Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberAAUP-NC Genuine Intelligence Project @ncaaupgip.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Please read and consider signing if you have not already! 0137 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberAAUP @aaup.org · 04/08/2026BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1 7715229 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberKai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“Seven days after the girl’s medical team infused trillions of viruses carrying the recipe for the base editor into her spinal fluid, she died of a severe immune reaction linked to the therapy…” This, in @science.org, is an important and tragic story. (It’s also an incredibly well reported one.) 🧪science.orgExclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made publicParents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals 614661 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Just finished my 3rd of 3 journal peer reviews in the past month-and-a-half--with a sprained wrist! Now if only reviewer 2 on my submission would finish the review they've been sitting on for the past three months! 030 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18/07/2026This was me in 2023, quoted in Nature. Now see how things are going. When will the academic community wake up collectively & notice what is done to our scientific eco system. Resits. Organize. Refuse to play along. Fight slop. Take principled stands. 🖋️ openletter.earth/open-letter-...openletter.earthOpen Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia 18343 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberBill Loveridge @bloveridge.bsky.social · 10/07/2026www.yahoo.com/news/politic...yahoo.comTrump administration proposal would 'all but end' scientific merit in grant funding, critics sayProposed in late May, the rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over federal grants for research, education and infrastructure. 0104 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberJenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Not happy might be an understatement. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/w...nytimes.comA Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy. 47930 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane Tobercarpenter22.bsky.social @carpenter22.bsky.social · 07/07/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... US appeals court strikes down key part of Florida law restricting campus race and gender discussionstheguardian.comUS appeals court strikes down key part of Florida law restricting campus race and gender discussionsRon DeSantis’s Stop Woke Act suffers another legal setback, with the state accused of ‘puppeteering’ 053 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comPalantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiativeThe defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar. 15926688 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Yeah, I've been wanting to get solar panels for ages but it will the take forever for them to be cost effective. 000 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Instead, Alabama Power charges a fee to homes with solar panels for being connected to the grid, to disincentivize their use. 110 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 12/06/2026www.chronicle.com/article/are-...chronicle.comOpinion | McCarythism Dressed Up as an Academic ReportWe should not be distracted by the bogeyman of social-justice scholarship. 000 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberNick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 12/06/2026This is revolting: The Trump administration is preparing to deport brave women fleeing Iranian repression to Central African Republic, an impoverished country in the middle of a civil war. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...nytimes.comWomen Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say 35936 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 11/06/2026americananthro.org/advocacy-sta...americananthro.orgSetting the Record Straight on Anthropology - American Anthropological AssociationThe Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences identifies anthropology as the single most extreme case of scholarly deterioration in the humanities and soc... 111 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/06/2026Another handful of sand in the gears: Researchers cannot serve on a panel *at all* if anyone from their institution has submitted to that panel. Recusing themselves for the proposal itself is no longer sufficient. This is needless, but will certainly slow things up even further.science.orgNSF imposes stricter conflict-of-interest rules for grant-review panelsResearchers say changes could further burden the understaffed agency 1320085 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberAndré Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Women, We Deserve Better Than This. Society’s approach to menopause and perimenopause reflects the deep flaws of a health system that has long treated women as an afterthought, by Melinda French Gates www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/o... via @nytopinion.nytimes.comnytimes.comOpinion | Melinda French Gates: Women, We Deserve Better Than This 23116 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 03/06/2026open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...open.substack.comWhat We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice 000 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberJohns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics @bermaninstitute.bsky.social · 02/06/2026New reproductive technologies are raising difficult ethical questions about risk, hope, and the future of medicine. playing god? podcast: “Losing Noah” (Pt 1): bioethics.jhu.edu/playing-god 143 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 02/06/2026How horrible! He's been so kind to engage with! 130 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 28/05/2026This is the destruction of federal funding for scientific research & universities as we know it. A total, comprehensive politicization of the process & an end run around Congress. 13470219 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberPhyllis Lee @pili-scotland.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Speaking as a “foreign” collaborator WTF? 075 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberAAUP @aaup.org · 18/05/2026The AAUP is committed to a higher ed system where universities are the engines of democracy & human flourishing—not silent partners in a reckless technological arms race that burns through public resources & weakens the very institutions needed for democratic society. ➡️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-ba... 212343 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberMother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/05/2026Where are the student protests? The real answer isn’t that students decided to shut up. It’s that universities and a hostile federal government have expended massive resources trying to ensure they do.motherjones.com“Where have all the student protests gone?”Trump wanted campus crackdowns. Colleges couldn't wait to oblige. 15321115 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberLisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 15/05/2026More university boards overruling the judgement of expert faculty 🤮 www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...theassemblync.comUNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Reject Hiring of Tenured Women’s Studies ProfessorThe rare move comes a year after the Board of Trustees delayed dozens of votes to confer tenure, sparking outcry from faculty. 21311 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 15/05/2026draimee.org/what-you-nee...draimee.orgWhat You Need to Know About Egg Donation with Dr. Diane ToberFertility anthropologist Dr. Diane Tober reveals the untold truths of egg donation: risks, compensation disparities, and how to protect donors' health and rights. 110 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 15/05/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY9A...youtube.comEgg Donation: What You Need to Know About The Price of Fertility with Dr. Diane ToberYouTube video by Egg Whisperer Show 000 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberMabs A'Mabbin @mabsamabbin.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I've heard this my entire life. You need to sit down and BE QUIET. Men don't like to hear anyone but themselves speak. 184 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane Tober19thnews @19thnews.org · 14/05/2026Doctors accused of inseminating their patients with their own sperm — without consent — rarely face legal consequences. While dozens of cases have become public across the U.S., few perpetrators have faced criminal charges or were forced to stop practicing. From @civilbeat.bsky.social:19thnews.orgA doctor was accused of fertility fraud. In Hawaiʻi, no law prevents it.The allegations expose a lack of accountability mechanisms in this state for doctors who use their sperm to artificially inseminate unwitting fertility patients. 11818 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberRutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 11/05/2026We proposed this before the Canvas outage, but we’d like to thank the Canvas hackers for driving home the need for this language: "Provided instructors are meeting accessibility and pedagogical needs, faculty shall NOT be required to use ed-technologu." Full proposal here: loom.ly/rBZQFeA 210640 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Never been on one and never will! Basically, my idea of hell! 020 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberAAUP @aaup.org · 01/05/2026“Red states are trying to outdo one another on who can create the most undemocratic, antifaculty legislation.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP Presidentinsidehighered.comNew State Laws Land Blows Against Shared Governance, TenureMany legislatures have wrapped up their regular sessions. Inside Higher Ed provides a rundown of major legislation that passed in nine of these states. 05229 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026More details on the firing of the National Science Board. The NSF now has no director, deputy director, or board. They have issued almost no new awards in 2026. The plan appears to be to completely destroyed the agency. The details are horrifying and have Russ Vought written all over them.insidehighered.comBoard Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s FutureThe White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte... 6821731329 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 28/04/2026The National Science Foundation is the main source of funding for basic sciences in the US. For decades, they have supported a scientific R&D ecosystem in the US that has been an engine of economic growth and competitive advantage. Destroying the agency is no less than an act of sabotage. 13854290 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberSociety for Personality and Social Psychology @spspnews.bsky.social · 27/04/2026💡Reminder: The proposed elimination of NSF's SBE Directorate would affect 63% of U.S. funding for social and psychological sciences. If you haven't had a chance to take action yet, our member guide has three quick steps you can take today: ow.ly/rwyq50YQAOM 074 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberMegan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026NEW from me: New restrictions on sexual orientation and gender identity at Texas Tech extend to student research @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...chronicle.comAt Texas Tech, Even Some Student Research on Gender Will Be BannedA ban on theses or dissertations about sexual orientation or gender identity has faculty worried about the consequences for graduate students — as well as future attacks on research. 25543 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberPhilip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 21/04/2026Outrageous. (Also, this figure makes a 33% drop look like a 105% drop) 2162 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberWashington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social · 15/04/2026The case for the liberal arts just got a lot stronger, writes @wildavsky.bsky.social.washingtonmonthly.comWhat AI Can’t DoAI may replace narrow technical skills, but the liberal arts equip students with the critical thinking employers increasingly demand. 194 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 15/04/2026“Silicon Valley would not exist without [taxpayer-] funded research.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...thenation.comHow Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists Into Exploited Gig WorkersTech elites are enriching themselves by plundering STEM institutions—and offering researchers scraps. 214757 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 13/04/2026These are the times of anti-science and anti-education courses at a University of all places ‼️ Shameful ad alarming ‼️ www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... cc @olivia.scienceproject-syndicate.orgAI Is Hollowing Out Higher EducationOlivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy. 1278 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/04/2026The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnittheguardian.comThe United States is destroying itself | Rebecca SolnitThe daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment 62622273 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberAAUP @aaup.org · 09/04/2026"Students should be free to make up their own mind, but in order to be free to do so, they must be exposed to different ideas. We can't just expose them to conservative ideology approved by the board of regents or the governor of Texas." — Martin Peterson, Texas A&M AAUP 05620 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberAshley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 30/03/2026STOP HB580 in Alabama:actionnetwork.orgSTOP HB580Dear UCW Members and Supporters, We need to write our representatives and urge them to vote NO on AL HB580 TODAY. HB580 places severe limits on Faculty Senates. It mandates post-tenure review, grant... 131 0
Reposted by Dr. Diane ToberAAUP @aaup.org · 23/03/2026If HB580 passes in Alabama, it will eviserate academic freedom in the state & shift all control over higher ed curriculum & tenure to partisan politicians. This bill isn't about accountability; it’s about censorship & the dismantling of intellectual independence, innovation & progress. 16634 0
Dr. Diane Tober @dianetober.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I spent 6 months there with my two young sons while conducting fieldwork in Isfahan in 2002, and went back and forth many times. Iran is one of my favorite places on earth and the Iranian people embody the meaning of hospitality. This insanity must stop! 010 0