Reposted by Kelly UndermanDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As recently as September, SBE's website proudly declared that it supported 63% of all research in US social and psychological sciences and worked to "creat[e] opportunities everywhere." Now, that message is gone. 113333
Reposted by Kelly UndermanNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.thecut.comThe Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual ViolenceThe “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail. 221264474
Reposted by Kelly UndermanDaniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Very excited: Cornell Arts & Sciences seeks up to 5 postdoctoral scholars working on AI and the humanities/social sciences. Not involved in selection but could serve as a faculty sponsor if you are working on topics related to ~"how to do social science in the age of AI." Happy to chat.academicjobsonline.orgCornell University, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships Job #AJO32791, Postdoctoral Associate, AI in Social Sciences & Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US 11715
Reposted by Kelly UndermanDana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026New ACLU and Amnesty International report on repression on American campuses www.aclu.org/publications...aclu.org"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers... 111871
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The only sad thing about how beautiful NZ currency is is that I didn't even take any cash out in 2024 when I was there for over three weeks because the digital payment infrastructure is so good. 000
Reposted by Kelly UndermanJesse F Ballenger @jfballenger.bsky.social · 11/09/2026As we remember the 9/11 attacks, this sobering report from the Brown University Cost of War Project is required reading.costsofwar.watson.brown.eduOVERVIEW: The True Costs of the Post-9/11 WarsThe Costs of War Project has created this resource that compiles our past research to provide an overview of the costs of the U.S. post-9/11 wars. The “post-9/11 wars” refers to United States-led mili... 101
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026My program is hiring! www.haverford.edu/provost/news...haverford.eduTenure-Track Assistant Professor of Health StudiesHaverford College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Health Studies, to begin Fall semester of 2027. 021
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Surprise enshittification of academia: journal websites are now primarily all AI, making reaching a human almost impossible. Journals, I’m begging you, make sure there is an easy to find and accurate email address for your editorial office on your website. 010
Reposted by Kelly UndermanNBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 09/09/2026Charlie Kirk’s nonprofit Turning Point USA’s Professor Watchlist, which claims it uncovers the most radical left wing professors from universities that are known to suppress the conservative voices and advance the progressive agenda," has been taken down.nbcwashington.comTurning Point USA's Professor Watchlist is down. Instructors describe its impactThis week marks one year since the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. While the nonprofit he created, Turning Point USA, is still working to engage young conservative voters ahead of the m... 31650168
Reposted by Kelly UndermanMelissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 08/09/2026a gorgeously astute read on Gloria, by @reproutopia.bsky.social:patreon.comEight theses on Gloria Steinem, because goddamn | Sophie LewisI think the phrase we’re looking for is social-democratic anticommunism. She was a metonym of the 20th century, which is currently dying. Sh 48633
Reposted by Kelly UndermanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales] 7451431656
Reposted by Kelly UndermanLaura Mauldin @lauramauldin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026My fabulous dept, the Dept of Social & Critical Inquiry @uconn.bsky.social is hiring a Dept Head! Thrilled bc many of us worked across our interdisciplinary units for years to create this new dept that values critical & public scholarship. Come be my colleague!!! jobs.hr.uconn.edu/en-us/job/49...jobs.hr.uconn.eduUConn Careers | UConn Careers | University of Connecticut 0107
Reposted by Kelly UndermanJen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...ysph.yale.eduUniversal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study ProjectsA single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it 595165447121
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026But also recently I was reflecting on how to explain to young people today that the Internet used to come on a CD to use on a desktop computer that lived in a special room in your house and it was better that way. 000
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The first time I felt the generation gap with my students was realizing none of them remembered life pre-9/11. This one is hitting me a lot harder. 100
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Talking to my students, it's kind of blowing my mind that we are rapidly approaching a generation of young people who don't remember life pre-COVID. 100
Reposted by Kelly UndermanJ. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 07/09/2026"A world where there is no N.S.F. funding for social science, but where the A.I. industry funds research... will skew public debate. To navigate the shock waves of A.I., we must restore social science research as an enterprise that starts from the public interest." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Can’t Know Our A.I. Future if We Don’t Study ItJust as A.I. is poised to change the world, we’re losing our best ways of studying what that change will look like. 12917
Reposted by Kelly UndermanMartha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026“ Disposable” workers… Concierges, adjunct professors, potato chip tasters: US employers are relying more and more on ‘disposable’ workers theconversation.com/concierges-a...theconversation.comConcierges, adjunct professors, potato chip tasters: US employers are relying more and more on ‘disposable’ workersAbout 1 in 3 US workers are in this predicament. 034
Reposted by Kelly UndermanNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I take back what I said about the US having a low rate of rabies in humans. The infrastructure actually is just *so* bad that we have severely underestimated the problem. 0123
Reposted by Kelly UndermanLois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026AAUP's report on AI shreds her arguments. The site also offers great tools to address its imposition. www.aaup.org/issues-highe...aaup.orgArtificial IntelligenceThe uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope... 051
Reposted by Kelly UndermanJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do. 301027239
Reposted by Kelly Undermanertruitt.bsky.social @ertruitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132apply.interfolio.com Apply - Interfolio {{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio 02636
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is especially appalling because rabies is virtually always fatal if treatment isn’t received quickly. 170
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026First week of teaching at my new job down! I’m so happy to be here. 000
Reposted by Kelly UndermanVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 03/09/2026When, in January 2025, I wrote that the Trump administration was segregationist folks said I was exaggerating. I would have *loved* to be wrong about this but the unfortunate evidence remains on my side. This is just racism, pure and simple.nytimes.comTrump Moves to Strip Tax Exemption From Schools That Aid Minority Students (Gift Article)The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools. 12763288
Reposted by Kelly UndermanDan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Zero sociology awards from the NSF. It's effectively gone. (Including, but not limited, to the ASA Dissertation awards.) 48144
Reposted by Kelly UndermanTiffany J. Huang @tiffjhuang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026🚨 Job alert 🚨 The Department of Sociology at Ohio State University is hiring: 1) Asst prof in tech and society 2) Assoc or full prof in social stratification osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers?q... should pull up both openings Happy to answer questions. 11615
Reposted by Kelly UndermanRandi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 13/08/2026This is a huge victory for higher education & academic freedom. The Trump administration has weaponized legitimate concerns about antisemitism to advance his agenda on campus. I’m glad the judge saw this for what it was and dismissed the case. @aaup.org www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...nytimes.comJudge Dismisses Trump Administration’s Antisemitism Case Against Harvard (Gift Article)The government argued the university had not done enough to combat antisemitism during campus protests. A judge called the incidents “isolated and episodic.” 19331
Reposted by Kelly UndermanDana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 14/08/2026After Alex Pretti was shot while peacefully witnessing during the immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the US government did not investigate his murder; they investigated groups that were supporting efforts to witness and document, calling them agitators. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...nytimes.comU.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes. 16248872264
Reposted by Kelly UndermanDaniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 08/08/20264. The academic job market has been awful and mostly getting worse since I've been an academic, and especially the last few years, and I really feel for all the people who are trying to find jobs and I feel bad that mostly what I can offer as advice is "try not to take it personally." 1313
Reposted by Kelly UndermanDan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026New study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching 61785451
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I am also thrilled to have become the custodian for M.Bodiment as incoming chair of @asabodyembodiment.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Kelly UndermanDana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Drawing attention to the ways the Democratic Party is attacking its own is important, but these local progressive wins should be teaching us a lot more about how to leverage people power to win. Read all about it here: danarfisher.com/2026/08/08/t...danarfisher.comThere’s Something Happening Here…With the outcome of Tuesday’s primary elections, progressive democratic candidates have accumulated a large number of wins against centrists in the Democratic Party. While much of the public … 58320
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026We celebrated ten years of the Sociology of Health Professions Education Collaborative hosting gatherings alongside ASA last night with a great turnout and a delicious cookie-cake. 021
Reposted by Kelly UndermanSophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 10/08/2026new course up (on the relation between family policing abolition and family abolition), it's quickly selling out though, so act fast if you want to participate: thebrooklyninstitute.com/items/course...thebrooklyninstitute.comFamily Policing: Welfare, Surveillance, and Abolition - Brooklyn Institute for Social ResearchNowhere—as the women’s liberation movement used to relentlessly point out—is more dangerous for a child than the family. In the ’70s, a wave of feminist, child-liberationist consciousness-raising blew... 1205
Reposted by Kelly UndermanAAUP @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
Reposted by Kelly UndermanErin J. Wamsley 🧠📈😴 @wamsleylab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: Vanderbilt's board just launched a horrifying assault on academic freedom that threatens the legitimacy of their university. 1/x #AAUP #academicsky #eduskyinsidehighered.comVanderbilt’s Board Declares War Against Academic FreedomA new policy punishes faculty for speech the trustees deem strays from the core purpose of the university. 13199163
Reposted by Kelly UndermanRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Abdul El-Sayed was outspent 9-to-1 by AIPAC and corporate Super PACs in the most expensive Senate Democratic primary of all time. Last night, he proved that organized people can beat organized money. 708181735084
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026It causes me to pass up requests I otherwise would have accepted with more time. 000
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I’m noticing a new phenomenon of questions (such as requests for extension) to journal editorial offices going unanswered. Is it my email (ugh outlook) or is something broader happening? This has been multiple journals. 100
Reposted by Kelly UndermanTim Longman 🏳️🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.govinfo.govGovInfoOfficial Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office. 7145170
Reposted by Kelly UndermanMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 09/07/2026The US no longer has a refugee program. There are many nouns to accurately describe a whites-only visa, but ‘refugee program’ is not one of them. Congress created and sustained our refugee program with bipartisan support over generations. Now Congress allows one person to simply terminate it. 0214113
Reposted by Kelly UndermanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch. 11886905493
Reposted by Kelly UndermanBecky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 07/07/2026University of Illinois is hiring an epidemiologist to work on climate, weather, and health problems in collaboration with IDPH! 🛟 #episky I am part of the broader group - we hope to develop applied tools for local climate adaptation and extreme weather preparednessuisystemoffice.csod.comVisiting Project Manager, Epidemiological and Analytical Support (Hybrid)Lead epidemiological research and analysis to examine relationships between climate, weather, and health outcomes?using primary and secondary researc... 028
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Making plans to see friends is the most fun and most stressful part of conferences at my career stage, which is wild. 000
Kelly Underman @kellyunderman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026New position as of July 1: Associate Professor and Director of Health Studies at Haverford College 🎉 110