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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

On the one hand, this is great. But I feel about this like I do about heartwarming "go fund me" campaigns. It's great that people are stepping up, but public goods should be supported with public funds.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/06/2025

This is why relying on charity to fund essential services is a truly wild policy choice.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

All universities right now need to be making this case to the public why universities and our scientific research matters. But let’s promote our humanities and social sciences too!

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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

“Harvard now faces one of the most consequential choices in its history: Submit to extortion and make itself complicit in the most profound assault on academic freedom and constitutional governance of our time—or go to court. The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.” (Fixed link)

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Harvard’s moment of truth - The Boston Globe

The stakes are high, but the choice should not be difficult.

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Claire Dunning @cdunning.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Seems that Paul, Weiss has forgotten the legacy of one of its named partners: Lloyd Garrison (1897-1991) as in Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison. Great-grandson of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison and staunch defender of free speech, civil rights, and labor unions.

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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#edusky colleagues, higher ed or K-12, please share. We are at Columbia, but we know that this struggle matters for education across the lifespan. A Statement from Teachers College Faculty on the Attack on American Education docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Brownstone buildings at Teachers College looking west toward Riverside Church.
Creative Commons photo by Bohao Zhao

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