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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

What 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.

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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

No no you misunderstand. Learn to Code was the scam that beget the scam!

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Beginning to think these tariffs are a lot like that chapter I promised for your edited collection.

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Trump says he will delay tariffs on the EU until July 9, a reprieve from the threatened 50% levies set to go into effect on June 1

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/05/2025

the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Many students were recently admitted to Harvard (to various programs), and even if Harvard gets an injunction the students may choose to go elsewhere thinking it’s risky and the may end up having to transfer. Even if Noem loses in court it has caused irreparable damage, at least for coming year 1/

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

This was an amazing event: celebrating my excellent colleagues in the UIUC English Department 🥇🥇🥇 Maybe Shelley’s banned poem “England in 1819” was quoted 😭 Maybe the words “darkness” and “storms” came up a lot in the speeches ⛈️ But we are all still working very hard to do our best ♥️

LAS Dean Venetria Patton kicking off a named professor investiture ceremony for Janice Harrington, Curtis Perry, and Gillen Wood

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The Department of English at UIUC is hiring full-time Lecturers to teach composition: $58k to start, a 3/3 load, no service requirement, health insurance and other benefits! Positions are covered by a CBA (www.local6546.org), and come with support and notice rights. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025

these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

We're fundraising for our award-winning literary journal, Ninth Letter, and the challenge ends tonight! Please consider donating!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

From my counterpart U of I English Department head in Chicago, this is a must-read on public higher education, its joys and its current crisis.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny. Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19/02/2025

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/02/2025

This lab is steps away from the press—I park right by the building every day. The richest man in the world is destroying American livelihoods & ensuring our country lags far behind the world in research & innovation

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

There are already impacts on all of us since Trump closed USAID. This soy research lab is just one of many bad consequences for America.

Screenshot of a post from a professor at the University of Illinois who has to shutdown his soy research lab and fire 30 researchers because Trump eliminated USAID.

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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie! www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

Book cover for Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of U.S. Whaling by Jamie L. Jones. Yellow and black design features a whale, a barrel of oil, and ocean waves

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This has been a labor of love over the last two years w @weisenburg.bsky.social and the Emerson Society and we hope you like it! thedialjournal.org

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The Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

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JenniferJames100 @femmenoire.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

go.bsky.app/L1iEbVX

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Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

We at the Center for Advanced Study Climate | Change Initiative are very excited to host @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, who will be talking with us about infrastructure and climate change. If you're anywhere nearby, please come to the lecture this Wednesday 11/29 at 4pm! cas.illinois.edu/node/2844

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Untimely Infrastructure | Center for Advanced Study

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

Thrilled to announce this "hell-fired" book has arrived!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

next week! Capitalism, Climate, and Cultural Study Elizabeth Chatterjee, Stacey Balkan, Paul Downes, Jennifer James, and this dork

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 07/09/2023

Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.

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An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review

The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.

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