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Political Scientist and Research Manager at USC. I study public opinion.
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FMA gets paused occasionally actually. The President does have some leeway here on transfers under existing law. Obama paused a portion of Egypt’s, the Philippines etc.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Not very subtle.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Google obliterated their search function for this

submitted 13 days ago • 99 comments

🧪NIH study sections are being cancelled because the Trump administration has banned the public notice of the meetings which is required.

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Surprise surprise.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Polity has not coded any countries other than the US since 2018, but this places the US below the 2018 scores of Russia, Venezuela, Haiti, Iraq, Zimbabwe, the Central African Republic... Perhaps the inference we should make here is about the reliability of Polity.

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

Not to dump on all of the hard and difficult decisions that go into Polity and similar democracy measures - but we should seriously ask ourselves a basic face validity question: Do you really think the US is less democratic today than it was in 1960? Because according to Polity - it is.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

UPDATE: A purge of experienced career staff has begun at NIH. The staff was just informed that Deputy Director Lawrence Tabak, who has worked at NIH for 25 years is "retiring." Grant funding remains frozen, in violation of two federal court orders.

submitted 25 days ago • 133 comments

Eric Adams pretty much agreed to sidestep NY sanctuary protections, & make his city's immigrant residents more vulnerable to iCE, in pursuit of naked personal gain & a shield from corruption charges.

submitted 27 days ago • 461 comments

I know people on here are really in a “I told you so” mode regarding pro-Palestine folks, but you know, hard to read something like this and say “Yeah - they should have voted for the people doing that.” From @latimes.com:

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Researchers exploring how people respond to weather events like extreme heat - rely on data for places like NOAA. Given that the USAID website has gone we could lose another data source curtesy of these broccoli headed twats.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

“People cannot get into their accounts. They can’t access funding. They’re waiting on invoices to be paid. No one will call them back.” www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 33 days ago • 30 comments

Just added USAID’s Greenbook data here too, since it was removed as part of the dismantling of usaid dot gov foreignassistance.andrewheiss.com/greenbook.html

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Short answer: Yes "Using a car for over 50% of out-of-home activities lowers life satisfaction." doi.org/10.1016/j.tb...

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

submitted 35 days ago • 404 comments

Many of you may not be familiar with #NIH grants. Here are some facts to help you understand the magnitude of this disaster. 1) NIH grants are extremely difficult to get & not "free money". Researchers must have preliminary data & write detailed proposals. Mine was >200pages & took years to put

submitted 40 days ago • 20 comments

A new @reuters.com poll finds Americans have a dim view of many of the Trump administration's blizzard of executive actions, including the Jan. 6 pardons and his effort to limit birthright citizenship. But they *really* don't like the Gulf of America thing. www.reuters.com/world/us/ame...

submitted 40 days ago • 263 comments

Not just the National Institutes of Health, now the National Science Foundation is put on pause. Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.

submitted 41 days ago • 72 comments

Serious question for NatSec folks. How does Article 5 work when the aggressor is a NATO ally?

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.

submitted 45 days ago • 36 comments

Well, the director of my center was at an NIH DMC panel in DC today. I wonder if that is ending early given the #NIH news.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

The suspensions of NIH travel, hiring, communications, grant reviews is absolutely devestating. My NIH grant proposal was scheduled to be reviewed next month and now I have absolutely no idea if this study section ban will lift by then.

submitted 46 days ago • 2 comments

Proposed across the board tariffs as of Feb 1: Canada 25% Mexico 25% China 10% Other countries 0% Galaxy brain needed to explain the strategic or economic objectives this meets.

submitted 47 days ago • 64 comments