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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 13h

“The Heritage Foundation [which spearheaded Project 2025] says it will ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors over alleged bias.“ 9/18/25 … 1/ www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...

The right wing is coming for Wikipedia

The Heritage Foundation says it will "identify and target" Wikipedia editors over alleged bias. What does that mean for Wikipedia’s future?

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 34m

I’m really letting the side down

Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 39m

*Overreacting

(Although I am almost certainly doing both)

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 45m

On a family car at a youth soccer complex. You might think I’m overeating but I think this kind of thing is a sign of cultural rot.

Window decal that says Michigan isn’t for sissies

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 2h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 2h

The compact would essentially disestablish these criteria, which then powerful normative signals to the sector, which would both challenge the authority of the AAU but also by extension its most incumbent members.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 2h

AAU membership is assessed not only on grant funding but on *competitive* funding through open competitions. Do NSF and NIH grants count a lot but Ag or DOE funding awarded to facilities of for extension don’t count as much. In AAU parlance this is “phase 1”’ vs 2.

www.aau.edu/who-we-are/m...

Membership Policy | Association of American Universities (AAU)

AAU is an association of leading comprehensive research universities distinguished by the breadth and quality of their programs of research and graduate education. Membership in AAU is by invitation o...

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 2h

1. It seems to reject the idea that political deals and research funding are / can be linked.
2. It rejects the idea that some universities (read AAU members) would be granted special access to funds over others.

I’ll say one more thing about the second post in the next post.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 3h

I will add that as @robertkelchen.com noted, the statement is constrained, and it does not exclude engagement with the government on renegotiation the research university - fed relationship. But it seems to reject the compact on two grounds (next skeet).

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 5h

The AAU did a “what MIT said” letter.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 14h

I missed this yesterday: the AAU has come out against the compact. I am pleasantly surprised. I think it makes it pretty hard for any university to accept the deal now, with a possible exception of Texas. www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...

We have significant concerns, however, about any compact or policy that could damage or depart from our nations competitive merit base system for research grant funding. That system has been the foundation for science and and innovation for decades. Since World War II that special partnership among the federal government, industry, and research universities has fueled tremendous growth in our economy and educated the next generation of highly skilled American workforce contributed to the health of our people and made our nation more safe and secure.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 15h

Such a complaint should be FOIAable so it would be foolish of him to lie about it.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16h

Ha ha ha they're like authoritarians www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 16h

Maybe I’m wrong but it seems to me that everything more or less comes down to SCOTUS and the army. Dems job is help people understand that so that court and army feel like they have to provide a backstop.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 16h

Whatever you wanna say about Schumer, he was seemingly right that Trump would use a government shut down to consolidate power. The problem, of course was that Trump was always going to use all opportunities to consolidate power no matter what.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 18h

I get the idea that you don’t want to create unnecessary barriers but come on, fine my lazy ass

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 18h

I just went to return a massively overdue library book and was informed that they “don’t charge fees” and this is the sort of thing that might end up causing me to be a reactionary centrist.

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 21h

Hold on is he arguing that anybody who expresses frustration, or any negative thoughts about the government, is a Chinese agent? I’m asking because I really don’t understand.

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 22h

Tenure allows people to prioritize the truth no matter what their views are

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 22h

District court judges, appointed by presidents from Reagan to Biden (including Trump I), seem to understand the assignment more than most law firms. This is curious because the data shows that lawyers as a whole are more liberal on average than federal judges

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 2d

Perry asks directly whether the feds started the alleged violence in Chicago.

She asks whether it matters if the inability to execute the law was "caused by the federal agents."

Hamilton: "No, your honor."

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 23h

Is it funding differences?

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 23h

I had to pay over $40 for mine!

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 23h

I have a big announcement: I’ve purchased an inflatable frog suit to go trick-or-treating with the eight-year-old.

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John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social · 1d

"No university can present every possible outlook in equal measure, nor should it." thewayofimprovement.blog/2025/10/10/s...

Should a university provide a platform for “every perspective”?

Davidson College sociologist Gerardo Marti reflects on Donald Trump’s “compact” with higher education institutions. Here is a taste of his piece at Inside Higher Education: &#8230…

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Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 23h

I enjoyed speaking with Juliet Schulman-Hall for @masslive.bsky.social about how the Professor Watchlist and Canary Mission get us farther from, not closer to, a free exchange of ideas on campus. www.masslive.com/news/2025/10...

This isn’t Rate My Professor: Explosion in watchlists brings new threats to academics

Online commentary used to be limited to sites like "Rate My Professor," which jokingly rated how "hot" a professor was. It's changed drastically.

www.masslive.com

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