This kind of thought policing goes against every precept of academic freedom. If you’re in #highered, join us at standtogetherhighered.org. We are nonpartisan and free—an we are building campus-level teams to protect our shared mission of serving the public good.
22.01.2026 18:05 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Stand Together
Please, please, please report on this ongoing Texas A&M censorship, Mr. Hayes. Many of us in higher ed are fighting to defend academic freedom and free inquiry. (Thank you for your show and podcast--essential viewing and listening for me.) www.standtogetherhighered.org
07.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
OK, Bluesky academics: what can we do to expose and push back against this Orwellian effort to control the freedom to learn and to teach? Seriously. What Texas A&M is doing matters for all of us and all of our students and all in our society.
07.01.2026 14:07 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
"This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty, staff and students,"
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine.
#DefendHigherEd
15.11.2025 15:29 — 👍 85 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 8
THIS is what we face in higher ed. Join us at Stand Together for Higher Ed—a grassroots movement of faculty and staff at universities and colleges across the US. We are building the resistance and renewal infrastructure we need in these dangerous times. Join! It’s free. standtogetherhighered.org
15.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jamelle Bouie always writes from a pro-democracy position. If only the NYT as a whole would begin a Democracy Desk to do this, too: track and make visible how the consolidation of authoritarian power in US is happening. What news outlets do you think are doing this well?
15.11.2025 12:19 — 👍 18 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Faculty and staff cannot allow our college/university leaders to make these odious side deals with the federal govt. Please join us at Stand Together for Higher Ed: www.standtogetherhighered.org. It’s free. And we’re building collective power to stand together against this madness.
25.10.2025 12:13 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
❤️ this! You’ve met confidence intervals before — in polls:
“Candidate A 52% ± 3%.”
That ± 3% is the ring: we’re 95% sure the real number’s somewhere inside it.
Polls dance round and suppose.
The truth sits in the middle and declines comment.
#statssky #polling #academicsky
25.10.2025 11:58 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Robert Frost was certainly more familiar with iambic pentameter
than he was with estimated parameters, but in 1942 he wrote a couplet that sounds very much like a poet's perception of a confidence interval: #statistics #statssky #academicsky
24.10.2025 16:11 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Meet our new scholar-mentor pair: Laurie & Michael!
Laurie is studying Biology at UMass Boston. She’ll be supported by Michael, a graduate student at UMass Boston pursuing his Master’s in Molecular Biology.
#AcademicSky #MentorshipMatters #HigherEd #StudentSuccess #EduSky #BostonNonProfit
24.10.2025 18:04 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Upcoming Brainstorming Sessions
Monday, Nov. 10, 3pm ET
Thursday, Nov. 13, 11am ET
Stand Together for Higher Ed
📣 STHE wants to hear from you! Join us for one of our upcoming brainstorming sessions focused on how to respond to the White House compact. We would love to hear your thoughts and feelings on how our community should be responding. Register at buff.ly/R9VHdrm
#AcademicSky #Academia
20.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
"The strength of American higher education lies in our collective commitment to truth, freedom, and excellence. The response must be unified and unequivocal: Universities will defend American freedom. They will protect each other."
Many institutions, organizations, & individuals are standing together to say NO to the White House Compact. Faculty fellows at leading Institutes for Advanced Studies are adding their voice to the choir with a new open letter:
#AcademicSky #Academia
20.10.2025 12:27 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
So UVA rejects the Compact but still makes an odious side deal. We invite all UVA faculty and staff to join Stand Together for Higher Ed. It’s free, and we’re building community and strategies to stop this madness www.standtogetherhighered.org
23.10.2025 11:22 — 👍 190 🔁 70 💬 2 📌 2
#academicsky, particularly #Purdue, should you happen to be visiting #Boston for any reason in the near future, here's a little something you might consider doing on any Wednesday. #StandUpForScience.
22.10.2025 23:01 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
🙌 Yes, this. The people, the lives, the health of our planet, the pursuit of just and fair outcomes and human rights and a better world. Legal storytelling helps us understand what is and imagine a better way. ❤️
23.10.2025 00:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Three professionals smiling in an office setting, from left to right: a person wearing a gray blazer, a person in a blue dress, and a person in a pink blazer. They are standing in front of a geometrically patterned backdrop.
Researchers at Duke Cancer Institute are looking at obesity's impact on breast cancer and whether GLP-1 drugs might help jump-start a more robust immune response.
🔗 Read more: https://medschool.duke.edu/stories/obesity-weakens-cancer-immunity-can-glp-1-drugs-turn-it-back
#AcademicSky #MedSky
22.10.2025 19:39 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
At a moment when higher ed as a pillar of democracy is under political attack in the US, we cannot allow college and university leaders to try to control the student press or any kind of student expression. www.standtogetherhighered.org
17.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thoughts and prayers for Donald J Trump
10.10.2025 10:47 — 👍 2078 🔁 270 💬 118 📌 8
Defending Our Campuses and Communities
The AFT and the AAUP are working with allies in higher education and the labor movement to defend and advance higher education that is accessible and affordable for all who want it, and to protect the...
Please repost: Sign this petition against university loyalty oaths. Then if you are faculty/staff at a US university, join Stand Together for Higher Ed (it's free!) at www.standtogehterhighered.org. We are doing great things together to defend and renew higher ed. www.defendingourcampuses.org
09.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stand Together
And then, if you are faculty or staff at a US college or university, please join our movement to defend and renew higher education. It's free, and we're doing great things. www.standtogetherhighered.org We need you, and we think you need us! Let's Stand Together
09.10.2025 12:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Pentagon press gears up for a fight.
“None of us are signing this pledge,” said one reporter.
"It’s not the journalists’ burden to keep the government’s secrets for it," @seth-stern.bsky.social told @columjournreview.bsky.social. "That is the opposite of the press’s job, which is to tell the public what the government doesn’t want the public told."
05.10.2025 00:10 — 👍 435 🔁 178 💬 11 📌 5
Yes to all of this! Stand Together for Higher Ed is building a resistance strategy. Faculty and staff across US higher education: please join! It's free and we must all stand together. www.standtogetherhighered.org
02.10.2025 16:32 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Please join Stand Together for Higher Ed if you are faculty or staff at these institutions--or any other higher ed institution in the US. We are building a campaign to resist. Joining is free. www.standtogetherhighered.org
02.10.2025 16:31 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
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Assistant Professor of Sociology at UNC-Wilmington / author of Reimagining Aid: Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia / husky mom
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Professor person. Environments, technologies, and racial capitalism. New book: DEMOLISHING DETROIT: HOW STRUCTURAL RACISM ENDURES (Stanford UP, 2025). My words, not my employer’s. For more: nickcaverly.com
Law professor at W&L teaching IP, property, election law and remedies. Husband of @elyons822. Childhood cancer dad.🎗️Pro-public education. All opinions my own.
Writer. Professor. Golden retriever papa. Bylines in Guardian, Slate, TNR, many other places. Supervises VQR. Wrote a pile of books you might like.
Infodemiologist | Associate Professor | 🇲🇽🇺🇸 | Wife | Momx3 | 🐈⬛ Lover. I study media, inequality, & health especially re: food & nutrition. #healthcommunication #foodstudies #foodpolicy #AcademicSky #CommSky #CDoH
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Professional sourpuss with a heart of gold. Research identity, culture, and politics. Author of Black Elephants in the Room. http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520291904
Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Professor, @WoodsonUVA Alice Griffin Professor of English, University of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
eighteenth-century scholar in Heatstroke, TX. let's see how this goes.
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Political theorist studying democracy, ethics, & institutions. Author of Democracy for Busy People (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo194847654.html); more at kevinjelliott.net. Generally poasting my way through this thing
