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
Many people are calling out former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a posting supporting American Federation of Teachers (AFT)…| JONATHAN TURLEY
This afternoon, I will travel to Colgate University to participate in its annual Constitution Day Debate with Michael Klarman, the…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Throughout his short life, Charlie Kirk enraged many by exposing the hate and hypocrisy of the left in higher education.…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Below is my column in the Hill on the murder of Charlie Kirk, the latest victim of our age of…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Today I have the pleasure of speaking on free speech and my book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an…| JONATHAN TURLEY
A federal grand jury has indicted Cal State University Channel Islands professor Jonathan Anthony Caravello for throwing a tear gas…| JONATHAN TURLEY
Former University of Arizona professor Daniel Grossenbach is suing the school over alleged retaliation over his views on gender policies…| 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
Meg-John Barker reflects on how we might queer research cultures towards more tender and caring ways of working with ourselves, each other, and our communities.| the polyphony
This article was originally published by the U.S. Northern Command magazine, The Watch, on July 24, 2025. Governments and societies worldwide have become increasingly dependent on algorithms with autonomous intelligent machines facilitating daily tasks and decisions previously made by humans. Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow exponentially, bringing innumerable advantages for large-scale information gathering. It […] The post Mexico’s Cyber Force, Armed Forces Expand AI Use i...| Diálogo Américas
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
Everyone is speculating about what drove a young man to assassinate Charlie Kirk. But for academics like us, the more pressing lesson lies not in the mind of the killer, but in the conditions that elevated Kirk to such notoriety. Kirk’s voice echoed against the awkward silence of scholars who are afraid to speak out... Read more about: Dissenting Academics Must Challenge Groupthink The post Dissenting Academics Must Challenge Groupthink appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
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
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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
Mr Magpie has always been a bold friend. He sits at the table with us when we are outside. In the warmer months when we often leave the back door open he walks inside the house, sometimes looking for a snack, but often enough walks all the way through the house, apparently just to say […]| Crooked Timber
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Looking at the facts, there’s no reasonable conclusion except that US democracy is done for. But rather than face facts, I’m turning to fiction. So, here’s a story about the collapse of Trumpism, crony capitalism and the AI/crypto bubble. Fiction is a relatively unfamilar mode of writing for me, so critique (on style and structure […]| Crooked Timber
BTW, you might want to think about joining PixelFed, a federated non-commercial alternative to Flickr and the Zuckerberg site. It’s a very welcoming community.| 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
11/02/2022 Alex Tavares Silva and Larissa Carneiro Rangel from the Fluminense Federal Institute in Brazil Ask an Academic Series In the first interview of the Ask an Academic series, we talked with Alex Tavares Silva and Larissa Carneiro Rangel, PhD candidates in Computational Modeling at the Fluminense Federal Institute in Brazil. They explain how they use weather data to study how to better monitor heavy precipitation and mitigate the impacts of flooding. At Meteomatics, the rate of PhDs pe...| 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
La Academia de la Historia de Cuba invita a la Sesión solemne en memoria del destacado historiador e intelectual cubano Eduardo Torres Cuevas, que tendrá lugar hoy en la Casa de Altos Estudios Don Fernando Ortiz, en esta capital. Desde su partida física, el pasado 31 de agosto, este gran patriota y pensador ha recibido| 5 Septiembre - Diario digital de Cienfuegos, Cuba
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
Explore the science behind resilience and learn about measuring one’s capacity to rebound from adversity. Discover how resilience can be quantified and assessed effectively. Gain insights into the factors influencing one’s ability to bounce back from challenges in this informative article. When life pushes us down, some people stay down longer, while others seem to […] The post The Science of Resilience: Measuring the Ability to Bounce Back appeared first on iMotions.| iMotions
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
Page count: 384 pages| Malin's Blog of Books
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
Prof Margaret Boden; Credit: Jay Williams (click through for source)| Adventures in NI
–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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Over on the Futures of Language website we are advertising a PhD and a postdoc position. If you are interested in fundamental questions at the intersection of language, interaction and technology, have a look. We offer a number of resources:| The Ideophone
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere wellIt were done quickly. Miranda is a college theatre director working on a production of All’s Well That Ends Well, one of Shakespear…| Laura Tisdall
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A cursory glance at the Jeffrey Epstein’s biography (1953 – 2019) shows it can be treated as a modern adaptation (and so adjustment) of Horatio Alger Jr.’s framework: Epstein’s life moves from (lower) middle-class respectability to incredible wealth and luxury (and associated criminal sordidness). Epstein was an immensely successful social climber, who didn’t just manage the wealth of the ultra-wealthy, but also used his own wealth and his access to the very wealthy to position...| Crooked Timber
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One of my foundational theoretical commitments is that the technology of reading and writing is neither natural nor innocuous. Media theorists McLuhan, Postman, Ong and Flusser all agree on this point: the technology of writing is a necessary condition for the emerge of liberal/democratic/Enlightenment/rationalist culture; mass literacy and the proliferation of cheap books/newspapers is necessary for this culture to spread beyond the elite to the whole of society.| Crooked Timber
Sunday photoblogging: Street art at the Puces St Ouen| Crooked Timber
Now that the Trump government is relentlessly attacking higher education and abusing its power at the border to arbitrarily refuse entry to scholars, many academics wonder whether it’s still possible to travel to the US for conferences or other research purposes, especially if they have publicly criticized the Trump government or its allies. But where you can travel, under what conditions, for your academic work, has long been an issue for scholars who come from countries with “weak passp...| Crooked Timber
I’ve owned this mug for twenty-five years now. Bought in the gift shop of the Metropolitan Opera in New York on my first ever trip to America, which I doubt I shall ever visit again. The mug, in art nouveau style, celebrates Pucchini’s La Bohème, which we might have seen there. I forget what we saw from the cheap seats, high up. The colours are badly faded after a quarter-century of machine washing, which suggests that its manufacture was cheap, though it has served me well through diffe...| Crooked Timber
Have they changed, or just become their worst selves| Crooked Timber
Thursday afternoon I belatedly fulfilled a promise to post a book to Wilcannia. The school day was just finishing and as I left the Post Office I overheard a child around eight years old:| Crooked Timber
By now you probably have seen one or more articles noting that a failure that led to lives being lost might well include the early retirement of the weather service officer who worked on integration with local authorities in the event of an emergency. That the two relevant NWS offices responsible for the area hardest […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Are you a student eager to launch your career in finance, quantitative development, or financial data engineering?| DefconQ Blog
James Fishkin, creator of deliberative polling, was recently interviewed by Roger Berkowitz on the podcast of the Hannah Arendt Center (which Berkowitz directs). The conversation is far-ranging, an…| Equality by lot