Reposted by Gemma SharpeJames Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I could do this all day, but you get the point(s). Trust in higher ed ≠ trust in Ivy Leagues. Budgets are moral documents and if you want to examine trust in higher ed, look at how states prioritize public higher education. 125244
Reposted by Gemma SharpeJames 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
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Admins wondering why there's a demographic cliff. 130
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Sunday Scaries but you're an academic and it's nearly the last week of summer... 🤢 041
Reposted by Gemma SharpeDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This should be self evident but clearly isn’t. From @lewisgoodall.com 414675
Reposted by Gemma SharpeEMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/20264. It's less fine to waste your expensive diverse cast by terrible screen-writing, giving them zero convincing characterization or attempt to make us care about the relationships, and tokenism. 13181169
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026“Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” 🔥🔥🔥 000
Reposted by Gemma Sharpeprofchander @profchander.bsky.social · 13/05/2026100 best novels of all time: 100. art 99. refuses 98. the 97. quantitative 96. logic 95. of 94. ranking . . . 1. giovanni’s room 0409
Reposted by Gemma SharpeMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP. 242052767
Reposted by Gemma SharpeMagic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026“Your budget is being illegally slashed with zero oversight, here’s why it’s your fault actually” articles are going wild these last few years 11707
Reposted by Gemma SharpeKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant. 31657521727
Reposted by Gemma SharpeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Ah. Thank you. I have also thought recently about the consequence of my argument, which was: higher ed was marketing a palatable version of femininity to counter culture war claims of deviant feminists. One consequence is coding “wine moms” as domestic terrorists — a hop, skip, and a jump. 212515
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Funny as my mind has been drifting to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's essay on Bama Rush the last few days. Beyond the gender prescience, how Rush is the perfect rightwing foil to real community-building. Rush "community" as self-interested, exclusive, hierarchical, tidy and aesthetically pleasing, etcnytimes.comOpinion | In Alabama, White Tide Rushes On (Published 2023) 1161
Reposted by Gemma SharpeHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 12/01/2026protip: to exclude economics journals from the search add "capitalism" 2494
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Could someone invent a "Private Equity Lookup" app so I can check whether the family run "since 1875" local business isn't in fact a subsidiary of Billionaires International LLC? Something like those barcode apps that tell you when your moisturizer is full of arsenic would be awesome, thanks. 030
Reposted by Gemma Sharpe Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 04/01/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK...youtube.comWoody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To LoseYouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand 0199
Reposted by Gemma SharpeNate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 11/12/2025someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning 7379117
Reposted by Gemma SharpeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025As I was just saying. They will scale up random “schools” based on market speculation and then close them down when demand wanes. Thats the plan. 764589
Reposted by Gemma SharpeSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025REPEAT AFTER ME (but really, after Neil Kraus): Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist. 215667
Reposted by Gemma SharpeHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 22/11/2025when i review an article charitably 0541
Reposted by Gemma SharpeDr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching 5245201434
Reposted by Gemma SharpeElisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History 181269363
Reposted by Gemma SharpeMarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 05/11/2025One anthropomorphic evolutionary event I didn’t see coming was the rise of the public utility and service sector into metaphorical powerhouses on social media, and I’m here for it 💯%! 09016
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025So rich to tell an indigenous artist that they're not taking up enough space... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...theguardian.comMáret Ánne Sara’s Turbine Hall review – did no one think to ask her for a little bit more?The Sámi artist may use reindeer skulls and bones, but her spiralling wooden fences are so slight they fail to impose themselves on the venue’s vast space – or the imagination 151
Reposted by Gemma Sharpeprofchander @profchander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025by the end of this class students will gain insight into u.s. history while developing their skills as composers of rap interpretations of major historical events 071
Reposted by Gemma SharpeProf Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 21/09/2025This is not OK www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...thelondoneconomic.comReform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletinsAstonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10. 611143
Reposted by Gemma SharpeJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2025It would be good if these kinds of retrospectives, as well as cultural coverage in general, included a look at the institutions' records in the political economy. Lowry's tenure included multiple rounds of bitter union action, including a 134-day strike in 2000, over low wages and poor healthcare.nytimes.comHe’s Left MoMA Smarter, Richer and at a Crossroads 18317
Reposted by Gemma SharpeColby Chamberlain @colbychamberlain.bsky.social · 17/09/2025I’m giving a talk at e-flux on Thursday 9/25, 7:30pm, “The Fluxhouse Cooperatives and the Future of the City.” The program will also include a performance of Maciunas’s “Solo for Violin” by Laura Ortman. www.e-flux.com/events/67832...e-flux.comGeorge Maciunas: Lecture and Performance - Events - e-fluxAn evening dedicated to George Maciunas, featuring a lecture by Colby Chamberlain and a performance by Laura Ortman of work by Maciunas. 0123
Reposted by Gemma SharpeAruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 22/08/2025If you have any lingering questions about how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social could be both African and Asian, I talked to four artists whose backgrounds echo his; and whose work involves telling such stories. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/a...nytimes.comFor South Asian Artists, Identity Doesn’t Fit in a Box 161
Reposted by Gemma Sharperyan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/08/2025it's related I think to how liberal funders and institutions are allergic to spending on progressive media (eg how CAP shuttered ThinkProgress). rather than invest in that kind of long-term project the money vanishes into the election consultant maw 1023721
Reposted by Gemma SharpeLauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts. 7670164
Reposted by Gemma SharpeDan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 31/07/2025If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool. 211099312
Reposted by Gemma SharpeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Second hand embarrassment causes me physical pain. Forgive my bluntness, but my pelvic floor sort of cramps when I see it. I watched 1/2 of Saved by the Bell with my eyes closed because Screech hurt my stomach. I’m basically bleeding out watching this ad. 2437523
Reposted by Gemma SharpeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/06/2025We are in a weird space. Expertise has to yield to populism to preserve the institutions that confer expertise but the market is using fake populism to juice every bit of profitable expertise before it all goes boom. Shorter: the managerial class, yo. 215417
Reposted by Gemma SharpeSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI. 6788269
Reposted by Gemma SharpeIlyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social · 25/06/2025oh no the bad guys can’t imagine doing anything societally responsible and ethically competent with one’s privilege it’s almost as if the quiet part is loud like the point of privilege is to hoard it and lord it over others huh weird 071
Reposted by Gemma SharpeOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants 113152082955
Reposted by Gemma SharpeRome @romanperry.bsky.social · 25/06/2025The average age of Apollo 11 Mission Control was 28 years old. The oldest was 36. 015430
Reposted by Gemma SharpePavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect. 352759769
Reposted by Gemma SharpeMatthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Facts. But instead of creating a narrative pitting faculty v. staff in terms of pay/ equity, the better narrative is faculty & staff on the same side v. administrators who are paid vastly better than both. Oh, & the exhausted assistant in this example works for & was hired by… administrators. 2191
Reposted by Gemma Sharpeceasar @portocan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I was fine with the protests against the king until they threw the tea into the ocean. 316832
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Got a first smile out of our newborn reading the Trump/Musk tweets out loud 030
Reposted by Gemma SharpeBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/06/202563% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership 21889552487
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Do yourselves a favor and read this article. The best satirists of British culture quaintness couldn’t have come up with better: www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comBrenda the buzzard terrorises children at Havering primary schoolPupils told to play indoors because of attacks by bird of prey, which follow strikes by hawk near Luton 110
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Or let’s try a bigger idea: we give proper support public libraries doing their best to provide research access and databases to the *entire* reading public? Not just private institutions and the current/former academic class 🤷🏻♀️ 1123
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025We dismiss the fruits and labor of culture and care little for intellectual property, creativity and expertise. 020
Reposted by Gemma SharpeShannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 26/05/2025After years of head-scratching, I think we all viscerally understand how (not necessarily why) the 1918 flu pandemic was memory holed. 9505113