Dani Wenner

I endeavor in my scholarly output to never have somebody provide a laborious exposition of my sloppiness in an appendix to their own writing 🤣

He is delightfully snarky

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Either most universities get shoehorned into the Trump scheme, eliminating the funding advantage, or a subset take the poisoned fruit and are isolated by peers who rightly view this as blood money and cheating.

There is no upside for any university to take the deal.

"a laborious exposition of nozick's expository sloppiness appears as an addendum at the end of this chapter" 💀

Objecting to the scheduling of workshop speakers in alphabetical order on the grounds that I don't wanna go last 😭

jfc I'm so tired Ben

Pfizer Gets Three-Year Reprieve From Trump Pharma Tariffs Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla said the company secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals in a deal that would lower some o...

Pfizer "secured a three-year grace period from President Donald Trump’s promised tariffs on pharmaceuticals" and in return will "sell some drugs at a 50% average discount on a direct-to-consumer website called TrumpRx"

looks like state capitalism to me

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Yeah my point. We seem to be just opening the door wide & welcome for technology that (were it to work as advertised) completely undermines the purpose of being here in the first place. What tf are we doing?!?

Our department chair asked at the last faculty meeting if we wanted someone from our IT group to come explain how we can use AI to help with grading and all my colleagues said "yes" like they really do not care that the end game of this is putting them or (more likely) their students out of work

Yesterday the main quad on campus had a big google gemini tent, giving away big bags of schwag to students and advertising "free student accounts" and just what are we doing here? Are we a university or nah?

Faculty should strike. Shut it all down. We teach from research not the whims of dummies.

I don't believe threads, mastodon, or bsky existed in 2020 so I'm looking at the rest of your thread with rather a lot of skepticism

Autism doesn’t stop at 18. There are plenty of autistic adults that often get left behind during media coverage because the focus is often on moms of autistic children. It’s another way to erase autistic people’s personhood.

When @politico.com says "the autism problem" they don't mean tearing down the ableist barriers that discriminate against and disadvantage autistic people in all facets of American life.

When @politico.com says "the autism problem" they mean the existence of autistic people is the problem.

Analysis | America can’t quit smartphones. Smart glasses won’t help. We keep hoping that a magical technology can liberate us from what we don’t like about technology.

The lie is that glasses are made to liberate you from screens. The purpose of the glasses is to make sure you have no experiences except those mediated through a companies’ technology.

Trump just announced that he always knew more about autism than the experts who‘ve studied it. Obviously, a very stupid, barely literate man with no expertise thinks he knows better than thousands of experts scientists. Not to worry, he has a man whose brain was partially eaten by worms to advise.

Crickets from our central administration, despite the overwhelming number of faculty we have on H1B visas. I can think of at least 5 in my own department!

Amongst the many, many other faults and follies of the party, perhaps the single most dangerous problem with the Democratic Party today is their incessant habit of reinforcing the idea that there is absolutely *no* principle that matters, no policy that is sacrosanct that they will stand behind.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

this may be the last nail in the coffin for US academia. generations of scholars from around the world have strived to get jobs at US unis, which has been a boon for US research and for US students. those scholars will not stay here if they cannot travel home to see their families. why would they?

it was presidency ending stuff, not too long ago. I wouldn't say it "is"

One of the things to be remarked upon about the violence ICE directed at high-profile protesters in Broadview this morning—in full view of major media outlets—is what it says about the ICE violence that is occurring out of plain sight.

In other words: medical AI tools powered by LLMs produce the same epistemic injustice in clinic that women and minority patients already experience

it's almost like these things recreate the same biases they're trained on, I wonder if anyone has considered that before 🤔

Anybody tune into the big press conference tonight that Dem leadership held to thoroughly denounce the fascist rhetoric & actions of the President & Vice President?

(Just kidding, of course they didn’t do that)

one of the reasons these guys are just steamrolling right now is there isn't anyone in any kind of credible leadership role standing up passionately and effectively for civil liberties

Faculty Service Loads and Gender: Are Women Taking Care of the Academic Family? - Research in Higher Education This paper investigates the amount of academic service performed by female versus male faculty. We use 2014 data from a large national survey of faculty at more than 140 institutions as well as 2012 d...

In tenure letters the last few years I've been forcibly struck by how much service the women I'm reviewing are doing compared to the men. (Actual evidence backs this anecdote up - see below.) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

it is! 🤣

Iconic opening lines of philosophy papers:

"Isaiah Berlin was many things but he was not a black political theorist."

The question I try to keep in front of my students' minds is: how do you think the wealthy and powerful people who've developed these tools feel about students using them instead of thinking for themselves, and why?