"This is extortion, plain and simple.... The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education." A sobering analysis of the illegality of the administration's "compact" and its stakes for higher ed. 🎁🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Are you an early career scholar interested in learning more about peer review? Join us for our virtual @reviewerzero.bsky.social workshop! We will help you understand how peer review works and give advice on responding to reviewer comments. 9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET on October 30th. Register👇🏼

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

Our 70% Off Sale is live! 📚 Save on thousands of select titles & editions across subjects until October 31. Explore the books on sale and refresh your shelves this autumn: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off #ReadUP

The disability community needs support & solidarity to fight these pharmaceutical tariffs. Most of us can barely afford our medications as is. We can’t suddenly stop taking them, we will die. We can’t stockpile them. A 100% tariff will cost lives.

ChatGPT worth it to you?

The pep band practices within earshot of my class and while it does sometimes feel like a real hard mode test of my ADHD, I don’t hate it. They’re having so much fun and spreading joy. #AcademicSky

I am looking for absolutely stellar examples of specific aims' pages. Does anyone have one that they wouldn't mind sharing? I am talking about, basically the perfect one-pager. TIA. #academicsky #proposalwriting #writing

Take a moment and read this, friends.

Anyone else hear about the growing research connecting prunes with increased bone health and buy a giant bag of them? In any case, feel free to send all prune-forward recipes my way LOL

The message is very clear, from @drmbothapsych.bsky.social when you dehumanise people in research people disengage morally from the outcomes. E.g. you can do research that harms, but you don't care, because you've morally disconnected from those in your research. This is happening in autism research

Attn: nerds who like reading and bargains.

ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

Next week, the Public Infrastructure & Utilities Committee will hear resident testimony on Resolution 111, which advocates for regulations on data centers. 🗓️ October 1, 2025 🕞 3:30 PM 📍 Kennedy Hearing Room Join us in person or use the link in my bio to participate virtually!

Excellent detective work below from Dominique! It's always a good idea to validate (or conduct data sanity checks) on your data before using it. Not sure what to check? Here are some examples! osf.io/t8upr

My most cited paper was rejected from 4 journals before acceptance at its final journal publisher. The editors at that journal told me, several years later, that it was one of their most cited articles since the journal’s founding.

Paper acceptances are always worth celebrating here, but this one feels extra good. We had a paper accepted yesterday after rejections from 6 other journals, starting with a desk reject in 2020. 🌟 Every paper has a home 🌟 #AcademicSky #SpecialEducation

Final call! Today is your LAST CHANCE to apply to be an Editorial Board Member for ASHA Journals. Submit your application before the deadline (which is the end of today)! https://on.asha.org/3ztv2J9 @sigperspectives.bsky.social @csdisseminate.bsky.social #AUDPeeps #SLPeeps

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

If you had a federal grant focused on #Autism or #ActuallyAutistic people canceled, I'd love to speak with you. My Signal is emgarcia.85. Thank you.

If you are a parent of a kid you think might #ActuallyAutistic and don't want to get them screened because of RFK Jr., I'd love to talk with you for a piece. DM me or [email protected]. My Signal is emgarcia.85

Love to see this work pushing our field forward. Well done, @jxjwang.bsky.social & Dr. Shikarpurya!!

The Trump administration says it will withhold $350 million in grants to hundreds of colleges that serve large populations of minority students, calling the decades-old programs discriminatory.

"We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education + the stakes feel even higher. In the 50s the targets were individual teachers—communists progressives liberals +their leftwing unions. Now the target is the system itself" www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Do your mental health a favor and turn this on for today. You really don't want to watch this. It is awful.

EVERYONE IN CHICAGOLAND: Save this number in your phone. If you see an ICE raid: 1. Ask the the person their name 2. Ask who to call to let them know they’ve been taken by ICE 3. Tell them to not say anything 4. Call this number to report the arrest If possible video it

1. Autism existed before Tylenol 2. Some women have autistic children and never took Tylenol while pregnant 3. Correlation is not causation. 4. RFK Jr is a douche canoe 5. Not normally a huge fan of big business, but Tylenol should sue.

Oh sorry did someone say they wanted to see my garden?

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

What fiction and non-fiction related to health/medicine/illness/disability is coming out in the next few months and 2026?

In the 80s I went to a lecture by a Bulgarian political philosopher. The whole lecture was delivered with his back to the audience writing incomprehensible symbols on the board. He said afterward that they’d developed this habit so the secret police watching would think they were doing maths.

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

🎉 New article! 🎉 Our latest in @jidr-wiley.bsky.social measures what teachers of students with IDD know about foundational word reading and how that relates to their training and classroom instruction. #OpenAccess version here: doi.org/10.1111/jir.... @kimberlymcfadden.bsky.social

For those who once sang karaoke and are now content as spectators, what was your karaoke swan song? What song went so poorly that you decided to sit down for a while? I'll go first: Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back to Me Now, Washington DC, June 2025. I flew too close to the sun!

I am excited to share that I’m looking to recruit a PhD student to join my Stress and Health Equity lab in Fall 2026. We are located in the HDFS department at the beautiful University of Delaware. Feel free to share! ☺️

What I find most disturbing about what’s happening in this country is how quickly and effortlessly people manage to normalize it

For those who once sang karaoke and are now content as spectators, what was your karaoke swan song? What song went so poorly that you decided to sit down for a while? I'll go first: Celine Dion's It's All Coming Back to Me Now, Washington DC, June 2025. I flew too close to the sun!

The National Center for Education Statistics is hiring two researchers to work on NAEP, the first green shoots after DOGE came through back in February. They limit to 150 applications, so move fast if interested. www.usajobs.gov/job/844948000 www.usajobs.gov/job/844947600

Some "good for now" news reported by @jocelynkaiser.bsky.social in case you didn't catch it last week. With some good advice from @scott-delaney.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

I've been off bsky for a minute, and I'm re-engaging out of spite. In this thread I will track the words that should count for the NYTimes #SpellingBee puzzle. Feel free to add your own.

new @teenvogue.com: Florida officials claimed they wouldn't hold minors in mosquito- and sewage-ridden Alligator Alcatraz, but a bombshell report in July found a 15-year-old was detained there in July. young people in Florida are afraid. said one, "If it happens once, it’s going to happen again.”

Anyone receive a manuscript review that seems clearly written by AI? The language is awkward and the suggestions for improvement are all paraphrasing our limitations section...I emailed the handling editor but curious to see how others have dealt with this #AcademicSky #PeerReview

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Anyone receive a manuscript review that seems clearly written by AI? The language is awkward and the suggestions for improvement are all paraphrasing our limitations section...I emailed the handling editor but curious to see how others have dealt with this #AcademicSky #PeerReview

In our new Research Issue, senior reporter Megan Zahneis examines how the Trump administration’s cuts to grant funding and federal agency budgets are disrupting young researchers’ careers. Read more here: www.chronicle.com/package/the-...

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

I doubt that there is a single family in America that hasn’t benefitted directly from the NIH.

We can still save the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Here's a practical guide to what to do right now to save not just the agency's funding but its future all together. Part of this is messaging on reauthorizing the Museum and Library Services Act. bookriot.com/we-can-still...