Dominique Baker
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
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(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
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Dominique Baker
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
· Jun 26
Morning! I did a lil analysis and turns out that, when ED employees are illegally fired and contracts are canceled, ED is unable to fulfill its congressional mandate to publish national statistics on the condition of education.
Why does that matter? Well...
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
Why does that matter? Well...
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
It me
REVIEWING ARCHIVAL RECORDS STOP
FEEL LIKE REAL PROFESSOR STOP
CONSIDER REVIVAL OF TELEGRAM BASED ON REVIEW OF WESTERN UNION EXAMPLE STOP
FEEL LIKE REAL PROFESSOR STOP
CONSIDER REVIVAL OF TELEGRAM BASED ON REVIEW OF WESTERN UNION EXAMPLE STOP
December 5, 2025 at 3:53 AM
It me
Doing a thing that necessitates me using some archival material (finally, I'm a real professor). Y'all I am looking at a Western Union telegram and I think we should bring them back.
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Doing a thing that necessitates me using some archival material (finally, I'm a real professor). Y'all I am looking at a Western Union telegram and I think we should bring them back.
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Important for people to know the $75 mil payout from Northwestern to the government didn't turn on canceled grants that broaden participation in stem, physics, promote diversity etc... what this communicates about uni priorities is clear: dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/03/c...
Northwestern NSF grant terminations leave researchers stuck
Although Northwestern struck a deal with the Trump administration to restore federal research funding, National Science Foundation grants terminated in accordance with executive orders remain unchange...
dailynorthwestern.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Important for people to know the $75 mil payout from Northwestern to the government didn't turn on canceled grants that broaden participation in stem, physics, promote diversity etc... what this communicates about uni priorities is clear: dailynorthwestern.com/2025/12/03/c...
I'm buying candles this weekend
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the GOAT. the champion. the all-timer. I have bought probably 30 candles from them over the past five years and never struck out once. D&D, folklore, Tolkien, history, and fabulous rotating seasonal collections (pirates in summer, Viking Yule in winter, etc.)
the GOAT. the champion. the all-timer. I have bought probably 30 candles from them over the past five years and never struck out once. D&D, folklore, Tolkien, history, and fabulous rotating seasonal collections (pirates in summer, Viking Yule in winter, etc.)
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December 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I'm buying candles this weekend
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one thing that will make you much much smarter is to get to be in a room with @bakerdphd.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social
they brought the big ideas to inform savvy tactics! and we’re gonna share with our colleagues as far and wide as we can. more soon! most grateful!
they brought the big ideas to inform savvy tactics! and we’re gonna share with our colleagues as far and wide as we can. more soon! most grateful!
tomorrow!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
how to strategize faculty power in technofeudal times!
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
one thing that will make you much much smarter is to get to be in a room with @bakerdphd.bsky.social and @mattseybold.bsky.social
they brought the big ideas to inform savvy tactics! and we’re gonna share with our colleagues as far and wide as we can. more soon! most grateful!
they brought the big ideas to inform savvy tactics! and we’re gonna share with our colleagues as far and wide as we can. more soon! most grateful!
It's not hypocrisy, it's power.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
It's not hypocrisy, it's power.
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He looks like he don’t even let the cha cha slide 😂😂
December 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
He looks like he don’t even let the cha cha slide 😂😂
Looking forward to seeing some folks in Chicago!
Did you submit a proposal for #AEFP2026? Keep an eye out for #AEFP2026 decisions in your inbox 👀
December 4, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Looking forward to seeing some folks in Chicago!
Oh things were happening while I was hanging out with union friends
NEW: The Trump Justice Department failed to secure an indictment today against New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Grand jury declines to indict N.Y. Attorney General Letitia James, less than two weeks after the first case was dismissed
Federal officials failed to secure the new indictment against James, whom Trump has targeted, after a judge said the previous one was secured by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Oh things were happening while I was hanging out with union friends
Chile! This is why Vandy and WashU targeted Dartmouth to join their lil splinter group.
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
December 4, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Chile! This is why Vandy and WashU targeted Dartmouth to join their lil splinter group.
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I do believe that universities will continue to give preferences to men because the administration wants that to happen and SFFA is unlikely to sue for this group of students. Always remember, it's not hypocrisy, it's power.
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I do believe that universities will continue to give preferences to men because the administration wants that to happen and SFFA is unlikely to sue for this group of students. Always remember, it's not hypocrisy, it's power.
I accept that my ability to engage with people through certain media outlets is likely at an end given the whole Black woman thing. So I decided to focus on spaces that still thought I might have interesting things to say. I pitched something somewhere and it got accepted. Huzzah!
December 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I accept that my ability to engage with people through certain media outlets is likely at an end given the whole Black woman thing. So I decided to focus on spaces that still thought I might have interesting things to say. I pitched something somewhere and it got accepted. Huzzah!
Not "hurt college men" Washington Post
lololololol *this* is the bad place (h/t @iansociologo.bsky.social)
I'll share my thread from 2 weeks ago about this issue in the reply
lololololol *this* is the bad place (h/t @iansociologo.bsky.social)
I'll share my thread from 2 weeks ago about this issue in the reply
Brown University accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female students, but got almost twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easier for men to get in.
Trump's DEI ban may end gender balancing efforts that often benefit men.
Trump's DEI ban may end gender balancing efforts that often benefit men.
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Not "hurt college men" Washington Post
lololololol *this* is the bad place (h/t @iansociologo.bsky.social)
I'll share my thread from 2 weeks ago about this issue in the reply
lololololol *this* is the bad place (h/t @iansociologo.bsky.social)
I'll share my thread from 2 weeks ago about this issue in the reply
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I rarely (if ever) have seen an article highlighting women who were denied admission to a university that deliberately prioritizes male applicants.
Even this one (at least the headline and blurb) frame men as the primary victims.
Even this one (at least the headline and blurb) frame men as the primary victims.
Brown University accepted nearly equal numbers of male and female students, but got almost twice as many female applicants. That math meant it was easier for men to get in.
Trump's DEI ban may end gender balancing efforts that often benefit men.
Trump's DEI ban may end gender balancing efforts that often benefit men.
Trump’s attack on DEI may hurt college men, particularly White men
The Trump administration’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion also targets gender. The ban may impact gender balancing practices that often benefit college men.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I rarely (if ever) have seen an article highlighting women who were denied admission to a university that deliberately prioritizes male applicants.
Even this one (at least the headline and blurb) frame men as the primary victims.
Even this one (at least the headline and blurb) frame men as the primary victims.
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So, you know how people say stuff like, "just repost this & you'll have supported journalism"?
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
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December 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
So, you know how people say stuff like, "just repost this & you'll have supported journalism"?
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
But this time... it's literally true!
Russ has offered to donate to Bolts for each repost this ⬇️ gets or each follow @boltsmag.org gets—up to a sum way higher than we're at.
let's make this go viral!
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Also at archive.is/38FzA
Great thread from the author of a deeply investigated piece on the University of Tulsa. Here's the article.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
December 4, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Also at archive.is/38FzA
Great thread from the author of a deeply investigated piece on the University of Tulsa. Here's the article.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Great thread from the author of a deeply investigated piece on the University of Tulsa. Here's the article.
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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It was also about how different visions of the future, championed by different leaders, sent an institution into a near-constant state of whiplash, and about the “practical as well as intellectual toll on what it means to work here,” as one professor put it. (9/14)
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It was also about how different visions of the future, championed by different leaders, sent an institution into a near-constant state of whiplash, and about the “practical as well as intellectual toll on what it means to work here,” as one professor put it. (9/14)
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Now that my reporting had brought me back to where I started — Tulsa’s Honors College — I realized the story wasn’t about the ins and outs of one particular program. It was about a university and its constantly-shifting relationship to ambition and prestige. (8/14)
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Now that my reporting had brought me back to where I started — Tulsa’s Honors College — I realized the story wasn’t about the ins and outs of one particular program. It was about a university and its constantly-shifting relationship to ambition and prestige. (8/14)
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I remembered the “True Commitment” controversy well, but I didn’t know about the building boom that preceded it. In under a decade, Tulsa developed more than one million square feet in facilities, including a massive performing-arts center. (5/14)
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I remembered the “True Commitment” controversy well, but I didn’t know about the building boom that preceded it. In under a decade, Tulsa developed more than one million square feet in facilities, including a massive performing-arts center. (5/14)
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As I talked to people in and around Tulsa’s Honors College, a more complex portrait began to emerge. Alongside the debates about what the situation meant for the liberal arts or classical education, questions also emerged about the financial circumstances at Tulsa. (3/14)
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
As I talked to people in and around Tulsa’s Honors College, a more complex portrait began to emerge. Alongside the debates about what the situation meant for the liberal arts or classical education, questions also emerged about the financial circumstances at Tulsa. (3/14)
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🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)
December 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🧵 A dean is abruptly removed. Her account goes viral. At first, it looks like a fight over the humanities. But the more I reported on the University of Tulsa, the clearer it became: this controversy was just the entry point for a far larger institutional unraveling. (1/14)
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Incomplete book list:
Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics
Stern, Eugenic Nation
Kline, Building a Better Race
Pernick, The Black Stork
But most importantly, for OP...
Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics
Stern, Eugenic Nation
Kline, Building a Better Race
Pernick, The Black Stork
But most importantly, for OP...
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Incomplete book list:
Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics
Stern, Eugenic Nation
Kline, Building a Better Race
Pernick, The Black Stork
But most importantly, for OP...
Kevles, In the Name of Eugenics
Stern, Eugenic Nation
Kline, Building a Better Race
Pernick, The Black Stork
But most importantly, for OP...
Original post deleted (it's better that way) but this is a really useful thread on the history of eugenics so I wanted to share
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Original post deleted (it's better that way) but this is a really useful thread on the history of eugenics so I wanted to share