Justine S. Murison
@jsmurison.bsky.social
C19 enthusiast | Professor and Head of English
at UIUC | Out now! Faith in Exposure from
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at UIUC | Out now! Faith in Exposure from
PennPress
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Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.
A study finds, US based academic research institutes account for 50% of new medical drugs in the last 4 years. 🧪
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
#science #savescience #stat
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#science #savescience #stat
We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us
From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.
www.statnews.com
June 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.
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No no you misunderstand. Learn to Code was the scam that beget the scam!
An interesting angle to blame the Learn to Code movement when the real problem is the outrageous and infinitely destructuve 'ai' scam
June 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
No no you misunderstand. Learn to Code was the scam that beget the scam!
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Beginning to think these tariffs are a lot like that chapter I promised for your edited collection.
May 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Beginning to think these tariffs are a lot like that chapter I promised for your edited collection.
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the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back
an overwhelming percentage of cuts at the NSF are to STEM education. experts see it as part of a broader attack on DEI, as well as on education as a whole.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s...
Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers
www.nytimes.com
May 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back
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Many students were recently admitted to Harvard (to various programs), and even if Harvard gets an injunction the students may choose to go elsewhere thinking it’s risky and the may end up having to transfer. Even if Noem loses in court it has caused irreparable damage, at least for coming year 1/
May 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Many students were recently admitted to Harvard (to various programs), and even if Harvard gets an injunction the students may choose to go elsewhere thinking it’s risky and the may end up having to transfer. Even if Noem loses in court it has caused irreparable damage, at least for coming year 1/
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say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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This was an amazing event: celebrating my excellent colleagues in the UIUC English Department 🥇🥇🥇
Maybe Shelley’s banned poem “England in 1819” was quoted 😭 Maybe the words “darkness” and “storms” came up a lot in the speeches ⛈️ But we are all still working very hard to do our best ♥️
Maybe Shelley’s banned poem “England in 1819” was quoted 😭 Maybe the words “darkness” and “storms” came up a lot in the speeches ⛈️ But we are all still working very hard to do our best ♥️
April 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This was an amazing event: celebrating my excellent colleagues in the UIUC English Department 🥇🥇🥇
Maybe Shelley’s banned poem “England in 1819” was quoted 😭 Maybe the words “darkness” and “storms” came up a lot in the speeches ⛈️ But we are all still working very hard to do our best ♥️
Maybe Shelley’s banned poem “England in 1819” was quoted 😭 Maybe the words “darkness” and “storms” came up a lot in the speeches ⛈️ But we are all still working very hard to do our best ♥️
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Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.
April 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.
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The Department of English at UIUC is hiring full-time Lecturers to teach composition: $58k to start, a 3/3 load, no service requirement, health insurance and other benefits! Positions are covered by a CBA (www.local6546.org), and come with support and notice rights. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Lecturer- English
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illinois.csod.com
March 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The Department of English at UIUC is hiring full-time Lecturers to teach composition: $58k to start, a 3/3 load, no service requirement, health insurance and other benefits! Positions are covered by a CBA (www.local6546.org), and come with support and notice rights. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
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March 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
March 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
From my counterpart U of I English Department head in Chicago, this is a must-read on public higher education, its joys and its current crisis.
“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
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March 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
From my counterpart U of I English Department head in Chicago, this is a must-read on public higher education, its joys and its current crisis.
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This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled?
March 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.
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My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
February 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.
I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.
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This lab is steps away from the press—I park right by the building every day.
The richest man in the world is destroying American livelihoods & ensuring our country lags far behind the world in research & innovation
The richest man in the world is destroying American livelihoods & ensuring our country lags far behind the world in research & innovation
February 12, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This lab is steps away from the press—I park right by the building every day.
The richest man in the world is destroying American livelihoods & ensuring our country lags far behind the world in research & innovation
The richest man in the world is destroying American livelihoods & ensuring our country lags far behind the world in research & innovation
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There are already impacts on all of us since Trump closed USAID. This soy research lab is just one of many bad consequences for America.
February 8, 2025 at 3:40 PM
There are already impacts on all of us since Trump closed USAID. This soy research lab is just one of many bad consequences for America.
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I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
December 11, 2024 at 4:33 PM
I'm *thrilled* that my book was shortlisted for the MLA Prize for a First Book! Enormous thanks to the committee for honoring RENDERED OBSOLETE, and congratulations to the winners, Adhaar Noor Desai and Miya Qiong Xie!
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
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This has been a labor of love over the last two years w @weisenburg.bsky.social and the Emerson Society and we hope you like it!
thedialjournal.org
thedialjournal.org
The Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
thedialjournal.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:08 PM
This has been a labor of love over the last two years w @weisenburg.bsky.social and the Emerson Society and we hope you like it!
thedialjournal.org
thedialjournal.org
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November 11, 2024 at 9:10 PM
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We at the Center for Advanced Study Climate | Change Initiative are very excited to host @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, who will be talking with us about infrastructure and climate change. If you're anywhere nearby, please come to the lecture this Wednesday 11/29 at 4pm!
cas.illinois.edu/node/2844
cas.illinois.edu/node/2844
Untimely Infrastructure | Center for Advanced Study
cas.illinois.edu
November 28, 2023 at 1:26 AM
We at the Center for Advanced Study Climate | Change Initiative are very excited to host @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, who will be talking with us about infrastructure and climate change. If you're anywhere nearby, please come to the lecture this Wednesday 11/29 at 4pm!
cas.illinois.edu/node/2844
cas.illinois.edu/node/2844
Thrilled to announce this "hell-fired" book has arrived!
October 27, 2023 at 2:01 PM
Thrilled to announce this "hell-fired" book has arrived!
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next week!
Capitalism, Climate, and Cultural Study
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Stacey Balkan, Paul Downes, Jennifer James, and this dork
Capitalism, Climate, and Cultural Study
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Stacey Balkan, Paul Downes, Jennifer James, and this dork
September 18, 2023 at 12:23 PM
next week!
Capitalism, Climate, and Cultural Study
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Stacey Balkan, Paul Downes, Jennifer James, and this dork
Capitalism, Climate, and Cultural Study
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Stacey Balkan, Paul Downes, Jennifer James, and this dork
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Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.
An Open Letter from Faculty at West Virginia University - Boston Review
The crisis here spells disaster for the future of public education.
www.bostonreview.net
September 7, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.