December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Ancient Plants Used Infrared Radiation to Attract Their Pollinators #research 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
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Ancient Plants Used Infrared Radiation to Attract Their Pollinators - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology
Long before flowers painted the planet in brilliant colors, some of Earth’s earliest plants were glowing—not with pigment, but with heat. A new study from the lab of […]
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December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ancient Plants Used Infrared Radiation to Attract Their Pollinators #research 🧠 🧪🧬 #AcademicSky #higherEd
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social @science.org
www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @nbellono.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social @harvardoeb.bsky.social @science.org
A new #Academe article from @davidabanks.online takes a clear-eyed look at the academic “underclass” and the “ever-widening gap between those who do the work and those who administer it” in #highered.
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The Underclass Is in Session
What do we see when we view the structure of academic labor as it is, not as we wish it to be?
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December 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
A new #Academe article from @davidabanks.online takes a clear-eyed look at the academic “underclass” and the “ever-widening gap between those who do the work and those who administer it” in #highered.
@aaup.org
@aaup.org
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#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
December 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
🧠 We're hiring! 🧠 Are you passionate about neuroscience and education? Join our faculty at UNC Chapel Hill to inspire and teach the next generation of neuroscientists. Apply now: 🔗https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/308455
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
#Neuroscience #TeachingJobs #AcademicJobs #HigherEd
Long form law?
Pierre Legrand's 200-page review (with 750 footnotes) of "Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 146 pages) by Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto.
www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Sorbonne #academia
#research #PhDChat
Pierre Legrand's 200-page review (with 750 footnotes) of "Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 146 pages) by Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto.
www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Sorbonne #academia
#research #PhDChat
December 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Long form law?
Pierre Legrand's 200-page review (with 750 footnotes) of "Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 146 pages) by Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto.
www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Sorbonne #academia
#research #PhDChat
Pierre Legrand's 200-page review (with 750 footnotes) of "Comparative Law: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 146 pages) by Sabrina Ragone and Guido Smorto.
www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...
#HigherEd #AcademicSky #Sorbonne #academia
#research #PhDChat
„On Sept. 3, 2024, Peterson, accompanied by his daughter and son-in-law, had an online meeting with then-advanced education minister Rajan Sawhney. . .By Oct. 8, 2024, ministry staff had already generated an evaluation of how it could accredit the Peterson Academy.“
#cdnpse #highered
#cdnpse #highered
“Smith, and her chief of staff, Rob Anderson, directly intervened with Alberta’s Advanced Education Ministry in an attempt to help Peterson’s higher-education business venture.”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee
The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Conservative groups propose sweeping new model legislation for public universities. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
Proposed Model Bill Would Change College Tenure, Teaching, & Research
Three conservative groups have proposed model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority
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December 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Conservative groups propose sweeping new model legislation for public universities. #HigherEd #AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...
"'It is ironic that those on the right complain — without good evidence — about bias in media and academia, and then push something like this that is clearly a "This is my perspective" approach.'" #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #highered
Exclusive - Danielle Smith and Rob Anderson intervened on behalf of Jordan Peterson's online school in a concerted attempt to grant it accreditation in Alberta.
Jordan Peterson's School Isn't Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta's Help via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Jordan Peterson's School Isn't Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta's Help via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...
Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee
The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
December 10, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Why we need students to understand concepts rather than simply learn facts – and what pedagogical approaches can help: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/are-we-teaching-information-or-developing-understanding #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
Are we teaching information or developing understanding?
Why we need students to understand concepts rather than simply learn facts – and what pedagogical approaches can help
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Why we need students to understand concepts rather than simply learn facts – and what pedagogical approaches can help: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/are-we-teaching-information-or-developing-understanding #HigherEd #AcademicSky #EduSky
"a breakdown of shared governance around implementing AI has implications for the future of teaching, learning and job security."
#HigherED #edtech
#AcademicSky #PhdChat #education
#research #policy #humanities #arts
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#HigherED #edtech
#AcademicSky #PhdChat #education
#research #policy #humanities #arts
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Faculty Often Missing From University Decisions on AI
A new survey from the AAUP shows that a breakdown of shared governance around implementing AI has implications for the future of teaching, learning and job security.
www.insidehighered.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"a breakdown of shared governance around implementing AI has implications for the future of teaching, learning and job security."
#HigherED #edtech
#AcademicSky #PhdChat #education
#research #policy #humanities #arts
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#HigherED #edtech
#AcademicSky #PhdChat #education
#research #policy #humanities #arts
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Opinion | Trump’s Plan for the Education Department Isn’t Efficient—It’s Just Chaotic
The Department of Labor is not prepared or equipped to take over key postsecondary programs. https://bit.ly/3Mug7qI
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
The Department of Labor is not prepared or equipped to take over key postsecondary programs. https://bit.ly/3Mug7qI
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
December 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Opinion | Trump’s Plan for the Education Department Isn’t Efficient—It’s Just Chaotic
The Department of Labor is not prepared or equipped to take over key postsecondary programs. https://bit.ly/3Mug7qI
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
The Department of Labor is not prepared or equipped to take over key postsecondary programs. https://bit.ly/3Mug7qI
#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd
this is a crucial report with significance across the UK #highered sector, for all workers, on fixed-tem contracts or not, including senior management. @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @resprofnews.bsky.social
📣Join the States of Precarity team for the launch of the States of Precarity in UK Higher Education Geography report.
📅 Wednesday 14 January
🎦 Online
👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2
Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg
📅 Wednesday 14 January
🎦 Online
👉 Sign up to attend: https://bit.ly/4rvQgP2
Check out the report before the launch: https://bit.ly/44HTUvg
December 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM
this is a crucial report with significance across the UK #highered sector, for all workers, on fixed-tem contracts or not, including senior management. @rgsibg.bsky.social @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @timeshighered.bsky.social @resprofnews.bsky.social
Meanwhile, in the UK...
"This article shows how management consultancy firms, particularly the Big Four, leveraged their position to become key brokers in English higher education, expanding their influence across multiple areas of governance and management."
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd
"This article shows how management consultancy firms, particularly the Big Four, leveraged their position to become key brokers in English higher education, expanding their influence across multiple areas of governance and management."
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Management consultants and university futures: Academic capitalism and the capture of UK public higher education
This article shows how management consultancy firms, particularly the Big Four, leveraged their position to become key brokers in English higher education, expanding their influence across multiple...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Meanwhile, in the UK...
"This article shows how management consultancy firms, particularly the Big Four, leveraged their position to become key brokers in English higher education, expanding their influence across multiple areas of governance and management."
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd
"This article shows how management consultancy firms, particularly the Big Four, leveraged their position to become key brokers in English higher education, expanding their influence across multiple areas of governance and management."
#UKHE #AcademicSky #HigherEd
Opinion | What If Students Want Something More Than AI?
We should stop declaring we know the future and give students the space to figure things out for themselves. https://bit.ly/4j2Mhpq
#EDUSky HigherEd #AcademicSky
We should stop declaring we know the future and give students the space to figure things out for themselves. https://bit.ly/4j2Mhpq
#EDUSky HigherEd #AcademicSky
December 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Opinion | What If Students Want Something More Than AI?
We should stop declaring we know the future and give students the space to figure things out for themselves. https://bit.ly/4j2Mhpq
#EDUSky HigherEd #AcademicSky
We should stop declaring we know the future and give students the space to figure things out for themselves. https://bit.ly/4j2Mhpq
#EDUSky HigherEd #AcademicSky
#HigherEd friends, I'm so grateful for those who have submitted grievances for our Festivus conversation next week (see link in reply). If you missed that post earlier in the week, submit yours here and we might talk about it in our podcast recording Wednesday: forms.gle/nRKSQDfWf8eV...
Airing of Grievances
From Emily's blog post:
In 2023, I made a Festivus post airing my grievances with assigning final grades. In 2024, I recorded a podcast episode with my colleagues Josh Eyler and Liz Norell, in which w...
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December 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
#HigherEd friends, I'm so grateful for those who have submitted grievances for our Festivus conversation next week (see link in reply). If you missed that post earlier in the week, submit yours here and we might talk about it in our podcast recording Wednesday: forms.gle/nRKSQDfWf8eV...
“The incredibly short timing of this investigation is just emblematic of the fact that the end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation...The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.” #HigherEd
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence that UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism
An investigation by ProPublica and The Chronicle of Higher Education reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.
www.propublica.org
December 12, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“The incredibly short timing of this investigation is just emblematic of the fact that the end goal was never to conduct a thorough, unbiased investigation...The end goal was to file a damn complaint — or have something to threaten the university.” #HigherEd
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
www.propublica.org/article/ucla...
$401M Gift to Michigan State Will Benefit Athletics https://bit.ly/4amGpVN
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
December 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
$401M Gift to Michigan State Will Benefit Athletics https://bit.ly/4amGpVN
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Critical rest period (holidays) totally ruined by Deans running around trying to get faculty to write research chair proposals.
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Guess who the Deans are asking to do this work over the holidays?
Just guess
#HigherEd
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Guess who the Deans are asking to do this work over the holidays?
Just guess
#HigherEd
Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.
December 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Critical rest period (holidays) totally ruined by Deans running around trying to get faculty to write research chair proposals.
...
Guess who the Deans are asking to do this work over the holidays?
Just guess
#HigherEd
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Guess who the Deans are asking to do this work over the holidays?
Just guess
#HigherEd
Explore ICPSR's data by subject, including #PoliSci #Econ #Sociology #HigherEd #Health #Psych... with over 20k studies, there's #data here for everyone: https://myumi.ch/D8rdx
December 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Explore ICPSR's data by subject, including #PoliSci #Econ #Sociology #HigherEd #Health #Psych... with over 20k studies, there's #data here for everyone: https://myumi.ch/D8rdx
Isenberg Senior Elijah Khasabo Builds Million-Dollar Startup Vidovo While Earning @umassamherst.bsky.social Degree #highered #IsenbergImpact #UMassAmherst #Isenberg #BusinessSchool #entrepreneurship
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www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/isenber...
December 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Isenberg Senior Elijah Khasabo Builds Million-Dollar Startup Vidovo While Earning @umassamherst.bsky.social Degree #highered #IsenbergImpact #UMassAmherst #Isenberg #BusinessSchool #entrepreneurship
www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/isenber...
www.isenberg.umass.edu/news/isenber...
👇This response to #dishist in #highered & the experiences of disabled, chronically ill, D/deaf, & #ND #skystorians is a must-read, w/ recommendations relevant across the Humanities & #academicsky. Thank you, Sarah Holland, @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social, Sarah Hayward, & @tillyguthrie.bsky.social! 🗃️
History UK has today released its 'History UK Disability and History Report' (2025): bit.ly/44PH51Z
The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians
The report aims to raise the profile of issues relating to disability and history in UK Higher Education. Its research and writing were co-funded by the Royal Historical Society. #Skystorians
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 PM
👇This response to #dishist in #highered & the experiences of disabled, chronically ill, D/deaf, & #ND #skystorians is a must-read, w/ recommendations relevant across the Humanities & #academicsky. Thank you, Sarah Holland, @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social, Sarah Hayward, & @tillyguthrie.bsky.social! 🗃️
🚨 Breaking News | Pacific University and Willamette University have signed a letter of intent to merge, pending approval, which would create the largest private institution in Oregon if the deal is finalized.
Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4q7nLFW
#EDUSky #HigherEd
Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4q7nLFW
#EDUSky #HigherEd
December 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
🚨 Breaking News | Pacific University and Willamette University have signed a letter of intent to merge, pending approval, which would create the largest private institution in Oregon if the deal is finalized.
Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4q7nLFW
#EDUSky #HigherEd
Read the full story ➡️ https://bit.ly/4q7nLFW
#EDUSky #HigherEd
“We have been and can again be a country that refuses to get used to authoritarianism. We can choose instead to work with our neighbors, co-workers and fellow citizens to build our more perfect union.” — Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social in @latimes.com #HigherEd
Contributor: Americans still have a choice whether to let the nation turn authoritarian
Obsequiousness and collaboration spread like viruses to weaken our republic, but the choice to support one another and defend our institutions strengthens it.
www.latimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
“We have been and can again be a country that refuses to get used to authoritarianism. We can choose instead to work with our neighbors, co-workers and fellow citizens to build our more perfect union.” — Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social in @latimes.com #HigherEd