As Michael Mann said: the US is becoming a petrostate, while China becomes an electrostate.
Bryan Alexander
Bryan Alexander
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Higher education futurist. Author of _Universities on Fire_ and _Academia Next_.
Blog and links to everything: https://bryanalexander.org/
futurist: future
"I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better"
-found on Bluesky
Ye gods, there's a lot going on in this Trump post about Epstein and... things.
"As of April 12, over 170 colleges and universities have identified 950-plus international students and recent graduates who have had their legal status changed by the State Department."
Inside Higher Ed
"The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered."
-Kara Jane Adams
Very useful data on gender and college degrees from Pew Research:
Pew Research Center
U.S. women are outpacing men in college completion, including in every major racial and ethnic group
Today, 47% of U.S. women ages 25 to 34 have a bachelor’s degree, compared with 37% of men.
Question for the hive mind:
How should we do climate change work in academia after the GOP triumph?