Alex Karner

see also - succession

Texas professors flock to join teachers' union amid academic freedom concerns The union's rapid growth comes as federal and state lawmakers target classroom instruction and personal speech in higher education.

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it just seems like a very indirect way to produce affordable housing. people earning 50% AMI or below need options too.

I'd want to know more about the affordability characteristics of the vacated units. They were 40% cheaper--okay, but then affordable to what %AMI?

UT’s Women's and Gender Studies won a department. Then politics closed in UT faculty say women's and gender studies is a long-established discipline that’s being gutted and defined without their input or voice.

UT’s Women's and Gender Studies won a department. Then came the political pressure www.statesman.com/news/educati...

University of Texas regents OK limits on controversial subjects Opponents warned the policy’s vagueness could push professors to self-censor and leave students less prepared for the workplace.

The University of Texas System’s Board of Regents unanimously approved a rule requiring its universities to ensure students can graduate without studying “unnecessary controversial subjects,” despite warnings it could leave them less prepared for the real world.

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This is a univ that, despite whatever efforts they've put in since 1954, still has a Black student population that sits between 5% and 6%, despite Black ppl making up 12% - 13% of the Texas population. In 1979, 2.4% of the student pop was Black. They've barely doubled that in almost half a century.

UT-Austin to merge race, ethnic and gender study programs More than 800 students are pursuing degrees in the affected departments, which include African, Latino and gender studies.

This is AWFUL. Univ of Texas is consolidating 4 depts into 1: African and African Diaspora Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Mexican American and Latino Studies will become "a Social and Cultural Analysis department." www.texastribune.org/2026/02/12/t...

We knew something like this was coming. Still--a big shock.

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This is not a sample—it’s the population of crashed that have occurred. CIs are not appropriate.

They will create a world so dangerous that you feel you have no choice except to drive a car, or own a gun, or flee a country that they violently destabilized. And they will use that car, that gun, that decision to seek asylum as an excuse to shoot and kill you.

One day, if we are lucky, the erasure of American history will itself be remembered as a shameful chapter in American history

The actions of a pitiful, cowardly government

I didn't catch this panel but it seems like Dr. Patterson was just talking about multimodal solutions--de-emphasizing highway construction, reinvesting in public transit and nonmotorized modes. Understanding the transportation needs and barriers that exist and trying to address them.

Some interpret "abundance" to mean an "abundance of highways." Ben of America Walks is leading a panel at the #crossroadsconvening on "Centering Transportation Equity in the Abundance Agenda" to do better than that. FYI, "some" is the Abundance Caucus in Congress, cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...

"We are at a crossroads, figuratively and in reality"

Do we choose disinvestment and harm or repair and renewal?

@theycallmeoboi.bsky.social at #CrossroadsConvening

Crossroads: A Transportation Equity and Justice Convening Join the Union of Concerned Scientists and our transportation partners for a one-day event to discuss transportation equity and justice. Thursday, January 15, 2026, 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET, at the Ma...

In-person registration for the event is now closed, but you can still attend virtually. Sign up here: secure.ucs.org/a/2026-1-15-...

As a defining voice in racial equity, Oboi brings a critical perspective to this work. We couldn’t ask for a better leader to ground our discussions and energize the group as we kick off the day.

Update for tomorrow's #CrossroadsConvening: We send our best to Dr. Bullard who is unable to join us.

However, we're grateful to announce that @theycallmeoboi.bsky.social, President & CEO of Equiticity, will now be giving the keynote address!

Good q! Nothing planned. How about #CrossroadsConvening? Other ideas?

Nah, come to Crossroads on Thursday 😁

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains.

Excited to be part of this conference! register!

This is going to be a fun event where—unlike at the @nationalacademies.org Transportation Research Board—we're going to actually talk about issues of equity, justice, and mobility. Register if you can make it to DC in January!

There will be documentation--some kind of proceedings and a report--but probably not recordings of individual sessions. We may be able to live stream a selection of the program though. Stay tuned for more information about that.

If you want to hear about work that's being censored/suppressed by the Transportation Research Board and other historical funders, this is the place to be.

Hope you can join us.

Crossroads: A Transportation Equity and Justice Convening Join the Union of Concerned Scientists and our transportation partners for a one-day event to discuss transportation equity and justice. Thursday, January 15, 2026, 8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET, at the Ma...

Free public registration is now open for the Crossroads Convening on Transportation Equity and Justice, 1/15/26 at the MLK Library in DC.

Registration is free. We've got three sessions across four tracks. Confirmed speakers include Robert Bullard, Anna Zivarts, Naomi Doerner, and Gretchen Goldman.