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NPR @npr.org · 19/07/2026

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

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Under a new federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid

If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

No-one says ‘Fast food isn’t going away, so let’s work out how to incorporate it into your diet’, yet we are often treated to the same non sequitur when it comes to AI

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Dawn Durante @dawnd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Please help spread the word about our open position for a history editor in the @uncpress.bsky.social acquisitions department! This person will be overseeing exciting, key lists for the publishing program.

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Jennie Ebeling @siduri1.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Look at IN, leading the way for a change!

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Bill Caraher @billcaraher.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I have a Cyber Monday deal for you: a one-click download of 10 books (a so-called "Dakota Dozen"). No email, sign-up, sign-in, or other information required. Click. Download. Unzip. Read. Free. #OpenAccess #CyberMonday #FreeBooks mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/c...

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Cyber Monday: One-Click Download from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota

People say to me all the time: Bill, I just can’t be bothered to click download every time a new free book comes out from your press. This is an understandable concern. After all, clicking download…

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Jennie Ebeling @siduri1.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Colleagues: please reach out if you're working on a book that might be a fit for Eisenbrauns and planning to attend ASOR or SBL in Boston. I'd be happy to meet with you to talk about your project over coffee or a drink!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Late Bronze Age collapse plunged the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East into a period of chaos and starvation, but 300 hundred years later, the region emerged stronger and more prosperous than ever. Could the same thing happen here in the United States?

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Jennie Ebeling @siduri1.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Great energy at No Kings in Evansville, IN!

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RutgersAAUP-AFT @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: loom.ly/BDXasRY

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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ASOR @asor-research.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Friends of ASOR present the next webinar of the season on Oct. 8, at 7:00 pm EDT, presented by Kevin McGeough with panelists Jennie Ebeling and Bill Caraher. This webinar will be free and open to the public. Registration through Zoom (with a valid email address) is required: tinyurl.com/bdet3w97

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FOA Webinar: Kevin McGeough, Jennie Ebeling, and Bill Caraher - American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)

Friends of ASOR Panel Webinar: "Readers of the Lost Ark: The Ark of the Covenant from Biblical Religion to Contemporary Culture" on October 8, 2025 at 7:00 pm ET.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 22/06/2025

Israel isn't in control of the United States. This is just who the US is and has always been. Saying we're controlled is just a way of saying we're victims. We're not. We're an imperial power that likes war because it's profitable and enriches our oligarchs. That's it.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.' time.com/7295195/ai-c...

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ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study

The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

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no. @joles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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Jennie Ebeling @siduri1.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This headline is misleading in so many ways

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Pediatricians say that childhood vaccines are safe. A heroin-addled nepo baby with a brain worm says they may not be. For busy voters, it can be hard to know who to believe.

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Jennie Ebeling @siduri1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If it wasn't clear already: "A.I. is the tool of and the prevailing aesthetic of fascists."

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This is Clint Eastwood-bantering-with-an-empty-chair levels of friendly fire.

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The fact that the government is using charges of antisemitism to justify sending people to concentration camps is the most enraging manipulation of discourse that the current fascists have engaged in thus far. They’ll live out their Nazi fantasies all while claiming they are doing it for the Jews.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Cognitive dissonance is the humanities being at the same time both a useless waste of time and an imminent threat to the government.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11/04/2025

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded. It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

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Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research

A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Media challenge: try writing headlines without using the word "antisemitism". Stop using Trump's framing for his authoritarian actions. "Trump administration now monitoring immigrant social media" would be shorter and more accurate, since no-one really believes this is about anti-semitism.

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Here is a sitting Democratic Congressmember pointing out that the US bombing Yemen is a war crime. This is possible! It is a thing you can do, if you're an elected official.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

“Todd Wolfson, the president of the American Association of University Professors, a nat’l faculty rights group, described the move as the greatest incursion into academic freedom & free speech since Sen Joseph R. McCarthy’s crusade against communism in the 1950s.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/n...

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Columbia University’s Concessions to Trump Seen as a Watershed

Threatened with losing $400 million in federal funding, the university agreed to overhaul its protest policies and security practices.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...

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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Thank you for this reminder about the need to continually improve our healthcare system. On behalf of many, could I ask that you and the former presidents be more public and vocal about how the Trump administration is tearing down our institutions and ruining the lives of tens of 1000s of people.

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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

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Jennie Ebeling @siduri1.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Terrific turnout in front of absent Rep Messmer's office today in Evansville!

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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Any academic institution that does this under political pressure discredits itself as a place of free inquiry and legitimates the strong-arming of other institutions

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Jennie Ebeling @siduri1.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Messmer's Missing, But We're Here: A People's Town Hall this Sat March 22 in Evansville, IN

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Collaborators with the fascists.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/03/2025

We condemn in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. This is absolute cowardice & capitulation to an administration hellbent on the destruction of American higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/n...

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Columbia Disciplines Students Who Occupied Campus Building Last Year

Sanctions for the Hamilton Hall occupation include expulsions and suspensions.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How’s the breaded tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And when will Elon make a gas-powered Tesla so that I can support him?

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Update from Jerusalem: the Educational Bookshop was once again raided by Israeli Police about an hour ago. Police confiscated books, arrested an employee and shut down the bookshop.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

Following my previously signed Executive Orders, ICE proudly apprehended and detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student on the campus of Columbia University. This is the first arrest of many to come. We know there are more students at Columbia and other Universities across the Country who have engaged in pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-American activity, and the Trump Administration will not tolerate it. Many are not students, they are paid agitators. We will find, apprehend, and deport these terrorist sympathizers from our country — never to return again. If you support terrorism, including the slaughtering of innocent men, women, and children, your presence is contrary to our national and foreign policy interests, and you are not welcome here. We expect every one of America’s Colleges and Universities to comply. Thank you!

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

They disappeared a man right off the streets just like Putin for exercising his free speech. They won’t stop at immigrants. We are all targets now. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

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They are disappearing people in the U.S.

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil is meant to send a message and strike fear

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