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Phil Bildner @philbildner.bsky.social · 4h

Students Banned From the Library

Thank you Kelly Jensen and @bookriot.bsky.social for reporting on what's now happening in one Texas school district... just like we feared/knew would happen.

New Braunfels ISD has closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com/new-braunfel...

A Texas District Has Just Banned Students from Secondary School Libraries

In order to ban books from its libraries, New Braunfels Independent School District has just closed its libraries to middle and high schoolers.

bookriot.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4h

By reporting on how the new trustees have changed policies in ways that take power away from faculty and push more power to university administrators. 4/

And so much more...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Updated IU policy shifts faculty academic decision-making power toward administrators

A new policy changes the role of IU faculty on campus.

www.idsnews.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4h

By reporting on the governor's dismissal of Indiana University's elected Trustees, who he then replaced with his own appointees. 3/

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

‘Culture of fear’: Dismissed trustee Vivian Winston calls for change at IU

Indiana University's independent student newspaper.

www.idsnews.com

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 4h

Or Treasury, for that matter

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 5h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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Dr. Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 21h

Digital humanities friends, @scholarslab.bsky.social regularly collaborates w/our data science school colleagues! & @histoftech.bsky.social @jhereia.bsky.social et al do awesome work there. (If you ever wanted to try letterpress; or do book-adjacent or DHy data sci+making, I'm here too.) Job ad:

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

Faculty Jobs — School of Data Science

School of Data Science at the University of Virginia.

datascience.virginia.edu

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AAUP @aaup.org · 15h

"Once you start teaching loyalty instead of critical thinking, you stop creating scholars & you start creating followers. That's not the America we signed up for."

#noloyaltyoaths
#academicfreedom

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Trish, Goblinbrarian 🎃📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · 14h

Across the Potomac at GMU:

www.chronicle.com/article/gmus...

GMU’s Gregory Washington: ‘I’m the Most Scrutinized President’ at ‘the Most Scrutinized Campus in the Country’

In an address to faculty on Monday, Washington said George Mason U. remains in good standing despite numerous federal investigations. He denied any wrongdoing.

www.chronicle.com

Trish, Goblinbrarian 🎃📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · 16h

I really don't want to hear from those clutching their pearls about how many folks are being diagnosed with autism, ADHD, or other forms of neurodivergence, but are just *crickets* about this:
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Ed. Dept. Offices Will Be Virtually Wiped Out in Latest Layoffs

The U.S. Department of Education is losing about a fifth of its already diminished workforce.

www.edweek.org

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Trish, Goblinbrarian 🎃📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · 16h

It happens. I knew you meant GPT. (My kingdom for an edit function...)

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 22h

Late to see the post by the high-follower-count public health scholar at Fancy Pants University, wherein she engineers prompts to get GTP to write her literature reviews. I was disappointed to see the ? — and even more 😳 to see the # of academics offering tips in the replies. Don't do this.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · 20h

A really excellent Open Letter to Students on using GenAI, which I came across over on Mastodon: librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/a...

An open letter to students considering submitting AI generated work

“We have concluded a Faustian pact with our science and technology generally, and with the computer in particular. So it seems to me. And in such a pact with Mephistopheles both partners gain somet…

librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com

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Trish, Goblinbrarian 🎃📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · 1d

I don't see this anywhere else right now, but if it's true...No. Hell no.
Even if it does expand to the rest of us eventually...No, Hell no.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Trish, Goblinbrarian 🎃📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Meet reviewer number two.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Trish, Goblinbrarian 🎃📚💻🇵🇭🇺🇲 @trishgreen.bsky.social · 1d

I don't see this anywhere else right now, but if it's true...No. Hell no.
Even if it does expand to the rest of us eventually...No, Hell no.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 1d

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a source

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in return for commitments to specific policy changes like DEI bans, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks to American Campus, the podcast about the history of higher education, for featuring my book. We talk about how NPR and PBS emerged from equal access to education discourses. And how Media Studies originated as a strategy of public media activism.

How universities created NPR and PBS with Josh Shepperd - American Campus Podcast

How public universities gave rise to public mediaReferences and suggested readings:Josh Shepperd. 2023. Shadow of the New Deal: The Victory of Public Broadcasting. University of Illinois Press.Laura G...

americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com

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Ypsilanti District Library @ypsilibrary.org · 1d

Did you know our beloved Bookmobile driver Ken MacGregor moonlights as a horror author? 😱 Apparently driving around town spreading literacy wasn't cool enough! 🚌 Read more about Ken and fellow Ypsi authors keeping us up at night this Halloween season: concentratemedia.com/from-true-cr...

Ypsilanti author Ken MacGregor stands in front of foliage lit with eerie blue lighting, wearing glasses, a black beanie, and a skeleton-print hoodie, smiling at the camera in a Halloween-themed portrait

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, [email protected]

UT President, Jim Davis, [email protected]

#SaveUT #EducationalLiberty

For more info: [email protected] 5/

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

tuition-paying students what they can and cannot study.

Call to action:

Amplify your discontent on social media and tag @UTAustin and @UTAustinCOLA

Write to: College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, [email protected] 4/

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 1d

There’s also this idea that *trying* to do the right thing is somehow morally wrong

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“Virtue signaling” has been an all-purpose tool to invalidate any form of advocacy which isn’t centered around selfishness.

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 4d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

This just happened again and it really drives home the extent to which scholarly orgs could build great bridges with museums/historical sites by figuring out how to help them get access to scholarly materials. Those places might, in turn, help support those orgs with people and money.

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 8d

Working at a museum without access to a university library means spending 6 years thinking about/reading Mark Twain & his reception and then every time I think I had an original thought it turns out @mattseybold.bsky.social tweeted it out in the form of a peer-reviewed article a decade ago.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

The country is filled with people furious at others for not doing what you won't do.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 1d

One day left for @governor.ca.gov @gavinnewsom.bsky.social to act on SB 771.

The clear First Amendment violation & obvious preemption by Section 230 **demand** a veto.

There is no value or virtue in chilling protected speech with a law that courts WILL strike down.

www.thefire.org/news/califor...

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Claremont Colleges Chapter of AAUP @aaupclaremont.bsky.social · 2d

“Academic freedom is under threat. In the USA, the federal administration is trying to take control of university research and teaching by cutting funding, limiting the ability to freely choose research topics, and raising barriers for foreign students to be admitted to programs.”

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Edward Perez @eddieperez.bsky.social · 2d

“…large companies have co-opted the language of openness and interoperability to defend monopolistic control.”

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2d

For this week’s podcast, Justin Hendrix spoke with Mallory Knodel from the Social Web Foundation and the Internet Exchange and Burcu Kilic from CIGI. The conversation revolved around a post they wrote for the Internet Exchange titled “Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests."

The Open Internet is Dead. What Comes Next? | TechPolicy.Press

Justin Hendrix spoke to Mallory Knodel and Burcu Kilic about their recent essay, titled "Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests."

www.techpolicy.press

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