On this day in 1914, the U.S., invaded Veracruz, Mexico.
President Woodrow Wilson ordered the U.S. military intervention hoping to trigger regime change. Things did not go as planned.
"Wilson thought that the U.S. invasion would be quick and painless," writes expert James Lindsay.
2/2 Administrative decisions can easily force programs into these categories where they bleed faculty by attrition or make programs hard for students to encounter, e.g. by removing them from gen ed (see what's happening w/sociology in the state of FL). #academicsky
Not to drag out the old "it's a feature, not a bug" argument, but this also points to the insidiousness of new legislation in various states allowing faculty to be fired at will where programs are deemed "unprofitable" or "too small." #academicsky 1/2
Just wait until people hear about this newfangled thing called the internal combustion engine.
I get marketing e-mails from academic publishers daily. It speaks volumes that these guys are nowhere in defense of academic freedom, even though every closed department & content ban costs them customers. Even though their whole model is based on us providing them w/free content & labor.
Very proud to see this coming out of my alma mater. @sunygeneseo.bsky.social ⭐️
Fear is the mind-killer.
Since our quality but underfunded county newspaper folded, Meta has been serving up the crappy local rumors sites in my feed nonstop. This, even though I have never followed or subscribed to any of them.
Just over 50% of Americans getting local news from social media forums, and yet ~80% of Americans seem to recognize these places are toxic (i.e., they'd prefer other sources).
Seems about right.
It takes a special kind of thinking to believe that eroding job security, promoting micro-management, and increasing administrative burdens--while simultaneously allowing pensions and salaries to decline in real terms--will attract certain "viewpoints" to academia. #academicsky
Great thread & great piece. I think this explains why a lot of academics feel some discomfort abt being asked to rally when certain sources of funding are on the line. Who is it all for?
NYT headline: Many Popes Have Been Entangled in Politics. Here Are 5 of Them.
Just a few of them, though.
If only there were an academic discipline that researched things like how to craft effective ceasefires and peace agreements.
Feels slightly out of touch to have organizers telling the public with a straight face that $200-$400 tickets are the affordable range. #Olympics
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
In the time I've been watching the livestream of the AL senate, they have discussed:
-A recent luncheon
-Furnishings in their new chamber
-How the reps liked their steaks cooked
Later, they will vote on whether to deprive public educators of job security. 🙄
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” --Albert Einstein
When I think about how many different kinds of social inquiry have been gutted over the last two or three generations in order to hire in and fund allegedly more scientific work that turns out to be non-replicable or even irreproducible...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Victor Glover on the NASA livestream talking about being a 1st gen student is getting up in my feelings. Not only because of the people he will inspire, but because this is the potential we lose when we start closing the doors to #highered. #academicsky
Ah, April Fools in the age of algorithmic feeds, where your jokes will be served up to viewers on April 2, 3, and 4... probably into next week, too. 🙄
Me listening to this @ajc.com podcast with the absolute certainty that we will find out who blew up the Georgia Guidestones.
#polisky the absolute decimation of the social sciences cc @professormusgrave.bsky.social @mcopelov.bsky.social
A depressing confirmation of our earlier findings about gender citation (and publication) gaps @michelledion.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The priorities: 1) College football, 2) Oh, and people might also have co-workers/family/friends in different timezones or whatever.
I've been going to ISA since 2009. We don't know either. Welcome! 😂
2/ @aaup.org has been a great model for amplifying threats to job security. I feel like APSA/ISA can support this--and your journals have the research to back up why tenure matters, how this all hurts women, disabled, & minority faculty, etc.
Greetings from the U.S. South, where we're drowning in attempts to restrict academic freedom, erode tenure, remove remote work accommodations, decimate every non-STEM department. 😰 Need all the help we can get from our professional associations to call attention to the issues...1/
