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One of the examples of USAID funding cut’s costs with well known deadly consequences. Murder is at the top of my list of things that are bad. Elon Musk ordered this, which makes him what exactly?

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We are barreling toward a full blown constitutional crisis. Trump's announcement that he's ending thousands of aid contracts FUNDED BY CONGRESS is unconstitutional and illegal - and horrible for our security. 1/ A quick🧵on what's going on. apnews.com/article/trum...

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I miss DEI

submitted 6 days ago • 2279 comments

"Undermining the NSF is not just a threat to universities and researchers — it is a threat to the well-being of every American." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I cannot express how frustrated and hurt I am by mentoring/training a lab member for five years, only to have them take an important job in government that was abruptly deleted a month after they took it.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is what obeying in advance looks like. The NSF fires 10% of its total staff in a move that went beyond what was requested by the current regime. The NSF is the flagship of US basic research infrastructure. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋 www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

What is wrong with these people. This was such an obvious and easy anti-Trump home run that would have saved lives. Instead, it’s another big L.

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From NSF EAR program director Raleigh Martin on LinkedIn #climatesky #greensky

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Good article and a good example from my PhD mentors and others for getting in the public sphere locally about the economic and social impacts of gutting publicly funded research tucson.com/opinion/colu...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is incredibly frustrating and sad.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

This will negatively affect me and all the other researchers. I am also frustrated and upset for our federal colleagues at the NSF, both those let go and those left to deal. Holding the mission & impact of the NSF in the highest esteem, this is yet another flush pushing US leadership down the drain.

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BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

submitted 13 days ago • 640 comments

Anyone know of good articles contextualizing the attack on ‘DEI’ and providing a description of DEI that makes it clear it’s not racism against white peoples or whatever it’s being labeled that could be shared in an academic setting?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Man, if you live in NY call the Governor’s office to demand she exercise those constitutional powers for the first time; Adams has got to go. A lot of people’s lives are on the line with his level of compromise (not to mention baseline corruption and incompetence).. He’ll be rolling out red carpets.

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Of all the stupid corrupt sh*t somehow this one really sits on top like a big red ribbon on the whole destroy to privatize (put in the hands of Musk) package. Flying has a terrible climate footprint anyway; time to keep the travel near home, and/or fly in and out of Toronto for international travel

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Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention gives a red flag alert for the Trump administration www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Why was I thinking about this classic Simpsons moment recently 🤔

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I have work to do but I'm distracted by watching US scientific progress & leadership being irreversibly undermined because a few unelected malcontents are penalizing researchers for following legal requirements set out by congressional orders to augment basic research with benefits to society.

submitted 19 days ago • 94 comments

www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 20 days ago • 389 comments

As of 2020 there were 74,313 vacant properties in Detroit. These children froze to death homeless in a van.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

www.regulations.gov/document/FWS... Save the majestic (and gigantic and amazingly slimy) Eastern Hellbender salamander!! Deadline tomorrow for comments. Not my greatest missive but getting the ideas across..

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The great Trump famine is upon the world

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

As awkward-handsome as the day he was adopted ~15 years ago, one of my lovely sibs providing a local and morally defensible perspective on ignorance as bliss

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

One piece of good news in 2025, there is a bran-new BaianaSystem album and it slaps! open.spotify.com/album/4pzQgS...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

So which dystopian sci-fi future do you think we’re heading for? (1) Mad Max (absolute ecocide with motorcycles) (2) The Terminator (AI nuclear war + robot killers wading through skulls) or (3) Butlerian Jihad from Dune backstory (great destruction of thinking machines)? I dunno but rooting for 3.?

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 27 days ago • 1419 comments

No sh*t. I’d say ‘stress, fear frustration, dread, the deepest of sorrow…’ Not hyperbole. When you study the natural world, going in the wrong direction looks like utter calamity since we’re so close to cascading run away warming feedbacks and biodiversity loss. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Why is the NYTimes not doing podcasts called ‘the plutocratic coup d'état in Washington mugging America”? There is no door for legitimacy in any of this. Same paper that brought you the Iraq war I guess… ultimately not so surprising if incredibly disheartening

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"The American Association of University Professors, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education &other groups argue in a lawsuit filed Mon that the orders exceed executive legal authority, violate both the 1st & 5th Amendments, &threaten academic freedom &access to HE for all"

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

submitted 32 days ago • 4 comments

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

submitted 32 days ago • 893 comments

MSU news … read the article; not sure it’s fair to say the university called this off (at least not in the sense it was the higher admin). But, yeah, not good

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