Ansley Erickson

I was informed the Department of Education was shutting itself down and yet they have been making a dramatic blockbuster-style preview of their new ideological project? youtu.be/bUNVdCduGKg?...

“Just hang in there, keep reading, and stay angry.” -Alice Wong, rest in power

#edusky, this includes closing the Educational Admin PhD program too - the only one in the state.

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

This is a very good idea. It is bonkers that we have free parking in some of the priciest neighborhoods in the world, with solid public transit that could be made so much better with the $$$.

Opinion | We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over.

“A hybrid system of meters and permits could conservatively yield $1.1 billion to $1.6 billion a year in revenue — more than enough to fund free buses and reinvest locally.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

Surrealism Against Fascism • EQUATOR A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us about confronting the far-right in a new age of genocide?

To “win the energies of intoxication for the revolution”…

Read this from @naomiaklein.bsky.social Good company for my 4 am awakes, even better for the days and weeks ahead.

Everyone involved in this child’s kidnapping is going to hell.

Only fancy Columbia prof I ever saw in the microfilm room...

This time of year, students write essays about why they want to get a PhD, why they see hope and power in the idea of research and teaching. Often they are talking about how knowledge will, they dream, make themselves and the world more free.

These essays + this news + institutional silence = 💔

This time of year, students write essays about why they want to get a PhD, why they see hope and power in the idea of research and teaching. Often they are talking about how knowledge will, they dream, make themselves and the world more free.

These essays + this news + institutional silence = 💔

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

A spread of black and white snapshots laid out on a white table. Photos include protest signs, cops on horses, crowds of people including students and faculty outside City Hall. Faculty are wearing regalia, one has a skeleton on his shoulders, while others carry a big fake coffin with text saying “Bury Pataki’s Budget Cuts!” And someone holds up a huge skull that says CCNY 1847-1995 on its forehead. Other signs say: No Death Penalty for CUNY-SUNY Save Higher Education! We SEEK a Higher Education The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste–Pataki has lost his

Close up of a black and white snapshot of a protester holding a sign that says We SEEK a Higher Education

Close up of a black and white snapshot of a protester holding a sign that is a giant skull with CCNY 1847-1995 written on its forehead

Close up of a black and white snapshot of faculty protesting in their academic regalia, holding a sign that says Save Higher Education

Sometime last year, a CUNY alum contacted me saying they’d found some photos they took at the 1995 protest against budget cuts and would I please take them so they could clear out their attic?

They arrived today and they DID NOT DISAPPOINT

Thank you! We need these stories right now, so very much.

Tom Lloyd at the newly-reopened Studio Museum in Harlem. I want to stand in the glow of this piece for a meditative hour.

“On the 70th anniversary of the Bus Boycott, Gray said the most important thing for people to do, aside from continuing to fight for civil rights, is for people to know their history, and use it to impact the future.”

www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/l...

Remembering Rosa Parks, who #onthisday December 1, 1955 refused to give up her seat on Montgomery's Cleveland Street bus driven by James F. Blake. Parks was arrested for her act of resistance.

I am so so sorry, Ursula. Truly.

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

This is the first day of the last month of the semester here in my part of higher ed.
This is the perfect essay to read right now, for inspiration and strength for how we work with students and,
in the best cases,
how we work as people in community.

Thank you, @johannawinant.bsky.social.

T-shirt with red lettering. Words are a list of rules for organizers.

Reading the back of a t-shirt, realizing I basically organized myself into the life I wanted, scratching a whole section of the memoir for this new insight.

Just a regular Sunday over here 😭😭😭🤣🙄

Good morning! I have a few gift subscriptions to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social to give away. FCFS for replies here.

Screen shot that reads: "Domestic Trip and Location is outside the US"

No surprise that the reimbursement system doesn't understand Puerto Rico. #USempire

Sometimes… but the institutional rules and imperatives are tricky. Dm me!

Not sure if this is exactly what you mean, but colleagues and I teach a summer institute for NyC teachers that has as one of its previous forms a class I teach. We ♥️ it.

Good morning! I have a few gift subscriptions to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social to give away. FCFS for replies here.

One of the few salutary things about the current moment (I’m thinking of maybe the last 20 months) is the exposure of campus governance structures. Many of us know a lot more about how our institutions work—power and influence, as well as actual rules—than might have been the case prior.

Use that.

Graphic that reads: "The average hourly wage necessary to afford a one-bedroom apartment in the United States is $28.17. The federal minimum wage is currently $7.25." -- National Low Income Housing Coalition

I really appreciate that @pbsnews.org ended the interview with this graphic.

It captures, in the simplest and starkest terms, the brutal arithmetic driving this country's homelessness catastrophe.