Louise Freeman Davis

Fmr. UVA Pres. Ryan’s letter: “...the Governor knew what was happening and suggested I needed to resign. What did the Governor know, when did he know it, and what—if anything—did he do to try to either secure my resignation or prevent it?” bluevirginia.us/2025/11/in-r... h/t @katrinacallsen.com

The resistance to Trump’s “loyalty oath” compact is growing and growing!

✅MIT
✅Penn
✅Brown
✅UVa
✅Dartmouth
✅USC
✅Arizona

🟩 Vanderbilt
🟩 Texas

Organized faculty and workers in higher ed will lead us to victory and towards a better world for our students!

#NoLoyaltyOaths
#NoKings
#DefendHigherEd

I’m at a conference tomorrow, but I’m wearing this shirt in support.

Hardcover book Malfoy: The Fall and the Fate of the Wizarding World's Most Treacherous Family by Irvin Khaytman.

Yesterday was the happy book birthday for MALFOY by @darklordofdance.bsky.social ! In case Malfoys happen to be on your mind, for some reason!

I had chicken pox in 1983 and 1987. I wish we had the vaccine. And the hpv vaccine would have helped too.

Today is the day!! My #Malfoy book is now out in the world! It's already been spotted in the wild a couple times. (If you do spot it, btw, we love to see it!)
I guess all that's left to say is... happy reading!

UNIVERSITIES = CORPORATE BUREAUCRACIES

📈 Admin salaries rise
📉 Teaching budgets shrink
🎓 Students pay the price

If universities really valued education, why does admin expansion outpace faculty hiring?

🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #HigherEd #PhDChat

Take note.

NIH grant terminations under Trump have totaled at least $1.8 billion, analysis finds Researchers calculated that $1.8 billion in National Institutes of Health grants were terminated in just over one month

In the short run, loss of America’s appeal to scientists around the world. In the medium term, economic depression. In the long term, the US reverses its development.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/08/t...

"Who cooks for you?" Barred owl.

‘We Have More Athletes Than We Have Fans’ Many small colleges have invested in sports to boost enrollment. What happens when it doesn’t work?

The problem for Lourdes University, and many other small, private colleges, is that athletics has done little or nothing to attract students who don’t play sports. chroni.cl/3XXX4YI

I wonder what Martha Stewart would say about all the insider trading going on at the White House.

Comic of a support group consisting of Bigfoot, a leprechaun, a mermaid, and a pink unicorn. On a chair next to the mermaid is a small vile of syrem. She points to it and says, "I'd like everyone to welcome our newest member to the group, the vaccine that causes autism."

RFK Jr. has hired anti-vaccine activist David Geier to lead a study looking to link autism to vaccines, although that link has been heavily studied and thoroughly debunked. Geier does not have a medical degree & was disciplined in Maryland for practicing medicine without a license.
M(aking)AGA

UNIVERSITIES = CORPORATIONS

Students = Revenue
Adjuncts = Disposable Labor
Admin = Profit-Driven Executives

The only ones thriving are the ones in power.

🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾‍🔬 👩🏼‍🔬 👩🏾‍🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd

Tariffs on their own do not create more American jobs or lead to more US production. In fact, Trump's last trade war cost roughly 300,000 jobs. All these tariffs will do is give corporations cover to jack up prices and pad their profits at our expense.

Is it a peace process? (short video) Five quick tests for the US in a two-minute video

snyder.substack.com/p/is-it-a-pe...

Another strong woman speaks
the TRUTH…

Legendary former NIH director retires from embattled agency Dr. Francis Collins is leaving the National Institutes of Health, where he served as director from 2009 to 2021. The agency is facing cutbacks and restrictions under the Trump administration.

Dr. Francis Collins, legendary former NIH director, retires

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

SBN rebukes the significant curtailments of facts, research, and academic freedom and their effect of rolling back decades of progress championed by members of our scientific society.

SBN stands with these members of our community and will continue in our support of women scientists, LGBTQIA2S+ scientists, scientists of color, immigrant scientists, and all intersections therein and beyond.

All our members already received this, but to speak more broadly:

SBN condemns current attacks on members of our scientific community, on evidence-based scientific practice, and on academic research as a whole.

Hi, BlueSky! We are trying to be more active on here. If any SBN members are out there who are interested in joining the social media committee, please drop us a line!

🚨⚡️ Our second book "The Phoenix or the Flame: Essays on J.K. Rowling's original plans for The Order of the Phoenix" is out!

Amazon (USA): www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Flam...
Amazon (UK): www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Flam...
Barnes & Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-phoeni...

More bookstores to follow!

photo from President Jimmy Carter’s funeral showing many dignitaries but hiding the tangerine tyrant behind a pillar

this choice of photos by the Carter Center is shadier than a Georgia peach tree in summer

There's a date! Feb 24th, The Phoenix or the Flame will be available for everyone to read! Can't wait for folks to read all the essays within - I presented mine at CONjuration in November, and more excited than ever to share it with HP fans.