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BREAKING: Texas A&M’s Board of Regents is now requiring approval for courses on race and gender. This is a direct attack on academic freedom and civil rights.
We urge Texas A&M to reverse course now and protect faculty and students!
We urge Texas A&M to reverse course now and protect faculty and students!
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
BREAKING: Texas A&M’s Board of Regents is now requiring approval for courses on race and gender. This is a direct attack on academic freedom and civil rights.
We urge Texas A&M to reverse course now and protect faculty and students!
We urge Texas A&M to reverse course now and protect faculty and students!
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⭐️⭐️ Compact sent by the Trump administration to nine institutions of higher education, including UT Austin, available here:
I just saw a copy. Will send it in a series of screenshots to protect the source.
October 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
⭐️⭐️ Compact sent by the Trump administration to nine institutions of higher education, including UT Austin, available here:
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Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
June 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state
Keep that same energy of support for her
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The multi-pronged assault we are facing on #HigherEd in Texas is part of a national project. We must fight back collectively, across state lines, now. 👇
Academic freedom and higher education are under fire as a wave of legislation moves forward in Ohio, Texas, Florida, and elsewhere @aaup.bsky.social @apnews.com insightintoacademia.com/academic-fre...
Academic Freedom Under Fire as States Advance Higher Ed Curriculum Laws
In a wave of legislation reshaping the landscape of public higher education, Republican-led states like Texas, Ohio, and Florida are advancing efforts to exert
insightintoacademia.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The multi-pronged assault we are facing on #HigherEd in Texas is part of a national project. We must fight back collectively, across state lines, now. 👇
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Gosh today was/is really pushing the envelope, even by 2025’s standards.
June 13, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Gosh today was/is really pushing the envelope, even by 2025’s standards.
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I’m not someone whose work often (or ever) has direct cultural relevance, but today it does, so here’s my first go at a thread. Have any of you been ogling Edward Enninful’s ensemble from the Met Gala last night? Its Regency elegance, and perfectly articulated details? (M notch, cravat, pleats?)
May 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I’m not someone whose work often (or ever) has direct cultural relevance, but today it does, so here’s my first go at a thread. Have any of you been ogling Edward Enninful’s ensemble from the Met Gala last night? Its Regency elegance, and perfectly articulated details? (M notch, cravat, pleats?)
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A battle over academic freedom is being waged in Texas, where the legislature is poised to give the state power to screen faculty, programs and courses in one of the country’s largest public university systems, and experts say the outcome could reverberate for higher education nationwide.
Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities
Opponents say a bill to end “ideological bias” in higher education would amount to a damaging takeover of public institutions, with nationwide implications.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A battle over academic freedom is being waged in Texas, where the legislature is poised to give the state power to screen faculty, programs and courses in one of the country’s largest public university systems, and experts say the outcome could reverberate for higher education nationwide.
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Another thing missing from the conversation is that science is more than just a lone professor standing noblely at their bench, pipette in hand. Are other countries going to employ the grant managers? The research techs? The undergrads? The field assistants? We're destroying an entire network.
Lots of talk about exporting US science outside of the country - no country's existing research infrastructure can handle a huge influx of US academics. "French researchers have regularly raised the issue of the comparatively low salaries and precarious contracts for many researchers in France."
France and EU to incentivise US-based scientists to come to Europe
May 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Another thing missing from the conversation is that science is more than just a lone professor standing noblely at their bench, pipette in hand. Are other countries going to employ the grant managers? The research techs? The undergrads? The field assistants? We're destroying an entire network.
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Between his attacks on NIH, NSF, and higher ed generally, Trump has very nearly placed a moratorium on public scientific research in this country, yet legacy media seems determined to frame it exclusively as a snit over Harvard.
May 2, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Taking photos of campus to remind myself UTexas once had core values. "Individual Opportunities: Many options, Diverse People and Ideas, One University." See also, "Freedom to Seek the Truth and Express it." #SB37
April 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Taking photos of campus to remind myself UTexas once had core values. "Individual Opportunities: Many options, Diverse People and Ideas, One University." See also, "Freedom to Seek the Truth and Express it." #SB37
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This comedic skit (in English) by a Chinese comedian who is also a good trump impersonator, does a pretty good job of describing humorously Trump's dumb logic regarding international trade
April 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This comedic skit (in English) by a Chinese comedian who is also a good trump impersonator, does a pretty good job of describing humorously Trump's dumb logic regarding international trade
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A plea to academic associations: if you want to engage internationally do not hold conferences in the US. Holding them there now only endorses America First
@4sonline.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
@4sonline.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A plea to academic associations: if you want to engage internationally do not hold conferences in the US. Holding them there now only endorses America First
@4sonline.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
@4sonline.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social
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Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.
April 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.
Oh this is so good. The social construction of a disease for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry. Studies show that medications for ADHD do not make anyone smarter, just appear to do more work, and feel like it is more meaningful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...
Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? (Gift Article)
With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Oh this is so good. The social construction of a disease for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry. Studies show that medications for ADHD do not make anyone smarter, just appear to do more work, and feel like it is more meaningful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...
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This is so awful. “Cutting these programs will literally roll back decades of progress and harm not only the people that have been injured, but the people that are going to be injured in the future,” says Owen Z. Perlman, a physical rehabilitation physician” @profgoldberg.bsky.social
CDC firings gut research on traumatic brain injuries
Last week’s mass layoffs removed small team studying concussions
www.science.org
April 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is so awful. “Cutting these programs will literally roll back decades of progress and harm not only the people that have been injured, but the people that are going to be injured in the future,” says Owen Z. Perlman, a physical rehabilitation physician” @profgoldberg.bsky.social
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Yes. This Nobel Prize winning worthy discovery has been just languishing there waiting for someone to find in four months the exposure no one found in decades because of the Big Conspiracy that meant no one, and I do mean no one, wanted to find the answer.
RFK Jr: "By September we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and we will be able to eliminate those exposures."
April 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Yes. This Nobel Prize winning worthy discovery has been just languishing there waiting for someone to find in four months the exposure no one found in decades because of the Big Conspiracy that meant no one, and I do mean no one, wanted to find the answer.
Class action suit loading...but at UTexas they strategically eliminated quantitative reasoning, ethics along with global cultures requirement and cultural diversity requirement. So far...
April 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Class action suit loading...but at UTexas they strategically eliminated quantitative reasoning, ethics along with global cultures requirement and cultural diversity requirement. So far...
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A science agency where researchers can't attend scientific meetings
Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT
Exclusive: US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health have been told they cannot attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their own way and go during time off, three current and former NIH scientists told Reuters.
reut.rs
April 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A science agency where researchers can't attend scientific meetings
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Trump's assault is not a good-faith reconsideration of the excesses of DEI. It is "far more an attack on the real diversity that characterizes today’s America, the real equity that a nation can aspire to, the real inclusion that marks a healthy society."
In a World of Pete Hegseths, Be a Maya Angelou
In a world of complex threats and challenges, the Department of Defense has decided to tackle one of the gravest: a quintessential piece of American literature.
www.thebulwark.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump's assault is not a good-faith reconsideration of the excesses of DEI. It is "far more an attack on the real diversity that characterizes today’s America, the real equity that a nation can aspire to, the real inclusion that marks a healthy society."
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The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*
April 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*
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When I was director of the Center for History at the American Institute of Physics we worked with university students to produce lesson plans on the History of Women and Minorities in the Physical Sciences. It's US-centered, but there are fifty lessons to explore. www.aip.org/history-prog...
Materials for Teachers and Students | American Institute of Physics
www.aip.org
April 7, 2025 at 11:58 AM
When I was director of the Center for History at the American Institute of Physics we worked with university students to produce lesson plans on the History of Women and Minorities in the Physical Sciences. It's US-centered, but there are fifty lessons to explore. www.aip.org/history-prog...
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There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
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@aaup defends the advisory role of Faculty Senates and Councils, a central part of university governance that SB 37 seeks to diminish www.statesman.com/story/news/e...
What is a faculty senate? As Texas lawmakers seek to regulate them, some defend its merit
As Texas lawmakers look to curb faculty senates, the Statesman asked professors how senators are picked, what the panels oversee and how they function
www.statesman.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
@aaup defends the advisory role of Faculty Senates and Councils, a central part of university governance that SB 37 seeks to diminish www.statesman.com/story/news/e...
Senator Cory Booker filibuster YouTube live www.youtube.com/live/N5NfmuI...
LIVE NOW: Sen. Booker will go as long as he can in marathon Senate speech to protest Trump
YouTube video by MSNBC
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Senator Cory Booker filibuster YouTube live www.youtube.com/live/N5NfmuI...