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“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,” writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding:

"When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

Grants are awarded to faculty, not university administrators. The "compact" with universities that Trump is offering would completely dismantle the peer review process by awarding funding based on administrative policies rather than the merits of the research. Just say no.

This is reminding me of one of the staged suicides in the movie Heathers where they just underlined the word "Eskimo"

H1-B visas are nearly all granted to workers who already have graduate degrees, so it doesn't explain the lack of entry level jobs in tech fields. You can blame misguided reliance on AI and the foundering economy for that.

Howard Lutnick on new H1B visa fees: "If you're going to train somebody, you're going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land." How does that work when you're simultaneously defunding research and training programs at all American universities?

The logic of sabotaging the ability to hire trained researchers from abroad while simultaneously sabotaging the ability of US universities to train American researchers is truly baffling.

I think we are dangerously underestimating how many jobs we will lose to AI and how deep the spiritual cost will be.

The industry tells us strong restrictions on AI will hurt us and help China. I wrote this to explain how they pulling one over on us.

www.chrismurphyct.com/p/in-our-scr...

AAUP faculty at #NoKingsNola !

Tulane making the news for all the wrong reasons.

This is absolutely insane. As faculty face funding cuts, the University of Michigan is spending millions to hire incompetent undercover investigators to surveil student activists.

We dealt with this in Louisiana and ended up with a nice compromise policy that limits retail quantities to 5mg THC per unit. Easy enough.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This math does not math.

At #handsoff New Orleans with my son rocking his Weezer shirt

ELECTION COVERAGE: Louisiana voters reject 4 constitutional amendments, handing Gov. Jeff Landry a major policy defeat. @jsodonoghue.bsky.social & @greglarose.bsky.social report. lailluminator.com/2025/03/29/l...

Rally in New Orleans! #standupforscience2025

And now they're coming for the statisticians...
"The longtime head of the American Statistical Association (ASA), Ronald Wasserstein, says these panels also serve an important role as watchdogs. 'Disbanding them eliminates an important check on how well the government is doing its work,' he says."

Seems like a good plot for a South Park movie. Oh wait...

He's certainly going to war with university professors now, Marxist or otherwise.

He gets it, he just thinks the rest of us are stupid enough to believe it if he says it over and over again.

The next move, according to Project 2025, will be to shift all NIH research funding to state block grants. Then the corporate takeover will be complete.