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Anyone who thinks RFK Jr. actually cares about your health or the environment is out of their mind… www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

submitted 4 days ago • 67 comments

The environment at the department of education is intense. #academicsky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Federal Funding Uncertainty Prompts Hiring Freezes Proposed cuts to National Institutes of Health reimbursement rates have created financial headaches for universities, prompting cost-cutting measures at even the richest institutions. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4k3cYua

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#academicSky How are your universities responding? Are they?! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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People leave academic jobs to be program officers at NSF and other agencies. Many programs have trouble recruiting for these permanent positions. The damage this will do to US science will be long lasting. #academicsky

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🧵Who is opposing the Trump administration? I analysed 76 actions of the administration since inauguration and then searched for meaningful opposition to each. I grouped the types of opposition and considered what we can learn from both them & actions where opposition has been lacking 1/24

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

ICYMI: a post about why the firings at NIH this weekend devastated cancer research. And other biomedical research too. Building a science lab is like building a new company: it takes years to put together the right team. Many lab groups are now broken. altnih4science.subst...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

🦋A starter pack of organizations offering research funding🧪 💵 💶 💷 #research #science #innovation #funding #grants #grant #ResearchFunding #ResearchSupport #FundingOpportunities #funding #NIH #ERC #HorizonEurope #DFG #ANR #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhD #PhDChat #PostDoc #ECR #ECRChat #NewPI

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

💥New: Donald Trump's early actions have focused on education & knowledge production. @philipncohen.com argues beyond their short-term implications, these measures represent a concerted effort to undermine scientific enquiry across all fields of research. #AcademicSky #SocialScience #HigherEducation

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$900 Million in Institute of Education Sciences Contracts Axed The National Center for Education Statistics has been hit hard while researchers say grant review panels have been halted. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3QdLZ15

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

For folks saying scientific organisations and funding bodies need to be careful and/or comply with the new regime… …this is kinda where it’s all heading 👇🏾

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Please share this PhD opportunity with your colleagues, students, and recent graduates. This is an exciting opportunity to study the role of cognitive stimulation in supporting the developmental outcomes of children growing up in linguistically diverse families.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Looking for some good news?Applications open for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships Programme. www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Spot on, by the British Academy. These subject areas and courses have huge merits and skills, economic and employment contributions to make.

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A Tenuous Moment for Minority-Serving Institutions Under Trump As the Trump administration targets federal DEI programming, colleges and universities with a mission to serve underrepresented students, like minority-serving institutions and... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/42SH1yq

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I usually reserve this account for my personal views; but today I want to represent my position as President of @asn-amnat.bsky.social to post a message that will shortly go out to the membership of the American Society of Naturalists from the ASN Executive Council

submitted 17 days ago • 35 comments

Professor Tracy Raivio (@traivio.bsky.social) from the University of Alberta is investigating how #bacteria modify their envelopes and interact with specialised #viruses to understand how these events could help combat #antibiotic_resistance. futurumcareers.com/how-can-stud...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! We are so proud to have many incredible women working across disciplines as part of Exeter Marine. 🩵 🦑🦤🌎🌐🧪🤿🌊 #WomeninSTEM #PhDSky #AcademicSky

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

To celebrate #IDWGS, this blog highlights some of the #inspirational #WomeninSTEM we have worked with: www.futurumcareers.com/celebrating-women-in-stem

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Great opportunity, please share.

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This account is for sharing info with US scientists, both extramural and intramural to NIH, about attacks on science in the US. Education is power, and we can help advocate for science and medicine together. 💪🧪 We are a team of NIH people. Please ask us questions you might have.

submitted 24 days ago • 77 comments

BREAKING: 22 states sue NIH over Trump administration's new 15% cap on overhead for federal research grants. Suit filed federal court in Boston contends lifesaving research 'will grind to a halt' under the policy. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 13 days ago • 65 comments

The Laurel Prize is Open for Submissions! 📢 The Laurel Prize 2025 is now open until 1 May 2025 for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025. Judges: @kathleenjamie.bsky.social (Chair), Daljit Nagra & @carolinelucas.bsky.social. Find out more & submit here: laurelprize.com

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The NIH 6 months ago, vs the NIH now. 🧵 Video 👇🏼 NIH 6 months ago. A hallway full of colorful posters profiling women and POC researchers. Shared by @amritalaxshmy.bsky.social on the bird site. 🧪

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

I wanted to share this link in case it comes in handy to help people understand what NIH funding actually supports, & how dangerous this will be for all. Would be great to print PDFs and wheat paste around your campus/town…👀 #academicsky www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump admin has sent NOAA officials a broad set of keywords to search grants that would cover most climate change-related projects Reports @afreedma.bsky.social @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/02/09/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Long shot - does anyone (in Australia) know a PhD student or similar who would be interested in sessional teaching (online post-grad level) in the Ethics of Technology/Cybersecurity space? Let me know! #philosophy #academicsky #philsky #australia #university

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Reminder! Science IRL mini-grant applications are due February 14! These grants are to support IN PERSON science communication projects in the US that reach science disinterested people, and ideally encourage concrete action in the audience. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

This is interesting, especoally for all involved in #Sci-comm #Academicsky

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

BBSRC fellowships are open: 3yrs of funding, ECRs worldwide are eligible (including the US 👀). Deadline 7th May. If you've a some postdoc experience (but no prior independent fellowships) and fancy coming to my Dept/ Institute in @liverpooluni.bsky.social, drop me a message.

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

At a time when so many UK universities are closing Humanities courses and limiting so-called 'unfunded' Humanities research, this investment in 14 three-year postdoctoral fellowships by @official-uom.bsky.social 's Faculty of Humanities is especially impressive. Deadline 7 March.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Promises like this are vanishing fast from UK universities, on top of a challenging outlook for securing permanent positions in the sector. Well worth thinking about when choosing a host institution.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Most important - please read.

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I've created a starterpack for my colleagues here at PIK. If you want to follow us and hear about the work we do, look no further! If I've missed anyone, let me know and I'll add them!

submitted 87 days ago • 7 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 19 days ago • 1330 comments

I am thrilled to announce that we're offering a funded collaborative PhD studentship between the University of Leeds and Ripon Musuems Trust! The project explores the history of the gaol and police station in the 19th/20th C alongside contemporary representations of policing (e.g. in periodicals):

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Senior Lecturer/Professor in Social and Public Policy. Lead cutting-edge research, deliver research-led teaching, and engage with external stakeholders. 📅 Apply by: 3rd March 2025 🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/4ew5xk2s #AcademicJobs #SocialPolicy #HigherEdJobs

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Publishing folks - how is the sector reacting to this? Can journals be moved abroad (aren’t they already international)? insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n... #OpenAccess #AcademicSky

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Hi #AcademicSky, it appears that the NSF is continuing to send emails telling PIs that their funding is paused — even though there's a court injunction on the funding pause. Let me know if you received one of these emails after the injunction (i.e. 5pm yesterday) and want to talk about it...

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Students have the right to peaceful political protest and demonstration. It's guaranteed under the First Amendment (not saying that matters at the moment, just that it SHOULD matter). This is wrong, and we must all speak up in defense of vulnerable students NOW. #AcademicSky 🧪

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

1/ We’re delighted to introduce three new Global South Committee for Open Science members! 🎉 Following our first open call, these exceptional scientists join us from the Caribbean, Indian subcontinent, and Latin America. Join us in welcoming them 👇 https://buff.ly/3PSJKAb

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

📢 2 AI faculty posts at Uni of Bristol! 👀 www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de... We're hiring across all areas of AI, ML, Ethics, Agents, NLP, Vision, etc. Pls repost to amplify this opportunity! #AcademicSky #AI #Jobs #Research

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment