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Assume you have some power. Be critical of ideas and accepting of people. Create with care and purpose, and without fear. Do, or do not, or try — there is no correct answer. Everything would be safer and easier if we all spoke more openly. Fabulous is as fabulous does. Great minds think.

Grand to have embarrassing authoritarian shit like this exist alongside people spraining their own elbows patting themselves on the back at the Mark Twain Prize evening for “not being afraid to piss people off” or what have you.

Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit SaysSouth Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.www.nytimes.com

The Iowa Board of Regents voted to suspend all courses offered through the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom until 2028 as the search for its permanent director continues.

Center for Intellectual freedom classes on holdThis is an installment in a multipart series The Iowa Board of Regents voted Wednesday to pause all courses offered through the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom, citing the need to...dailyiowan.com

I am honored to announce that my book, Freedom Train, has won the American Book Award. My co-winners this year include Stephen Colbert, a Bancroft Award winning historian, and a Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Learn more at the link below. www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com

If you’ve never recalled a book from yourself, are you even an academic?

New open access article about open access publishing from @mollymking.bsky.social and me: "Sharing Knowledge Openly: Author Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Feminist Science" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sharing Knowledge Openly: Author Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Feminist Science - Molly M. King, Jeffrey W. Lockhart, 2026Open science is an increasingly important movement in contemporary social science. Many funders have begun to mandate open practices, newer journals like Socius...journals.sagepub.com

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot TeacherPlans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.nysfocus.com

With this stuff I’m always just like “Release the Cristobal!”, the Millionaire Exodus Kraken of Cornell, equally devastating and let’s face it almost as large (sociology.cornell.edu/cristobal-yo...)

Sewer socialism for the 21st century!

Fantastic review of Sex in Public in Playgirl Magazine. “Fascinatingly thought-provoking…Jones begs us to open the discussion around sexuality and take it from private to public.” Dr. Jamye Waxman 1/2 #newbook #book #sexuality #summer #reading #booktok #empowement playgirl.com/sex-talk/the...

The Social Power of Eroticism | PlaygirlPlaygirl reviews Angela Jones' Sex in Public: The Transformative Social Power of Our Erotic Lives. What makes, or breaks, our sexualityplaygirl.com

If your solution is “I would simply teach in a constructive, clever, warm, and inspiring manner that overcame all of these obstacles and brought out the inner virtue that I know exists inside every student waiting only to be awakened” OK good for you I guess

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.

I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...

Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deservesVictor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for educationwww.ms.now

I just created www.lgbtqlegislation.com which builds on the work of the LegiAlerts team to provide an interactive data dashboard to look at 20+ years of anti-LGBTQ legislation and especially anti-trans legislation. It also includes an overview of pro-LGBTQ legislation. Check it out!

LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking ProjectTwo decades of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, documented bill by bill — 10,000+ bills tracked across every state and Congress by the LegiAlerts team.lgbtqlegislation.com

The ongoing puzzle of It’s Hard To Learn Things And Grades Are Meaningless But I Would Prefer To Do No Work And I Insist On Getting An A.

Much has been written about increasing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, but we know less about what it’s like to grow up under it: “I’m Afraid for My Life”: Queer and Trans Youth’s Experiences of Surviving Far-Right Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in Alberta, Canada. In Youth & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.journals.sagepub.com

Too many people think their productivity, as compared to their peers, is because they're a very special researcher and not because of the structural affordances of their employer

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

To the Trans Girl Who Just Lost at the Supreme Court: So Did I 26 Years AgoA letter to Becky Pepper Jackson about her trans sports case defeat at SCOTUS yesterdaymedium.com

Thanks, @kahyangni.bsky.social