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Pennsylvania AAUP Conference @paaaup.bsky.social · 1d

Statement of PA-AAUP on Trump Administration "Loyality Oath" Compacts - PA AAUP

We join with education, professional, and civic organizations across the country in opposition to the Federal Government’s recently-proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The ...

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 1d

WSJ: President Trump believed his Truth Social post demanding prosecutions of James Comey and other political foes was a private message to his attorney general, and "and was surprised to learn it was public."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 2d

Same

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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 6d

The universities are: MIT, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia, University of Texas, Vanderbilt University, University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College

Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Are you an alum from one of the 9 universities Trump is attempting to extort right now?

✍️ Sign this petition to defend your university, free speech, and democracy. I signed.

This is a time for courage, not capitulation.
#JustSayNo #Compact 🧪🧠🧬

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Trump attacks 9 universities: Sign the alumni petition to defend your school now

Are you an alum outraged by Trump's attacks on universities? Defend your school now by signing this alumni petition in support of these 9 universities as well as campus communities across America.

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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats Ryan and Riccardo!!!! Wish I could have gone to the after party!

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.

“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”

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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 4d

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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 5d

Wow this is a much more optimistic take than mine reading the same email

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · 5d

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Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.

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Pennsylvania AAUP Conference @paaaup.bsky.social · 7d

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Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 (updated 4:15pm) We were alarmed to read reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and t...

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Pennsylvania AAUP Conference @paaaup.bsky.social · 6d

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Trump seeks influence over hiring and admissions at Penn in exchange for federal funding

The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” would give Trump wide-ranging influence over hiring, admissions, tuition pricing, and even curriculum. Nine colleges were asked to sign on.

www.inquirer.com

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 7d

Hear! effing Hear!

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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion

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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 7d

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Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 (updated 4:15pm) We were alarmed to read reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and t...

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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 10d

So dude is just going to go ahead and force a civil war on us huh

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 10d

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 11d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 11d

We wrote a review, might be useful for lung folks! journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Scar Wars: The Viral Menace | American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology | American Physiological Society

Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is a severe consequence of respiratory infections, characterized by excessive extracellular matrix deposition and irreversible lung architectural damage. Once considered a rare...

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Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social · 14d

New story from my brother in the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

Floating the Lazy Rivers of Nebraska’s Spring-Fed Water World

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 17d

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

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Jaweed Kaleem @jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 17d

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants

A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21d

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21d

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...