Scout Calvert
@windloochie.bsky.social
Ronin interdisciplinarian. Institute for Closer Inspection. Data curation. Scientific humanities.
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The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
August 5, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
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In a free country, traveling 🧳 should not be a crime or a reason for suspicion.
"Immigration Agents Are Using (Domestic) Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
"Immigration Agents Are Using (Domestic) Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
December 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In a free country, traveling 🧳 should not be a crime or a reason for suspicion.
"Immigration Agents Are Using (Domestic) Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
"Immigration Agents Are Using (Domestic) Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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They could’ve bankrupted OpenAI in lawsuits. Instead, they’re adopting OpenAI APIs and giving them a billion dollars.
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
They could’ve bankrupted OpenAI in lawsuits. Instead, they’re adopting OpenAI APIs and giving them a billion dollars.
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Whenever I see this article I’m going to share it, because everyone connected to higher ed needs to read this for a great if chilling overview of the bone deep infection that gAI has become in the system.
„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Whenever I see this article I’m going to share it, because everyone connected to higher ed needs to read this for a great if chilling overview of the bone deep infection that gAI has become in the system.
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All my favorite things: riso! zine! resisting surveillance! independent media! melt ICE!
404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and how people are resisting this tech.
Why? Print media is cool. Also, 404 Media has watched ICE grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries.
Why? Print media is cool. Also, 404 Media has watched ICE grow from an already horrifying organization into a deportation force that is better funded than most militaries.
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
All my favorite things: riso! zine! resisting surveillance! independent media! melt ICE!
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I really love this book we made. Hard to believe that it was actually released this year. It feels like it's been out for longer. You can also engage resources related to the book here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al... - a friend sent me a short clip of him reading with his son ❤️
December 9, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I really love this book we made. Hard to believe that it was actually released this year. It feels like it's been out for longer. You can also engage resources related to the book here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al... - a friend sent me a short clip of him reading with his son ❤️
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
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New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data" by Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, and Becky Mansfield #FracFocus #agnotology #disclosure #environmentaldatajustice #fracking
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data - Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, Becky Mansfield, 2025
Vocal opposition to fracking (the practice of fracturing the subsurface to increase oil and gas production), from shale deposits in Pennsylvania to oil fields i...
journals.sagepub.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New OnlineFirst (OA) article: "Deregulatory Disclosure Regimes and Masked Absences in Fracking Chemical Data" by Vivian Underhill, Gary Allison, and Becky Mansfield #FracFocus #agnotology #disclosure #environmentaldatajustice #fracking
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Been saying this. I think uni employees are also not really cognizing either.
Again, there is no plan for running our universities without federal funding, or foreign students, at scale. But the public has no idea about this because no. one. is. telling. them. this. They expect their kids are still going to be able to do all the things at college in the next 4 years, & well:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $
For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Been saying this. I think uni employees are also not really cognizing either.
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You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
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French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
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My quote of the day
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott
November 18, 2025 at 11:50 AM
My quote of the day
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.
Grace Abbott
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LOTS of amazing events coming up, Ottawa fam! Let's get together to make a different world, addressing things like death, cold, exploitative rent increases, Palestine, migrant justice, neoliberalism, the relation between enslavement & capitalism, and science. www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
Events Archive - Punch Up Collective
www.punchupcollective.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:51 PM
LOTS of amazing events coming up, Ottawa fam! Let's get together to make a different world, addressing things like death, cold, exploitative rent increases, Palestine, migrant justice, neoliberalism, the relation between enslavement & capitalism, and science. www.punchupcollective.org/reo-calendar/
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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tech companies & executives are not scared enough of the consequences of harming people. they know they're ultimately very insulated from the blowback for wildly reckless experiments on people; that makes for a very unhealthy environment that we need to fix now
tech co's should be scared of people
tech co's should be scared of people
November 8, 2025 at 8:33 PM
tech companies & executives are not scared enough of the consequences of harming people. they know they're ultimately very insulated from the blowback for wildly reckless experiments on people; that makes for a very unhealthy environment that we need to fix now
tech co's should be scared of people
tech co's should be scared of people
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A hearing is underway re: the American Association of University Professors et al v. Trump et al, Motion For Preliminary Injunction.
November 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A hearing is underway re: the American Association of University Professors et al v. Trump et al, Motion For Preliminary Injunction.
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Great/devastating interactive dashboard from our friends at @firedbutfighting.bsky.social!
CDCDataProject.org
CDCDataProject.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Great/devastating interactive dashboard from our friends at @firedbutfighting.bsky.social!
CDCDataProject.org
CDCDataProject.org
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Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.
It’s… shocking
It’s… shocking
The White House Building
Every president since John Adams has occupied the White House, and the history of this building extends far beyond the construction of its walls. From the Ground Floor Corridor rooms, transformed from...
www.whitehouse.gov
October 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Open the page. Scroll down to the timeline. Go through the timeline.
It’s… shocking
It’s… shocking
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"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:25 AM
"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit."
Taxing the rich works!
Taxing the rich works!
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A wonderful piece by my colleague @alisonstenning.bsky.social that highlights children's right to the city and right to play.
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A wonderful piece by my colleague @alisonstenning.bsky.social that highlights children's right to the city and right to play.
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"A prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist resigned on Thursday from the board of Salesforce’s philanthropic arm after the company’s chief executive, Marc Benioff, said last week that he fully supported Pres. Trump & wanted the National Guard to come to San Fran." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
‘Godfather of Silicon Valley’ Quits Board Over Benioff’s Backing of Trump
www.nytimes.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"A prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist resigned on Thursday from the board of Salesforce’s philanthropic arm after the company’s chief executive, Marc Benioff, said last week that he fully supported Pres. Trump & wanted the National Guard to come to San Fran." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...
Get an ORCID and use your library’s institutional repository or another like OSF or Zenodo.
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
October 16, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Get an ORCID and use your library’s institutional repository or another like OSF or Zenodo.
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"Arizona, which spent $28 per person on public health funding in 2023, less than half the national average... If federal funding were to disappear — county health departments are funded largely by Medicaid — the state’s public health system would functionally collapse." grist.org/health/valle...
In Arizona, a fight against a deadly fungus is under threat from Trump’s health policies
What one Arizona doctor’s quest to stop valley fever says about America’s preparedness for climate-driven disease.
grist.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"Arizona, which spent $28 per person on public health funding in 2023, less than half the national average... If federal funding were to disappear — county health departments are funded largely by Medicaid — the state’s public health system would functionally collapse." grist.org/health/valle...
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No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.
October 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
No, resurrecting the corpse of Anne Frank so 12-year-olds can gossip with her is not how you “make history come alive.” It’s how you destroy history so that someone can come in, rewrite it, and then author a future to their liking.