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  1. Ugh. The timing of the #Penn data release decision during Passover just hit me.

  2. The [formerly] “Equal” Employment Opportunity Commission [#EEOC] has been pursuing an inquiry into potential workplace #discrimination against #Jewish faculty & staff at #Penn, a #school in Philadelphia, since 2023. While #university officials said they welcomed the investigation, they balked last year after the government issued a subpoena seeking names & phone numbers for members of #Jewish groups on campus.

    #Trump #law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment

  3. Judge Gerald J. Pappert of the US District Court in Philadelphia issued the decision, which largely sided with the #government, writing that #Penn’s “constitutional claims are easily dispensed with.”

    He gave #Penn until May 1 to comply with the subpoena, though he said that the #university would not have to reveal any employee’s connection to a specific #Jewish-related organization.

    #Trump #law #AcademicFreedom #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #dissent #RightToProtest

  4. Crazy. It’s not like there’s scary precedent for this or anything‼️

    Federal Judge Approves #Trump Effort to Extract #List of #Jews From #Penn

    The decision to allow the #government to collect the names & phone numbers of #Jewish people on campus could allow the government to pursue similar tactics elsewhere.

    #law #Holocaust #EthnicCleansing
    nytimes.com/2026/03/31/us/poli

  5. Thank you to the #Penn Memory Center for hosting #AgeofAging & this episode on ambiguous loss. We discussed the experiences of my father's early-onset #Alzheimer's & my attempt to put into words my love & #grief for what he was going through. W/gratitude to the #PennMemoryCenter and, as always, to #neurologist Dr. Bruce Miller of #UCSF's #MemoryandAgingCenter for writing w/me our dual #memoir, Finding the Right Words: A Story of Literature, Grief, & the# Brain.

    podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

  6. #Yale Offers #FreeTuition to Families With Incomes Under $200,000

    Other costs would also be waived for #students whose families earn less than $100,000. Yale joins other elite #schools offering more generous #FinancialAid, including #Penn, #Harvard & #MIT.

    #education
    nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/yale

  7. 🤖⚡ Researchers at #Penn and University of #Michigan created fully #autonomous microbots smaller than salt grains that cost just one penny each to manufacture.

    The #solar-powered #robots use electrical fields for propulsion and communicate their temperature measurements through "wiggle dances" similar to honey bee communication.

    👉 popsci.com/technology/dancing-

    #robotics #technology #tech #engineering #science

  8. #Penn State Head Coach Hot Board Version 2.0:
    1. Bill Belichick

  9. Here's a non-paywalled copy (via the Washington Examiner) of the White House's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education", which they have sent to #Penn and some other institutions, proposing they acquiesce to it lest they "forego federal benefits": washingtonexaminer.com/wp-cont. #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd

  10. Trump tries bribery.

    "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference."
    nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/poli

    "The White House on Wednesday sent letters to nine of the nation’s top public and private universities, urging campus leaders to pledge support for President Trump’s political agenda to help ensure access to federal research funds."

    #Arizona, #Brown, #Dartmouth, #MIT, #Penn, #USC, #Texas, #Vanderbilt, #Virginia

    #Academia #AcademicMastodon #Censorship #DefendResearch #Funding #Takedowns #Trump #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics

  11. "As much as Wax would like otherwise, this case is not a First Amendment case. It is a discrimination case brought under federal antidiscrimination laws. It calls for us to determine whether offensive comments directed at racial minorities are protected by those laws. ...[But] the anti-discrimination statutes protect speakers, not speech."

    Full text of federal judge Savage's opinion in his dismissal of Prof. Wax's discrimination claims against #Penn: storage.courtlistener.com/reca

  12. № 16 Garvin Collins then a Sophomore from Bristol, IN scores a run for Penn's Quakers on April 13, 2025 at Cornell's Booth Field -- Penn won all three games in the series that weekend against the Big Red

    #photo #photography #sports #baseball #portrait #cornell #gobigred #boothfield #penn

  13. Just now, I read this statement from Sophie De Schaepdrijver, professor European History at Pennsylvania State University.

    "And to think that in the US people thought "woke" was the big problem. Because woke was canceling! Woke was threatening freedom of speech! Oh dear, the downfall of the West!

    But woke doesn't have armed police. Woke never arrested anyone. Woke never made anyone disappear into an ICE detention center."

    #USA #Woke #ICE #Schaepdrijver #Penn

  14. Cornell baseball players in the dugout during an April 13, 2025 game against Penn

    #cornell #sports #ithaca #baseball #penn #bigred #gobigred

  15. Pitcher No 23 Marty Coyne from when they played Cornell at Booth Field on April 13 this year

    #photo #photography #sports #portrait #baseball #cornell #bigred #penn

  16. About halfway through my April 13 photos and calling it a night; Penn Nº 5 Ryan Taylor bounces the ball so Nº 16 Gavin Collins can bring it home past catcher Nº 19 Mark Quatrani -- can't stress too much how much fun it is to catch a game at Booth Field!

    #photo #photography #cornell #penn #baseball #sports #ithaca

  17. 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘆: 𝗺𝗶𝗷𝗻 𝘇𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀

    Veel mensen denken al jaren dat Penn Badgleys zoon James heet, maar dat klopt helemaal niet. De verkeerde naam staat al jaren op Wikipedia, verklapte de Gossip Girl-acteur in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55072

    #Penn #Badgley #zoon

  18. 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘆: 𝗺𝗶𝗷𝗻 𝘇𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀

    Veel mensen denken al jaren dat Penn Badgleys zoon James heet, maar dat klopt helemaal niet. De verkeerde naam staat al jaren op Wikipedia, verklapte de Gossip Girl-acteur in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55072

    #Penn #Badgley #zoon

  19. 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘆: 𝗺𝗶𝗷𝗻 𝘇𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀

    Veel mensen denken al jaren dat Penn Badgleys zoon James heet, maar dat klopt helemaal niet. De verkeerde naam staat al jaren op Wikipedia, verklapte de Gossip Girl-acteur in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55072

    #Penn #Badgley #zoon

  20. 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘆: 𝗺𝗶𝗷𝗻 𝘇𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀

    Veel mensen denken al jaren dat Penn Badgleys zoon James heet, maar dat klopt helemaal niet. De verkeerde naam staat al jaren op Wikipedia, verklapte de Gossip Girl-acteur in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55072

    #Penn #Badgley #zoon

  21. 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗱𝗴𝗹𝗲𝘆: 𝗺𝗶𝗷𝗻 𝘇𝗼𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗮𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀

    Veel mensen denken al jaren dat Penn Badgleys zoon James heet, maar dat klopt helemaal niet. De verkeerde naam staat al jaren op Wikipedia, verklapte de Gossip Girl-acteur in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55072

    #Penn #Badgley #zoon

  22. Penn Badgley shares rare insight on playing serial killer in 'You'

    Penn Badgley plays serial killer Joe Goldberg in Netflix hit show You, which has come to an end with its fifth and final season. #Penn #Badgley #shares #rare #insight #playing #serial #killer #039You039

    10bmnews.com/2025/04/penn-badg

  23. alojapan.com/1224717/reigning- Reigning World Champ Masanosuke Ono of Japan commits to Penn State Wrestling #black #Champ #commits #diaries #FrontPage #Japan #JapanNews #masanosuke #news #of #Ono #penn #PennStateWrestling #reigning #shoe #state #to #world #wrestling Hardly 36 hours after posterizing the NCAA tournament record books, Penn State Wrestling picked up one of the most both unlikely and impressive recruiting commitments imaginable. A 20 year old Masanosuke Ono wa…

  24. alojapan.com/1224717/reigning- Reigning World Champ Masanosuke Ono of Japan commits to Penn State Wrestling #black #Champ #commits #diaries #FrontPage #Japan #JapanNews #masanosuke #news #of #Ono #penn #PennStateWrestling #reigning #shoe #state #to #world #wrestling Hardly 36 hours after posterizing the NCAA tournament record books, Penn State Wrestling picked up one of the most both unlikely and impressive recruiting commitments imaginable. A 20 year old Masanosuke Ono wa…

  25. "If this becomes a pattern — the Trump administration threatens to withhold funding to institutions that don’t match its position on culture war issues — this would speak volumes about the state of America’s colleges and universities. They say they’re graduating irreverent rebels who are ready to change society. Yet they’re willing to bend to the will of the president?

    One way for universities to stand on principle would be to tap into their endowments. Elite colleges are sitting on massive pots of money.

    In Penn’s case, that endowment is about $22 billion.

    In Columbia’s case, that endowment is nearly $15 billion.

    These funds could easily be used to buttress any federal funding that the administration is using as leverage over these schools. They don’t have to simply comply. They have more than enough money to weather the storm for four years.

    Does that mean that there are no legitimate debates about transgender athletes or protests over the Middle East conflict? Absolutely not. I think both of these highly contentious issues have plenty of nuance to them.

    But if these colleges and universities decide to let the threat of federal funding decide these debates for them, it would prove that they’re far from the bold, reformist institutions they portray themselves as. They’re just a bunch of conformists, worried about their prestige and paychecks, after all."

    theamericansaga.com/p/if-elite

    #USA #Trump #Columbia #Penn #Universities #HigherEd #CultureWar #DEI

  26. [A #Trump admin ofcl said]…cuts would be made to federal funding that #Penn receives from #DOD & #HHS.

    …On Feb 6, the #UnitedStates Dept of #Education launched an investigation into Penn for Title IX violations for allowing 2022 College graduate & #transgender woman Lia Thomas to represent Penn women’s swimming & diving during the 2021-22 NCAA swimming season. Shortly after, the NCAA changed its policy to align w/the order.

    #law #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #CivilRights

  27. FFS

    #Trump admin freezes $175 million in federal funding to #Penn

    "This is just a taste of what could be coming down the pipe for Penn, one snr Trump admin ofcl told FauxNews.

    “The official said that the decision to cut funding was made because Penn ‘infamously permitted a male to compete on its women’s swimming team.’”

    This is straight up illegal — a violation of Title VI of the #CivilRights Act & the Administrative Procedure Act.

    #law #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ
    thedp.com/article/2025/03/penn

  28. On June 21, 2024, librarians, curators, developers, and other staff at the Penn Libraries delivered a letter to the Vice Provost/Director of the Penn Libraries announcing that they are unionizing as Penn Libraries United (PLU)

    🔗 pennlibrariesunited.github.io/

    #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnionization #LibraryUnions #PennLibrariesUnited #PennLibraries #Penn #UniversityOfPennsylvania #Unionization #AFSCME #DistrictCouncil47

  29. Listerine Prank
    How to drink a few bottles of Listerine, scare your clients, and ultimately see your clients repeat your prank.

    I told this story to Penn years ago and he decided it was worthy of a place in their book. There are some great stories in there and I'm proud to have been part of it.

    TL;DR - We were making commercials for Listerine, Pete Docter and I gaffed up a
    flipphillips.com/bloggery/list
    #Bloggery #Folklore #listerine #penn #pixar #prank #Teller

  30. For the record, #DonaldTrumpJr’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania's (#Penn) #Wharton School of #Business, is a Bachelor’s of Science in #Economics.

    All he knows about #GAAP, is that it stands for “generally accepted accounting principles.”

    Anybody want to do business w/this guy?

    #Trump #legal #law #civil #conspiracy #fraud #TrumpOrganization #NYAG #LetitiaJames #TrumpTrial

  31. 'Not of faculty quality': How #Penn mistreated #NobelPrize-winning researcher 🧬 Katalin Karikó 🧬

    It’s not about the lack of vision to recognize the Micheal Jordan sized talent potential.. it’s simply about not treating people shitty.

    thedp.com/article/2023/10/penn

    💪 #Katalin
    👌 #Karikó
    🏆 #KatalinKariko

  32. im going to be attending #penn but Im really worried that #higheducation might be pointless now....

  33. Coming up this week at #QUB #Belfast - the #Wiles Lectures are free and open to the public. Barbara Savage of U #Penn on the Future of #AfricanAmerican #History’. These will also be recorded and uploaded to qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/Events/