Just so we're clear, failing to get grants/fellowships is normal. The trick is to keep trying.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

ICE just reported its fourth in-custody death of 2026. It’s only January 10.

Banners on Bridges, yesterday Nashville.

important message to all bluesky users

"You deserve to die if you disagree with us" is their position. bsky.app/profile/atru...

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.

#TheVoiceofHindRajab is a sublimely devestating masterpiece. Kaouther Ben Hania, with the blessing of Hind's family who are involved, have painstakingly and beautifully immortalized Hind and her horrific story for all to see. Watch it as soon as you can. Free Palestine.

BBC is reporting that the same ICE officer who murdered Renee Good was involved in another violent incident in June.

I'm in Chicago, so I was aware of 2 incidents here & knew a couple happened elsewhere. Trying to find a list. 32 more people died in ICE custody. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

ICE killed a member of our community today. ICE showed up at my kid’s daycare today. ICE is bragging about the number of families they’ve torn apart in a matter of days, and promising that their campaign of terror isn’t done.

If you have time to doom scroll, you have time to read books!

We have a lot more video and information on our visual archive of that day apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

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I have said this SO MANY TIMES. NONE of this is a "distraction." ALL OF IT is the fascist stuff the fascist regime is doing to amass wealth and power. Venezuela isn't a distraction from whatever "thing." VENEZUELA IS THE THING. IT'S THE BAD THING. 1/🧵

Incidentally, look how close we have come in one year to Sonia Sotomayor’s hypotheticals in the Trump Immunity dissent all happening Not quite exactly, but not too far off, and she nailed the bribes prediction scholar.google.com/scholar_case...

12+ hours later we finally get an estimate of how many Venezuelans were killed

Folks bypass things like the fact that NYPD activated drones and 30 cop cars for a demonstration of 1000 people in freezing weather today. The levels of surveillance and potential repression are taken as regular order in this country.

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This is the worst case scenario that everybody was worried about

DAILY MEMO: The Escalation Continues Before Christmas as ICE, HSI, and Border Patrol Set Record Raids Again This Week

"In 2025, we got clarity — a sober look at how the industry would show up...Whenever the country’s foundational truths surface — racial, historical, or structural — newsrooms retreat, and coverage collapses at the very moments honesty is required." www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

🇸🇩 JUST IN | US Sec of State Marco Rubio said Fri that Washington’s total focus in Sudan is on achieving a cessation of hostilities going into the new year that allows humanitarian organizations to deliver assistance & slow the “calamity” on the ground. “We will know very soon whether this is...

I also want to share some resources that were created for the community based on AMPPS papers. First, there is a new article out in the APS Observer that puts together 9 practical guides for research methods including papers and tutorials www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

America First, at America’s first public university.

Now the US isn't just not funding important science at home, it's giving $ to foreign researchers to do unethical research on vulnerable populations 😡

Teens turn to a variety of online platforms, but YouTube continues to stand out. Roughly nine-in-ten teens report ever using it. TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat are the next most widely used platforms.

Read their report here too

Update:

UN said humanitarian agencies are ramping up winterization aid in Palestine as cold weather & new rains worsen conditions for displaced families in Gaza. Between Thu & Sat, partners delivered 3,800 tents, nearly 4,600 tarpaulins, & thousands of bedding items reaching about 4,800 families. Aid...

GAZA IS DROWNING IN RAIN WATER AND THEY ARE ALL IN TENTS AND ISRAEL IS STILL FIRING ON PEOPLE AND THIS ISN'T A MAJOR NEWS STORY BECAUSE OF RACISM

Children Helping Science is a platform that lets researchers conduct studies online with kids. Incredibly important resource for psychological science. An anonymous donor is matching contributions up to 100K through the end of the year - please consider supporting this high-value system if you can!

Sometimes I wonder about how the White folks process still having their jobs. I've been reading a lot about McCarthyism, which has my brain primed to think about the people who stay once people politically repress their colleague out of a job. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My thoughts are with all those affected by the horrific antisemitic terror attack on a Hanukkah event in Australia in which at least 11 people were killed. Seen below is Ahmed al Ahmed, a 43-year-old Muslim father of two who risked his life to disarm one of the gunmen and was also shot and injured.

Each semester I go in my classroom and I try to figure out what we would use to block the doors, if it would be safe to crawl out the windows, where we could hide if there was a mass shooter in campus. It’s such an indictment of this country how we have normalized these preventable tragedies.

NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process. One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation." www.latimes.com/california/s...

No student journalist should ever have to write this kind of story www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

"Genocide is not an Oakland value." "FedEx and Lockheed Martin are exploiting Oakland's public infrastructure to facilitate a genocide without the consent of the people of Oakland." #California #USA #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Transportation #Protest #Labour #Genocide #Military #Weapons

UNCG will be hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in child clinical psychology! We are late in the cycle, so please help us circulate to any interested parties: spartantalent.uncg.edu/postings/33557

CNN Finds Israel Killed Palestinian Aid Seekers and Bulldozed Bodies into Shallow, Unmarked Graves

In 1983 Reagan voters were 48/44 opposed to MLK day and Reagan himself still thought MLK might have been a Communist. We know this because he said it to his friend Meldrim Thompson, a former NH governor who sat on the board of the John Birch Society in 1983.

He lowered Pennsylvania’s flags for 3 days when Charlie Kirk died and for 0 days when Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed.

Not "hurt college men" Washington Post lololololol *this* is the bad place (h/t @iansociologo.bsky.social) I'll share my thread from 2 weeks ago about this issue in the reply

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors. $33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.