Matt Hodler
@mhodler.bsky.social
assoc professor uri 🌊 | ex-swimmer | former bartender & bus-washer | miamioh uncg uiowa | race, gender, class, nation, & sport | views & typos = mine | he/him | cis
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
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I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
November 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I found this terribly sad. A young woman with her life ahead of her, and she becomes one of the last American victims of the Long War.
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Important to do this press conference about a mass shooting from behind a comic book convention’s folding table inside the hotel from The Shining.
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Important to do this press conference about a mass shooting from behind a comic book convention’s folding table inside the hotel from The Shining.
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I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I can’t believe people in the room don’t push back. It doesn’t matter if he’s the president, part of holding him accountable is standing up to his bullying— especially if he’s doing it right in front of your face
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At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 AM
At what point will the press corps, as a chorus, in unison, just shout back, “THATS NOT TRUE”!
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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we're going to win
Page One in Cincinnati:
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
“.. I need to be able to look my grandkids in the eye and say I did not remain silent.”
#ICE
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
we're going to win
“’Well, do you know about Lars Jorgensen?’ Every single time, they’ve said no, And I just say, ‘You know, it’s hard for me to care about Riley Gaines tying for fifth when my swim coach is accused of raping my teammates.”
Riley Gaines climbed the MAGA ladder by vilifying trans women in sports. Now, teammates are speaking out about the real problems on her team: abusive coaching, sexual harassment, eating disorders. ow.ly/o3wq50XuCzp
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
ow.ly
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 AM
“’Well, do you know about Lars Jorgensen?’ Every single time, they’ve said no, And I just say, ‘You know, it’s hard for me to care about Riley Gaines tying for fifth when my swim coach is accused of raping my teammates.”
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I think the most successful disinformation campaign since the advent of electronic media was probably Russia's in 2016, though Musk buying Twitter is gaining steam. The last decade has made the Cold War CIA look like a bunch of amateurs
If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand”
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I think the most successful disinformation campaign since the advent of electronic media was probably Russia's in 2016, though Musk buying Twitter is gaining steam. The last decade has made the Cold War CIA look like a bunch of amateurs
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The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback
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This hearing just began with a State Board of Education member trying to bar a Council on American-Islamic Relations representative barred from speaking because she leads a "terrorist" organization. (Yesterday, Gov. Abbott designated CAIR as such).
Happening now: Texas clergy speaking out about the influence of Christian nationalism — including David Barton’s theories — on proposed social studies curriculum. The State Board of Education will hold a hearing on the proposals later today.
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This hearing just began with a State Board of Education member trying to bar a Council on American-Islamic Relations representative barred from speaking because she leads a "terrorist" organization. (Yesterday, Gov. Abbott designated CAIR as such).
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2x in this morning’s CBS Sunday interview Portnoy claimed that he & Barstool have a strong “moral compass” but, even at the surface level, his actions & words don’t necessarily match 🧵1/5
I would rather slam my nuts in a desk drawer than watch this youtu.be/VCCLOvw4L1o?...
Man Yells Antisemitic Slur at Dave Portnoy & His Reaction Is Perfect
YouTube video by The Rubin Report
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
2x in this morning’s CBS Sunday interview Portnoy claimed that he & Barstool have a strong “moral compass” but, even at the surface level, his actions & words don’t necessarily match 🧵1/5
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This below is in the context of computer science but we all need to be having this conversation about whether "using AI" in classes prepares you for future jobs or whether actually doing the thing yourself prepares you for a world in which you may or may not use AI. The idea that using AI to write/1
![A degree in CS mostly prepares students to become computer scientists, just as a history degree mostly prepares students to be historians. The idea is not that every student will become an academic— few do—but that the initial training in this direction will prepare students for varied pursuits. When the world changes, Erat argues, the student who studied CS will have the creativity to “learn how to search, how to integrate things.” But for the student who just used AI to make programs, he said, “It’s going to be impossible.”
Conversely, CS professor Lin Zhong thinks Yale’s core CS curriculum is “stuck in the 1980s.” He wants students to develop the AI expertise that they would need as professional software engineers. “If your student[s] don’t learn how to use [AI], they lose their job,” he said. Students in Zhong’s Computer Systems Design course earn extra credit for using AI creatively to do their homework.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a6m5puxjmwuwxhuviabkhg67/bafkreidr3hlf3v5bi3c4dwzguxvi2khyjm4tmr5unm4funrdwyqjgvys2m@jpeg)
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This below is in the context of computer science but we all need to be having this conversation about whether "using AI" in classes prepares you for future jobs or whether actually doing the thing yourself prepares you for a world in which you may or may not use AI. The idea that using AI to write/1
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Icymi, from @premthakker.bsky.social and me:
A point of this reporting is to underscore how not just wildly scandalous Trump’s wide ranging coverup of the Epstein files is right now, but that his coverup has hit a new level of blatant political corruption and abuse of power.
Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to
Genuinely, historically atrocious in ways too many get numb to
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Icymi, from @premthakker.bsky.social and me:
2x in this morning’s CBS Sunday interview Portnoy claimed that he & Barstool have a strong “moral compass” but, even at the surface level, his actions & words don’t necessarily match 🧵1/5
I would rather slam my nuts in a desk drawer than watch this youtu.be/VCCLOvw4L1o?...
Man Yells Antisemitic Slur at Dave Portnoy & His Reaction Is Perfect
YouTube video by The Rubin Report
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
2x in this morning’s CBS Sunday interview Portnoy claimed that he & Barstool have a strong “moral compass” but, even at the surface level, his actions & words don’t necessarily match 🧵1/5
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So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.
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Every academic should join the @aaup.org national and their local AAUP chapter. If your uni doesn't have one, start one! Colorado academics, check out @aaupcsu.bsky.social! We're active, growing and looking to collaborate. Join the resistance on academia's front lines.
WE WON!!!
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system.
Read the order here:
democracyforward.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Every academic should join the @aaup.org national and their local AAUP chapter. If your uni doesn't have one, start one! Colorado academics, check out @aaupcsu.bsky.social! We're active, growing and looking to collaborate. Join the resistance on academia's front lines.
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man went to profile someone notorious for getting inexplicably horny on the job and got inexplicably horny himself
Uh. I don't think that Nuzzi piece is "ironic" guys
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
man went to profile someone notorious for getting inexplicably horny on the job and got inexplicably horny himself
a good afternoon walk on Scarborough State Beach
November 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
a good afternoon walk on Scarborough State Beach
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Politically orchestrated removals of multiple university presidents, state manipulation of governing boards to eliminate institutional autonomy, the ideological firing of multiple instructors, restrictions on campus speech…after years of censored teaching and research in numerous state systems. 1/
November 14, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Politically orchestrated removals of multiple university presidents, state manipulation of governing boards to eliminate institutional autonomy, the ideological firing of multiple instructors, restrictions on campus speech…after years of censored teaching and research in numerous state systems. 1/
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Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
November 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Every decade, we hear "the kids can't read or write!"
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Interventions that don't work are proposed. Those that do work are ignored: reducing class sizes, making kids & families feel safe at school and welcome, becoming a community resource.
When their expensive reform fails, they yell at us again.
Not questioning my choice to cancel Disney+
Bob Iger says upcoming changes to Disney+ include "game-like features" and "mostly short-form" user-generated content made with generative AI (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
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November 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Not questioning my choice to cancel Disney+
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No.
Science in its best form is that if you think you can disagree - or agree - with it, you run an experiment and perform research backed by scientific experience and knowledge, and then compare your results to the ones previously achieved.
You don’t just get to bleat “Nuh-UH!!!!” and get respect
Science in its best form is that if you think you can disagree - or agree - with it, you run an experiment and perform research backed by scientific experience and knowledge, and then compare your results to the ones previously achieved.
You don’t just get to bleat “Nuh-UH!!!!” and get respect
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 13, 2025 at 9:38 PM
No.
Science in its best form is that if you think you can disagree - or agree - with it, you run an experiment and perform research backed by scientific experience and knowledge, and then compare your results to the ones previously achieved.
You don’t just get to bleat “Nuh-UH!!!!” and get respect
Science in its best form is that if you think you can disagree - or agree - with it, you run an experiment and perform research backed by scientific experience and knowledge, and then compare your results to the ones previously achieved.
You don’t just get to bleat “Nuh-UH!!!!” and get respect