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Bragging moment... I love that some of my students are hardcore fake organizing for a mock committee hearing happening tomorrow in my Urban Tech & Planning Institutions class. / cc @columbiagsapp.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Halting the congestion pricing is definitely bad for MTA's finances and planned improvements, and for residents who may have to deal with pollution, noise, and gridlock... But I'm also very surprised that not more people find a president calling themselves a king very problematic.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I want to live in the USA represented in all these uplifting Super Bowl commercials.

submitted 22 days ago • 41 comments

My controversial take: The Super Bowl halftime was more "LA" than the Paris 2024-LA2028 handover presentation during the closing ceremonies.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Super Bowl logo is stunning, and culturally relevant to the city. Having lived in NOLA for 5 years, I saw and appreciated the Mardi Gras Indian reference. (1/2) abcnews.go.com/living/story...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Incredible work! Planner colleagues, are you finding anything missing? I've found, at the very least, the SVI, EJ Screen and Justice40 data.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Authoritarian regimes abroad envy publicly funded US university research. They know it’s one of our strategic advantages over them. De-funding that critical infrastructure is incredibly dumb and self-defeating for anyone committed to national standing and international competitiveness.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

submitted 24 days ago • 41 comments

White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

submitted 25 days ago • 29 comments

One of the hardest realignment's for advocates/activists right now is how precious people's time and capacity to deal with all the Bad Things are. Truly we are being overloaded and it's going to be tough to balance the need to do something against the dangers of burning people out.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The administration is threatening to fire 25-50% of NSF staff. Could be a bluff, but if it's not, what a national self-own.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Resources for technologists who lose their federal jobs: community.publicgood.tech/c/resources/...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This part of Orwell's 1984 seems apt.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Note, one of the words on this list is "women." So, feasibly, one will have to clarify breast cancer studies as being among "non-men"? (Yes, cis-males can get breast cancer, too.)

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Democrats have categorized this investigation as Chairman Carr's latest attempt at intimidating the media.

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

submitted 30 days ago • 233 comments

Dear hivemind: How does one talk about planning adaptations for aging populations without mentioning equity and inclusivity? As a policy question, infrastructure needs to be physically inclusive if a society is aging. But you can't say you're making things accessible, which is about inclusivity.

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submitted 34 days ago • 22 comments

no human, however media literate, can conceivably digest news at the pace it is being created by the white house

submitted 34 days ago • 25 comments

I'm sorry I keep posting unhappy things dealing with the onslaught of executive orders. I have no other voids in which to yell.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Why is the Governor of Louisiana freaking about the Trump admin's impoundment? Because the federal government provides close to 50% of Louisiana's budget revenue. Do you think they want to cover even a quarter of that with increased taxes?

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

"Judge temporarily blocks Trump's freeze on federal funding"

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

In other words, regarding good work, the wholesale pause on Federal grants and loans is impacting a wide range of good work, from disaster mitigation to pothole filling to research on new medicines and technologies. More chaos due to policy by fiat. An email:

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

@ajbauer.bsky.social & @amnadler.bsky.social wrote an article in Journalism Studies arguing that the field should explore how right-wing media challenge journalistic authority. Scholars, including myself, responded to their arguments & they replied to our critiques! Check out the full discussion👇

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The only hope for this grant proposal to be awarded is that the White House forgot this agency exists. We're looking at all the wrong things in this administration's eyes... 1/

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Welp... Let me say how impactful such a move (NSF and NIH, to begin with) is for young scholars.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

TONIGHT at @columbiagsapp.bsky.social or via GSAPP YouTube: "How to think through/as more-than-human intelligence" discussion with @jamesbridle.bsky.social , Michael Marder, Laura Tripaldi (NYU Shanghai), and Anna Tsing. www.arch.columbia.edu/events/3622-...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

if you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery. ...waiting for the sound of the cannon.💥🏃🏻‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️🏃🏃🏽‍♂️

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

The firm freaking out US officials and markets credits brilliant PhDs focused on good research versus quick profit. DeepSeek is highlighting the value of good talent, mentorship and of higher education... Not everything has to be built fast and broken. www.wired.com/story/deepse...

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

Any other folks in Morningside Heights worried that the mistake is because "Columbia" is being drafted on some other press release? 👀

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

My original report on Trump’s classicism order from 2020 holds up, I think! archinect.com/news/article...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

If you wanted to destroy higher ed, this is part of how you do it. I don't think a lot of folks realize how much U.S. universities rely on federal grant funding to keep the lights on, particularly in the past 20 years as the government has continuously cut tuition subsidy.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment