“All across NYU, students and colleagues have been undeterred in their organizing. NYU leadership should follow the example of their courage and tell the Trump administration and grifters like Rowan to keep their hands off higher education.”

— @zachsamalin.bsky.social,
NYU AAUP

#DefendHigherEd

1st Circuit in Stand with Us v. MIT: "[O]ur Constitution bars the government from forcing a private university to prohibit students from voicing vehement support for, or opposition to, the policies and conduct of the United States and its allies."
www.ca1.uscourts.gov/sites/ca1/fi...

Heard loud and clear, fellow staffers...
We *are* stronger together in the fight to #DefendHigherEd

We agree with UNT staff. The conditions for staff are dire, and wage inequality is unconscionable. We urge all faculty at UNT and UT to join both AAUP & TSEU. We are stronger together! ✊🏽 www.ntdaily.com/opinion/lett...

"An American judge has discovered what Palestine activists have known for a long time: that governmental trampling of the rights of Palestinians and their supporters is a thin edge of a wedge by which everyone’s rights are being rolled back." @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/10/pale...

UNL-AAUP is fighting back against administrator raises while programs get cut.

“Decisions are being made behind closed doors & without faculty input. We weren’t invited to the table. There’s no transparency in this process. We’ve been shut out at every turn…”

— Sarah Zuckerman, UNL-AAUP president

*The research also reveals the emotional costs of constant connection. Respondents spoke of anxiety and the ‘performative’ nature of maintaining a professional presence online. One commented, “I’ve become more conscious in managing my screen time… it’s necessary..., but it’s exhausting to keep up.”"

· #AcademicSky ·
At one time, there was little doubt about where academics gathered to connect with peers, share research, and discover new voices.…But now, that clarity has gone. The digital landscape for academics is fragmented.…and the implications for scholarly communication are far-reaching.

welcome to the era of [citation needed]

LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.

Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.

Jinkies! #HappyHaloween!

This is legit one of the best photos I ever seen on the internet!

Internet Archive's 1 trillion milestone was recognized in the Congressional Record ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/10/31/s...

University management at ASU, NAU, and UA must REJECT Trump's higher ed compact.

ucwarizona.org/reject-the-c...

Those mindsets *are* scary!

Ay nako...

"...we will have strong grounds to sue any university potentially that signs on to this compact for undermining the First Amendment rights and constitutional rights of our members on that campus...Any university that accepts...must be made into a pariah in the academic community.” #DefendHigherEd

#HappyHalloween*

Don’t use ChatGPT, make friends with an academic librarian that can count your chat messages as “reference questions answered” on their daily statistics sheet

Okay, good:

"Dislikes are private and the signal isn’t global — it mainly affects your own experience and, to an extent, others in your social neighborhood."

Because public dislikes would be TOXIC AS HELL.

bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

Those mindsets *are* scary!

Scholars at Risk was delighted to present on #education and the right to #academicfreedom at the 2025 #SocialForum of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva this week. Education should be a tool of empowerment, not indoctrination. Event info: ow.ly/HA7Q50Xla8Q