sachabnelson.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, educator
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hopefully, some of us will stay and fight
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If you think this is a good idea, repost and lets start planning.
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7/8...If we can diminish the ability of this administration to make academics into scapegoats and bogeymen, we will be doing a broader service. Its time to coordinate our efforts and raise one voice, while recognizing the unique issues that face each of our communities.
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6/8...But the truth is so much more righteous than the evils imagined by those that distrust. Let's make it clear to to all who will listen that we are trying to do good, not just for ourselves, but for our communities and our country...
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5/8 ...How should admissions decisions be made? How should the need to air differing opinions be balanced? We may not like everything we hear, but we should listen.
For some of us, being transparent may be painful. Some universities have large endowments and many privileged students...
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4/8...There has been a deafening silence from academia, almost as if we are ashamed of what we do. We are not ashamed. We are doing the right thing.
We should invite them in. And we should listen. We should listen to what our communities have to say. How should financial aid be apportioned? ...
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3/8...learn about great works of art and literature and about the history of this great country and of our neighbors in the world. Here is where they learn about philosophy and business and engineering. Do you really want to close these doors?
We should do it soon, in May or June...
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2/8...here is where the tuition money goes, here are the labs where the cancer and Alzheimer's research is done. This is how research is funded. These are the members of the community we employ. This is the wage structure across the organization. Here are the classrooms where our young people...
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1/8 Copy of prior post, not shared with this group:
Now is the time for a National Teach-In. Not for students, for the whole community. Colleges and universities need to make the case to our communities of our value. We should invite the community in, open up the books, let them know: ...
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You are so right. My question is, how can the many diverse constituencies hurt by Trump policies synergize? Its great for there to be a thousand small protests over AID, Science, Climate, corruption, Putin/Ukraine, middle east policy, tesla/DOGE/Musk etc. But how do we bring this all together?
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2/2 But like many schools without medical schools (e.g. Brandeis, Rice, Caltech, MIT) it relies heavily on federal research funding. So its not like they have nothin to lose. Importantly, the attacks on academia are broad based. They are eager to get everybody. Eisgruber is being brave.
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1/2: The principle is true, but the facts are misleading. Not only does Princeton not have a completely over-leveraged medical school like Columbia, Hopkins, Harvard and the UCs, it also is one of the oldest and richest (endowment per student) Universities in the country.
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You can do what's right or you can do what you are told,
And the prize of the victory will belong to the bold,
Yes, these are the days of decision.
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Shame on Giorgia Meloni and the other Camp Hobbit types for co-opting this great work.
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#EduSky
#PhDSky
#PhDChat
#AcademicSky
#HigherEd
#TimesUpHigherEd
#AcademicChatter
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University of Kansas (as of 8/21): 51.5 %
University of Michigan: 56%
University of Wisconsin: 55.5%
University of Florida: 52.5%
need I go on? some privates are 10 points higher,
but there is not a huge spread, except for much less research active institutions.
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Yes. At MIT departments have to make up the indirect for e.g. Asst professors to accept beauty grants from institutions that carry lower indirects. At my institution (Brandeis) we allow lower rates, though I think it requires someone to sign off if its below 20%.
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re #2. Not so outrageous. Just means that for one lab full of scientists, it costs a little over half again as much to build the building, pay the utilities, hire janitorial staff, administrators, hire compliance and accounting staff, support the library and do a bunch of other stuff required.
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Difficult for many to understand. To help better communicate -Q1: What is the "effective" indirect rate for NIH intramural? Has anyone tried to calculate? Q2: Presumably the 27-28% quoted in NOT-OD-25-068 reflects the mix of rates (close to nothing on training, <40% on SBIR). Is this correct?
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Hello, Monica, please add me:
Sacha Nelson
google scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
thx