Lisa Covert

Stolen gods and ancestors? Looting and repatriation in Mexico YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

Livestreaming in 90 minutes with Dr Hilary Leathem @morganvl.bsky.social. We'll discuss issues with heritage - looting, repatriation, and soveignty - in Mexico, specifically Mitla. Should be an interesting one.
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#OtD 4 Aug 2016 Dwayne Stafford attacked an accused white supremacist church-mass murderer at the Charleston County jail, telling an NBC reporter, “I beat Dylann Roof’s ass.” After the attack, donors helped raise money to pay his bail and get out.

And the thing is, this isn't hypothetical. We got a taste of how crucial our campuses are to local economies with the pandemic shutdowns. There is a reason there was such a backlash and call to reopen.

A good reminder to go into my
next dr appt prepared to ask questions and demand answers

The other thing about it is IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT THE BEST USE CASE SCENARIOS ARE. STUDENTS ARE USING IT TO CHEAT AND NOT LEARN ANYTHING. HOW YOU INTEND FOR A PRODUCT TO BE USE DOESN'T ALWAYS MATTER

More ambulances leaving Alligator Alcatraz. One at 10:30 am today and the other at 6:30 pm. Another at 11:57 pm last night, 6:10 pm on July 31st. Florida Department of Emergency Management, which operates the site, refuses to confirm hospitalizations but they are happening.

"faculty governance" is window dressing that offers a facade of consent. A committee with more deans than professors and a charge that assumes the outcome is just a pointless exercise

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.

I hope that faculty across the country read this report from the AAUP on AI & the Academic Professions, share it with their university administrators,& collectivize to create communities that use this document as a roadmap towards gaining agency over higher education. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Nothing much to see here, just an orderly winding down of the American project

Autobiographies and books on slavery at risk for removal from Charleston historical site gift shops National Park Service staff marked 10 books sold at gift shops in the Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie and Charles Pinckney historic sites for content review.

You absolutely cannot tell an accurate story of Charleston history without discussing slavery. Go back and look at any old newspaper from the time and you’ll see it was foundational to virtually everything.

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Authoritarians are attacking universities. Here's how it's going at one public school. I'm publicly documenting an event timeline to help bring order to the chaotic nature of events and help other schools plan the responses they are likely going to need.

To document and make sense of the executive overreach at her university, @jenvictor.bsky.social provides a timeline of key events. Transparency is the best disinfectant.
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President Trump, and other patriot donors, have generously committed to donating the funds necessary to build this approximately $200 million dollar structure

So ... Columbia is paying for it?

An Agreement That Settles Nothing BY THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CHAPTER OF THE AAUP The Agreement between the federal government and Columbia University announced on July 24, 2025, has been presented as a settlement of Title VI violat…

"In the absence of strong and principled leadership from Columbia’s Board of Trustees and Acting President, it falls to the faculty, above all, to defend the values and norms that have defined the university and allowed it to flourish." academeblog.org/2025/07/29/a...

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

“Nationally, 47 percent of instructional higher education faculty work on a part-time, contingent basis, often facing low pay with little or no benefits or job security.”

Adjunct faculty deserve fair loans and debt relief! This legislation—which AAUP endorses—gets us closer to this aspiration.

DOJ Investigation into George Mason Faculty Senate Sparks Academic Freedom Concerns AAUP President calls federal probe "gross misuse of power" as university faces fifth inquiry in five weeks.

“If the DOJ can investigate faculty governance bodies for citing a university's own strategic plan, then no campus is safe.

"Let's call this what it is: a gross misuse of federal power to chill speech, silence faculty, & undermine shared governance.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

It is an extraordinary loss of intellectual expertise that the American people invested millions in developing

Every scientist who earns a graduate degree in the US is the product of an investment by the public

This is like setting money on fire

Past ‘The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death "In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, told HuffPost.

www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

HAPPENING NOW: a group of New York rabbis are being arrested at a protest outside the Israeli consulate calling for bringing food into Gaza, an end to the war, and return of all hostages

@newjewishnarrative.bsky.social

Summer Institute leans into organizing as resistance AFT higher education workers crowded the halls of Morehouse College in Atlanta July 17-20 for the annual American Association of University Professors/AFT Summer Institute, a four-day intensive of wor...

AFT higher education workers crowded the halls of Morehouse College July 17-20 for the @aaup.org/AFT Summer Institute, a four-day intensive of workshops and plenaries that addressed the monumental challenges higher education is facing.

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

Nearly 6 billion people live in the 101 countries that a new study has identified as confronting a net decline in water supply — signaling enormous challenges for food production and a heightening risk of conflict and instability.

By @abrahm.bsky.social, w/ graphics by @lucaswaldron.bsky.social

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...

World Central Kitchen @wck.org has also been able to reopen kitchens in Gaza this week. Learn more and donate here:
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All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Your Guide on How to Support Mutual Aid Groups in Palestine as Humanitarian Crisis Deepens As we speak, up to two million people in Gaza are being threatened with starvation, as the state of Israel, backed by the US government, continues to blockade humanitarian aid into Gaza, attack basic ...

Two million people are being threatened with forced starvation in #Palestine, as the US government continues to support ongoing ethnic-cleansing.

We've created a list of on-the-ground mutual aid groups in #Gaza that you can support, amplify, and follow. itsgoingdown.org/your-guide-o...

World Central Kitchen | WCK Resumes Limited Hot Meal Service in Gaza After 5-Day Pause After a five day pause, limited cooking operations resumed today at World Central Kitchen's Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza.  This marks the second time in 2025 our hot meal program has been force...

World Central Kitchen says that after a five day pause due to limited supplies, limited cooking operations resumed today at its Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen in Gaza: wck.org/news/gaza-up...

The Prime Directive Over a decade ago, at the height of the MOOC madness, many people crowed excitedly about "the end of college" – not because the various technologies they believed would enable this were any good (by "...

"Honestly, I just want one school – one! – to step up and say "no" to the ed-tech and AI vultures. I want one school to say "we trust our professors. We trust our students." 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-prime-di...

"The Mellon Foundation is no longer a source of funding for our applicants; neither is the Ford Foundation. The U.S. Fulbright program, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, and other grantors are facing draconian cuts, restrictions or elimination."