#HigherEd is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 297 people shared 1,184 posts with it — around 39 a day. Activity is up 3% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 15 with 84 posts.

Posts with #HigherEd

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over 1 year ago

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

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Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...

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Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

13 days 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.

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Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

8 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.

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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

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Dave Vanness

@djvanness.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

DHS now threatening *all* of Harvard's international students with loss of legal status. Just beyond the pale. #edusky #academicsky #phdsky #highered

Dan Bauman @danbauman77.bsky.social

DHS Secretary Noem threatens to terminate Havard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification if it doesn't turn over student records.

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Audrey Truschke

@audreytruschke.bsky.social

10 months ago

Fellow academics, I'm doing it. Going all in. Pulling the plug, literally. This is on my syllabus for Spring 2026: "This is an analog class. No Canvas; this syllabus is your guide." All readings are printed books; hand-written exams; no laptops. #academicbluesky #Highered #academia #Rutgers

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Katina Rogers

@katinalynn.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Say Goodbye to Small-Town Libraries and Museums, Thanks to Trump’s Latest Cuts

The NEH budget is tiny. The loss is huge.

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Prof Sam Illingworth

@samillingworth.com

13 days 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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Megan Zahneis

@mzahneis.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

A third legal challenge to the NIH overhead cap comes from the Association of American Universities, the American Council on Education, the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities and a dozen institutions. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

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Complaint – #1 in Association of American Universities v. Department of Health & Human Services (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10346) – CourtListener.com

COMPLAINT against Department of Health & Human Services, Dorothy A Fink, Matthew J Memoli, National Institutes of Health Filing fee: $ 405, receipt number AMADC-10833852 (Fee Status: Filing Fee paid),...

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Rebecca Bryant Novak

@notorious-rbn.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

He screamed. He cursed. He harassed. I reported him. The result? He stayed at the Eastman School of Music. I got expelled. #rochester #uofr #everbetter #meliora #urochesterresearch #rochesterbound #thisisROC #AcademicSky #EduSky #MeToo #highered #musicsky #musiciansky

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He Got A Slap on the Wrist. I Got Expelled.

Excerpts from my Eastman complaint to the New York State Division of Human Rights—submitted under penalty of perjury.

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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)

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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.

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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.

Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social

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.

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