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Erin Michaels

@erin-michaels.bsky.social
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Associate Professor UNC-Wilmington sociologist, race, education, immigration, neoliberalism, & the carceral state. PhD CUNY GC BOOK: nyupress.org/9781479823390/test-mea…

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Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‼️**JOB Alert**‼️ My Department is hiring an Assistant or Associate Professor of Criminology, UNC Wilmington. We are a Sociology/Criminology Department, the research area is open. jobs.uncw.edu/postings/40885
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Assistant or Associate Professor of Criminology
The Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor of Criminology position to begin Aug...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Fifteen years and i have never seen good evidence of this.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Resistance is growing.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We're hiring! Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics apply.interfolio.com/191508
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 16/08/2026
We should all be worried about "dynamic pricing." That's when companies change their prices in real time. If it's hot out, the cost of ice cream could go up. If it's cold, tea bags could go up. It's a way for giant companies to squeeze you even more.
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Rachel Porter @rachelporter.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
📢 JOB ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 Our department is hiring an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Political Science. We seek a scholar in AP, CP, PE, or IR who applies frontier methods of statistics and data science to substantive questions in their area of expertise. apply.interfolio.com/189477
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026
“The data indicates that 74.2% of North Carolina’s 143,998 private school students received an Opportunity Scholarship during the 2025-26 school year.” We’re living through the resegregation of US education. Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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Most NC private school students now get a taxpayer-funded voucher to pay costs
North Carolina now provides vouchers to nearly 75% of private school students, up from a quarter of pupils two years ago.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/07/2026
The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
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An artist brought 'I.C.E. pops' to a Texas campus. The show was shut down in days
The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus.
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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It's award season at NYU Press! We're taking a moment to celebrate all the recognition our authors and books have been receiving! Find out more on: buff.ly/vsapVze
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Wealth concentration was already way off the rails before Musk became a trillionaire. The wealthiest megabillionaires in the country have basically been doubling their wealth annually in recent years. Feels near impossible to maintain a liberal democracy in this kind of situation.
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
In a few years, will we read the same article about AI’s impacts on education? If AI is used to supplant kids’ social interactions, kids’ well-being will take a major hit.
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Opinion | We Liked Remote Work. Then We Looked at the Data.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The article ends with a list of very concrete, small steps scientists can take in everyday life to resist censorship
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The 3-Pronged Attack on Scientific Communication (opinion)
At the NIH, political appointees exercise extensive control over scientific communication, and research on health communication is under siege.
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Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Congrats Caddie!! This looks great!
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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
UNCW AAUP President Todd Berliner: “We don’t want politics and politicians interfering in the free exchange of knowledge in higher education — we don’t want politics and politicians deciding what programs universities have and what they teach.” Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...
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An NC university is eliminating the position of Gender Studies director
Dana Stachowiak’s leadership role will no longer exist, and the center will be brought under the university’s Interdisciplinary Studies umbrella.
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Dana Goldstein @danagoldstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Student cheating is becoming impossible to detect as some A.I. companies coach young adults on how to get away with it. Inside a new arms race: "humanizers" and "autotypers" face off against AI detectors. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...
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Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era
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Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Incredibly honored to share that my book, "Test, Measure, Punish," has been awarded the 2026 Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award by the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association!
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Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Incredibly honored to share that my book, "Test, Measure, Punish," has been awarded the 2026 Pierre Bourdieu Best Book Award by the Sociology of Education Section of the American Sociological Association!
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 09/06/2026
Nearly 1,000 non-tenured faculty at NYU walked off the job for two days this spring. Peter Cole reports that they returned with a strong first contract: minimum $14,000 raises, annual increases and long-term employment guarantees.
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The NYU Strike Showed How to Reverse the Downward Spiral in Higher Ed
By withholding their labor earlier this year, non-tenured faculty at New York University won major gains—and helped create better learning conditions for their students.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Inclined" is doing so much work here
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 05/06/2026
New reporting from @sanjosespotlight.com confirms ICE is building a detention camp in Gilroy, CA. A trusted source within the DHS contracting world told us that ICE is eying similar “greenfield” projects in the Southwest as the warehouse plan falters. We’re adding this to the tracker.
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Blueprints confirm ICE involvement in South County facility - San José Spotlight
The document illustrates plans for an ICE facility with detention areas, detainee processing areas, interview and holding rooms, spaces for mothers with infants, visitation rooms, weapons and ammuniti...
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Read all of this @sifill.bsky.social post. But this point seems to me especially important. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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The SCOTUS Project to Undo Voting Rights Protections is Nearly Complete.
The Supreme Court’s decision this week in Allen v.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 01/06/2026
"How have I accomplished this? For starters, I spend sixteen hours a day live-streaming my gym routine while simultaneously giving betting advice on overseas cockfights and state-sanctioned executions."
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At Long Last, I Have Maxximized My Looks
“At long last, I am a stone-cold seven, the kind of guy who could win a Jacob Elordi lookalike contest in a farm town with a population of 200.”
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
📢 Dr. Teresa Klein, President-Elect of Texas AAUP-AFT: “Our students understand that having academic freedom is the difference between a complete education that prepares them for long-term careers + civic engagement, and a state-sanctioned spoon-feeding...” 👏 aaup-texas.org/blog/f/stude...
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Students Hold Academic Freedom Funerals at Regents Meetings
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
There is not one organic Success Story among them, unless you count Rogan, who isn't really a pure product of the right-wing ecosystem but simply slotted himself into it because he's a meatheaded reactionary. It's all a money pit. Look at what the people putting up the money have gotten for it.
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Bat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
The stated cost of the Iran war ($25 billion so far) now exceeds the 2024 annual budget for USAID ($22 billion). What better summary of current US foreign policy? Trump and Elon left hundreds of thousands left to die of preventable illnesses, and spent the money on a pointless war of choice.
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What $25 Billion Spent on the War in Iran Really Means (Gift Article)
It exceeds the annual budgets of numerous federal agencies, and the Pentagon’s yearly budget for munitions.
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Louise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
84% of Iowa students taking public funding to attend private school have never been in public school
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Chenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
$900 million to pay companies to not do wind energy and $400 million for the ballroom, that’s $1.3 billion or ~1,300 3 to 4-year NSF awards.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
The story here is that Congress rejected Trump’s proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSF’s Future
The 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...
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
How to Build Power through a General Strike (and why #MayDayStrong is important even if it doesn't have a visible aggregate effect on the economic system in the US on May Day): danarfisher.com/2026/04/26/h...
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 27/04/2026
The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
fun fact: it's common these days, post publication of James Q. Whitman's oft-cited work, that the Nazis modeled their regime in part off of the example of the US. but the first half of Whitman's "Hitler's American Model" focuses on the US as a “global leader in racist immigration law”
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 14/03/2026
Is NBC really the only major news outlet covering this overtly anti-Muslim (and eugenicist) rhetoric from Trump and his Congressional cronies? www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

President Donald Trump has blamed the recent attacks on the “genetics” of the suspects.

“They’re sick people, and a lot of them were let in here. They shouldn’t have been let in. Others are just bad. They go bad. Something wrong. There’s something wrong there. The genetics are not exactly— they’re not exactly your genetic," Trump said in an interview with Brian Kilmeade that aired Friday on Fox Radio.Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., who had already faced backlash for an anti-Muslim post last month, wrote on X Thursday: “We need more Islamophobia, not less. Fear of Islam is rational.”

Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., said in a series of posts on Thursday that no country is “freer and safer because Muslims moved there,” and he called “immigration” a “national security threat.” Earlier this week, he wrote that “Muslims don’t belong in American society.”

Also on Thursday, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, called for “No more Muslims immigrating to America."

And Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., shared a post featuring a side-by-side photo of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim.Google News search for the story, showing coverage from NBC and a bunch of smaller outlets
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AAUP @aaup.org · 09/03/2026
Professors do not indoctrinate students in class but teach them how to think critically and openly. In the wake of SB 37, University of Houston has introduced syllabi "checklists" and "certifications" to prevent so-called indoctrination in the classroom. This clearly threatens academic freedom.
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Indoctrination fight raises tensions at University of Houston
Some professors push back after a five-page curriculum checklist was unveiled and several deans directed instructors to affirm that they don’t indoctrinate students.
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Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
In our latest, Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police www.patreon.com/posts/152641...
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Abolish ICE Means Abolish the Police w/ Mariame Kaba & Andrea Ritchie (03/09/26) | The Death Panel
Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/02/2026
I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...
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Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This Wednesday, 2/25 at 3 PM Eastern/noon Pacific! I'll be talking to the brilliant Cecilia Menjívar, of UCLA, about the gender and immigration policy and the impact of ICE enforcement on immigrant women and their families. Join us! stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Feminism in Theory and Practice featuring Cecilia Menjivar! Wed February 25th, 2026, 12-1PM PST.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Remember the moral panic about safetyism? Trigger warnings? Snowflakes? Well, its actually happening in Texas.
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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
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Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
ncnewsline.com/2026/02/09/p... A good 15 interview on where we are at in North Carolina with higher ed
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Professor Anneliese Mennicke of UNC Charlotte on the debate over academic freedom • NC Newsline
Professor Anneliese Mennicke of UNC Charlotte on the debate in higher education over academic freedom and why recent actions of North Carolina leaders have left many UNC faculty members deeply worried...
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Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Check out our book event this if you are in Wilmington this Friday! @profmarycollier.bsky.social and I will be discussing connections between our new books!
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 17/02/2026
Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Resistance by governor in Pennsylvania 👇
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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Democrats embraced *public school choice* Also no panacea & plenty of problems but there is public accountability. FWIW: as an expert on AI slop (along w all other profs & teachers), I’d bet some plasma this was written w ChatGPT. Fitting, because the evidence cited herein is of the same merit.
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Opinion | Democrats, It’s Time to Embrace School Choice
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Erin Michaels @erin-michaels.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Check out our book event this if you are in Wilmington this Friday! @profmarycollier.bsky.social and I will be discussing connections between our new books!
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Aaron Clauset @aaronclauset.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...
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CU signs $2M OpenAI deal for ChatGPT access
Students and faculty will gain access to ChatGPT Edu starting in March under a three-year deal.
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 14/02/2026
Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...
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