Update. Bruce Simon's slides on the Mutual Academic Defense Compact (#MADC) at #SUNY-Fredonia.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11wOgjRy38D88Y1ib9wPvBbnMx3PbQ0Cctxt2ezUHQwY/edit?slide=id.p#slide=id.p

#Academia #Universities #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

Setting all grades to "visible" except there are at least two settings buried in menus and submenus that make it "invisible".

Students can't see grades. Takes a while to figure this out.

Fucking #SUNY has apparently decided to disable (WTF) the instructor "student view," so we can't see what students see.

This means yet more time to do really basic things that shouldn't take time at all.

#professor #complaint #highered #brightspace #lms #baddesign

Interesting thing at my university: the AAC&U statement (signed by over 150 #university presidents in the USA) is a powerful (well, as much as letters can be) response to the #GOP attacks on higher ed via international students.

SUNY's chancellor hasn't signed it, which doesn't really surprise me; our recent chancellors have been fairly #spineless political creatures. When the pressure is overwhelming and the risk seems low, the #SUNY chancellor will sign.

My issue is with my university's president

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https://www.timesnownews.com/education/over-150-us-universities-sign-letter-against-trump-administration-study-abroad-article-151473395

#aacu #internationalstudents #uspol #fascism #management

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Emptiness instanton in quantum polytropic gas

Alexander G. Abanov, Dimitri M. Gangardt
SciPost Phys. 18, 122 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.4.122

#SUNY #Birmingham

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics #Community_Reports

LHC EFT WG note: Basis for anomalous quartic gauge couplings

Gauthier Durieux, Grant N. Remmen, Nicholas L. Rodd, Oscar J. P. Éboli, Maria C. Gonzalez-Garcia, Dan Kondo, Hitoshi Murayama, Risshin Okabe
SciPost Phys. Comm. Rep. 6 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysCommRep.6

#UCL #NYU #LBNL #UCBL #USP #ICREA #SUNY #IPMU

Live now #SUNYOnlineSummit Kim Ccalzo - SUNY Digital Innovation & Academic Services (DIAS) #InnovativeInstruction Coming next Dan Feinberg with a report on the state of #SUNYOnline #OnlineEducation #SUNY #OnlineTeaching #OnlineLearning online.suny.edu/summit/update/

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Two-dimensional topological paramagnets protected by Z_3 symmetry: Properties of the boundary Hamiltonian

Hrant Topchyan, Vasilii Iugov, Mkhitar Mirumyan, Tigran Hakobyan, Tigran A. Sedrakyan, Ara G. Sedrakyan
SciPost Phys. 18, 068 (2025)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.18.2.068

#AlikhanyanNationalLaboratory #SUNY #SCGP #YSU #MassachusettsUniversityAmherst
#SCS

Even "blue state" university presidents are in a tough spot: they will get negative press (i.e., career advancement threat) if they knuckle under to GOP/DOGE/whoeverthefuck, but they'll also potentially have those consequences from other quarters if they don't.

I don't think you get to be a university president by showing "bold leadership." You get that job by doing exactly what every other university president does, which is usually to make loud pronouncements about supporting the "academic status quo" (including supporting all DEI initiatives) while supporting the societal social status quo (i.e., quasi-corporate behavior, anti-labor actions, etc.) with the actions you don't publicly announce.

Currently, university presidents have few "career-safe" avenues of action.

My uni president has finally (after 3+ weeks and like 1/3 of the federal government usurped) made an announcement obliquely related to the insanity. It's only "you don't have the authorization to give ICE/FBI/whoever any information about students and you don't have the authorization to receive or respond to any kind of warrant so refer them to system General Counsel", but I guess it's something.

Maybe someday, possibly after the union is a smoldering ash heap, we'll get some bold leadership.

#suny #highered #professor #corporate #educorporate #uspol #fascism

This post might seem like it's about #brightspace (the #lms the #suny system is forcing us all to use), but it's actually about having bosses who hold you in such contempt that they can't even be bothered to explain why they paid millions of dollars for a product that doesn't work while telling you to use it or else.

Today's Brightspace issue: hundreds of questions with images (trapped within BS's little walled garden of impenetrable database locations) that appear only as placeholders, but might or might not render when placed into a student quiz. The odds seem so far to be about 50/50.

There is no way to know which items are affected *even when I edit each of the hundreds of items by hand*, because I see this placeholder for MOST of the questions but then the students sometimes see the image. Sometimes not.

It's silent failure. No flags, no checks, no indications of what's wrong. No way to know if any changes will fix things.

Other silent failures: BS will cheerfully tell you it has imported your 5,000 or so items (painstakingly created over the past decade) from your previous LMS--which was also mandated--and then just *won't tell you* that hundreds or thousands of them did not import because BS simply choked and pooped or because BS doesn't even have the functionality to use those question types.

I fucking hate this LMS, but I really hate the fact that the people in charge think so little of me and 30,000 of my colleagues that they shove shit like this at us and tell us to pretend it works.

#professor #rant #highered #broken #shittydesign #baddesign #badsoftware #capturedmarket

Time to for an #introduction from my new account. I'm a #gay #married guy with #XLH and living in #RochesterNY. We have three cats and I work as a #AcademicLibrarian at a local #SUNY. This is my personal account so most posts will be shared with followers only. My hobbies include #scuba #travel and hanging out with #friends.

Attention New York State college students!

Students from families earning $125,000 or less can attend a state-operated SUNY or CUNY college tuition-free. The deadline is February 3. See the link for details.

Excelsior Scholarship Program | Higher Education Services Corporation

#HESC #NewYorkState #Education #CollegeScholarships #CUNY #SUNY
https://www.hesc.ny.gov/find-aid/nys-grants-scholarships/excelsior-scholarship-program

Someone found mastodon fossil pieces, and SUNY Orange got in on the action!

https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/about/press/mastodon-discovery

#mastodon #fossil #SUNY

The boot-in-the-face absurdity of a university's upper administration encouraging faculty to nominate the university for a system-wide "shared governance award" as those same administrators systematically degrade and strip governance options from those very faculty.

#highered #professor #suny #bullshitjobs #shitshow

I went to a soccer game at SUNY Cortland yesterday and got a picture of the mascot of the Red Dragons under the stadium lights; thought I'd share it with you before culling photos from that game

#sports #photography #photo #dragons #godragons #cortland #suny

New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

Conventional single-gap $s-$wave superconductivity and hidden peak effect in single crystals of Mo$_8Ga_{41} superconductor

Sunil Ghimire, Kyuil Cho, Kamal R. Joshi, Makariy A. Tanatar, Zhixiang Hu, Cedomir Petrovic, Ruslan Prozorov
SciPost Phys. 17, 117 (2024)
https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.4.117

#ISU #AmesLab #BNL #SUNY #CAS #BelgradeUniversity
#STCShanghai

Welp, as of today I could officially retire from the #SUNY system. In my case that would mean I would get a very small #retirement fund--enough to live on for a couple of years--plus the option to keep my health insurance while paying all premiums out of pocket minus a small discount.

#yay

Todo indica que el ucraniano por fin ha trasladado fuerzas quizá de #Kursk o el norte de #Kharkov (aunque nadie está seguro de su origen) hacia el frente de #Pokrovsk, consiguiendo frenar la toma de #Selydove, la cual sería un desastre para el sur de este frente.
El ucraniano ha estado construyendo defensas en la zona tomada de Kursk, probablemente para llenarlas de tropa poco adiestrada y trasladar a la más preparada hacia el #Donbass. Obviamente, el ruso ya lo esperaba y ha bombardeado y destruido aglomeraciones de material y tropas en #Suny y Kharkov. En la primera un convoy de 600 mts, del que no ha quedado nada.
En una guerra los errores se pagan caros, 1º por los combatientes, 2º por los ciudadanos y, por último, solo a veces por los responsables.
Si miran el entramado de carreteras verán el valor de Selydove

Been super busy between garden activities and fulfilling bakery orders. Just dropped off two of my cinnamon snowflake (star) breads and I may have made a 3rd for us, cause they're delicious!

#CinnamonBread #CinnamonRoll #baking #breakfast #CottageBakery #GeneseoNY #RochesterNY #SUNY #CottageBakery #Bread

SUNY Oneonta's English Department is searching for a t/t medievalist who can also teach queer literature. Please share! I am also happy to answer questions about the position.

https://joblist.mla.org/job-details/8965/assistant-professor-queer-and-medieval-literature/?kw=medieval#top-pagination

#Medieval #MedievalStudies #MedievalLiterature #QueerStudies #QueerLiterature #SUNY #academicchatter #AcademicJob #EnglishLit