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I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.

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Sloan Foundation announced a program to support postdocs in philosophy, sociology, and metascience who want to understand how AI will affect science. Pass it along to anyone who might be interested, the Institute for Complex Social Dynamics might be interested in hosting sloan.org/programs/dig...

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my grant w/ @eegilbert.org on non-consensual intimate content, which disproportionately impacts women, is in the Ted Cruz database. The irony? Ted Cruz himself introduced a bill into Congress last year on this exact same topic and he went live on TV saying it impacts women.

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Super cool work from @uw-hcde.bsky.social’s Machine Agency lab!

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Ugh. A number of @uw-hcde.bsky.social alum were at 18F doing important, human-centered design and development work to improve and rebuild government service websites that all had a reputation for being horribly out of date and inefficient. How is this making America great?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Little known, recently discovered fact: Measles wipes out immune protections OTHER diseases: many who recover actually face big future risk. Earlier measles may be implicated in HALF OF ALL LATER CHILDHOOD DEATHS from ALL infectious diseases before vaccines. Gift🔗👉 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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Seattle Stand Up for Science event is happening Friday, March 7th from noon to 3 at the Seattle Center: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

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I was born in 1980 and just had my annual checkup in January. Anticipating RFK Jr, I had them do a measles titer test while they did other blood work, and sure enough, I was not immune and thus just got a booster MMR.

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Congrats to @uw-hcde.bsky.social awardees @katestarbird.bsky.social, @ceciliaaragon.bsky.social, and Nadya Peek, plus PhD alum @alexishiniker.bsky.social and DUB colleague @profjayfo.bsky.social!

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If you couldn’t come in person, I hope you’ll watch the recording. Kate gave a stellar and moving talk and received two standing ovations (and masterfully handled a lightning storm making the speakers and mic buzz loudly). Congrats, Kate! We at @uw-hcde.bsky.social are super proud of you!

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Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

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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/

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I love this thread about the impact the National Science Foundation has had on the life & scientific path of @mammalssuck.bsky.social. I too was helped by NSF as an undergrad, through their Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program(UROP). Sad to see what is happening at NSF the past few weeks 😥

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Just to be clear, this administration is not “saving billions.” All the fires, emergency room visits, higher prices, plane crashes, farming losses, premature disease, court costs. This administration is COSTING Americans billions.

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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

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CRA statement about NSF firings cra.org/cuts-to-nsf-...

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Seattle folks: I'm giving a (free) public lecture Feb 24, where I'll explain what our team's decade of research on online rumors & disinformation reveals about the once-alternative media ecosystem that is driving the rise of right wing populism around the world. www.washington.edu/facultystaff...

submitted 22 days ago • 19 comments

For Valentine's Day, @uwnews.bsky.social asked 12 faculty what sparked their love of research. HCDE Prof. Katya Cherukumilli, director of the Safe Water Equity and Longevity Lab, describes how her curiosity & proximity to water drew her to study safe water access: www.washington.edu/news/2025/02...

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It is difficult to think of a worse person for this job. People will die because of it - and somehow the “good”doctors in the senate found a way to vote for this. Now we fight to protect against the carnage. Shameful.

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news.va.gov/press-room/v... juxtaposition of the crisis line link and firing over 1,000 employees a little bleak. Government isn't a business! It's insane that shitty businessmen are doing a private equity speedrun on the entire notion of governance. Fire Musk, fire Musk, fire Musk.

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

submitted 25 days ago • 525 comments

Great piece on indirects from Chris Newfield. Spread far and wide. Lot of good detail here. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Kate is incredibly wise and speaks from experience. We need to all speak out.

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They're dismantling the Institute for Education Sciences to create the illusion of meritocracy. Because no data means no evidence of systemic inequities.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

We should not be allowing non-government employees to waltz in to government offices, and illegally get access to sensitive government and personal data, and get read and write access to critical software systems in multiple government agencies. www.npr.org/2025/02/08/g...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

higher ed is the largest employer in 10 states and in over 60% of the 100 largest cities. destruction of federal research funds is economic sabotage.

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

In Washington: NIH Awards Funding: $1.29 B Jobs Supported: 11,979 Economic Activity Supported: $2.96 B

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Spending my Friday night writing up explainers for how research grants work is becoming normal now, I guess. My attempt at explaining indirect research costs and why it should matter to EVERYONE that our federal research funds are being decimated. www.kateringland.com/the-hidden-b...

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.

submitted 30 days ago • 84 comments

This will absolutely gut universities and university-based hospitals. These overhead rates are what fund research lab construction and maintenance, provide supplies and maintenance for equipment, our ethics review board, and fund staff who manage these research grants.

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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

submitted 32 days ago • 168 comments

We talk a lot about why adolescent girls report more low mood and anxiety, and why this might be getting worse. But what do girls themselves think might explain this? As you might have guessed, we don’t really know. So, we asked them: doi.org/10.1186/s129... 1/8

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What tech company will be the first to stand up and say that gutting the NSF is bad actually? The economic argument seems pretty clear Less NSF --> fewer PhD students --> fewer researchers --> smaller AI tech pipeline --> slower progress --> less competitive globally

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

These words would be in pretty much any human-computer interaction grant. Or any computer science grant at all that required a broadening participation in computing plans, which is all of them. This is government censorship, full stop.

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

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