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After Columbia Revokes #ProPalestine #Protesters' Degrees, Alumna Says Time to Burn Our Diplomas | Common Dreams

by Jennifer Scarlott, March 16, 2025

"In May of 1986, I received a master’s degree from #ColumbiaUniversity’s School of International and Public Affairs. That degree has been a proud part of my resume in the many years since.

As Columbia rushes to appease the Trump administration by expelling, suspending, and revoking the degrees of a growing number of students accused of peaceful protest and exercising their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly, I unequivocally renounce my degree and any affiliation with the university. I charge Columbia with complicity in the #genocide in #Gaza and the #WestBank and with terrorizing its anti-genocide, pro-#Palestine students, faculty, and staff. I charge Columbia with appeasement of and partnership with #fascist governments (Biden and Trump) in Washington.

"The shameless #capitulation of Columbia to government pressure is reflective of the corporate, neoliberal selling-out of academia. #Academia, exemplified by Columbia University, has surrendered its proclaimed mission of intellectual independence and endeavor, and the academic pursuit of knowledge and social advancement."

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/columbia-university-protests
#USPol #FuckColumbiaUniversity #Cowards

"“If you were accepted to Columbia University, don’t come here. This school will ruin your life for a McChicken and a nice tweet from Donald Trump.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/columbia-university-expels-student-protesters-fires-union-president-amid-ice-raids/

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

I am saying it once more.

If #academia and #highered do not QUICKLY develop a coordinated strategy of resistance, then MAGA will pick them off one by one.

“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a professor of classics at Columbia. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”

#uspol #democracy

https://apnews.com/article/columbia-university-mahmoud-khalil-ice-arrests-1921e26f6b5a8585ad5cbda790846324

Usually the Harvard Crimson isn't bad but this time they let some professors write for it.

" To our knowledge, no major university leadership has publicly denounced the attack on Columbia or Mahmoud Khalil."

Good observation! #academia, at least in the US, never was "independent centers of ideas and often prominent centers of dissent". Youth are. Academic institutions have a long and storied history of repressing student dissent.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/14/enos-levitsky-harvard-columbia-trump/

When I transitioned from cognitive to computational neuroscience, I found myself in a bit of a bind. I had learned calculus, but I had progressed little beyond pattern recognition: I knew which rules to apply to find solutions to which equations, but the equations themselves lacked any sort of real meaning for me.

So I struggled with understanding how formulas could be implemented in code and why the code I was reading could be described by those formulas. Resources explaining math “for neuroscientists” were unfortunately quite useless for me, because they usually presented the necessary equations for describing various neural systems, assuming the presence of that basic understanding/intuition I lacked.

Of course, I figured things out eventually (otherwise I wouldn’t be writing about it), but I’m 85% sure I’m not the only one who’s ever struggled with this, and so I wrote the tutorial I wish I could’ve had. If you’re in a similar position, I hope you’ll find it useful. And if not, maybe it helps you get a glimpse into the struggles of the non-math people in your life. Either way, it has cats.

https://neurofrontiers.blog/building-a-virtual-neuron-1/

#neuroscience #math #ComputationalNeuroscience #tutorial #academia

Any #sociologists looking for an outlet in this anti-DEI moment? Consider submitting a chapter to this exciting new book project.

#academia #DEI

Full call for abstracts below:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-dLcS173yYn8CR1Z-F5ahZFoXbFrTdQY4mRT96gRtaU/edit?usp=sharing

How Democracies Die - An Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Brainstorming toward a new course for undergraduate non-specialists

What would you put on the syllabus?

Looking for specific readings and resources.

#academia #histodons #politics #media #democracy #crowdsourcing

I don't think the majority of Americans know how close the U.S. university system is to total collapse.

In under 2 months, Musk & the Mad King have eliminated most sources of federal support and threatened to cut the remainder.

If you care about your children's/nation's future, raise your voices.

#HigherEd #academia #academicchatter

Offre de doctorat sous ma direction

Co-développer et évaluer une intervention de changement de comportements individuels visant la réduction de l’impact de la chaleur nocturne sur le sommeil de personnes vivant en HLM

https://avuer.hypotheses.org/4269

#rennes #occitanie #teamESR #academia
#doctorat #master #inserm #santepublique
#changementclimatique

Date limite pour candidater - 25 avril 2025

On partage pleeaaassseee

the funny thing is, PhD stipends are so low that you could hire me for a year or this "PhD-level agent" for a month 🙃 #academia

“Masked demonstration for student power”

Sounds old school Berkeley free-speech put your bodies on the gears and wheels metal af.

March 10 on a campus near you (if you crazy kids make it happen 🙂)

#uspol #fascism #antifascism #MaskUp
#college #university #academia #students

From: @FantasticalEconomics
https://geekdom.social/@FantasticalEconomics/114112539095754472

Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did - Impact of Social Sciences

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/03/03/bluesky-will-trap-academics-in-the-same-way-twitter-x-did/

#Bluesky #academia #Twitter #SocialNetworks #Opinion #Blogs #SocialScience

DEI is not illegal, according to legal scholars across the political spectrum

#AAUP shared this memo with chapter leaders today, please share widely especially with campus administrators who're complying in advance!! 👀

https://app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p4oinnucw8i4jmb8d7570kp

#HigherEd #Academia #DEI

Following the destruction of science and academia in the US by the #Trump administration, several protests are planned for the 7th of March 2025 in the US and worldwide.
US: https://standupforscience2025.org/
France: https://standupforscience.fr/
Let me know if you know of other ones.

Please share and join, whether you are a scientist or not. Scientists dedicate their life to increasing knowledge for everyone, and scientific discoveries whether big or small make humanity progress. We need more science - not less!

PS: the sign in link for the US one has been "paused due to overwhelming interest" but it will probably come back soon, I'll update this post once it does.

#Science #StandUpForScience #Research #Academia

wooooooo today has been WILD... currently in unexpected 2 hour meeting... warning my real #academia life news link incoming

editing to add the TLDR of the headline is that up to 12 Penn State campuses will be closing in the next few years

https://www.psu.edu/news/administration/story/message-president-bendapudi-commonwealth-campuses

Was talking with a friend of mine in academia here in Ireland about introducing one of the universities in Dublin to the concept of the Small Web and Small Tech. She asked her faculty if they’d be interested.

Their response?

“We’re not looking to change things.”

I shit you not.

(In case you’re wondering why we’re fucked or who exactly is complicit. These are folks that have multi-million euro relationships with Big Tech.)

#BigTech #SiliconValley #academia #institutionalCorruption #education #neoliberalism #fascism #SmallTech #SmallWeb #humanRights #democracy #ireland #eu

New @ciehf.bsky.social #postdoctoral position advertised today @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Research Associate in Environmental Time-Series Modellingflinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/flinde...apply by 16 March 2025#jobs #academicSky #employment #research #academia

Research Associate in Environm...

#enough #places #academia #job #phdstudent #doctoratestudent #phd #doctorate #motivation #meme #memes #phdmotivation #phdmeme #phdmemes #phdlife #phdstudentlife #phdtroll #doctoratemotivation #doctoratememe #doctoratememes #doctoratelife #doctoratestudentlife #doctoratetroll

Fellow comrades in #academia - there’s a very cool project launching called Science Homecoming, that allows you to find local papers from your hometown and encourages you to pitch them an opinion piece about the current attacks on #science and #highered.

I pitched a piece to my hometown paper and they got back to me in about 10 minutes saying they definitely wanted to see it. So think this is a simple thing to do with high impact potential

More info here 👇
https://sciencehomecoming.com/

Just as some of Europe's brightest minds sought refuge in the United States during the dark days of fascism, we should now welcome the best minds from America to Europe.

A recent example proves the point: Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian immigrant rejected and humiliated at an American university, found opportunity at a German startup for her work with mRNA - ultimately helping to save millions of lives during a pandemic and winning a well-deserved Nobel Prize.

#science #USA #Europe #fascism #academia

"BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) ist eine der weltweit größten Suchmaschinen für wissenschaftliche Web-Dokumente. Der Index umfasst über 400 Millionen Nachweise von über 11.000 Datenlieferanten." https://base-search.net

BASE is one of the world biggest academic search engines for international academic web documents. Run by Bielefeld University (library), Germany.

#searchengine #science #academia #suchmaschine #wissenschaft #bielefeld #BielefeldUniversity

Obvs not sponsored lol, I just noticed I was drinking my mushroom drink while studying this field guide. ‘Mushrooms of the upper Midwest,’ excellent guide btw. I opened the book to page 222 because of the number on the can. I will be looking for this Oak Maze Gill this season! Stay turned to see if I capture a shot ❤️🍄✨

#mushrooms #mycology #nature #adventure #outdoors #photography #naturephotography #academia #fairycore #magic #magik #witchy #222 #hope #hopecore #curiostiy #lifestyle #popular #recent #vibes #psychadelic #newage #pagan #spirituality #cute #silly #meme

🧮 What REALLY happens behind the scenes of mathematical research? 🤔

In our latest episode of It's Not Just Numbers mathematicians Pinar Kilicer & Hildeberto Jardón Kojakhmetov pull back the curtain on the messy, collaborative, and deeply human world of research in mathematics 😊 Perfect for students, researchers, and the math-curious!

Tune in now on https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/not-just-numbers/episodes/S2E04---What-does-it-mean-to-do-research-with-Pinar-Kilicer-and-Hildeberto-Jardn-Kojakhmetov-e2ual7b or your favorite podcast platform!

#mathematics #academia

You know what someone should do? They should hire me to be this jovial, gamemasterly professor who has tea with the grad students, takes them on crazy field trips and museum store raids and boosts them to do interesting work.

#academia

I just signed this statement from Invest in Open Infrastructure (#IOI), and I hope you will too.
https://investinopen.org/blog/statement-of-support-for-a-global-research-ecosystem/

#Academia #OpenAccess #OpenInfrastructure #OpenScience
@academicchatter
@openscience