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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 19h

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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suz-y-q.bsky.social @suz-y-q.bsky.social · 19h

"We will never compromise our academic freedom and our ability to govern ourselves" Sian Beilock. As Dartmouth & MIT stand firm may the other 7 institutes of higher education also find the same resolve to do so.
U of A president breaks silence on White House compact tucson.com/news/local/e...

U of A president breaks silence on White House compact

University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella sent an email to the campus community about the White House’s proposed higher education compact, a week after receiving it.

tucson.com

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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

Including some users passports & DLs

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Mark my words, as age verification mandates expand, we'll end up more surveilled and less secure. 1/

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 22h

It reads like a Monty Python sketch 😆 🫠

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Rob Milton @therobmilton.com · 5d

- put down the damn AI.

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 1d

Food for though. I've struggled to balance genAI use in my classes. I've allowed it, required it, and banned it in different contexts. I found this op-ed useful for thinking through what is gained & lost and how we can make space for learning through other means #AcademicBluesky
tinyurl.com/ybbkp333

Why I'm Saying No to Generative AI

There is no value-add to using generative AI for historical work

theimportantwork.substack.com

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 1d

"UT is being dismantled piece by piece. Those who see higher education as a threat are intervening directly breaking norms...even constitutional protections — in an effort to suppress and punish controversial opinions among our students and faculty" www.statesman.com/opinion/colu... #AcademicBluesky

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

“LGBTQ+ history has reshaped how historians understand American citizenship, the Cold War and the civil rights movement, among many subjects. Officials may succeed in driving LGBTQ+ history out of Texas’s public universities — but they will not erase the past. LGBTQ+ history belongs to all of us.”

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 2d

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

Great opinion piece by our AAUP chapter Vice President! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I teach LGBTQ+ history. The University of Texas may soon ban my course | Opinion

Across Texas' public universities, faculty like me face course reviews and political pressure to erase LGBTQ+ studies, UT professor Lauren Gutterman writes.

www.statesman.com

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Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @elenlefoll.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

A great online conference for all early-career researchers interested in #corpuslinguistics, language teaching and learning and/or #sla with fantastic keynote speakers!

I'm looking forward to giving an informal "Getting started with #OpenScience" workshop on […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

Keynote speakers with photos

Prof. Dr. Randi Reppen: Professor Emerita of Applied Linguistics and TESL at Northern Arizona University

Prof. Dr. Michaela Mahlberg: Professor of Digital Humanities, Alexander von Humboldt Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Dr. Dana Gablasova: Senior Lecturer in Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 2d

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better."

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 28

Trump is expected to declare English the nation's official language. America is an Italian word. California, Colorado, Nevada, Montana, and Florida are Spanish, and a bunch of other states have Indigenous names.

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 2d

"Faculty members are uncertain whether discussing scientifically-accepted concepts in their disciplines, such as biological intersex conditions, historical gender systems in various cultures, or legal frameworks governing sex discrimination, could result in termination." #TXHigherEd #AcademicBluesky

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 2d

aaup-texas.org/blog/f/aaup-...

AAUP-Texas Tech Pushes Back Against Campus Censorship

Below is a letter from the AAUP Chapter at Texas Tech University. The AAUP-TTU Chapter is part of the Texas Conference of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which is affiliated...

aaup-texas.org

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d

REI is closing unionized stores. So many companies that like to pretend to be progressive remain still virulently anti-union at their core. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/08/b...

REI Co-Op’s Boston location is set to close next year - The Boston Globe

REI said it will close three locations on the East Coast, including a store in Boston, as it launches a new strategic plan.

www.bostonglobe.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

(Published July with @texastribune.org)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers

Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers — many to whom he has personal or political ties — to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

www.propublica.org

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 3d

🙏 Had the best meeting today with a newly minted PhD, whose work I found through a mutual colleague. Their research is interesting and important and their hot takes were so refreshing. Gave me a mid-semester cynicism innoculation and reminded me why we do what we do #gratitude #acadmemicbluesky

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 3d

Those working in computational methods connecting linguistics to AI, and whose research intersects w/ our major focus areas: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, phonology, psycholing, cogsci, documentation, historical linguistics, sign languages, or sociolinguistics are encouraged to apply 🤘

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 3d

We're hiring! UT Linguistics invites applications for a position in computational linguistics to begin next academic year 2026-27 (rank of tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor with tenure). apply.interfolio.com/175156

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Christian Ilbury @christianilbury.bsky.social · 4d

HI. It's me.

WE'RE READY TO LAUNCH. 2-4 Sept 2026. LavLang23.

Keynote Speakers
• Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke University)
• Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE, School of Business)
• Prof. Erez Levon (Universität Bern)
• Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece)
• Eddie Ungless (UoE, School of Informatics)

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 6d

behold the bold and brave washington post opinion section (under new management), lol

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 7d

Some good news:

www.cnn.com/2025/10/04/b...

Uber and Lyft drivers in California win the right to unionize | CNN Business

More than 800,000 drivers for ride-hailing companies in California will soon be able to join a union and bargain collectively for better wages and benefits under a measure signed Friday by Gov. Gavin ...

www.cnn.com

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 6d

One of the clearest explanations of what's at stake for the universities named in the "compact." It's a deal with the devil. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. These universities have already lost much of their independent governance, weakened by previous attacks on higher ed. Now we wait.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Linguischick @cocchino.bsky.social · 6d

Sunday #MomentOfGratitude is appreciating this chaos gremlin for who she is. Very good at reminding her mom when it's time for a work break. #PetPhotography

Tri colored puppy looks wide eyes at the person behind the camera as they stand with front paws on a desk

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 8d

Free inquiry and academic freedom are critical to the success and proper functioning of any university, and it would be tragic if UT-Austin were to sacrifice its long tradition of academic excellence by submitting to an unconstitutional and autocratic threat from the White House.

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