"In effect, the promotion of Israel’s national narrative not only remains exempt from the wholesale attack on DEI, but it also functions as a weapon used to attack people and communities previously protected."
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #USpol #DEI #academia #Columbia #education
This is such a privileged thing to say but the recent attacks on #academia is finally really striking home. #yale prof suspended for ai new’s false claim, #palestinian protestor student from #colombia stolen from his pregnant wife, 400 mil of gov funding taking from #columbia, #22students expelled or have their diplomas revoked from #columbia.
It feels it’s illegal to have an opinion in academia, the ultimate place to form new ideas and opinions.
I said no to something!
#German #Academia question:
Someone from a slack I'm in is asking what kind of start up can you expect for a junior group leader position in Germany, in the field of microbiology - anyone knows, even approximations? 
(And also does funding for any positions like a PhD student or a postdoc come in addition to the startup?)
This paper has now come up in 3 separate academic conversations over the past 3 days, and all I can say is that there's a clear need for nuance when demanding nuance
“The fury with which the Trump administration has turned on academia resembles nothing so much as the early days of the Cultural Revolution, when an increasingly paranoid Mao Zedong smashed China’s established universities, a madness that took generations to remedy.“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/14/trump-colleges-grants-speech/ or https://archive.vn/2dlGV
University of Wyoming drops partnership amid Trump administration investigation into ‘race-exclusionary practices’ - WyoFile
Trump administration asks Australian universities to justify US funding
Update. Good advice from #MichaelIgnatieff, past President of the Central European University in Budapest and Vienna (2016-2021): "How a University Fights an Authoritarian Regime. Viktor #Orbán came for me. Donald #Trump is coming for you. Here’s what to do."
https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-a-university-fights-an-authoritarian-regime
(#paywalled)
"You’re going to need an alliance that pulls together American families, employers, unions, companies, the whole network of people and institutions beyond your campus who understand that the universities of America are critical to everything that is good about the country: its commitment to freedom, its devotion to excellence, its leadership in science and medicine. This alliance is going to have to get political — to reach across red state and blue state, identify the members of Congress from both sides of the House who understand why universities matter to their communities, to the American economy, and to America’s deserved reputation for excellence. Don’t mince words. It’s too late to play nice. Call a spade a spade. Convince enough Americans that the administration’s strategy deserves only one name: vandalism."
#Academia #DefendResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter
So these are obviously ridiculous, but also my inner crime scientist *really* wishes I could run a proper randomised evaluation on these things because... I suspect they do a decent job reducing shoplifting?
Publish or Perish is now on Sale! Share it with your fellow academics to increase everyones scientific integrity 
. Happy publishing! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2800420/Publish_or_Perish/ #steam #indiegame #PublishOrPerish #academia #phd
Hey everyone involved in #ComputerScience, are you looking for a #job in #academia?
Aalto University in Finland has several positions open for assistant professors. The topics include #MachineLearning, #Programming, #ComputerArchitecture, #CyberSecurity, #SoftwareEngineering and Human-Computer Interactions.
https://www.aalto.fi/en/department-of-computer-science/assistant-professor-positions
#Trump demands unprecedented control at #ColumbiaUniversity, alarming scholars and speech groups
By COLLIN BINKLEY and JAKE OFFENHARTZ
Updated 7:52 PM EDT, March 14, 2025
NEW YORK (AP) — "The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
"Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its #MiddleEasternStudies, #SouthAsianStudies, and #AfricanStudies Department under 'academic receivership for a minimum of five years.' The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulled over allegations of #antisemitism.
"Across #academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
"'It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,' said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors [#AAUP]. 'Even during the #McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.'"
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324
#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #Censorship #DumbingUsDown #Authoritarianism #SilencingDissent #AcademicFreedom #Fascism
@xankarn I can't like this hard enough and one thing to do could be for AI researchers to make *very* clear in this RFI that closes in 24 hours that they will NOT be participating in any federal-related, federal-involved AI research until they stop harassing universities.
(also, fascists doing RFIs is just so weird. I think it's code for 'tell me which grift you prefer.')
"Uncertainty over health research funding is prompting the elite Baylor College of Medicine to scale back plans to expand the university’s research efforts and to reduce its incoming graduate school class size by about 15 students."
What could this look like?
The most direct way for #highered and #academia to hit back is through military contracts and biotech.
Basically, R1 schools would need to halt all cooperation with the government and starve them of tech transfer and technical competencies they need to maintain national security and compete with rivals.
Ask Americans, would they like to see China vault head ahead of them and assume the mantle of global hegemon because Trump wanted to own the libs?
Columbia University is union busting as well as having its students disappeared
"Vandals targeted the home of Columbia University’s president, splashing the historic residence with red paint and scrawling the words 'Free Them All.'"
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #USpol #Columbia #academia #education
"“If you were accepted to Columbia University, don’t come here. This school will ruin your life for a McChicken and a nice tweet from Donald Trump.”
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Columbia #USpol #academia #education
