Dominique Baker
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
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(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)
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Dominique Baker
@bakerdphd.bsky.social
· Jan 13
Censorship Arrives on Campus
In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...
www.insidehighered.com
It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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Huge thanks to Lit Hub for featuring a sneak peak at the forthcoming print issue of @proteanmag.com
lithub.com/celebrate-th...
lithub.com/celebrate-th...
Celebrate the first ever #LitMagWeek with these three journals.
If you love or have ever loved a literary magazine, I bring glad tidings. This week heralds a new appreciation rite for the discerning reader. Happy #LitMagWeek, everyone! #LitMagWeek is the brainc…
lithub.com
October 5, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Huge thanks to Lit Hub for featuring a sneak peak at the forthcoming print issue of @proteanmag.com
lithub.com/celebrate-th...
lithub.com/celebrate-th...
I'm not allowed to read this the same way I'm not allowed to read about Black women's unemployment
From 1979-2007, Black women with bachelor’s degrees were the only group of women to maintain labor force participation rates above 80 percent.
Yet, despite their high labor force participation, highly educated Black women have been—and continue to be—systematically held back from upward mobility.
Yet, despite their high labor force participation, highly educated Black women have been—and continue to be—systematically held back from upward mobility.
College-Educated Black Women Appear “Well-Positioned” for Labor Market Success, but Still Have Limited Opportunities for Leadership - Institute for Women’s Policy Research
iwpr.org
October 5, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I'm not allowed to read this the same way I'm not allowed to read about Black women's unemployment
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What an odd life that I just said "gotta go email the Library of Congress again"
October 5, 2026 at 7:59 PM
What an odd life that I just said "gotta go email the Library of Congress again"
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Read Executive Director Beth Francesco’s letter to EWA members.
P.S. Not yet an EWA member? It's an exciting time to join and to shape the future of education journalism.
P.S. Not yet an EWA member? It's an exciting time to join and to shape the future of education journalism.
Beth Francesco: A Letter to the EWA Community
Beth Francesco, the executive director at the Education Writers Association (EWA), shares a letter to journalist and community members.
ewa.org
October 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Read Executive Director Beth Francesco’s letter to EWA members.
P.S. Not yet an EWA member? It's an exciting time to join and to shape the future of education journalism.
P.S. Not yet an EWA member? It's an exciting time to join and to shape the future of education journalism.
Well this explains the paper I just reviewed
the blessing and curse of LLMs for science imo is that they reduce the cost of 'let's run one more model' to basically nothing.
October 5, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Well this explains the paper I just reviewed
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Over and over some people demonstrate that racism IS a material interest in their decision making and that the racism supercedes everything else. But some refuse to take these folks at their word.
October 5, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Over and over some people demonstrate that racism IS a material interest in their decision making and that the racism supercedes everything else. But some refuse to take these folks at their word.
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Congratulations to Nobel Prize winner @deisseroth.bsky.social! Follow along with the prize announcements all week via @nobelprize.org
Congratulations to our first Nobel Prize laureate of 2026 🎉
Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
He seems very happy with the news!
Early this morning Karl Deisseroth found out he was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
He seems very happy with the news!
October 5, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Congratulations to Nobel Prize winner @deisseroth.bsky.social! Follow along with the prize announcements all week via @nobelprize.org
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In 2022, Congress gave the Dept. of Ed $1M and directed it to launch a nationwide survey on college students’ experience with sexual violence.
Four years later, there is still no federal data—and some say it’s hindering university leaders.
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Four years later, there is still no federal data—and some say it’s hindering university leaders.
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Why Federal Data on Campus Sexual Assault Is Still Missing
The Cornell allegations have reignited discussion about campus sexual assault, and advocates say a nationwide climate survey would help address the persistent issue.
www.insidehighered.com
October 3, 2026 at 12:22 AM
In 2022, Congress gave the Dept. of Ed $1M and directed it to launch a nationwide survey on college students’ experience with sexual violence.
Four years later, there is still no federal data—and some say it’s hindering university leaders.
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
Four years later, there is still no federal data—and some say it’s hindering university leaders.
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
This was a very good, thorough analysis
Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...
What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing
Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…
jewishcurrents.org
October 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
This was a very good, thorough analysis
Very useful podcast that reminds me that I still need to read Dan-el Padilla Peralta's Classicism and Other Phobias
www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
Why white nationalists love Plato with Curtis Dozier - American Campus Podcast
Plus! Voltaire, antisemitism, the West as a concept, and the Great Replacement theoryReferences and suggested readings:Curtis Dozier. 2026. The White Pedestal: How White Nationalists Use Ancient Greec...
www.buzzsprout.com
October 5, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Very useful podcast that reminds me that I still need to read Dan-el Padilla Peralta's Classicism and Other Phobias
www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...
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The true origin is the legislature itself, which recommended that UM be given autonomy and an elected board in an 1840. Prior to that, the corrupt frontier legislature nearly killed UM. The independence allowed UM to flourish, and it was deemed good for the other major state-focused universities.
In you, in #Michigan, ever wondered why we elect the Boards of #Trustees for UM (Ann Arbor), MSU (East Lansing) and Wayne State (Detroit), @michiganpublic.bsky.social's Dustin Dwyer has some answers for you
#HigherEd
#Goverance
www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...
#HigherEd
#Goverance
www.michiganpublic.org/politics-gov...
The Mids: University governing boards on your ballot?
In Michigan, we vote for the people who oversee three of our public universities. Each university also uses a different word for the same role. Regents for the University of Michigan (U of M), Trustee...
www.michiganpublic.org
October 5, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The true origin is the legislature itself, which recommended that UM be given autonomy and an elected board in an 1840. Prior to that, the corrupt frontier legislature nearly killed UM. The independence allowed UM to flourish, and it was deemed good for the other major state-focused universities.
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“Is it my week?” my Sensible Fall Jacket will ask. “Has it finally come?” “It has, old friend,” I’ll say. “What would you like to do with your one wild and precious week of Actual Fall?”
buff.ly/hotsd0n
buff.ly/hotsd0n
What I’ll Do with the One Week I Can Wear My Sensible Fall Jacket
“I am there to dress for the most elusive weather of all—uninterrupted high forties.” 9/22/24 9/21/25 9/30/26
buff.ly
October 5, 2026 at 1:32 PM
“Is it my week?” my Sensible Fall Jacket will ask. “Has it finally come?” “It has, old friend,” I’ll say. “What would you like to do with your one wild and precious week of Actual Fall?”
buff.ly/hotsd0n
buff.ly/hotsd0n
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I had a good conversation with Megan Pauly of Virginia Public Media (VPM) a few days ago about new return on investment calculations for every degree program at all of Virginia's public universities. I spent my time cautioning people against reading too much into these numbers.
lnkd.in/p/eEcnMgje
lnkd.in/p/eEcnMgje
Doug Webber: Data | David Feldman
The State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) now has a metric that families can access to see which programs at various universities have high and low return on investment (ROI). There i...
lnkd.in
October 5, 2026 at 1:42 PM
I had a good conversation with Megan Pauly of Virginia Public Media (VPM) a few days ago about new return on investment calculations for every degree program at all of Virginia's public universities. I spent my time cautioning people against reading too much into these numbers.
lnkd.in/p/eEcnMgje
lnkd.in/p/eEcnMgje
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT! The 2027 Meeting of the Race and Stratification in the Economy Working Group at @nber.org will be held on April 2, 2027! The deadline for submissions is December 10,2026. Please Share!! More details are here: www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...
www.asc.ohio-state.edu
October 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT! The 2027 Meeting of the Race and Stratification in the Economy Working Group at @nber.org will be held on April 2, 2027! The deadline for submissions is December 10,2026. Please Share!! More details are here: www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...
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I very much like this notion of “in the statistical style.” The ideological fashion of quantitative prediction without any of the underpinning that makes it fact based or useful.Because a factual basis would necessitate being aware of the limits of this method for understanding things in the world.
for the new york times magazine, I wrote about why everything is "gambling" now (the short answer: actually everything is the statistical style now, and gambling is just how most of us understand that)
How Everything Became Gambling
It’s not just DraftKings and Polymarket — the logic of gambling undergirds everything coming out of Silicon Valley.
www.nytimes.com
October 5, 2026 at 12:33 PM
I very much like this notion of “in the statistical style.” The ideological fashion of quantitative prediction without any of the underpinning that makes it fact based or useful.Because a factual basis would necessitate being aware of the limits of this method for understanding things in the world.
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A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.
October 5, 2026 at 12:23 PM
A nonfiction book written in, let’s say, the year 1795, is most likely still around in a library somewhere and every other work it referred to is probably accessible in some archive as well. A nonfiction book written in 2007 probably cites a bunch of urls that are dead or rotted beyond recognition.
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I'm honored to be opening the Association of Research Libraries 189th meeting this morning in Arlington, VA with an address entitled "Information Foraging in the Digital World".
October 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I'm honored to be opening the Association of Research Libraries 189th meeting this morning in Arlington, VA with an address entitled "Information Foraging in the Digital World".
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Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback
October 5, 2026 at 12:44 AM
Damn, hit ‘em with the lookback
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Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses
October 4, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Can you imagine being a Northerner at the start of the civil war. All the fancy lad West Point military guys are Southerners. Your president is a backwoods yokel one term congressman and your generals are some guys we found at a 7-Eleven. It's over for our ass...unless all those guys are geniuses
What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times?
October 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
What is the movie that came out before you were born that you’ve watched the most times?
I guess the fancy windows laptops are more the hp omnibook and the dell xps. Yet nobody wants to give you real ports anymore. Haters.
October 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
I guess the fancy windows laptops are more the hp omnibook and the dell xps. Yet nobody wants to give you real ports anymore. Haters.
Marinara, vegetarian meatballs, and bucatini. Bless the fall.
October 4, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Marinara, vegetarian meatballs, and bucatini. Bless the fall.
Lawyer who has spent years representing clients in Title IX cases: "Schools know: Perpetrators can sue us and win. Survivors cannot sue us and win..."
I absolutely hate it here some days
I absolutely hate it here some days
Thrilled to appear alongside fellow sociologist @nbedera.bsky.social in this very well-reported @chronicle.com story about the shape of the scandal at Cornell. As the calls from journalists are still coming in, I'm grateful each day that this story doesn't fade from the headlines.
At Cornell, a Rape Case Defines an Era
A new generation of college students has reason to be both fatalistic and fed up.
www.chronicle.com
October 4, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Lawyer who has spent years representing clients in Title IX cases: "Schools know: Perpetrators can sue us and win. Survivors cannot sue us and win..."
I absolutely hate it here some days
I absolutely hate it here some days