Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities. 1226140
pkatlas.bsky.social @pkatlas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Messi lowkey playing in easy mode in the MLS. 000
pkatlas.bsky.social @pkatlas.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Just 15 years after the Arab Spring, it's striking how the role of Twitter—and social media at large—in politics is completely reversed. 176
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There was a bloom of stories maybe ten years ago about older professors creating problems for the job market by not retiring, and just checking in now to point out that they’ve since retired and almost none of their jobs continue to exist. 1041271
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialMarc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The safety profile of the vaccines does not rest on a single FDA algorithm. The BMJ article raises questions: could some signals have been detected earlier? That's worth asking. The surveillance method had flaws; the conclusion is not that the vaccines were unsafe. 6/6 084
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.sociallindsey adler @lindseyadler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026me winning a game of clue: janus films doing limited theater run of cameron winter at carnegie hall shot by paul thomas anderson on 70mm 0232
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026US policymakers must avoid the temptation to rebuild US science by mimicking China and going all in on STEM. That would be a mistake. We also need social science and humanities that makes sense of great technological change like AI. Thats part of US scientific tradition worth keeping. 520048
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialChemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I don't need to say this, but it's obvious to me: this dramatic drop can be laid at the feet of the Trump Administration. The impacts, I predict, will be dramatic, bad and only visible 5 to 10 years from now at the earliest.* *it's falsifiable, but quite a ways from now 0259
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026If the right wing can bully you into taking a position for cynical reasons how can you be trusted more generally? It’s fundamentally a power dynamic less about winning votes and being savvy and more about weakly conceding ground to your opposition. 1246
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Righteously argued essay here. Triangulation also demonstrates a fundamental lack of conviction and sincerity — once you do it you can’t get that credibility back with attentive voters. 15510
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialCosta Samaras @costasamaras.com · 13/09/2026This will be bad for: - the students - the research progress - the universities - the towns the universities are in - the companies hiring students - the states the universities are in - the national economy - national security - the country - the world 23934305
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below. 145136934892
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialAlex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.nsf.govNSF leadership in a new golden age of scienceThe U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has... 8322169
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Schools are not a business and a student is not a customer and this is the framing that encapsulates everything wrong with higher education. The “solution” of running universities like businesses rather than a public good was always the problem. 11386112
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There were many ways in which the US and its allies could have responded to the horror of 9/11. But by building extreme security states, launching pointless forever wars and restricting domestic dissent, successive governments inflicted more harm on their nations than the terrorists could have done. 671571377
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The enshittification of the National Science Foundation will go down as one of the greatest moral injuries I've experienced in my career. 825470
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialIn Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 08/09/2026inpreparation.substack.com40% Of PhD Now Spent Selecting ‘All Squares Containing Bicycles’BALTIMORE, MD—A study published Tuesday in PLOS ONE found that approximately 40% of doctoral training is now spent confirming the researcher is not a robot, primarily through the selection of squares… 07020
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026a lot of people want to believe that right-wing beliefs are rooted in some legitimate material grievance. that makes it easier to imagine that if we simply solved the material problem, they’d deradicalize. but they won’t, because they aren’t disillusioned, they’re just morons. 965065850
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialAndre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Kind of crazy that you see a post about the "ASU scandal" and you have to read on to see which one from the past week they are talking about 131
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The media gave more coverage to a totally fake, invented idea that the federal government was withholding aid to Hurricane Helene victims in 2024 than to Trump actually doing it in 2025/26. Why did the fake story get more coverage than the real one? 653133938
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 01/09/2026a remarkably effective life hack: just be nice to people it's incredible how much goodwill people will extend to you if you're pleasant to them 7353261050
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialSean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The median homebuyer age rose to 59 in 2025 from 39 in 2005. #EconSky 19523154
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026The one RE sector that is booming regardless of larger macro trends: solar+storage. Solar+storage is the way, the truth, and the light.about.bnef.comRenewable Energy Investments Show One Booming Sector | BloombergNEFRenewable energy investment held steady in early 2026, as record spending on co-located solar and storage offset declines in standalone projects. 319143
pkatlas.bsky.social @pkatlas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The future of many US colleges that are feverishly cutting TT faculty lines and the support staff. 000
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 25/08/2026the thing is like public health child literacy civil rights social justice rural poverty once you personally have become rich and successful, those things only matter if you still have the capacity to care deeply about people outside your immediate circle and that is harder than becoming rich 44604834
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today. 226395097143
pkatlas.bsky.social @pkatlas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Looking forward to the @beetlemoses.bsky.social comic where a sprinter crosses the finish line triumphantly, only to be smashed to smithereens when they hit the wall. 000
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/08/2026Sometimes society at large rejects certain ideas because they’ve been thoroughly shown to be wrong and also because they suck and the people who espouse them suck and when someone comes around arguing those ideas should be part of some edgy modern debate we can and should shun them and move on. 7166911358
pkatlas.bsky.social @pkatlas.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I am sorry but how does every single article about Cofnas not lead with this? This guy was clearly motivated by revenge againt Cambridge and a sense that a black person was occupying a position he deserved. www.bbc.com/news/article... 100
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialRude Law Dog @esghound.com · 23/08/2026Texas A&M fired a professor for giving a lecture about gender. No one is buying the academic freedom bullshit from the skull measuring crowd. Fuck off 21068176
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialroterote @roterote.bsky.social · 22/08/2026A lot of people are asking me how Nathan Cofnas was hired, UGent professor Bouke de Vries invited him to UGent. Bourke and Cofnas are part of the same global network to mainstream eugenics and far right academics. Of course funded by Peter Thiel and other rich far right activists.bylinetimes.comThe Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason ArdayThe media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network 141486463
pkatlas.bsky.social @pkatlas.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Honestly a great list of Who's Who of the people who are sitting next to you in the faculty meeting who might have fascist sympathies. 000
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialWill Li @williamlidc.bsky.social · 22/08/2026If this were a game of Civ, the American University System (20th Century) would be a Wonder that is basically a cheat code to either a culture victory or a science victory 510722
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialAndre the Chemist @andrechemist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The rush to cram new technology into education IMMEDIATELY has really taken off in the past 10 years or so (MOOCs anyone?) The idea that we need to jump on new tech "or be left behind" is some CEO, business-school-ass thinking that is seeping into academia from the top down [5/?] 372
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialBlack Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/08/2026There's just something gut wrenching about a man who comes from the first Republic founded by ex-enslaved people to end up fucking shackled in 2026. 131405476
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialtrashymarmot.bsky.social @trashymarmot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026If you didn’t know any better, which logo is the chemistry one? #chemsky 72610
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Still amazing that the official government policy is universities can't do DEI except for hiring professors whose politics better align with the regime in power. 535189
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialThe Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026A thread on how heroes like Dr. Anthony Fauci make Trump and the Republicans look like criminals by comparison. That's why they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story. 472372518
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialKid Phantasmagorical @spacedcoyote.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Covid exists in a superposition where it is simultaneously a hoax, an overblown flu, and a bioengineered super weapon, and you can only determine its position at any given moment by asking which version is the most politically convenient 114919
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong. 351972824
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026All the Fauci stuff is a modern day version of the POW/MIA stuff after Vietnam - a way to try to rewrite the history of a huge failure of conservative ideology to be instead a story about how liberals and foreigners stabbed us in the back. 5553941357
pkatlas.bsky.social @pkatlas.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. 020
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Once you understand that this is a model of science written by non-scientists who hate universities but love venture capital and redirecting money to political allies, everything makes a lot more sense. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/u...nytimes.comTrump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for UniversitiesMichael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science. 362277966
Reposted by @pkatlas.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Best team in the tournament won 2081329
pkatlas.bsky.social @pkatlas.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I personally would have enjoyed watching this game much better without having to see the face of the worst human in the world. 000
![His [Cofnas] role at a Cambridge college was terminated in 2024 after backlash to his view that, under a true meritocracy, black people would "disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6eyey7v2narnlc3zmyptc7t2/bafkreibiwsmy4cb5wwtt33y7v7lmy2ctd2nkuee4ize6rcvzhcrnkrgdcm)
