The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.
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Posts by Matt Martello
The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.
This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.
14 of my publications -- basically everything I've ever thought or written-- went into AI training datasets without my consent or knowledge
shitty economic historians define “post-modernism” challenge: impossible
Meet Gracie Himes, age 20.
Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines.
On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer.
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I really hope if we ever make it out of this that people remember the lost generation who had no chance to be part of the field.
"freedom of the press" in manuscript written perpendicular to text seen only as a few letters poking up from the bottom of the image.
"freedom of the press." A bit of emphatic marginalia on a copy of the 1776 Pennsylvania Constitution, article 12: "That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing, and publishing their sentiments." @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.
A complex and confusing scheme whose myriad corrupt dimensions would take, I don’t know, a second-grader to sniff out
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
Nikola Jokic with the first 30-20-20 game in NBA history 🤯
I'd go to a conference on the beginning of the university and the past of criticism
What's even the point of research then? What are we doing here folks? Just the endless circulation of nonsense that no one will read read or write for the sake of speed and circulation itself. Anti-intellectual. Anti-theory. Just straight @annakornbluh.bsky.social's Immediacy. No chaser
… what now?
We should all agree not to use the word “lyric” for like a year. Just see what happens
Came over here because there weren’t enough academics left on Twitter for me to feel sufficiently pitied
Love being asked by students what courses they can take with me next year when the answer is that I’m probably going to be unemployed