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A Web Series that Examines an Actual University Investigation into Disability and Gender Discrimination
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commoncomplaint.com, a web series, that examines a public university’s investigation into disability and gender discrimination. #discrimination #gradlife #gender #disability #complaint #TitleIX #characteranimator
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.
The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”
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as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
May 12, 2025 at 3:51 PM
as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.
youtu.be/v0JJwpGwbVg?...
“For the Sake of all of your careers ...” Universities make lavish promises about the robust protections they provide students against discrimination. But the tone changes if the students try to access those protections. #accademicchatter
“For the Sake of all of your careers ...” Universities make lavish promises about the robust protections they provide students against discrimination. But the tone changes if the students try to access those protections. #accademicchatter
Abuse of Fundamental Alteration, Part 1 of Roadmap to Systemic Discrimination
YouTube video by Common Complaint
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April 27, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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“For the Sake of all of your careers ...” Universities make lavish promises about the robust protections they provide students against discrimination. But the tone changes if the students try to access those protections. #accademicchatter
“For the Sake of all of your careers ...” Universities make lavish promises about the robust protections they provide students against discrimination. But the tone changes if the students try to access those protections. #accademicchatter
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Universities promise robust civil rights protections, but the universities decide who to investigate, how to limit the complaint. #phdlife
Universities promise robust civil rights protections, but the universities decide who to investigate, how to limit the complaint. #phdlife
Abuse of Fundamental Alteration, Part 1 of Roadmap to Systemic Discrimination
YouTube video by Common Complaint
youtu.be
April 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
youtu.be/v0JJwpGwbVg?...
Universities promise robust civil rights protections, but the universities decide who to investigate, how to limit the complaint. #phdlife
Universities promise robust civil rights protections, but the universities decide who to investigate, how to limit the complaint. #phdlife
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Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #deaf #physicist, #engineer & co-inventor of the #teletypewriter Robert Weitbrecht! #GoAhead
Listen & read:
disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/ep102/
#TTY #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #AtomicHands #telephone #history #EduSky #STEM #A11Y #UCBerkeley
Listen & read:
disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/ep102/
#TTY #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #AtomicHands #telephone #history #EduSky #STEM #A11Y #UCBerkeley
April 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Today on the #Disability Daily #Podcast we celebrate #deaf #physicist, #engineer & co-inventor of the #teletypewriter Robert Weitbrecht! #GoAhead
Listen & read:
disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/ep102/
#TTY #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #AtomicHands #telephone #history #EduSky #STEM #A11Y #UCBerkeley
Listen & read:
disabilitydaily.podbean.com/e/ep102/
#TTY #DisabledInSTEM #DeafInSTEM #AtomicHands #telephone #history #EduSky #STEM #A11Y #UCBerkeley
Do you think that allowing employees to deny coworkers essential supplies provided by the employer & necessary for the basic functions of employment creates a hostile work environment. A major public university that uses DEI to recruit says no! #gradlife #discrimination youtube.com/shorts/TjiFv...
DEI -- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are Just PR Buzzwords at my University
YouTube video by Common Complaint
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November 25, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Do you think that allowing employees to deny coworkers essential supplies provided by the employer & necessary for the basic functions of employment creates a hostile work environment. A major public university that uses DEI to recruit says no! #gradlife #discrimination youtube.com/shorts/TjiFv...
Many universities do not follow the ADA when determine accommodations. Here are 3 warning signs that your university may be abusing the process. #HigherEd #DisabilityRights #accommodations #gradlife #ADA #civilrights youtube.com/shorts/7E_87...
Accommodation Denied: Three Warning Signs of University Abuse
YouTube video by Common Complaint
youtube.com
November 1, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Many universities do not follow the ADA when determine accommodations. Here are 3 warning signs that your university may be abusing the process. #HigherEd #DisabilityRights #accommodations #gradlife #ADA #civilrights youtube.com/shorts/7E_87...
The impulse to just ignore a problem and see if it will go away is a strong one. You may think the ADA encourages you to give into this impulse. It does not! #ADA #disability #discrimination #Intersectionality #mentor #gradlife #theacademy
youtube.com/shorts/EQ7Eb...
youtube.com/shorts/EQ7Eb...
Mentoring Disabled Graduate Students and Postdocs
YouTube video by Common Complaint
youtube.com
October 24, 2024 at 6:26 PM
The impulse to just ignore a problem and see if it will go away is a strong one. You may think the ADA encourages you to give into this impulse. It does not! #ADA #disability #discrimination #Intersectionality #mentor #gradlife #theacademy
youtube.com/shorts/EQ7Eb...
youtube.com/shorts/EQ7Eb...
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This is an excellent report - and accurate in the assertions regarding the 13% stat. However...
I understand why they couldn't dive into intersectionality because of resources, I get it - but intersectionality and socio-economic class have relevant and intrinsic links.
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I understand why they couldn't dive into intersectionality because of resources, I get it - but intersectionality and socio-economic class have relevant and intrinsic links.
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A staggering report about class in the UK games industry - just 13% are "from lower socioeconomic backgrounds", making it "roughly a third less inclusive than the wider country".
This is compared to 29% in film/TV, 32% in design/fashion, and 22% in music.
More from @georgeosborn.bsky.social here:
This is compared to 29% in film/TV, 32% in design/fashion, and 22% in music.
More from @georgeosborn.bsky.social here:
Exclusive: Unpicking the UK games industry’s class problem, 24/10/2024
And we're not talking about bards or paladins here
www.videogamesindustrymemo.com
October 24, 2024 at 11:36 AM
This is an excellent report - and accurate in the assertions regarding the 13% stat. However...
I understand why they couldn't dive into intersectionality because of resources, I get it - but intersectionality and socio-economic class have relevant and intrinsic links.
🧵
I understand why they couldn't dive into intersectionality because of resources, I get it - but intersectionality and socio-economic class have relevant and intrinsic links.
🧵
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a lot of modern reaction has been trying to define "racism" as as an extremely narrow category. they claim distaste for other races isn't "racism" if there are too many of them entering your community. believing black people aren't as intelligent isn't "racism" if it's based in half-baked science.
i wonder if george packer realizes he contradicted himself. “racism does not explain trump support, white communities getting nonwhite immigrants and feeling resentful does.”
October 24, 2024 at 3:53 PM
a lot of modern reaction has been trying to define "racism" as as an extremely narrow category. they claim distaste for other races isn't "racism" if there are too many of them entering your community. believing black people aren't as intelligent isn't "racism" if it's based in half-baked science.
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Mariel Garza, editorials editor at The Los Angeles Times, has resigned after the paper’s billionaire owner intervened to prevent the paper from publishing an presidential endorsement
LA Times opinion editor quits after billionaire owner kills endorsement
Mariel Garza, editorials editor at The Los Angeles Times, has resigned. The announcement comes after the paper's billionaire owner killed an endorsement of Kamala Harris for president.
sfstandard.com
October 23, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Mariel Garza, editorials editor at The Los Angeles Times, has resigned after the paper’s billionaire owner intervened to prevent the paper from publishing an presidential endorsement
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
college rape victims are much more likely to be expelled or drop out of college than their rapists
college rape victims are much more likely to be expelled or drop out of college than their rapists
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Essentially every atom in Universe heavier than helium was produced in the life or death of stars because the Big Bang was first too hot and then too low in density for the right nuclear fusion 🧪
Essentially every atom in Universe heavier than helium was produced in the life or death of stars because the Big Bang was first too hot and then too low in density for the right nuclear fusion 🧪
What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders?
Pollsters have been calling cell phones for over a decade. The fact that people don’t have landlines anymore really isn’t an issue.
Pollsters have been calling cell phones for over a decade. The fact that people don’t have landlines anymore really isn’t an issue.
October 23, 2024 at 4:23 PM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
college rape victims are much more likely to be expelled or drop out of college than their rapists
college rape victims are much more likely to be expelled or drop out of college than their rapists
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Good to know 47% of this country is ok with opening up concentration camps. If you ever wondered how genocides happen, this is it right here.
October 22, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Good to know 47% of this country is ok with opening up concentration camps. If you ever wondered how genocides happen, this is it right here.
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Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/i...
October 21, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Update: archive.org is back online in a provisional, read-only manner. Learn more in our latest post: blog.archive.org/2024/10/21/i...
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"We're calling from AAA, we see you haven't renewed in a few years"
"I'm sorry, I'm not interested. I'm disabled and can't drive."
"You realize the policy follows the driver and not the vehicle?"
"Yeah, so does the disability.”
"I'm sorry, I'm not interested. I'm disabled and can't drive."
"You realize the policy follows the driver and not the vehicle?"
"Yeah, so does the disability.”
October 20, 2024 at 8:46 PM
"We're calling from AAA, we see you haven't renewed in a few years"
"I'm sorry, I'm not interested. I'm disabled and can't drive."
"You realize the policy follows the driver and not the vehicle?"
"Yeah, so does the disability.”
"I'm sorry, I'm not interested. I'm disabled and can't drive."
"You realize the policy follows the driver and not the vehicle?"
"Yeah, so does the disability.”
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October 21, 2024 at 9:05 PM
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answering the question, what is an academic and why are they like that?
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
September 21, 2023 at 6:42 PM
answering the question, what is an academic and why are they like that?
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Lol, I found this in my Facebook memories and thought my programming-adjacent friends might appreciate! Behold: the Boo-lean operators!
October 20, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Lol, I found this in my Facebook memories and thought my programming-adjacent friends might appreciate! Behold: the Boo-lean operators!
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Last month 4 Lehigh University students from Ghana were charged with forgery & theft of services for allegedly submitting fraudulent transcripts in the admissions process. In this piece, we argue that the university’s actions reflect a critical problem in higher education. medium.com/@alessandra....
Degrees of Injustice: The Criminalization of Students of Color in Higher Education
By Alessandra Bazo Vienrich, Ph.D. and Krista McQueeney, Ph.D.
medium.com
October 21, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Last month 4 Lehigh University students from Ghana were charged with forgery & theft of services for allegedly submitting fraudulent transcripts in the admissions process. In this piece, we argue that the university’s actions reflect a critical problem in higher education. medium.com/@alessandra....
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public transit to the show tonight because a robust public transit system is a joy and a pleasure
October 20, 2024 at 4:50 PM
public transit to the show tonight because a robust public transit system is a joy and a pleasure
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People are not merciful to the disabled. All disabled people know that. The world is only cruel to disabled people & exiles them & makes their challenges harder. The world's not going easier on disabled people. It's pummeling with all it's got. And that goes for bipolar people. @coolhand.bsky.social
October 21, 2024 at 4:18 AM
People are not merciful to the disabled. All disabled people know that. The world is only cruel to disabled people & exiles them & makes their challenges harder. The world's not going easier on disabled people. It's pummeling with all it's got. And that goes for bipolar people. @coolhand.bsky.social
When considering a lab ask whether the lab has a plan for not being horrible, because given the brutal pressures and perverse incentives it is not going to happen without effort. Geraldine Fitzpatrick explores how Denmark tries. #gradlife
changingacademiclife.captivate.fm/episode/bett...
changingacademiclife.captivate.fm/episode/bett...
Creating better research cultures together - Changing Academic Life
2024 Danish Young Academy Research Environment prize winners, Line and Nicklas, and awards chair Nina, talk about what makes for a research good culture.
changingacademiclife.captivate.fm
October 21, 2024 at 4:23 AM
When considering a lab ask whether the lab has a plan for not being horrible, because given the brutal pressures and perverse incentives it is not going to happen without effort. Geraldine Fitzpatrick explores how Denmark tries. #gradlife
changingacademiclife.captivate.fm/episode/bett...
changingacademiclife.captivate.fm/episode/bett...