Nelson Flores

@nelsonlflores.bsky.social

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Professor researching race and language in education
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t mean this as shade to the migrants at all who have found themselves stuck between a rock and a hard place but it was always clear that the plan was never to actually pay them

Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d

I’ve been worried about this. People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries.

‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it

People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Joe R. Feagin, Nelson Flores

Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d

‘They tricked me’: Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it

People who signed up for a US ‘self-deportation’ scheme say their payoffs were delayed, misdirected or never arrived – leaving them empty-handed in their home countries

www.theguardian.com

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. Unfortunately.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 2d

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

Reposted by Nandita Sharma, Rosemary A. Joyce, McKenzie Wark , and 2 more Nandita Sharma, Rosemary A. Joyce, McKenzie Wark, Nelson Flores, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Doghouse Reilly @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Efrén O. Pérez , and 10 more Anna O. Law, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Efrén O. Pérez, Charles W. Smith, Alan Richardson, McKenzie Wark, Adrian Daub, Caroline T. Schroeder, Scott A. Imberman, Nelson Flores, Daxton R. Stewart, Nathan P. Kalmoe, John Paul Newman

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university

Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU

A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d

This is the 60 minutes segment on CECOT that Bari Weiss has sought to suppress at CBD because she thinks the media should not cover stories that make the Trump administration look bad—which is the literal definition of fascism. Let’s make sure she fails by sharing this as widely as possible.

dictatorship of the proletariat now @imperialismsucks.bsky.social · 3d

www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Death to the US empire. Revolution. Solidarity forever. No war but class war.

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

www.muellershewrote.com

Reposted by Monisha Bajaj

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d

Laura Valdiviezo was a truly amazing scholar ane human being. This is such a huge loss for the field.

Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 3d

www.umass.edu/education/ne...

In Memoriam: Laura Alicia Valdiviezo Arista (1969–2025) : College of Education : UMass Amherst

Dr. Laura Alicia Valdiviezo Arista, a distinguished scholar and passionate advocate for intercultural education, passed away on December 17, 2025.

www.umass.edu

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404 Media @404media.co · 3d

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

www.404media.co

Reposted by Nelson Flores

dictatorship of the proletariat now @imperialismsucks.bsky.social · 3d

www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Death to the US empire. Revolution. Solidarity forever. No war but class war.

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

www.muellershewrote.com

Reposted by Nelson Flores

Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 3d

www.umass.edu/education/ne...

In Memoriam: Laura Alicia Valdiviezo Arista (1969–2025) : College of Education : UMass Amherst

Dr. Laura Alicia Valdiviezo Arista, a distinguished scholar and passionate advocate for intercultural education, passed away on December 17, 2025.

www.umass.edu

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

Reposted by Nelson Flores

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 3d

All the cavorting these national "founders" did with our enslaved ancestors SHOWS they knew full damned well that *they were just as human as they were!*

They enslaved their own blood kin! Infuriating.

That mindset is just evil. And it was (and is) the founding mindset of the United States.

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 3d

Conversely, lots of things that are AI often do not get recognized as such.

As an example from this semester, a student told me that a professor banned the use of AI and then suggested they use grammarly to edit their writing.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 3d

Wildly different things, tasks, techniques, subspecialties being lumped into "AI" and then being conflated with each other, doesn't help. Different types of models vs the techniques to train them vs the tasks they are supposed to accomplish, all under "AI".

Reposted by Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Philip N. Cohen, Devon Greyson , and 1 more Suresh Venkatasubramanian, Philip N. Cohen, Devon Greyson, Nelson Flores

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 3d

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4d

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 4d

The whole “only x percent of college professors are republicans” being treated as evidence of the supposed lack of ideological diversity at universities is so misleading. Most programs have quite a bit of epistemological, methodological & content diversity. Partisanship is irrelevant to most fields.

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 4d

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 4d

This type of study that denies marginalized people effective treatments is literally why research ethics boards were developed

Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 4d

"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...

"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’

Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies

www.theguardian.com

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 4d

It is the deluded notion that you are the exceptional one that they won’t send to the gulag after their fascist takeover is complete

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 4d

Curious about what in the self-loathing is going on with Usha Vance to be married to a man who so openly seems to resent that she isn’t white. She’s where she wants to be but I sure want to know what pathology allows that.

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 4d

What season of the reboot of House of Cards is this?

impembo gabecube @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 4d

These people all go to rich people megachurches so they have no idea how freaky this looks to normal people

Erika Glurk getting the full pyro entrance

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 4d

When there is a new trend we don’t like there is the tendency to romanticize the past—in this past romanticizing the pre-AI past as a time where people read thoroughly and cited responsibly. As somebody who has been cited as saying the opposite of what I said pre-AI I can say that was n95 the case.

Reposted by Nelson Flores

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 4d

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 4d

US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’

Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Nelson Flores, Mary McAuliffe

impembo gabecube @impemboganecue.bsky.social · 4d

These people all go to rich people megachurches so they have no idea how freaky this looks to normal people

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 4d

I am seeing alot of discourse about AI and citation practices. I agree with the assertion that people should read articles they are citing rather than rely on AI summaries. I also think sloppy citation practices are not new. Over-reliance on AI did not create the problem even as it may amplify it.

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 7d

Harvard’s PR people have managed to frame it as the leading defender of academic freedom even as it blatantly destroys any semblance of academic freedom as it relates to Palestine. But here is the thing. If scholars focused on Palestine don’t have academic freedom at Harvard, nobody does.

Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 7d

Earlier this year, I had to withdraw a publication on genocide hours before it was to be published due to senior Harvard administrators’ threats to my Harvard-employed coauthor. Last week, they fired Mary Bassett for refusing to ignore Palestine. My response:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart

The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academia

www.theguardian.com

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · 7d

That’s the thing man. If they are to be taken at their word the only takeaway is that there should be no black people in any job any other white person wants. One quick Google search for any of these jobs would show there are usually one or two minorities are best in a unit of 20 or 30 or more.

Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 7d

UAlbany, one of those, NY state universities, has been hovering around 4 percent tenure track Black faculty since ever. I am THE Black tenure track political scientists. These folks are just little liars.