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We just won a court order stopping DOGE and unauthorized, unelected, and unvetted individuals like Elon Musk from accessing people's private data and blocking federal funds. We will keep fighting to protect all Americans from this administration’s destruction.

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This is a five-alarm fire 🔥 for US science 🧪. (We keep saying that, but it keeps being true 😭.) Trump and Musk are blocking ALL NIH grants ‼️ by "exploiting a loophole in the process"—stopping study sections & council meetings. Every biomedical researcher in the country should be screaming. 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 853 comments

Overreach saywhatnow?!? The “8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Biden's SAVE income-driven repayment plan was an overreach of authority & upheld a preliminary injunction on the plan” www.businessinsider.com/save-plan-pe...

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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 3 days ago • 67 comments

I'm not sure how much more obvious or clear their strategy and tactics could be or what it will take for leaders (elected, uni presidents, etc.) to take actual action to stop this ongoing coup.

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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 5 days ago • 78 comments

The Trump official currently dismantling USAID was caught in a secret meeting with a group of pro-Russian separatists in the Balkans. Those he met with are under American sanctions for trying to restart the Bosnian war in the name of Christian nationalism. 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 118 comments

Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access. I hope other journals will do the same. journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...

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"This report introduces a powerful new dataset—publicly available...—that opens up rich opportunities for exploration & analyses. An initial review reveals striking county-level variation in utilization of health care services & in health care spending..."🛟 policysky sociology health policy 😷📉

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

To Bureau of Labor Statistics data users & staffers: be EYES & EARS for the Friends of BLS These days, the Co-chairs seek news about user experiences & internal changes. We’ll honor your confidentiality. Share this ask with others & reach out directly with news to Bill Beach, Paul Schroeder or me.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Linda McMahon invested in dozens of bonds funding public school projects across the US https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/12/education-secretary-nominee-linda-mcmahon-invests-in-public-school-bonds/

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

A lot is happening in US science. Bluesky is the best place to stay up the rolling political crisis in America that is crushing US science. It's also a good place to learn what we all can do. We have a starter pack for this. Please send your colleagues here too. 🧪 go.bsky.app/2K6jTi5

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Higher-ed data scholars and researchers! Have you downloaded all the underlying IPEDS data and if so, are you hosting it on some publicly accessible website for us to use in the event the data, oh, I dunno, disappears? (The IPEDS Complete Data Files load very slowly now) nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datace...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

@haymarketbooks.org presents an Emergency Town Hall on Presidents Day featuring @naomiaklein.bsky.social @astra.bsky.social @keeanga.bsky.social and @chenjerai.bsky.social. Register at the link below.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I'll be facilitating an organizing 101 workshop at Rutgers on 3/8 from 1 to 4 pm. Registration is required and free: bit.ly/RUCommunityOrganizing

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Johns Hopkins officials said the NIH funding cut puts at risk approximately 600 current and ongoing clinical trials at Hopkins, including open clinical trials in cancer, pediatrics and children’s health, heart and vascular studies and the aging brain. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

Billionaires are waging war on higher ed and all working people, putting our healthcare, research, education, & jobs at risk. Join us this Thursday at 8pm ET for a National Higher Ed Strategy Call as we coordinate for a nationwide Fight Back. ⏬⏬⏬

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Cruz wants to cancel 20 NSF grants awarded to Cornell b/c they are "woke", by which he means they study marginalized populations or include them in activities. Largest by far ($9M) is infrastructure grant to improve science ed in rural NY -- so, mostly low-income white kids whose parents voted GOP.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Just cut to the chase: is any one of them a forensic accountant??

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.

submitted 12 days ago • 760 comments

We're seeing in real time what happens when a corporate oligarchy is given free reign over govt policymaking at the federal level. Why should we let a Tax Reform Commission comprised entirely of business people and their allies drive local tax policy? www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

PA! Contact our AG, David Sunday, demand PA join the lawsuit against the illegal block on NIH funding: 717-787-3391 While you're at it, demand PA join the coalition suing for DOGE & Musk for the administrative coup & illegal data breach.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I used this data tool to tell my state reps WHY THEY MUST FIGHT cuts to NIH & NSF: FY2023 NIH (alone) PA -- awarded $2.23 BILLION that --> directly supported 21,784 JOBS --> $5.23 BILLION economic activity ++ The cost of human lives

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OH FUCK NO. I'm sending an email, but white women, this is y'all's moment to shine. I can't think of a better reason to need to a speak to a manager. Inside every white woman reading this is a Karen waiting to be called into action. Lock-in, dig deep, and be a Karen for democracy!

submitted 15 days ago • 46 comments

How much funding would public schools in your state lose if Title I programs were cut? Use ELC's new advocacy tool to explore the impact of potential federal revenue losses. edlawcenter.org/research/tru...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Thank you to everyone who stands with USAID. Share far and wide. Unfortunately we don’t have $40 million to buy up ads during the Super Bowl. Even if we did, we’d use it to support the U.S. economy while feeding kids around the globe. #StandWithUSAID #SaveForeignAid m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

Very helpful data aggregation on the financial impacts of the proposed 15% #NIH indirect rate 👇 datawrapper.dwcdn.net/l0ZqA/8/

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Day one of Obama's term, the GOP was facing the same odds and declared unanimously and unambiguously that they would not help him a lick and anyone who didn't like it could eat shit. It largely worked, and they left the literal playbook for the Dems - who have instantly surrendered.

submitted 13 days ago • 66 comments

This is what local news orgs should be doing now: "In 2024, the Univ. of Alabama was in the top 1% of NIH-funded institutions. The university, Alabama’s largest public employer, has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding. NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs" www.al.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Subscribed to Wired yesterday, more important than ever to support the folks who are showing up with courage & integrity 💚

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In case folks are interested in contacting their congresspeople about the NIH indirect cuts with some estimates of what they would mean for institutions in their state, here are some estimates based on published F&A rates and funding ... let me know if you want a particular state

submitted 14 days ago • 197 comments

How much money will Americans lose if USAID is cut? Quite a lot, it turns out. I've made shareable graphics showing the ties betwen AID agriculture funding and each state. A public Google Drive repository is here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

submitted 16 days ago • 1142 comments

Colleagues in Middle East Studies! The Anthropology dept at UC Davis is hiring in Palestine Studies. Scholars at the Assistant and Associate Professor levels will be considered; please share widely! mesana.org/resources-an...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 16 days ago • 644 comments

Dear US scientists, We've been hearing a lot of questions of the form "Why aren't universities doing anything!? They need to speak out!" We can explain. It's bad news. We're on our own. But understanding why can help us all figure out our plan. Read along in thread 1/x 🧪

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

New reporting shows that despite the supposed unfreezing of federal grants, many Head Start centers still can't access funds, forcing them to close and leaving kids without preschool and health services and families (esp moms) without the care they need to work for pay. www.salon.com/2025/02/06/e...

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments