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Eric Hayot and Paula Krebs: It's not about Palestine, DEI or trans athletes We are facing a defunding of knowledge production in this country. This isn’t only a problem for academia. Many local economies, like Pittsburgh’s,...

Who benefits from attacks on higher ed?

Certainly not the US economy.
Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer.
Certainly not the American people.

excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social
www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Oh my goodness, this is amazing news! Mubaarak!

And of course I and many of my colleagues were recipients of FLAS fellowships at some point. @southasiacenter.bsky.social @uw-madsouthasia.bsky.social @uclacisa.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social @asianstudies.org

I think I represent many in saying that FLAS fellowships are crucial in training next generations in many widely-spoken and crucial languages.

This is a tough day (and a tough time), but also noting that yesterday Title 6 centers and FLAS fellowships were all terminated.

Hearty congratulations!

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

2 of my books, 12 of my articles.

I don’t mind at all that they were on LibGen — that someone out there made them free to read for less-privileged people who can’t pay for access.

I mind a great deal that Meta scraped my work for commercial gain.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

And seems like I should repost this, too.

Hello BlueSky! My first post here. Let me also speak out as a Columbia alum. When I was a student there in the late 90s, my impression was that the administration will do whatever it takes for money.