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man I hope they find the staffer that stole the president's phone and did racism with it

View of Kyle Field stadium at Texas A&M University, with a large star sculpture in the foreground surrounded by blooming red roses.

BREAKING: Texas A&M’s Board of Regents is now requiring approval for courses on race and gender. This is a direct attack on academic freedom and civil rights.

We urge Texas A&M to reverse course now and protect faculty and students!

⭐️⭐️ Compact sent by the Trump administration to nine institutions of higher education, including UT Austin, available here:

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously

But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state

Keep that same energy of support for her

The multi-pronged assault we are facing on #HigherEd in Texas is part of a national project. We must fight back collectively, across state lines, now. 👇

Gosh today was/is really pushing the envelope, even by 2025’s standards.

Texas lawmakers moving to greatly increase control of state universities Opponents say a bill to end “ideological bias” in higher education would amount to a damaging takeover of public institutions, with nationwide implications.

A battle over academic freedom is being waged in Texas, where the legislature is poised to give the state power to screen faculty, programs and courses in one of the country’s largest public university systems, and experts say the outcome could reverberate for higher education nationwide.

Another thing missing from the conversation is that science is more than just a lone professor standing noblely at their bench, pipette in hand. Are other countries going to employ the grant managers? The research techs? The undergrads? The field assistants? We're destroying an entire network.

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Taking photos of campus to remind myself UTexas once had core values. "Individual Opportunities: Many options, Diverse People and Ideas, One University." See also, "Freedom to Seek the Truth and Express it." #SB37

This comedic skit (in English) by a Chinese comedian who is also a good trump impersonator, does a pretty good job of describing humorously Trump's dumb logic regarding international trade

A plea to academic associations: if you want to engage internationally do not hold conferences in the US. Holding them there now only endorses America First
@4sonline.bsky.social @historyscience.bsky.social @aahmhistmed.bsky.social

Join your local protest on April 19th. Spread the word.

Have We Been Thinking About A.D.H.D. All Wrong? (Gift Article) With diagnoses at a record high, some experts have begun to question our assumptions about the condition — and how to treat it.

Oh this is so good. The social construction of a disease for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry. Studies show that medications for ADHD do not make anyone smarter, just appear to do more work, and feel like it is more meaningful.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/m...

CDC firings gut research on traumatic brain injuries Last week’s mass layoffs removed small team studying concussions

This is so awful. “Cutting these programs will literally roll back decades of progress and harm not only the people that have been injured, but the people that are going to be injured in the future,” says Owen Z. Perlman, a physical rehabilitation physician” @profgoldberg.bsky.social

Yes. This Nobel Prize winning worthy discovery has been just languishing there waiting for someone to find in four months the exposure no one found in decades because of the Big Conspiracy that meant no one, and I do mean no one, wanted to find the answer.

Class action suit loading...but at UTexas they strategically eliminated quantitative reasoning, ethics along with global cultures requirement and cultural diversity requirement. So far...

A science agency where researchers can't attend scientific meetings

In a World of Pete Hegseths, Be a Maya Angelou In a world of complex threats and challenges, the Department of Defense has decided to tackle one of the gravest: a quintessential piece of American literature.

Trump's assault is not a good-faith reconsideration of the excesses of DEI. It is "far more an attack on the real diversity that characterizes today’s America, the real equity that a nation can aspire to, the real inclusion that marks a healthy society."

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to *certain items cease to be available at any price*

When I was director of the Center for History at the American Institute of Physics we worked with university students to produce lesson plans on the History of Women and Minorities in the Physical Sciences. It's US-centered, but there are fifty lessons to explore. www.aip.org/history-prog...

The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

What is a faculty senate? As Texas lawmakers seek to regulate them, some defend its merit As Texas lawmakers look to curb faculty senates, the Statesman asked professors how senators are picked, what the panels oversee and how they function

@aaup defends the advisory role of Faculty Senates and Councils, a central part of university governance that SB 37 seeks to diminish www.statesman.com/story/news/e...

LIVE NOW: Sen. Booker will go as long as he can in marathon Senate speech to protest Trump YouTube video by MSNBC

Senator Cory Booker filibuster YouTube live www.youtube.com/live/N5NfmuI...

Digital illustration of a large diverse group of trans people. Text reads, 'There are infinite ways to be trans.'

Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

✊ trans rights are human rights. full stop. #TDOV #tdov2025

American higher education now faces a perfect storm of demoralization, defunding, and delegitimization​. These attacks are not random or isolated; they follow a classic authoritarian playbook, and go beyond ordinary policy disagreements and have become an existential threat to the academic sector.

To all my colleagues at every college and university—this is not overreaction, I promise. No one is protected from this all-out assault: if not direct personal harm, then through withdrawal of research funds, harassment over course content, harassment of students, RAs. Join @aaup.bsky.social >