Are the candidates you support strictly Democrats, or are there any Independents?

I’ve never been in-person, and the times online soured me on participating. I was a grad student SIG officer; my experience was markedly neutral. Even w/ financial support, I couldn’t really justify travel to AERA over other opportunities in Spring or later in the year.

Thank you for linking as a gift article! I hope public higher education institutions join the fight for their students, faculty, workers, and the people they serve. It's so wrong that the U.S. federal government is fighting researchers, teachers, and clinicians who improve the lives of so many.

I was hoping Ironbeak Owls would’ve made it since they’ve been silencing minions in Hearthstone since the beginning. In WoW, it seems like they’re just tameable NPCs in Felwood.

A real shame, but expected outcome when a graduate from Columbia University in New York gets moved to a detention center in Louisiana, famously known for its just carceral system and court cases (/s, btw). This is a time for students at universities to speak out. Where are the free speech defenders?

SERU is a good survey to monitor trends across participating research universities. Increased off-campus employment is part of it, but post-pandemic facilities and service costs have rapidly increased. Student union room rental prices went up, so students often meet on Zoom / Discord instead.

Unfortanately, D1 basketball (and other forms of entertainment) and governmental human trafficking are profitable for airlines and charter flight companies. This is very important research that highlights who benefits from exploitation and denial of due process.

I hope FL universities respond w/ “No u!” or “No.” If they want someone to locate all of the grey literature from the last 6 years, they can fund graduate assistantships and write out a well-formulated public-facing proposal with rationale, instead of assigning busy work.

"BuT wOn'T sOmEOnE ThInK oF tHE ChILDRen?! I hErd TheY puT ThAt StUFf in HallOwEen CanDy! AnD kiDs Are SMoL sO thEY'll OD."

There are so many ways to address safety and access that have nothing to do with the product, but those are hard, and bans are easy and seen as "decisive action."

That seems reasonable, but I think it depends on field, number of authors / their contributions. Open peer review post-publication could be interesting, too. Grad/undergrad student authors on large collaborative works should get credit, but probably shouldn't be obligated to review in the same way.

There are enough fields and journals for lots of experimentation. I like the idea of giving reviewers choice, and the negatives listed in the article are still present in current peer review. Publishers would want to know impacts to their bottomline and researchers would want to see changes in IF.

As a Tulane/LSU alum w/ a dissertation on Louisiana high school students' transition to college, this could have mixed results w/ an upside for smaller universities to stabilize enrollments and develop first-year retention programs. Many who qualify for TOPS Honors now choose other states.

He has concepts of a plan, using the Project 2025 playbook to mess w/ our groceries.

He is also doing everything to destroy our research infrastructure, our climate, and our neighbors’ families.

You’ve done a lot as a senior senator, but this time is different from 2016-2020. Continue fighting.

The tenure clock and voting procedures can always be adjusted, and teaching/service should be valued more alongside research. But tenure protections seems irreplaceable for academic freedom. Restructuring around one boss just seems like giving too much power to a deanlet / ass.dean.

What should faculty do to create a more collegial atmosphere around hiring, tenure, and promotion? Alternatives in other sectors wouldn’t work, and holistic reviews introduce many other biases (student evals, dean / provostial budget perspectives, political approvals at public schools).

No. Currently, 3 votes on a 5 person board would be the majority, but those same 3 votes could be outnumbered w/ help from unelected members. The people of LA gain zero representation this way. People want reliable utilities; adding 2 unelected LPSC members doesn’t improve anything.

Young adults and those starting families probably do a first pass when it comes to affordability, and then compare places to live on a tier list. Safety is a factor, and I would imagine this weighs differently for different groups. I’m personally more scared of cars at night than random crime.

Countering bad faith arguments is so exhausting. Vague claims like “It diSrUpTs tEh leaRnIng enVironment” or “BuT muh NatIoNaL sEcuRitY” are spewed out when there is no defensible response. Suspiciously, these only come up when some groups protest, but never when others rally around hate.

Landry is so conditioned for failure. Rather than making good changes to the budget, he gambled on changing the LA Constitution w/ low voter turnout, then blamed voters / Soros / Wall Street banks for his policy failures. The children he claims to support would say he has a “skill issue.”