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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 10h

Fain suggested that more working-class people run for office, like independent U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn in Nebraska—a mechanic and leader in the 2021 Kellogg’s strike—and Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner in Maine, an oyster farmer
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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 6d

@uaw.org president Shawn Fain laid out four priorities for a workers’ political program

✅Fair wages
✅Health care
✅Retirement
✅Winning back our time

...and a strategy to fight for those essential needs: building toward a mass strike in May 2028

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Labor Needs an Independent Political Program, Says UAW’s Fain

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain recently laid out four priorities he says should form the nucleus of a workers’ political program. And he said that a broad strike in May 2028 is one way to fi...

labornotes.org

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely bone-chilling. You're not imagining it, there is a full-on attack on public education. Free public education is a cornerstone of a functioning democracy and a fundamental human right

Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 6d

"Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Justice told ProPublica: 'I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.'”

by @megomatz.bsky.social / @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 1d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 1d

I signed.

c.org/kvNpPrVvhT

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Alumni urging UT Austin to reject the federal funding compact

c.org

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

I did a quick video on how the frog 🐸 is becoming a new resistance symbol

www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/
www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell

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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 1d

U.S. Department of Education reverses decision and will fund programs for students who are both deaf and blind.

But the money will flow a different way.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Get Funding Back Despite Trump’s Anti-DEI Campaign

Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization th...

www.propublica.org

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 1d

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 2d

"an occupation’s general prestige and perceived potency (but not its moral standing) declines when it becomes increasingly stereotyped as female" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Cultural Devaluation of Feminized Work: The Evolution of U.S. Occupational Prestige and Gender Typing in Linguistic Representations, 1900 to 2019 - Wenhao Jiang, 2025

Previous research on occupational devaluation typically evaluates the potential wage declines associated with a significant inflow of women into an occupation; ...

journals.sagepub.com

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 1d

Two frames from The Good Place:

“Fun fact: Columbus is in the Bad Place
because of all the raping, slave trade, and genocide.”

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday we received word that the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) within Dept of Ed (DoEd) was gutted--right now we believe there is no one or nearly no one left. But what does it mean? 1/11

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 2d

Shared courtesy of my Penn History colleague, Ben Nathans

Image: A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” engraving, originally published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. Each segment of the snake has the name of a university sent Trump’s “compact”: Texas, AZ, Vanderbilt, USC, Dartmouth, UVA, Brown, Penn, MIT.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 3d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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suz-y-q.bsky.social @suz-y-q.bsky.social · 3d

"We will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves" Sian Beilock. As Dartmouth & MIT stand firm may the other 7 institutes of higher education also find the same resolve to do so.
U of A president breaks silence on White House compact tucson.com/news/local/e...

U of A president breaks silence on White House compact

University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella sent an email to the campus community about the White House’s proposed higher education compact, a week after receiving it.

tucson.com

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 9d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 3d

It reads like a Monty Python sketch 😆 🫠

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 7d

- put down the damn AI.

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 3d

Food for though. I've struggled to balance genAI use in my classes. I've allowed it, required it, and banned it in different contexts. I found this op-ed useful for thinking through what is gained & lost and how we can make space for learning through other means #AcademicBluesky
tinyurl.com/ybbkp333

Why I'm Saying No to Generative AI

There is no value-add to using generative AI for historical work

theimportantwork.substack.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 4d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 4d

"UT is being dismantled piece by piece. Those who see higher education as a threat are intervening directly breaking norms...even constitutional protections — in an effort to suppress and punish controversial opinions among our students and faculty" www.statesman.com/opinion/colu... #AcademicBluesky

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 4d

“LGBTQ+ history has reshaped how historians understand American citizenship, the Cold War and the civil rights movement, among many subjects. Officials may succeed in driving LGBTQ+ history out of Texas’s public universities — but they will not erase the past. LGBTQ+ history belongs to all of us.”

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 4d

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

Great opinion piece by our AAUP chapter Vice President! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I teach LGBTQ+ history. The University of Texas may soon ban my course | Opinion

Across Texas' public universities, faculty like me face course reviews and political pressure to erase LGBTQ+ studies, UT professor Lauren Gutterman writes.

www.statesman.com

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

A great online conference for all early-career researchers interested in #corpuslinguistics, language teaching and learning and/or #sla with fantastic keynote speakers!

I'm looking forward to giving an informal "Getting started with #OpenScience" workshop on […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

Keynote speakers with photos

Prof. Dr. Randi Reppen: Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics and TESL at Northern Arizona University

Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg: Professor of Digital Humanities, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Dr. Dana Gablasova: Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 4d

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better."

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 28

Trump is expected to declare English the nation's official language. America is an Italian word. California, Colorado, Nevada, Montana, and Florida are Spanish, and a bunch of other states have Indigenous names.

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