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A U.S.-born American citizen is being detained at the request of immigration authorities despite an advocate showing his U.S. birth certificate in court and a county judge finding no reason for him to be considered an “illegal alien” who illegally entered Florida.

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"It's now been eight days since both Dorcas and her mom, Theresa, took the last of their HIV medications. A single mom and an only child, they've always taken their medicine together at 8 p.m. each night. The change in routine has confused the little girl." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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The Trump administration has threatened to block Harvard University from enrolling international students unless the school hands over detailed information about the student body, in yet another escalation of the government’s fight against higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

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"In the 24 hours after Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced that he would not comply with the White House, the University received more than 3,800 online donations totaling more than $1 million, according to a person familiar with the matter." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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So now if you are a computer vision PhD student and you get a speeding ticket, you can be deported for having a "criminal history," just like this Japanese grad student at BYU kslnewsradio.com/utah/visa-re...

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After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

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NEWS: 67 House Dems -- led by Rep. Becca Ballint of VT -- signed a letter today to DHS & Dept. of State calling for answers on the ICE "abduction" of Mohsen Mahdawi balint.house.gov/uploadedfile...

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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UPDATE: It happened. In an 11:15 meeting, employees were told that the office has been eliminated and their positions will be terminated.

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After medical devices are sterilized with ethylene oxide, a toxic chemical, they're stored in warehouses. There they continue to off gas the chemical, putting workers and residents nearby at risk. Two such warehouses are in El Paso. My latest with Lylla Younes: grist.org/health/ethyl...

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Faculty-senate leaders at several institutions are calling for “mutual-defense compacts” against the Trump administration. “We can’t do this on our own. Our institutions are going to be picked off one by one if we go down that route.” @mzahneis.bsky.social reports www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

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The College That Conservatives Took Over: "The overhaul of New College of Florida stoked fear on the left and excitement on the right. Two years in, what’s really changed?" www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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aside: a stunning comment from David Baker, UW professor who won the Nobel Prize in 2024. Now 15 lab members are looking for positions overseas. “There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, & we can’t take them. The Nobel Prize was just a little blip. But things have gotten quite bleak.”

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Harvard says no to Trump.

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Harvard will not comply with the Trump administration’s demands to dismantle its diversity programming and limit student protests in exchange for its federal funding, the university president announced www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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“What if we never pay them?” Mr. Trump casually asked. “Wouldn’t that be cool?” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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Scoop: DOGE now controls how grant opportunities get posted across government. DOGE engineer removed users’ permissions to post to Grants-dot-gov without telling them. Now requests flow thru DOGE-controlled mailbox. with @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social + @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

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BREAKING: An immigration judge rules that Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil can be deported. His lawyers are expected to appeal.

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The CDC has now rejected Milwaukee's request for help, citing Secy Kennedy's layoffs "I sincerely regret to inform you that due to the complete loss of our Lead Program, we will be unable to support you with this EpiAid request." tinalexander.github.io/notes/attach...

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"We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree. If scientists are censored, we can't have excellent science." -NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. 9 days ago on Fox and Friends.

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New letter to the editor. We found serious issues in papers in this journal from an author who has already seen 7 retractions due to a raft of problems. The journal asked the university to investigate, the uni said it was all fine, and the journal ended it there. journals.lww.com/eurojgh/cita...

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After the IRS, the Trump admin and Musk’s DOGE are moving on the Social Security Administration for data to locate and deport undocumented immigrants. In Feb, SSA agreed to send the last known addresses associated with 98k SSNs, according to docs we saw. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

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The US government holds a tremendous amount of data about US citizens. Now, The Trump administration is trying to access that data and link it together. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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the @chronicle.com has launched what is going to be a tremendously useful tool: a tracker of the Trump administration's activities affecting higher ed, particularly in the areas of civil rights, research, policy, and immigration. check it out: www.chronicle.com/article/trac...

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The NIH just froze ALL grant funding owed to Columbia University, meaning that the university's concessions to the Trump administration clearly didn't go far enough to satisfy the federal government.

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SCOOP: Elon Musk's DOGE is getting audited. The General Accountability Office's audit examines DOGE’s handling of data at a number of federal agencies, according to sources and records reviewed by WIRED. from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social:

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I happen to know that some powerful media orgs were unhappy that AP filed suit; they thought the conflict with the White House would blow over on its own and that AP risked making bad law. The AP's leadership deserves a lot of credit for having proceeded as it did. apnews.com/article/trum...

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Welp www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

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The NSF's flagship fellowship program typically gives offers to 2,000+ young scientists. This year, in the face of looming budget cuts, that number was halved: only 1,000 received an offer. Our story on what that means for the science talent pipeline: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I'd like to talk to graduate students whose trajectories have been affected by the Trump administration's research cuts, doctoral admissions being paused, or offers rescinded. If that's you, send me a DM or Signal! Same goes for scholars overseeing affected programs. #PhDSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

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NEW INVESTIGATION: California is facing an underinsurance crisis, as wildfire survivors struggle to rebuild their homes. Insurers often blame homeowners for this crisis. But as @meganmunce.bsky.social & I found, the companies are largely responsible. Read more tinyurl.com/39pdydwj

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The meta-analysis on the relationship between Fluoride and IQ by Taylor et al. (2025) that RFK Jr. has cited contains major methodological flaws and data integrity issues that we describe in the following pre-print (submitted to meta-psychology): osf.io/preprints/os...

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Trump Has Revoked Student Visas at Dozens of Colleges. Here’s What That Means. www.chronicle.com/article/trum...

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NEW: Spoke to 25 small publishers about the kind of impact Google's AI changes to search has had on their businesses. Things don't look good—not for the publishers, and not for the quality of information out on the open web, which ironically Google itself relies on. Gift link: bloom.bg/43Jmzk3

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I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

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Brenner enlisted Tracy Beth Høeg, who recently joined the FDA as a special assistant to the commissioner, to help look at the Novavax application again. Høeg has promoted incorrect information about COVID-vaccines, including misinterpreted data. #healthpolicy insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/a...

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BREAKING: In a reversal, all NOAA Research sites will now remain online with "no interruption in service," according to the agency. NOAA had previously moved to cancel the research division's cloud services contract. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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RFK Jr. says he's rehiring thousands of people he mistakenly fired www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

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NEW: By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court HALTS a district court order requiring the Education Department to pay out more than 100 grants to public schools and universities that the Trump administration canceled. Roberts and the three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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It’s a heist movie but just with a bunch of humanities scholars trying to get their grant money back.

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"We should probably think more about the fact that some folks will refuse to participate in grant review over this. Should they?" A thought-provoking discussion prompted by my story this week (www.chronicle.com/article/the-...)

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NEW: After cancelling nearly all projects on trans health, the Trump admin has now directed the NIH to study the negative consequences of transitioning. This will create “a distorted research ecosystem where only politically favorable findings are permitted to exist”, researcher Harry Barbee says.

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Thirty previously laid-off employees—including 11 lab heads—at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke should “immediately return to work,” according to an email sent to some staff Wednesday evening. By @sydneywyatt.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

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SCOOP: You've heard about the NIH terminating grants. I've learned of another, less visible way it's disrupting science: It’s removing some applications from peer review. Not rejecting them, but putting them on hold without saying why or if they'll ever be reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

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As Cuts Pile Up, Can Scientists Win Back the Public? @mkhaw.bsky.social reports www.chronicle.com/article/as-c...

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$17 billion: that's how much in grants about vaccines, diversity, COVID, gender and other topics that the NIH has purged to date — unlawfully so, argues a new lawsuit filed today. “This is an attack on scientific progress itself,” says @britshmit.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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