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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

“There’s the huge unspoken burden to save a world, which frankly, we didn’t break in the first place/ I think that pressure is so overwhelming for so many of us, it deteriorates and completely destroys our mental health in ways that I think we’re only beginning to understand.”

#ClimateSky

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

'If we don’t act on climate change within the next few years, the world as we know it disappears.'

"Climate anxiety is...weighing on younger Canadians’ emotions... More mental health awareness will not cure climate anxiety if the forests keep burning..."

www.theglobeandmail.com/life/social-...

Young Canadians’ happiness has nosedived. They’re coping by redefining a meaningful life

Economic hardship and the climate crisis have forced young adults to reshape their ideas of a successful life

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 22h

"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government.. 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."
#AcademicSky
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

newrepublic.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 20h

"Research funders, and many universities, only say ‘yes’ to working with people employed by other institutions. This enables institutions to retain their power... Those with extensive experience of doing research in the third sector, local government, and industry are...unable to participate."

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 22h

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 20h

"Research funders, and many universities, only say ‘yes’ to working with people employed by other institutions. This enables institutions to retain their power... Those with extensive experience of doing research in the third sector, local government, and industry are...unable to participate."

Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 22h

With yet another university hosted event closed to 'non academics' (aka those not employed by a university)* I'm just going to leave this piece by @drhelenkara.bsky.social and myself here blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

* yes I know it's utter nonsense and academics/researchers exist outside unis

Institutional affiliation should not be a requirement for doing research - Impact of Social Sciences

Universities espouse a universalist approach to creating research-based knowledge. Helen Kara & Petra Boynton argue, from the outside these claims are hollow.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 20h

Congrats!

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 22h

"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government.. 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."
#AcademicSky
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

newrepublic.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

“There’s the huge unspoken burden to save a world, which frankly, we didn’t break in the first place/ I think that pressure is so overwhelming for so many of us, it deteriorates and completely destroys our mental health in ways that I think we’re only beginning to understand.”

#ClimateSky

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

'If we don’t act on climate change within the next few years, the world as we know it disappears.'

"Climate anxiety is...weighing on younger Canadians’ emotions... More mental health awareness will not cure climate anxiety if the forests keep burning..."

www.theglobeandmail.com/life/social-...

Young Canadians’ happiness has nosedived. They’re coping by redefining a meaningful life

Economic hardship and the climate crisis have forced young adults to reshape their ideas of a successful life

www.theglobeandmail.com

3 3

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

There is a difference between awaiting doom and preparing to face it. Collectively.

"young people, given the choice, will find meaning in more prosocial ways. Compared to older citizens... life satisfaction for them is more affected by issues related to trust, social support and hope"

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

Try pasting the link to the article on the archive.is site.

archive.is

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

A British scholar warns his copatriots: "We have to take action before the iron bars of fascism slam the door shut. That's the risk we face, and our politicians have to rise to the challenge... The US is already a fascist state. We could be too ".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvB...

What Trump’s new order on domestic terrorism really means for America

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

www.youtube.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

We are talking about young Canadians, people who are now approximately 20 years old. They did not have a choice 20 years ago, and the choices being made today will affect reality in 20-40 years. For them, transitioning to sustainable living is not just about climate action, but about adaptation.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

"I am taking my nights and weekends and every other spare minute I can find to devote to this project. I really believe in the importance of having an independent, unbiased group of people look at the data and present the data publicly."

#AcademicSky
#MedSky

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Volunteer scientists work ‘nights and weekends’ to guide vaccine advice in US

Medical specialists, wary of the guidance provided by Trump’s team, offer up their own advice independently of the government.

www.nature.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

'If we don’t act on climate change within the next few years, the world as we know it disappears.'

"Climate anxiety is...weighing on younger Canadians’ emotions... More mental health awareness will not cure climate anxiety if the forests keep burning..."

www.theglobeandmail.com/life/social-...

Young Canadians’ happiness has nosedived. They’re coping by redefining a meaningful life

Economic hardship and the climate crisis have forced young adults to reshape their ideas of a successful life

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and the Chief of the Security Police, explains an "emergency defense measure".

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · Mar 20

"..The anti-Semitism found in Party and State laws was still to be considered in time of war as an emergency defense measure"

- Ernest Kaltenbrunner, a lawyer, politician, and the leader of the Austrian SS, explains "an emergency defense measure" in the Third Reich during the #NurembergTrials

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

AI drives overshoot and accelerates collapse.

“It’s scary because … now [computing] could be 10% or 12% of the world’s power by 2030... They told us these data centers were going to be clean and green. But in the face of AI growth, I don’t think they can be.”

fortune.com/2025/09/24/s...

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

fortune.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

AI drives overshoot and accelerates collapse.

“It’s scary because … now [computing] could be 10% or 12% of the world’s power by 2030... They told us these data centers were going to be clean and green. But in the face of AI growth, I don’t think they can be.”

fortune.com/2025/09/24/s...

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

fortune.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

His family, quoted in that article, would agree.

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 2d

"Successful democratic movements depend, above all, on #courage... In 1989, when Poland held its first semi-free elections in over four decades, millions of citizens living under Communist rule accepted the risks of attending opposition rallies, distributing pamphlets, and casting ballots"

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

This should be a book
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

A British scholar warns his copatriots: "We have to take action before the iron bars of fascism slam the door shut. That's the risk we face, and our politicians have to rise to the challenge... The US is already a fascist state. We could be too ".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKvB...

What Trump’s new order on domestic terrorism really means for America

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy

www.youtube.com

3 5

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and the Chief of the Security Police, explains an "emergency defense measure".

Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · Mar 20

"..The anti-Semitism found in Party and State laws was still to be considered in time of war as an emergency defense measure"

- Ernest Kaltenbrunner, a lawyer, politician, and the leader of the Austrian SS, explains "an emergency defense measure" in the Third Reich during the #NurembergTrials

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · Mar 20

"People were arrested and taken into protective custody, who had not yet committed any crime, but who could be expected to do so if they remained free."

- Hermann Göring, one of the leading Nazi politicians, explains "protective custody" in the Third Reich during the #NurembergTrials

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · Mar 20

"People can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to greater danger”
- Hermann Göring, Nazi military commander during the #NurembergTrials
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 1d

“How can you wake up each day and repeat the cruelty that our people barely escaped from?”

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller's family is again discussing his high school era obsession with Joseph Goebbels and Nazism. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Stephen Miller’s cousin calls him ‘face of evil’ for role in immigration crackdown

Miller’s cousin said that she feels that she needs to ‘grieve for what he has become’

www.independent.co.uk

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 2d

Kant and corporations:

"People are always moral agents and citizens before they are corporate participants.. If corporations use people as mere means, or if a corporation betrays its purpose–participants may have to resign or raise concerns outside the corporation"
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Kant Incorporated

Cambridge Core - Philosophy Texts - Kant Incorporated

www.cambridge.org

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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 2d

"The main function of the compact is to replace such provisions of law with 'the deal'—that is, a piece of paper, signed by the university, that purports to entitle the Department of Justice, on the basis of its own 'finding,' to take away all of these 'benefits'".

#AcademicSky

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 3d

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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