Greg Britton

Greg Britton

@gmbritton.bsky.social

Editorial Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press and acquiring editor for our Higher Ed. program. “Oh, I used to be disgusted. And now I try to be amused….”

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Greg Britton
@gmbritton.bsky.social

A worthy reread. Thank you!!! Plus humorous graphics.

Alex Usher@alexusherhesa.bsky.social

This is the best Deloitte story in many a moon. And of course, it gives me a chance to re-post my most-ever requested blog post.

higheredstrategy.comA Report So Stupid Only a "Thought Leader" Could Have Written It | HESAThe week before last, Deloitte – that redoubtable home for “Big Thinking” management consultant types who are nevertheless not big-enough-thinking for McKinsey – released a paper entitled The Intellig...
Greg Britton
@gmbritton.bsky.social

"The Western Australian government has said it is “extremely disappointed” and is seeking an “expedited” cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were discovered in a report about a potential university merger, including AI-hallucinated references…."

theguardian.com‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university reportState paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

in a research library that has most of the entire set of the documentary history of the ratification of the constitution and i am in hog heaven

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈
@whysharksmatter.bsky.social

I reviewed this and liked it and I think you’d like it too

Greg Britton@gmbritton.bsky.social

Want to take your scholarship public? @lollardfish.bsky.social can walk you though the steps. Lace up your shoes! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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On the Media
@onthemedia.bsky.social

About a quarter of NPR affiliate stations are tied to public universities. And as the Trump administration has cracked down on higher education, public radio outlets find themselves in an increasingly precarious position with the schools that house them. lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

lnk.toOn the MediaThe Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

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Julien Moreau
@boorhin.bsky.social

Very good article about the state of affairs in academia, its awful management, spiralling down towards self-destruction. The spin of this whirlpool accelerates thanks to encouraged AI misuse aka bollox politics... theconversation.com/friday-essay...

theconversation.comFriday essay: AI is devastating higher education, but the system was already brokenAI is a project of the powerful, implemented in the name of an efficiency that has nothing to do with the good, writes Jeff Sparrow.

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Howard Liu, MD, MBA
@drhowardliu.bsky.social

“But the housing supply both on campus and off did not keep up as the university grew, and the area’s geography is one big reason. The school is hemmed in by an airport and bodies of water, including the Pacific Ocean.” As state school tuition rises, housing lags. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

nytimes.comPublic Colleges Are Passing the $50,000-a-Year Mark. For Locals. (Gift Article)At the University of California campuses in Berkeley, Irvine and Santa Barbara, students get an unwitting education in navigating the housing market.
Greg Britton
@gmbritton.bsky.social

No, this:

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield
@jaykaydee.bsky.social

Oh this is very good indeed. Krislov had an excellent tenure at Oberlin, a good pick to rebuild trust in a place with a similar culture.

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Greg Britton
@gmbritton.bsky.social

I don’t care if a wet beagle negotiates a ceasefire. Just stop.

The Associated Press@apnews.com

BREAKING: First lady Melania Trump helps broker a ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky for humanitarian aid and evacuations, the White House says.

bit.lyMelania Trump helps forge a ceasefire deal in Russian-occupied Oleshky, the White House saysThe White House says first lady Melania Trump has brokered an upcoming ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the war-ravaged city of Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians.

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Matt Weiland
@mattweiland.bsky.social

“Consistently enjoyable.“―Jennifer Szalai, NYT “A winning work of cultural criticism.”―KIRKUS “Expertly reported, alive with fascinating details, and written with remarkable narrative flair.”―@mrkocnnll.bsky.social “Elegant, judicious, and often very moving."―@lancerichardson.bsky.social

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Mike Walker
@newnarrative.bsky.social

‼️ BREAKING: US embassy staff and families have been ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave, diplomatic source tells AFP. Sounds like all hell is about to take place in the Middle East again.

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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social

In my most curmudgeonly moments, I don’t see why presenting the prose output of a machine built on mass theft as your own scholarly work should be evaluated less harshly than old school plagiarism. Traditional plagiarists at least had to identify and evaluate the works they were going to copy.

Chronicle of Higher Education@chronicle.com

Opinion: If AI is now part of academic writing, what should institutions actually evaluate? This essay argues that analytical writing should be judged by evidence, structure, argument, and accountability not by guesses about how each sentence was produced. https://chroni.cl/4eDRdjg

chroni.clOpinion | Who Cares Whether Academics Use AI to Write?We should judge analytical writing by its quality, not its source.

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Manisha Sinha
@profmsinha.bsky.social

Historian here we are not just witnessing the systematic sabotage of the post war international order and American hegemony but also a return to the Triple Axis of the pre WWI era, marked by uber nationalism, imperialism, jingoism, and racism. God help us!

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING WSJ: Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, Trump, and Xi Jinping meet next month to talk about Ukraine in an attempt to negotiate an end to the four-year conflict that would favor Moscow.

wsj.comExclusive | Putin Floats a Summit With Trump and Xi to Decide Ukraine’s FateThe Russian leader is trying to capitalize on warming ties with the president to unlock a favorable resolution to the war with Kyiv.

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Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics
@bermaninstitute.bsky.social

Congrats to our Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, who is among four Johns Hopkins Medicine faculty elected to the National Academy of Medicine | Newswise www.newswise.com/articles/fou...

newswise.comFour Johns Hopkins Medicine Faculty Elected to National Academy of Medicine | NewswiseThis year, four Johns Hopkins Medicine faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), an independent, renowned nonprofit organization of leading scientific and medical pr...

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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
@kfitz.info

One reason among many that the humanities should reclaim leadership among its areas of study. My own LEADING GENEROUSLY is one place to start.

Greg Britton@gmbritton.bsky.social

"Much of what has happened in business schools turned out to be the leading edge of a broader transformation: the corporatization of the university itself.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

nytimes.comOpinion | I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down. (Gift Article)Students come in with noble intentions and leave with flawed expertise.

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Joanne Freeman
@jbf1755.bsky.social

W. T. F. META closed down the No Kings Instagram account??? What??? Administrators are still unable to post. So folks—you know what to do. Post pictures of No Kings marching so people can see it!!

Ezra Levin ❌👑@ezralevin.bsky.social

Full update from our team. We STILL do not have admin access to the account.

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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social

it looks like this spring I am going to dartmouth, ole miss, and cuny. I can probably book one more event in may, if you'd like me to come to an end of the year event. www.davidmperry.com/go-public/

davidmperry.comThe Public Scholar WorkshopThere’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher educat...