I hope every veteran drawing va disability is watching this. Hope many of us enrolled in MVP to help? They have more data on us than they do on most people on Medicaid. Do you think the people who call us losers and suckers are gonna save us?
Make college affordable. Fund research. Protect faculty's right to teach and students' right to learn. Expand workers' rights.
These are core pillars of AAUP and AFT's national policy platform, the Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education.
@aft.org
@afthighered.bsky.social
Delete your fucking X account. It's worthless and it funds one of the biggest bigots on the planet. Get the fuck off.
Tenure-track position in Denmark "with a particular focus on visual perception, including visual attention, working memory, and visual neuroscience" #neurojobs #neuroskyence #visionscience
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The Congressional Research Service noted that the military instituted its first vaccination program in 1777 when Gen. George Washington directed the inoculation of the Continental Army to protect personnel from smallpox that was sickening and killing his people.
apnews.com/article/hegs...
Last year, the flu vaccine saved 12,000 lives and prevented over 100,000 hospitalizations according to the CDC.
~53,000 military personnel died in combat in WW1. ~45,000 other soldiers died from the flu. #PeteHegseth may be ignorant of history, careless about the lives of those in uniform, but the army remembers. www.army.mil/article/2104...
Always simply ask "What would Putin have us do?" and you'll have your answer:
President Trump’s administration rocked the American research enterprise over the last year with disruptions and changes to the historically reliable stream of federal funding that fueled it.
Labs are running on fumes. https://wapo.st/48dWJWX
From banning Plato to firing faculty, Texas A&M is ground zero for political attacks on academic freedom. Hear from students and professors about how political censorship threatens quality education and prepares students for a world *they* should learn, not what politicians decide they should learn.
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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A photo illustration of a bobble head of Greek philosopher Plato in a moving box amongst other office items. The box has "Texas A&M" crossed out on it.
Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Concerns
Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom. https://bit.ly/4toRdJy
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky
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HAPPENING NOW: The AFT and @aaup.org are in Texas launching our new Nnational Higher Education platform ahead of the 2026 midterms.
Read more in the release here, and follow along in the thread below. @afthighered.bsky.social
The new platform from AFT & @aaup.org is focused on:
🎓Restored funding
🎓Freedom to learn
🎓Shared governance: Ensuring faculty and staff—not corporate administrators—make final decisions on curriculum, research priorities and institutional priorities.
🎓Labor reform
Public universities and community colleges across Texas are being used as toys for political games. We're here to tell them: the futures of our students are not things to be played with.
@utaustinaaup.bsky.social @texasaaup.bsky.social @handsoffcentraltx.bsky.social
By taking the departments that study women, queer people, Black people, + Latinos + combining them into a single, ill-defined dept, UT has defined these populations by their lack of whiteness. Their lack of being cisgender, straight + male...These people are now the Other…an object to be dealt with.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real. Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A young person carries a Progress Pride flag unfurled behind their back.
After Backlash, BU President Apologizes for Removal of Pride Flags https://bit.ly/4dC3nJY
Immigration agents are seen inside Newark Liberty International Airport's Terminal A in Newark, N.J., on March 23, 2026.
Thousands of Mathematicians Protest International Conference in U.S.
The U.S. is not safe for international mathematicians given the risk of detainment and harassment by ICE, they argue. https://bit.ly/4cewiRU
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
In Telegram groups, men are sharing thousands of nonconsensual images of women and girls, buying spyware, and engaging in doxing and sexual abuse. www.wired.com/story/men-ar...
I’m glad there is a reported ceasefire deal with Iran. But we shouldn’t be in this illegal war in the first place. And Donald Trump can’t simply threaten war crimes with impunity. Congress needs to get back in session now to stop this war and remove Donald Trump.
A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career
The loss of Brian Donovan’s grants and job speak volumes about federal funding priorities — and academia
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