For the cost of one Harvard Professor of the Constitution Only Applies to White People, you could endow 10 professorships of any less commonly taught language at any university in the USA

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)

Deep Space 9 (1993–99)

this is absolutely fantastic

teaching Golden Gulag this week and that's a perfect example of conceptualizing carceral state capacities as infrastructures that can be mobilized in various ways under differing political projects/regimes

Policing, like surveillance is *infrastructure*--highways can bring groceries to your town but they can also bring tanks. The bigger you build the surveillance and policing system, the more and more likely you make it that they will be co-opted by the people who decide what deserves enforcement.

100 percent we need to treat these systems analytically as infrastructure

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Intellectual freedom is when conservatives can say what they want (and get paid for it) and you can say what they want (or lose your job)

Absolutely devastating article on one little, beautiful, remarkable piece of what we lost to DOGE

Screenshot of title and abstract of article, “Reconsideration of Secure Communities rollout reveals preemptive local-federal cooperation in immigration enforcement.”

NEW (and open access!) in @pnas.org:

We find that Secure Communities triggered “preemptive” immigration enforcement, increasing detentions, transfers, & removals even before formal county activation.

Joint with @cvargas100.bsky.social and @immigrationlab.bsky.social

www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages A key issue is protections against layoffs from AI

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more.

They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

From Reconstruction to "We tortured some folks," from Iran-Contra to January 6th, a prevailing ideology of American politics is that no one should face consequences, nothing should be fundamentally changed, and we should all happily move on as if ignoring the problem solves it.

Whatever happens, this is a deeply shameful episode in American history that will leave a permanent stain on the country.

Repeatedly vowing to commit war crimes against millions of innocent civilians is beyond the pale.

This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

economists trying to explain their low replication rates in the Nature study with n = ~100 by arguing that it is because economics has a higher analytic complexity and it makes sense that they can't replicate is, check notes, *peak economics*.

Reliable research in the social and behavioural and sciences Sweeping new investigations probe the replication, robustness and reproducibility of results across the behavioural and social sciences.

The SCORE investigation of repeatability and credibility is a lot. There are a few ways to get your head around it.

1: The Nature collection includes 3 papers from SCORE, an amazing paper from @i4replication.bsky.social and several commentaries about the work.

www.nature.com/collections/...

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This is so, so well-articulated.

New School Faculty React to Plans to Lay Off 15% of Workforce "There's an air of anxiety," Carrie Hawks, an assistant professor of illustration, told Hyperallergic of the newly announced cuts.

“The largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.”

We all know this is fascism.

That Patagonia private equity vest is the worst thing to happen to American clothing

Scientists Filmed a Whale Birth. The Surprise: Mom Had Many Helpers.

“11 sperm whales huddled together at the surface, strangely still and taking occasional shallow dives. After about an hour, the animals seemed to start thrashing, and a plume of blood reddened the water. The researchers feared trouble, maybe a shark attack. But it was something else.”

WHALE DOULAS!

In 2018, Jordan Costa was a grad student battling through her criminology studies. She was drawn to the intersections of mental health and gun access.

When she found out how closely linked she was to the gun violence crisis, her work changed forever.

Read more: thetr.ac/Yo5VC

thanks for pulling this together; just registered

On April 30, 12-1pm ET, I'll moderate a webinar that will include Afghan American psychologist Dr Rosalind Rogers who will discuss this trauma affecting kids & families

It's open to all, & I'd be grateful if you could spread the word

Register/post Qs:

childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/blog/event/t...

Thanks for doing this! Just submitted.

Will do! Just a quick train ride so I’ve got no excuses