the year. Thanks to all of our excellent students for sharing their incredible work with us! #LiberalArts blogs.goucher.edu/symposium.

Prepping my #datavisualization slides tomorrow's class means it is once again time for my favorite annual activity: finding new awful charts to include. What a beauty!

Beating a dead horse here, but higher ed is an incredible source of American soft power The international students we educate at places like my institution, Harvard Kennedy School, bring their educational experiences to their home countries in ways that greatly enhance US interests

The incoming NIH Director has repeatedly stressed the importance of open science and open data. Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch. www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Predatory and gross.

Currently teaching Calling Bullshit, came to @carlbergstrom.com’s account expecting an excellent take about today, was not disappointed.

Thrilled that 125+ people came out last night to talk about Trump, Musk, and the Constitutional Crisis. Massive thanks to my outstanding student Liz Hannaford who moderated the conversation with me as well as our expert panelists American University’s Chris Edelson and NPR’s (and AU’s) Ron Elving!

Thrilled to welcome @chrisedelson.bsky.social and Ron Elving to Goucher College tonight for this important conversation.

Been teaching my “College & American Society” course for a few years now. I do it as an interdisciplinary social science course, but I’ve been thinking about adding a piece of fiction to the syllabus. Taking any and all campus novel/short story recommendations. #Humanities #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Literal Gestapo

I have complicated feelings about #HigherEd #Teaching&Learning podcasts. Lately I feel like if you were to look at recent episode lists you wouldn't know anything unusual is happening. No discussion of this admin, Columbia, etc... Is there one I should be listening to that I'm missing? #AcademicSky

This. The history of these entire fields of study is one of a fight to exist. Solidarity throughout the academy.

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

We are about to be at a tipping point moment for HigherEd and the American system. To paraphrase @timothysnyder.bsky.social Columbia is about to give power an abject lesson in what it can/can't get away with. Higher ed needs to fight.

USIP owns their building. DOGE is vandalizing a building the federal government DOES NOT OWN.

Terrifying. Been saying for a while now Hungary is the bellwether for the U.S. under Trump.

Spring break hits different as a professor. This spring break I got real rowdy and built a new end table. #handtool #woodworking #academicsky

This is an incredibly useful thread—as is the earlier thread he referenced—to understand the mechanics of what is happening right now.

From his own words, we know Trump looks at Orban aspirationally, you just need to look at Orban’s attack on Central European University to see the playbook and roadmap.

We need some better language for pushing back against what the administration is doing. They’re not “ending DEI.” No. They're firing women and people of color in the military. They’re forbidding whole fields of research. They’re erasing trans people from existence.

Another day another assault on independent science from this administration.

Read this thread. @adambonica.bsky.social says it at the end, but it bears repeating that this whole exchange is a perfect case study in how science should work

Would love to know the PRIMARY reason these 10 Dems joined the Republicans in voting to censure Al Green.

democrats all had 4.5 GPAs and took briefcases to class but we really need some bathroom smoker energy rn

trump: "democrats are weak, they're pathetic, they are like sick dogs to me. not people! they are not people!!!" democrats: *silently holding a tiny sign that says "not true" like daffy duck*

The act of Trump celebrating law enforcement in the Capitol building is the darkest, most cynical irony.

And honestly they should be forcing people to carry them out of the chamber not walking out. Rather than draw on a history of non-violent civil resistance in this country Dems have decided to draw on a history of those little paddles that people bid with in auctions.

JUST IN: The Census Bureau's #2030Census Advisory Committee has been terminated by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, Arturo Vargas, the committee's chair, confirms to @npr.org. I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the Commerce Department for comment...

Listen, I know the presentation style is not the issue with this insane speech, but it seems like the 5 minutes of it that are just listing the number of people falling in an age range could have been a bar graph.

Tuesday morning: College protests are now banned Tuesday night: I brought back free speech in America

Journalists, please do not describe what happened at the White House today as a "spat", "heated exchange" or as Zelensky-Trump "going at each other". Zelensky was ambushed by Vance while very calmly explaining why Ukraine needs security guarantees and doesn't trust a ceasefire...