Jason Brozek
@jasonbrozek.bsky.social
Associate Prof of poli sci/enviro policy at a small liberal arts college. Teaching international politics & doing local advocacy for bikes, peds, parks, and libraries.
“Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers ‘responsibly.’”
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
October 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
“Nobody has ever studied the harmful effects of hammers on learning and concluded that teachers must all hit their students with hammers ‘responsibly.’”
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Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.
August 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was.
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International student decisions are sort of like business decisions: big multi-year investments that you become less likely to make under uncertain conditions in politically erratic places.
“Since it was too late to apply elsewhere for his undergraduate years, “I can only brace myself,” said Mr. Li, who plans to study applied mathematics. But, “in the future, if I can avoid going to the United States to study, I will. They make people too scared.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...
‘They Make People Too Scared’: Chinese Students Reckon With U.S. Visa Bans
www.nytimes.com
May 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
International student decisions are sort of like business decisions: big multi-year investments that you become less likely to make under uncertain conditions in politically erratic places.
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Awful: Trump just blamed foreign students for taking the slots of American kids. But the cuts in the House GOP bill he's pushing could cost hundreds of thousands of working class kids their route to college.
Those two things are connected. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1957...
Those two things are connected. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1957...
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Gets More Deranged—and Exposes a Big MAGA Scam
Trump says he’s attacking foreign students because they’re taking places reserved for American kids. But the House GOP budget bill would hurt countless American students from the working class.
newrepublic.com
May 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Awful: Trump just blamed foreign students for taking the slots of American kids. But the cuts in the House GOP bill he's pushing could cost hundreds of thousands of working class kids their route to college.
Those two things are connected. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1957...
Those two things are connected. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/1957...
Agreed - not a single word of this is hyperbole.
I wish this was hyperbole but the facts speak for themselves. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Administration Is Trying to Kill American Higher Education
I don't care about the "why" -- I care about the "what."
danieldrezner.substack.com
May 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Agreed - not a single word of this is hyperbole.
In environmental security research, there’s an open empirical question of whether we’ve ever seen a war over water. I’m reading updates from India & Pakistan tonight and wondering if that question will be settled by tomorrow.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
May 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
In environmental security research, there’s an open empirical question of whether we’ve ever seen a war over water. I’m reading updates from India & Pakistan tonight and wondering if that question will be settled by tomorrow.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
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This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.
The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
April 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.
The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.
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We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
This is the text of the email just sent to hundreds of international students telling them that their visas have been revoked due to activism or social media posts.
March 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
Not content to let the Trump admin attack higher ed from a federal level without jumping on the pile.
This is dystopian. The goal is to destroy colleges & universities.
This is dystopian. The goal is to destroy colleges & universities.
BREAKING: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday signed into law a massive higher education overhaul to ban diversity efforts, regulate classroom discussion, and prohibit faculty strikes, among other things. The law will take effect in 90 days.
Ohio Gov. DeWine signs higher ed bill regulating classroom discussion and banning diversity efforts • Ohio Capital Journal
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a massive higher education bill that would ban diversity and equity and prohibit faculty from striking into law into law Friday afternoon. The bill will take effect in 90…
buff.ly
March 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Not content to let the Trump admin attack higher ed from a federal level without jumping on the pile.
This is dystopian. The goal is to destroy colleges & universities.
This is dystopian. The goal is to destroy colleges & universities.
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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
March 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
Complying our way to the graveyard
US academia should be clear eyed about the danger here: compliance with the administration will not save our universities, because the stated goal is their destruction
March 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Complying our way to the graveyard
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I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist
March 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I am working out of a public library and there are a good number of people who seem to be on hard times using the facilities for various reasons like job searching, entertainment, charging peripherals, using the bathroom, etc., and I am struck by how important it is that libraries continue to exist
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How to support your library:
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
March 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
How to support your library:
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
-Use it
-Talk about it positively to others, including social media
-Show up to city council meetings
-Show up to library board meetings
-Run for library board seats
-Become a friend of the library
-contact your rep when a bill affects libraries
-give to fundraisers
Time to (maybe, possibly) start getting fired up for the #bm100 & @keithdunn.bsky.social
A conch, a cigarette, and then the weirdo superbowl of ultra trail running kicks off for 2.5 days of the most sporadic action you can imagine. I can’t wait.
A conch, a cigarette, and then the weirdo superbowl of ultra trail running kicks off for 2.5 days of the most sporadic action you can imagine. I can’t wait.
For those with serious #bm100 itches, there's a superb new documentary from last year's epic now online.
youtu.be/uyX4GRm7NeY?...
youtu.be/uyX4GRm7NeY?...
The Edge of Possible: A Barkley Marathons Tale (Full Documentary)
YouTube video by Epic Tales
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March 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Time to (maybe, possibly) start getting fired up for the #bm100 & @keithdunn.bsky.social
A conch, a cigarette, and then the weirdo superbowl of ultra trail running kicks off for 2.5 days of the most sporadic action you can imagine. I can’t wait.
A conch, a cigarette, and then the weirdo superbowl of ultra trail running kicks off for 2.5 days of the most sporadic action you can imagine. I can’t wait.
Boosting a superb idea i just read: cancel your Amazon Prime / Kindle subscriptions and join your local library’s Friends group instead. (And get a library card if you don’t already have one!)
March 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Boosting a superb idea i just read: cancel your Amazon Prime / Kindle subscriptions and join your local library’s Friends group instead. (And get a library card if you don’t already have one!)
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Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
Hitting Pause on the ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter
The Department of Education is overstepping its bounds and infringing on constitutional rights.
www.chronicle.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Here, I explain how the February 14 "Dear Colleague" letter is a widely expansive distortion of the court’s ruling in SFFA. Institutional responses should remain focused on areas that the Supreme Court addressed and not expand to those clearly outside its purview.
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
www.chronicle.com/article/hitt...
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Even if our institutions aren’t reading this analysis it feels valuable for us to do so. Thx to @raceip.bsky.social for sharing with me:
Regulation By Intimidation: OCR's Title VI Dear Colleague Letter
In a move that appears motivated more by intimidation than actual enforcement power, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights issued a Dear Colleague Letter late in the evening on Fri...
educationcivilrights.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Even if our institutions aren’t reading this analysis it feels valuable for us to do so. Thx to @raceip.bsky.social for sharing with me:
Stripping federal funds from any institution that has “race-conscious” activities or programming is dystopian.
It’s hard to overstate what it feels like to be in higher ed right now.
It’s hard to overstate what it feels like to be in higher ed right now.
soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
Trump admin threatens to rescind federal funds over DEI
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, cultural centers and even graduation ceremonies illegal.
www.insidehighered.com
February 16, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Stripping federal funds from any institution that has “race-conscious” activities or programming is dystopian.
It’s hard to overstate what it feels like to be in higher ed right now.
It’s hard to overstate what it feels like to be in higher ed right now.
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If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
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is it woke to want to end cancer?
NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
is it woke to want to end cancer?
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No more HHMI grants for inclusive excellence in STEM, and in-progress work has been terminated. Another capitulation to the segregationists.
February 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
No more HHMI grants for inclusive excellence in STEM, and in-progress work has been terminated. Another capitulation to the segregationists.
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Fuck every single person who whined about 'fairness' in sport and thus paved the way for the fundamental unfairness of denying people the right to exist in the spaces that align with who they are.
www.espn.com/college-spor...
www.espn.com/college-spor...
February 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Fuck every single person who whined about 'fairness' in sport and thus paved the way for the fundamental unfairness of denying people the right to exist in the spaces that align with who they are.
www.espn.com/college-spor...
www.espn.com/college-spor...
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in less than eight years the NCAA went from banning North Carolina from hosting championships due to its bathroom bill to... this.
Statement from NCAA president Charlie Baker on Donald Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports.
Says the NCAA will move quickly to align with the EO.
Says the NCAA will move quickly to align with the EO.
February 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
in less than eight years the NCAA went from banning North Carolina from hosting championships due to its bathroom bill to... this.
My friend @lizzyshack.bsky.social is spot-on here: time for members of Congress to start acting like they actually meant all that campaign rhetoric about looming authoritarianism, or their ability to check Trump's power may be permanently lost.
These acts are all existential threats to the Constitution. “Unless Congress takes its power back, the costs to our country and citizens as a result will be incalculable.” www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/04/o...
Elizabeth Shackelford: Congress should use its power against Trump
On Jan. 27, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo ordering all federal agencies to “temporarily pause” provision of all federal financial assistance to assess complian…
www.chicagotribune.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My friend @lizzyshack.bsky.social is spot-on here: time for members of Congress to start acting like they actually meant all that campaign rhetoric about looming authoritarianism, or their ability to check Trump's power may be permanently lost.
Hard to imagine that NSF won’t be far behind.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Hard to imagine that NSF won’t be far behind.