π¨ Please comment if you can find the time and circulate widely. The LCME Standards β and their application in med schools β are not perfect but they are the ONLY national requirement incentivizing med school leadership to have *at least something* on social inequalities!!!
This will be catastrophic for an already worsening crisis in healthcare, particularly in primary care.
Faculty senates are under attack from new legislation that sidelines faculty voices and undermines academic freedom. The latest AAUP report defends independent, representative governance as essential to higher edβs integrity. @aaup.org academeblog.org/2025/11/18/i...
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks⦠real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which⦠yeah.
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment weβre losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
βIf there is a message to be heeded in the legislative assault on governance bodies, it is that the enemies of higher education, nonetheless, still fear faculty authority. Why else would they be so insistent on silencing faculty members?β
#DefendHigherEd
A group of thirty people holding signs that say βHigher Education Research Saves Livesβ, βAAUPβ, and βPhilly Labor for Higher Education & Healthcareβ stand outside PA Senator Dave McCormickβs office. A Santander bank sign is visible in the background.
Great to see so many Philadelphia hire ed folks at yesterdayβs Day of Action! Cross-union organizing makes us stronger in the fight for academic freedom and the soul of our schools
@aaup-penn.bsky.social @afscme590.bsky.social @aft.org @apscuf.org @fsfccp.bsky.social
This is fascinating because this is such a new field and somehow they are going to hire 100 tenure-track faculty in the next 5 years who specialize in it. And yet when asked to fill spots with faculty of color/women/marginalized groups, administrators often cry about how the pipelines don't exist.
Philly! On Friday, Nov. 7th at 12pm
Noon, join higher ed workers and students at 20th and Market to protest Senator McCormickβs co-signing of billionaire attacks on Higher Education in Pennsylvania. Despite writing a book about leadership, is nothing but a fool follower of bad actors.
i'm sure the "faculty forum" on "reducing burnout" and "enhancing resilience" will include helpful things like "join your faculty union" and "here's a bucket of money" and "we hired a bunch of new full time faculty to reduce the teaching load across the university"
@aaup.org Legal Advisory Letter to General Counsels about the significant First Amendment violations the Compact creates and that will face any compact signing university or college #NoCompact www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...
An analysis of βnearly 1,000 AI-enabled medical devices, or AIMDs, approved by the FDA found an alarming trend: Devices from publicly traded companies are far more likely to be recalled, and many hit the market without being tested on real people.β
I know we all have bigger concerns right now, but what is going on with the ASA?
This commentary was the first place I've gotten to write about and theorize how medical education inculcates trainees into a culture of the "dys-appearing body" (to use Leder's phrase), as in, how medical school trains people to ignore their bodily needs.
I don't know if this link works because Outlook is annoying.
The SSM collection on Boltanski's "social uses of the body" that @ahvinson.bsky.social and I appear in is now live! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
The s key on my laptop is not working. I am ending all my emails with a single warm regard.
If you are broke and would like a free physical copy of Enemy Feminisms, DM me your mailing address. I will probably cover postage (or might ask you to chip in a bit for that)
New article with @ahvinson.bsky.social in which we use Boltanski's "somatic cultures" to explore the sociology of health professions education authors.elsevier.com/c/1lv~R-CmV5...
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
77% are right-wing violence. if you add domestic Islamist extremism (which, if you believe Gambetta and Herzog, are also right-wing), then we're at 95%
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Very excited that the special issue of the Drexel Law Review arising from this year's symposium on democratic erosion and the contemporary assault on education, knowledge, and academic freedom is now published. My introduction to the symposium issue is available here:
βIt found 90% of respondents think federal investment in STEM education is important for future economic prosperity, and the majority of respondents from both parties are concerned about policy changes that might make it harder for the U.S. to attract and retain top scientists.β
Every time Trump turns to a liberal institution to demand cooperation, it should be a reminder that he canβt accelerate the spread of fascism without our help.
And we strengthen the power we already have when we withhold our help.
I am really enjoying this excellent book from @dukepress.bsky.social
They are coming for every university, if you think youβre safe because it hasnβt been yours yet I donβt know what to tell you. Join AAUP, refuse to comply, organize your colleagues
Penn workers of all kinds, there is a petition here you can sign and a rally to attend with your colleagues tomorrow. See you there
I sincerely think that universities should suspend their productivity standards for scientists and ask them instead to hold town halls in schools, public libraries, museums, shopping malls, and anywhere else and communicate what is being lost with the collapse of the research ecosystem.
