Jeremy Saks

Can a University Transform Itself This Fast? At Old Dominion, a move to accelerate courses has divided the campus.

Whenever someone asked how my fall was going, I would tell them this story.

Everything I said to @chronicle.com was what I told them: change this fast cannot account for the lived reality of faculty and students across diverse programs.

College administrators all over the US today:

"... If Indiana can do it...

Get me my athletic director and biggest donor on the phone! STAT!"

What kind of world do we live in where the FIFA Peace Prize is so meaningless? /s

It appears to be a little bit more than that: www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

So sermons are a part of the newspaper now?

Ain't much, but it is honest work

Groypers, Helldivers 2, Furries: What Do the Messages Left by Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Killer Actually Mean? Suspect Tyler Robinson allegedly inscribed messages on bullet casings that reference video games and internet culture—but they hardly point toward a coherent ideology.

The first story I've seen from legacy media that actually attempts to discuss the groyper connection www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Now I'm googling "groyper"

If there's any support I can offer, I'm happy to help.

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Submitted my tenure portfolio a couple days ago.

So now we have to rework every course to work in half the time?

Nonsense

Google AI Overviews Says It's Still 2024 When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.”

www.wired.com/story/google... Google AI Overviews Says It's Still 2024 | WIRED

Something, something peanut farm

Cancelled my Washington Post today, definitely feel conflicted but I can't support what Bezos is doing.

The Superbowl outcome

"don't be evil"

I reset my Instagram algorithm and the first picture I clicked on in my discover page was of a Pallas cat. Now every time I look on the discover page, it shows pictures of Pallas cats. I suggest it.

What a quote

LATEST: An abrupt freeze on nearly all federal grants and loans announced by President Trump's administration has created widespread confusion across the government.

Here's what we know on what federal agencies have been told: nbcnews.to/4hfe0Bq

This scraping tool has been incredibly useful in collecting data and I've only been using it for a day: easyscraper.com

On the value of Twitter, btw - We had similar traffic from Bluesky, where the FT has 300 thousand followers, to what came from Twitter, where we supposedly have 6 million.