Are the candidates you support strictly Democrats, or are there any Independents?
I’ve never been in-person, and the times online soured me on participating. I was a grad student SIG officer; my experience was markedly neutral. Even w/ financial support, I couldn’t really justify travel to AERA over other opportunities in Spring or later in the year.
Thank you for linking as a gift article! I hope public higher education institutions join the fight for their students, faculty, workers, and the people they serve. It's so wrong that the U.S. federal government is fighting researchers, teachers, and clinicians who improve the lives of so many.
Here's a teaching tool shared during open-hours for an online instructional learning group at UW. It's a compact outline of (a)synchronous online adaptations of teachers' in-person repertoires. There are plenty of ways to adapt these for disciplinary content.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Ope, someone floated the idea of switching to MS Teams after today’s Zoom outage. It’s been like a few minutes since we would’ve met. Return-to-office/anti-RTO sentiment were invoked. Zoom has been reliable for five years, so some downtime might be okay? Tele-health and higher ed seem most affected.
Tax Day 2025 was strangely eventful. Daredevil Born Again season 1 finale happened, featuring real-world parallels: a taskforce ignores courts and human rights backed by a Kingpin. Gawr Gura announced her graduation, citing disagreement with management. And the NOLA Saints won the fleur-de-lis case⚜️
I stumbled upon a "game jam" reflection from a Fall 2021 class about a training simulator called "Corporate Hiring RPG." You and a team narrow down an applicant pool for deepfake/mock interviews, and you also have to write offer / rejection letters, competing against others to make great teams.
I was hoping Ironbeak Owls would’ve made it since they’ve been silencing minions in Hearthstone since the beginning. In WoW, it seems like they’re just tameable NPCs in Felwood.
A real shame, but expected outcome when a graduate from Columbia University in New York gets moved to a detention center in Louisiana, famously known for its just carceral system and court cases (/s, btw). This is a time for students at universities to speak out. Where are the free speech defenders?
SERU is a good survey to monitor trends across participating research universities. Increased off-campus employment is part of it, but post-pandemic facilities and service costs have rapidly increased. Student union room rental prices went up, so students often meet on Zoom / Discord instead.
Unfortanately, D1 basketball (and other forms of entertainment) and governmental human trafficking are profitable for airlines and charter flight companies. This is very important research that highlights who benefits from exploitation and denial of due process.
Excellent research from students at The Hoya, Georgetown University showing flight data suggesting GU men’s basketball team used same planes to travel for away games that ICE uses to transport detainees & deport migrants — including detained researcher Badar Khan Suri.
thehoya.com/news/inside-...
I hope FL universities respond w/ “No u!” or “No.” If they want someone to locate all of the grey literature from the last 6 years, they can fund graduate assistantships and write out a well-formulated public-facing proposal with rationale, instead of assigning busy work.
"BuT wOn'T sOmEOnE ThInK oF tHE ChILDRen?! I hErd TheY puT ThAt StUFf in HallOwEen CanDy! AnD kiDs Are SMoL sO thEY'll OD."
There are so many ways to address safety and access that have nothing to do with the product, but those are hard, and bans are easy and seen as "decisive action."
That seems reasonable, but I think it depends on field, number of authors / their contributions. Open peer review post-publication could be interesting, too. Grad/undergrad student authors on large collaborative works should get credit, but probably shouldn't be obligated to review in the same way.
There are enough fields and journals for lots of experimentation. I like the idea of giving reviewers choice, and the negatives listed in the article are still present in current peer review. Publishers would want to know impacts to their bottomline and researchers would want to see changes in IF.
As a Tulane/LSU alum w/ a dissertation on Louisiana high school students' transition to college, this could have mixed results w/ an upside for smaller universities to stabilize enrollments and develop first-year retention programs. Many who qualify for TOPS Honors now choose other states.
I'm late to this one, but it's got a bump on Reddit. It is so painful that 3 R state senators have put forth legislation to ban fluoridated water across Louisiana. It was prefiled as SB2. This was their top priority: to push anti-science and anti-health legislation.
legiscan.com/LA/bill/SB2/...
He has concepts of a plan, using the Project 2025 playbook to mess w/ our groceries.
He is also doing everything to destroy our research infrastructure, our climate, and our neighbors’ families.
You’ve done a lot as a senior senator, but this time is different from 2016-2020. Continue fighting.
The tenure clock and voting procedures can always be adjusted, and teaching/service should be valued more alongside research. But tenure protections seems irreplaceable for academic freedom. Restructuring around one boss just seems like giving too much power to a deanlet / ass.dean.
What should faculty do to create a more collegial atmosphere around hiring, tenure, and promotion? Alternatives in other sectors wouldn’t work, and holistic reviews introduce many other biases (student evals, dean / provostial budget perspectives, political approvals at public schools).
No. Currently, 3 votes on a 5 person board would be the majority, but those same 3 votes could be outnumbered w/ help from unelected members. The people of LA gain zero representation this way. People want reliable utilities; adding 2 unelected LPSC members doesn’t improve anything.
Young adults and those starting families probably do a first pass when it comes to affordability, and then compare places to live on a tier list. Safety is a factor, and I would imagine this weighs differently for different groups. I’m personally more scared of cars at night than random crime.
Countering bad faith arguments is so exhausting. Vague claims like “It diSrUpTs tEh leaRnIng enVironment” or “BuT muh NatIoNaL sEcuRitY” are spewed out when there is no defensible response. Suspiciously, these only come up when some groups protest, but never when others rally around hate.
Landry is so conditioned for failure. Rather than making good changes to the budget, he gambled on changing the LA Constitution w/ low voter turnout, then blamed voters / Soros / Wall Street banks for his policy failures. The children he claims to support would say he has a “skill issue.”
Balancing is hard. Allowing colleges to increase tuition affects out-of-state and international student enrollments. Higher education institutions of all sizes need to reduce costs of facilities and maintenance and re-balance teaching loads w/o cutting staffing for student support services.
This news was the worst kind to wake up to on New Year's Day. Making Bourbon Street safer by making it pedestrian-only just means the rest of the French Quarter needs access to reliable public transit options. Everyone will still go to Bourbon Street, they just won't drive through it. Win-win.
A more updated picture, I swear I have University of Washington on here guys, don't worry. That's home.
Nobody wants tokenism to become an institutional value. The vast majority of students just want effective teachers and mentors. When programs attract students, faculty, and admin from different backgrounds there's still intellectual diversity w/ shared values. Informed civil debate still happens.
It's so true that these games save great art for playable cards. Both Geomagus Roogug and Nightbane, Ignited stand out on crowded Hearthstone Battlegrounds boards on desktop and mobile. It really helps gameplay a whole lot, too. Thanks for the artwork!
