Check out this fantastic @truthout.org article about the AAUP's defense of pro-Palestinian speech on campus.
It discusses on our report on the weaponization of Title VI, the Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's Faculty on the Front Lines initiative, the Fired Four at @psc-cuny.org & more.
Just imagining the new science that could be done with tax dollars used to produce this video
NEW: In the first appeals court hearing over one of the subpoenas it sent to gender-affirming care providers, Trump's DOJ advanced legal arguments that cast an ominous shadow over the future of access to medications the administration doesn't approve of, including abortion pills.
Once again, one of the most revealing & utterly demoralizing aspects of the last year or so has been the very transparent eagerness of so many of our academic colleagues, administrators, & leaders to reveal just how completely they are uninterested in the actual projects of teaching & research.
Critical thinking is under serious threat from large language models/AI. Uni administrators are too prone to accept tech hype! (plus it can be wrong, steals IP, has devasting environment/energy impacts). @jessicacalarco.com made a great one-pager I share with students (plus effective model of comms)
For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:
truethings.naghmehs.com
The right is also heavily invested in the myth that raining bombs on a country and creating a power vacuum by destroying their conventional military is equivalent to "freeing" the people of that country.
It worked so well in Iraq after all.
If gender were the immutable biological reality they claim to believe it is, they wouldn't need to spend so much energy policing it like this.
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
It's fascinating how there are apparently some PhDs who are like "wow, I could've just skipped the whole learning portion of my PhD, the entire point of the process!"
The “AI productivity” grifters focus so much on academia (students and faculty) because it is a technology originally designed for cheating and fraud. If you never read papers or design your own studies, you aren’t a researcher. If you don’t write your own work, you aren’t a student. You’re a fake.
And this is the anti-trans logic loop:
1. demand evidence
2. design reviews that cannot find evidence
3. cite absence of evidence as justification for withdrawing care
4. use withdrawal of care to prevent generation of new evidence.
It's what the Reagan administration did to trans folks.
The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.
Would be nice to work at an institution that both publicly defends trans people and points to the absurdity of being expected to apologize for following presidential guidelines simply because the next president happens to disagree with those guidelines.
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I can’t stand all this crap reporting about Trump looking for “exit ramps” or a “quick end” to the war he started with Iran. Do people think we can just peace out and everything will be fine? We just bombed a large nation and killed a slew of civilians. They’re not going to just let it go. FFS.
Really importantly - THIS 1000 page 'evidence' review, does not dignify a detailed response.
I will NOT be preparing a detailed analysis of every wrong step taken.
We need to instead state openly & clearly that this fraud is abusive and beneath contempt. That we reject it.
We can't combat an exercise in power & domination over trans youth by showing them the errors in their homework.
The errors here are so obvious.
They are intentional.
They are almost showing off - how little pretense at 'evidence' is needed to subjugate trans youth.
Yesterday the NHS banned all under 18 prescriptions of HRT for trans young people.
This ban was justified by 10 new studies that largely stated NO EVIDENCE for under 18s HRT exists.
The study underpinning this played one particular trick.
Let's briefly look at how the NHS rigged the game 1/5
25 years ago, I was a very anxious junior female economics professor at Harvard
while our President Larry Summers was telling the world how women weren’t very smart
Wish the arc bent a bit more sharply
It’s not a cabinet, it’s a junk drawer.
“A new study from Northwestern University warns that coordinated scientific fraud is becoming increasingly common. From fabricated data to purchased authorships and paid citations, researchers say organized groups are manipulating the academic publishing system. To investigate the issue, scientists combined large scale analysis of scientific publications with detailed case studies. While misconduct is often portrayed as the work of individual researchers cutting corners, the Northwestern team discovered something far more complex. Their findings reveal global networks of people and organizations working together to systematically exploit weaknesses in the publishing process. The scale of the problem is striking. According to the researchers, traudulent studies are now appearing at a faster rate than legitimate scientific publications. The authors say the findings should serve as a warning to the scientific community to strengthen safeguards before public trust in s E ence begins to erode.”
“This study is probably the most depressing project I've been involved with in my entire life…It's distressing to see others engage in fraud &in misleading others. But if you believe that science is useful & important for humanity, then you have to fight for it”🧪
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”
“Why are men afraid of women?”
“If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said.
“Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.”
“Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked
“No,” she said.
a non-paywalled look at the fit of Marco Rubio's gift shoes www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
Two veteran journalists produced a documentary that showed evidence of war crimes in Gaza. But the BBC refused to air the film.
This week on Reveal, we team up with @kcrw.com to tell the story of the film the BBC didn't want you to see:
Damn
And collective punishment to boot.
“They communicated to us that if one person kneeled or did not stand, or protested in some way, that the entire athletics [department] could suffer from it, and that’s over 500 student-athletes.”
Dumb, but you can also see him realizing how it would look to say out loud, in a videotaped legal deposition what his understanding of DEI is, that saying “anything having to do with women, people of color, and LGBTQ+” would reveal him to be the bigot he is
people have got to realize that we are not getting Medicare for All without taxing the middle class. we are not getting free child care without taxing the middle class. we are not getting better schools and free college without taxing the middle class.
I make $95,000 a year. raise my taxes, please.
This is what the polling looked like before the current war started btw
