Derek A. Houston, PhD
@dahouston.bsky.social
Criticalism + Quantification. P-20 Ed Finance, Equity, & Access. Intercollegiate Athletics. Posts are my own. ΩΨΦ #FIETTS
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Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Someone is going to have the write the thing about how “vibe” has become a substitute for meaningful theory in a world where the theory is so clear — grift and power — but we collectively refuse if because it isn’t sophisticated enough to generate make work for empiricists.
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More reason not to go there.
(more capitalist enshitification)
(more capitalist enshitification)
Panera Bread moves to ‘shitty bread model’. “This sucks ass, we’re really excited”, say executives who will parachute out of the failing company with $377 million dollars each
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
More reason not to go there.
(more capitalist enshitification)
(more capitalist enshitification)
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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1/ Today the Department of Education said that it’s transferring a variety of programs to other agencies, making good on Trump’s promise to dismantle ED.
The most important thing to understand is that this is a Potemkin reorganization. It’s fugazi, it’s fairy dust. It’s not real.
The most important thing to understand is that this is a Potemkin reorganization. It’s fugazi, it’s fairy dust. It’s not real.
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
1/ Today the Department of Education said that it’s transferring a variety of programs to other agencies, making good on Trump’s promise to dismantle ED.
The most important thing to understand is that this is a Potemkin reorganization. It’s fugazi, it’s fairy dust. It’s not real.
The most important thing to understand is that this is a Potemkin reorganization. It’s fugazi, it’s fairy dust. It’s not real.
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Love you @raskin.house.gov. But it’s not THAT big.
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Love you @raskin.house.gov. But it’s not THAT big.
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
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Their goal is to eliminate possibility models (like happy and thriving LGBTQ+ adults; a robust racial justice movement)
They want to censor their way to a right-wing hellscape. If you can't name the problem, you remove the possibility of remedying it.
They want to censor their way to a right-wing hellscape. If you can't name the problem, you remove the possibility of remedying it.
Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Their goal is to eliminate possibility models (like happy and thriving LGBTQ+ adults; a robust racial justice movement)
They want to censor their way to a right-wing hellscape. If you can't name the problem, you remove the possibility of remedying it.
They want to censor their way to a right-wing hellscape. If you can't name the problem, you remove the possibility of remedying it.
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Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
“The policy defines race ideology as, among other things, ‘a concept that attempts to shame a particular race or ethnicity.’”
These GOP-led efforts will ruin their states’ public universities. Sad!
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Conservatives claim that structural racism does not exist while simultaneously creating innovative new forms of structural racism like banning discussions of the concept.
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By banning “race or gender ideology“ in class, Texas A&M is actually imposing race and gender ideology by the white, hetero power structure. (NYT gift link)
Texas A&M Tightens Rules on Talking About Race and Gender in Classes
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:43 AM
By banning “race or gender ideology“ in class, Texas A&M is actually imposing race and gender ideology by the white, hetero power structure. (NYT gift link)
It's always fun to share the work of students that I've worked with in the past. It is one of the best parts of the academy.
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
It's always fun to share the work of students that I've worked with in the past. It is one of the best parts of the academy.
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Re: Epstein’s emails
November 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Re: Epstein’s emails
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Sharing again because Jason still needs your support. If you have $5 to spare, please consider sending it his way. Thank you!
One of my HS classmates is a trucker who has hit hard times because of an on the job injury and since this country’s social safety net is trash, needs to raise funds to support his recovery. Please consider donating, even if you can’t offer much 🫶🏽
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November 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Sharing again because Jason still needs your support. If you have $5 to spare, please consider sending it his way. Thank you!
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Really enjoyed this conversation a few weeks back. In case you missed this year's @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Brown Lecture by Dr. James Banks and subsequent discussion, the video now lives here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQ5...
2025 Brown Lecture in Education Research (Post-Production)
YouTube video by American Educational Research Association
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Really enjoyed this conversation a few weeks back. In case you missed this year's @aeraedresearch.bsky.social Brown Lecture by Dr. James Banks and subsequent discussion, the video now lives here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQ5...
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But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.
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15-year auto loans.
50-year mortgages.
They’re not “financial innovations.” They’re warning signs.
When survival becomes debt, the economy isn’t recovering — it’s cannibalizing.
50-year mortgages.
They’re not “financial innovations.” They’re warning signs.
When survival becomes debt, the economy isn’t recovering — it’s cannibalizing.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
15-year auto loans.
50-year mortgages.
They’re not “financial innovations.” They’re warning signs.
When survival becomes debt, the economy isn’t recovering — it’s cannibalizing.
50-year mortgages.
They’re not “financial innovations.” They’re warning signs.
When survival becomes debt, the economy isn’t recovering — it’s cannibalizing.
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This. As @biblioracle.bsky.social talks about, writing is thinking and thinking is writing.
Organizing thoughts and ideas and developing knowledge cumulatively seems to me one of the, if not THE biggest challenge in academic writing and thinking.
Why would I want to outsource that to a piece of software?
Why would I want to outsource that to a piece of software?
November 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This. As @biblioracle.bsky.social talks about, writing is thinking and thinking is writing.
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Absolutely sadistic.
A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment.
The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.
A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment.
The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.
Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him
His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary
www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Absolutely sadistic.
A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment.
The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.
A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment.
The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.
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Yes lol
They want to do that to me sometimes, too. They are just scared to.
I will say, I think the Luddites will win this one in the near future.
They want to do that to me sometimes, too. They are just scared to.
I will say, I think the Luddites will win this one in the near future.
I would add that there are some, upon hearing that “no, no I don’t us Chat gpt” respond with a condescending smile while looking at me like I’m denying that the earth is round
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
November 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Yes lol
They want to do that to me sometimes, too. They are just scared to.
I will say, I think the Luddites will win this one in the near future.
They want to do that to me sometimes, too. They are just scared to.
I will say, I think the Luddites will win this one in the near future.
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Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶
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It's beautiful
November 7, 2025 at 5:15 AM
It's beautiful
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Attn folks in Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, Maine, & Michigan!
Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare.
Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first!
Names & phone numbers below.
Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare.
Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first!
Names & phone numbers below.
Readers in Arizona, Michigan, & Georgia!
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
Your senators have been getting a LOT of dedicated pressure to end the shutdown, without fixing healthcare.
If you have a minute, go ahead & give them a call!
Their job is to respond to constituents & they're mostly hearing from GOP voters rn.
November 6, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Attn folks in Delaware, Nevada, New Hampshire, Maine, & Michigan!
Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare.
Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first!
Names & phone numbers below.
Your Dem Senators are also getting a LOT of pressure to cut a deal to end the shutdown- by ditching healthcare.
Reach out & let them know healthcare must be fixed first!
Names & phone numbers below.
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
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Not sure what might be on the ballot in your town? Turbovote.org has those details. There’s still time to do some quick reading and say your part!
November 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Not sure what might be on the ballot in your town? Turbovote.org has those details. There’s still time to do some quick reading and say your part!