Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster aaup.org/news/columbia-…

Migraines are far more common in Australian women than previously thought, survey reveals abc.net.au/news/2025-08-0…

The ACTU will take to the economic roundtable tax proposals: - limit neg gearing & cap gains to 1 property and grandfather existing for 5 years - 25% min family trusts - 25% min for all ppl with income over $1mil/pa - 25% on gas export revenue - limit fuel rebate to $20mil

My brief explainer on yesterday's international education policy announcement. It's a modest improvement, after 2 years of trying to cut international student numbers.

#OtD 5 Aug 1895 Friedrich Engels, communist and lifelong collaborator, friend and sponsor of Karl Marx, died in London aged 74. Most famously, he co-wrote the Communist Manifesto: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/bo…

Explaining gerrymandering More of a public service announcement than an editorial cartoon.

Neither negative gearing nor the capital gains tax discount were initially targeted at rental housing. The impact on housing market was an unintended consequence. So let’s fix it and stop these unintended consequence and not ingrain the mistake further. theconversation.com/how-many-of-au…

Operation Warp Speed was the best government investment of our lives and was thanks to Trump. And still, STILL, the right hates mRNA. You wonder why I have so much contempt for you. If you were just Trump cultists you’d be better than what you are, destructive and stupid.

Columbia’s deal reaffirms rather than challenges a narrative of widespread antisemitism, while reinforcing the ongoing erasure of Palestinians, Jennifer Ruth writes. insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

mRNA technology didn’t appear overnight. it is the result of DECADES of research - now driving some of the most promising advances in cancer, HIV, and rare disease. It is precise, fast, and adaptable - and yes - revolutionary. And it is now very much being dismantled.

People realize these are vaccines for CANCER, right? Like, cancer was going to become a treatable disease because of this funding. Now your cancer will be a death sentence, because of RFK and Trump.

Jay Howard Noah Smith 🐇 Drug development can be funded by a pharma profit motive. But it is built atop basic science of understanding how biological, etc. mechanisms work. That knowledge is not patentable and mostly feasible to fund governmentally. Government funding of basic science is an incredibly

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The right has filled a void on antisemitism – leaving the Jewish left without a language to talk about it theconversation.com/the-right-has-… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Those who research teaching in higher education tend to adopt one of 3 types of critique based on functional pragmatism, learning theory or critical theory. The balance between these types of critique has changed radically since the 1990s. My new paper: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Oxford United’s new stadium has been recommended for approval by Cherwell District Council’s planning officers. The plan to build a stadium at the Triangle, near Kidlington, will be considered by councillors next Thursday (14 August).

Almost 40% of Americans live in states where legislatures have enacted laws and authorised policies that censor universities reports Nathan M. Greenfield @PENAmerica PEN International #censorship #academicfreedom universityworldnews.com/post.php?story…

UniversityWorldNews Nathan M. Greenfield PEN America PEN International With a Wave of New Bills in 2025, State Legislators Cast a Web of Control over Higher Education pen.org/with-a-wave-of…

'Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza? We asked 5 legal and genocide experts how to interpret the violence.' theconversation.com/is-israel-comm…