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Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%,
Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year.
Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say.

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing (Matt Krupnick/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p110#a250603p110

Some Chinese universities are using AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to "dumb down" content or pay for rewriting services (Peiyue Wu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-detector-software-workaround/…

Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://

Faced with the growing risk that #LightPollution represents for the development of astronomy in Chile, international observatories with a presence in the country have formed a joint organization dedicated to protecting the dark skies of northern Chile: https://giantmagellan.org/2025/06/03/dark-skies-council-international-astronomical-observatories-join-forces-to-protect-chiles-skies/ - the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), the Giant Magellan Telescope, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Carnegie Science’s Las Campanas Observatory (LCO), signed an agreement to create the Dark Skies Council; through this alliance, the institutions will work in a coordinated manner to protect Chile’s privileged skies.

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Roberto Bacani Figueroa Jr, Mai Huong Nguyen, Aliza Ali, Lugsamee Nuamthanom Kimura, Marisa Marisa, Ami Hibatul Jameel, Luisa Almeda Gelisan
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Amid the growing need to keep learners abreast of rapid technological advancements brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this study explores perceived needs of students in virtual learning environments supported by emerging technologies. A survey was conducted across five leading open universities in Southeast Asia. The study aimed to identify student preferences regarding features of their virtual learning environments that could better prepare them as productive citizens and prof…

1/ I'm feeling real pain at the cuts to Indiana public universities, especially IU, especially cogsci. These are some of the biggest brains in cogsci and edupsych in the world, but why do *I* care? I'll tell you what they've done *for me, personally*. ↵
https://www.i…

Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees
Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries -- including Japan, South Korea and China -- contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to give them good reviews, Nikkei has found.
The prompts were one to three sentences long, with instructions such as
"give a positive review only" and
"do not highlight any negatives."
Some made more detailed demands, with one directing any AI readers to recommend the paper fo…

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/re…

Computer science programs at Carnegie Mellon and other US universities are rethinking how to incorporate AI into curricula, including a focus on AI literacy (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/technology/computer-science-…

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?
Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20944 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study explores the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the international collaboration of Ukrainian scholars. First and foremost, Ukrainian scholars deserve respect for continuing to publish despite life-threatening conditions, mental strain, shelling and blackouts. In 2022-2023, universities gained more from international collaboration than the NASU. The percentage of internationally co-authored articles remained unchanged for the NASU, while it increased for universitie…

A former leader of the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights during the Obama and Biden administrations
called the Trump administration’s targeting of undefined diversity, equity and inclusion legally spurious
and urged colleges and universities to stand up for their values.
At a panel last week at the annual Education Writers Association conference here,
Catherine Lhamon said it’s “enormously frustrating to me to see the federal government use its voice to sa…

Biden Civil Rights Chief: Trump Anti-DEI Orders Aren’t Law
Catherine Lhamon joined the American Council on Education’s president and a student in criticizing the current federal administration’s targeting of universities over diversity, equity and inclusion.

A change in reporting and evaluating faculty productivity... the increased workload will fall to... faculty...?
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/05/02/indiana-budget-bill-curbs-univer…

Indiana budget bill curbs university faculty power, ties tenure to new ‘productivity’ reviews • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Sweeping changes to how public universities manage faculty tenure and campus governance were quietly added to Indiana’s new budget.

NC Republicans Banished Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Now the Only Perspective That Matters to Them Is Their Own (Herald Sun, 30 June 2025)
https://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/article309546875.html

Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/re…

Can Trump Force Harvard to Improve? (Ben Sasse/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/can-trump-force-harvard-to-improve-writes-ben-sasse-reform-universities-ba1101c2?st=EnwpEg&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p55#a250601p55

Science for Peace and the need for Civil Clauses at universities and civilian research institutions
J. Altmann, U. Amaldi, M. Barone, A. Bassalat, M. Bona, J. Beullens, H. Brand, S. Brentjes, D. Britzger, J. Ellis, S. Franchoo, A. Giammanco, A. Glazov, C. Heck, H. Jung, S. Kraml, L. L\"onnblad, M. Mangano, M. Renneberg, Th. Riebe, A. Sabio-Vera, R. Sanders, J. Scheffran, M. Schmelling, T. Schucker, T. Suzuki, A. Tanasijczuk, I. Tsakov, D. Valls-Gabaud, M. Walker

Science for Peace and the need for Civil Clauses at universities and civilian research institutions
After the end of World War II, the commitment to confine scientific activities in universities and research institutions to peaceful and civilian purposes has entered, in the form of {\it Civil Clauses}, the charters of many research institutions and universities. In the wake of recent world events, the relevance and scope of such Civil Clauses has been questioned in reports issued by some governments and by the EU Commission, a development that opens the door to a possible blurring of the dist…

[Economist] Patrick Artus: 'In the US, attacks on the public research system and universities compromise growth prospects'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/06/21/patrick-artus-in-the-us-attacks-on-the-public-research-system-and-universities-compromise-growth-prospects_6742589_19.html

New @… post on the Florida DOGE audit of the state universities:
https://ufwatch.org/florida-doge-audit-of-state-universities/
You can keep up with more important news for University of Florida folks via:
Mastodon/Fediverse: @…
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Well, there you have it...
The same year, Vance told the National Conservatism Conference that “we have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country.” “We live in a world that has been made effectively by university knowledge” and to rebuild the nation along the lines of white Christian nationalism, the universities must be destroyed. Vance told the audience, “the professors are the enemy.”

May 24, 2025
On Thursday the Trump administration told Harvard University that because it had not handed over information on foreign students’ protest activities, violent activity, and coursework, the university had “lost [the] privilege” of enrolling foreign students.

Black #OpenAccess : shadow #libraries and text piracy
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/re…

Investigation: California colleges and universities continue to renew Turnitin subscriptions despite the cost, faulty anti-plagiarism tech, and privacy issues (Tara García Mathewson/The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/06/2…

California colleges spend millions to catch plagiarism and AI. Is the faulty tech worth it? – The Markup
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.

PhD position Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) “GeoNavLearn” with Prof. Sara I. Fabrikant
https://jobs.uzh.ch/job-vacancies/phd-position-geographic-informa…

UZH: PhD position Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) “GeoNavLearn”
With 28,000 students and 9,000 employees, the University of Zurich (UZH) is the biggest university in Switzerland. As a member of the League of European Research Universities, it counts amongst the leading European universities. The UZH offers a culturally diverse and inspiring working environment and promotes international collaboration in research. The Geographic Information Visualization and Analysis (GIVA) group at the University of Zurich, Faculty of Science, invites applications for a 4-y…

The two most viable interpretations are that Trump policies (1) portend a wide-spectrum attack on the humanities, sciences, universities, health care, and foreigners.
Or that (2) they have more specific targets within these fields.
The evidence for (1) is mounting.

Trump, like all dictators, want Americans gullible, inexperienced & uneducated so it's easier for him to deceive & manipulate people.
Universities are the enemy of fascism.
☑️ University of California Is Next Target of Trump’s Antisemitism Probe
https://finance…

University of California Is Next Target of Trump’s Antisemitism Probe
(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s administration vowed to expand its probes on college campuses beyond Ivy League institutions to other schools...

Universities quietly negotiating with White House aide to try to avoid Harvard's fate, source says (Betsy Klein/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/05/31/politics/universities-negotiate-trump-administration-harvard
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p19#a250531p19

NIH halts new grant awards to universities with frozen funds
#Science #Research #NIH

Re: the last boost. While the thread is inspired by US universities, it _absolutely_ applies to Canadian post-secondary institutions too.
"A safe space to be uncomfortable" would be a great university motto.

Adapting University Policies for Generative AI: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Solutions in Higher Education
Russell Beale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22231

Adapting University Policies for Generative AI: Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Solutions in Higher Education
The rapid proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools - especially large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT - has ushered in a transformative era in higher education. Universities in developed regions are increasingly integrating these technologies into research, teaching, and assessment. On one hand, LLMs can enhance productivity by streamlining literature reviews, facilitating idea generation, assisting with coding and data analysis, and even supporting grant proposal d…

El Pais is doing an amazing work in showing how citation metrics is a call for abuse (gaming to be more precise).
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-sci…

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://

"…the playbook calls for solidarity.
[Because]
"crises usually do not end on their own. Resolving them requires courage and action."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/opinion

Studentenvisum für die #USA ? Geh' zur Botschaft und bring' Dein digitales Leben mit: "Under the screening process, consular officers would examine applicants’ posts, shares, and comments across platforms such as Instagram, X, and TikTok for content they deem to be threatening to national security, ..."

Teaching Programming in the Age of Generative AI: Insights from Literature, Pedagogical Proposals, and Student Perspectives
Clemente Rubio-Manzano, Jazna Meza, Rodolfo Fernandez-Santibanez, Christian Vidal-Castro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00108

Teaching Programming in the Age of Generative AI: Insights from Literature, Pedagogical Proposals, and Student Perspectives
Computer programming is undergoing a true transformation driven by powerful new tools for automatic source code generation based on large language models. This transformation is also manifesting in introductory programming courses at universities around the world, generating an in-depth debate about how programming content should be taught, learned, and assessed in the context of generative artificial intelligence. This article aims, on the one hand, to review the most relevant studies on thi…

A long outage of Columbia University servers last week was due to a hacker,
seemingly with a pro-Trump agenda of stealing data to show the guilty nature of
“woke” university policies.
In particular this hacker gave the data for 2.5 million applications to Columbia over many years to Bloomberg News.
Not sure what this would show of significance other than the already heavily litigated fact that Columbia and most other universities have been practicing affirmative act…

Columbia Cyberattack Appears Politically Motivated, University Says
The attacker, described as a “hacktivist,” shut down computer systems and stole student data last week.

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://

Tiny Robots Can Help Fix Leaky Old Water Pipes Without Having to Dig Up Roads https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/tiny-robots-could-help-fix-leaky-water-pipes-without-having-to-dig-up-roads/

Tiny Robots Could Help Fix Leaky Water Pipes Without Having to Dig Up Roads
Mini robots called ‘Pipebots’ could help fix leaky water pipes without having to dig up roads or sidewalks, thanks to British Universities.

Celebrating 10 Years of EaPConnect! 🎉
For a decade, EaPConnect has empowered universities, research institutions, and students across Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, providing high-capacity network infrastructure and fostering international collaboration.
As it nears completion in 2025, Rosanna Cramarossa Norman spoke with NREN directors about the project's impact.
🔗 Read the full interview in the latest edition of

Celebrating 10 Years of EaPConnect: Voices from the NRENs | GÉANT CONNECT Online
We are joined by the directors of the five NRENs beneficiary partners involved in the EU-funded ‘EU4Digital: Connecting Research and Education Communities (EaPConnect)’ project: ASNET from Armenia, AzScienceNet from Azerbaijan, GRENA from Georgia, RENAM from Moldova and URAN from Ukraine. Launched in 2015, the EaPConnect project has empowered universities, research institutions, and students throughout the Eastern

That said, if you know that “sustainability” has been the only consistently communicated strategic goal of #UNIL for the last 8 years or so, the relative ranking of the universities in Lausanne may be surprise you.
https:/…

That said, if you know that “sustainability” has been the only consistently communicated strategic goal of #UNIL for the last 8 years or so, the relative ranking of the universities in Lausanne may be surprise you.
https:/…

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://

Just read Plantin & Thomer's article, on the changes Figshare for Institutions introduces into the provision & organization of data-management labor in libraries. The authors worry that this commercial SaaS platform for institutional & data repositories, while fulfilling a number of library needs, will have detrimental effects. While it's a good piece of infrastructure-studies research, I question some of the analysis & conclusions.

Survey of HPC in US Research Institutions
Peng Shu, Junhao Chen, Zhengliang Liu, Huaqin Zhao, Xinliang Li, Tianming Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19019 ht…

Survey of HPC in US Research Institutions
The rapid growth of AI, data-intensive science, and digital twin technologies has driven an unprecedented demand for high-performance computing (HPC) across the research ecosystem. While national laboratories and industrial hyperscalers have invested heavily in exascale and GPU-centric architectures, university-operated HPC systems remain comparatively under-resourced. This survey presents a comprehensive assessment of the HPC landscape across U.S. universities, benchmarking their capabilities …

Investigation of $^{31}$P levels near the proton threshold by Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence and the impact on the $^{30}$Si(p,$\gamma$)$^{31}$P thermonuclear rate
David Gribble (UNC Chapel Hill, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory), Christian Iliadis (UNC Chapel Hill, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory), Robert V. F. Janssens (UNC Chapel Hill, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory), Udo Friman-Gayer (Duke University, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory), Akaa D. Aya…

Investigation of $^{31}$P levels near the proton threshold by Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence and the impact on the $^{30}$Si(p,$γ$)$^{31}$P thermonuclear rate
We investigated the nuclear structure of $^{31}$P near the proton threshold using Nuclear Resonance Fluorescence (NRF) to refine the properties of key resonances in the $^{30}$Si(p,$γ$)$^{31}$P reaction, which is critical for nucleosynthesis in stellar environments. Excitation energies and spin-parities were determined for several states, including two unobserved resonances at $E_r$ $=$ $18.7$~keV and $E_r$ $=$ $50.5$~keV. The angular correlation analysis enabled the first unambiguous determin…

“Under a 287(g) task force model, such as the agreement being pursued by the University of Florida, participating officers would have the authority to interrogate “any alien or person believed to be an alien” about their right to remain in the country, as well as the power to make arrests without a warrant in some cases.”
https://www.wuft.org/public-safety/2025-04-14/uf-other-florida-universities-to-deputize-campus-police-for-immigration-enforcement
Imagine being asked to learn while you can be stopped and interrogated just walking between classes because a campus police officer believes you might not be a US citizen.

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
https://

Via Bloomberg: universities have won an order voiding the 15% research cost cap. 👍👏⚛️⚗️🔭🧪🔬 #Science

IRANIAN PROGRAM DEBATED AT M.I.T.
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/27/archives/iranian-program-debated-at-mit-training-of-atom-scientists-called.html?u…

IRANIAN PROGRAM DEBATED AT M.I.T.
Special Iranian Govt program to train nuclear engineers has stirred controversy on MIT campus; program, for which Iran is paying $1.4-billion, will place up to 54 masters degree candidates in MIT nuclear engineering dept; venture is only 1 of series of programs in which Iran is investing its oil wealth in setting up special arrangements with US universities, including Harvard and Columbia; MIT students argue that program will lead to proliferation of nuclear weapons and contend that Shah of Ira…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

If you want to help people in #academia who are maybe less fortunate than you, who have less famous supervisors, or work at less prestigious universities, here's one simple thing you can do:
Do proper literature research.
That means complete forward and backward snowballing from a decent seed set. Find everything that is relevant to your paper and cite it. Budget a couple of full…

Academic Research Output Derivatives: Structuring Futures and Options on Research Output Index
Amarendra Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20492 https://…

Academic Research Output Derivatives: Structuring Futures and Options on Research Output Index
This paper explores an innovative financial concept--Academic Research Output Futures (AROFs)--which aim to bring the tools of market-based finance into the realm of academic research. At the heart of this idea lies a cash-settled futures contract tethered to a composite Research Output Index (ROI), a metric designed to quantify the research productivity of universities and research institutions. By allowing investors to take positions--speculative or hedging--on the projected trajectory of aca…

Foreign Students Help Make America Great (Michael Crow/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/international-students-help-make-america-great-higher-education-colleges-universities-8ad3ba1a
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p7#a250621p7

🗃️ The Belgian lab shaping modern soccer’s data revolution
#soccer

Agile and Student-Centred Teaching of Agile/Scrum Concepts
Maria Spichkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14369 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Agile and Student-Centred Teaching of Agile/Scrum Concepts
In this paper, we discuss our experience in designing and teaching a course on Software Engineering Project Management, where the focus is on Agile/Scrum development and Requirement Engineering activities. The course has undergone fundamental changes since 2020 to make the teaching approach more student-centred and flexible. As many universities abandoned having face-to-face exams at the end of the semester, authentic assessments now play an even more important role than before. This makes asse…

Analyzing Security and Privacy Challenges in Generative AI Usage Guidelines for Higher Education
Bei Yi Ng, Jiarui Li, Xinyuan Tong, Kevin Ye, Gauthami Yenne, Varun Chandrasekaran, Jingjie Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20463

Analyzing Security and Privacy Challenges in Generative AI Usage Guidelines for Higher Education
Educators and learners worldwide are embracing the rise of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) as it reshapes higher education. However, GenAI also raises significant privacy and security concerns, as models and privacy-sensitive user data, such as student records, may be misused by service providers. Unfortunately, end-users often have little awareness of or control over how these models operate. To address these concerns, universities are developing institutional policies to guide GenA…

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Myroslava Hladchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20944

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study explores the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the international collaboration of Ukrainian scholars. First and foremost, Ukrainian scholars deserve respect for continuing to publish despite life-threatening conditions, mental strain, shelling and blackouts. In 2022-2023, universities gained more from international collaboration than the NASU. The percentage of internationally co-authored articles remained unchanged for the NASU, while it increased for universitie…

Can we just dispense with grades already? Universities' rush to adopt LLMs, including providing students free access to more advanced versions, has made whatever grades we give wholly suspect (I wouldn't trust a transcript if I was hiring our students). At the same time, my institution at least has given instructors neither guidance nor support in dealing with the fallout. I am more than happy to teach those who want to learn. If the others want to spend their time querying an AI, so…

David Brooks: "What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal"
- -
It’s time for a comprehensive national civic uprising. It’s time for Americans in universities, law, business, nonprofits and the scientific community, and civil servants and beyond to form one coordinated mass movement. Trump is about power. The only way he’s going to be stopped is if he’s confronted by some movement that possesses rival power."
--

Opinion | What’s Happening Is Not Normal. America Needs an Uprising That Is Not Normal.
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.

For hundreds of years, the Spanish banned the Incan Festival of the Sun—the Andean New Year.
But since the middle of the 20th century, Inti Raymi has been back. 
Today, communities, cities, towns and even universities hold Inti Raymi celebrations.
They make offerings, light fires and incense. They say prayers to Pachamama and Inti, the sun. They sing and dance. 
And it’s not just a celebration. It is an act of resistance

Inti Raymi returns as an act of resistance
Inti Raymi is the most important Indigenous celebration of the Andean countries of South America. And it is a revival of the people’s cultural history. This is episode 50 of Stories of Resistance.

@… I guess that this would be one possible direction. But maybe you don’t even have to go that far; Bologna allows for quite some flexibility, of which some universities/faculties/institutes don’t really take advantage. I'm thinking of module assessments here: instead of assessing courses individually, you could have an exam that covers the whole…

@… I guess that this would be one possible direction. But maybe you don’t even have to go that far; Bologna allows for quite some flexibility, of which some universities/faculties/institutes don’t really take advantage. I'm thinking of module assessments here: instead of assessing courses individually, you could have an exam that covers the whole…

#NYT: State Department Halts Interviews Abroad for Student and Exchange Visas
He is going to choke the universities and bleed them dry. And set the country back significantly in so many ways.
#uspol #HigherEd #academics #visa

Upcoming GÉANT infoshare 🚀
Earth Observations Support Through NRENs - Part 1
Explore the multi-national policy context which supports earth observation, the complimentary RREN research engagement approaches employed, and discover the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).
👥 Hosted by Daniela Brauner, Chris Atherton and Hendrik Ike (GÉANT), with presentations from Paola De Salvo (GEO Secretariat), Yousef Torman (ASREN), and Mark Urban (RedCLARA).
🔗 Register here:

Infoshare Series on Earth Observations Support Through NRENs - Part 1
Earth observation has a direct impact on societal ambitions to reduce the effects of climate change, monitor the achievement of the UN sustainable development goals, and for its use in disaster and emergency response.  As a wide-ranging topic area, Earth observation is reliant upon ever increasing volumes of data for achieving the latest scientific discoveries.  It is because of the societal impact, and large-scale data transit to universities and national institutions which makes this an...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06448 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings
Global university rankings have transformed how certain institutions define success, often elevating metrics over meaning. This study examines universities with rapid research growth suggestive of metric-driven behaviors. Among the 1,000 most publishing institutions, 98 showed extreme output increases between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024. Of these, eighteen were selected for exhibiting sharp declines in first and corresponding authorship. Compared to national, regional, and international norms, thes…

An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technol…

Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Embed ChatGPT Into College Students’ Lives
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.

Read this article, not because it trashes UF’s new president to be, but because it cuts to the core of the challenges facing U.S. universities and how we need to stand up, fight back, and restore meaningful shared governance.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/santa-ono-flees-for-florida?sra=true

The astounding U.S. university impact on drug innovation | STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/us-universities-fda-approved-drugs-research-patents-orange-book/?utm_campaign=rss

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Accessible Design in Integrated Development Environments: A Think Aloud Study Exploring the Experiences of Students with ADHD
Luke Halpin, Phillip Benachour, Tracy Hall, Ann-Marie Houghton, Emily Winter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10598

Accessible Design in Integrated Development Environments: A Think Aloud Study Exploring the Experiences of Students with ADHD
Coding forms a key part of computer science education in universities. As part of this education, Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are essential tools for coding. However, it is currently unknown how the design of an IDE's interface impacts on students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). In this study we investigated the use of IDEs by students with ADHD. We conducted a think aloud study with nine university computing students, followed by qualitative observational…

YEZZ! Lead by the #IndianaUniversity in the #usa #universities bond together to fight the #trumpcoup

berkstan_web: Webgraph (Berkeley-Stanford)
The web graph of Berkeley and Stanford Universities (berkeley.edu and stanford.edu), as collected in 2002. Nodes represent pages and directed edges represent hyperlinks between them.
This network has 685231 nodes and 7600595 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted
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During the last week in May, the leading topic on the 5Calls app was opposition to a provision of the House budget bill restraining judges’ ability to enforce contempt sanctions (17,600 calls).
The rest of the Top 5 topics were slashing Medicare and Medicaid (13,658 calls);
cuttinggender-affirming care (7,697 calls);
attacks on so-called “woke” universities (7,319 calls);
and other “harmful provisions” in the megabill (7,142 calls).
The issues change slightly e…

5 Calls
Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

packet_delays: Internet packet delays (2002)
A network representing the difference in delay observed by packet probes sent from a computer at Rice University to similar machines at different universities, in c.2002. The edge weight denotes the difference in delay of the packet in milliseconds.
This network has 10 nodes and 9567 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Weighted

Since returning to office in January, Trump has sought to crush dissent at cultural institutions, law firms, media companies and universities. Many believed it was only a matter of time before he took the fight to the streets.
The protests against ICE raids present him with an antagonist that can be used as a focal point for anger, hatred and fear, ensuring that dissent is redirected away from the government and toward “an enemy within”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/trump-la-protests-enemy-within?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …