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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2h

You can't be... lily livered in the face of tyranny!

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2h

Ray Milland and Sam Elliott!

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 14h

I would like to see frog cosplay as political resistance become a thing.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 18h

I love this image.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 17h

The US-China trade war ratcheted up in the past 24 hours:

truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 21h

I'd like that was well. Perhaps county level.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 23h

MIT president Sally Kornbluth says no to Trump's proposed compact:

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Very interesting look at America's economy by individual states.
Note the distribution of states in/near recession vs growing vs treading water:

(Data from Moody's; map by @axios.com )

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 1d

@barackobama.bsky.social on Gaza, via Medium:

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

I'm very excited to mc ITHAKA's NextWave event this February:

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-next-w...

The Next Wave 2026

Join leaders across our community as we discuss the role of trust in the rapidly evolving higher education landscape.

www.eventbrite.com

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not sure how they'll react when non-immigrants don't flock to the fields. Increasing automation will only go so far.

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

Temperature here *fell* overnight. Now 48° F, when it was in the 80s yesterday afternoon.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

Trump's own Labor Department warns that the immigrant crackdown is putting dangerous pressure on America's food production:

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

heh:

Steffani [Scary Name Here] Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 2d

The little fantasy I have today is that Greta gets the Nobel Peace Prize and Trump loses his mind.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

More belittling, please!

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 2d

A call for everyone in and around academia to stand up against Trump's proposed "compact":

Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 3d

Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3d

How might higher education engage with AI literacy?

Tomorrow we're hosting Brent Anders, Ph.D. and Peter Shea on the Future Trends Forum to discuss their pioneering work.

georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3d

Texas' attorney general is over the edge:

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3d

For tonight's video we return to the Outer Limits.
Who controls the vertical?

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, information operations on certain battlefields.

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 4d

The tv presidency:

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 4d

Three very different estimates of international enrollment:
1) Up 0.8%
2) Down 19%
3) Down >19%

www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

International Student Arrivals Drop 19%

Some experts note that the entry data contradicts enrollment increases shown in SEVIS data—while others say the declines are even more extreme than the arrivals data indicates.

www.insidehighered.com

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 4d

So very helpful.
And not just supervising.

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 4d

“People over Papers, a crowdsourcing project that maps sightings of US immigration agents, was taken offline yesterday by Padlet, the collaborative bulletin board platform on which it was built.”
www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/06/1...

Another effort to track ICE raids was just taken offline

People over Papers was removed by Padlet, the platform it was built on, yesterday.

www.technologyreview.com

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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 4d

Host is Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 4d

In a webinar now, the host repeatedly says this:

"Please do not discuss election campaigns, candidates, political party platforms, or specific legislation in the chat."

The topic? The future with an emphasis on indigenous people.

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