Karl Jacoby

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Indoctrination isn’t happening at UT, despite what regents say UT professor argues claims of widespread campus indoctrination are unfounded, citing research showing students feel free to think independently.

Please share widely. I want everyone to know the truth about what’s happening at UT Austin. Faculty aren’t brainwashing anyone!

It’s unnerving for sure

The EPA issued reduction-in-force notices to 22 employees working on environmental justice efforts to address pollution in overburdened and underserved communities.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Not sure if we have learned that much in the intervening century and a half

Surviving on Trump's Dangerous Planet Yet another war, and yet another argument for an end to oil

According to The Economist, Cuba’s imports of Chinese solar panels grew by a factor of 34 last year, faster than anywhere else in the world

They're trying to prepare for the inevitable next attack from Trump
billmckibben.substack.com/p/surviving-...

This logic played a substantial role in the US-Mexico War of 1846-8: the US imagined it was “liberating” Mexico from despotism and could not understand the opposition of the Mexican people to their invasion

The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"In my view, by conferring this title [president emeritus] on Summers, Harvard is signaling that powerful men can outlast gross misconduct with their honorifics intact." - Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, economist and prof of labour studies at Rutgers.
#academicsky

If it is "war," the Constitution is clear: only Congress has that power.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee (@mariemyungoklee) why can i not write as fast as my peers? maybe because I spent the day 1. bringing my autistic kid to his therapy and then 2. driving him up to the cannabis dispensary where we are selling our very ow...

"Why can i not write as fast as my peers?"

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Welp.

From last week’s @washingtonpost.com:

This aged well. Note the author.

Yeeesssss!!!! (This will always be the defining image for me of the “evidence” against Columbia students)

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Call for Submissions - Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” We wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment a...

Succession IV is here!!

Call for Submissions – Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy”
Editors: @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, @tinaadcock.bsky.social, and Sarah York-Bertram
Get your proposals in by March 28th.

niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

#envhist #envhum #queerecology #queer

"These faculty were terminated without the required process, without meaningful notice, and without the protections that tenure and university policy are supposed to guarantee.”

—Chenjerai Kumanyika, AAUP Council Member

@chenjerai.bsky.social

Here’s the link to Martha Jones and Kate Masur’s powerful amicus brief which leaves no doubt: Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is unconstitutional

www.brennancenter.org/media/15301/...

ICE agents misrepresented themselves to arrest a student at Columbia, lawyers say Columbia University says federal immigration agents entered a residence hall under the guise of searching for a missing person and then arrested Ellie Aghayeva, a student from Azerbaijan.

Columbia University says federal immigration agents entered a residence hall under the guise of searching for a missing person and then arrested Ellie Aghayeva, a student from Azerbaijan. n.pr/3OAlkhD

Detained Columbia student released after Mamdani talks with Trump Ellie Aghayeva confirms freedom hours after Department of Homeland security agents access residence hall

Kidnapped Columbia student released after Mamdani talks with Trump

Ellie Aghayeva confirms freedom hours after Department of Homeland security agents lied their way into residence hall and kidnapped a young lady www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Columbia Student Arrested by ICE in a University Building Is Released

Estudiante de Columbia arrestada por ICE en edificio universitario es liberada

funcionarios federales se habían tergiversado para obtener acceso, según la universidad. Zohran Mamdani dijo que el presidente Trump le había dicho que el estudiante sería dejado ir.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

Columbia University students protest ICE arrest at university housing Protesters gathered at Columbia University after Department of Homeland Security agents detained a student on campus.

🚨BREAKING: Columbia University students protest ICE arrest at university housing

ICE jails Columbia student, then immediately releases her amid public backlash Federal officers entered the student’s dorm claiming to be searching for a “missing person,” the Ivy League college said Thursday.

ICE jails Columbia student, then immediately releases her amid public backlash

Federal officers entered the student’s dorm claiming to be searching for a “missing person,” the Ivy League college said Thursday. www.courthousenews.com/ice-jails-co...

ICE releases Columbia student hours after Mamdani urged Trump to set her free Federal agents ‘misrepresented’ themselves to get inside Ellie Aghayeva’s residential building, school officials say

Trump listens to new pal Mamdani and has Columbia student freed after ICE took her from campus
Federal agents ‘misrepresented’ themselves to get inside Ellie Aghayeva’s residential building, school officials say

“The agents gained entry by stating they were police searching for a missing child.” Message from Claire Shipman, Columbia’s Acting President, to the Columbia community, sent a few minutes ago.

Latest update from Columbia prez re: the abduction of their student this morning. DHS is fucking deranged.

“The agents gained entry by stating they were police searching for a missing child. Our security cameras captured the agents in the hallway showing pictures of the alleged missing child.”

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

Analysis of crash data shows that you're 17 times more likely to die in a vehicle fire if you buy Elon Musk's Tesla Cyber truck than if you had bought a Ford Pinto, the 1970s era car infamous for gas tank explosions in rear end collisions.

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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

"He cannot use a phone. He doesn’t know his address, he doesn’t know phone numbers, he can’t communicate, he can’t see. And they just left him.”