Bluesky · Hashtag

#HigherEd

990
posts · 30d
281
users
33
posts / day
3.5
posts / user
-16% vs last week

#HigherEd is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 281 people shared 990 posts with it — around 33 a day. Activity is down 16% versus the previous week, peaking on Sep 9 with 57 posts.

#HigherEd posts per day (last 30 days)

Posts with #HigherEd

Admirable Women
@admirablewomen.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
Dr. Nanna Svartz invented Salazopyrin (1941), a global blockbuster treatment for rheumatoid arthritis & more that is still used today. She became #Sweden's first female professor of medicine at a public university in 1937 (Karolinska Institutet). Born #OTD in 1890. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HigherEd
Black-and-white photograph of Swedish physician and researcher Nanna Svartz as an older woman. She is seated in a laboratory, wearing a white lab coat with a dark bow at the neck, and smiling directly at the camera. Her left hand rests on a large vintage microscope in front of her, with books, papers, and lab equipment visible in the background.
10 403 1843
Admirable Women
@admirablewomen.bsky.social
10 months ago
DYK: Women have earned the majority of doctoral degrees awarded by American universities each year since 2009. First women to earn a PhD in the US? Helen Magill White. Her PhD was in Greek from Boston University, 1877. She was born #OTD in 1853. @bostonu.bsky.social #education #highered #academia
Black-and-white portrait of Helen Magill White. The pioneering American scholar—who in 1877 became the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.—appears as a young woman with dark hair styled in an elegant updo secured with a decorative comb. She wears a high-necked Victorian dress with a lace collar and striped bodice, with a serious gaze.
10 368 1430
Altmetric
@altmetric.com
over 1 year ago
THREAD The numbers are in. @bsky.app research sharing volumes vs X Formerly Twitter In March 2024, on most days, Bluesky hosts more posts linked to research published in 2025 than X. By quite a lot. Release the Kraken... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics 1/11
Butterflies on a blue sky
18 463 1210
James Sims
@simsjames.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
“My job as a leader of the university is to speak up for the values that we claim to believe in, especially when they’re at odds with people with enormous power.” — Wesleyan University’s President Michael Roth in @newyorker.com (proud to have him continually and publicly defending #HigherEd)
A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice

www.newyorker.com

A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice

The Trump Administration wants to punish schools for student activism. Michael Roth, of Wesleyan, argues that colleges don’t have to roll over.

13 141 485
Peter Tennant
@pwgtennant.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now? Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.

The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people. Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much. Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

22 182 475
Prof Sam Illingworth
@samillingworth.com
about 2 months ago
🚩 My 2010 PhD thesis is ‘70% AI’ I ran my 2010 PhD thesis through an AI detector. It flagged 70% as AI, then tried to sell me a ‘humanise’ fix. Either I am a time traveller, or these tools do not work. Link to my thesis in the comments to try yourself. #AIDetection #HigherEd 🧪 #AI
Screen grab of an AI detection test showing 70%.
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