Sharing this gem again since academia loves to “decolonize” everything besides concrete things. Decolonization has become a metaphor signifying everything besides material change and collective resistance. Students at Columbia are showing us that another university is possible.

Give the universities and colleges to the people. That’s the only way to save them from the structural violence, moral degradation, warmongering, and intellectual dishonesty.

'why was it that the students couldn't call in the police to get rid of the trustees , but the trustees could call in the police to get rid of the students ?'

-Michael Parenti, Power in the Universities, 1986

its so funny that conservatives are like “colleges are breeding grounds for communism” meanwhile every university is like “unfortunately, after our students decided to violently speak about politics, we were forced to expel them from the Koch/Pepsi Department of Genocide Studies”

sorry but we all have to “pay rent in NYC.” this is such a privileged, individualistic take. our faces and names have been on blacklist sites for years. we get smear campaigns organized against us to make us unemployable. students are being suspended and evicted. and still, none

You have to fuck up on a truly historic level to get the NYPD to say “even we think these were meaningless arrests.” They love meaningless arrests!

The “care for students” era in higher ed is over. Time for the “solidarity with students” era.

The bravery of these students cannot be understated. They know the university can revoke their scholarships/financial aid & suspend/expel them at will. They know there are hundreds of police officers itching to assault/arrest them. They’re putting everything on the line.

The press is being banned from the institution that administers the Pulitzer Prizes.

UPDATE: The NYPD have now arrested the legal observers at the Columbia University Palestine solidarity encampment

Evicting students from their housing for participation in nonviolent protest is beyond egregious. All solidarity with Barnard and Columbia protestors

Columbia deans are gonna be like “what is kettling but a thinking of community otherwise, a rupture in the distribution of the sensible,”

It's an American pastime to make fun of college students for being coddled or spoiled etc. But putting your future on the line for the sake of your fellow students in support of one of the greatest causes of liberation today is genuinely courageous stuff

Minouche, this is going to be your legacy. That you used NYPD to clear students that were in your care. That you used your voice to dismiss them. Think about how 1968 is remembered. You have cemented your name in history as oppressor; as the person who released the dogs. Shame.

BREAKING ‼️
As of 4 AM this morning, Columbia University students have occupied the center of campus, launching our Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
We demand divestment and an end to Columbia’s complicity in genocide.

Another paper on utility of polygenic risk scores: nature.com/articles/s4146…

tl;dr: polygenic risk scores have no utility.

A reminder from the Third World Women’s Alliance.

Finally

extremely room-temperature take: it is not possible for there to be a “postdoc shortage” if there are a like hundred fold as many postdocs as there are faculty positions