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Working on this with Steve was among the most rewarding things I have ever done.

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It works. The government here largely works. Because we are so spoiled by how well it works, we are letting a fool convince us it is broken.

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NEW: i spoke with several young AmeriCorps volunteers around the country who were abruptly pulled off projects building homes, readying forests for wildfire season, and working at food banks Tuesday afternoon. they are now on their way home thanks to DOGE cuts —

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In addition to what Victor says, it is also a view that Autism Speaks espoused in a now infamous ad from 2009. They were (rightly) humiliated by autism community for it, now have an apology on their website. www.autismspeaks.org/i-am-autism

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This is straight-up Nazi shit, and nobody should pretend otherwise. It is shameful that this man has any power.

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😃😃 TOMORROW is the #DayofActionforHigherEd and we can’t wait! There are now 1️⃣7️⃣5️⃣ events planned in 44 states + online panels and workshops. There are so many ways to participate + there’s still time to plan an action on your campus. Visit our site for details! 👇 www.dayofactionforhighered.org/events

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There are physicists who tried to tell people this and we were labeled as histrionic libs who hate free speech

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Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

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The CAUT (the main Canadian association of academic faculty and staff) now advises against non-essential travel to the US

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“The administration is not anti-woke; it is woke with right-wing characteristics.” This is like arguing that segregation is just desegregation with right-wing characteristics, since they both involve government regulation of the racial composition of institutions.

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#yale alumni are organizing a letter to our president and trustees asking them to stand up to Trump‘s authoritarian threats to our alma mater. Alumni everywhere should be gathering and pressing their institutions to do the right thing.

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-43 for Elon among women under 30 did make me laugh I’m not gonna lie. Cartoon number

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Please don't go to the US. CAUT strongly recommends that academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary. In addition, CAUT recommends that academics who fall into the following categories exercise particular caution:

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Department of Energy is indeed sending out notices to universities cancelling all of our grants unless the university agrees to a 15% rate cap.

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The Canadian Association of University Teachers has officially recommended that its 72,000 members avoid travel to the United States, with particular warnings for certain groups:

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I generally like Gessen, and I am a humanities guy, but I gotta defend my natural science (& public health & pharmacy & lord forgive me engineering) colleagues and say that this is a wildly unrealistic, maybe even uninterested, understanding of what universities are. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

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NEW from me: A whistleblower says DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data...and then someone posted a threatening letter to his door. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

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If you're not aware of forum.safeguar.de and other efforts to save data/tools from government destruction, now is the time to learn about them. You can even help!

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It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers how lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

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my wife lost her great job at a major Seattle nonprofit hospital three weeks ago because Trump simply stopped Medicaid reimbursements starting in the new year throwing them into financial chaos and this is before we get to new Medicaid cuts or axing grants

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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.

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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

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"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

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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

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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.

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MIT following Harvard's lead here

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

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

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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. 🧵

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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."

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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 😒)

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“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...

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

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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?

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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

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

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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...

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