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They unilaterally canceled a faculty hiring initiative so successful it’s become a national model. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program
Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.
www.insidehighered.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:37 AM
They unilaterally canceled a faculty hiring initiative so successful it’s become a national model. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
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They are, right now, considering new rules to limit what we can say in public and share information on our conduct with the police. Now. This is what they are doing. While we console panicked students and try to put our work back together. senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/under...
senate.universityofcalifornia.edu
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
They are, right now, considering new rules to limit what we can say in public and share information on our conduct with the police. Now. This is what they are doing. While we console panicked students and try to put our work back together. senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/under...
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I mean we had to sue them to *see the demand letter*. And when they lost they appealed to a higher court! www.latimes.com/california/s...
Under court order, UC publicly releases Trump administration's $1.2-billion settlement proposal
The California Supreme Court on Friday declined a request from the University of California to block the release of a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement, leading UCLA to publish the document o...
www.latimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I mean we had to sue them to *see the demand letter*. And when they lost they appealed to a higher court! www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Sorry, I’m sure I sound abysmally negative in a celebratory moment, but it’s important to know that UC admin have fought us every step of the way as we attempted to stand up for our university. It’s become very clear to many of us that they view the values we cherish as impediments to their work.
November 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Sorry, I’m sure I sound abysmally negative in a celebratory moment, but it’s important to know that UC admin have fought us every step of the way as we attempted to stand up for our university. It’s become very clear to many of us that they view the values we cherish as impediments to their work.
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Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc
November 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc