Matthew Connelly
vice dean of AI initiatives at Columbia; historian of secrecy, the future, and other hard targets.
- A brilliant essay on what graduate historical research can be. Reminds me of the late great Adam McKeown and what might have been. Luckily the title is hyperbolic. The Last Intellectual www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
- Columbia’s History Lab just launched History Lab AI — the world’s largest AI-powered archive. It's built on top of +5M declassified govt docs, and was unveiled just now at the Federal Depository Library Conference. Explore: lab.history.columbia.edu/history-lab-...
- I'm having a hard time deciding: Is the problem that some of our young people might be taking humanitities courses, or is it that they are spending thousands of hours playing first-person shooter games?
- Columbia students showing what real leadership looks like. They are displaying more maturity than many professors. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/04...
- Thank you for asking! Appointing someone to rethink our regional and global centers – much as other universities have been doing since the end of the Cold War – is not a “receivership.”
- I thought his case was really bad. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
- Yes, faculty could do this, but it would be dumb: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/o...
- Reposted by Matthew ConnellyFrom 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
- Reposted by Matthew ConnellyA friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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- Reposted by Matthew ConnellyAmong the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.
- The Cruiser USS Columbia didn't back down even after taking heavy damage, and neither will we. @columbiauniversity.bsky.social is firing back—defending academic freedom, open inquiry, and the pursuit of knowledge. Who else will join the fight?
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- The CFPB has survived, so far. For military history buffs, it's a bit like the Battle of Coral Sea. WE HAVE TO START CELEBRATING VICTORIES, even partial victories www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/b...
- My colleagues at Columbia and I are waiting for more of our friends to start showing some solidarity. That does not mean attacking our administration, based on partial or incorrect information. It means organizing and lobbying to support us. Thank you @ryanenos.bsky.social for stepping up.
- Damn right. People doing nothing to help and can’t even get their facts straight: “Columbia University has been given the names of other individuals who have engaged in pro-Hamas activity, and they are refusing to help DHS identify those individuals on campus.” (WH statement)
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- There is a lot of misinformation about what is happening at Columbia. But I agree that everyone who cares about the First Amendment needs to tell their own institution's leaders, scholarly societies, and elected representatives to show solidarity and resist.
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- There are rallies across the country (and the world) tomorrow: standupforscience2025.org
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- Don’t F*ck with the Catholic F*cking Church
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- Five years ago today Trump toured the CDC and said "Anyone Who Wants a Test Can Get a Test." His bungled rollout of Covid testing meant we were flying blind about where it was spreading, couldn't take a targeted approach, leading to national lockdowns (that helped Trump get reelected).
- Diplomatic malpractice. www.wsj.com/world/americ...
- For the first time, Trump is underwater according to @fivethirtyeight.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy. America, what took you so long?
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- Reposted by Matthew ConnellyI’ve been suggesting on TV and podcasts—without actual evidence(!)—that it may turn out that DOJ will wind up not having enough lawyers to defend all the lawsuits challenging this administration’s illegal conduct. Turns out it seems already to be true. 👉
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- I'm thinking of starting a "today in (recent) history" feature, reminding everyone of all Trump's idiot moves during the one major crisis of his first administration. But then I already missed February 27, 2020, when he said "it's like a miracle, it will disappear"
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- Reposted by Matthew ConnellyI’m somehow on a Heritage Foundation mailing list (😂) and they sent a survey to see what we think of DOGE. Who wants to offer some m-fing feedback?!? secured.heritage.org/the-heritage... Please share with a friend or a thousand :)
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- My father fought to desegregate the lily white fire departments of Long Island. He was arrested in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. Most of his family at the time thought he was a fool, or crazy. We need that kind of courage now.
- Reposted by Matthew ConnellyNo, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.
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- If we were watching Casablanca, instead of this crappy movie, this would be the part when Humphrey Bogart gives permission to resistance hero Victor Laszlo to lead everyone in singing La Marseillaise.
- If we were watching Casablanca, instead of this crappy movie, this would be the part when Humphrey Bogart gives permission to resistance hero Victor Laszlo to lead everyone in singing La Marseillaise.
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- Profile in courage www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
- You’ll have to pry congestion pricing out of this New Yorker’s cold dead fingers
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- Damn right
- This is exactly what I found when I got into The Vatican Secret Archives (it's really called the Vatican Secret Archives). They saw Margaret Sanger as the enemy because, after losing Catholic men to trade unionism, bishops worried about losing the women too. The "natural law" crap was a coverup.
- The culmination of more than a decade of work. We are making available the world's largest corpus of declassified documents for data science research. If you want to be a conspiracy empiricist, and not just a theorist, this is the place to start
- 📢Into US Foreign Policy or text analysis? This is for you! History Lab has released the full text+metadata from our FOIArchive on Hugging Face. 🔍 Perfect for exploring diplomatic history, NLP, & document analysis Repost to spread the word! 🗞️📡 #USForeignPolicy #DigitalHistory #TextAnalysis #OpenData
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- PLEASE REPOST. NYC academic workers, above all those with secure employment (for now) need to show up and be counted. I can't imagine anything more important.
- Academic workers across NYC are taking action in coordination with researchers across the country to defend our work and research on Wednesday, *February 19th, at 4pm* in Washington Square Park ✊ RSVP here to join us: forms.gle/Nrsoe3pcjg7r...
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- Reposted by Matthew ConnellyThanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n
- It's incredibly important for students, faculty, researchers, administrators -- everyone except, maybe, team cancer -- to join in the defense of universitities on Wednesdsay.
- Academic workers across NYC are taking action in coordination with researchers across the country to defend our work and research on Wednesday, *February 19th, at 4pm* in Washington Square Park ✊ RSVP here to join us: forms.gle/Nrsoe3pcjg7r...
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- Stand Columbia is producing some of the best analysis of the attack on higher ed. Check out this table showing how overhead charged by Columbia (and others) on grant-funded research is completely in line with overhead costs in the private sector (standcolumbia.org/2025/02/15/i...)
