HB 580 in Alabama will create post-tenure review process for faculty, let Board of Trustees shape curricula & limit the power of faculty senates.
“The bottom line is that it’s a bad bill. It will do little to bring about the transparency & accountability that lawmakers desire.”
—Auburn AAUP
Call for conttributions to special issue of @bioethicalinquiry.bsky.social on 'Bioethics for the Planet', mixing medical ethics & environmental (climate) ethics - edited by Paul Komesaroff, Cara Platts, Natasha Rooney and me. EoI by May 31 to c.platts@unimelb.edu.au
#bioethics #medhum #envhum #STS
It’s no longer TDoV but there’s bigots to piss off so…
Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread:
Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.
My contribution to the discussion about social media platforms is that everyone on the left should read this book
www.upress.umn.edu/978081669864...
"At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely"
A Conversation on Bioethical Responsibilities in 21 Century Crises A virtual discussion about the need for new bioethical methods and focus to address contemporary issues, including disability, incarcaration, climate change, and the role of emotions in reasoning. Hosted by the University of Cincinnati Center for Public Engagement with Science April 1th 7-8:15pm Eastern, Free and open to all. Virtual webinar that you can register for here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F2D15JcZRRmzGJFue_DUFA#/registration
Next week the @ucpews.bsky.social is hosting a virtual book launch for **Bioethical Responsibilities in 21st Century Crises**
It will be a conversation among book editors & four authors on responsibilities this century but especially bioethical responsibilities in this moment.
April 14th @ 7pm ET.
Not so long ago, when Russia was targeting hospitals in Syria, that it was widely denounced as a war crime.
“The Philadelphia Court system has banned all smart/AI eyeglasses from courtrooms and soon, anyone who attempts to bring any eyeglasses with audio and/or video recording capabilities into a courtroom in the city could face arrest.”
Full-time salaries for most categories of faculty have remained about the same since 2002, adjusting for inflation, while admin pay soars.
Faculty have had enough. We’re fighting back nationwide.
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www.chronicle.com/article/amid...
The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them!
The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.
Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students.
They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.
I'm receiving reports from airports all over the country about ICE sightings. I'll be sharing updates here as I get them. ⬇️
Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT
The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.
Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone
Health Care Workers Interrupting Criminalization On the consequences of policing patient behavior in the hospital. A physician at a community health center challenges the policing of his patients by offering a harm reduction-based approach to care
Restorative justice as an alternative to firing a patient
Listening, Resisting, Healing: HRNA's Fight Against Re-criminalization in British Columbia. A harm reduction nurse in Canada leads his community in a fight against Bill 34, which would re-criminalize public drug use
When healing becomes resistance, interrupting HIV criminalization. An advocate & an attorney share an intimate story about the power of community & policy, & the role of health care providers in the movement to end HIV criminalization
This project from our Beyond Do No Harm network highlights actions individual health care workers are taking to interrupt criminalization in the context of care. We hope this will inspire others to do the same! Read them here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/storytelling...
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Check out the Aeon philosophy prize for early career researchers - offers the chance
of intensive mentoring in writing public philosophy @aeon.co aeon.co/philosophy-p...
Three years into the AI era, educators say they face a major crisis. Bosses and clients replacing tutoring jobs with AI. Replacing *athletic coaching* with AI. Many students now cannot grasp why they would *not* use AI for schoolwork. And worse.
The 5th installment of AI Killed My Job—educators:
I think a lot about @alexhanna.bsky.social's ridicule as praxis when it comes to critiquing "AI" systems - and PureGenius is such a good example.
Also has me excited to consider how I might bring more satire into my classroom and invite students to create similar kinds of projects.
The push to make syllabi “public” is not about transparency. It’s about creating conditions for outside intimidation and manufacturing pretexts for censorship.
slightly updated list of concerns CU system-wide students, faculty, and staff have with the CU-Chat GPT that's slated to roll out this summer. please share, please support in any way you can. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
"I know that there's some of you who believe that you're in a dialogue with the federal government about the future of education. I think when you start from that premise you have already lost," he said. "Because the reality is, it's not a dialogue that's focused on solving the problems that are identified; it's an action focused on trying to undermine your independence."
Whew. More folks need to hear this
Trump’s oil blockade has pushed Cuba to the brink, with reserves projected to run dry by March, and even though the Supreme Court struck down his tariff threats on countries shipping oil to the island, the US-made humanitarian crisis continues to deepen.
it sure is a choice to look at a political landscape in which the government is actively attempting to erase trans people from existence and publish a Singal victory lap in furtherance of that goal
Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.
My thoughts on how critical fully funded public libraries are to any Left political project in the U.S. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...
My wife just renewed her passport or, as we’ll rightly call it, paid her poll tax.
It took a hot minute, but I can finally share my new paper on evidentiary pragmatism in transgender health care!
In it, I propose a new principle for evaluating scientific evidence based on the best reasonably achievable evidence, avoiding the ‘catch-22’ where trans care can never be justified.
why did it take me all day to hear about this? why wasn’t it all over everyone’s feeds? a national strike of 300 million people!
apnews.com/article/indi...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why. Joan Wallach Scott in The Guardian archive.is/Htsxj
