"The US state department is undertaking a widespread visa-review process, revoking hundreds of visas and placing hundreds more under scrutiny, targeting mostly foreign nationals engaged in pro-Palestine activism, according to official statements."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/state-department-visas-pro-palestine-protesters

@palestine #Palestine #USpol #immigration #academia #education

Every single academic should be making noise about #rumeysaozturk. There is nothing going on in your research that is more important than the attacks against higher ed. This is it. The fight has come to our doorstep and we have to acknowledge it

I'm trying to read a #Neuroscience paper published by #Wiley and it's showing me a banner that says only "healthcare professionals" should be reading the paper. What's up with that? Researchers are not allowed to read papers anymore?

Impossible to find a way to contact Wiley about it, but maybe someone out there will know them and might be able to ask what is happening?

The paper: Locomotor action sequences impact the scale of
representation in hippocampus and posterior parietal cortex #NitzLab #WileyOnlineLibrary #Academia

Last days to apply to work with me as a Lecturer in Information Management, in Breda, Netherlands! https://www.buas.nl/en/working-at-buas/vacancies/lecturer-docent-in-information-management-1149233 #jobs #NLjobs #academia #AcademicJobs #university

Always been uncomfortable about the use of generative AI in the medical sphere. Whether that's doctors using it for researching patient symptoms or a hospital using AI to manage their waiting lists. There are of course other use cases, and this is one of them.

If you're using generative AI in research, be very, very skeptical of any references, double check the papers actually made it to publication and are still published!

This is shaping up to be perhaps my best #writing week ever. I've started and finished popular article A, finished and submitted journal paper B, approved the proofs for journal paper C and received a journal issue containing paper D.

Any reasonable academic career advisor would just laugh at my biography.

Unable to find tenure, Sw. fast universitetsanställning, but able to get small cash grants with no overhead, I defaulted to writing a tall stack of academic books and journal papers and outreach articles. Because despite my best efforts the labour market refused to keep me gainfully employed. I've mostly not even made it into the precariat!

Lorna Finlayson on academic cowardice

"... But viewed from another angle, their failure to defend their own collective interest makes more sense: the collective is not their concern. If the goal is to get ahead of the next guy, then a general deterioration of conditions is a cost that can be borne. For all the heart-rending laments from academics about the state of the universities, the reality may be still more depressing. Maybe they like what they see."

https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-sycophant

It can only be seen as ominous when leading academics who study authoritarianism are fleeing the US.

Account Ida Bae Wells (from Bluesky), posted: "When scholars of authoritarianism and fascism leave U.S. universities because of the deteriorating political situation here, we should really worry."

Rashid Khalidi shares thoughts on his employer:

"Columbia has long been run more as a business empire than as an educational institution. Now it’s acting like Vichy on the Hudson"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/25/does-columbia-merit-the-name-of-university

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Columbia #USpol #academia #education

TIL:
- A pretty great collection of ways to spin up a quick local static server https://gist.github.com/willurd/5720255
- Why: in order to preview a locally rendered #Quarto website with Observable JS with all functionality, it needs to run on a local server (cannot just preview the HTML anymore)
- So, if you have your Quarto website that uses OJS, just navigate to your rendered directory (e.g. _site) and run e.g. `uvx python -m http.server 8000`. There is your website with full reactivity.

What came out of it: You can now select the Big Publishing company of your choice for my rejection template for review requests by them ;)
https://marioangst.com/en/blog/posts/dear-editors/

Just accidentally texted some recent Marxist literary theory research to the post-modernists’ group chat.
#signal #LitStudies #academia #academicchatter

"Les académies membres du Réseau interaméricain des académies des sciences (IANAS, pour Inter American Network of Academies of Sciences), se joignent à leurs collègues des Amériques et du monde entier pour exprimer leurs inquiétudes face aux menaces sans précédent qui pèsent actuellement sur la science aux États-Unis"

Incluant comme signataire la Société royale du Canada.

#canada #academia #science

https://rsc-src.ca/fr/d%C3%A9claration-de-l%E2%80%99ianas-sur-les-menaces-qui-p%C3%A8sent-sur-la-science-aux-%C3%A9tats-unis

"Taal’s lawyers are now arguing that the Trump administration’s request for Taal to turn himself in to ICE is a retaliation for his lawsuit and for his pro-Palestinian beliefs."

https://theintercept.com/2025/03/21/trump-free-speech-lawsuit-ice-momodou-taal/

@palestine #Palestine #USpol #immigration #ICE #academia #education

More cops, mask bans, and no academic freedom. The fascist neoliberal dream university is manifesting at Columbia.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/columbia-trump-federal-funding-protests