Emily K.D. Smith

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

...the final say in affairs unless a student specifically requested to speak with the professor, which I would then facilitate arranging a formal meeting for the student to have a one-on-one with the professor to discuss the grade. I was also the one to regrade, if a regrade was requested. (4/4)

I personally mediated several disputes across several courses with the goal of avoiding formal censure of students, but there were a few cases I put forth to the Professor who, in turn, reported to the Integrity Council. But for basic failure to adhere to outlined instructions, I was largely - (3/4)

...responsibility to mediate disputes, including grade disputes, before escalating it up the chain. Professors would give a standard (ex: we expect a "B" average for the course), but most marking assistance to other TAs was provided by the Lead TA via rubrics given by the Professor. (2/4)

In my experience as both a general and Lead TA is that no - the Professor would offer advice if a TA had marking questions, but outliers typically first go to the Lead TA who then makes a judgement call to discuss it with the Professor, with the understanding that it was the Lead's - (1/4)

OU puts graduate instructor on leave after student claims discrimination on Bible-based essay grade OU placed a graduate student instructor on leave after a student publicly contested a grade and filed an illegal discrimination claim after she received a failing grade on an essay

So, an OU student a shitty reaction paper in a psych course, got failed by a grad student TA for not following directions and threatened legal action, while also getting her uni TPUSA chapter to post the essay. Her mother is on X saying trans people must not be allowed to be professors.

This is…

This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.

As I said on the other site: she would have gotten an F from me too.

You need to cite. You need cogent and clear arguments.

I am losing my mind.

I’m looking forward to asking my university president next week about how much they will protect instructors and TAs from this bullshit. If I can’t even fail a student for literally not following the assignment instructions, or writing a bad paper, then what the hell is the point of a class?

Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds

Hey conference-organizers (sorry for addressing you in one of your professional capacities on a holiday).

I posted this 5 days ago, and 65 artists have already applied. Many of them are PSYCHED, and many of them are extremely qualified.

There's HUGE interest from artists in working w/scientists.

I know so many who needed this research grant line to complete their PhDs. With funding options collapsing across the board, this is devastating news.

Dear professional society leadership:

🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.

This is exactly it. There is also an insidious genre of essay which is “let me write about Sudan once and never again, just so I can say I did it, and then get back to asking why people are obsessed about Palestine“. These people can never discuss Sudan on its own terms.

National Endowment for the Humanities-Funded Archaeological Archive of Huhugam Archaeology Delivers Lasting Impact in the Southwest « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog In an era of shrinking research budgets and political pressure to justify public investment, federally funded digital archives in archaeology are delivering measurable, lasting benefits to scholars, l...

"In an era of shrinking research budgets and political pressure to justify public investment, federally funded #digital #archives in #archaeology are delivering measurable, lasting benefits..." Read the blog and #openaccess article here: ➡️ https://cup.org/4nQ7gNS

#Huhugam @saa-aap.bsky.social

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body."

Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

One thing that's abundantly clear: passing the SAFE Research Act would permanently end the United States' ability to be competitive in any area of advanced technology. Just straight up suicidal policy-making.

I believe the purpose of education is to help everyone create a healthy, informed, curious, and compassionate society.

Just a note that the US passed landmark civil rights legislation enforcing the rights of disabled students to reasonable accommodation. This is a form of segregation. And segregationists like this also tend to believe in other forms of segregation.

Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ... 423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.

Here are the words she left behind:
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My relationship with the UC System as a graduate student is complex, but today I've never been prouder of the faculty and staff of the UCs for standing up and standing firm.

Training for Transformation: Rethinking Archaeological Readiness in California and Beyond « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog “You get in, you get out, and you get the job.” That line from a recent The CRM Archaeology Podcast (Ep 315) about academia's responsibility to CRM and vice versa stuck with me. It resonated because it echoes a broader shift happening across higher educ...

📢📢 OUT NOW: 'Training for Transformation: Rethinking Archaeological Readiness in California and Beyond' - a #blog by Kaitlin Brown to accompany new research in the #SAA journal @saa-aap.bsky.social: ⛏️🎓 https://cup.org/47HcnKE

#archaeology
#openaccess

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Remember when Aaron Swartz downloaded JSTOR archives that he had full legal rights to download and the FBI hounded him literally to death for it? Anyway,

Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

The appalling abuses of the rules of war we are witnessing in Sudan are indefensible. No patient should be killed in a hospital, and no civilian shot while trying to flee their home. These horrific attacks must stop and international humanitarian law must be respected. Around the world, millions of people live behind the bars, deprived of their liberty. Whatever the reason for their arrest and detention, they're entitled to humanely with respect for their physical and mental well-being. Since its founding in 1863, The International Committee of the Red Cross has workiet to protect and assist victims of armed conflict and violence while advocating for governments and armed groups to respect and strengthen international humanitarian law. Know more about our work in detention places in this video. The world has turned a blind eye while civilians in Sudan have endured unthinkable horror. We have repeatedly called on the parties to the conflict to respect international humanitarian law, yet it continues to be violated with impunity. Civilians are enduring brutal attacks, rampant sexual violence, and the deliberate destruction of essential services. Facilities once dedicated to saving lives have become scenes of death and destruction. We have been demanding that attacks on humanitarian and medical personnel stop. Yet just this week in North Kordofan, five of our colleagues from the Sudanese Red Crescent Society were killed. Lives in Sudan now depend on strong and decisive action to stop these atrocities. The world cannot stand by as civilians are stripped of safety and dignity, and the rules of war meant to protect them are trampled.”

The humanitarian situation in Al Fasher and other parts of Sudan is nothing less than catastrophic. World leaders must act to end the indiscriminate killing.

Statement attributable to Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross: ms.spr.ly/63323tEZvx

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Yale report finds evidence of RSF mass killings in Sudan’s el-Fasher

#Sudan
"I have not seen the velocity & ferocity that we're witnessing... The scale is immense"
-Nathaniel Raymond

Yale report finds evidence of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) mass killing - pools of blood & piles of human bodies visible via satellite

#KeepEyesOnSudan
youtu.be/ieDxeeyYh64?...

#Sudan: MSF fears large numbers of people remain trapped in grave danger in #ElFasher, blocked by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from reaching safer areas after they and their allies seized control of the city this week.

www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-msf-de...