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First visit to Wrigley Field was amazing. Cold...and I mean COLD 🥶...but amazing. We had so much fun and will definitely be back in the future.

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It was cold, windy, and worth it! Phillies Win! #RingtheBell

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

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Me looking for the name of my university's president on the list of those who have signed on: 😞 #academicsky #highered

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Encouraging and (scans for alma maters) disappointing. #academicsky #highered #highereducation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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We did an Easter egg hunt for Watney today. The eggs were filled with treats and he had a great time trying to find them all. He doesn't realize how close he is to the yellow one! 😂

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This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

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RIGHT NOW in NYC! @aaupcu.bsky.social @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @actioninhighered.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

As a huge fan of Radiohead, this may actually shift my negative attitude towards two-factor authentication...

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Faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are gathering signatures for a letter calling on university leadership to condemn anti-democratic attacks on higher ed, contest unlawful demands, and coordinate with other schools. docs.google.com/document/u/0...

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Absolutely pathetic, cowardly behavior by #MLB. They should be ashamed to publish this whitewashed, AI-generated drivel about #JackieRobinson.

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250 universities represent more than a million faculty, 6.6 million undergrad+grad students: "institutions uniting in a common defense of academic freedom, free expression, democratic governance, civic responsibility, scientific discovery+the pursuit of knowledge." www.recorder.com/UMass-Amhers...

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Yes

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BREAKING: Harvard AAUP & the nat'l AAUP have jointly filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump admin from demanding that Harvard restrict speech & undermine academic freedom or else lose $8.7 billion in federal funds. This action challenges the Trump admin's misuse of funds for coercion. Stay tuned.

submitted 15 days ago • 22 comments

Started playing this #CozyGame yesterday. It's a cute gardening game (with some strategy elements) that takes place in a Polly Pocket type toy. Really fun so far!

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Postal worker accidentally bumped into mailbox and the post snapped off at the base...🫠

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Louder, for all the would-be capitulating university presidents at other institutions in the back

submitted 18 days ago • 56 comments

Reposting. Because it's another day but the same gaping maw

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This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

submitted 19 days ago • 194 comments

📢Call-For-Participation for the Justice Studies Association 2025 Annual Meeting! ✳️Low-cost, virtual conference ✳️We encourage scholarly, creative, and activism-centered submissions. ✳️Students, scholars, activists, practitioners, & artists are all welcome! #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Crimsky

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Will probably get pneumonia 🤒from being out in the cold and rain but the #Phillies game today was an absolute blast ⚾ #Ringthebell

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I'm tempted to show this in class next week...

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#academicsky Please read this entire thread. The only way forward is together. I also think that states with big systems (CA, NY, WA, WI, etc.) should be joining together.

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😞

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Faculty, staff, and students who support the University of Michigan’s DEI efforts will held an “emergency meeting” to push back on the news that the university’s DEI office and Office for Health Equity and Inclusion are being shut down and an unspecified number of employees fired. chroni.cl/3DUiI9o

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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

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The cowardice displayed by rich Ivies and well endowed private universities is shocking. First the Presidents failure to defend academic freedom in Congressional hearings and now kow towing to a widespread attack on higher education. For Gods Sake use your bloated endowments to fight back!

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As a former humanities scholar, I would just like to remind tenured and TT faculty that no US president's admin would be able to pose such a dire threat to the entirety of US higher education without the decades-long erosion of shared governance that accompanied corporatization.

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Columbia is a "pilot program". My fear is that this is what's coming for the 50 universities under investigation by DOE and eventually all universities receiving fed $. #highered #academicsky apnews.com/article/colu...

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Me having to complete compliance training modules that require me to watch videos of people dryly reading content at a glacial pace with no ability to adjust the playback speed:

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However much carceral reality TV shows create awareness around prison conditions, they do so in a way that reinforces the need for prisons rather than advocating for solutions to address the root causes of incarceration, writes Vidal Guzman of the #AIRS campaign. inquest.org/punishment-tv/

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DEI initiatives are still legal. Universities need to stand their ground. A Friday gift to your university's General Counsel Office - courtesy of an all star lineup of civil rights lawyers and scholars. You're going to want to read this.

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Me waiting to see ANY form of communication from university leadership or administration about the Dept of Ed "Dear Colleagues" letter... #EduSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

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Universities: Don’t give in to anticipatory obedience or illegal pressure. #academicsky

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