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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2h

Alice Wong in 2021 saying “No to Normal”: “A disabled person in a nondisabled world is forced to advocate for access, constantly having to provide proof & perform deservingness. When you’re not in the center, you are subject to being doubted & under suspicion of getting unfair special treatment.”

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 3h

A withering editorial from the Cavalier Daily on the performance of UVA’s interim president, who now appears to be angling for the position:“Mahoney’s consistent deference to the Board serves as an indictment of his ability to empathize with and represent an outraged community in a time of peril.”

Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent editorial by the student paper: “Perhaps the most obvious epitomization of Mahoney’s desire to be protected from, rather than to protect, the University community, was his decision to be accompanied by a police guard as he entered the Faculty Senate.” www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

EDITORIAL: A university president guarded from his constituents cannot lead them

Mahoney’s position throughout his term has been one of deference — a deference that, amidst community protests, denigrates the role of a University president as authentically representing their commun...

www.cavalierdaily.com

Janet Spittler @janetspittler.bsky.social · 3h

Excellent editorial by the student paper: “Perhaps the most obvious epitomization of Mahoney’s desire to be protected from, rather than to protect, the University community, was his decision to be accompanied by a police guard as he entered the Faculty Senate.” www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

EDITORIAL: A university president guarded from his constituents cannot lead them

Mahoney’s position throughout his term has been one of deference — a deference that, amidst community protests, denigrates the role of a University president as authentically representing their commun...

www.cavalierdaily.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry, in the first post, I meant to say Gender Studies at SFSU: San Francisco State University. My bad.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 4h

Love that this article makes a case for Gender Studies. Prof. Kenney: "Very few students get a Women & Gender Studies degree for instrumental reasons...They're there because they want to be critical thinkers & politically engaged citizens."
Hello!

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 5h

"These were first-generation college students, many from historically marginalized groups, who understood something administrators apparently didn't: they were being asked to pay premium prices for a cheapened product."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 5h

Purser quotes the Chair of WGSS at SF State Prof Martha Kenney, who says her students "were rightfully skeptical that regular use of generative AI in the classroom would rob them of the education they're paying so much for." This skepticism is what I am seeing among my WGSS students too.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 5h

"We are exporting the very labor of teaching & learning--the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt & confusion, the struggle of finding one's voice. Critical pedagogy is out; productivity hacks are in. What's sold as innovation is really surrender."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 5h

"The irony couldn't be starker: the very programs best equipped to study the social & ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI's products across campus." Shout out to UCSF Gender Studies mentioned here!
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself

Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

www.currentaffairs.org

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 16h

These findings just out as RFK Jr’s anti-vax conspiracies become policy in the US. “These findings support proactive vaccination policies over reliance on infection-acquired immunity and inform rapid response strategies for future pandemic threats.” #IllnessPolitics

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Redirecting

doi.org

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 23h

The antidote to ICE & snow. Neighbors who look out for you.

Zaynab Mohamed @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social · 1d

I love my neighbors💜

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 23h

Clearly blue suit/white shirt/open collar look to match drab set is required for the DealBook Summit. See also (more kinetic) tech co CEO video.

Screen grab of post by Jacob Redman:
California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Thursday that the Democratic Party needed to be "more culturally normal" & "less judgmental."
Video of Newsom in blue suit, white shirt, open collar gesturing as he speaks.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Prepping!

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

You definitely do! 😂

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

So glad they came through for you on your birthday! 🥳

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

When even conservatives begin to grasp the consequences of the destruction of higher ed: “We should be engaging in substantive intellectual battles, not generating outrage over an earned poor grade. We are not the party of participation trophies. Do the work & earn the grade, or fail on the merits.”

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

This is in fact the material point:
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

‘The professor was right’: Oklahoma Republican college leader criticizes essay controversy

The chairman of the Oklahoma Federation of College Republicans is weighing in on controversy surrounding a failed essay submitted by a University of Oklahoma student.

www.kswo.com

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

This is in fact the material point:
“The essay not only fails to meet basic college requirements — such as citing its primary source, the Bible — but fundamentally missed the assignment’s objective,” Tranquill said.

‘The professor was right’: Oklahoma Republican college leader criticizes essay controversy

The chairman of the Oklahoma Federation of College Republicans is weighing in on controversy surrounding a failed essay submitted by a University of Oklahoma student.

www.kswo.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

What fresh hell is the NYT DealBook Summit???

Zaynab Mohamed @zaynabmmohamed.bsky.social · 1d

I love my neighbors💜

Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 1d

"What are the words and the forms with which to do and say and make what we need to live in, now?"-

Dr. Christina Sharpe
💐 @hystericalblkns.bsky.social

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

In case you missed it.

The Afterlife of Alice Wong

The disability justice activist’s life proved that anger can be an act of care.

time.com

Steve Brusatte @stevebrusatte.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Celeste Labedz @celestelabedz.bsky.social · 1d

It's over.

Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.

www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

www.dailynebraskan.com

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Redirecting

doi.org

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

"Your body my choice" as political platform.

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

I have never been a Hochul fan, but she does seem to grasp that Dems need to present clear opposition to the Trump admin's necropolitics. Also, she's up for reelection next year & is reading the tea leaves.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

Fast response from Hochul: "Today's national advisory votes were unnecessary changes & may have tragic consequences in some areas of the nation if doctors choose to stop giving newborns the standard hepatitis B preventive birth dose...Thanks to Gov Hochul, NY will continue to do the right thing."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

NY State Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald: "Newborn hepatitis B vaccination is a cornerstone of preventive care for infants, & our recommendations in NY State have not changed...The birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine is safe, effective & essential."
www.health.ny.gov/press/releas...

Department Reaffirms Longstanding Practices

www.health.ny.gov

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d

Corruption game recognizes corruption game.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

People say FIFA disgraced itself by having that little Trump ceremony. Habibi, it’s FIFA. People died building the Qatari stadium for the last World Cup and it held the World Cup in Russia before that.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2d

People say FIFA disgraced itself by having that little Trump ceremony. Habibi, it’s FIFA. People died building the Qatari stadium for the last World Cup and it held the World Cup in Russia before that.

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