We need to start having survivor-led conversations about sexual harassment and trauma in academia & fieldwork. Book a FIEST Training for the upcoming fall quarter. Email [email protected] for more info. Timeslots are flexible. Any size audience. No one is turned away

The intense scrutiny faced by junior scholars of color is a form of institutional racism. Higher education often perpetuates racism and classism. It’s time to stop criticizing the approaches of researchers in fields we don't fully understand.

I have been very fortunate in my academic life, I have found support not only from my colleagues but from my supervisors and people that I consider mentors. This guy's behavior, besides unethical, should be considered a type of moral abuse.

My university has informed us that we are moving to a “customer service” model. Not a joke.

Student journalists The Daily Campus crunched the numbers and reviewed all the spreadsheets to compose this chilling headline: At least 245 academic programs at risk of elimination in Provost’s review.

"I am risking arrest because we will soon be two years without an annual raise - and I’m ready for our union to start seriously escalating!" -- Zoe Hu, The Graduate Center, 10/21/2024 Contract for #APeoplesCUNY

Its app season for grad programs! If you're a disabled academic applying to programs, feel free to join the DAC to vent, get support, and meet other grad students! 1/4

I heard a number of stories like this while on the faculty job market, often told in good humor. But it's not really funny, is it? You shouldn't have to feel like you have to drink or go back to someone's house/hotel to land the job or network. I am so tired of this culture

And in one fell swoop of a presidential pen, we (along with our partners) just lost all our federal contracts for the FEIST training. Stand up for survivors and break the cycle: Bring our ‘trauma in the field’ training to your students and researchers. docs.google.com/forms/d/1A7I1i…

In painful disbelief [a thread]. 7 years Ive worked doing unpaid labor to prevent another victim from going through what I and so many of us go through- academic trauma. 7 years, listening to victims, sending them any funds and support we had;

Dr. Noor Nazir, a postdoctoral scholar in mechanical and aerospace engineering at UC Davis, is facing forced departure from the U.S. just days after being diagnosed with a high-risk twin pregnancy. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/legal-…

When organizations or Universities preface an outcome by saying “This decision was not easy” it 100% of the time means they chose money over principle.

Places like Columbia and Chicago rely heavily on humanities teaching for their undergrad brand identity - at the same time, they are happy to cut humanities research.

Voice of Victim "For postdocs, working late nights & weekends at the lab are mandatory Our Professor regularly reminds us 'Don’t forget, there’s a global stack of postdocs begging for your job' He describes vacation, sick leave & other non-lab activities as disruptive"

It’s essential for health of Universities to foster a culture that is safe, supportive & humane This means acknowledging how power & vulnerability play out in the real world We need to stop giving endless benefit of the doubt to the powerful who bully, intimidate & harass

Here's Larry Summers's wife Elisa New emailing Jeffrey Epstein, in 2018, literature recommendations. She recommends Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and My Antonia by Will Cather, as both are about "a man whose whole life is stamped forever by his impression of a young girl."

Just a massive window onto the corruption and depravity of an entire ruling class.

I do hope Harvard trustees will investigate Larry Summers' intimate relationship with underage sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and take any necessary steps lest a problematic situation deteriorate further!

Summers called this female Chinese economist “peril.” “Yellow peril” was partially built on the claim that Chinese women were sexually immoral threats. That logic fueled the Page Act of 1875, which barred Chinese women as presumed prostitutes, even before Chinese Exclusion Act.

Jeffrey Epstein and Larry Summers, former Harvard president and treasury secretary, bantered about Summers’ desire to sleep with a mentee. They called her “peril”—as in “yellow peril.” She is Chinese. Summers, who remains a tenured Harvard professor, has been married since