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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 16h

The higher education sector is failing autistic students. To turn things around, we all need to innovate, writes @corabeth.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/three... #Academia #HigherEd #AcademicChatter #Autism #AcademicSky #EduSky

Three easy tweaks to make your teaching autism-friendly

Autistic students have the highest university dropout rate of any disability group. What can teaching staff do about it?

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Roar From 34 @roarfrom34.bsky.social · 16h

MTSU is hiring for a tenure-track professor in Interactive Media. Check out the full job announcement at the link below.

careers.mtsu.edu/en-us/job/49...

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MTSU Jobs | Middle Tennessee State University

careers.mtsu.edu

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 16h

A long and informative thread on Trump's proposed "compact" with universities

#academicsky

Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Badly Needed

www.nytimes.com

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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 1d

Seasonal nephew. Do Some Contractor Meetings For Mom, Then Do a 14er Season.

Neohew Duncan stands holding a sign on Quandary Peak, a 14er in Colorado. He is in a black top and bottom climbing gear, whir ball cap, standing on the top of a Rocky peak with two ranges of Rocky Mountains behind him. The peaks are snow topped but pine green covers most of the mountains. Duncan is the orignal Seasonal Nephew first posted 16 years ago in October as a Seasonal Nephew in Small Boy Massive Overgrown Pumpkin Season at the pumpkin patch visit. He is a good boy.

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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 1d

The alums report from the Pantheon in Paris as the induction of Robert Badinter, the man who rid France of the death penalty under Francois Mitterand’s government, is formally laid to rest, pantheon used as they say. UKJAMSchool alums Sarah Ladd and McKenna Horsley photo credit.

A black and white photo of Robert Badinter, the man who fought to end the death penalty in France is mounted on a larger white illuminated slab in a street square in Paris, France, near the Pantheon, where he was formally laid to rest. Badinter, who was orphaned by the Holocaust, died in 2024 of a heart attack.

The Pantheon in Paris, France is illuminated in cerulean blue light in the evening dark as a crowd fills the square to honor Robert Badinter, who fought to abolish the death penalty in the French justice system.

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Dr. Sam Cacace @scphd.bsky.social · 1d

Just submitted my application for endorsement for the UK Global Talent Visa. Two months until the big move! #AcademicSky #movingabroad

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Dr. Max Lempriere @thephdpeople.com · 2d

One of the bravest things you can say during your PhD: "I don’t know."

#PhDDailyThought #AcademicChatter #phdchat #academicsky #phdsky

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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 1d

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Olga Lautman (@olgalautman)

Think Miller needs to send in a few more battalions. Maybe Hegseth can send some elite units. Things are getting dangerous in Portland

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J Patrice McSherry @jpmcsherry.bsky.social · 2d

"The Trump compact aims both to break any opposition and to create a system under which universities will agree to what amounts to ideological oversight." #AcademicSky

Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 2d

Please enjoy this thoughtful analysis that reveals the Trump administration is much weaker than you may think. When they demand obedience in advance, it means they're not getting it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

Opinion | Where Trump Is Vulnerable and How to Act on It

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 2d

This blog on the "offer" made to universities by the Trump administration is very useful. A university signing it puts itself into a position in which Trump admin can arbitrarily decide if policies are exactly to their liking. It is a trap, one that no university needs to sign. #EduSky #AcademicSky

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

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Brendan Davey @brendandavey.bsky.social · 2d

No one who calls themselves an academic should ever fold to a "loyalty oath," no matter what vague risks to funding they might face. It goes against everything higher education and academic freedom stands for.

Please, #AcademicSky, and any other educator, worker, student, alum, etc., sign on.

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University Administrations: Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The Trump administration is trying to blackmail schools to let him and his unqualified bureaucrats run our schools. They want to dictate what schools teach, who they admit and hire, what researchers s...

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Rebeka Ferreira @philobitch @philosop-her.bsky.social · 3d

#research and #diversity #inclusiveness #editor #philsky #academicsky #edusky #jobsky

Research and Diversity/Inclusiveness Editor | Dr. Sabrina D. MisirHiralall

The Blog of the APA is hiring for Editor of the Research Beat and the Diversity/Inclusion Beat. If interested, please send see the job ad. This is a great opportunity to work with philosophers natio...

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Linguistic Society of America @lingsocam.bsky.social · 4d

The LSA is a proud member of the American Council of Learned Societies. We encourage all members to read this important statement.

American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 4d

ACLS has released a statement regarding the White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”: bit.ly/3IviMig

We call for the immediate rejection of the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”...No institution that is committed to the free pursuit of knowledge should submit to the degradation of autonomy and academic freedom contained in it. -ACLS Statement Regarding White House “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education”

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Sarah E. Minnis, PhD @saraheminnisphd.bsky.social · 3d

This current administration is the greatest threat to academic freedom and scientific research since the ebb of McCarthyism. And this compact is just more evidence that it wants to dictate what we teach, what we research, what drugs we develop, and how we express ourselves. #AcademicSky

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 3d

I can’t believe my life is being affected by the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Christopher Terry @christopherterry.bsky.social · 3d

Its not iffy. Not even a little bit.

The 39% cap was mandated by Congress outside of the Quadrennial Review Process.

www.law360.com/competition/...

Broadcasters Say FCC Can Nix Nat'l Ownership Cap. It's Iffy - Law360

Top TV station chains insist the Federal Communications Commission has clear authority to scrap a decades-old cap on national audience share controlled by any one company. But they're wading into a mu...

www.law360.com

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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 4d

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Michael J. "Norma Gae" Murphy, PhD🏳️‍🌈 @emmjaymurphee.bsky.social · 4d

Found a local union printshop to do some work for Union! Is this what girlbossing feels like? ✊ #UnionYes #AcademicSky

a woman holds up a piece of paper that says ' a ' on it

ALT: a woman holds up a piece of paper that says ' a ' on it

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The Final Straw Radio @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social · 5d

Members of @signalsrising.org collective discuss various radio technologies for communication such as meshtastic as low power alternatives when disaster strikes or infrastructure is scarce

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Kristian @z428.eu · 5d

Veiled. #Outerworld #Carinthia #Hiking #Travel #Smartphonephotography https://some.pics/68e2d25e3a7a3

A mountain meadow in the fog. Surrounded by trees.

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 5d

BOOM 🔥:

Judge Immergut issues a second Temporary Restraining Order prohibiting the relocation, federalization, or deployment of ANY NATIONAL GUARD FROM ANY STATE into the state of Oregon.

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Alexandra W. Logue @lexalogue.bsky.social · 5d

Many colleges have food pantries to help food insecure students. Bluegrass Community & Technical College takes it a step further, using an on-campus roof to grow food that is then available in the college's food pantry: buff.ly/ZJfcswx #AcademicSky #highered

College garden nourishes students beyond the classroom

Flowers, fresh fruits and vegetables are being grown by students and staff at Bluegrass Community Technical College.

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Rafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social · 5d

If you are on the academic job market this year, I think it's worth reading this post + consider inquiring about this at places you interview.

Schools that sign this "compact" will be–by nature of what they will now be exposed to–a very different place from the place you applied to. #AcademicSky

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 6d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 5d

Gift article: Alan Blinder and Michael C. Bender, "The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities" (NYT; #academicsky). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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Norbert Schwarz @nschwarz.bsky.social · 5d

A detailed analysis of Trump's proposed "compact" with universities by a UCLA constitutional law prof.

#academicsky

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 6d

I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.

Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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ProfKakie @profkakie.bsky.social · 5d

Ten years ago, but she’s still kicking, still the apple of my eye. Banjo Ann Mandolin. Woodford Humane rescue off the streets of Marion County.

A white and fawn Jack Russell terrier mix named Banjo Ann Mandolin appears to be suspended in midair with her shadow beside her to the left as she runs toward the camera on a ground of green fescue in Kentucky. (Masterson Station Dog Park in the shadow of the Narco Farm Lexington FMC.)

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