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🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees: Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and… 1. Download your NSF award letters. 2. Print PDF your annual reports. 3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports. NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

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Gov. DeWine just signed SB1, a law ending “DEI” in Ohio public higher ed. Now that it’s law, U of Toledo just killed the following BA programs: • Africana Studies • Asian Studies • Disability Studies • Middle East Studies • Philosophy • Religious Studies • Women's/Gender Studies And… • Spanish

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Now it's nearly 270 university presidents who have signed onto this "unprecedented government overreach" public letter. It was less than 180 this morning. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c... Universities, and judges, taking the lead in standing up.

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🧪 Our Terminated NSF Grant Tracker is live 🧪 🔴 114 NSF grants listed so far 🔴 Cancelled grants focused on → Training scientists → Misinformation → AI → Climate change Credit to @noamross.net for all the work to build this & to all PIs who submitted their info. Link: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

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University of Michigan Regents come out squarely and publicly in defense of academic freedom against political coercion and the role of higher education and research in making America prosperous, secure ... and well ... maybe even Great? www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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It's nice to see elected representatives visiting their constituents who have been detained by ICE but may I respectfully suggest university presidents consider doing the same

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With renewed relevance, this explainer I wrote last month: Signal Gate: The Criminal Law Precedents That Are Most Relevant The key legal issues are: --> 18 U.S.C. 793(f)(1) of the Espionage Act - gross negligence --> Destruction of government records

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The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.

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Save the penguins and stop Trump’s tariffs: indivisible.org/tariffs

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Breaking: a judge in GA ordered that the fed'l gov't CANNOT pull the visas of foreign students. The order applies ONLY to students who are part of the lawsuit. If you want to join the lawsuit, reach out to: [email protected] and [email protected] youtu.be/FS6B8CM8uf4

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✨ Moral resilience helps you keep your soul intact in unjust systems. ✨ So you don’t have to give up on your values to survive. I write about moral resilience because I know combatting moral injury is the key to being the people we want to be - and to become. People with integrity.

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Well said 🎯 for what’s at stake nationwide: “We potentially lose an entire generation of scientists. This is just an existential crisis as far as the future of science in the United States.” #StrongerTogether

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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

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We’ve talked about Operation Whirlwind before, but the mission keeps expanding, now it’s targeting scientific journals. This week, Ed Martin, the U.S. attorney for D.C., sent an unprecedented letter to CHEST, a medical journal focused on respiratory science, questioning their editorial policies

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Just before 1 a.m., #SCOTUS stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation with a (remarkable) ruling that suggests, among other things, that a majority of the justices is tiring of the Trump administration’s Calvinball. For more, see the latest “One First”: www.stevevladeck.com/p/144-the-su...

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

submitted 7 days ago • 159 comments

MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 11 days ago • 597 comments

On and on they went about prominent Democrats being involved in completely mythical human trafficking rings, and one of the first things they do is set up an actual human trafficking ring, out in the open.

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👀🗓️ APRIL 17, A National Day of Action for Higher Ed @8am PT, grab a cup of coffee and join AAUP's Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom in "The Antidote to Repression is Information" Thanks to @aaup.bsky.social to leading the conversation! Register and explore the other events here:

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New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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UC Senate calling on top UC leadership for Defense of University: “…the future is contingent upon how we respond now” senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

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"The AAUP is leading that fight, but it cannot do so alone. Every professor who joins strengthens our ability to push back against the dismantling of scientific teaching and research in higher education. All faculty, regardless of tenure-line and academic staff are eligible to join the AAUP."

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Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. You guys. Share this widely. THIS IS HAPPENING and no one is paying attention.

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Positive outcome from Supreme Court: The Government must facilitate the return of Maryland man wrongly sent to El Salvador prison. Sets up Judge Boasberg to order same for detainees sent in defiance of his orders. Good judicial confrontation with lawlessness.

submitted 15 days ago • 64 comments

It has been 18 days since we learned that those involved in Signalgate recklessly endangered the lives of American pilots. The fact that there has been no Congressional investigation is an abomination. This should outrage every single Member of Congress.

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Jeanine: We found out there are people who are between the ages of one and four who are getting social security Jessica: That's the benefit for kids whose parents are dead.

submitted 15 days ago • 3201 comments

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

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“IDEAS”

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In case you're wondering... it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans. And nobody has been fired... Don't stop talking about SignalGate

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“ We are living through a responsibility recession — not of personal responsibility, but of shared commitment to one another’s well-being.” www.statnews.com/2025/04/08/m...

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crisis averted: you can stop building those factories now

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You lost your 401k... and did Trump make money doing it? He posted "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" just hours before pausing the tariffs. It's time for everyone to ask House Republicans why they aren't fighting for an investigation into this.

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