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A. Rivera> Researchers warn that our increasing use of AI could be limiting our language and thought processes <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-human-thought-processes-1.7604789" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/ai-human-thought-processes-1.7604789</a>Ah yes, the wonderful <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> that folks in places like <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>, including <a href="https://mas.to/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#librarians</a> who should know better, are rushing to embrace. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AISlop</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sloppers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sloppers</a>

Zachary Wolfe<a href="https://esq.social/tags/GWU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GWU</a> had students arrested & barred from campus, sanctioned orgs, modified policies, closed quads, brought in extra security, & more that I say obstructed too much legit <a href="https://esq.social/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#speech</a>. Even built an ugly fence in Trumpian style - maybe if they’d gilded it! All called “no meaningful action” and demands for “immediate remediation … and related reforms.” Testing social sciences theory is tough but pretty tidy proof “anticipatory obedience” won’t save you! <a href="https://esq.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://esq.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://esq.social/tags/higherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#higherEd</a> <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1410936/dl?inline" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1410936/dl?inline</a>

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Dr Manabu Sakamoto (he/him)I teach zoology at university and I come across people (not my students but working people) who don’t see the value in zoology. Firstly I don’t really understand why they’d think that…zoology is the animal side of ecology, so understanding animals is pretty important if you want to protect biodiversity. Secondly, I’m kind of tired of this expectation that subject experts and teachers are the ones that need to argue against such attacks based either on ignorance or bad faith. <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ukhe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ukhe</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#highered</a>

Lyle Solla-Yates<a href="https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/08/student-council-passes-vote-of-no-confidence-in-the-board-of-visitors" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/08/student-council-passes-vote-of-no-confidence-in-the-board-of-visitors</a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/UVa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UVa</a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://cville.online/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>

Bytes EuropeEditor’s Note | Columbia University Has Become a Political Pawn  <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1270815/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.byteseu.com/1270815/</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ColumbiaUniversity</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EdNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EdNote</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EDUCATION" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EDUCATION</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedom</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a>

ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊Now the mobster president might steal Harvard’s patents—“worth hundreds of millions of dollars”—“A Harvard spokesperson called the move ‘yet another retaliatory effort targeting Harvard for defending its rights and freedom.’”<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MobsterPresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MobsterPresident</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Harvard</a>2 of 3🧵 (article screenshots) <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409</a>

ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊Now the mobster president might steal Harvard’s patents—“worth hundreds of millions of dollars”<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MobsterPresident" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MobsterPresident</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Harvard</a>1🧵 I’ll screenshot the article in the following post(s)<a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-patents-trump-d4297409</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Not only did Columbia and the Trump administration have detailed exchanges about altering the university’s disciplinary proceedings — especially in how they impacted protesters — but new rules regarding disciplinary procedures were also imposed on the university by its powerful board of trustees in a manner explicitly outlined by the Trump administration. Though Shipman said Columbia’s academic independence was the school’s “north star” during the negotiations, the private research university has made several concessions on academic functioning in its agreement with the federal government. And Shipman said that Columbia retains control over its operational decisions, yet the deal with the Trump administration includes clauses such as one in which the university has agreed to “examine its business model and take steps to decrease financial dependence on international student enrollment.” (...) A key element of the agreement was the appointment of a third-party “Resolution Monitor” to oversee compliance. (...) The man selected for the role, Bart Schwartz, is the co-founder of Guidepost Solutions, which sponsored an event in June 2025 “helping Israel heal and rebuild.” He was selected in a joint decision by the university and government officials.On top of it all, the school paid a massive $200 million fine — roughly half of the federal grants that had been frozen, which the university was seeking to recoup in the negotiations.“It seems,” Joseph Slaughter, an English and comparative literature professor and the director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia, told The Intercept, “they paid off an extortionist and they hope that the extortionists won’t come back.”"<a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2025/08/07/columbia-gaza-student-protests-expulsions-trump/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ColumbiaUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ColumbiaUniversity</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AcademicFreedom</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Censorship</a>

Aisha the R211ABack to School: Undercommons VersionWHY: As we prepare to return to institutions of higher education that are complicit in the ongoing, live-streamed genocide of the Palestinian people, we need to reorient ourselves to our roles (& duties) within the walls of the university in the people's collective struggle for liberation. WHAT: In this gathering, we will study an excerpt from "The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Studies" and then engage in a discussion. Excerpts will be shared with registrants via email.WHEN: Thursday, August 14th, 7-9 pm ET WHERE: BOYFRIEND co-op, 1157 Myrtle Ave, BK <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NYC</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/freepalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freepalestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#highered</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0Uhtda4sfthHk-_sI7kQCOw4cO0xIwmYDbn-a_eNxfUfZtw/viewform" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0Uhtda4sfthHk-_sI7kQCOw4cO0xIwmYDbn-a_eNxfUfZtw/viewform</a>

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inquilineCannot overstate how depressing and angering this is. We have everything to win if we fight back and everything to lose if we don't. (signed, a non-UC California fac member) <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-ucla-ec848b4bee5c184f29dba9d7181904a1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-ucla-ec848b4bee5c184f29dba9d7181904a1</a><a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/UCLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UCLA</a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://assemblag.es/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uspol</a>

Preston MacDougallIt is not just ‘Snowbirds’ from <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Canada</a> that won’t be arriving this year, there is also projected to be a 30-40% drop in new international students arriving at <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#universities</a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/colleges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colleges</a> in the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a>. <a href="https://www.nafsa.org/about/about-nafsa/us-economy-could-suffer-7-billion-loss-precipitous-drop-international-students" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nafsa.org/about/about-nafsa/us-economy-could-suffer-7-billion-loss-precipitous-drop-international-students</a><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kakistocracy</a>

Preston MacDougall<a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Nonilex</a> Wow! Good thing <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/biochemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#biochemistry</a> can provide the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> administration the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chemistry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chemistry</a> tools it will need to <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#police</a> any <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DEI</a> violations by administrators and admissions staff in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>. ✅ “Chemical Eye 👁️ on the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Race</a> Factor” 👉 <a href="http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/102508_macdougall.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.sitnews.us/MacDougall/102508_macdougall.html</a><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Resist</a> hilariously!

A. Rivera> ChatGPT Is Giving Teens Advice on Hiding Their Eating Disorders <a href="https://futurism.com/chatgpt-teens-advice-eating-disorders" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://futurism.com/chatgpt-teens-advice-eating-disorders</a>This is the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> that <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a>, incl. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/librarians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#librarians</a> who should know better, are rushing to embrace. That includes the one twatwaffle I read yesterday (but did not link) who was basically "if you are not into AI, fuck you, I got no time for you." Sure, kid, whatever. <a href="https://mas.to/tags/AISlop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AISlop</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/sloppers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sloppers</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/teen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#teen</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/youth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#youth</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#health</a>

The TyeeNo U.S. university or college, private or public, is likely to escape Columbia’s fate, where the Trump administration has deemed diversity, equity and inclusion efforts unlawful and demands an overhaul of rules for student discipline, protest and antisemitism.Crawford Kilian writes. <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/uspoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uspoli</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/08/05/Columbia-University-Conquered/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/08/05/Columbia-University-Conquered/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial</a>

Robin DeRosaNew from Audrey Watters. The end of this piece-- not what is quoted below-- is a call to change that I think I am about to heed in a very big, uncertain way. I have so much grief about where education is after my three decades of laboring with the tools of hope in <a href="https://social.coop/tags/highered" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#highered</a>.This piece is helping me accept what is. I don't know what's next, but I think whatever it is, it will not happen "here."<a href="https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/degenerate-against-education-at-scale/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/degenerate-against-education-at-scale/</a>

A. RiveraIn <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BadEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BadEconomy</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fuckery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fuckery</a>. I will keep saying it: college loans are nothing more than a legalized racket. > Student Loan Interest Is Accruing Again for 1 in 5 Kentucky Borrowers <a href="https://kypolicy.org/student-loan-interest-is-accruing-again-for-1-in-5-kentucky-borrowers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kypolicy.org/student-loan-interest-is-accruing-again-for-1-in-5-kentucky-borrowers/</a><a href="https://mas.to/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HigherEd</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#academia</a> #<a href="https://mas.to/tags/KentuckyProud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KentuckyProud</a>

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