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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 1d

Quite a feat to go from this to "and therefore universities must ban faculty and students from belittling conservative ideas"

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 2d

OH WOW! Congratulations to our contributor, László Krasznahorkai, for winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature!!! 😍🥳
wordswithoutborders.org/.../view/lsz...

László Krasznahorkai - Words Without Borders

László Krasznahorkai is the recipient of the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature, the 2015 Man Booker International Prize, and the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in Fiction.

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Caroline Levine @carolinelevine.bsky.social · 3d

Cornell alums!
Cornell continues to be pressured by the current administration in DC to reach a deal to restore federal research funding.
Please consider signing this petition!
Please also share widely with any Cornell graduates you know!

Alumni in Support of Cornell’s Independence, Democracy, and Academic Freedom

Please add your name below if you agree to be a signatory of the following message to be delivered to the Cornell Board of Trustees: Dear Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees, Ongoing attacks on A...

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 4d

Sending condolences, John 💔

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 4d

Devastated by the sudden passing of my colleague and mentor, Debra Castillo. She was a force of nature, endlessly supportive and generous with her time. Not only was her work decisive for the field of Mexican studies, she endlessly pushed the field to build outward and prioritize community.

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 9d

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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lindsay thomas @lindsaythomas.net · 10d

A small bright spot. Does this mean that university administrators will stop doing this administration’s illegal work for them??

AAUP @aaup.org · 10d

BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:

Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com

Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...

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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 18d

Today is publication day!

EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20d

To recap, Trump signed a proclamation saying that after midnight tonight, no one with an H-1B visa may enter the US unless they have paid $100,000. However, anonymous White House officials are saying it doesn't apply to people with current H-1B visas — yet there is NO official guidance! None!

Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20d

An absolute clown show.

Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.”

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Trump administration tries to tamp down panic for high-skill visa holders after last-minute overhaul

The president announced Friday that H-1B visas will now come with a $100,000 annual fee, but a U.S. official said it will only apply to new visa applicants.

www.politico.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 21d

Hey remember last fall, when members of the press credulously reported that Trump would increase high-skilled immigration?
This will end it pretty much entirely.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump to Add New $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas in Latest Crackdown

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a proclamation as soon as Friday that would move to extensively overhaul the H-1B visa program, requiring a $100,000 fee for applications in a bid to curb ov...

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · 24d

Great data-driven explainer about the three booms of literature in translation in the US, including the Latin American boom in the seventies and eighties: www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...

How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers - Public Books

A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.

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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 28d

The mortgage fraud claim against Lisa Cook is false, per documents obtained by Reuters.

Bill Pulte's accusation, the sole pretext Trump used to fire her from the Fed, was that she claimed two homes as primary residence.

These docs show she did not.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show

A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 29d

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · Aug 11

With summer nearly done, now is the time for you to pick out a new book to read (and review 😜) this Fall. Check out my terrific list of new (ish) work just waiting for reviewers! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #animalstudies #conservation #envtech #sustainability
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Books Available to review for H-Environment

Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at [email protected] for DM me at @farso...

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Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies @ilcs.bsky.social · Sep 10

"Modern Foreign Languages degrees are the most starkly affected, with the number of courses nearly halved since 2011" 👇

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Sep 10

We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report

A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · Sep 9

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · Sep 9

Chilling

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · Sep 9

Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Roberto Cruz Arzabal @cruzarzabal.bsky.social · Sep 9

Tras año y medio de haber sido publicado, subí mi libro a Archive, para lectura libre.
Hasta que el musgo (Universidad Veracruzana, 2024).
archive.org/details/rca-...

Hasta Que El Musgo : Roberto Cruz Arzabal : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Hasta que el musgo, libro de poemas elaborados en diálogo con obras artísticas en otros medios: pintura, escultura, video, danza, instalación.

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · Sep 8

Made for podcasting 🙌

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 8

This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.

away from his job to a warehouse for further questioning. More fundamentally, it is the Government's burden to prove that it has reasonable suspicion to stop someone. The concurrence improperly shifts the burden onto an entire class of citizens to carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely. The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status.

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · Sep 4

Loved this novel! Highly recommend

Coffee House Press @coffeehousepress.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're thrilled that Omar Khalifa's SAND-CATCHER has been longlisted for the @littranslate.bsky.social National Translation Award for Prose! Huge congratulations to Omar Khalifa and translator Barbara Romaine.

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · Sep 4

Every single quote from the novel supposedly under analysis was hallucinated. Every single one.

Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

Peer Review Paranoia

The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.

www.chronicle.com

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Carolyn Fornoff @c4noff.bsky.social · Sep 2

Spotted my nemesis lounging on the porch. Destroyer of brassica. Devourer of broccoli, cauliflower, and kale 😡

Fat, carefree groundhog enjoying a sunny day on the back porch, next to a delicata squash he finds unappetizing.

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