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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is: Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences. Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more. Please cite this as the Carroll report.

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

They’re gonna close down the predatory learning management system unless we put on the best dang talent show this town has ever seen!!!

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Chelsea Spencer @chelseaspencer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

See also: critiques of the architecture profession and architecture school

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

And the website - where you can subscribe and support these young Luddites www.theludditeclub.org

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The Luddite Club

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Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I stand in strong solidarity with my friends + colleagues striking at NYU, as a former contract professor there. My experience, while better than many, reflects many of their complaints: low pay, few protections, high loads, and utter disrespect from the university. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/n...

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Hundreds of N.Y.U. Professors Begin Strike Over Pay and Job Protections

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Coinman of the Month @meetzow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Oh, you know about the DSA?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Young replies: ""Well, I don't know, Martin. It's not the entire system. It's only part of it, and I think we can fix that." King's reply begins: "I don't need to hear from you, Andy," he said. "I've heard enough from you. You're a capitalist, and I'm not."

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Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Are you a PhD student studying urban or metropolitan history? Apply to join the inaugural Alison Isenberg Dissertation Colloquium that we're running at the SACRPH conference this October. Come for the snacks, stay for the mentorship, camaraderie, and writing help.

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Did not realize how much I needed Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones's utterly adorable drawings of pigs (thread). First up, front & back views of a prized pig adorned with a flowered garland, from Lancaster @darthbluesky.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social eb-j.org/browse-artwo...

Garlanded pig, drawing, back view, with card notation from Beaumont Hall, Lancaster

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

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Caroline Murphy @caromurph7.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

How did Renaissance states track and record floods? At what point did these disasters go from being thought of as one-offs to signs of a more systemic crisis? I enjoyed thinking through these and similar questions in my work on Florentine water maps, out now with Grey Room! doi.org/10.1162/grey...

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Drawing the Disordered River in Late-Renaissance Tuscany

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one dozen bats at a keyboard @panasonicdx4500.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

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Chelsea Spencer @chelseaspencer.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

PSA: if you like me have a 🗻 of student debt and are confused and worried rn, these folks are amazingly helpful: freestudentloanadvice.org

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TISLA – Fair, Free, Student Loan Advice

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

😭Very disappointing to see SB37 pass on a party line vote. Institutions of higher education did NOT ask for this bill. Faculty overwhelmingly testified against it. This is an unnecessary and disastrous bill that makes Texas, with Florida, a leader in dismantling higher ed. 1/

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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Student: Teacher, why do we learn? Socrates: For life! Freire: For liberation! Dewey: For democracy! Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

BREAKING: We just got wind of Republicans' higher education bill text for reconciliation. We skimmed it. It's the most dangerous Higher-Ed bill in history. It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.

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Brian Goldstein @bgoldst.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

This is so fundamentally illegal that the word "illegal" should appear in any headline about this lark that Trump got after getting amped up watching TV coverage.

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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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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 15/04/2025

Thousands of jobs. Cleaner transit. Less traffic. A direct line from Dallas to Houston. That’s what this project could’ve meant for Texas— but instead, the Trump Administration shut it down.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/04/2025

Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained. What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera. What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.

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American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell

“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have…

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528
04/11/2025
Notice of Termination of Parole
it is time for you to leave the United States.
You are currently here because the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) paroled you into the United States for a limited period. Pursuant to 8 U.S.C. § 1182(d)(5)(A) and 8 C.F.R. § 212.5(e), DHS is now exercising its discretion to terminate your parole. Unless it expires sooner, your parole will terminate 7 days from the date of this notice.
If you do not depart the United States immediately you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States - unless you have otherwise obtained a lawful basis to remain here. Any benefits you receive in the United States connected with your parole - such as work authorization — will also terminate. You will be subject to potential criminal prosecution, civil fines, and penalties, and any other lawful options available to the federal government.
DHS encourages you to leave immediately on your own.
You can use the CBP Home mobile app on your phone to make arrangements for your departure. If you are departing the United States via land, you should report your departure once outside the United States via that same app. If you are having trouble reporting your departure via land, visit https://194.cbp.dhs.gov/home for more information about voluntarily reporting your departure.
Again, DHS is terminating your parole. Do not attempt to remain in the United States - the federal government will find you. Please depart the United States immediately.
I just got this 5 minutes and I'm not even in the United States or have been for months. I'm in Canada and a Canadian resident. I fly to Vegas tomorrow morning for the weekend and a little concerned? Does this look legit

SpellWild110 • 2 points 17 hours ago
I just got this email too and I am a US citizen? Born and raised in the US. So confused.
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+ [-Potential_Travel_294 • 2 points 17 hours ago
Yeah, so confusing
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+ [H] ramoros1865 • 2 points 13 hours ago
I go this email last night as well and I have a green card

[-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
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Got this today at 6ame9the thing is I was born here this is the email that sent it: [automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov]
(mailto:automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov)
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+ [-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
Has anyone clicked the link?

+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I just got this same email right now
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+ [-JOk-Comfortable948 • 1 point 20 hours ago
Me too. I am an LPR since an year now and def concerns me seeing this. I got the email from cbpnoreply@cbp.dhs.gov and email looked legit due to its domain though, hope its a scam email. Crazy idiots not sure what they keep doing. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I have daca and i am wondering if i got it because I did advance parole in 2023
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+ |-] Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got the same email twice to my two different email adresses, I think its's a scam.
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+ [-]Ok-Comfortable948 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got it twice to my same email.
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+ [-]Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
Yeah, me too, I got twice too to a kind of personal email address, it's even not my work email address. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ [-]thawk1986 • 1 point 11 hours ago
It's legit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mi
grants-cbp-one-app-legal-status-stripped-dhs/
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Tauriq Moosa @tauriq.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

- 32,809 have been arrested by Ice during Trump 2. - German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations - Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days

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I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre

Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

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Ben Ewen-Campen @benforward3.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Massive turnout in solidarity with Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student who was abducted from a Somerville street by Trump’s government - Somerville stands with Rumeysa

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I really don't care much what anyone thinks the exact right label is to describe where we are. This is outrageous and acutely dangerous. They are disappearing people in broad daylight for nothing but political speech. If this isn't a frontal assault on the rule of law and free democracy, what is?

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

the us academic sector is genuinely never going to recover from the current assault on its every institution and the third rate bean counters who entrusted themselves with running the universities don't care at best because they read too many the atlantic think pieces about the oberlin cafeteria

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Chelsea Spencer @chelseaspencer.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Hello #skystorians, architectural and otherwise! Are you working on anything related to architecture/built enviro + costs, money, value, quantities, political economy, etc? Propose it for the new 🤑 Costs of Architecture Workshop 🤑 ! Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop... Deadline: >>Feb 21<< 👍

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Costs of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops • Call for Abstracts

THE COSTS OF ARCHITECTURE NETWORKSUMMER 2025 WORKSHOPSCALL FOR ABSTRACTS Deadline: February 21, 2025 The Costs of Architecture Network is pleased to announce a call for paper abstracts for a series ...

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