Matt Martello
@mattmartello.bsky.social
advising fellow & lecturer @ UVA
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The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down
How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education
newrepublic.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
newrepublic.com/article/2013...
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The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
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14 of my publications -- basically everything I've ever thought or written-- went into AI training datasets without my consent or knowledge
March 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
14 of my publications -- basically everything I've ever thought or written-- went into AI training datasets without my consent or knowledge
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shitty economic historians define “post-modernism” challenge: impossible
Fash trying to figure out how to make NIH/NSF cuts kill the humanities, which don't get NIH/NSF funds.
March 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
shitty economic historians define “post-modernism” challenge: impossible
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Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
March 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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I really hope if we ever make it out of this that people remember the lost generation who had no chance to be part of the field.
I hate doing this but I think I need to reiterate that this is an absolutely awful time to be an adjunct and/or on the job market.
If you have any research funding left to spare, this would be a great time to spend it on hiring a freelance academic to edit your work and/or help with your research
If you have any research funding left to spare, this would be a great time to spend it on hiring a freelance academic to edit your work and/or help with your research
March 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I really hope if we ever make it out of this that people remember the lost generation who had no chance to be part of the field.
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"freedom of the press." A bit of emphatic marginalia on a copy of the 1776 Pennsylvania Constitution, article 12: "That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing, and publishing their sentiments." @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.
March 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
"freedom of the press." A bit of emphatic marginalia on a copy of the 1776 Pennsylvania Constitution, article 12: "That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing, and publishing their sentiments." @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.
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A complex and confusing scheme whose myriad corrupt dimensions would take, I don’t know, a second-grader to sniff out
March 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
A complex and confusing scheme whose myriad corrupt dimensions would take, I don’t know, a second-grader to sniff out
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👇🎯 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.
I don't disagree that the US university business model was/is fragile, but surely not for this reason?
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
There is no society in the history of humanity that has successfully built a good university system without massive govt subsidies. US had already pushed the idea very far.
March 8, 2025 at 8:45 PM
👇🎯 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.
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March 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Nikola Jokic with the first 30-20-20 game in NBA history 🤯
March 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Nikola Jokic with the first 30-20-20 game in NBA history 🤯
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I'd go to a conference on the beginning of the university and the past of criticism
March 8, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I'd go to a conference on the beginning of the university and the past of criticism
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public school teachers are fighting for books—any books—in schools by the way
March 8, 2025 at 12:48 AM
public school teachers are fighting for books—any books—in schools by the way
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What's even the point of research then? What are we doing here folks? Just the endless circulation of nonsense that no one will read read or write for the sake of speed and circulation itself. Anti-intellectual. Anti-theory. Just straight @annakornbluh.bsky.social's Immediacy. No chaser
Nothing to see here, just Nature advocating LLM peer review.
“Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”
“Feed your dictated notes into an offline large language model (LLM) to clarify and organize your feedback. A simple prompt such as “Write a critical reviewer letter based on the following notes. Maintain a professional tone throughout”
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
What's even the point of research then? What are we doing here folks? Just the endless circulation of nonsense that no one will read read or write for the sake of speed and circulation itself. Anti-intellectual. Anti-theory. Just straight @annakornbluh.bsky.social's Immediacy. No chaser
… what now?
New @nature.com, ever feel like it takes way too long for you to peer-review a manuscript? AI, plus some voice-control tools, may be able to help. By Dritjon Gruda 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Three AI-powered steps to faster, smarter peer review
Tired of spending countless hours on peer reviews? An AI-assisted workflow could help.
www.nature.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
… what now?
We should all agree not to use the word “lyric” for like a year. Just see what happens
March 5, 2025 at 12:19 AM
We should all agree not to use the word “lyric” for like a year. Just see what happens
Love being asked by students what courses they can take with me next year when the answer is that I’m probably going to be unemployed
March 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Love being asked by students what courses they can take with me next year when the answer is that I’m probably going to be unemployed