Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/02/2026Academia is so incredibly fucked up and also a lot of the intellectual work that goes on in the academy is incredibly important Part of what makes life in the academy tough is holding and navigating both of these truths at the same time 626744
EscaFlowne is fun to say @cosmicdropkick.bsky.social · 03/02/2026My wife has spent some time in academic medicine. 75% of it was old white guys firmly maintaining the status quo. It happens too often for a field that's supposed to be about improvement. 000
J.S. Grump @jsgrumpy.bsky.social · 02/02/2026That first part has led to anti-intellectual cynicism among average people which opens them up to bullshit like anti-vax propaganda, anti-climate science propaganda, etc. Makes it hard for intellectuals to engage the public when people are primed to disbelieve anything coming out of academia 250
malpcws.bsky.social @malpcws.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Watching my kid go through her masters program has been eye opening. She has the heart of an educator and researcher, and she's good at it but the absolute bullshit she puts up with is wild. I don't know if she'll go for her PhD after this. She's tough but damn. 000
Krista Benson @klinb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I just finished the last two of six personnel meetings in a week a little bit ago. This completely applies to that, too. 000
Mathew Foresta @mathewforesta.bsky.social · 02/02/2026I'm applying to go back and finish my BA right now. There are schools I was going to apply to that I've decided not to. I don't feel welcome there, both as a bi man and a supporter of Palestine. I know there would be good folks at these unis and I respect them, but I fear being expelled for who I am 000
Dr. Susana L. Gallardo @malinchista.bsky.social · 05/02/2026“It cannot be denied that the university is a place of refuge, and it cannot be accepted that the university is a place of enlightenment…” --Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, 2013 000
