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CT State Conference-AAUP @ct-aaup.bsky.social · 17h

“If you make statements that right-wing politicians don’t like, then you can lose your job. Period. That is chilling” — Isaac Kamola of the @aaup.org Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom and Faculty First Responders, which provides peer-to-peer support for professors who have been targeted.

How Charlie Kirk’s Professor Watchlist reshaped free speech on campus

Experts say the project laid the groundwork for subsequent attempts to limit what professors and teachers say in the classroom.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 8h

Harvard (and all universities) must take a stand against Trump's extorionary "compact". Enos and Levitsky.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Harvard Must Take a Stand Against Trump’s Compact | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson

Harvard, rather than quietly pursuing its own appeasement strategy, should lead the way to preserve academic freedom and democracy.

www.thecrimson.com

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Erik Reinbergs @ereinbergs.bsky.social · 19h

The only thing I have to add to the conversion therapy case commentary is Sedgwick’s quote from the 1993 essay Queer and Now.

Erik Reinbergs @ereinbergs.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most consequential days of my academic life has arrived. I am finally off the waiting list and can now park in the lot that is always empty right next to my building.

a man and a woman are sitting at a table with a newspaper in front of them .

ALT: a man and a woman are sitting at a table with a newspaper in front of them .

media.tenor.com

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Erik Reinbergs @ereinbergs.bsky.social · 1d

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Also that it is $20/month is wild.

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Erik Reinbergs @ereinbergs.bsky.social · 1d

"available upon request" relies on the very bold assumption that senior faculty check their email. in this essay i will...

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 2d

Every once in a while I need to fiddle with long category labels in #rstats ggplot2.
It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...

Quick and easy ways to deal with long labels in ggplot2 | Andrew Heiss

Explore different manual and automatic ways to rotate, dodge, recode, break up, and otherwise deal with long axis labels with ggplot2

www.andrewheiss.com

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 2d

Yongxi Long and colleagues have written an excellent post about when and when not to worry about the proportional odds assumption: discourse.datamethods.org/t/when-and-w... #StatsSky #EpiSky #Statistics #RStats

When and why (not) to worry about the PO assumption

Aim We wrote an article (Long, Wiegers, Jacobs, Steyerberg, & Van Zwet, 2025) about the proportional odds (PO) assumption in the analysis of ordinal outcomes. we use various examples from neurological...

discourse.datamethods.org

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 2d

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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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 2d

Students talked about this today… the amount these coaches are paid when they’re fired

Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 2d

oklahomavoice.com/2025/10/06/m...

Mike Gundy got $15M to leave with a losing season. Think what that money could do for higher ed • Oklahoma Voice

Obviously someone in high places is looking out for Mike Gundy, but who is looking out for the rest of us? Imagine how many scholarships $15 million could pay for.

oklahomavoice.com

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · 6d

The distracted boyfriend meme. The caption reads (from right to left): "book I am reading", "me", "book I don't own"

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Erik Reinbergs @ereinbergs.bsky.social · 7d

Highly recommend this recent webinar from David Jobes for all clinicians. #suicideprevention

Fact vs Fiction: What Actually Works in Contemporary Clinical Suicidology

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Contemporary Clinical Suicidology: Facts vs Fiction and What Actually Works | CAMS-care Webinar

This presentation will systematically review the history of dealing with suicidal risk from its medieval origins, through decades of a carceral medical model approach, right up to present day suicide-...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

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AAUP @aaup.org · 7d

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The Trump administration has laid it out: comply with their ideological agenda or else…

This is how we lose free thought in American higher education.

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 7d

The compact would require colleges to…cap the enrollment of international students + commit to strict definitions of gender…universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would ‘punish, belittle + even spark violence against conservative ideas.’”

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 7d

Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 7d

Journalism and teaching are some of the most valuable yet thankless jobs in our society. I want to thank everyone who wakes up in the morning excited to teach others or inform their fellow humans for terrible pay.

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 7d

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 7d

The leaders (presidents, chancellors, provosts) of any university whose Board assents to the proposal should resign on the spot.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.

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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 7d

Brian Evans, AAUP TX Conference: “Colleges + universities ‘have an obligation to develop campus policies that protect the Constitutional rights of faculty to teach + research the subjects in their areas of expertise without intimidation or censorship.”👇

AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 7d

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/30/t...

Texas colleges launch course reviews amid push to limit gender identity instruction

After a viral video stirred controversy at Texas A&M, Texas Tech ordered course adjustments while other university systems like UNT and UT launched reviews. It’s unclear what the reviews will look for...

www.texastribune.org

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Colette Delawalla @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 7d

Pressure to reject the compact should come from all sides:

Alumni, students, current employees, AND anyone who engages with people or work from the institution, high school students looking to attend, etc.

We say NO.

@standupforscience.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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David A. Sbarra @dsbarra.bsky.social · 7d

A Faustian bargain- it’ll never end well. These schools must together to oppose this “compact.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference

www.nytimes.com

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UNC-CH AAUP @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social · 7d

With their cowardly response, UNC's administrators have not only violated Professor Dixon's basic rights. They have also infringed on students' right to an education by taking a professor out of their classroom during the middle of a semester. This unexplained and unjustified decision has intensified an existing campus atmosphere of fear and censorship, further eroding students' and faculty's trust in UNC's administration.

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UNC-CH AAUP @unc-ch-aaup.bsky.social · 7d

We demand Professor Dixon's immediate reinstatement, a public explanation of how this decision was reached, an affirmation of faculty and students’ rights to freedom of speech and expression, and a public apology to Professor Dixon.

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