Reposted by Academic AuntiesEthel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026In @academicaunties.com this episode, I chat with Dr. Nhung Tran on graduate supervision: why boundaries are important, the gendered expectations we face, the need to form a professional relationship & more. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/goo... #academicskyacademicaunties.comGood Supervision, Bad SupervisionThe most important decision that grad students have to make is who to work with as their supervisor. A common joke in grad school is that graduate stude... 011
Reposted by Academic AuntiesEthel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026On part 2 of "coming home" @academicaunties.com, we talk about the corrosive stereotypes that Indigenous academics face, why we do research for our people instead of prioritizing academic metrics and the importance of mentorship. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/com...academicaunties.comComing Home, Part 2On part 2 of Coming Home, we continue our conversation with Professors Mariam Georgia and Eisenstein Staats-Pangowish about what it means when our work ... 011
Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 16/01/2026A clip from our latest episode on #HeatedRivalry! @tungohan.bsky.social and JP Catungal, both gender + race + sexuality studies profs, dish on homonationalism and race, geopolitics, neurodivergence! Have a listen! 122
Reposted by Academic AuntiesEthel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025For @academicaunties.com , @aadita.bsky.social & I chat about the difficulties of supporting projects that break academic norms even in interdisciplinary environments. We also talk abt research undertaken outside the academy & why it can be more cutting edge! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/col...academicaunties.comColouring Outside the LinesAcademia likes to put people into a box. The pressure to stay within disciplinary boundaries is strong. For those who reject these disciplinary regimes,... 054
Reposted by Academic AuntiesEthel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 09/10/2025We just taped an episode of @academicaunties.com about white women + white feminism. (Need to provide the usual disclaimers here that ofc we all have white women friends, not all white women are performative in their allyship etc.) It will be 🔥 052
Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 02/10/2025On our latest episode, we take a break from academic seriousness and get into @tungohan.bsky.social 's guilty pleasure: The Summer I Turned Pretty. Listen wherever you get your podcast! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/the... 021
Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 18/09/2025NEW EPISODE! @tungohan.bsky.social and Carrianne Leung talk about the energy we bring into the classroom, with students who are coping with realities of fascism, genocide, climate catastrophe, and the uncertainties of AI. Listen on your favourite podcast app: academicaunties.captivate.fm 063
Reposted by Academic AuntiesAnne Revillard @anne-rev.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I recently discovered the @academicaunties.com podcast ❤️🔥💪. Many thanks to @tungohan.bsky.social and the production team for their work. I particularly recommend this episode on academic freedom and Palestine - initially aired in Nov, 2023 but sadly still very relevant 😥 pca.st/episode/ce5b...pca.stAcademic Freedom and Palestine 131
Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 18/09/2025Psst…we’re back! Our first episode of season 6 (!) drops tomorrow. @tungohan.bsky.social speaks to Dr. Carrieanne Leung about the energy we bring as the school year returns, and carving a space for joy amidst the dark times we find ourselves in. 010
Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 13/07/2025We had the honour of speaking with Sheila back in 2022, who reminded us that being a scientist means taking sides. She never stopped fighting for what was right. We will miss you 💔 www.thestar.com/news/gta/she...thestar.com‘Sheila just went for it’: York University scientist Sheila Colla remembered as a fierce advocate to save wild beesColla, 43, died Sunday of cancer. She successfully fought for the rusty-patched bumblebee to become the first bee listed as an endangered species in Canada and the U.S. 031
Reposted by Academic AuntiesEthel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Can't believe we're done with @academicaunties.com this season! Elisha Lim & I talk about why relationship building is crucial when organizing, the culture shock we faced when entering academia & the generative possibilities of using AI as activists! www.academicaunties.com/episodes/org... /1academicaunties.comOrganizing, Mobilizing…and AISeason finale! The past year, we’ve talked a lot about just how much we’ve had to fight for the university. From authoritarian leaders who wish to s... 143
Reposted by Academic AuntiesEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight. "My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone." 212199424
Reposted by Academic AuntiesACLU @aclu.org · 10/05/2025Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro 537310145560
Reposted by Academic AuntiesAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/05/2025UPDATE: Judge Sessions just entered a written order reaffirming his earlier order that Ozturk be immediately released without travel restrictions. Order implies that, as of 4:50 p.m. ET, Ozturk had not yet been released. 592734800
Reposted by Academic AuntiesAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Johnson talks about how well she knows Ozturk. Office down the hall, social events, text messages, etc. She communicates w/ her frequently. On screen, Ozturk coughs. 135214
Reposted by Academic AuntiesJoey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments. 4644111374
Reposted by Academic AuntiesMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/04/2025The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia. 132115402884
Reposted by Academic AuntiesAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 25/04/2025NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comLaw Student Firm PledgeThis pledge is being organized by law students collaborating across several law schools to counter the lawlessness of the Trump administration and major firms' cowardice in responding. We are the fut... 9359281544
Reposted by Academic AuntiesMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Wow—15 international students at the University of Central Florida have had their visas revoked as a result of the school's signed partnership with ICE. One was detained. Literally handed over to immigration cops by their own university. Despicable.wesh.comVisas terminated for 15 UCF students"We reach out to relay that information to the student and advise they leave the country." 11136431400
Reposted by Academic AuntiesArctic Velocipedist @arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social · 24/04/2025They is why we can’t fund government by donation. It make us a slave to the wealthy. 34823
Reposted by Academic AuntiesDavid Noll @david.noll.org · 24/04/2025jeez this is bleak www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...wsj.comFearing Trump’s Visa Crackdown, College Students Race to Scrub Op-EdsCampus newspapers confront ethics debates as foreign students ask that their names and views be removed from past articles. 21910276
Reposted by Academic AuntiesMegan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky 710863
Reposted by Academic AuntiesGale Anne Hurd @galeannehurd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Lest we forget…what is past is indeed prologue. theconversation.com/universities...theconversation.comUniversities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independenceBefore the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state. 49849
Reposted by Academic AuntiesACLU @aclu.org · 11/04/2025BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court. 647264616226
Reposted by Academic AuntiesClimate Psychology Alliance of North America @climatena.bsky.social · 11/04/2025This is terrible news. For Mahmoud Khalil and for all of us. 1309
Reposted by Academic AuntiesCongresswoman Ayanna Pressley @pressley.house.gov · 04/04/2025🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure. 223135815781
Reposted by Academic AuntiesIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Consequences? For MY actions???? etc. etc. 1823121
Reposted by Academic AuntiesJohn Washington @jwashing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025🚨 Scoop: At least 8 students at Arizona State University have had their student visas revoked in recent days. Meanwhile University of Arizona advises international students to carry copies of passports/visas at all times. azluminaria.org/2025/04/02/e...azluminaria.orgEight international students at ASU have had their visas revoked - AZ LuminariaEight international students at Arizona State University have had their visas revoked amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts and a crackdown on students expressing their political views. An ASU spokesperson confirmed Wednesday in an email to Arizona Luminaria that the students’ visas were revoked recently — in the first two days of April and […] 68075
Reposted by Academic AuntiesMai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 29/03/2025As universities increasingly make decisions that make their students less safe and that compromise academic freedom, I hope their alumni remember that they can do something about it -- through their voices, their actions, and their wallets. 07932
Reposted by Academic AuntiesAlanna Vagianos @alannavagianos.bsky.social · 27/03/2025NEW: The Trump administration pulled funding for research to protect pregnant women from domestic violence, citing it as a “DEI” initiative.huffpost.comTrump Admin Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic ViolenceHomicide by an abusive partner is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S. – and researchers are gutted by the sudden cuts. 15223131314
Reposted by Academic Auntiesirina cerić @irinaceric.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Pleasantly surprised that CBC’s Front Burner podcast ran this uncompromising and principled interview with @illdottore.bsky.social about the situation at Columbia and beyond www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...cbc.ca'Professors are the enemy': Trump's war on higher education. | CBC RadioA dispatch from Columbia University, ground zero for the Trump administration's war on higher education. Following a year of pro-Palestinian protest, America’s ‘Activist Ivy’ finds itself in the cross... 0107
Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 26/03/2025We’re still working on this week’s episode so stay tuned. We talk about WTF is happening in the US and the attacks on academics from all fronts. 030
Reposted by Academic AuntiesAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025They keep kidnapping LEGAL RESIDENTS and throwing them in ICE prisons in Louisiana because they believe they'll get more favorable decisions for Trump under the 5th Circuit's jurisdiction (which has mostly Republican appointed judges). 9574208
Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 21/03/2025“A lot of what’s hitting the elite schools now echoes a blueprint set out by red states.“politico.comUniversities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scopeSome of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest institutions are swiftly bending to President Donald Trump, who is acting on longstanding conservative criticisms of universities as elitist and progressive. 020
Reposted by Academic AuntiesSanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Please boycott my country and tell US airlines that you won’t waste money on a ticket to nowhere. Make the airlines lobby the administration to end this fascist madness. They will scream loudly when their lucrative international revenue dries up. 443054906
Reposted by Academic AuntiesEthel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Grifters who rebranded themselves as DEI experts despite having zero research on race, gender & "diversity" politics when there was tons of DEI funding are now rebranding again to pivot away from DEI. I think now we'll really see who's really with us & who are just performative allies. #feministskya 0142
Reposted by Academic AuntiesEthel Tungohan @tungohan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025With the backlash to DEI, Angie Beeman& I talk about the difference between performative DEI & one that centres an analysis of race. We also talk about targeted racial harassment, liberal white supremacy and the importance of accomplices. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/dei... #feministskyacademicaunties.comDEI in AcademiaThere is a backlash to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. All around us, we see the dismantlement of various DEI initiatives including in academia. Instit... 043
Reposted by Academic AuntiesAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 12/03/2025Wouldn’t be surprised if they start detaining more academics. This is part of Trump’s plan to destroy higher ed. As the Khalil case shows being in a blue state is no protection. University administrators are not prepared to defend their students, faculty, and staff, & some will be actively complicit 8433124
Reposted by Academic AuntiesAdriana Guatame-García @adriguatame.bsky.social · 06/03/2025A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩🔬 12365132320
Reposted by Academic Auntieselia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The details are disturbing. It basically looks like a kidnapping. They even got his legal status wrong but proceeded to detain him anyway. The agents didn’t even identify themselves at first and refused to show a warrant. His wife is 8 months pregnant 161532638
Reposted by Academic AuntiesYan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States 20462213212
Reposted by Academic AuntiesKatrine Beauregard @katrinebeau.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Finally catching up on the latest podcast and it's scary how the situation at York is similar to what is going on at ANU, including the involvement of Nous consulting group 101
Academic Aunties @academicaunties.com · 03/03/2025Latest from the newsletter! Read about how management consultants are influencing universities in really problematic ways. #AcademicSkynewsletter.academicaunties.comNous: Academic Management Consultant Grifters?Whether it is disastrous restructuring at the University of Alberta, massive layoffs and program closures at Laurentian, or suspension of academic admissions to programs like Indigenous Studies and ge... 073