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Jen
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I take a lot of Tylenol.
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Breaking news: The Education Department is looking to move a $15 billion program supporting students with disabilities out of the agency as it works to close the agency altogether, a department official said.
Trump administration seeks to move special education to different agency
The move would affect the $15 billion IDEA program and comes as the administration seeks to close down the federal Education Department
wapo.st
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do not ignore that the alamo had to apologize after republican state officials freaked out about an Indigenous Peoples' Day social media post the Alamo Trust made, especially considering the Alamo is renovating and relies on state funds to do so.
www.chron.com/politics/art...
Texas landmark board pushed into apology after 'woke' callout
The Alamo Trust Board is now apologizing for a since-deleted social media post that commemorated "Indigenous Peoples' Day."
www.chron.com
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I hate to say this but Dr Devereaux may well be right— the Trump regime is actively pursuing policies that bring us closer to fascism and authoritarian rule
The president is raising para-military force loyal to him alone, he is both raising and appropriating money with congress, he is using his goons to do lawless violence to his opponents and talks openly of obviating the courts using the insurrection act.

The crisis is here, now, today.
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I will be in Texas tomorrow to give a talk about #jimcrowintheasylum at Sam Houston state. You can join by zoom too if you’re keen! (Link and QR code in image)
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This is even worse for the Harvards of the world, but it's true of EVERY R1 research university:
The entire business model of R1 public universities rests on 4 revenue sources:

1. Federal grants
2. Private gifts/endowments
3. Tuition (esp. from foreign students)
4. State $

For decades, 📈 in 1-3 offset a secular 📉 in 4. Now, 1 & 3 are being decimated & 4 ain't coming back. The math is clear.
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i am not a harvard administrator but if i had to guess i would say these cuts were in the offing once the first grad student union contract was signed (cf. BU) but all these government shenanigans gave them cover to slash students without looking like mustache-twirling gilded age magnates
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
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💥 Congratulations to Dr @carolinebarron.bsky.social , who has a new publication in the journal 'Libyan Studies'!

👉 Dr Barron reassess 53 Latin, Greek and Latino-Punic inscriptions from a late-antique tomb excavated in 1926 at Sirte, Libya

🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/lis....
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I keep trying to get people to recognize that my having a PhD says a lot more about me being stubborn than me being smart.
PhDs aren't given to intelligent people.
They are earned by people who attempted something quite difficult, the creation of new subfield knowledge, and were both humbled and transformed by it.
My mom tried so hard to convince us kids. She did not know that we had sources to the real stuff and knew better. She also used to add TVP to cookies. It’s an ongoing joke that none of us will eat her baked goods even now!
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I wrote about the dangerous fantasy of the civility framework in political discourse. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
www.nytimes.com
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I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.
That’s a beautiful space!
Mine is nicer than this one and cost $3500 a decade ago. Built by a lovely guy who quit his IT job to build catios for a living.
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Medicine has largely underutilized the power of humanities to advance scientific research.

In our piece, physician/historian @thelakshmik.bsky.social, @hls.harvard.edu student Kayla Z & I describe how this methodological bridging can strengthen scientific enquiry.

(1/4) #MedSky

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