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Tessa DeLaquil @tdelaquil.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Announcing our upcoming PaTHES webinar on May 20th (9am UK, 10am CET, 8pm NZST), "Multispecies ethnography: Speculative exercise in more-than-human learning" with Steve Tu at OISE, University of Toronto). Register here (lnkd.in/esxdRw8D) - we look forward to seeing many of you there.

Advertising PaTHES webinar with Steve Tu titled "Multispecies ethnography: Speculative exercise in more-than-human learning.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

⭐️ FREE #ECPRHouseSeries lecture: Academic Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa 🗓️ 13 May, 14:00–15:30 BST, Online 🎙️Emily Borzcik and Marcello Scalisi examine the current state of academic freedom in #MENA, highlighting both structural challenges and lived experiences #HigherEducation

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ECPR Webinars on Academic Freedom in the Middle East

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Sandra González-Bailón @sgonzalezbailon.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It takes a village to produce research with impact. This is the idea that motivated us to write this paper, published today. Kudos to the team: @lluisdanus.bsky.social @william-dinneen.bsky.social @carotorreblanca.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

“Writing is thinking”

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"People have always been largely ignorant and had beliefs about the social order which were utterly devoid of truth or justice. But the extent to which you can quite deliberately create and propagate specific lies, advantageous to you and your immediate goals, is very much a novelty."

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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed, yet little has changed. Perhaps it is time for new approaches? Our new paper on post-critical approaches to grading with @margaretbea.bsky.social, Rola Ajjawi and David Boud is out in Higher Education! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Beyond a critique of grades - Higher Education

Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed. For at least a century, scholars have claimed that grades are inaccurate and unreliable; they provide overly simplistic reductions of stud...

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Franek Krawczyk @franekkra.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

In two weeks I am organising another PaTHES seminar! This time we will talk with Agata Zysiak on her recent book and utopian visions of socialist higher education 11.02 9:00 CET, Zoom: t.co/CVHdtpXDAH @tdelaquil.bsky.social

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Tommy Chai @tommychai.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

I’m very pleased to share my latest article in the @ejir.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1354... I use Southeast Asia's long historical position between the East Asian and Indian Ocean worlds to revisit foundational questions about the making of modern international order.

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Theorising global IR through regional peripheries: Southeast Asia between civilisations, empires and great powers - Tommy Sheng Hao Chai, 2026

Global International Relations (IR) seeks to move beyond Eurocentric perspectives by advancing the study of diverse regional histories and world orders. Yet, de...

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Franek Krawczyk @franekkra.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm coorganising a seminar on Marxist critique of university in December! All are welcome

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Tessa DeLaquil @tdelaquil.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

If you're free December 19th, do come to our PaTHES webinar with Krystian Szadkowski & Jakub Krzeski @scholarlycommrg.bsky.social on their new book "A Marxist Critique of the Ruined University" (link.springer.com/book/10.1007...) - register here: ntnu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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EADI @eadi.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

"Development Studies...often neglects both the past and the future, and its technocratic orientation inhibits exploration of alternatives to, e.g. the global capitalist world order." ✍️From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2387

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How Social Science Fiction Could Transform Development Research: Extending our Methodological Horizons

By Laura Camfield In an era of increasing complexity and uncertainty, conventional methodological approaches to pressing development concerns such as extreme income inequality often fall short. In …

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Stefanie Haustein @stefhaustein.scholcommlab.ca · 20/11/2025

We summarized the Drain paper in an LSE Impact blog post this week. Please share in your networks, ideally with those we are calling to action: research funders and university leadership blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #OpenAccess #ScholComm

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University World News @uniworldnews.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Are governments & universities still willing to commit time, space, the environment, funding, &freedom of research and collaboration required for advances in basic #research that win #NobelPrizes, write @philipaltbach.bsky.social & Tessa DeLaquil #NTNU www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

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2025 Nobels: Is our world still committed to the long game?

One wonders if governments and universities still grasp what Alfred Nobel recognised as the kind of investment in time, space, environment, funding an...

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Tessa DeLaquil @tdelaquil.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Phil Altbach & I ask what Nobel-prize winning scientific research requires in terms of time, funding & international collaboration. Can universities maintain the kind of scientific discovery that has recognized benefits to humanity? www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

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2025 Nobels: Is our world still committed to the long game?

One wonders if governments and universities still grasp what Alfred Nobel recognised as the kind of investment in time, space, environment, funding an...

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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

Pub day! My new book, Authoritarians in the Academy at @hopkinspress.bsky.social, is now officially out and available for purchase. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

photo of my holding a copy of my book Authoritarians in the Academy

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Shikha Dalmia @shikhadalmia.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

The real sin of American univs is not that they are too "woke," it is that they are putting their financial interests ahead of their values and appeasing authoritarian regimes. At @theunpopulist.net @aaronrosspowell.com talks to @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social www.theunpopulist.net/p/chinas-aut...

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China's Authoritarian Regime Is Censoring American Universities: A Conversation with Sarah McLaughlin

Elite universities with deep pockets have no excuse for putting their financial interests ahead of their values

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"Tao is one of the most prominent mathematicians and academics to publicly oppose the administration’s actions, calling them an “existential threat” to his field, and academic science, more broadly. He said public advocacy is a priority over his research, for now." www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

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The 'Mozart of Math' rarely speaks about politics. The wide-ranging cuts to science funding made him change that.

UCLA's Terence Tao called the Trump administration's actions an "existential threat" to academic research in the U.S.

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Tessa DeLaquil @tdelaquil.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Plus, this was a v. cool finding from the paper - the sheer number of societal connections from the humanities faculty & through the deans specifically!

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Tessa DeLaquil @tdelaquil.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

The 3rd article from my postdoc @au.dk w/ Lynn McAlpine, Søren Bengtsen, & @agtgibson.bsky.social, titled “How do deans of humanities understand and enact societal engagement within their broader experiences of leading? A Danish case study” is out and available open access here: lnkd.in/dkfqzS5t

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Charles Mathies @cmathies.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

New pub w/ @hannukarhunen.bsky.social & Steve DesJardins. We examined what happens when tuition fees are implemented on intl students in 🇫🇮. Focusing on intl std price sensitivity, we model (DID) the effects of the implementation of tuition fees. It’s open access link.springer.com/article/10.1....

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If You Charge Them, Will They Come? The Effect of Levying Tuition Fees on International Students - Research in Higher Education

In 2017, Finland began levying tuition fees on non-European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA) international students. Using data from multiple Finnish government sources, we study the impact of ...

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 20/06/2025

Dear all, Helen passed away at 13:21 local time. Helen would not have wanted us to be sad for a long time. All they wanted was to be remembered. They looked forward to being rid of pain and to being at rest. Helen took great comfort in you, their friends and readers. pt. 1/2

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Quill Kukla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @quillkukla.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Fans of @helendecruz.net should try to attend this very unusual and lovely online event to honor her life while she is still with us. It's unclear whether she will be able to join but this feels much more meaningful than a memorial to me

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Georgi Gardiner is hosting an online event to celebrate the philosophical art of @helendecruz.net next Tuesday, 6/24, at 11 a.m. CT. All are welcome! Details at www.georgigardiner.com/helen.

flyer that says "A Zoom Chat to Celebrate the Trailblazing Philosophical Artwork of Helen De Cruz. Creative Philosophy in Community. Tuesday, 24th June 11am-12.20 pm CDT. Everybody welcome. No background required. www.georgigardiner.com/helen

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A structurally strange blog post today, as I basically repost an old post from a previous blog on method in the humanities, and then use that as a launching pad for entering into my academic middle age. I hope that I am aging with grace, but who knows. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/06/meth...

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Method in the Humanities

Back when I was in grad school I kept a previous blog that I ended up replacing with this one. The other day I wanted to share Reichenbach's...

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Tessa DeLaquil @tdelaquil.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

It has been a wonderful first day at my new role as associate professor with the Uniped group in the Department of Education and Lifelong Learning at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in the beautiful city of Trondheim!

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Helen De Cruz @helendecruz.net · 28/05/2025

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

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Can’t take it with you

I am in hospice care and reflecting a lot on what a good life is.

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Jan McArthur @janmcarthur.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

New publication. Not just for people interested in engineering! But for anyone in HE interested in how students come to understand their disciplines.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"Kennedy said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet...were 'corrupt'...'Unless those journals change dramatically, we are going to stop NIH scientists from publishing in them and we’re going to create our own journals in-house'”

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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

New blog post by Sam Illingworth! 🚨 "If we want to improve retention, we need to support our educators – by fostering a culture where learning is shared, creativity is valued, and development feels both personal and powerful" teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/d...

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Drawing retention: what storyboards taught us about staff development and student success

This project began with a deceptively simple question: how can we, as educators and learning professionals, better support student retention? At Edinburgh Napier University, like many institutions,…

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Tessa DeLaquil @tdelaquil.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

@scholarlycommrg.bsky.social has an open call for a postdoc looking at the role of IOs (the OECD, World Bank, IMF, and European Commission) shaping academic capitalism in Poland's higher education and science systems - no Polish required and a great team to work with! sc.amu.edu.pl/open-competi...

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Open competition – Post-doc – Origins and development of peripheral academic capitalism in Poland (1990-2021) | Scholarly Communication Research Group

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Akira Kurosawa on writing

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PESGB @pesgb.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

📣 Upcoming UCL IOE / PESGB London Seminar 🗓️ 30 April | 5:30–7:15 PM (Room 739, 20 Bedford Way) We are pleased to welcome Fadia Dakka @fadiadk.bsky.social for a seminar titled: 📚 From Rhythm to Rhuthmòs: An Exploration of Ethico-Pedagogic Forms of Learning in Contemporary Universities Join us !

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

There are so many ways one could provide context for this data. For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...

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How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government

For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.

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Jonas W. Schmid @jonaswschmid.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Ever felt uneasy about how concepts & measures of "grey zone" autocracies are used interchangeably across the literature? Then check out my 🚨new paper🚨 in @democratization.bsky.social and get some substance to back up your gut feeling: tinyurl.com/ypdm2kna Or at least read the main points below ⬇️

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Electoral autocracies, hybrid regimes, and multiparty autocracies: same, same but different?

There is a wide range of labels, such as electoral autocracy, hybrid regimes, or multiparty autocracy, and corresponding empirical measures to describe and measure political regimes that combine au...

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Franek Krawczyk @franekkra.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

On 28th of April I will host PaTHES seminar with Martin on his exciting new book "The public university as real utopia" We definitely need more realistic and utopian thinking about university, so join us!

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Franek Krawczyk @franekkra.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Registration link: t.co/OODCZD22VU Thanks with help with organising @tdelaquil.bsky.social

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