Matthew Fisher
@bookhand.bsky.social
Medievalist, geek, Associate Professor of English at UCLA. Editor, Viator.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
Spent a lovely hour making boxes for the #UCLA turkey foodbox program for UCLA community members in need. Volunteering alongside students is always a joy.
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Spent a lovely hour making boxes for the #UCLA turkey foodbox program for UCLA community members in need. Volunteering alongside students is always a joy.
Anyone have a spare few million? I’ve got my eye on a 10th C gospel written by women.
news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
Rare Gospel Written by Medieval Women Could Fetch More Than $1 Million at Auction
A recently discovered gospel likely written by women at the abbey of Essen in the 10th century could sell for more than $1 million.
news.artnet.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Anyone have a spare few million? I’ve got my eye on a 10th C gospel written by women.
news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
news.artnet.com/art-world/me...
Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts!
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...
Damns straight. UC faculty, UC Faculty Associations (hi @UCLAFA ), and #AAUP pushing back against #UCOP. Universities are not corporations. www.science.org/content/arti...
University of California faculty push back against Big Brother cybersecurity mandate
School officials defend software as bulwark against ransomware, but professors fear potential surveillance of their devices
www.science.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Damns straight. UC faculty, UC Faculty Associations (hi @UCLAFA ), and #AAUP pushing back against #UCOP. Universities are not corporations. www.science.org/content/arti...
Can’t believe we have to fight these fights. But here we are. dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j...
Judge rules UC must publicize Trump administration settlement demands - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Oct. 14 at 11:30 p.m. A judge ruled Tuesday that the UC Board of Regents must publicize the Trump administration’s proposed settlement demands to UCLA.
dailybruin.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Can’t believe we have to fight these fights. But here we are. dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j...
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4 out of the 9 Nobel laureates in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine are University of California faculty (2 UCSB, 2 Cal) and one other received all their degrees from the UC system (UCLA and UCSD).
So those highly funded woke liberal universities are clearly failing, eh?
So those highly funded woke liberal universities are clearly failing, eh?
October 9, 2025 at 12:49 AM
4 out of the 9 Nobel laureates in Chemistry, Physics, and Medicine are University of California faculty (2 UCSB, 2 Cal) and one other received all their degrees from the UC system (UCLA and UCSD).
So those highly funded woke liberal universities are clearly failing, eh?
So those highly funded woke liberal universities are clearly failing, eh?
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Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:
October 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:
First day of instruction at #UCLA. Amidst fucking everything, I take strength, courage, and even joy from our students. We shall see if it lasts the day, but for now, on a gray Los Angeles morning, the year begins with sharp glimmers of hope.
September 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
First day of instruction at #UCLA. Amidst fucking everything, I take strength, courage, and even joy from our students. We shall see if it lasts the day, but for now, on a gray Los Angeles morning, the year begins with sharp glimmers of hope.
Not waiting for #UC leadership to sell us out.
University of California students and faculty sue the Trump administration
White House using civil rights laws to wage campaign against school system to undermine free speech, says suit
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Not waiting for #UC leadership to sell us out.
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Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.
September 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.
My former student won an Emmy! Well done, Jui!
UCLA English alum Jui Sarwate receives Emmy Award - Department of English UCLA
UCLA English Department - News
english.ucla.edu
August 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
My former student won an Emmy! Well done, Jui!
It is, I will admit, a very small relief to see the University of California making very small gestures in the right direction. #StandUpForUC t.co/7ovP018f2q
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved/stand-up-for-uc
t.co
August 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
It is, I will admit, a very small relief to see the University of California making very small gestures in the right direction. #StandUpForUC t.co/7ovP018f2q
“It's like we all know, way down in our souls, that our generation is gonna witness the end of everything.”
Trump freezes $200 million in UCLA science and medical research funding, citing antisemitism
The Trump administration has frozen roughly $200 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school d...
www.latimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
“It's like we all know, way down in our souls, that our generation is gonna witness the end of everything.”
I love my work. It may not feel the same way about me. #medieval #manuscripts
June 24, 2025 at 10:15 AM
I love my work. It may not feel the same way about me. #medieval #manuscripts
Not now, people. Never now. Shame on President Drake.
Statement condemning faculty member removal from commencement
mailchi.mp
May 20, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Not now, people. Never now. Shame on President Drake.
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A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.
UCLA Is Now Nearly Unrecognizable as a University
A police attack on a documentary film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning.
www.thenation.com
May 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.
Joshua Clover died. I was so very young when i met him in 1996. As was he.
Value Theory for the End of the World
Poet, communist, cat-lover, teacher, music critic, roadrunner, critical theorist, Marxist: though not necessarily in this order, Joshua Clover was all those things--and more. To me, however, he was fi...
www.versobooks.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Joshua Clover died. I was so very young when i met him in 1996. As was he.
And I wonder, are they one of my students? One of my friends’ students? Obviously they’re one of my colleagues’ students.
How many steps removed does it take for people not to see the fucking outrage?
How many steps removed does it take for people not to see the fucking outrage?
April 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
And I wonder, are they one of my students? One of my friends’ students? Obviously they’re one of my colleagues’ students.
How many steps removed does it take for people not to see the fucking outrage?
How many steps removed does it take for people not to see the fucking outrage?
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UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
LATEST: At least 45 student visas across the state have been revoked by the Trump administration, California universities report, as numbers grow. A lawsuit has been filed in a Los Angeles federal court against DHS and Kristi Noem www.latimes.com/california/s...
Caught off-guard, California colleges scramble to determine scope of student visa cancellations
More universities are discovering that international student visas were cancelled last week, causing growing concern and confusion at UCLA and other California campuses.
www.latimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:37 AM
UPDATED: At least 83 students -- at campuses for University of California, California State University and Stanford -- have had their visas revoked as of Monday evening.
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Remember the 90s when everybody only hurt sometimes.
March 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Remember the 90s when everybody only hurt sometimes.
