Reposted by Daphnaaohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 4hWhen you have departments that produce fewer numbers of majors why is that always the fault of the department and not of the administrators? “Only two students taking Akkadian. We have to fire you.” “No, you’re supposed to get me more Akkadian students. You’ve failed your job. I fire you!” 0103
Reposted by DaphnaChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4hmeanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028 121033187
Reposted by DaphnaMaladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 10hNo, YOU contradict myself because you contain multitudes, *I* contradict myself because I don’t remember what I said earlier, I was hangry 18315
Reposted by Daphnafakesharrows @fakesharrows.bsky.social · 9hI think if I was as deeply committed to Home Rule as someone is currently pretending to be I probably wouldn't say DC "City" Councilabout.doordash.comDoorDash Withdraws Support for H.R. 9720, Reaffirms Commitment to D.C., Offers Partnership with D.C. Council to Exempt SNAP Recipients from Delivery TaxDoorDash is withdrawing its support for H.R. 9720, while reaffirming its commitment to D.C. and offering partnership with the D.C. Council to repeal a new tax on SNAP deliveries and protect vulnerabl... 1196
Reposted by DaphnaEdward Russell @byerussell.com · 14hThe new Commanders Stadium would have "the largest parking garage ever built in DC history, with 3,600 parking spaces at nine stories high.” Residents are rightly outraged for what is way, way too much parking for a dense urban neighborhood. 3,600 spots is not "transit first." #washingtondcwashingtonsun.comD.C. Residents Push Back on RFK Stadium Master PlanTestimony revealed deep anxieties over massive parking structures, transit gaps and environmental protections surrounding the 180-acre campus. 0134
Reposted by Daphnalizardbreath 🦎🪦🎃 @spindlypete.bsky.social · 01/10/2026i don't think the state has any business torturing anyone to death 51072117
Reposted by DaphnaHannah Bowman @hannahnpbowman.com · 01/10/2026End the death penalty. End it now. There is no reason for it, never. 101526277
Reposted by DaphnaMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sad to see this happening yet again in yet another state, with politicians & university leaders making the same bad faith arguments as in all the previous places. “We’re going to have to do less with less” is the only honest & serious position. 16914
Reposted by DaphnaRyan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 29/09/2026listen i'm not gonna link to it but "stay at home parents would simply have no use for universal daycare" is some of the most "oh you've never actually talked to anyone" shit i've ever heard 443239413
Reposted by DaphnaTom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 30/09/2026This is the job, and it’s the best job 0202
Reposted by DaphnaEric Kim (김현철) inkskratch.com @inkskratch.com · 30/09/2026Who the fuck am I supposed to sing along with if everyone has their own fucking personalized music. What communal experience does that engender, how do I feel closer to others when we have nothing to bond over 1236557
Reposted by DaphnaAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 30/09/2026A Democratic governor celebrating a hedge fund billionaire's donation to a private university feels very on brand for the party's higher ed agenda. 412030
Reposted by DaphnaBen Harris @benharris1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Seen on my walk to the metro this morning. Has any national Dem running for office even acknowledged that the city is under occupation, let alone said they would work to address this? 0114
Reposted by Daphnajosh mckenzie @amonns.bsky.social · 29/09/2026people like my parents or people back home often ask me if the reason why the industry is being killed in slow motion is due to AI, and it's a 15 minute long conversation to understand the real reasons why, at the heart of which are: people who own TV don't make TV and don't want to make TV 8469158
Reposted by DaphnaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Consent training isn’t going to stop a gang rape. 528179
Reposted by DaphnaHannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward 10132393705
Reposted by DaphnaKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20752391426
Reposted by DaphnaAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026This is why the Vanderbilt/WashU report cannot be understood apart from both institutions‘ massive investments in AI. Their leaders needed to discredit those disciplines and forms of knowledge asking hard questions about the cultural, social, political, and environmental costs of AI. 14311
Reposted by DaphnaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026And that brings us to present day. The most reliable way for a campus sexual assault story to make it into a newspaper is for the survivor to file a lawsuit against their school. And the two main vehicles survivors used to do that have been closed for years. 130552
Reposted by DaphnaNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost. 31865637
Reposted by Daphnahammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is what makes me scream to the void every time ceos are like “students arent trained in workday or sap or our EMR system or” Motherfucker that is YOUR ROLE TRAIN YOUR WORKFORCE Universities make adults, not machine cogs 35614
Reposted by Daphnalauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026I still think splitting the atom is the more significant scientific achievement but it's a little odd inventing a protein bar that doesn't taste horrible is taking a lot longer 84170095
Reposted by DaphnaAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026I think it is a good thing when a university is able to harbor and support forms of inquiry for which there is perhaps very little student interest but where there are clear scholarly reasons for its existence. I think doing so is actually integral to the identity of a “research” university. 1225
Reposted by DaphnaAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 27/09/2026If you say that the way to save humanities departments is to increase enrollment or majors, what you mean is that institutional investment should follow consumer choice: wherever students spend the most $ (sometimes we use the word “time” bc it sounds more polite) is where investment should flow. 1123
Reposted by DaphnaJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000. 151359304
Reposted by DaphnaIn Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes. 329184803865
Reposted by DaphnaArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 25/09/2026Feedback from healthcare providers in response to the AI pilot program has been scathing, with one calling it “a disgrace to the human race” and reporting that they saw patients crying in pain as they waited for care.arstechnica.comTrump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experimentVendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible." 36488322
Reposted by DaphnaPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison. 7978921406
Reposted by DaphnaFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026Being really enthusiastic about new technology and our scientific and technology industries was the USA’s brand for what, the entire 20th century? And seems like over the course of about 20 years, big tech and our abject failure to meaningfully regulate it has pretty successfully lit that on fire. 1042662
Reposted by DaphnaGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets. 206189145396
Reposted by DaphnaDr. Mikaila @mmlarthur.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Student research is a direct contributor to student success, ROI, and workforce development & cannot happen effectively without research-engaged faculty. But administrators seem to have lost track of that (& even of the fact that grants bring in money.) 052
Reposted by Daphnawhet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups 62429367
Reposted by DaphnaAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 23/09/2026This is a great piece that shows, in microcosm, how the right-wing is capturing the humanities in higher education and how private corporations like the College Board are going along with it. 17540
Reposted by DaphnaBrittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026You cannot run a museum like a business. Opening a museum is a quick way to lose a lot of money; but it's a great way to invest in scientific research and education in your community. But as long as museums, desperate for money and attendance, keep cosplaying as businesses, we'll lose more of them. 311124
Reposted by DaphnaJames Lamsdell, PhD @fossildetective.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Great thread discussing museum funding from the inside. The reason some universities are trying to divest from their museums is because they are beginning to treat each unit as an independent revenue generating entity. Museums cost money and therefore they WANT to cut them. 03111
Reposted by DaphnaJosh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Excited to team up with these amazing folks to talk about the moral, ethical, and pedagogical reasons to resist the use of AI in our classrooms. You can register here: olemiss.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 16924
Reposted by DaphnaJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026On the one hand, it's just dumb. Universities are, in fact, real, and they exist in the world. American universities employ about 3x as many people as there are active duty servicemembers, so if soldiers are "real," then so are academics. 328738
Reposted by DaphnaDoug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Yes! Image a future where parents put their kids in driverless cars to take them to school while they themselves get in different cars to go to work. Instead of one or two cars chaining trips, now you might have four separate cars making four separate trips. Would be a disaster at scale. 512424
Reposted by Daphnarax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 23/09/2026brad lander with the threatening parentheticals i love it king who're we doing labor law to next 663050
Reposted by DaphnaBen Werdmuller @werd.io · 23/09/2026When you connect a Waymo ride with a bus route, Waymo will pay your bus fare. Which is useful for two reasons: it helps them curry favor with city governments that might otherwise be wary of self-driving rideshares, and it gives them data about where to provide more cars to replace buses later.waymo.comIntroducing transit rewardsToday, Waymo is excited to announce our transit rewards program, which we will initially offer in the San Francisco Bay Area, with future cities to follow. This first-of-its-kind initiative rewards ri... 411230
Reposted by DaphnaQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The suggestion that the White House grounds are not subject to DC building codes opens up all kinds of new YIMBY possibilities. Bulldoze the White House and build single staircase high rise apartments 1015127
Reposted by Daphna🌅 Patricia Wallinga 🌇 @pwallinga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026THIS WAS MINE LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO 3194
Reposted by DaphnaFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026this really has been such a stupid loss of what was once one of the internet's purest pleasures 251698252
Reposted by DaphnaJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5. 527584
Reposted by Daphnaadam whalen, mph 🐳 @awhale.bsky.social · 22/09/2026vacant lot remediation is one of the most robust evidence-based interventions for community violence and neighborhood wellbeing that we know of. like UBI, it works literally everywhere it's implemented 412330
Reposted by DaphnaMark Histed @markhisted.org · 22/09/2026In the past five years #NIH created an on-campus lab to study neural development, exactly because NIH scientists anticipated that this research line will be important. This is an example of scientific judgement White House political appointees setting priorities are unlikely to have. 15014
Reposted by DaphnaAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026who benefits: oligarchs cuz AI is a political project, but who benefits also: corrupt trustees of universities hoovering public money to prop up tech companies with a diffusion crisis faculty need to connect the dots too; join us in chicago for a workshop! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...zeffy.comAgainst the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher EdWelcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire… 08517
Reposted by DaphnaAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026they are increasingly connecting the dots on who benefits when their cognitive capacities are stolen and the history of cultural production enclosed 220642
Reposted by DaphnaNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Another one that nobody wants but which would have hugely beneficial impacts: compulsory school district consolidation. 41045