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Just went up at Tufts University. Svobodu!

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Tufts statement on Rümeysa Öztürk www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

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Since the letter was written, more students have been arrested and detained by ICE for exercising their free speech and Harvard has become the administration’s next target. This will not stop until we stop it ourselves. We must build mutual defense alliances among our institutions.

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"committing to a strategy of aiming to satisfy the administration’s demands, even when unlawfully issued, the trustees have committed themselves to a strategic logic within which a Columbia president’s capacity to lead cannot be separated from" the whims of POTUS balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

- Rumeysa Öztürk has never been charged with a crime. - Mahmoud Khalil has never been charged with a crime. - Momodou Taal has never been charged with a crime. - Badar Khan Suri has never been charged with a crime.

submitted 7 days ago • 119 comments

“Bending the knee and precomplying will not stave off these attacks. Acquiescing to censorship will not stop the threats. Only engaging in collective, bold, public, strategic struggle & disruption has the potential to do so. We did not pick this fight, but this is the fight that we are in.”

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

So far in this admin, malevolence has mostly camouflaged incompetence, but now the ineptitude and risk are very clear. Their response to Signalgate is from the Roy Cohn playbook: never apologize, take no responsibility, attack the messenger. Strong piece.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

We Must Leverage the Strength of Our Institutions and Stand Together

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This is not an exaggeration at all. Read this, and then do the most meaningful thing you can to resist it: (1) Join @aaup.bsky.social to help fight on national level, (2) Organize, organize, organize with your AAUP chapter at your university level. Now. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

We'll have at least one more year of flu vaccine...

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"This is going to be a long fight. We need everyone on board. This is why we’re developing a multi-pronged approach to organizing. This is the only way to stop the anti-worker policies being pushed by the Trump administration." – AAUP Vice-President Rotua Lumbantobing msmagazine.com/2025/03/14/a...

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I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.

submitted 21 days ago • 94 comments

"First They Came for Columbia" "We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us." Me and Levitsky in the Harvard Crimson www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education. Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson: www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

As long as I live, I will never understand how “it should be easier for multi-billion-dollar corporations to dump poison in the water my children drink” became popular politics with half the country. www.nbcnews.com/science/envi... 🌎🧪

submitted 23 days ago • 62 comments

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

submitted 34 days ago • 101 comments

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

submitted 34 days ago • 78 comments

Universities that advertised their commitment to diversity in glossy brochures & fundraising campaigns now face a reckoning: was it real or just marketing? The admin bets they’ll stay silent to keep their funding. But the cost of inaction will be far greater. greencarelab.ucdavis.edu/how-universi...

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"He started saying, 'But we still have our values,' & we're like 'Um, No.' We laughed at him. That took him off his game." - Ohio State AAUP President Pranav Jani on confronting President Ted Carter Jr. while he announced the school's elimination of DEI programs. www.thelantern.com/2025/02/we-l...

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Let’s go www.yahoo.com/news/no-amaz...

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FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

I opened up commenting. 🪦

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

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This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 42 days ago • 10 comments

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

This is, in no uncertain terms, a rout. The New York Times published an unfortunate op-ed trying to legally justify Trump administration's #Birthright citizenship order. Here, five leading scholars show, with analytic precision, how that op-ed was "fundamentally flawed and irresponsible."⬇️

submitted 44 days ago • 81 comments

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I am the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

submitted 48 days ago • 343 comments

YES we must organize ourselves and our people against this shit. danny.hellmo.space/posts/we-nee... #edusky #academia #highered #trumpcuts

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Some "Current Insights" on supporting multilingual learners in science learning for ya: www.lifescied.org/doi/10.1187/...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Wel, no surprise that Coyne used his blog (whyevolutionistrue) to argue with the SSE/SSB/ASN letter about definitions of sex. I'm not going to engage deeply with the letter here. Like any committee-drafted text it reflects compromises; I agree with some phrasing but some could have been clearer 1/N

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A third legal challenge to the NIH overhead cap comes from the Association of American Universities, the American Council on Education, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and a dozen institutions. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 54 days ago • 3191 comments

It’s super surreal as an actual biologist to see the dipshit brigade mandate their fevered hallucinations as reality. It’s an abuse of both human rights and of science.

submitted 55 days ago • 18 comments

On Monday, join academic workers for a webinar on science funding, & NIH indirect cost rate, and the threats to research from the the Trump administration. us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

submitted 56 days ago • 88 comments

Wow. When we bend to fascists, we become them.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

It’s nice to see a society speak up. I’ve always been a fan of ASN and AmNat as entities in the scientific community though I’ve never thought of it as “my society”. This finally motivated me to change that. www.amnat.org/membership/b...

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If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week? A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is congressionally mandated to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs. But also... 🧵 thread

submitted 58 days ago • 8 comments

Just discovered this amazing hack to prevent getting a garbage AI answer from Google - just start any search with "fucking" and you will get results sans AI e.g. fucking what can I substitute for pomegranate molasses?

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