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Collected data today using CloudResearch Connect. Usually they're good but I wasn't able to use my "botcha" pre-screens this time b/c apparently that's now TOS violation. 🙄 So, I included an open-ended Q to identify responses from LLMs & search bots. Look out for "Certainly!" It's a LLM red flag.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

The Nazis had overseers for every academic department and institute. They fired people who didn’t agree with their positions and they fired all people of Jewish background. Wolfgang Kohler, the last person to publish something critical of Nazis tried to stop the interference in his institute. 1/2

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

"You don't deserve due process if you're a criminal" has got to be among the least "American" arguments the government has put forward in a century

submitted 12 hours ago • 116 comments

This was my classmate. He was a student in my ethics class, and we used to sit next to each other. Most dedicated person in the class to legitimate justice for all people. He legitimately cared. I am so horribly heartbroken

submitted 11 hours ago • 78 comments

It’s truly their time. If other nations are smart, they’ll invest in talent right now at all costs. Its value only INCREASES as AI regresses intellectual and creative works to the mean.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 8 hours ago • 432 comments

The power of the community to push the university to do the right thing.

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

[removes lab goggles] gentlemen, we have done it: we have made the MOOC ten times as expensive as a regular college

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III. Öztürk is the Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by ICE and now facing deportation for cowriting a pro-Palestine op-ed in the student newspaper. 🧵

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

When my students ask me "what was the most significant change in the last 100 years?" they always expect me to say "the Internet" or "space travel." But most Americans fundamentally don't understand either "some of your siblings will die young" or "women are pregnant or nursing for 1/2 their lives."

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

We read these ten "modern" plagues from this Haggadah (ccar) first published in 1974. Some years some feel more relevant, some years others. This year was difficult.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

occam's razor is that the people trying to make him respectable just agree with him

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 1 day ago • 250 comments

Chile. Chinese luxury brand manufacturers are spilling all the tea on TikTok and telling users how to order directly from them. The Resotration Harwarde manufacturers just posted how to buy a $2000 table for $200.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

I’ve wanted a public option with a corporate buy-in structure that basically comes in at lower cost than private insurance just to smooth over the rough spots. (Also Medicaid is the superior program so it’s really annoying that Medicare for All is the default 😒)

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

“Investments in science and public health are essential for the future of rural southern states like Mississippi.” Read about my perspectives as a Mississippian and scientist in my recent OpEd : digital.meridianstar.com/The-Meridian...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Purkinje cells in ink on yupo. Original paintings, each unique! 🐡🧪🧠 artologica.etsy.com

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?

submitted 3 days ago • 58 comments

The AAUP is suing the government for academic freedom. I renewed my membership at AAUP and if you want to as well, here's the link: www.aaup.org/membership/j... #academicbluesky #academicfreedom #aaup #nokings

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It is legit incredible to watch the Wall Street Journal OPINION section be ahead of the Democratic Party.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement: “Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. 1/ senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 615 comments

Exactly it. And attacks on trans people are not just attacking "only less than 1%" or whatever, but an attack in any gender nonconforming. Rw gender police seek to maintain that subordinate status, we should celebrate resistance to this.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Been abroad for the last week for a seminar and it was striking to hear my international colleagues be as alarmed and afraid about US politics as we are. The world order that for so long has anchored itself around US hegemony is, at least in some rooms, rethinking a lot…

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

I am VERY proud to know former Howard Law School Dean and current Mount Holyoke College President, @DanielleHolley. She is fierce in this moment. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.

submitted 2 days ago • 203 comments

Breaking news: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something that a federal judge recently told the National Institutes of Health it could not do.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

As we face the possible closure of Goddard Space Flight Center and the cancellation of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which began its life as WFIRST, it’s timely that I got this archival document from 2011 in the mail yesterday: Women of Goddard, which included a feature on a young fellow. 🔭🧪

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Has anyone gotten any communication from an alma mater college/univ about attacks against higher ed and asking you, as a graduate, to do anything to act in its defense?

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

no lies detected. #civilrights

submitted 24 days ago • 31 comments

Why and how academic medicine must champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @ananyatb.bsky.social @oniblackstock.bsky.social & colleagues @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I know these counterfactuals are both endless and pointless, but imagine if any some other recent administration had sent a batch of threatening emails to US citizens telling them they had a week to leave the country or “the federal government will find you”.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Local news coverage of Indiana University-Bloomington's Faculty Council endorsing a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC). Faculties of three state flagships so far have called for a united front: Rutgers (whole system), IU-Bloomington, UMass-Amherst. Michigan starts voting this week Who's next?

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

More on the Harvard AAUP & Nat'l AAUP lawsuit filed last night to block the Trump admin's unlawful threats to use funding cuts as a cudgel to coerce Harvard University to restrict speech and allow government control over teaching and learning. 🧵 Lawsuit Here:

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

US students. Looking to apply to graduate school? Had an offer rescinded recently? The University of British Columbia in Canada will re-open the application portal in some departments for US students from April 14-18. Details: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #ubc #AcademicSky #PhDSky #ScienceSky

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

submitted 3 days ago • 306 comments

Ok try blowing into the cartridge of the constitution and see if that works

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments