"Palestinian Liberation and Zionist Ideology at the Western University" by Esmat Elhalaby and Maya Wind

"The student mobilization and the administrative response have exposed both the Zionist project and the Western university as entangled imperial formations. Both have lost mass legitimacy, and both have shown themselves as necessitating violence for their reproduction. The students have laid bare the ideological and material apparatuses by which these projects are sustained, as well as the beginning of their unraveling."

https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-11623532

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

Students are on strike at the South campus of the Colleges of Sciences and Humanities (CCH), a high school system affiliated with UNAM, in protest of sexual violence and assaults being ignored by the administration.

https://www.jornada.com.mx/2025/04/25/politica/013n2pol

#Academia
#AcademicChatter

This is categorically not ok and is suppression of free speech.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-090.html

Wo ist die Sehnsucht nach Transformation? Ein Zukunftsgespräch über Wissenschaft

Eine weitere spannende Veranstaltung von der Berlin University Alliance.

Podiumsdiskussion am 14. Mai 2025 um 17 Uhr in Berlin-Kreuzberg und via Lifestream zur Zukunft partizipativer und transdisziplinärer Forschung in der deutschen Wissenschaftslandschaft.

Um Anmeldung bis 08.05.2025 wird gebeten

https://www.berlin-university-alliance.de/commitments/knowledge-exchange/news/Podiumsdiskussion_14_05_25.html

#Transdisziplinarität #Partizipation #Wissenschaft #Gesellschaft #Rahmenbedingungen #Forschung #Academia #Science #Research

@academicchatter
@academia

Strike fund!! University of Rochester grad workers!! Pay in if you can:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ur-grad-labor-union-strike-and-hardship-fund

Very honored to have had the opportunity to share some thoughts about how scholars can protect their work and their values during this period of intense attacks on higher education. #DefendResearch #Academia https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/authors/lisa-schiff

I'm really looking forward to playing a few games... like the actual thing was not enough

#Indiana #Republicans just executed a sudden takeover of #IndianaUniversity without any legislative debate.
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/indiana-lawmakers-indiana-university-control-mike-braun/83265418007/

"Over the course of 36 hours at the tail end of the three-month legislative session, Indiana lawmakers made significant policy changes that fundamentally alter how state universities conduct themselves. These changes ― among them, giving Gov. Mike Braun sole appointing power over Indiana University's board of trustees, subjecting tenured faculty to "productivity" quotas that could lead to termination, dissolving the decision-making power of faculty governance organizations ― were never the subject of a filed bill or amendment and saw no opportunity for public testimony."

In Indiana, the governor is Republican and both chambers of the legislature are controlled by Republicans.

#Academia #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Not at my uni, but at others, administrators rushed to take down DEI “content” from their websites after receiving the government’s odious “Dear colleague” letter.

Now the courts are weighing in and pushing back.

DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE.

It only gives momentum to the things you claim to oppose.

#uspol #democracy #academia #highered

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/24/politics/education-dei-policy-blocked/index.html

"other efforts had mostly focused on English-language content and were locked behind paywalls or limited to a specific subfield of psychology. Our collection would thus serve as a valuable resource (...), bridging an accessibility gap for tools that are readily available in the West".

@alelazic on efforts behind creating #REPOPSI - centralised, open-access Repository of Psychological Instruments in Serbian.

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00944-0

In response to new repressive "security" measures, students at the Xochimilco, Iztapalapa, and Azcapotzalco campuses of the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) have gone on strike.

https://www.jornada.com.mx/2025/04/24/politica/013n2pol

"Yale University revoked the registration status of a pro-Palestine student group on Wednesday after hundreds of students protested against a speaking event by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tuesday, despite the group saying that it was not responsible for organizing the demonstration."

https://truthout.org/articles/yale-voids-pro-palestine-groups-status-after-protest-of-israeli-police-minister/

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Yale #education #academia

I freely confess to being ideologically captured by peer-review.

The level of vandalism currently being inflicted on #academia within the #USA -- and on the concept of #scholarship more generally -- beggars belief. It feels like the vandalism is irreparable too; rebuilding what has been lost, or even persuading scholars who left in the #Trump exodus to return, is going to take decades. Within a few months the US has become an anti-intellectual paradise.

Major #Education Resource Set to Shut Down This Week
https://www.governing.com/policy/major-education-resource-set-to-shut-down-this-week
#DOGE #universities #ERIC

NSF (Nat’l Science Foundation) director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy - “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020. The far right’s war on Science and research continues unabated. No lab is exempt or immune. These are dark days for research. #Science #research #grants #academia #AcademicChatter

https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-director-resign-amid-grant-terminations-job-cuts-and-controversy

Very glad to see that CSUN's president has joined the AAC&U open letter "against the unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education"

https://www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-constructive-engagement

I am looking for a postdoc 'Environmental and behavioral health in a changing climate' (1/2)

2 years in #Rennes #france #rstats #timeseries

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to help us understand the short-term impacts of environmental conditions on mental health, sleep and physical activity related behaviors. Future findings will help us better anticipate present and future consequences of climate change on bike use and sleep.