Dr. Stephennie Mulder
@stephenniem.bsky.social
Assoc prof of Islamic art at UT Austin, 24-25 NEH Fellow, Syria, archaeology, heritage. Formerly world-renowned author of "The Citizen Kane of Islam-centric cat-themed Twitter threads", now making an Arabic/English digital game set in 8th c. Syria
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hi my name is Oliver and my tail is so long I use it for a pillow
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This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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From guest columnist + UT faculty member Steve Wechsler: “I do not see evidence of intolerance to diverse views at UT. What I see is a range of departments seeking truth from different angles, creating a university that is greater than the sum of its parts.” ❤️
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
UT’s diversity of thought is real — and well worth defending | Opinion
Diverse areas of study bring diverse perspectives — the hallmark of a great university. Political meddling is threatening that at the University of Texas, Steve Wechsler writes.
www.statesman.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
From guest columnist + UT faculty member Steve Wechsler: “I do not see evidence of intolerance to diverse views at UT. What I see is a range of departments seeking truth from different angles, creating a university that is greater than the sum of its parts.” ❤️
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
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⭐️Action needed: please read this thread &write to the TAMU Regents to oppose censorship of courses that teach about race or gender or depart from the course description.This would put curricular decisions in the hands of admins, not faculty. It would drastically affect teaching & learning conditions
🚨🚨 Texas A&M Board of Regents is meeting next week and set to approve a new policy requiring pre-approval of courses on race and gender. This is a blatant violation of academic freedom.
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
⭐️Action needed: please read this thread &write to the TAMU Regents to oppose censorship of courses that teach about race or gender or depart from the course description.This would put curricular decisions in the hands of admins, not faculty. It would drastically affect teaching & learning conditions
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Concrete actions to build campus coalitions to support immigrants on campus ⬇️
"When we sound the alarm, we call others to take action alongside us. The time for urgent response is here. Together, higher education can take coordinated steps to defend our institutions & community members."
Now is the time to speak out and build coalitions on our campuses!
#defendhighered
Now is the time to speak out and build coalitions on our campuses!
#defendhighered
Higher Ed Must Take Action on Immigration Policy (opinion)
Higher ed must take decisive action to counter the Trump administration’s harmful immigration policies.
www.insidehighered.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Concrete actions to build campus coalitions to support immigrants on campus ⬇️
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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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...
Letter to the Editor: University staff are frustrated too
We are the UNT chapter of the Texas State Employees Union, Communications Workers of America, Local 6186. We represent UNT workers of all job descriptions: custodians, part-time student employees, adj...
www.ntdaily.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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...
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UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
UT Austin is discussing eliminating or consolidating our departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Mexican/American and Latino/Latina Studies, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Here is what AAADS alumni have to say. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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Thanks to the Editorial Board of the Austin American Statesman for this strong editorial opposing the Compact!
November 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thanks to the Editorial Board of the Austin American Statesman for this strong editorial opposing the Compact!
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UT Austin students protest Compact outside investiture of President Jim Davis.
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
UT Austin students protest Compact outside investiture of President Jim Davis.
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🚨 “Some students and faculty now second-guess what they can say in and out of class. Students who aren’t white, straight and cisgender say their identities are being erased. Many professors worry that fear, not inquiry, is starting to define campus life.”
cbsaustin.com/news/local/t...
cbsaustin.com/news/local/t...
TX Republicans are redefining higher ed, creating confusion about free speech on campuses
**Editor's Note: The headline has been shortened for length.At colleges across Texas last month, a series of viral campus videos, abrupt professor firings, conf
cbsaustin.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:53 PM
🚨 “Some students and faculty now second-guess what they can say in and out of class. Students who aren’t white, straight and cisgender say their identities are being erased. Many professors worry that fear, not inquiry, is starting to define campus life.”
cbsaustin.com/news/local/t...
cbsaustin.com/news/local/t...
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Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!
October 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!
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⭐️⭐️ Scholars of academic freedom agree: “To immunize ideas based on political standards is to impose an unacceptable test of ideological conformity. Nothing could be further from the spirit and ideals that we, despite our differences, seek for American higher education.” ⬇️
Opinion | Our Politics Differ, But We Agree: Trump’s ‘Compact’ Violates Academic Freedom
Using federal funding to dictate who colleges admit and what faculty can say crosses a dangerous line.
www.chronicle.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:40 PM
⭐️⭐️ Scholars of academic freedom agree: “To immunize ideas based on political standards is to impose an unacceptable test of ideological conformity. Nothing could be further from the spirit and ideals that we, despite our differences, seek for American higher education.” ⬇️
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Prof. Julie Minich: “I would vigorously dispute any characterization of area studies or ethnic studies as ideologically engaged in the indoctrination of students…My goal in the classroom is never to tell students what to think. It’s to give them tools for how to think about a complicated world.” 👏❤️
Faculty at Texas university fear entire liberal arts departments will be slashed
University of Texas at Austin faculty fear changes from new taskforce that could restructure humanities programs
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Prof. Julie Minich: “I would vigorously dispute any characterization of area studies or ethnic studies as ideologically engaged in the indoctrination of students…My goal in the classroom is never to tell students what to think. It’s to give them tools for how to think about a complicated world.” 👏❤️
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We’re so close! Just $659 and this refugee student gets his PhD! 🥳
Cmon cmon I just need thirteen kind souls to give $50 🥹🙏❤️
Cmon cmon I just need thirteen kind souls to give $50 🥹🙏❤️
This refugee student is in the final months of his dissertation after a long journey out of war. Helping him helps assure the future of Syria.
There's a lot of darkness in the world right now, but this is how we bring the light. No amount is too small (or too large lol)! 🙏 💖
givebutter.com/fgQG3V
There's a lot of darkness in the world right now, but this is how we bring the light. No amount is too small (or too large lol)! 🙏 💖
givebutter.com/fgQG3V
Help a Refugee Student Finish his PhD, Save Endangered Heritage!
By Stephennie Mulder
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October 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
We’re so close! Just $659 and this refugee student gets his PhD! 🥳
Cmon cmon I just need thirteen kind souls to give $50 🥹🙏❤️
Cmon cmon I just need thirteen kind souls to give $50 🥹🙏❤️
Thrilled and touched by a truly generous donation of $1,000 just now. That means we are only $739 from this student's goal! 🎉 🥹
Fifteen $50 donations. That’s all it will take. Let’s get him into the home stretch this week! Grateful for anything you can give to this truly worthy cause.
Fifteen $50 donations. That’s all it will take. Let’s get him into the home stretch this week! Grateful for anything you can give to this truly worthy cause.
This refugee student is in the final months of his dissertation after a long journey out of war. Helping him helps assure the future of Syria.
There's a lot of darkness in the world right now, but this is how we bring the light. No amount is too small (or too large lol)! 🙏 💖
givebutter.com/fgQG3V
There's a lot of darkness in the world right now, but this is how we bring the light. No amount is too small (or too large lol)! 🙏 💖
givebutter.com/fgQG3V
Help a Refugee Student Finish his PhD, Save Endangered Heritage!
By Stephennie Mulder
givebutter.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Thrilled and touched by a truly generous donation of $1,000 just now. That means we are only $739 from this student's goal! 🎉 🥹
Fifteen $50 donations. That’s all it will take. Let’s get him into the home stretch this week! Grateful for anything you can give to this truly worthy cause.
Fifteen $50 donations. That’s all it will take. Let’s get him into the home stretch this week! Grateful for anything you can give to this truly worthy cause.
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Prof. Karma Chavez: “I think UT’s good enough just to compete on the regular marketplace and still win.” That’s right! UT doesn’t need to trade its independence and autonomy for vague promises of “preferential” federal grant funding! 👏🧡✊ #LonghornPride
pilot.latakoo.com/asset/219723... Dr. Karma Chavez, the new president of the AAUP chapter at UT Austin, on the elimination of democracy in Texas public education and dangers of Trump’s compact. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
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October 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Prof. Karma Chavez: “I think UT’s good enough just to compete on the regular marketplace and still win.” That’s right! UT doesn’t need to trade its independence and autonomy for vague promises of “preferential” federal grant funding! 👏🧡✊ #LonghornPride
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✴️For the first time since 1945, UT does not have a representative faculty council.
Our press release on the replacement of an elected Faculty Council with faculty advisory bodies composed entirely of appointees of President Davis.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Our press release on the replacement of an elected Faculty Council with faculty advisory bodies composed entirely of appointees of President Davis.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Press Release 9.27.2025.docx
PRESS RELEASE American Association of University Professors (AAUP) chapter at The University of Texas at Austin Contact: Pauline Strong, PhD, Chapter President, [email protected] _________________...
docs.google.com
September 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
✴️For the first time since 1945, UT does not have a representative faculty council.
Our press release on the replacement of an elected Faculty Council with faculty advisory bodies composed entirely of appointees of President Davis.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Our press release on the replacement of an elected Faculty Council with faculty advisory bodies composed entirely of appointees of President Davis.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Hello! Have you helped a refugee student save endangered heritage today? Well luckily you can do that right now! 🎉❤️
This refugee student is in the final months of his dissertation after a long journey out of war. Helping him helps assure the future of Syria.
There's a lot of darkness in the world right now, but this is how we bring the light. No amount is too small (or too large lol)! 🙏 💖
givebutter.com/fgQG3V
There's a lot of darkness in the world right now, but this is how we bring the light. No amount is too small (or too large lol)! 🙏 💖
givebutter.com/fgQG3V
Help a Refugee Student Finish his PhD, Save Endangered Heritage!
By Stephennie Mulder
givebutter.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Hello! Have you helped a refugee student save endangered heritage today? Well luckily you can do that right now! 🎉❤️