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Eight years ago, I made a decision that confused my friends.
I recently wrote an editorial about it and why students should study physics.
You can read the English version on Substack, with footnotes for non-physicists […]
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"According to an #InsideHigherEd analysis of more than 60 key #HigherEd lawsuits, the government has the upper hand in just 17 cases as of April 1."
www.insidehighered.com/news/government/courts/2...
#Academia #AcademicMastodon […]
Me: In the interest of time, I will convince you using a Proof by Intimidation only.
Student: Sure!
Me: *shows slide*
Student, nodding approvingly: That worked :)
#AcademicMastodon #AcademicChatter #ProfessorLife #Teaching
Update. "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn."
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/politics/t...
Penn will appeal the ruling. “We continue to believe that requiring Penn to create lists of Jewish faculty and staff, and to provide […]
Today is a big day for me. Wish me luck?
#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon
Alex Bronzini-Vender reviews Elise Stefanik's new book, 𝘗𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘐𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢’𝘴 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴.
www.chronicle.com/article/elise-stefanik-g...
(#paywalled)
"Stefanik…has assembled here the most serious version of the Trumpist […]
Update. Also see the 2026 Update to the Academic Freedom Index (#AFI).
academic-freedom-index.net/research/Academic_Freedo...
Extracts from University World News:
www.universityworldnews.com/post.php
"Academic freedom has declined […]
#PublicEducation in red-state #Idaho:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/us/idaho-educ...
From Julie Yamamoto, retired teacher and former Republican rep from Idaho, defeated by a more conservative Republican:
“We’ve experienced this huge shift, from believing that the […]
Title slide of a presentation. Title: The Complexity of Testing Message-Passing Concurrency Authors: Zhen Shi (NUS), Lasse Møldrup (Aarhus University), Umang Mathur (NUS), Andreas Pavlogiannis (Aarhus University)
POV: you need a break from your vacation so you attend a seminar about a cool new paper at your old university. 🤓
paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3776643
preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05162
#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon #ProfessorLife […]
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The Chronicle of Higher Education asked 11 scholars for short takes on what's next for higher ed.
www.chronicle.com/article/higher-ed-is-at-...
(#paywalled)
Most talked about the turmoil of political repression, slashed funding, declining […]
Full CFP: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#AcademicMastodon #HigherEd #AI #Pedagogy #WritingStudies #RhetComp #DigitalRhetoric #Teaching #OpenAccess #CFP
Update. For a good history of US efforts to classify support for #Palestinians and criticism of #Israel as #antisemitism, see the Nov 2025 report from the Middle East Studies Association (#MESA) and the American Association of University Professors (#AAUP), "Discriminating Against Dissent: The […]
An excellent op-ed by #ArneDuncan and #DavidPressman: "Universities are sending #Trump a dangerous message."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/09/coll...
(#paywalled)
"By conditioning federal research grants on ideological […]
Title page of an academic paper. Title: UNO Is Hard, Even for a Single Player. Authors: Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Ryuhei Uehara, Takeaki Uno, Yushi Uno.
Well played.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-64...
#uno #CardGames #ComputationalComplexity #FunWithAlgorithms #Algorithms #Algorithmics #Games #AI #ComputerScience #ProfessorLife
To those who are interested in the 1984 entries:
On page 633 they discuss the development of interior point methods, following the work of Narendra Karmarkar in 1984, page 810 contains the associated bibliography entry, and page 811 contains the bibliography entry for Levin's paper on Universal […]
Start of the index of a textbook. The first elements of the index are "/", "//", "}", "!", "<", ">", "+" and "1", some of which have dozens of page numbers listed after them.
Incredible dedication to indexing in Kleinberg & Tardos.
#Algorithms #Algorithmics #ComputerScience #Books #ProfessorLife #Textbook
"One year after the #Trump administration tried to cap reimbursements for indirect research costs, federal agencies have halted their plans."
www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-...
#Academia #AcademicMastodon […]
Great. Took a 7:15 train to get to the office on time so I’d have some time to re-read my notes and set up my laptop etc before teaching a lecture at 8:45, but because of a “power failure” there are no trains between The Hague and Delft, so now I’m sardined into a delayed street, and will, in a […]
Key indicator of what's happening to US higher ed:
"Despite Harvard's victory [in court, against the Trump admin], more schools agreed to deals."
www.npr.org/2026/01/29/nx-s1-5559293...
#DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities […]
Does this feel too abrupt? I'm not sure if it feels like I've adequately built the argument to land at this point. is this a pretentious way of writing?
Perhaps this is too much caveating. Consider pulling back a bit. I could just delete this entire clause after the last comma...
okay yeah this is definitely pretentious though
ain't nobody a harsher critic than past-me leaving notes for present-me, though I definitely plan on kicking this down the road for future-me to figure out
#academicMastodon #academiaChat
The 2025 edition of the Academic Freedom Index (#AFI) ranks the United States in the fourth decile, below Madagascar and Mongolia. (See Figure 8.)
academic-freedom-index.net/research/Academic_Freedo...
#Academia #AcademicFreedom #AcademicMastodon #Censorship […]
The way that the "Save and Next" button in Blackboard just takes me back to the full gradebook instead of advancing to the next submission is truly just *magical*
All LMS platforms are terrible. Some are just more terrible than others.
#academicMastodon #academia
If you're not in NL, please refer to this list of similar initiatives elsewhere in the world, collected by Olivia Guest:
https://olivia.science/ai#letter
#GenAI #Academia #AcademicMastodon #AI #AcademicChatter #HigherEducation #StochasticParrot
Update. Here's the announcement from the American Association of University Professors (#AAUP), a co-plaintiff in the case.
www.aaup.org/news/win-aaup-v-trump-co...
"Friday’s decision orders a stop to the Trump administration’s illegal […]
"Federal judge sides with #UCalifornia employees in free speech lawsuit against Trump administration."
www.dailycal.org/news/uc/federal-judge-si...
"In her ruling, U.S […]
I feel a bit out of the loop with hashtags at the moment.
Could someone enlighten me what the current general purpose and biology/animal science specific academic hashtags are?
Since guppee shut down, my feed feels quite empty.
And it took me far too long to even notice that 😅 […]
In August, the #Trump admin sent #UCLA a 27-page list of demands and settlement proposal, which UCLA wanted to keep confidential during its deliberations and negotiations. The UCLA Faculty Association sued to compel its disclosure, and the California Supreme Court just decided in favor of the […]
"This 'Wiki' collates resources for scholars that address threats to science. It accompanies The Anti-Autocracy Handbook: A Scholars’ Guide to Navigating Democratic Backsliding. Here you will find supporting resources for scholars around topics discussed in the handbook…It is maintained by […]
Update. Also see our joint blog post in today's 𝘋𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘕𝘰𝘶𝘴 (@DailyNous).
dailynous.com/2025/10/23/exploring-the...
"Philosophy lives in its conversations among scholars, students, and teachers. When its figures, texts […]
