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ICE detains Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts Iowa's largest school district had "no confirmed information" on why ICE detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent since 2023.

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district.
The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps."
www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.

Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved students’ ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from.
theconversation.com/college-stud...

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll.....

13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

Since it's Tenure-And-Promotion-To-Associate letter writing season, a few years ago I compiled a set of materials that I found useful in crafting my letters. They might be useful to you too, perhaps.

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🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car.

They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.

Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.

(🎥 ABC 7 News)

📣🚨 CFP: Neurodiversity Special Issue: A Critical Turn in Neurodiversity Studies: Bridging the Arts, Humanities and the Social Sciences 📣🚨

📝Abstract deadline: 3 August 2025
✉️ Please share widely with arts, humanities and social science networks!

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A Leading Canadian University Makes A Pitch For Top U.S. PhD Students Western University, one of Canada’s leading public research universities, is launching an initiative aimed at luring away PhD students from premier U.S. institutions.

The academic pages of Reddit are full of stories of PhD students whose offers have been rescinded due to pulled NIH funding.

Western is stepping up and offering expedited admissions and excellent funding to these deserving students:

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Dear Friends,

I'm thrilled to launch the Sustainable Education Research Initiative! @EdSustainable 🎓+🌍

Join us for our first #SustainableED webinar aimed at building a network to advance research on climate-smart schools.

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A+ meme-ing here

BREAKING: The Organizers of one of the most successful protests in recent US history, the No Kings protest, have just announced the "Good Trouble Lives On" protest on July 17th

July 17th marks 5 years since the death of John Lewis, who coined the phrase "Good Trouble"

Who's in? 👋

"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City's comptroller, mayoral candidate Brad Lander, has been arrested while visiting an immigration court.

Data Consultants

I've been fortunate to have a network of data freelancers that have been a huge support in my own work.

I've started a list of some of these consultants (in academia, nonprofit, public sector, and industry). If you are looking for help, check out this list!

#databs

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

We’ve truly lost our way in this country.

An 80-year-old vet who fought for this country just got arrested protesting Trump‘s parade. He deserves respect, not handcuffs.

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government.

That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

To report ICE agents in your area or if you need help locating someone in ICE custody, ICIRR has a hotline at 1-855-HELP-MY-FAMILY
(1-855-435-7693)

Friendly reminder that the soft launch of these authoritarian tactics in contemporary times* happened in 2000s Detroit, Flint, New Orleans, and elsewhere.

What Noem is talking about in California's fast tracking what they've been doing for a while.

* - see Wilmington, NC 1898 & elsewhere.

This is fascism—there are no checks & balances if legislators are arrested for questioning a member of the executive branch.

I struggle to understand how to best operate in this reality. I'm making incredible progress in my state, but uprooting this kind of evil feels beyond the scope of my office.

Here is a similar collection for LAPD officers, via @whosthatcop.bsky.social journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...

Making this comment took me 2 minutes.

Simone Biles calls Riley Gaines 'sick' over criticism of transgender athletes Gaines, 25, has become one of the most outspoken critics of transgender girls and women competing in female sports in recent years.

Simone Biles is going head-to-head with one of the most vocal opponents of transgender girls and women competing in female sports, former college swimmer Riley Gaines.

A fed judge in DC today denied a preliminary injunction that 4 ed research organizations had wanted. That means the Education Department doesn't have to rehire all the employees it axed and reinstate contracts while the courts decide whether the Trump admin exceeded its exec authority. (1/7)

90 year old holocaust survivor confronts ICE Director 👏👏👏👏

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Fight or Flight: The Impact of Post-Tenure Evaluations on Faculty Productivity and Selection 30 Pages Posted: 19 May 2025 Simon Quach University of Southern California Zhengyi Yu University of Southern California - Department of Economics Date Written: May 15, 2025 Abstract This paper examines the labor market effects of Florida's 2022 post-tenure review policy, which weakened tenure protections at public universities. Using a differencein-differences approach, we compare faculty outcomes in Florida to nearby states. We find the policy increased faculty exits-particularly among high-performing researchers-indicating a brain drain rather than improved selection. Additionally, we detect no productivity gains among incumbents and observe a decline in the research output of new hires. Overall, the findings suggest that reducing tenure protections negatively affects the research capacity and competitiveness of public universities.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Some more good court news today

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...