#academe — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/02/19/colleges-cut-ties-diversity-groups/. #Racism in the #USA is now "respectable" again, even in the groves of #academe, thanks to Donald #Trump & his anti-DEI #policy. The leaders of these institutions should hang their heads in shame!

I'm preparing a lecture for our #DigitalScholarlyEdition Summer School next week using the 3x3 format (in its shortest version).

I'm feeling so overwhelmed and rusty doing this! I haven't given a proper lecture in years, especially not an interactive one.

Kudos to all of you who teach on a regular basis - this is HARD!

#Teaching #HigherEducation #Lecture #Academe

Resources on Immigration and Travel Safety from the AAUP

AAUP letter to college and university legal offices: Institutions Should Support Students Under Visa Threats with Legal Aid and Housing https://www.aaup.org/news/institutions-should-support-students-under-visa-threats-legal-aid-and-housing

Fact sheet on dealing with ICE on your campus (AAUP general counsel) https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/ICE-Flyer.pdf

Fact sheet on rights and risks for workers who are in the United States on visas (AFT) https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2025/aftmembersonvisas.pdf

Issue brief on immigration-related campus concerns (American Council on Education) https://www.acenet.edu/Documents/Issue-Brief-Immigration-Related-Campus-Concerns-2025.pdf

Know Your Rights flyers (AFL-CIO)
https://aflcio.org/about/programs/adelante-we-rise/immigration-resources/know-your-rights-materials-immigrant-workers

Family Preparedness Plan template (Immigrant Legal Resource Center) https://www.ilrc.org/sites/default/files/resources/family_preparedness_plan.pdf

Immigration legal and digital security resources (AAUP Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom)
https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/CDAF_legal_personal_security_resources_1-pagers.pdf

#AAUP #immigration #Academe #USpol #Academia

Ah yes, a 🏆 riveting tale of academia's finest #legal wordsmiths jousting with the #government, because clearly nothing screams "cutting-edge research" like an #Ivy #League 🔍 scavenger hunt for the perfect lawyer letter. Meanwhile, somewhere in the background, actual #science and education are quietly sobbing in the corner. 🎓📜😅
https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=14556 #academe #drama #battles #research #struggles #HackerNews #ngated

The End of American Higher Education:
Perhaps not a Dark Age but a darker age at least
by Paul Musgrave
Feb 20, 2025

"But the past four weeks—we are just one month into this administration!—have seen a federal government agency illegally vaporized, a strike team responsible to a literal oligarch access our most closely guarded federal systems, and NATO rent limb from limb. What exactly could you think is the ground for optimism? ... At this point, taking a pessimistic view of probable outcomes as the baseline isn’t doomerism—it’s an informed updating of priors."

https://musgrave.substack.com/p/the-end-of-american-higher-education

#Academe #USpol

#Academic #boycott of #Israel is on the rise

From Belgium to Italy, from the United States to the Netherlands, world #academe is turning its back on #Israeli researchers. Refusal to publish articles, cancellation of lectures and freezing of joint research have become widespread in universities around the world, according to new data revealed here for the first time.

https://thepalestineproject.medium.com/academic-boycott-of-israel-is-on-the-rise-632e7b9bc4c0

We have met the #enemy, and he is us.

#GOP #attacks on #academe are following out #Florida's #public #universities

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

https://floridaphoenix.com/2024/08/19/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-is-us/

Surprising to learn that #publisher Taylor & Francis #advertises for #journal editors-in-chief, assoc. #editors, etc. — #service #roles in #academe (= no pay). https://tinyurl.com/4nn4caxb I've yet to see ads for #copyeditors, who require pay, in general-interest #magazines. Curious. #AmEditing

Surprising to learn that #publisher Taylor & Francis #advertises for #journal editors-in-chief, assoc. #editors, etc. — #service #roles in #academe (= no pay). https://tinyurl.com/4nn4caxb I've yet to see ads for #copyeditors, who require pay, in general-interest #magazines. Curious. #AmEditing

Surprising to learn that #publisher Taylor & Francis #advertises for #journal editors-in-chief, assoc. #editors, etc. — #service #roles in #academe (= no pay). https://tinyurl.com/4nn4caxb I've yet to see ads for #copyeditors, who require pay, in general-interest #magazines. Curious. #AmEditing

Surprising to learn that #publisher Taylor & Francis #advertises for #journal editors-in-chief, assoc. #editors, etc. — #service #roles in #academe (= no pay). https://tinyurl.com/4nn4caxb I've yet to see ads for #copyeditors, who require pay, in general-interest #magazines. Curious. #AmEditing

Surprising to learn that #publisher Taylor & Francis #advertises for #journal editors-in-chief, assoc. #editors, etc. — #service #roles in #academe (= no pay). https://tinyurl.com/4nn4caxb I've yet to see ads for #copyeditors, who require pay, in general-interest #magazines. Curious. #AmEditing

Bad Data Are Not Better Than No Data: a guide for radically inserting ourselves in decisions about educational technologies

A new piece in @AAUP’s #Academe by me and @mburtis: https://www.aaup.org/article/bad-data-are-not-better-no-data

It's #Monday, and after a week off work, thanks to #AutumnVacation in Oslo, I have difficulty readjusting to work mode. Since I arrived at my office, I have been in an odd state of confusion. I almost missed a meeting I scheduled with my team and was supposed to lead bc. I had completely forgotten about it and didn't consult my calendar first. Now, I'm task and project hopping, which never leads to anything productive but a lot of stress. A suboptimal start to the week... #Academe #BrainFog

I don’t see how #WestVirginia University ever recovers from these massive cuts to faculty and programs. How will they ever be able to hire good people? https://wvmetronews.com/2023/08/14/wvus-gee-confident-in-tough-decisions/ #HigherEducation #Academe #WVU

#Day10 concludes my summer research leave. I wrote the final blog post on my private website this time, summing up my experiences from the last ten days and the last ten years with a personal story and a statement of commitment to a project which has become a part of me: https://www.annikarockenberger.com/?p=1382 #EthicaComplementoria #DigitalScholarlyEdition #DigitalHumanities #AltAc #Academe #Ethics

#DEI discussions in #academe, #HigherEd, #science focus significantly on '#merit'. Conservatives argue for prioritizing 'objective merit' while the liberals argue for expanding the definition of 'merit'.

Both devalue an individual's capacity.

If 'merit' is was cleanly defined & was consistently enforced, our communities would be more diverse already. People from non-dominant communities are NOT lacking in merit - _the main_ issue is subjective judgments that override objective measurements.

#Day7 finishing with a blog post in minor key about my views on the value of collaboration and communication and the printed study edition of the 1643 #EthicaComplementoria print at Harrassowitz Verlag: https://greflinger.hypotheses.org/681 #BookHistory #DigitalScholarlyEdition #Academe #Demotivation

Katherine McKittrick's Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle recurrently on my mind this morning. I should go back and re-read that, after I get through the pile I have from the #library this month.

#KatherineMcKittrick #DemonicGrounds #SylviaWynter #Cartographies #BlackCanada #NewFrance #AntiColonial #Decolonial #academe #academic @academicchatter

🧵 Starting a #BestOf22 #music thread devoted to the Best Songs of 2022 in arbitrary categories. I’ll try to add one per day. Feel free to add yours!
🎶 Best Song About the State of the Profession:
🎤 The Beths’ “Expert in a Dying Field” #academe #PowerPop
https://youtu.be/-KACt6YhOyY

🧵 Starting a #BestOf22 #music thread devoted to the Best Songs of 2022 in arbitrary categories. I’ll try to add one per day. Feel free to add yours!
🎶 Best Song About the State of the Profession:
🎤 The Beths’ “Expert in a Dying Field” #academe #PowerPop
https://youtu.be/-KACt6YhOyY

🚨 *We're hiring Cyber tenure-track faculty!* 🚨

Our Cyber Operations program is hiring both #tenuretrack and NTT #faculty positions. We're an #NSA and #ODNI center of academic excellence. See job postings. Come work with me!

*Please boost!*

https://azcast.arizona.edu/open-positions

https://cyber-operations.azcast.arizona.edu

#highered #academe #academicjobs #academicmastodon#devops #appliedcomputing #compsci #computerscience #cs #python #rstats #c++ #cloudcomputing #sysadmin #networkops #webdev #hci #cyberops

🚨 *We're hiring adjuct instructors for spring!* 🚨

Applied Computing program in Cyber Operations and Information Intelligence department. We're an #NSA and #ODNI center of academic excellence. PhD preferred, Master's okay. Come work with me!

*Please boost!*

https://azcast.arizona.edu/open-positions

https://appliedcomputing.azcast.arizona.edu

#highered #academe #academicjobs #academicmastodon#devops #appliedcomputing #compsci #computerscience #cs #python #rstats #c++ #cloudcomputing #sysadmin #networkops #webdev #hci #cyberops

I did a long thread on twitter about how I left academe and what I’ve done to make it as freelance. Pretty sure it disappeared into the void. So consider this an open #AMA: it you are considering a jump from #academe or are otherwise thinking of a #writing or #freelance career—drop me a line.