Retired faculty member and alum, Dr. Audrey Shafer on the DoJ investigation on admissions:
“I would not be me without my history with the University. I feel assaulted by the federal government’s intrusion and overreach into higher education.”
Stanford medical students speak up on the DoJ investigation into admissions:
“We want to see Stanford enroll more Black, Latino and Indigenous medical and PA students, not for optics, but because they deserve to be here without having their success dismissed as the product of DEI.”
Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy.
Read it in full here:
www.aaup.org/blueprint-st...
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This May Day, join higher ed workers across the nation and fight for an affordable and safe education that serves the common good. Learn more and register at www.labor4highered.org
#HandsOffHigherEd
#MayDayHigherEd
#HigherEdOverBillionaires
#DefendHigherEd
Urge Stanford to reject the DOJ's demands for sensitive personal information about Stanford Medical School students:
Please sign & share the petition:
alumni.standforcampusfreedom.org/petitions/ca...
Don’t forget the basic research that made it all possible. Ozempuc originally comes from discoveries from Gila monster venom.
Let’s stop the attacks on basic research, and enable the discoveries of the future. SamForNJ.org
This is an important point to remember every time some yahoo politician who wants to defund the NSF reads the title of a grant in dumbstruck tones: "They're studying the venom of Gila monsters? What? Who's *that* for?"
All of us, Gomer. It's how science actually works.
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
Science is good. We should fund it.
As part of my efforts to combat the COVID Amnesia Project, let's accurately remember what 3 influential laptop class doctors from Stanford said 6 years ago as COVID overflowed hospitals and morgues.
They won't remind you.
I will.
My latest.
This is likely to get more common. Attendance at recent professional conferences has been visibly less international.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
Pointing out that NAS platforming those actively destroying science is a truly terrible idea isn’t “vitriol” or “ang[er]”.
It’s simply pointing out that NAS platforming those actively destroying science is a truly terrible idea. And, to put it mildly, unbelievably disappointing.
“The closure of the NIH case is the final blow to the Trump administration’s initial attempts to slash indirect costs. Similar policies enacted at other federal research funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation, have not survived legal challenges.”
www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/t...
Public university professors in Texas say a new law restricts their academic freedom
www.npr.org/2026/04/08/n...
Alabama, Kentucky, Oklahoma & Tennessee legislatures are considering bills that will weaken tenure, academic freedom & shared governance at public colleges and universities.
Inside Higher Ed breaks down the harmful impact of the bills and how AAUP chapters & leaders are responding to this threat⬇️
From the @aaup.org mothership:
"Collective Bargaining Win in Maryland Makes History"
You're damn right it does.
This is exactly why we are fighting to get RFK Jr. impeached. We made it easy to contact your Reps: Visit tr.ee/removeRFKJr and demand that they co-sponsor the articles of impeachment against RFK Jr.
#RemoveRFKJr #ImpeachTheQuack #ImpeachRFKJr #StandUpForScience
Pushing AI on researchers trades off with the ability to fund researchers.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Some great (but not surprising to me) news!
"The Trump administration will not be asking the Supreme Court to take up its fight to slash federal support for funding that the nation’s science enterprise relies on for basic operating costs."
www.statnews.com/2026/04/08/t...
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The acting head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing that the Covid vaccine significantly reduced the likelihood of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/h...
The Trump administration is asking for years of admissions records from our medical school (as well as Ohio State and UCSD). This is a continuation of their attacks on higher ed. If they have it their way, higher ed, as we know it, will cease to exist.
After ordering the videos of DOGE depositions removed from the internet, the judge has now ruled they can be published again. This is a win for freedom of speech and the public interest.
The federal government has undermined research in almost every area, to the tremendous detriment of the American public.
“While it’s proven that diverse faculty can improve research innovation, student success, and institutional accountability, Black professors remain underrepresented and structurally unsupported, according to those leading the study." - @blackenterprise.bsky.social
https://ow.ly/aUic50YwrC7
So I'm from Virginia. I currently live in TN and I also lived here as a teen. It's a little complicated.
Anyway, the Rutherford County PUBLIC library is where I spent a lot of time as a tween/teen. It shaped me. It saved me. This is a PUBLIC LIBRARY not even a school.
And I'm proud of *Luanne.
My quote of the day
It is not a Pandora's box that science opens; it is, rather, a treasure chest. We, humanity, can choose whether or not to take out the discoveries and use them, and for what purpose.
John Sulston
A huge inflatable duck with "ANTI-VAX QUACK" written on the front
We are standing against RFK Jr. and his quackery. Will you stand with us??? We are rallying RIGHT NOW in Washington D.C. to Save Science, Protect Health, and Defend Democracy.
JOIN US!!! : fight2win.standupforscience.net/DC-March/
Not in D.C.? Find your local rally at standupforscience.net/march7
Not only has the NIH terminated hundreds of grants, they’re also giving out far fewer grants than appropriate for their budget. Some researchers will have to close their labs or severely cut back their research. This is a self-inflicted wound.
