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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · 23d

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · Jul 30

So thrilled you get to read it for the first time! Dwell on the narrator, tertiary characters, jokes, and asides!

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P. Gabrielle Foreman @profgabrielle.bsky.social · Jun 8

Hot take. The government isn’t subsidizing university budgets. Universities are lending subsidized expertise to research and development that contributes to the public good. It’s called partnership.

Edward Doherty PhD. @drtcell.bsky.social · Jun 7

A study finds, US based academic research institutes account for 50% of new medical drugs in the last 4 years. 🧪

www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...

#science #savescience #stat

We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us

From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.

www.statnews.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jun 7

No no you misunderstand. Learn to Code was the scam that beget the scam!

Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · Jun 7

An interesting angle to blame the Learn to Code movement when the real problem is the outrageous and infinitely destructuve 'ai' scam

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Jun 7

Wow no one could have predicted this.

I’m sure AI will fix all this up.

futurism.com/computer-sci...

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · May 25

Beginning to think these tariffs are a lot like that chapter I promised for your edited collection.

The Wall Street Journal

Trump says he will delay tariffs on the EU until July 9, a reprieve from the threatened 50% levies set to go into effect on June 1

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · May 23

the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · May 22

an overwhelming percentage of cuts at the NSF are to STEM education. experts see it as part of a broader attack on DEI, as well as on education as a whole.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s...

Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers

www.nytimes.com

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · May 23

Many students were recently admitted to Harvard (to various programs), and even if Harvard gets an injunction the students may choose to go elsewhere thinking it’s risky and the may end up having to transfer. Even if Noem loses in court it has caused irreparable damage, at least for coming year 1/

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · May 18

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · May 18

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.

University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · May 18

A must read

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · Apr 24

This was an amazing event: celebrating my excellent colleagues in the UIUC English Department 🥇🥇🥇

Maybe Shelley’s banned poem “England in 1819” was quoted 😭 Maybe the words “darkness” and “storms” came up a lot in the speeches ⛈️ But we are all still working very hard to do our best ♥️

LAS Dean Venetria Patton kicking off a named professor investiture ceremony for Janice Harrington, Curtis Perry, and Gillen Wood

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Apr 19

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.

Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · Apr 19

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government

For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.

www.nytimes.com

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · Apr 4

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · Apr 4

The buttons made my year!

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · Mar 18

The Department of English at UIUC is hiring full-time Lecturers to teach composition: $58k to start, a 3/3 load, no service requirement, health insurance and other benefits! Positions are covered by a CBA (www.local6546.org), and come with support and notice rights. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Lecturer- English

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illinois.csod.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Mar 14

these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard

Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · Mar 13

Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · Mar 9

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · Mar 9

We're fundraising for our award-winning literary journal, Ninth Letter, and the challenge ends tonight! Please consider donating!

Support Creative Writing Students!

Join me in supporting Creative Writing Students for Orange and Blue Week!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Mar 8

I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Mar 8

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · Mar 8

The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.

We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · Mar 8

From my counterpart U of I English Department head in Chicago, this is a must-read on public higher education, its joys and its current crisis.

n+1 @nplusonemag.com · Mar 7

“Working conditions are learning conditions, we like to say, and it is so obviously true you want to tattoo it on your clavicle.” New: Peter Coviello on austerity in the English department.

Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello

So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...

www.nplusonemag.com

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · Mar 4

This is not law. It couldn’t withstand legal scrutiny.

Don’t comply in advance university presidents. General counsel, don’t panic. Do law, not vibes.

Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · Mar 4

Real question. What is an “illegal protest”? Real question. He was convicted of a crime. Why hasn’t he been expelled?

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · Mar 1

Thank you! I've been waiting for this to come out!

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Feb 19

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country.

We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one.

I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · Feb 12

This lab is steps away from the press—I park right by the building every day.

The richest man in the world is destroying American livelihoods & ensuring our country lags far behind the world in research & innovation

Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Feb 9

It starts with soybeans. Who knew.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · Feb 8

There are already impacts on all of us since Trump closed USAID. This soy research lab is just one of many bad consequences for America.

Screenshot of a post from a professor at the University of Illinois who has to shutdown his soy research lab and fire 30 researchers because Trump eliminated USAID.

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · Feb 4

Huge congratulations!!!

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Justine S. Murison @jsmurison.bsky.social · Jan 27

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