Degrees Later
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Setting up a BlueSky feed to embed here: https://www.uncglibraries.com/degreeslater - wanna follow the path of neoliberalism's detrimental effect on higher ed? Check it out. Especially made for students <3
It's not the universities' fault. It's because this administration is destroying higher Ed in this country intentionally.
January 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
It's not the universities' fault. It's because this administration is destroying higher Ed in this country intentionally.
This is bullshit. Higher ed isn't just job training and you cannot, in this day and age, determine how much money someone is going to earn. For example, I am a baby historian and I am in graduate school. It's not a "lucrative career" path but it's an important one. 1/5
January 15, 2026 at 1:28 PM
This is bullshit. Higher ed isn't just job training and you cannot, in this day and age, determine how much money someone is going to earn. For example, I am a baby historian and I am in graduate school. It's not a "lucrative career" path but it's an important one. 1/5
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Amazon's new $50 wearable AI device records and transcribes daily activities - a fascinating case study in how surveillance tech gets normalized through consumer convenience. The privacy implications for vulnerable populations deserve serious academic attention. #AcademicSky #AI
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January 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Amazon's new $50 wearable AI device records and transcribes daily activities - a fascinating case study in how surveillance tech gets normalized through consumer convenience. The privacy implications for vulnerable populations deserve serious academic attention. #AcademicSky #AI
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Interesting challenge for urbanists! Richardson's linguistics research shows connection to nature erodes with urbanisation, yet nature-connectedness drives pro-environmental behaviours (like biodiversity protection & actions against climate change): doi.org/10.3390/eart...
#Urbanism+ #AcademicSky
#Urbanism+ #AcademicSky
January 11, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Interesting challenge for urbanists! Richardson's linguistics research shows connection to nature erodes with urbanisation, yet nature-connectedness drives pro-environmental behaviours (like biodiversity protection & actions against climate change): doi.org/10.3390/eart...
#Urbanism+ #AcademicSky
#Urbanism+ #AcademicSky
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This is such a good episode. Every academic should listen to it, no matter your discipline, especially now with discussions around intelligence. We all deal with biases and claims of neutrality/objectivity, but what are we really measuring and interpreting, and how? #academicsky
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why it Matters: A Conversation with Christine Webb | Speaking Out OF Place
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January 11, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This is such a good episode. Every academic should listen to it, no matter your discipline, especially now with discussions around intelligence. We all deal with biases and claims of neutrality/objectivity, but what are we really measuring and interpreting, and how? #academicsky
Unreal.
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
December 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Unreal.
We see you, Georgetown. I bet there is plenty of administrative bloat you could have trimmed...
dailynous.com/2025/12/24/g...
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Georgetown Philosophy Suspends PhD Admissions for Fall 2026 - Daily Nous
The Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University will not be accepting any PhD students for the 2026-2027 academic year. The decision is owed to "budget constraints" and was directed by the Colle...
dailynous.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We see you, Georgetown. I bet there is plenty of administrative bloat you could have trimmed...
dailynous.com/2025/12/24/g...
dailynous.com/2025/12/24/g...
I hate this for academia.
📑From October: "Pierre Bourdieu famously described sociology as a “martial art“. With this phrase, he emphasised that academic practice is not only a search for truth, but also a form of struggle"
#Bourdieu #ECRchat #AcademicSky
#Bourdieu #ECRchat #AcademicSky
Academic careers have become a professional sport - Impact of Social Sciences
Academia like professional sports is increasingly a system defined by competition, precarity and quantification does this lead to a loss of meaning?
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December 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I hate this for academia.
This is why neoliberals and conservatives hate the humanities and social sciences... We study stuff like this, and peace isn't good for the neoliberal agenda.
#AcademicSky
New study:
More women in power ==> less war.
Sign me up.
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New study:
More women in power ==> less war.
Sign me up.
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December 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is why neoliberals and conservatives hate the humanities and social sciences... We study stuff like this, and peace isn't good for the neoliberal agenda.
I can't with these people anymore.
New cut-&-paste legislation for lawmakers to propose across the US targets non-STEM faculty research & teaching for additional scrutiny & higher teaching loads, unless they teach courses in Western Civ & ‘Amercanism,’ which then they could go up for tenure without having research reviewed.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I can't with these people anymore.
"metrics" are for marketplaces.
Wisconsin public universities could start shedding programs more rapidly. A committee developed a new metric based on enrollment that could increase the number of degrees that get flagged for review.
www.highereddive.com/news/univers...
www.highereddive.com/news/univers...
Wisconsin public universities could start shedding programs more rapidly
A committee developed a new metric based on enrollment that could increase the number of degrees that get flagged for review.
www.highereddive.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"metrics" are for marketplaces.
"we're just baffled..."
Late stage capitalism couldn't possibly be the reason people are mentally ill.
fortune.com/2025/12/12/r...
Late stage capitalism couldn't possibly be the reason people are mentally ill.
fortune.com/2025/12/12/r...
40% of Stanford undergrads receive disability accommodations—but it’s become a college-wide phenomenon as Gen Z try to succeed in the current climate | Fortune
Demand for disability accommodations is skyrocketing as Gen Z faces intensifying mental-health pressures and experiments with new routes to success.
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December 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"we're just baffled..."
Late stage capitalism couldn't possibly be the reason people are mentally ill.
fortune.com/2025/12/12/r...
Late stage capitalism couldn't possibly be the reason people are mentally ill.
fortune.com/2025/12/12/r...
Monitor this middle finger.
Lecturer at Indiana University removed from classroom for equating MAGA w/white supremacy returns to teaching but with a monitor. #highereducation #FirstAmendment #academicfreedom www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...
Lecturer Sanctioned Over MAGA White Supremacy Lesson Is Back in Class
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December 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Monitor this middle finger.
*sigh*
Here we go again. Now programs are at threat for losing federal loan possibility if they show "low earning potential" www.facebook.com/share/v/17jU...
Here we go again. Now programs are at threat for losing federal loan possibility if they show "low earning potential" www.facebook.com/share/v/17jU...
Redirecting...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
*sigh*
Here we go again. Now programs are at threat for losing federal loan possibility if they show "low earning potential" www.facebook.com/share/v/17jU...
Here we go again. Now programs are at threat for losing federal loan possibility if they show "low earning potential" www.facebook.com/share/v/17jU...
I don't think they're going to be too successful in Massachusetts. People are far too educated there.
PERSPECTIVES: New College Becomes Model for Extending Conservative Reach in Higher Education futureu.education/higher-ed/pe...
PERSPECTIVES: New College Becomes Model for Extending Conservative Reach in Higher Education - Future U
Mimi Fuller, New College student: “It’s not promoting that free-thinking, free-speech environment that they brag about. It’s free speech when it comes to what (they) want."
futureu.education
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I don't think they're going to be too successful in Massachusetts. People are far too educated there.
Northwestern has shown its colors.
PERSPECTIVES: “Northwestern has Abdicated its Duty to Uphold Principles Crucial for Higher Education” futureu.education/fascist-neol...
PERSPECTIVES: "Northwestern has Abdicated its Duty to Uphold Principles Crucial for Higher Education" - Future U
"Concerned alumni ... withhold from NU money to pay off Trump’s extortion and donate to the AAUP Foundation, which is successfully supporting litigation in defense of academic freedom."
futureu.education
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Northwestern has shown its colors.
It actually started in the 1970s when conservative and libertarian think tanks came into being. After 10 years of drafting an agenda to do this, they put ole ronnie puppet in office to carry out their first Mandate for Leadership. And oh did he.
100%!!! The wealth & income disparity started with cutting higher education funding and trickle down propaganda in the '80s & expanded with tax cuts in '01, '03 & '17 & near elimination of estate/inheritance taxes in '11.
This IS the GOP long game of re-establishing a WASP aristocracy.
This IS the GOP long game of re-establishing a WASP aristocracy.
December 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It actually started in the 1970s when conservative and libertarian think tanks came into being. After 10 years of drafting an agenda to do this, they put ole ronnie puppet in office to carry out their first Mandate for Leadership. And oh did he.
I think we learned from what happened with the encampments what Chapel Hill really stands for these days. Sad but true.
This is the sad and inevitable result of the Supreme Court striking down race-conscious admissions in higher ed: Today, there are fewer Black students at UNC's flagship university, and they feel less welcome. via @batkinson2501.bsky.social (1/1) www.wunc.org/education/20...
Two years on from Supreme Court decision, Black students feel less welcome at UNC-Chapel Hill
Two years after the US Supreme Court outlawed race conscious admissions, Carolina's incoming classes have had 25% fewer Black students. After administrators eliminated DEI support programs, students w...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I think we learned from what happened with the encampments what Chapel Hill really stands for these days. Sad but true.