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petersuber<p>Kudos to the <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Rutgers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rutgers</span></a> University Senate:<br><a href="https://senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Resolution-to-Establish-a-Mutual-Defense-Compact-for-the-Universities-of-the-Big-Ten-Academic-Alliance-in-Defense-of-Academic-Freedom-Institutional-Integrity-and-the-Research.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/</span><span class="invisible">uploads/2025/03/Resolution-to-Establish-a-Mutual-Defense-Compact-for-the-Universities-of-the-Big-Ten-Academic-Alliance-in-Defense-of-Academic-Freedom-Institutional-Integrity-and-the-Research.pdf</span></a></p><p>"Be it resolved that, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/MADC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MADC</span></a>) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance [<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/BTAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BTAA</span></a>]…Under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund…Participating institutions shall make available, at the request of the<br>institution under direct political infringement, the services of their legal counsel, governance experts, and public affairs offices to coordinate a unified and vigorous response."</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>
Charlotte Högberg<p>Another (hopefully the last) weekend of PhD thesis writing at the office <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23academia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23academiclife" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academiclife</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23phdlife" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phdlife</a></p>
Universiteit Leiden<p>Hoe kan de academische wereld omgaan met de nieuwe politieke werkelijkheid in de Verenigde Staten? Daarover bogen zich vrijdagmiddag bestuurders, docenten, onderzoekers en studenten van de Universiteit Leiden in het Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw. ‘Geef je niet bij voorbaat gewonnen, verdedig de academische vrijheid.’ </p><p><a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2025/04/een-politieke-aanval-op-de-academische-vrijheid-in-de-vs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">universiteitleiden.nl/nieuws/2</span><span class="invisible">025/04/een-politieke-aanval-op-de-academische-vrijheid-in-de-vs</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/universiteit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>universiteit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/vrijheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vrijheid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
franco_vazza<p>Following from this:<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/114279066636970936" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@franco_vazza/</span><span class="invisible">114279066636970936</span></a></p><p>Another version of the "tomato battery" experiment, in a somewhat cleaner home setup. 🍅 </p><p>Sadly, a few cherry tomatoes were harmed during the process - they really cannot be eaten after this process, since copper is deposited in the solution! </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>physics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
Tony Pennino<p>“If you are a university, you may have to figure out, are we in fact doing things right?,” he said during a conversation at Hamilton College in upstate New York. “Have we in fact violated our own values, our own code, violated the law in some fashion?”</p><p>“If not, and you’re just being intimidated, well, you should be able to say, that’s why we got this big endowment.”<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/columbiauniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>columbiauniversity</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/obama-trump-college-speech.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/obama-trump-college-speech.html</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. The Association of American Universities (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AAU</span></a>) defense of US higher ed is a bit better. It doesn't focus narrowly on the economy.<br><a href="https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/meeting-moment-facing-americas-research-universities" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aau.edu/newsroom/press-release</span><span class="invisible">s/meeting-moment-facing-americas-research-universities</span></a></p><p>But it ends on a jarring note of <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a>. </p><p>"America cannot afford to pause for one second in our race with <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> and other competitor nations – nations who are doubling down on their investments in university-based research into crucial emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing."</p><p>I want US research to be <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenAccess</span></a>, and fully available to China and every other country. BTW, I want the same for Chinese research and research from every other country. Taking the nationalist argument seriously makes it an argument against OA, which also makes it an argument against current federal policy (<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/NelsonMemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NelsonMemo</span></a>) and against the interests of all US universities. Let's remember that science is international. Let's defend open access, not nation-limited access. And let's defend US universities because they're universities, not because they're in the US. </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>/1 Columbia’s Acquiescence to Trump Was Disgraceful<br><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/columbias-acquiescence-to-trump-was-disgraceful-as-faculty-we-demand-better" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">truthout.org/articles/columbia</span><span class="invisible">s-acquiescence-to-trump-was-disgraceful-as-faculty-we-demand-better</span></a></p><p>Columbia’s admin won’t defend academic freedom/student rights</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransLivesMatter</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgenocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cowardize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cowardize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sycophancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophancy</span></a></p>
petersuber<p>Update. "As <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> Yield to <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>, Higher Ed <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unions</span></a> Are Fighting"<br><a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/labor-unionization/2025/04/04/universities-yield-trump-higher-ed-unions-fight" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">insidehighered.com/news/facult</span><span class="invisible">y-issues/labor-unionization/2025/04/04/universities-yield-trump-higher-ed-unions-fight</span></a></p><p>"Many college and university presidents have kept silent. But unions representing higher ed employees have stepped up to the plate. They’ve protested in Washington, D.C., and on their campuses, organized open letters and filed a flurry of lawsuits against the Trump administration. Union leaders say they are filling a void in an existential fight for higher ed’s future. They wish others would join their resistance, but their unified strength in numbers may protect their members from federal retaliation in ways that higher ed officials aren’t."</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>
fossilesque<p><strong>‘Death by ax’: Fate of millions of research animals at stake in NIH payments lawsuit</strong></p> <p><a href="https://mander.xyz/post/27615673" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mander.xyz/post/27615673</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
chiasm<p>Another day, another example of me asking a grad student to do something , and them finding the files where I got halfway thru it myself a month ago, that I had forgotten I did... At least I left them a well labeled directory, a readme file, and the R code, so they could take over from where I left off. 😂 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice<br><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-university-president-makes-a-case-against-cowardice" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/a-u</span><span class="invisible">niversity-president-makes-a-case-against-cowardice</span></a><br>nonpaywalled: <a href="https://archive.ph/a9ie5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/a9ie5</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43568655" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">3568655</span></a><br>Michael S. Roth<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_S._Roth" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_</span><span class="invisible">S._Roth</span></a></p><p>Surrendering to Authoritarianism<br><a href="https://mronline.org/2025/04/04/surrendering-to-authoritarianism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mronline.org/2025/04/04/surren</span><span class="invisible">dering-to-authoritarianism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TransLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransLivesMatter</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Christofascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christofascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transgenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transgenocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicFreedom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSpeech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cowardize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cowardize</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sycophancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sycophancy</span></a></p><p>Transgenocide<br><a href="https://persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide/docs/transgenocide.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">persagen.org/wpi/transgenocide</span><span class="invisible">/docs/transgenocide.pdf</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/@persagen/114186381298087870" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@persagen/1141</span><span class="invisible">86381298087870</span></a><br>CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate</p>
Nicolai Brodersen Hansen<p>me adding words like "unpack", "juxtapose" and "vibrant" to my paper to make it seems like I am not just looking at people moving post-its and talking in a workshop</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a></p>
Historian1661<p><a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/4/harvard-federal-funding-demands/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/</span><span class="invisible">4/harvard-federal-funding-demands/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c18.masto.host/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://c18.masto.host/tags/harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harvard</span></a></p>
Dr. bird 🐦‍⬛<p>And another thing: <a href="https://x.com/bbirdbphd/status/1907981426911326446?s=46&amp;t=aszJUP2VacQdLvHmGgxDeg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/bbirdbphd/status/1907981</span><span class="invisible">426911326446?s=46&amp;t=aszJUP2VacQdLvHmGgxDeg</span></a> </p><p>This isn’t elitist to say, it is just a fact <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/falseaccusations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>falseaccusations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bh4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bh4</span></a><br><a href="https://youtu.be/xCJKqaQpiMk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/xCJKqaQpiMk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (same video just on YouTube, if someone doesn’t have Twitter)</p>
instantiatethis<p>All across <a href="https://keyboards.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> we get resources for the one big project and we write our grant reports and then we RUN THOSE SUPPLIES INTO THE GROUND because we have no idea when or if we will ever be able to convince someone to give us the funding to get an upgrade. We continue to use equipment regularly that Apple, Google, Best Buy, etc. would not give you the postage to return let alone a buy back rate to bridge the inflation gap for the already 3 years out of date upgrade we wish we had 2/?</p>
petersuber<p>Good points from Richard Thompson Ford, Stanford Law prof:<br><a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/gutting-dei-wont-save-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chronicle.com/article/gutting-</span><span class="invisible">dei-wont-save-us</span></a><br>(<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/paywalled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>paywalled</span></a>) </p><p>"As lawyers across the political spectrum agree, the government cannot make giving up a constitutional right a condition of funding…Civil-rights laws do not permit the executive branch to run an extortion racket by withholding funding approved by Congress and then dictating terms for its return. Quite the opposite: Civil-rights laws require a careful, program-specific assessment to identify any violations, after which the Department of Education must give notice of its concerns and try to secure voluntary compliance. Only if such efforts fail may the department begin enforcement proceedings, which require it to submit a report to Congress 30 days before withholding funding. Even then, funds may only be withheld from the specific programs that violated the law. For example, the government can’t withhold grants from a medical school because of violations in the history department, much less, as in the case of Columbia, suspend a host of unrelated grants and contracts because of vaguely defined violations."</p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Funding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Funding</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USLaw</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>academicchatter</span></a></span></p>
Nick Walker<p>New academic publication! </p><p>The Elgar Encyclopedia of Queer Studies includes a chapter by me on Neuroqueer Theory. </p><p>Elgar's academic tomes are good but absurdly expensive; I recommend pirating this one as an act of queer subversion. </p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/neuroqueer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neuroqueer</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lgbtq</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodiversity</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elgar-encyclopedia-of-queer-studies-9781803922096.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">e-elgar.com/shop/usd/elgar-enc</span><span class="invisible">yclopedia-of-queer-studies-9781803922096.html</span></a></p>
A. Rivera<p>I am listening in on our campus faculty meeting (streaming it, still working), and they've moved to one of those moments where "Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a></p>
7sleepersmusic<p>Another headline that some may dismiss as hyperbole. But fair to say that <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@theforward" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>theforward</span></a></span> knows a thing or two about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hitler</span></a> and isn't inclined to make these sorts of comparisons lightly. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://forward.com/opinion/709612/trump-hitler-target-universities-columbia-tufts-einstein-brecht/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/opinion/709612/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-hitler-target-universities-columbia-tufts-einstein-brecht/</span></a></p>
A. Rivera<p>Because despite the author's love of academic <a href="https://mas.to/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a>, academic writing is pretty much pretentious pompous elitist exclusionary claptrap. </p><p>&gt; Why do so many academics and nonacademics alike feel so hostile toward academic writing? <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/everyone-hates-academic-writing-theyre-wrong" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">chronicle.com/article/everyone</span><span class="invisible">-hates-academic-writing-theyre-wrong</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a></p>