I've been considering doing this too. Hybrid class, all quizzes online because there generally is not enough time for in-person. At my most pessimistic I've wondered whether I might even see a negative correlation.
1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:
Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.
Its a horrifying escalation.
This is nice but you've taken more money from Palantir than any other member of the House. Why should we trust you?
they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.
Time to back this up with articles of impeachment.
Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...
“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks Prem
Thakker, in the wake of Israel’s killing of Anas al Sharif.
Truly shameless stuff from the New York Times.
I deleted several posts about a Times story because they violated Times social media standards.
Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.
Oh, just thinking of all the brothers from inner cities who put their bodies on the line for this ghoul.
Terrible. I'm so sorry Franki.
this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness
vance is a detestable liar and an open enemy of the constitution. the central load bearing factual claim here is completely false and even if it wasn’t the constitution contains two explicit guarantees of due process
SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...
Damning testimony from the survivor of the killing of 15 Gazan medics and civil defense workers. Munther Abed says IDF soldiers deliberately fired at them and those sent to rescue them, then crushed and buried the cars and bodies.
www.dropsitenews.com/p/red-cresce...
Yes, certainly worth pausing my music for. Appreciate the brevity of the recording, short talks are the toughest to deliver.
Damn.
It's pretty clear that opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza will be grounds for visa denials and deportations.
it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight
Beautiful reflection, Neil. Thank you.
This whole campaign is disgraceful. This administration which is riddled with actual antisemites is using antisemitism as a stalking horse for its campaign against all universities. A kind of elaborate and hideous gaslighting.
I’ve been a green card holder since 2005. I am a social scientist researching racism + DEI, and my entire research is listed in this list. I go to protests. Tho I’m afraid of speaking up, I’m much more privileged than most at this moment so I can’t be silent. If you can, speak up for those who can’t
Free Mahmoud Khalil.
SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.
He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."
Deleted an post with outdated pay, current rate is $5975 per class.
2) Research Methods Tue 2:30 - 5 pm. 3) Research Methods T 5:30 - 8 pm. PhD required (ABD considered).
The Psychology Department at Montclair State University is looking for instructors to teach MULTIPLE GRADUATE CLASSES this fall semester. Remote instruction possible, all times ET. Email wilsonjoh@montclair.edu. 1) Social Psychology, Wed 5:30 - 8pm.