Annie McClanahan

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty.

This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

This article presents the end of the PPFP as a done deal, but it’s not—until the chancellors’ meeting this afternoon.

Folks may remember the video of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, arrested while protecting students from cops as the UCI Free Palestine encampment was raided. She is still fighting a legal battle and needs support--please donate if you can and spread the campaign!
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Summer Seminar 2026 announcement CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 2026 MATERIALIST INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH SUMMER SEMINAR: “MARXIST INTERNATIONALISMS” The 2026 Materialist Institute for Research (MIR) Summer Seminar will run August 6-11 at Sa...

Applications are open for MIR Summer Seminar 2026 on the theme of Marxist Internationalism! See the call for applications: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Open to all non-faculty University of California affiliates (undergrads, grads, staff, lecturers). App deadline Jan. 16. Please share!

This is a great essay--a must-read for anyone concerned about the use of AI as deskilling, automation, labor techno-discipline, etc.

The entire AI industry is just GPU purchases and data center construction. That’s it. No productivity multipliers. No AGI. No singularity.

SO THRILLED TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THIS!

Wall to wall action TOMORROW at UC Regents meeting!

No Concessions, No Capitulation, No Cuts On September 16 at 2pm, we are joining the AAUP and CUCFA for a rally at the William J. Rutter Center at UCSF, 1675 Owens Street, San Francisco, to demand No Concessions, No Capitulation, and No Cuts to our University of California. Please join us!

Tomorrow the UC regents are meeting at UCSF to discuss Trump's extortion attempt. This is a defining moment for the UC system, for public education, and for the university as an institution. We demand no concession, no capitulation, no cuts.

We should be honest abut how "we should just kill them, can we not please just KILL them" lurks barely under the surface of so much respectable discourse on the homeless.

my fam enjoyed both but Pirates woulda been too scary for my kiddo @ 6

lol this is a throwback to the golden age of bad articles

not today, I guess, but Satan, please, tomorrow?

omg y'all are so sweet, thank you! @smosment.bsky.social's amazing edits were clutch, too! <3

I have a book cover!

I keep saying this, but...

...punishing the homeless is how big-city and blue state liberals do fascism.

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Really fucking gross.

This is why you need a union. It doesn't matter if it's illegal if nobody is going to do anything about it. But trust me, if you have a union you ALL can do something about it.

On Friday August 8, the Trump administration demanded a $1 billion “settlement” from UCLA after freezing $584 million in federal grants for vital scientific and health research. The proposed $1 billion agreement would be the largest settlement since Trump began extorting universities, and marks the first attempt of the federal government to ransom payment from a public university. These attacks have been waged under the guise of fighting antisemitism and investigating alleged Title VII violations, but we see them for what they are: an attempt to cripple public higher education in the nation’s premier public university system.

Coalition of UC unions condemns Trump’s attacks on the UC and the California economy.

@ucaft.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @uaw4811.bsky.social @aaup.org

#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #UnniversityofCalifornia #HoldTheLine #Trump #HandsOffHigherEd #StandUpUC

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The coalition of UC unions condemns Trump’s attacks on the University of California. Read more: ucaft.org/news/the-coa... @calnurses.bsky.social @afscme3299.bsky.social @aaup.org @uaw4811.bsky.social @uptecwa.bsky.social @teamsterslocal2010.bsky.social @ucaftbayarea.bsky.social

So glad to see "deskilling" being used correctly here--this is a vital term for understanding what AI automation looks like!

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it will ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.”

Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment.

No questions asked.

No proof required.

Pass it on.

This is a really powerful thread....

aww, thanks matt! it's an AMAZING collection, very teachable.

Strong agree.

Among other excellent contributions, the chapter by @anniemcc.bsky.social & Louis McCune is the best intro to Ed Tech I have yet read.

We're not asking for much. We're just asking that you leave us the fuck alone. We're not asking for anything more than we had 10, 15, 20 years ago. Are you really going to tout your "harm reduction" as someone who is more hostile to my people than Ronald Reagan was? You've lost your marbles.

seen to explain the grad- uate male malaise, what does? Looking across all sectors, the key dynamic appears to be a well-worn story: women opt in much greater numbers for healthcare jobs, where employment continues trending steeply upwards, seemingly immune to the cyclical bumps that afflict most male-dominated sectors even at the graduate level. Almost 50,000 of the 135,000 additional jobs filled by young women graduates in the past year were in America's healthcare sector - more than double the total number of additional jobs going to graduate men across all sectors over the same period. Rising demand from an ageing popula-tion, coupled with relative resilience to automation, appears thus far to be making healthcare a steady ship in choppy water. Perhaps "learn to care" could replace "learn to code" as the go-to career advice for the next generation. But while young women appear to he doing better at navigating the cur-

Yes, unemployment is growing faster among young men in the USA than young women. But @jburnmurdoch.ft.com argues that underneath the headlines is a story of men being less likely to work in education and healthcare, two industries where employment defies cyclical trends.

"what if there was a publication that was 4% more reactionary than the Atlantic but 6% less reactionary than the Free Press?" Wow how exciting, here is $8 per month