Oh no, what horrible news. Bea was an absolute lifelong fighter for a better world, a link to several previous eras of organizing going back to the Great Depression, a constant presence that felt infinite. Her loss is monumental.
We were asked this year to believe this, that the imposition of curricular and expressive controls over teaching at Lab had no bearing on academic freedom on central campus:
Excellent op-ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:
To the extent that people are angry (as they very much should be!) about the horrific war on science, they also need to get angry about this outrageous war on the humanities. Both attack peer reviewed research that doesn’t happen to fit with a center-right worldview.
The Vanderbilt report and Trump’s attack on the NIH and NSF are part of the same right-wing effort to attack the authority of all peer-reviewed knowledge so that they can police what researchers write, say, publish, and think to ensure it complies with corporate-friendly aims.
There needs to be an app you can load with recipes and put into a voice activated speaker, which talks to you about each step, so you don’t have to keep scrolling through your phone. And you can do stuff like say “how much is that in teaspoons” or “multiply by 1.5” or whatever