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Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social · 3h

It’s “all your nails break” day over here. Where’d the moisture go?!?!

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AAUP @aaup.org · 21h

Over 100 Brown U students & 20 faculty members gathered outside
the campus today to demand that the university reject Trump’s loyalty oath compact. Professors & students taped their mouths shut to symbolize the compact’s threat to free speech, #academicfreedom & diversity of thought.
#DefendHigherEd

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 4h

congrats to Nobel Peace Prize winner Portland Frog

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16h

Photo of Kendrick Lamar during the superbowl halftime show.

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Charmaine Chua @charmainechua.bsky.social · 18h

The Berkeley Faculty Association is currently running an event featuring about the UC’s release of 160 names of faculty, staff and students to the Trump administration’s OCR. Three lawyers - Catherine E. Lhamon, Brian Soucek, and Asli Bali will speak. I’ll be live-tweeting key moments.

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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️ Last week, a group of Columbia professors — most of them Jewish — took a stand. Risking reprisal, they publicly rejected the university’s recent incorporation of a controversial definition of antisemitism. Their statements, excerpted here, can be read in full at cu-standsup.org/events/free-....

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Matthew Salganik @msalganik.bsky.social · 1d

Dept of Social & Political Sciences at Bocconi Univ in Milan is advertising for an open-rank position in sociology. They are excited about computational social science.
Assistant Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=841
Associate/Full Prof: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu?id=843

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

jobmarket.unibocconi.eu

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Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social · 1d

I have never in my life seen a bank manager make absolutely zero effort to keep a client but that’s different now thanks to Santander bank.

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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 1d

An underreported part of US campus repression post-2023 was the pivot to making “[IDF] military veteran” a protected class coterminous with “[pro-occupation Israeli/Jew]”. Students protesting the Gaza war were charged with *discrimination based on veteran status*. migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-appl...

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

migrantinsider.com

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AAUP @aaup.org · 4d

Michel DeGraff, a tenured professor of linguistics at MIT, discusses how his proposal to teach a class on language & decolonization in Haiti, Israel, and Palestine was denied. He faced significant repercussions: he was removed from his department, had a pay raise withheld, and his salary frozen.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’

I have been forced to move my classes online.

If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

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Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social · 5d

It makes me galaxy brained at least once/week (except there’s so many daily reminders that ofc only the one was too much)

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 5d

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed

student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism

teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Eric Weisbard @eweisbard.bsky.social · 7d

The Pop Conference deadline is less than three weeks away: October 22. Please, join me in spreading the word today. PopCon thrives on its ties to both lifelong presenters and dynamic new presenters. Got something good to speak to our Mayhem? Send in a proposal! www.popconference.org

PopCon | 2026

PopCon is the premier music writing and popular music studies conference.

www.popconference.org

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Jen Jennings @jenjennings.bsky.social · 7d

University of Chicago sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is brilliant, kind, and courageous. Please spread the word about her detention.

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 7d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 7d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social · 7d

I so deeply wish that basic human needs—for education, shelter, food, and health—were not political playthings for the super rich. We can agree to a different way of living.

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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · 8d

Remembrances from colleagues of Brinkley Messick (1946-2025)

In Memoriam - Brinkley Messick — Middle East Institute

www.mei.columbia.edu

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Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social · 8d

I very highly recommend this article on genocide, historicide, and the archives of UNRWA.

doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Rescuing the UNRWA Archive: Saving Palestinian History amidst the Gaza Genocide

Abstract. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has entailed extensive attacks on Palestinian heritage and history, including institutional archives which preserve his

doi.org

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8d

In today's @latimes.com, @georgianndavis.bsky.social writes about teaching statistics as an intersex scholar, and having to choose between lying to her students about the biological realities of sex and gender or teaching what the administration insists is true.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Contributor: I'm an intersex professor. Am I supposed to lie by teaching 'only male and female'?

A campaign against teachers who acknowledge realities of human biology forces a choice: Teach truth and risk your job, or lie and maybe keep it.

www.latimes.com

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Jenn Lena @jenniferlena.bsky.social · 8d

Pretty glad that fellow alumni continue to pressure Columbia’s President (and BoT).

www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...

Class of 1964 alumni urge University to undo coerced, unconstitutional agreement with Trump administration

Dear acting University President Claire Shipman, the board of trustees, and Dean Josef Sorett,

www.columbiaspectator.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: Israel has begun intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla, which is carrying 500 people from around the world seeking to bring aid to Palestinians starved by Israel's siege.

The crew includes 24 Americans, EU Members of Parliament, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, and Greta Thunberg.

BREAKING: Israel Begins Intercepting 44-Ship Global Sumud Flotilla

The massive flotilla, which Italian and Spanish ships shadowed until it approached Gaza, is the fourth one attacked in the last year.

zeteo.com

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