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Finder of interesting internet avenues. Not a work account. #academia #art #ai

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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
This is an attempt to get pre/market share so students turned professional turn to Google AI offerings at scale
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Intriguing idea about the #union: remove #states and just leave the federal govt with local govt. Huge impacts on gerrymandering, supreme court appts, no electoral college ...
theconversation.com
A radical proposal to abolish state government and strengthen American democracy
What would the United States be without its states? A better, more democatic country, says one legal scholar.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Wow, thank you for sharing this! Very applicable to many as funding cuts hit everywhere
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
A better analysis would describe how we could reverse the cuts, not that they simply happened without an understanding.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
What is the contact hypothesis?
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Is it me or there's a lot more sudden #healthissues and #death around those you know personally and indirectly?
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
"The strong interpretation of this graph is that it’s exactly what one would expect to see if firms replaced young workers with machines ... the entry level of America’s white-collar economy would contract." #academia #work
theatlantic
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Move through what specific visas?
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
the actual contract and accepts state funds. There are many flaws with these ideas but it's time to get creative. They need a structure that causes mutual "pain," but at unequal social levels. Like no Big10 if tenure dismissed, etc.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
2/2 establish reciprocal tenure contracts with universities in other states, providing tenure at other universities to dismissed faculty. Start a campaign to make tenure dismissal more of an act of state govt censure, than job dismissal, removing some teeth Construct an intl body that holds ...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Just off the top of my head: require multi-state admin sign off and let the other states be blue with a MoU of not agreeing to revoke tenure; make tenure review operate at the entire university level, meaning tenure review is all or nothing for the entire school, instead of individual or politicized
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#harvard tenured 👩‍🏫 stepping up. Why can't the #Big10 do this with their compact. 👀 #UofM #academicsky www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/30/m...
bostonglobe.com
Tenured professors at Harvard pledge 10 percent of pay to fight for ‘academic freedom’ - The Boston Globe
“We are heartened by the University’s rejection of the Trump administration’s unlawful demands,” the letter said. “We also recognize that the University now faces severe financial damage for its defen...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I think the larger issue is that higher ed has been unable to think outside the box to either offer alternatives or even oppose
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
As state power emerges when federal bodies decline we'll see more profit making companies turning for #accreditation, #certification, and #validation from non-federal institutions. We're seeing in the #academic #Big10 defense compact and other moves. www.cidrap.umn.edu/vaccine-inte...
cidrap.umn.edu
Vaccine Integrity Project
CIDRAP's Vaccine Integrity Project is an initiative dedicated to safeguarding vaccine utilization in the U.S. so that it remains grounded in the best available science, free from external influence, a...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Exclusive: #DoD looking to replace Hegseth. From the article I can't tell if this was a failed attempt or if it is ongoing + a witch hunt reaction #NPR w the story www.npr.org/2025/04/21/n...
npr.org
Exclusive: The White House is looking to replace Pete Hegseth as defense secretary
This comes as Hegseth is again mired in controversy over sharing military operational details in a group chat.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
#This is what #mobilizing looks like over #organizing. good on your #Northwestern. I've said earlier that multiple states need to fund other state research, with rights to first acquisition or use of course, as a way to begin to replace federal funding while academia is still standing. #academicsky
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Emilie Caspar @emiliecaspar.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
New podcast now available on The Michael Shermer Show ! Very interesting discussion about why and how people follow orders, even when it involves inflicting severe harm on others. #Skeptic #Obedience #Academia #Neuroscience #michaelshermer www.skeptic.com/michael-sher...
skeptic.com
Why We Follow Orders: The Neuroscience of Compliance and Control
About this episode: Why do ordinary people carry out extraordinary harm when simply told to do so? From the Holocaust to the genocides in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Cambodia, history shows how obedience to ...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If #big10 wanted to get real they would pause #college sports, claiming budget deficits ...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
#arstechnica very eloquently disects and argued for collective action by university administrators. Tell the public about the importance of #science is only half the battle. Universities are experts in strategy and game theory ... they should respond. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
arstechnica.com
Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.
Opinion: It’s time for public resistance.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Big 10 finally strategizing. The thought: a mutual defense compact statenews.com/article/2025... #academicsky
statenews.com
MSU faculty join call for Big Ten 'mutual defense compact' against Trump administration - The State News
Under the compact, participating institutions would “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund” that would “provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution un...
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Dr. Andrew Chesnut @drdeathanddivinity.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
All universities and colleges need to join Harvard's rebellion! www.theguardian.com/education/20... #AcademicSky
theguardian.com
Harvard sets up showdown with Trump as more universities rally in support
President calls elite university a ‘joke’ and threatens to strip it of tax-exempt status as $2bn in funding frozen
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Is there a remote option or one planned? If not, then why?
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Even the US State department is alarmed
jacobin.com
Thailand Is Clamping Down on Critics of the Monarchy
Paul Chambers, an eminent US scholar of Thailand, has been arrested on charges of criticizing the Thai monarchy. Chambers is one of the most high-profile targets of a clampdown on dissent against the ...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
You're lucky the funding line hasn't been cancelled!
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Drinking while qualitatively coding is going to make your coding unreliable.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thinking of reducing the amount of #info available on you in this day and age?
privacyguides.org
Data Removal Services - Privacy Guides
Our recommended methods for removing your personal information from data brokers and people search sites.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Post the link as a hyperlink, sheesh #academicsky
nytimes.com
Obama Calls for Universities to Stand Up to Trump Administration Threats
As the Trump administration threatens universities, the former president suggested schools shouldn’t be intimidated. But he also offered a critique of campus culture, saying it had too often shut out ...
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Opportunities For Youth(OFY) @ofygh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
🚨 USAID project halted? Apply by April 14 for up to $200K from the Weiss Fund to revive your research: wp.me/p23f03-dHj #ResearchFunding #WeissFund #DevelopmentEconomics #USAID
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
#academia needs to respond collectively. Currently there's too many individual university stratagems.
inthesetimes.com
More Than 1,800 Academics Say They Will Boycott Columbia—and the Number Is Growing
Columbia's acquiescence to Trump was disgraceful. As faculty, we demand better.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Be specific. As a TA, RA, external, what kind of funding?
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
#globalwarming and your wealth
theconversation.com
Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals
To date, projections of how climate change will affect global GDP have been massively underestimated.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
That's awesome but only points to the first page of the article
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Wait, what's the topic?
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
So it's at the state level that which accreditation body is accepted, currently it's federal, but they could switch to a multi-state body instead.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
#layoffs
m.economictimes.com
The Hidden Hand: How a Chinese spy network is targeting former US officials laid off by Musk and Trump - The Economic Times
A network of companies linked to a Chinese tech firm has been attempting to recruit recently laid-off U.S. government employees. This campaign, uncovered by analyst Max Lesser, seeks to exploit the vu...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Could this be a chance for states to band together and establish a quasi national accreditation, based on what came before? That would beat waiting for another national accreditation body to come around.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Would this mean that existing accreditation bodies remain or do they require themselves reaccreditation that wouldn't be possible without DoE?
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
How people walk in crowds: in lanes or in choas! #MIT is there.
news.mit.edu
Mathematicians uncover the logic behind how people walk in crowds
Mathematicians studied the flow of human crowds and developed a way to predict when pedestrian paths will transition from orderly to entangled. Their findings may help inform the design of public spac...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Whoa, I haven't thought of that. There was talk about a national university, which implies some kind of national accreditation but probably not in the ways universities see themselves as being held to a standard by.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
What alternatives to the state model are there? There is no federal model. I'm afraid equity will become a state based phenomenon. But the real question is how can we make it equity even for states that don't make education a priority after DoE shutdown? That's the deeper question.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Rich americans hedging by securing long term #visas to other countries. What does this imply that non rich Americans should do? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
theatlantic.com
Americans Are Buying an Escape Plan
Is it time for a second passport?
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Also see this analysis from TechDirt. #academicsky Essentially, we're mostly in a descriptive phase of understanding but we need to move to a modeling phase so that we can learn effective action. Articles and posts like TechDirt are a great start. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/21/i...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
My take was slightly more positive, bsky.app/profile/kprk...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
What's wrong w #bluesky
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Geez, I need to break 50 followers.
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
#project2025 tracker at 41% What's "interesting" is that Germany fell in about 53 days, which for the US would be at about 3/14. But it's 3/21 and there are very large counterforces: stock reacting, non-whale crypto not trending, and a upwelling of protests. #wemustdomore www.project2025.observer
project2025.observer
Project 2025 Tracker
Track the progress on Project 2025
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Which #government?
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Laurens Swinkels @lswinkels.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Netherlands is trying to get American top researchers to move to the other side of the ocean! www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/... #academic #econsky #science
marketscreener.com
Netherlands creates fund to attract top foreign scientists
The Netherlands is setting up a fund to attract top foreign scientists to the Netherlands, Education Minister Eppo Bruins said in a letter to parliament on Thursday. Bruins did not...
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What's the take away?
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KPR @kprkpr.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Wait, didn't they detain the researcher? That is very different from denying
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