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Can Aciksoz
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Anthropologist @UCLA, author of Sacrificial Limbs
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/sacrificial-limbs/paper
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heimbergecon.bsky.social
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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miriamposner.com
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
On official UC letterhead: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA James B. Milliken President Office of the President 1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607 universityofcalifornia.edu CAMPUSES Berkeley Davis Irvine UCLA Merced Riverside San Diego San Francisco Santa Barbara Santa Cruz MEDICAL CENTERS Davis Irvine UCLA San Diego San Francisco NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES November 18, 2025 Dear Chancellors: I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive. As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California. Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines. Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership. [continued on next image] After learning more about the history and success of the program and weighing the thoughtful perspectives that have been shared, I have concluded that barring extraordinary financial setbacks, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program will continue while the University continues to assess the program's structure as well as its long-term financial sustainability. As a result of our continuing consultation and review, there may be consideration of some changes to elements of the program including the total number of incentives supported, a number that has fluctuated significantly over the years, and how the awards are distributed among campuses. In the meantime, the University will continue to fund the PPFP faculty hiring incentive program and campuses may continue to take advantage of these incentives. We will have an opportunity to discuss any potential changes prior to adoption. As we look to the future, I will continue to engage with faculty leaders, program stakeholders, and UC community members about this important program. I especially appreciate the thoughtful perspectives shared in recent weeks by Academic Council Chair Palazoglu and Vice Chair Scott, the Council of Graduate Deans, UC faculty members, and you as our campus leaders. Sincerely, James B. Milliken President
November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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sfahrenthold.bsky.social
MESA's Committee on Academic Freedom letter in support of Dr. Tamar Shirinian, who UT Knoxville suspended on dubious grounds of "uncivil" social media postings.

MESA continues to lead the academy in standing firm in support of faculty!

mesana.org/advocacy/com...
Middle East Studies Association
Our letter expressing concern about the capricious and hasty suspension of Assistant Professor Tamar Shirinian of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and your dec...
mesana.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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sfahrenthold.bsky.social
Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.

Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.

EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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jordanuhl.com
The Global Sumud Flotilla en route to Gaza is nearing the expected interception point by Israeli forces.

You can watch a livestream of some of the boats here:

www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...
24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA
YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla
www.youtube.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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partialobserver.bsky.social
If you’ll recall, the “antisemitism” at UCLA involved primarily campus police allowing Zionist counter protesters to attack the pro-Palestinian camps (incl. many Jewish participants) while they did nothing, and arresting the anti-genocide students & faculty afterwards.
August 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
canaciksoz.bsky.social
Happy belated Father's Day, Mahmoud Khalil!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Federal judge orders release of Mahmoud Khalil from Ice detention
Columbia graduate had been held for over three months over his activism against Israel’s war in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
canaciksoz.bsky.social
A good read from 2014: "Israel has been stealing nuclear secrets and covertly making bombs since the 1950s. And western governments, including Britain and the US, turn a blind eye. But how can we expect Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions if the Israelis won't come clean?"
The truth about Israel's secret nuclear arsenal
Israel has been stealing nuclear secrets and covertly making bombs since the 1950s. And western governments, including Britain and the US, turn a blind eye. But how can we expect Iran to curb its nucl...
www.theguardian.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
canaciksoz.bsky.social
Israel started a war with Iran, but it doesn’t know how it ends mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...
Israel started a war with Iran, but it doesn’t know how it ends
Israel’s attack on Iran began as a campaign against its nuclear program but has already begun to morph into something far riskier: regime change. It is staking its strategy on deep US involvement, but...
mondoweiss.net
June 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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aclu.org
The people of Los Angeles will rally on Monday, 6/9 to demand the release of everyone unjustly detained by ICE, like SEIU leader David Huerta, and an end to militaristic escalation on our communities.

Join us and @aclusocal.bsky.social at 11 AM in LA to call for an end to these human rights abuses.
Free David Huerta, Rally Against ICE Raids
I'm attending this event - sign up now to join me!
act.aclu.org
June 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨

Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs:

Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate

LA Jail Support / Bail Fund:
account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor...

Unión del Barrio:
uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...
June 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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premthakker.bsky.social
Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos.

Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":
May 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
canaciksoz.bsky.social
Love this! Our friendly antifa grandparents deliver the most
important legal advice to the next generation: When you are at the police custody or at the border: STFU!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWEp...
NLG Know Your Rights reminder: Shut the f*** up!
YouTube video by National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & MI
www.youtube.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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reuning.bsky.social
A faculty member spoke to the University of California system president prior to graduation about concerns over how the UC system responded to protestors and so they had the faculty member removed by the police.
sfahrenthold.bsky.social Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · May 20
"It is alarming that the administration would deploy law enforcement in response to something a faculty member says simply because their comments are uncomfortable or inconvenient."

mailchi.mp/cucfa/statem...
Statement condemning faculty member removal from commencement
mailchi.mp
May 20, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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bostonreview.bsky.social
“The very idea that it is dangerous to distinguish between felt harm and actionable injury is a symptom of how gutted our political imaginations have become.”

Alex Gourevitch on the specious justifications of the McCarthyist crackdowns on pro-Palestinian speech and protest:
The Right to Be Hostile - Boston Review
Crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protest force a reckoning with inflated definitions of harm and harassment.
www.bostonreview.net
May 16, 2025 at 10:22 PM
canaciksoz.bsky.social
Now that our government places so much importance on “balanced curriculum” we can start the mass recruitment of Marxist economists in economics departments.
April 16, 2025 at 6:12 PM
canaciksoz.bsky.social
“Viewpoint diversity!” What a euphemism they’ve invented! Rest of the world calls an authoritarian government pressuring universities to staff them with its supporters with other names: Nepotism, clientelism, patronage…
April 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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zhiyingma.bsky.social
The book is officially out today! I can't wait to return to Chicago and hold my copy in hand! @socmedanthro.bsky.social
dukepress.bsky.social Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Feb 27
In "Between Families and Institutions" @zhiyingma.bsky.social examines how the contemporary Chinese state’s biopolitical governance impacts families’ involvement in the psychiatric care of their close relatives. Read the intro for free now! #Anthropology #AsianStudies
https://buff.ly/4blj2dp
Cover of Between Families and Institutions: Mental Health and Biopolitical Paternalism in Contemporary China by Zhiying Ma. Background features artwork by Sophie Hing-Yee Cheung, a collage of white rectangular erasers covered in marbled streaks of newspaper ink. The title is centered and framed by a black and purple ink drawing that evokes a tree shape.
April 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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pblock8.bsky.social
Another amazing new book and note the discount codes #disabilty #disabilityanthropology #anthropology #culturalanthropology #medicalanthropology #casca @socmedanthro.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
canaciksoz.bsky.social
“The puzzle of Trumpism has been solved. We no longer require safaris to midwestern diners to illuminate it. Journalists and commentators no longer need to employ euphemism or coin neologisms to describe it.“

www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...
Yes, It's Fascism
It’s not an omen or threat or hint of fascism—it’s the thing itself.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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mbazzi.bsky.social
The Signal fiasco is obscuring an essential question: Why is the US bombing Yemen? — my latest for @theguardian.com | www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
March 27, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social
Rashid Khalidi's lyrical rage against Columbia University: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university? | Rashid Khalidi
Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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tutusntinyhats.bsky.social
Boston/Somerville: 🚨emergency rally TONIGHT for a Tufts student abducted by ICE!🚨
A yellow and black graphic with a picture of people protesting holding Palestinian flags. The words say: stand with Rumeysa Ozturk: Tufts PhD student abducted by the Trump administration. Emergency rally, March 26th 5:30 p.m., Powder House Square Park. Stand up fight back! Keep ICE out of our community
March 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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bilgeyesil.bsky.social
Back on Twitter after a year (or more?) because that’s where I can get all the news abt the ongoing protests (and yes Bluesky is still very N. American)
Anyway, I just wanted to share this amazing poster from today’s protests
March 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM