Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 8hTrying to understand homework solutions can feel a bit like biblical textual analysis. "Are these two solutions copying from each other or from an unknown common source? Are they adapting an oral tradition which is being corrupted over time?" 060
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I feel this could be a reaction gif to something 000
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, the Song of Roland, Don Quixote, Finnegans Wake, Mrs Dalloway: no. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats: yes 100
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In a victory for something, I suppose, Simone de Beauvoir gets in but not Sartre or Camus. Of course it was certain this crowd wouldn't take Euripides 100
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Of course the very predictable problems with such a list have immediately appeared. There is one (1) author from Asia outside the Near East, zero from sub-Saharan Africa, but they did find space for both John Calvin and Martin Luther 100
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 05/10/20262/3 of readings from a list of 40 authors, one half from fifty, 75% from a hundred... they're just making up numbers at this pointinsidehighered.comUT Approves List of 50 Authors for Gen Ed CourseJane Austen, Frederick Douglass, Adam Smith and Søren Kierkegaard made the cut. 120
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I think people underappreciate how many science faculty started off this administration imagining that they might be ideological fellow travelers 060
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026(in other words a lot of people thought we could negotiate a separate peace from universities as a whole) 010
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Well, to be honest, a fair number were engaged in wishful thinking ("they won't touch the hard sciences surely") or agreed with culture war critiques ("if only APS hadn't made a diversity statement, we could have avoided this") 140
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Trying to guess the Crank Level of this before taking a look 021
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is why universities are intolerable to this movement 001
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026had a first experience of data only available on IPv6 and that was interesting 010
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think there is some evidence to suggest that most politicians are not actually good at running large organizations 110
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This may be unfair, but I'm morbidly interested in whether certain Cornell faculty are as worked up about this as they were about the encampments 7705120
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026We made a bit of a bargain with the devil by selling the sciences as being technology precursors and as having rigorous evaluation metrics, unlike Those People There 071
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I've been thinking recently (in the wake of similar discussions in math regarding AI) that the practice of the "hard sciences" is a lot more humanist than generally let on 1213
Reposted by Peter OnyisiDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is basically an internecine feud between two sets of conservatives -- University of Austin types vs. Iowa political appointees -- over who controls a center imposed on campus despite local faculty opposition. And the U Austin types are shocked, shocked by the lack of faculty (their) input. 512625
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My Nigerian take on American education is, we were learning fractions in third grade without electricity and in classes of 40+ 010
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Great way to make managers happy but not actually a good way to run an organization effectively 000
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It seems pretty clear that one big cause of problems across society is an increasingly dictatorial management culture where underlings are not permitted to talk back 110
Reposted by Peter OnyisiAnd-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 17/09/2026lol at this chart and the disclaimer 30957180
Reposted by Peter OnyisiJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 16/09/2026But that's no more true than imagining that trust in electoral security dropped in 2000 because of some objective failing of electoral institutions. Trust in the press and academia has declined because other institutions have found it profitable to wage a campaign meant to achieve that effect. 210115
Reposted by Peter OnyisiAustin Anthem @austinanthem.org · 14/09/2026With tonight’s 1-0 win over Rapids 2, Austin FC II are the regular season MLS NEXT Pro Champions! Austin FC II will host the first ever MLS NEXT Pro playoff match in Austin in a few weeks. 0205
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I'm always a sucker for a CFF videoyoutu.beGenève – Visite 3D de la gare souterraine.YouTube video by SBB CFF FFS 010
Reposted by Peter OnyisiAAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Chaos and authoritarianism at UT Austin. Faculty have just days to show how their courses meet vague requirements of breadth and foundationalism. Proposals will be reviewed by an unspecified entity. No guarantee at all that those who review the proposals have expertise in the field. 15538
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026My main memory of Vienna main station is the repeated reminders that arriving trains were late due to German incompetence 000
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026so the actual problem with long distance trains in Europe is you can be booked on an Austrian Railways train from Basel to Amsterdam on a day when all train service is cancelled in the Netherlands and you're left wondering who knows what they're going to do about it 100
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Social Sciences Collegiate Division stop being embarrassing challenge 000
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Concluding that academic administrators aren't any better at predicting the future then anyone else 010
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026By the way UT just decided that it was going to migrate to using this, great job everyone 000
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I, for example, am one of these people. It could happen to you, go check 031
Reposted by Peter OnyisiJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 27/08/2026Someone told me today they don’t need to defend academic freedom in “easy” cases like in Texas or at West Point because everyone knows they are bad so they only speak up about “hard” cases like Cofnas. I said it sounds like you’re only willing to defend racism and they made a face and walked away 🤦♂️ 439473
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026So this is an *actual* academic freedom issue: an expert, raising a concern internally on the curriculum in their area of expertise, getting terminated for it 084
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Chat, is it bad when a bridge between two new-ish engineering buildings is cordoned off for an extended period of time 100
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Move to require all faculty job applicants to write an essay on the film "Rope" 000
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Hard to read as other than "I could see myself in this situation" 040
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Hopefully enough BA/AA options to make something work? 110
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026As a Chicago alum, this is a really poor imitation of that institution's Core; this proposed UT version somehow manages to require more credits and provide less breadth 000
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026static.klipy.comAce Attorney Phoenix Wright: Objection!Alt: Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright: Objection! 100
Peter Onyisi @peteronyisi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026British Literature can split the baby by teaching Dubliners (1914) but not Finnegans Wake (1939) 010