By outlining my role and expectations as a committee member, my goal is to help make sure that we have a productive professional relationship, and that we avoid any conflict stemming from not being…| Southern Fried Science
“The idea that people educated in this country should devote a small fraction of their undergraduate study to understanding our history and its relevance to all citizens today ought to be unremarkable.” — Emeritus Professor Alison Jones on Auckland University’s decision to drop proposed compulsory courses.| E-Tangata
Sen. Bill Cassidy has written to AFT president Randi Weingarten accusing an AFT vice president of fostering a culture that alienates Jewish members and demanding a written response by Nov. 6. Source| THEJ.CA
I started a tradition a little while back where every year we have a special departmental colloquium entitled "The Nobel Prize in Physics: Who/What/Why". This year my job in finding speakers was made easier by having 2/3 of this years newly-minted Nobel Prize winners in physics in the Department! (Michel Devoret and John Martinis.) So our room was a bit more well-attended than normal...(hundreds and hundreds rather than dozens and dozens). Here is a recording of the event, which I was delight...| Asymptotia
A plan at Utah Valley University (UVU) to create a memorial to Charlie Kirk has been met by protests and…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Stacey Patton, professor of journalism at Howard University, has caused an uproar with her advice to white people who want…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Switzerland was famous (or infamous) for staying neutral in World War II. It simply would not take a side between…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Never has the adage that A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words been more appropriate. Donald Trump has destroyed much of the federal government and much of the Constitution, so now he is destroying the White House – in this case, to build a horrific 90,000 square foot ballroom paid for by “private contributors,” who … Continue reading "How “Passive Virtues” Destroy the Constitution"| Legal Planet
The Philippines made international news last month when several tens of thousands of protestors took over the streets of Manila to express their outrage over the government’s embezzlement of over a trillion Philippine pesos (approximately $17.6 billion USD) designated for flood control projects. Losing this amount of climate-designated funds to corruption would be problematic anywhere … Continue reading "Manila Protests Over Environment Follow a Rich Tradition"| Legal Planet
“I’m still here working.” That’s what a park ranger at Yosemite National Park told me last Friday, as he made his rounds. Anyone who thinks they can flagrantly break the park rules during the government shutdown is in for “a rude awakening,” he said. Literally. He and other rangers have been using noise to wake … Continue reading "Our National Parks are Open — and Openly Threatened"| Legal Planet
Environmental law have become vibrant parts of the law and policy ecosystem. At a time when despondency seems all too common, the work of these law school centers offers beacons of hope for the future of environmental protection. Some of that work is playing defense — pushing back against deregulatory efforts — while other work plays offense by identifying innovative directions for environmental policy. A comprehensive survey isn’t practical, but I’ll provide examples from several...| Legal Planet
Embarking on a PhD in history can be incredibly rewarding, but before you apply, it's best to have a clear-eyed view of academia as a whole (including the various types of universities where you might study and work), the life (and limits) of being a PhD student, and the realities of the academic job market.| Clio and the Contemporary
Students have long taken advantage of digital tools to help them study, with the likes of Chegg often essential aids for many students. Such platforms provide help when students face challenges. As with all digital tools, of course, they can offer both valid assistance for ethical students at the same time as offering the answer […]| The Horizons Tracker
The “publish or perish” mindset that dominates academia is once again under fire. A new study from Indiana University argues that the current rules of academic publishing—where careers often rise or fall based on the number of papers published in high-profile journals—may be doing more harm than good. The core problem, the authors say, is […]| The Horizons Tracker
The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” developed by the Trump administration and sent to nine universities, proposes that the institutions agree to a series of criteria in exchange for preferential treatment in funding decisions.| Eos
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Within ten minutes I regretted my decision to walk to Creedon Street in the outback town of Broken Hill. At first, I thought it was the shoes. Stupid things I’d bought on the internet, they were little more than plastic-coated cardboard soles strapped to my ankles with nylon laces. The desert sand scratched between my […]| Crooked Timber
One of the big puzzles in the last months, for those observing the politics in the US and elsewhere, is this: why is there apparently so little protest against the attacks on democracy and the rule of law, and why does it happen in some but not other cases? I want to share a hypothesis, […]| Crooked Timber
A European justice minister who does have principles! The EU “chat control” proposal I wrote about the other day has been scuppered by Germany’s justice ministry saying forcefully that it will never support this particular form of mass surveillance. Here’s what their minister, Dr. Stefanie Hubig, had to say: “Chat control without cause must be […]| Crooked Timber
I’m publishing an email I just sent to Ireland’s Minister for Justice, Jim O’Callaghan, on a truly hideous and anti-democratic European law that Ireland is strenuously supporting. It’s looking like Germany, which was strong on data protection, may crack and support this law, too. This week is make or break week for ‘chat control’, a […]| Crooked Timber
Sunday photoblogging: Marseillan| Crooked Timber
Some thoughts on the "why" of professional development. The post Technologies of the self in academic librarianship first appeared on ACRLog.| ACRLog
There has been a massive increase in Turning Point chapters and membership following the assassination of founder Charlie Kirk. Students…| JONATHAN TURLEY
The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has long been criticized for far-left policies and activism. Some of us have…| JONATHAN TURLEY
El nuevo decano de Derecho UCAB, César Carballo, tiene entre sus objetivos hacer que el diálogo social sea parte de la agenda académica| elucabista.com
We previously discussed how the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) elected an outspoken activist as its president. The selection…| JONATHAN TURLEY
When I first moved to London in 1997, I couldn’t imagine living anywhere else. Long hours in the lab would spill into the evening streets and underground tunnels of a city so large that you could never experience it all. … Continue reading →Continue reading →| Occam's Typewriter
University Living Labs are a relational infrastructure to orchestrate and catalyse portfolios of impact-oriented initiatives in collaboration with societal partners.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
What is AI doing to higher education? And what, if anything, should be done about it? Chad Orzel at Counting Atoms had a post on this recently, tying the question to a broader point. There is a fun…| 4 gravitons
Princeton University announced this week that it will be reinstating the requirement for undergraduate applicants to submit standardized test scores…| JONATHAN TURLEY
El presente ensayo es una investigación que parte de información bibliográfica retomada de Google académico, repositorios y publicaciones de revistas nacionales, por ejemplo, Trasmallo del Museo de la Palabra y la Imagen. El objetivo es analizar e interpretar los aportes de dos grandes antropólogos europeos que influenciaron a Europa y Centroamérica: Franz Boas y Carl Hartman. […]| Revista Elementos
Discover how gamification really works. Learn how behavioral science, reinforcement learning, and cognitive psychology drive engagement, and how to design ethical, effective gamified systems. Introduction to Gamification Gamification isn’t just about badges and buzzwords. It’s not a gimmick, it’s a system. A way of shaping how people make decisions, commit to goals, and stay engaged […] The post Gamification That Works – Behavioral Design That Makes A Difference appeared first on iM...| iMotions
University of Sydney has suspended a staff member after Jewish students were targeted with antisemitic abuse during a peaceful holiday celebration.| THEJ.CA
10/4: Another view from The Atlantic… What dropped into 9 university leaders’ mailboxes was a document that, under different circumstances, would be canned as spam as this document is basically an ultimatum: turn over control of your campus to us, or else. The “or else” is losing access to all federal programs: student loans, federal […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Uma universidade no meio da floresta está ampliando o acesso de indígenas à educação Ana Gualda Em meio à floresta amazônica, Oriximiná é um município […]| Instituto Serrapilheira
When I read the blurb for Higher Magic, I was intrigued by the premise that Classic Literature contained some kind of magic or spells in it that helped shape the reality of today. Because really haven’t books helped to shape our reality? While that portion of the novel remained the most interesting part to me, […]| Books of My Heart
Reading books on tour can be difficult. Although there is often a lot of waiting around during those long afternoon hours between load-in and soundcheck, it is always accompanied by the possibility of unforeseen obstacles appearing at any moment to demand your time and attention. It could just be for| The Komoy Noise Research Unit
Below is my column in The Hill on the pledge of Zohran Mamdani to end some of the early Gifted…| JONATHAN TURLEY
An elementary school in Kansas has raised a novel question under the First Amendment: whether the freedom of speech includes…| JONATHAN TURLEY
I have the pleasure of joining Harvard Professor Randall Kennedy today for a discussion of the state of free speech…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Yesterday, I flagged the decision of New York University’s School of Law to cancel the planned Federalist Society event featuring…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Various people have asked for a video of my debate this week at the Virginia Military Institute over the question…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Today, I will be participating in a debate on the following question: “Is the U.S. Experiencing a Constitutional Crisis?” Taking…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts was arrested this week after fleeing ICE officers and abandoning a school-subsidized car…| JONATHAN TURLEY
A few days ago, I had the occasion to debate Michael Klarman, the Charles Warren Professor of Legal History at…| JONATHAN TURLEY
In their recent Contexts article “Ideology Versus Truth on Campus,” Lawence Eppard and Jacob Mackey explore descriptive statistics of voter registration, political donations, and political ideologies of professors. The data show that professors in the United States tend to be more liberal and Democratic than the average American. Eppard and Mackey interpret this to be […]| Articles – Contexts
(I wrote this piece a week or so ago, meant to do a bit more work but haven’t got around to it. Hence slightly dated allusions) The culmination of Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK was a press conference at which both American and British leaders waved pieces of paper, containing an agreement that […]| Crooked Timber
I have a long-standing pet peeve about the conflation of academic freedom and freedom of speech, especially in the context of (purported) campus debate. In order to illustrate why one should not conflate academic freedom and freedom of speech, I introduce two uncontroversial theses about each. Thesis [I]: lying and deception are protected features of […]| Crooked Timber
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Christine Murphy, Notes on Surviving The Fire. Sarah is trying to finish her PhD in religious studies at a university in southern California, considering the threefold nature of Buddhist justifications for violence. Her fellow student and best friend Nathan has spent time in a Catholic monastery in the Dolomites and been celibate for over a … Continue reading Reading Diary, September 12th to 23rd, 2025| Laura Tisdall
Academics tend to face a lot of impostor syndrome. Something about a job with no clear criteria for success, where you could always in principle do better and you mostly only see the cleaned-up, id…| 4 gravitons
Discover how memory modulation transforms biometric research. Learn why attention, emotion, and neural signals don’t just shape momentary reactions—but drive what we truly remember. From ad testing to UX and education, this article reveals how linking biometric data to memory unlocks insights into the effectiveness design, and campaigns. Why do some experiences stay with us, […] The post Memory Modulation – Measuring What Truly Sticks appeared first on iMotions.| iMotions
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security| joanna-bryson.blogspot.com
If you’re looking for thought-provoking, practical insights into AI from people who know best, these are the professors worth following.| Bluesky Thinking
–The online journal American Thinker has posted an article by Lars Møller entitled “Evelyn Waugh’s England: A Lament for a Lost World”. Here are the opening paragraphs:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
I personally owe a lot to this wonderful novel. It inspired my own Spirit of the Place, of which a reviewer said, ‘It reads like a starter pack for Possession.’ Was this a put-down or praise? I chose praise, because, though not intentionally, that’s what, in effect, it is. I remember back in 1990, when the opinions of the Booker panel were televised before the winner was announced, someone from the Cambridge English Faculty dismissed Possession because, he opined, any of his colleague...| reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com
Recent attacks on Tom Hanks and American universities highlight parallels between 2025 and the McCarthy era. But our moment has something the Cold War Red Scare didn’t: the benefits of hindsi…| Clio and the Contemporary
Academia is a sort of hell in itself, at least as presented in R.F. Kuang’s “Katabasis” — quite literally meaning “descent” in Greek mythology. Released Aug. 26 by Kuang, a New York Times bestselling author, the novel follows a PhD student at the University of Cambridge as she travels to hell in a quest to...| The Badger Herald
When you’re a writer who talks about big trends and ideas, it really does help to live outside of the DC/NYC bubble. Back when I was an education reporter, I regularly went to parent-teacher meetin…| Apt. 11d
A trolley problem, some personal stuff, a bit of Islamic jurisprudence, and then the Honda. 1) Trolley time. Let’s start with the trolley problem. People proposing trolley problems often do them in two parts. First, there’s the anodyne one with the easy answer: A trolley is rushing down the tracks towards a group of five […]| Crooked Timber
You’ve probably heard of the “Peter principle”: that employees get promoted until they reach a job they are no longer good at. And in political philosophy, there is a famous dispute between (the camps of) John Rawls and Jerry Cohen about the appropriateness of people in a just society being motivated by money. Last week, […]| Crooked Timber
This weekend has been dedicated to the “reconstitution historique” of 1653 in Pézenas, when the États generaux of Languedoc met in what is now a small town but was then the seat of the Prince de Conti. So, a capital city back then and also a place where Molière used to hang out. There have […]| Crooked Timber
I’m working on a first draft of a book arguing against pro-natalism (more precisely, that we shouldn’t be concerned about below-replacement fertility). That entails digging into lots of literature with which I’m not very familiar and I’ve started using OpenAI’s Deep Research as a tool. A typical interaction starts with me asking a question like […]| Crooked Timber
07/19/2023 Lucille Borlaza Researches the Impact of Air Pollution on Health Ask an Academic Series — How Researchers Use Our Data For researchers with an interest in weather and climate data, a source of hassle-free, ready-to-use data is invaluable in bypassing the normally arduous process of obtaining and cleaning data from a variety of sources. At Meteomatics, we’re excited about the innovative ways researchers use weather data, and support this whenever possible. Lucille Borlaza is a r...| Meteomatics Articles - EN
Friends of the blog will definitely be interested to read this article by long-time contributor (and now independent blogger) Beatrice Marovich, drawing on interviews with an astonishingly wide range of contemporary theologians reflecting on the possible death of their field.| An und für sich
I am fortunate to have a sabbatical this fall semester – this is particularly welcome after a few years of intense service on our Faculty Council (kind-of like our Senate), where we had to de…| Just TV
Ideological litmus tests on academic hiring continue in Canada| Double Aspect
Why Adrian Vermeule should not be honoured| Double Aspect
It’s no secret that the early twentieth century was a great time to make progress in fundamental physics. On one level, it was an era when huge swaths of our understanding of the world were being rewritten, with relativity and quantum mechanics just being explored. It was a time when a bright student could guide […]| 4 gravitons
A paper about scientific fraud has been making the rounds in social media lately. The authors gather evidence of large-scale networks of fraudsters across multiple fields, from teams of editors tha…| 4 gravitons
Here’s a good legal Rule Of Thumb: whenever anyone makes a federalism argument concerning any dispute, do not take them seriously. It’s a mug’s game. The Venn Diagram of “people who argue for federalism” and “people who lack control over the federal government” is pretty much a perfect circle. And the positions will completely flip … Continue reading "Federalism Is For Suckers, Part The Millionth"| Legal Planet
–Some of those around London may be interested in an event planned for Bank Holiday Monday. Here’s a description from the Londonist website:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
This year, like the past several years, I have the honor of serving as a mentor to tenure-track CUNY faculty in the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP). The FFPP is a writing and professional development program that helps tenure-track faculty at CUNY two-year and four-year colleges navigate the ins-and-outs of publishing and tenure at […]| orgtheory.net
Much has been discussed in the media about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic; for example, to compensate for the absence of coordinated support, working mothers are carrying more caregiving responsibilities. However, the full range of externalities resulting from governmental and organizational decisions (or in the case of some governments, “non”-decisions which are decisions in […]| orgtheory.net
As a process that validates information credibility, peer review is undeniably and incredibly valuable—when it works. But sometimes it doesn’t work as well as we’d like. The post Reviewing peer review first appeared on ACRLog.| ACRLog
Richard Ellmann saw himself as emulating Joyce: the main job of the biographer was less a matter of ‘observing’ than...| London Review of Books
This essay, on viewpoint diversity, academic objectivity and free speech, was my Observer column this week. It was published on 20 April 2025, under the headline “Trump’s political bullying of Harvard will do nothing to foster diversity of thought”. Few people want to live in an echo chamber. Many have no problem being friends with those who vote differently to the way they do. And many would probably agree with John Stuart Mill that “he who knows only his own side of the case, […]| Pandaemonium
I get emails. Sometimes they find me well; sometimes they try to convince me that I need to bring artificial intelligence (“AI”) into the classroom. “AI is going to revolutionize higher education!”…| The Duck of Minerva
The author reflects on speaking at various queer and autistic conferences, emphasizing the challenges of conforming to normative presentation styles. They found comfort in familiar environments and…| Autistic and Living the Dream
The lichen-ous current state of my work and community life, and what's coming for the rest of the year.| Fieldnotes by Sam Rye | Social & Environmental Regeneration
I had a chat about journalism recently, and I had a realization about just how weird science journalism, in particular, is. Journalists aren’t supposed to be cheerleaders. Journalism and PR have ve…| 4 gravitons
As a grad student, I loved to argue, about almost anything (mostly over beer). I avoided arguing with my PhD advisor though – mostly out of my knowledge that he was pretty famous, as ecologists go,…| Scientist Sees Squirrel
Studying for finals or any exams doesn't have to be all caffeine jitters and staying up all night, at least not in Belly Conklin study method from The Summer| Racoffee Books
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The academic is based in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London but, she explains, her work centres around peace photography| 1854 Photography
1-`♡´-Vision Bingo This method involves creating a bingo card with all your goals and striking them off as you achieve them. It’s fun and feels more like a game than a task. This has been doing the rounds on social media lately so chances are you’ve already got a basic idea about it. In case […]| Everything Academia
Recap Heloooooo and Happy New Year to everyone who’s reading this! It has been quite some time since I’ve posted anything over here. But now, as a part of my New Year’s resolutions, I’m back! This post is a recap of all that happened last year so let me warn you, this is going to […]| Everything Academia
Dear 1L: It’s no secret that this is a dark time for people who care about the environment. All the more reason you'll be needed!| Legal Planet
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Do read my previous post first! And I should credit “Ban This Filth!” for the caption to the Laurie Penny tweet. In addition to the Dan Hodges blogpost that I linked to at the end of that one, here are some other relevants articles worth reading that I couldn’t shoehorn in. Here’s Mrs Trellis, writing a Dear Joan letter to feminism to explain why she’s […]| PooterGeek
At the height of the BBC’s “Jimmy Savile crisis”, when police were estimating that the old, dead child rapist and his associates had assaulted at least 40 boys, a female media twitterer tweeted that she had no sympathy for the BBC’s predicament at all, after the way they had blocked her promotion, because she was […]| PooterGeek
John Rentoul quotes India Knight: Gove’s proposals are, to me, socialist in their intention, which is to equip every child with the sort of education that has traditionally been available to only a very few. How is that wrong? And what do left-leaning academics think they’re doing when they say, “Ooh, no, the children won’t […]| PooterGeek
Why is professional identity important to you? For me, it helps to develop career goals, pursue professional development opportunities, and build confidence in the professional expertise I have to offer students, faculty, and library staff. As part of my professional identity, I no longer identify as an early-career librarian. If I had to pinpoint when| ACRLog - Blogging by and for academic and research librarians
Prof David J Burn will take the helm as University of Galway’s new president, commencing his term as its 14th president this September.| Silicon Republic
What makes a physics theory valuable? You may think that a theory’s job is to describe reality, to be true. If that’s the goal, we have a whole toolbox of ways to assess its value. We c…| 4 gravitons
–A profile of author David Pryce-Jones has been posted on the website Onward and Upward. This is written by Jay Nordlinger and is a well-written, concise survey of Pryce-Jones’s life and works. Here’s an excerpt:| The Evelyn Waugh Society
“… interpretation is the source of texts, facts, authors, and intentions.” Stanley Fish, Is There a Text in This Class? Do you remember when you first committed some of your own thoughts to paper? Perhaps you kept a diary, perhaps you wrote poems or lyrics or crafted a letter to a friend. Perhaps you had … Continue reading What does it say? The supposed objectivity of written texts→| Handling Ideas
Opinion | A growing research field known as ‘the science of science’ will be essential for navigating an uncertain future.| Undark Magazine
Tech regulation raises some of the thorniest questions of our time — about free speech versus hate speech, copyright versus fair use, truth versus manipulation. Yet these debates are increasingly irrelevant unless states can first establish digital sovereignty. Without the will to enforce laws on multinational corporations, “tech regulation” is a dead letter.| Crooked Timber
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