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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 12h

Today's Halloween advent calendar ghost is flipping off the world. Feels appropriate.

Small white plastic ghost figurine with an angry face flipping the bird with both hands

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 13h

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?

Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)

Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 17h

"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government. Governments are the enemies of academic freedom, not their protectors." Brilliant piece by @sivav.bsky.social about the Trump administrations' latest effort to censor universities 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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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 19h

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book

The ‘extremely significant' text was hidden for centuries.

www.popsci.com

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19h

I've been working on a book proposal and alternating between "this is meaningful" and "this is pointless," and a friend recently shared this quote that she stumble on in a Goodreads review: "Every book is a grand gesture of optimism on the part of both the reader and writer." Keep creating, friends.

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Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social · 19h

Incredibly important stuff from @lkfazio.bsky.social and @brendannyhan.bsky.social. The nature, significance, and acuteness of the threat to open scientific inquiry and free expression need to be understood in this context. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

www.msnbc.com

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 21h

New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.

Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.

www.msnbc.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Not happening somewhere else. Here. In America. Right now.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 1d

I have been trying to get this published as an op-ed, but I am going to post it here since I think it is timely in light of the "consent" extortion events.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment

jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g...

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 1d

Brilliant arguments against universities joining the so called “compact” in this oped from @lkfazio.bsky.social and @brendannyhan.bsky.social

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Moreover, giving preferential treatment to submissive institutions would undermine the excellence of American science. To reach goals like curing pediatric cancer and developing better treatments for opioid addiction, we need to invest in the best research ideas, not divert support to weaker studies from universities whose leaders traded away their independence for cash. Government funding should reward scientific merit.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

My new op-ed with @lkfazio.bsky.social:

Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Adrienne Wood @adriennewood.bsky.social · 1d

Over 400 faculty and staff from the #uva College of Arts and Sciences convened for an emergency vote. 97% of eligible voters endorsed a resolution demanding President Mahoney refuse to consider the Trump admin's Compact for Academic Freedom!!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

Danielle Allen fails the Lando test / lives out the Arrested Development meme: "A deal on the core principles in a compact could then become a framework for negotiating on legislation." Come ON. With this administration and this Congress?
therenovator.substack.com/p/why-im-exc...

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 1d

I am ❤️, I'm not sure if there's zoom access but there's more info here www.lrdc.pitt.edu/Colloquium-S...

LRDC Colloquium Series | Learning Research & Development Center | University of Pittsburgh

The LRDC Colloquium Series will bring leaders in education research to campus twice per semester to share their expertise on pressing current issues, such as AI and the science of learning.

www.lrdc.pitt.edu

Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 2d

Being greeted by a giant dinosaur in the Pittsburgh airport never gets old 🦖 See you tomorrow Pitt!

Mounted T. Rex skeleton in between two escalators

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 2d

Spoke with @scottbudman.bsky.social @nbcbayarea.com about Apple capitulating to DOJ pressuring they take the ICEBlock app down. They did. What’s next for a govt that has tech in its pocket & a quest for silencing speech it dislikes? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Apple removes ICEBlock app after criticism from Trump administration

Google also removed similar apps from the app store for Android devices, although ICEBlock was never available on the Google Play store.

www.nbcnews.com

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 2d

"[A]ll universities have to do now is do nothing—no accepting the compact, no counter-offers, nothing—and the government will be left with no more power to coerce and control the First Amendment-protected activities of major American universities than it has today."

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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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker doing better journalism 101 than a lot of tv news producers these days

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

This from @govpritzker.illinois.gov on @cnn.com

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Carrie Brown @brizzyc.bsky.social · 2d

"This compact is a “reward” in exactly the same sense that it is “rewarding” to purchase protection from the Mafia. The compact is an open, explicit threat." This is very good.

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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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 3d

tbh it's a nice counterpoint to 'reproducibility crisis' stuff in psych. statistics be damned, if everyone can observe the phenomenon in their own home with pretty much every child, must be legit

eg, here's my older kid at 14mo, making a scale error (he cannot, in fact, fit inside this toy tractor)

a toddler trying to step inside a toy tractor

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 3d

I need to find them but we have old VHS tapes of my brothers doing all sorts of language development tasks for my mom's classes

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 3d

"If you’ve figured out your core principles, then they will guide you about what to do. Remember, you’re not just performing an idea, it’s your life. It’s who you are."

Andrew Perfors @andyperfors.bsky.social · 3d

I'm a bit late to the game on this, but I finally read it and if you haven't done so, do check it out. It is a very thoughtfully kind (yet incisive) examination of where a lot of people on the left are right now, with Ezra Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates serving as rhetorical poles of sorts.

You don't have to swallow frogs

Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

degenerateart.beehiiv.com

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 3d

"The standard is not what was said, but whether it became the object of political outrage." "Faculty and staff must assume that any statement — even one squarely protected by the First Amendment —could lead to dismissal if it attracts the wrong attention."

www.chronicle.com/article/who-...

Opinion | Who Will Clemson Censor Next?

We no longer know what speech will be tolerated or punished. The result: self-censoring and silence.

www.chronicle.com

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