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Indiana state legislature just staged a hostile takeover of IU, functionally eliminating tenure, promising to close smaller (hum) majors, taking over the IU board, and cutting the IU budget. This is so bleak

Bloodbath in Indiana higher ed as public colleges and universities ordered to eliminate 20% of all degree programs, apparently based purely on student demand (=enrollments) and not any rational calculation of need or value. ipm.org/news-section/2…

Thank god, Indiana University is cutting the absolutely useless degrees of teaching english, journalism, math and social studies. Very good very cool, who needs teachers in indiana I guess lmao

NEW: Public universities in Indiana are cutting hundreds of degree programs to comply with a new law that requires every program to meet a threshold number of graduates per year. Here are the 116 programs being cut at Indiana University Bloomington: A.A. in General Studies A.S.

Most incredible about this is that IU-Bloomington has long been the no. 1 university in the world for teaching Asian languages and cultures, with many programs not found anywhere else. They're slashing many of IU-B's most distinctive programs without any thought or debate.

It's hard to avoid recalling this passage from the English historian Tony Judt:

Obviously not news I'm happy to share. Really proud of our team and all the work we've done. If you know of any job opportunities, send them my way! indianacapitalchronicle.com/briefs/indiana…

Lessons include: *defeating hunchbacks in battle *marrying *annulling weddings *remarrying *executing wives *more marrying *breaking with Roman Catholic church *dissolution of monasteries *remarrying multiple times *defeating armadas

You know you live in a red state when even your eggs come with a Bible verse

“I represent 67,000 pediatricians across the country. … Let's be perfectly clear, this bill will cause devastating impacts to children. And while children only represent 22% of our population, they represent 100% of the future”. - American Academy of Pediatrics President Dr. Susan Kressly

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I am grateful to Pope Leo XIV Pope Leo XIV for the warm welcome at his private residence — the Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo. It is a great honor for me to be here, in a place which has contributed to shaping the history of Europe and the world for the past four centuries. This

1/n This is nonsense, the Covid death rates globally = a mirror image of where people weren’t getting vaccinated. Look at the next two attached figures

Dear old people: Waking up at 6am, tending to a garden, eating dinner at 5pm, reading books, and going to bed at 9:30pm feels amazing. I was wrong. You were right.

2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention. The effects were similar to being a decade younger.

As predicted, the US now faces the worst measles outbreak since its elimination You may think only kids of parents who choose not to vaccinate are at risk This is false Many more people are vulnerable If measles becomes endemic, it puts a lot of children at risk 🧵

The measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles after two doses. to.pbs.org/3Ievamh

"Most important, the {weather] service had issued three increasingly dire warnings early that morning — at 1:14 a.m., 4:03 a.m. and 6:06 a.m. What Kelly didn’t mention, but which has since become well known, is that the Weather Service employee whose job it was to make sure

Who knew that Pence would turn out to be the Einstein of the whole bunch?

Usain Bolt runs as a guide for blind Paralympic champion Terezinha Guilhermina in Rio