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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's a $96,318 fine for being raped.

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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW - Conservative orgs are filing records requests by the dozens at public universities, demanding documents from climate researchers. @lesleyclark.bsky.social @corbinhiar.bsky.social & I have uncovered more than 100 requests, a campaign targets/allies say is an effort to derail climate litigation

politico.com

Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers

A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.

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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

I’m not saying you should read this—it’s not very good. However, I just thought this section head in particular deserved widespread ridicule. www.vox.com/politics/504...

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fry69 @fry69.dev · 28/09/2026

"We, really, really, really want our tech oligopoly be secured by government regulation."

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Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Imagine living in a rich country that doesn't want highly educated people and blames their employment opportunities on being over educated instead of creating jobs based on highly specialized knowledge. This is such wild propaganda.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Send this to every university President in the country.

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Marta Zboralska @marta-zboralska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Why fund digitisation projects when we can just ask OpenAI to do it. What could go wrong!

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Lembas Eater @waybread.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with education is that it's a solved problem. Students need small classes, individual attention, lots of writing, lots of feedback, access to a well-stocked library, time to think, and time to talk with their peers. We just don't like the answer, so we keep trying to do other stuff.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 23/09/2026

"There's no 'getting out of' a meeting. You must receive all information in a live discussion, because it is impossible to understand meeting matters through email. No combination of written words could possibly convey the meeting’s complex concepts about the job you do every day." buff.ly/k2hhGaM

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We, Your Gracious Meeting Overlords, Are Giving Fifteen Minutes of Your Time Back to You

“With this bountiful amount of time, we hope you choose to hydrate, eat, catch up on sleep, stand up for the first time in four hours, address your rapidly d...

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bring back RSS www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Traffic to news sites is plummeting in the U.S. as tech giants steer people away from search and toward AI.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 22/09/2026

“Financial Stability Strategies Across Campus FY 2027,” a document emerging from UC Irvine provost’s office. Stuff of nightmares and very much the same playbook as UCLA. What are we even doing here? It has gotten so hard to just…do my job. archive.org/details/UCI-...

archive.org

UC Irvine: Financial Stability Strategies Across Campus FY 2027

This is a copy of the University of California, Irvine (UCI) document, Financial Stability Strategies Across Campus for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027. It is on the letterhead of the UCI Office of the Provost ...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"We're uprooting fraud by getting rid of these freeloaders who keep paying into the system without taking anything back out" Genius.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Eric basically asked "Why are you so big on criticizing universities publicly but not the administration?" The response was...lacking.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you read the replies you’ll see that Pinker was always a race science supporter, it’s just that nobody paid any attention. Maybe we should start noticing when celebrity scientists are fans of pseudoscientific ideas, and adjust our opinion of their competence accordingly

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 17/09/2026

I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

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Ian Linkletter @linkletter.org · 16/09/2026

A lawsuit has been filed against Padlet, alleging they share student data in real time to 160+ third parties (including data brokers, Meta, and Google). Padlet is heavily used in K-12 as well as higher education with students who have no choice. Read the complaint: drive.google.com/file/d/1OGPe...

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Padlet Lawsuit.pdf

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Policymakers don't need to understand theory of mind debates to legislate blah blah blah" no, but I think it's helpful for anyone thinking about *rhetoric* to understand how this lens emerged and how it's being wielded. "AI" is a technology that exploits mental abstractions, so yeah, it matters.

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Nicole Pagowsky, Ph.D. @nope4evr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

nice “My Milkshake Brings All the Baudrillard”

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Trump's attacks on US higher ed, and Chinese scholars in particular, has been a gift to China's efforts to surge past the US on science and innovation. One report from Renmin University summed it up: "Thank Trump." 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

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China: “Thank Trump”

The big winner of Trump’s assault on higher ed is America’s chief geopolitical rival

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Palestinian folk songs do more than entertain, they document occupation in real time. Serena Rasoul launches the Palestinian Folk Music Archive: a free digital collection of 800+ songs gathered from Palestinian families everywhere. Yezen Saadah reports: www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1659...

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 15/09/2026

I have to write down agendas of meetings I take and with whom while traveling for work. Even though it’s per diem when international. A non-academic then spends time deciding whether or not I was engaging in academic work while traveling for work. I bet if we cost it out, per diem costs less.

chronicle.com

Opinion | Higher Ed’s Middle-Manager Problem

It’s time to get serious about administrative bloat.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

i'm not sure if robert kraft quite grasps what he started

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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“The issue has surpassed any local organisation’s capacity. We need large-scale water bombing and skilled firefighters.” “The orangutans need the forest. What are we studying if the orangutans are all gone, and the food they have is all gone? They can’t survive without that forest.” 🧪🐒🦊🏺🌏

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Indonesian wildfires threaten leading orangutan research site in Borneo

Critically endangered Bornean orangutans flee forests as staff at Cabang Panti work round the clock to stave off blaze

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Finding information and knowing things are different

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is just preliminary data (final numbers will be released at 4 pm), but the '60 Minutes' premiere averaged 7.7 million viewers and 1.5 mill in the 25-54 demo, down 19% and 33%, respectively, compared to last season's debut. This marks the lowest-rated premiere this century, if the numbers hold.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

reporters werent “barred” from recording, the powerful people they are covering asked them not to record and they immediately complied and hid whats happening from their audience

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 15/09/2026

When you want to boycott Ed Sheeran and Pink but you already don't listen to shitty music

Depressed kermit the frog costume guy sitting hunched over on a park bench

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 15/09/2026

This is partly an LLM problem and partly an organizational problem. The LLM makes life much, much easier for everyone who wants to just pretend, and much, much harder for everyone who doesn’t.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wrote last week that true journalism is the act of stopping powerful people from being able to blatantly lie unchallenged. This is what true journalism looks like: showing when the authorities are lying through their teeth.

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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

CIDRAP: Repeat COVID infections tied to higher odds of new health conditions by Laine Bergeson @cidrap.bsky.social bit.ly/4cBiPop bit.ly/4hnxGVd

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

same vibe

ExxonMobil works to create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026

lol the vibe shift in AI hype feels like a ploy by U.S. tech bros to permanently keep out competitors. They are cosplaying concern so they can "regulate" their competitors out of existence. It's not about safety. It's about money.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The policy changes "included eliminating all references to tenure in school policy, changes to the academic calendar, reducing access to specialized classes and transferring authority over curriculum from faculty experts to administrators." www.kosu.org/usao-regents...

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Regents at Oklahoma liberal arts college approve major policy changes, despite protest

The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma Board of Regents made major policy and structural changes on Thursday. Hundreds of people watched, urging them to reconsider.

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh this is interesting! Climate scientist @leahstokes.bsky.social shows that candidates who talk about climate change *get a bump in preference from voters*. "Common knowledge" is that climate is a losing issue, but this survey shows the opposite is true: voters care. mailchi.mp/9af4ccd3280e...

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Climate action comes in waves

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) protects mathematics as a human endeavor against the threat of artificial intelligence." www.ahmath.org

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AHM

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

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Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds

A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.

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