Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr.

Alice Wong, disability rights advocate and wordsmith, dies at 51 Alice Wong, a transformational leader for disability rights and justice, who founded the Disability Visibility project to magnify disabled culture, died Nov. 14.

A nice obituary for Alice, who was going to be recognized as one of The Post 50.

I hate that we now have to live without this phenomenal woman.

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Yes and the researcher making this claim is also knowingly engaging in shoddy research that is misrepresenting the data which actually suggests the opposite trend: www.them.us/story/eric-k...

Dear President Milliken, I write to insist on the continued funding of the hiring incentive associated with the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP). This program has demonstrated its efficacy for hiring exceptional scholars over the past 40 years. It is a primary engine for the transformation of the professoriate and knowledge in the UC system. The PPFP is one of the most competitive postdoctoral and hiring incentive programs in North America. It is an open competition that is in alignment with state law and does not use race, gender, national origin, gender or other protected classifications in its review and selection.

The hiring incentive linked to the PPFP is a faculty-driven hiring process, open to all fields. More than 400 current faculty members were hired through this program. Nearly 100% have been tenured. Given the demonstrated impact of the hiring incentive on the scholarly reputation of UC, and given that the cost of the incentive represents a tiny fraction of the UC budget, budgetary prerogatives do not seem like a defensible argument for this decision. Cutting the hiring incentive would be an unacceptable concession to the Trump administration's demand letter and is taking place without transparency or consultation with faculty, deans, or other campus leaders.

I ask you to halt this action and to consult with faculty and administrators with a long history of not only supporting but also benefiting from this program.

Here is what you might say in an email. Please cc standup4PPFP@gmail.com and consider including your dean and chancellor.

I am very concerned about anticipatory compliance at UC. Provost Katherine Newman has opted to defund a critical program called the UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPFP). This incredibly selective postdoc has provided a route to UC faculty for many of my most valued colleagues. +

Reminder - the nomination deadline for the 2026 AERA Fellows cohort is coming up on November 13! Read the call here: www.aera.net/Portals/38/2...

Grad students! Looking for an incredible publishing opportunity? Check out JoLLE!

YOU GOT THIS!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

My comprehensive exam for my doctorate (Education) is tomorrow, so send all positive thoughts this way.

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.

All our opportunities are being taken away in real time.
Sending positivity energy to everyone who applied this cycle. Lets see our effort to secure postdoc mentors & submit applications as displaying our commitment to being in academia.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

I say possibly bot-run due to message similarity. Either way, remember:

For trolls, the return on investment for stirring up troll shit is infinite: Any reaction is a win.

And when the trolls are literally the govt, then that reaction can then be weaponized via full reach of the federal apparatus.

Remember when i said we're living in the scariest parts of a Gibson novel thanks to a bunch of dudes who misunderstand Gibson's novels?

Well now I want to discuss the verified govt accounts spewing rightwing propaganda— possibly via a bot-run troll farm— & why you should block them for your safety.

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

@joteriacripsartcollective QUEER TRANS LATINX/É DIS/ABILITIES ART PHOTOGRAPHY POETRY SHORT STORIES Potential Themes: * Jotería Crip Worldmaking * Intersections of Latindiad, Dis/abilities, & Queerness * Trans Latinx/é Masculinities & Dis/abilities * Mental Health, Wellbeing, & Thrivance * Joy, Healing, & Hope * Disability Justice & Disability Activism Due Nov. 14, 2025

Potential Themes:
* Jotería Crip Worldmaking
* Intersections of Latindiad, Dis/abilities, & Queerness
* Trans Latinx/é Masculinities & Dis/abilities
* Mental Health, Wellbeing, & Thrivance
* Joy, Healing, & Hope
* Disability Justice & Disability Activism

Due Nov. 14, 2025

JOTERÍA CRIPS ZINE OPEN CALL Inaugural Issue: Issue #1 Currently accepting submissions of all mediums. Send Submissions to: joteriacripartscollective@gmail.com theme details on next page @joteriacripsartcollectivr

JOTERÍA CRIPS ZINE OPEN CALL
Inaugural Issue: Issue #1

Currently accepting submissions of all mediums.

Send Submissions to: joteríacripartscollective@gmail.com
@joteriacripsart.bsky.social

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

It feels like I'm writing mainly for posterity, but please do share if helpful.

After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission...

“These are not just attacks on UT or on higher education. They are attacks on every American’s First Amendment right to speak freely, to question authority, to teach and to learn without fear.”

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Assistant/Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies (RISE - THRIVE) - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks.

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Michigan Avenue right now.

Screenshot from the top of the article. Title is "State Senate Democrats tell UVA to not consider education compact." Published today. Main text reads "RICHMOND, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The University of Virginia could lose state funding if it signs onto an education compact it received from the federal government last week."

Screenshot from the letter from VA dems which reads "Therefore, we call upon you to immediately cease all consideration of signing this compact. Furthermore, we want to be explicitly clear: if the University of Virginia signs this compact, there will be significant consequences in future Virginia budget cycles. As the leadership of the Senate with responsibility for appropriations affecting higher education, we will work with our colleagues to ensure that the Commonwealth does not subsidize an institution that has ceded its independence to federal political control."

I'll be updating next week's current-state-of-state-higher-ed-policy slides.

Left is an article about the VA senate dems telling UVA their state funding will be in question if they agree to that odious compact. On the right is the key part of the senate letter.

www.cbs19news.com/news/state-s...

Data Centers Aren’t the Future of American Prosperity Tamara Kneese and Maia Woluchem cut through lobbying points and speculative myths to focus on what the evidence reveals about the tech industry’s claims.

Data center developers and tech firms make big promises that don't deliver. This report has the details.

datasociety.net/library/data...

Scholarship opportunity: Black and Latino men, undergrads, deadline applicants 10/31

STAND WITH YOUR SCHOOL: Trump attacks 9 universities. Sign the alumni petition now. Are you an alum from one of the 9 schools the federal government just attacked? Sign this alumni petition now to support your school, defend democracy, and build a grassroots movement for campus freed...

To Alumni: University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas, Vanderbilt University, & the University of Virginia:

alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

Ecologies of Migration
October 1, 2025
2:00-3:30PM
LSA Building Room 1040, Multipurpose Room
500 S. State St.
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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The outline of a missing professor at the front of the classroom.

University of Nebraska–Lincoln Proposes Cutting Ed Administration Programs

University leaders say they need to slash the budget. Education administration professors say it’ll sever a pipeline to education leadership roles. https://bit.ly/42D0qCw

Notably, the Chancellor of the U of Nebraska-Lincoln has an EdD in Educational Administration. By cutting the only higher ed doctoral program in the state, he would essentially eliminate the opportunity for students to obtain the degree that qualified him for his leadership position. Devastating.

When educators say that educational leadership preparation within a university is expendable, we are in a scary place. This is about my department, my university and is cause for alarm for educators everywhere. If they cut the only ed leadership PhD program in our state, whose will be next? (1/2)

How a secret recording of a gender identity lecture upended Texas A&M Officials have struggled to detail the exact reasons for the A&M professor’s termination, citing a technical issue with her course description. Faculty say the move was politically motivated.

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left.
www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

I’ve been reporting on influencers for more than seven years now and today I had an academic decline to do an interview about them for the first time out of fear of government retaliation.

Gray graphic reading “This is beyond McCarthyism. Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write, and even joke. The Trump administration's actions, paired with ABC's capitulation, represent a grave threat to our First Amendment freedoms” The quote is attributed to Christopher Anders, on ABC's decision to indefinitely suspend Jimmy Kimmel".

The First Amendment is clear: Government officials cannot use their power to censor free speech.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc