Starting a letter writing campaign of Texas academics telling the governor to fire the entire board of university regents.
Every university president in Texas better get the fuck out.
NBC: ABBOTT CONCEDES TO GINA HINOJOSA
November 4, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Starting a letter writing campaign of Texas academics telling the governor to fire the entire board of university regents.
academics that openly talk about their genAI use now celebrating datacentre push back:
we see you motherfuckers
we see you motherfuckers
November 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
academics that openly talk about their genAI use now celebrating datacentre push back:
we see you motherfuckers
we see you motherfuckers
Was a real loss of respect moment to watch a few high profile "we've got to fight the fascists!" academics dip out the first chance they got
As you're voting today, take a moment to think about the poli sci profs who fled in fear from the US in 2025. What you think in that moment is up to you.
November 3, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Was a real loss of respect moment to watch a few high profile "we've got to fight the fascists!" academics dip out the first chance they got
Women academics are already judged this way. BIPOC profs, too.
November 2, 2026 at 1:57 PM
Women academics are already judged this way. BIPOC profs, too.
hell yeah don’t mess with texas academics
November 4, 2026 at 4:33 AM
hell yeah don’t mess with texas academics
most conservative think tanks and publications are effectively welfare for second sons of big donors and their hand picked coterie of second rate disaffected academics.
November 3, 2026 at 4:24 PM
most conservative think tanks and publications are effectively welfare for second sons of big donors and their hand picked coterie of second rate disaffected academics.
I would like to teach a short course to academics on how to position their cameras from zooms/ podcasts/ etc so they don’t look insane
November 2, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I would like to teach a short course to academics on how to position their cameras from zooms/ podcasts/ etc so they don’t look insane
More than 900 academics urge UK to reverse decision to bar Andreas Malm
More than 900 academics urge UK to reverse decision to bar Andreas Malm
Blocking Swedish writer’s entry for event with Palestine Action co-founder is attack on free expression, letter says
More than 900 academics have voiced their opposition to the government’s decision to block the climate academic Andreas Malm from entering the UK, warning that the move represents “a grave violation of academic freedom and freedom of expression”.
Malm, the author of How to Blow Up a Pipeline and a leading climate scholar, was prevented from entering the UK last week by the Home Office after being told that his presence in the UK “may not be considered to be conducive to the public good”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2026 at 12:05 PM
More than 900 academics urge UK to reverse decision to bar Andreas Malm
This site has the juice (academics precisely and politely disagreeing)
November 1, 2026 at 4:39 PM
This site has the juice (academics precisely and politely disagreeing)
The tech bros and law firm chairs and weak kneed academics and media leaders and corporate ceos who sold their souls in exchange for the favor of Trump's thousand year Reich are in for a well-deserved rude awakening. I only hope the price they pay is high enough.
November 4, 2026 at 8:19 AM
The tech bros and law firm chairs and weak kneed academics and media leaders and corporate ceos who sold their souls in exchange for the favor of Trump's thousand year Reich are in for a well-deserved rude awakening. I only hope the price they pay is high enough.
Dozens of academics have become politicians in Serbia after a student group’s stunning victory. https://scim.ag/4BBj2ma
Serbia just elected the world’s brainiest parliament
Dozens of academics become politicians after student group’s stunning victory
scim.ag
October 30, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Dozens of academics have become politicians in Serbia after a student group’s stunning victory. https://scim.ag/4BBj2ma
📢 More than 900 academics urge UK to reverse decision to bar Andreas Malm!
It is very heartening to see that more than 1,600 people have signed our open letter, including over 900 academics from more than 280 academic institutions and more than 25 countries. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It is very heartening to see that more than 1,600 people have signed our open letter, including over 900 academics from more than 280 academic institutions and more than 25 countries. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
More than 900 academics urge UK to reverse decision to bar Andreas Malm
Blocking Swedish writer’s entry for event with Palestine Action co-founder is attack on free expression, letter says
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2026 at 12:32 PM
📢 More than 900 academics urge UK to reverse decision to bar Andreas Malm!
It is very heartening to see that more than 1,600 people have signed our open letter, including over 900 academics from more than 280 academic institutions and more than 25 countries. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
It is very heartening to see that more than 1,600 people have signed our open letter, including over 900 academics from more than 280 academic institutions and more than 25 countries. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
there is a type of guy who isn't an academic but seems to really hate women scholars and academics on here (and in life generally) — and it really seems everybody but white guys can clock him
November 4, 2026 at 8:15 AM
there is a type of guy who isn't an academic but seems to really hate women scholars and academics on here (and in life generally) — and it really seems everybody but white guys can clock him
there is a beautiful corniness that can only be found in medieval-focused academics above the age of 45
November 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
there is a beautiful corniness that can only be found in medieval-focused academics above the age of 45
Like nothing is going to happen to senior academics, but what about the rest of us
November 3, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Like nothing is going to happen to senior academics, but what about the rest of us
LGBTQ people are safer, today. Black and Latinx people are safer today. Women are safer today, children are safer today, the environment is safer today, academics are safer today.
November 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
LGBTQ people are safer, today. Black and Latinx people are safer today. Women are safer today, children are safer today, the environment is safer today, academics are safer today.
Same with academics in uni management, great in theory 🙃
I’d have to say one of the biggest problems with politics is that a lot of the people who want to be in politics are crazy nuts
November 2, 2026 at 6:22 AM
Same with academics in uni management, great in theory 🙃
These programs are designed not to help students, but to keep tech companies and bigoted academics afloat. The worst people on earth passing the same billions back and forth.
November 2, 2026 at 6:11 PM
These programs are designed not to help students, but to keep tech companies and bigoted academics afloat. The worst people on earth passing the same billions back and forth.
More than 900 academics urge UK to reverse decision to bar Andreas Malm
Blocking Swedish writer’s entry for event with Palestine Action co-founder is attack on free expression, letter says.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Blocking Swedish writer’s entry for event with Palestine Action co-founder is attack on free expression, letter says.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
More than 900 academics urge UK to reverse decision to bar Andreas Malm
Blocking Swedish writer’s entry for event with Palestine Action co-founder is attack on free expression, letter says
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
More than 900 academics urge UK to reverse decision to bar Andreas Malm
Blocking Swedish writer’s entry for event with Palestine Action co-founder is attack on free expression, letter says.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Blocking Swedish writer’s entry for event with Palestine Action co-founder is attack on free expression, letter says.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Your regular reminder that while academics make a cottage-industry out of writing papers about "evidence hierarchies", we have already freed you from their nonsense. By writing something about "evidence hierarchies".
zenodo.org/records/1808...
zenodo.org/records/1808...
November 2, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Your regular reminder that while academics make a cottage-industry out of writing papers about "evidence hierarchies", we have already freed you from their nonsense. By writing something about "evidence hierarchies".
zenodo.org/records/1808...
zenodo.org/records/1808...
Would appreciate suggestions of which journalists and academics to follow for insight on what’s happening in Poland.
Polish president cuts short foreign trip as constitutional crisis escalates in Warsaw
Editor's note: This is a developing story. Polish President Karol Nawrocki cut short a trip to Senegal on Oct. 30, returning to Warsaw amid an escalating dispute over the leadership of Poland...
Editor's note: This is a developing story. Polish President Karol Nawrocki cut short a trip to Senegal on Oct. 30, returning to Warsaw amid an escalating dispute over the leadership of Poland...
Polish president cuts short foreign trip as constitutional crisis escalates in Warsaw
"At a moment like this, the president must be in Poland. I am cutting short my flight to Senegal. I am returning,” Nawrocki wrote on X.
kyivindependent.com
October 30, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Would appreciate suggestions of which journalists and academics to follow for insight on what’s happening in Poland.
Leading academics, politicians, writers and artists are calling on the government to reverse this outrageous attack on free speech.
Add your name to the list: lifttheban.tribunemag.co.uk
Add your name to the list: lifttheban.tribunemag.co.uk
November 3, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Leading academics, politicians, writers and artists are calling on the government to reverse this outrageous attack on free speech.
Add your name to the list: lifttheban.tribunemag.co.uk
Add your name to the list: lifttheban.tribunemag.co.uk
also like in a very real sense zionism wouldnt have been possible without 19th-century yekkishe academics
November 3, 2026 at 1:35 PM
also like in a very real sense zionism wouldnt have been possible without 19th-century yekkishe academics
I've met far more academics, working artists, creatives, journalists, translators and authors on this site more than anywhere else
November 3, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I've met far more academics, working artists, creatives, journalists, translators and authors on this site more than anywhere else
Answer for everyone curious about this:
If you see "MSNOW contributor" or "CNN analyst" or something, those people get paid.
Others, no.
I have never had a contract to do that. Most academics, journos, etc, just do it as public outreach and to talk about their work.
If you see "MSNOW contributor" or "CNN analyst" or something, those people get paid.
Others, no.
I have never had a contract to do that. Most academics, journos, etc, just do it as public outreach and to talk about their work.
Serious question. Don’t talking heads get $ for being on air, or is that “just exposure” outside of network staff?
November 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Answer for everyone curious about this:
If you see "MSNOW contributor" or "CNN analyst" or something, those people get paid.
Others, no.
I have never had a contract to do that. Most academics, journos, etc, just do it as public outreach and to talk about their work.
If you see "MSNOW contributor" or "CNN analyst" or something, those people get paid.
Others, no.
I have never had a contract to do that. Most academics, journos, etc, just do it as public outreach and to talk about their work.