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Having students use paper to complete tasks is in this sense to help them understand how to disentangle a single focused thought task from the machine ensemble of our ubiquitous modern information systems.

Reading student essays and getting a little verklempt. Sometimes you get real lucky with the makeup of a class and the students who land in it. This semester has been one of those and I'm really gonna miss the care and thoughtfulness that these students brought to a course on some tough topics 🥲

also, the focus on "majors" is a way to cut programs that actually enroll fine, but students pick other things because they are told to by ... their parents media advisors admin college counselors general vibes ... but they still take the classes because they actually want to learn.

The circle of death is:

Cut faculty (or non-replace) so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so you cut faculty so you offer fewer classes so fewer people enroll so then the market has spoken.

So far, a staggering 13.6 million Sudanese have been forced to flee, according to the World Health Organization’s estimate. The World Food Program has said the country is enduring the world’s largest hunger crisis. Over 40 percent of the population faces acute food insecurity; children are dying of malnutrition. High on the list of areas in the world where the United Nations has warned that hunger is at catastrophic levels are Gaza and Sudan. Despite all this, the crisis receives only a small fraction of the humanitarian aid that’s needed, in large part because of deep cuts in U.S. aid. Survivors of the war whom I saw in another town, Renk, arrived at a U.N.-run center there exhausted, devastated and hungry. They weren’t offered a warm meal, but a small biscuit. Sometimes there weren’t even biscuits, workers told me. Nearby, a transitional center run by the U.N. refugee agency provides beds and blankets to survivors, but it has long since run out of room; it was built for 3,000 people and now shelters some 9,000. Thousands of others who have fled to Renk, including families, sleep out in the open or in rough shelters they build themselves of sticks and cloth.

Elon Musk's legacy cannot be cars and rockets and robots. His legacy is starvation and human degradation and mass death.

This was a choice.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

The volume of AI slop I am receiving from students is definitely increasing as term end nears. I'm so tired.

very good news for universities and research hospitals

was struggling not to cry at the beginning of my global justice class today. jfc

I was speaking with a friend of mine who also teaches first-year writing, and I think the issue is people see writing as telling me what they know, but what writing really does is explain *how* you have come to know a thing. AI can’t tell us how you have come to know something; only you can.

Employers should cover work-related travel and other expenses directly rather than require employees to float their employer an interest-free loan while subjecting them to a byzantine reimbursement process that will take at least a month and entail multiple rounds of paperwork.

Students reaching out to me now, asking for syllabi for fall 26: lol, lmao even

oh god the visible shudder I just experienced

"please provide your full name, credentials, institution, mailing address, research interests, life goals, dreams, aspirations, food allergies, and the names of any pets"

Peer review: unpaid, uncounted in professional standing, and also as big of a pain in the ass as we can possibly make it. "Oh you agreed to review this paper? Before you can start you MUST fill out this multi-page form to complete your profile"

This is really a wonderful blog post about writing as thinking. Aimed at graduate students but applicable to undergraduate writing as well. Basically sending this to all of my students today

Nike Is Moving Jobs to Low-Wage Regions of Indonesia After moving manufacturing to the developing world to save on labor, Nike and other apparel brands are shifting employment in their Indonesian supply chain away from high-wage parts of the country and...

Hey surprise Nike is up to their old tricks. "Less-developed regions shouldn’t be excluded from economic growth" is corporate speak for "Exploitative jobs that pay less than a living wage are a benefit that poor people should be grateful for"

Nike reported $46B in revenue last year

THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.

The People — And Research — Lost in the NIH Exodus - KFF Health News Government data shows the National Institutes of Health lost about 4,400 people — more than 20% of its staff — as the Trump administration slashed the federal workforce. Hear from six scientists on wh...

An incredible loss of talent. Self-inflicted brain drain. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled “Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: “Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.

THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees.

Here’s how it works 1/

Getting on my official ethicist soapbox to proclaim that war is bad, actually, and we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening

15 of 17 Tartan Scholars Ambassadors resign, citing lack of support for program - The Tartan On Friday, Feb. 27, 15 out of the 17 Tartan Scholars Ambassadors — student workers who help facilitate the Tartan Scholars program — announced their

Really distressed to read about our Tartan Scholars program being so under-supported that the student ambassadors would resign en masse. CMU just opened a $100M robotics center in Hazelwood, we can't afford more than 2 full-time staff to support this important program??

In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.

When academia's stars mistreat people, they're "punished" with relief from teaching, mentoring, and service responsibilities. This frees them to spend more time on the more valued work of research. And dumps less valued responsibilities onto colleagues, making it harder for them to become stars.

"Static" non-ideal theories of exploitation take structural injustice as a fixed background. Danielle M. Wenner and Derrick F. Gray argue this inadvertently serves an ideological function, reinforcing unjust conditions rather than challenging them.

Columbia says DHS entered a dorm at dawn today under false pretenses, detaining a student in violation of the law and university policy.

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

It is 1954, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 1981, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2002, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2017, gender-affirming care is criticised as “experimental”

It is 2026, gender-affirming ca

CMU increasing daily administrative burden by now making us sign into every single microsoft office product, even if already signed into a CMU account on the computer, the CMU network, CMU email, and every other CMU server already wtf are we doing here

Excited to announce publication of new JHPPL special issue: Public Health Under Siege (ungated) that explores the fate of public health during the second Trump administration:

read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...