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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h

🧵 Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 1h

Here's a good example of the everything but the kitchen sink style of the piece. What is the evidence that students are more worried about being ostracized or feeling stupid or aligning their views the professor or more likely to take classes that might result in a good grade than before?

Students were afraid, the report said, of being socially ostracized. They were embarrassed about possibly sounding stupid. They felt that they had to align their viewpoints with their professor’s in order to get a good grade. And they chose their classes based on the likelihood of getting a good grade, rather than out of intellectual curiosity.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 1d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

After we all spend years chasing the same bubble/fad while the rest of our programs are defunded (bsky.app/profile/mcop...), we'll discover students also need to still learn things like, foreign languages & all the liberal arts. Maybe we'll still have a few of those programs left, too, but 🤷‍♂️

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 1d

I emailed the guy who originally drew Pepe to see if he had any comment about the current frog reclamation, and he was like uh what are you talking about

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Victoria Duncan @victoriaduncan.bsky.social · 2d

& now entire professions and sub-professions exist just for the edge cases and niche interests that uses to not be worth covering in any of those other ways. It's such an abundance and it makes our lives so different.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper.

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 2d

Most of this laundry list of "overwhelming evidence" is tendentious. Let's go through them.
1) A big driver of high costs at public universities has been a decrease in state appropriations. Many public schools have been forced to act on a public/private model as a result..../1

The evidence is overwhelming: outrageous costs and prolonged indebtedness for students; poor outcomes, with too many students left unable to find meaningful work after graduating; some talented domestic students and scholars have been crowded out of enrollment and employment opportunities by international students; and a high degree of uniformity of thought among faculty members and administrators, which can result in a hostile environment for students with different ideas.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2d

I completed a PhD in Physics at MIT in '03. Even when the intensity seemed to be off-scale, there was one piece that I never doubted: the place had integrity, purpose, and passion.

It's clear the culture and drive of MIT remains.

MIT says no to the compact.

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

In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, the people of MIT gladly compete with the very best, without preferences. Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.

As you know, MIT’s record of service to the nation is long and enduring. Eight decades ago, MIT leaders helped invent a scientific partnership between America’s research universities and the U.S. government that has delivered extraordinary benefits for the American people. We continue to believe in the power of this partnership to serve the nation.

Sincerely,
Sally Kornbluth

https://orgchart.mit.edu/letters/regarding-compact

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 3d

I am really glad that @jeremymberg.bsky.social wrote this. Everybody who cares about science, and about knowledge generation and civil society generally, should read and share with their favorite administrator.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

open.substack.com

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 5d

I am proud of MIT, where our branch of AAUP has voted unanimously to endorse this statement urging MIT leadership and the MIT Corporation to reject the Compact wholesale
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Letter Regarding Compact

MIT Chapter of the American Association of University Professors October 6, 2025 Statement on the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” MIT has been invited by the federal governmen...

docs.google.com

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Dr. Jen Gunter @drjengunter.bsky.social · 3d

lol if you are a young pregnant American citizen in an ER you may not get the treatment you need and instead get sepsis because of forced birth Republican laws

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 3d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 7d

I accidentally glitched out an animation I was working on and created a perfect example of what the passage of time feels like to someone with ADHD

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 9d

The deep dive that @donmoyn.bsky.social and I did into what Russell Vought and Donald Trump are seeking in their shutdown is now published with transcript and show notes.

We also covered the history of right-wing public administration and Vought's religious extremism, and much more!

Trump’s shutdown strategy is far more radical than you know

White House budget director Russell Vought is waging war on the government, secularism, and modernity itself

plus.flux.community

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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 9d

“Some”?! Try “Almost Everyone” @nytimes.com!! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.

www.nytimes.com

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ACLU @aclu.org · 9d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 10d

This is all kinds of crazy. But the enforcement mechanism? Universities would hire an auditor to "conduct anonymous polling among faculty, students and staff to evaluate the university’s performance against the agreement" w/ results made public and reviewed by the Justice Dept.

Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage

An initial round of nine schools, including Dartmouth, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, are being asked to sign a wide-ranging “compact.”

www.wsj.com

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 11d

mfw I realize the events of CHILDREN OF MEN canonically take place in 2027, which is now... about a year away

Clive Owen looks shocked and disheveled in CHILDREN OF MEN

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 10d

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 11d

Ready to die on the hill of "social media doesn't have to suck"

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 11d

Too real. We’re going to try to fix this. Social media doesn’t have to be this way.

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 11d

Shout out to @donmoyn.bsky.social for his part in this article:

US government faces brain drain as 154,000 federal workers exit this week - www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

US government faces brain drain as 154,000 federal workers exit this week

More than 150,000 federal employees will leave the U.S. government payroll this week after accepting buyouts - the largest single-year exodus of civil servants in nearly 80 years, triggering what unions and governance experts warn is a damaging loss of institutional expertise.

www.reuters.com

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Brian McNoldy @bmcnoldy.bsky.social · 13d

You don't see this every day...

#Imelda #Humberto

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James McEnaney @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social · 13d

Filling classrooms with computers didn't have the huge and positive impact on learning that was promised. Filling them with tablets hasn't done it either.

I know this might sound absurd to many (especially politicians) but what if we filled them with highly skilled and properly supported educators?

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 13d

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 16d

Timeline cleanser 🐈

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Nahel Belgherze @wxnb.bsky.social · 14d

Sunset on Hurricane Humberto.

A Category 5 monster.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15d

If I was a tutoring company and I wanted to convince you that I could teach your kids maths, I would probably not have an advert that said “3=2” on it!

That’s just me though.

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 15d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco

Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...

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