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Learning Scientist of Higher Ed // Asst Prof at UW-Madison // Educator. Consultant. Freedom Dreamer.
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This type of overreach is unconscionable, and if successful, sets a very dangerous precedent for overreach in university affairs and faculty hiring efforts.

It’s vital that presidents publicly defend their institutions & “be brave right now,” Todd Wolfson, president of the AAUP said. Presidents need to recognize what the administration is trying to do by attacking higher ed: They want total control. open-campus-dispatch.beehiiv.com/p/how-univer...

@bsky.app please please allow locked accounts. please.

"Black bookstores saw a spike in interest after 2020’s social justice movement. But that support has waned, they say, and with the economic downturn since the pandemic and competition from online retailers, business has been sluggish." chicago.suntimes.com/books/2025/0...

Feeling like you can’t keep up with the recent calls to action? Or that you haven’t been included in organizing spaces? I know how that feels. I hope this article brings you some peace and validation ❤️ forgeorganizing.org

NEW UPDATE to Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting. - a few people have written to me to ask if I could include HEADINGS and I have done so. Also added a few more ideas. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I’ve had KDOT’s dodger blue on repeat since I woke up and it’s exactly what I needed this morning. Tea and two stepping around my apartment is the only way to start a day of six back-to-back meetings…

Israel has violated the ceasefire in Gaza 266 times since it came into effect on January 19, killing at least 132 people, Palestinian security sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/dh48s1

Forcibly displaced Palestinians in Gaza say their tents are "flooded with rain and sewage water" as Israel continues to violate the ceasefire by blocking the entry of temporary homes and tents. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: https://aje.io/pcwxdd

The Trump administration is at war on civil rights. Friday’s announcement intensifies their clampdown on concepts & topics related to race & identity that if implemented could effectively re-segregate higher education. We must forcefully oppose these assaults. www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

It goes without saying, but if you see the need to access any data about American education from the federal government, you should go download it now. Like stop reading this post and do it immediately.

I can’t believe I have to say this in 2025, but if you are coughing or sneezing, COVER YOUR GOTDAMN MOUTH. ESP in a public space. I swear folk make me never want to leave my house. 😭

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They are stealing from you to enrich their billionaire and corporate friends. They are stealing from you to enrich their billionaire and corporate friends. They are stealing from you to enrich their billionaire and corporate friends. They are stealing from you to enrich their billionaire friends.

Lowkey I really wanted (needed) to hear Alright…

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

probably the most mischievous grin ever

KDOT is Mama approved.

SERENA?!?!?!

K DOTTTTTTTTTTTTT

The Israeli military has expanded its assaults in the occupied West Bank, killing an eight-month-pregnant Palestinian woman during an armed raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from placing 2,200 USAID workers on paid leave.

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I’m happy to abolish “DEI” from my teaching but you’re not going to like what I replace with …

NEW: A Harris campaign organizer says senior officials ordered them to erase voters who asked about Gaza—marking emails as “no response” so they’d be removed from outreach. No engagement, no persuasion, just ignored. “The only clowns are the ones who decided to abdicate on this.”

The Palestinians and their supporters didn't create our current predicament. It's a convenient, counterproductive deflection to lay the blame at their feet, and given the degree of destruction and suffering they've endured, it's also sadistic.

When people ask me “how you doing”:

Bird flu is such an attention seeker. "Oh you're worried about a coup? Well I've just mutated again and now there's a new strain of me in cows." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Seems worthwhile to note for friends that NSF looks to be leading the pack as federal research funding agencies shift to a new environment. If you're in academic admin at an R1, *now* is the time to start thinking about tenure standards in fields where NSF funding is expected and needed.

Reminder, I'm the AE for the econ & finance section of the Higher Education Handbook. If you think this might interest you & you'll be going to AEFP this year, let me know so we can grab tea! Here's the last chapter I had the pleasure to edit. More details below. link.springer.com/referencewor...

What the NSF is doing this week is damaging *generations* of scientific researchers and American investments in science. Billions of US tax payer dollars in investment, being thrown away, because of a fucking fishing expedition that is intended to terrorize and set the stage for a real witch hunt.

I keep thinking about what might have happened if people had listened to Patricia Williams, Charles Lawrence, Mari Matsuda, Gary Peller, Jonathan Kahn, and other actual critical race theorists about the shift away from racial justice towards diversity as a framework medium.com/space-anthro...

One of the most effective ways to deal with crushing helplessness is to get involved. Find groups to organize with locally, be deliberate about your time. That along with teaching, writing, and honestly the joy of my son, is what keeps me sane through the horror & what braces me for what comes next.

Made to my office. Essential oil diffuser on. SZA playing. Laptop open and to-do list on deck. Ready for a busy and exciting week. Sending y'all love. 🤎

ICE agents have been given arrest quotas, per the Washington Post

Heads up! The @aclu.org Immigrant Rights Project has an EXCELLENT online resource available in multiple languages to walk immigrants or advocates through various scenarios of encounters with immigration officials or police. It includes contact #s for local ACLU offices. www.aclu.org/know-your-ri...

After a few days of frigid cold in Wisconsin, I can hear the birds chirping again on my balcony this morning. It's amazing what their songs do for my mental health. Welcome back, friends. 🤎

Reviewing a conference proposal focused on supporting "intersectional faculty"...y'all. PUHLEEEEEEZE. Not in the year of our Lord 2025.

We are thrilled to bring Too Black (poet, scholar, organizer, and filmmaker) and Dr. Rasul Mowatt (Professor at NC State) to @uwmadison.bsky.social to discuss their book, Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits. Join us for what will be a great talk!

I tried a Pilates class that uses the Lagree Method today. Needless to say, someone should call and check on me tomorrow. I will not be well...

Lunch at our department’s faculty retreat today>>