Sara Soderstrom
@sarasoderstrom.bsky.social
Program in the Environment and Organizational Studies at University of Michigan. Erb Institute. Mom of 3. Go Blue ❤️〽️🌎
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Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.
June 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.
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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
The United States Is About to Embark on a Terrifying Experiment in Mass Statelessness
This scenario, until recently, might have read like a dystopian projection. But after the court’s decision on Friday, it is no longer hypothetical.
slate.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."
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This cannot be overstated, and I suspect private industry is underestimating how much it will lose in this equation over the long term.
Long term private profit stands on the shoulders of giants just as much as foundational science for the public good does.
Long term private profit stands on the shoulders of giants just as much as foundational science for the public good does.
Right, but a lot of important foundational research isn't profitable right up until it is. Private industry used to be able to count on the government to fund the years of research it can take to get to the profitable part. Now it's just not going to happen.
May 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This cannot be overstated, and I suspect private industry is underestimating how much it will lose in this equation over the long term.
Long term private profit stands on the shoulders of giants just as much as foundational science for the public good does.
Long term private profit stands on the shoulders of giants just as much as foundational science for the public good does.
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So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
May 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
May 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"
And Ono is out! Let’s see who ends up next…
I remember in 1989 when our basketball coach announced he was leaving after the NCAAs and was told “Nope. You’re out now.” It’s time for Ono to be told that. Let’s have someone as interim who is reflecting Michigan values, fighting for us, and advocating for higher ed. We don’t need to wait.
NEW: Fresh off announcing his departure for the University of Florida, outgoing University of Michigan President Santa Ono has had his name removed from the American Assoc of Colleges and Universities academic freedom letter he signed barely two weeks ago. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/outgo...
May 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
And Ono is out! Let’s see who ends up next…
I remember in 1989 when our basketball coach announced he was leaving after the NCAAs and was told “Nope. You’re out now.” It’s time for Ono to be told that. Let’s have someone as interim who is reflecting Michigan values, fighting for us, and advocating for higher ed. We don’t need to wait.
NEW: Fresh off announcing his departure for the University of Florida, outgoing University of Michigan President Santa Ono has had his name removed from the American Assoc of Colleges and Universities academic freedom letter he signed barely two weeks ago. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/outgo...
Outgoing UMich Prez Santa Ono Pulls His Name from Academic Freedom Letter
Over the weekend University of Michigan President Santa Ono announced that he...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 8, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I remember in 1989 when our basketball coach announced he was leaving after the NCAAs and was told “Nope. You’re out now.” It’s time for Ono to be told that. Let’s have someone as interim who is reflecting Michigan values, fighting for us, and advocating for higher ed. We don’t need to wait.
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Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
E.P.A. Plans to Shut Down the Energy Star Program
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Brilliant to eliminate Energy Star, a program that costs $32m but delivered $40b in annual savings. None other than the US chamber of commerce tried to save it as a model of business/government partnership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...
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"As previously honored norms of shared governance are eroding, university leaders increasingly refuse to even talk to faculty anymore, preferring to govern by decree, by badly written email, and, now, by op-ed."
www.chronicle.com/article/sant...
www.chronicle.com/article/sant...
Opinion: Santa Ono Flees for Florida
He might be better suited to red-state politics.
www.chronicle.com
May 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
"As previously honored norms of shared governance are eroding, university leaders increasingly refuse to even talk to faculty anymore, preferring to govern by decree, by badly written email, and, now, by op-ed."
www.chronicle.com/article/sant...
www.chronicle.com/article/sant...
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Why is the administration trying to get rid of Head Start?
Because it challenges their narrative of waste, fraud, and abuse. And because it gets in the way of their efforts to trap people in precarity and make them easier to exploit.
My latest for @msnbc.com:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Because it challenges their narrative of waste, fraud, and abuse. And because it gets in the way of their efforts to trap people in precarity and make them easier to exploit.
My latest for @msnbc.com:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Head Start is government that works. No wonder the Trump administration wants to get rid of it.
The gutting of Head Start would force vulnerable people to labor in more difficult or demeaning conditions for the benefit of the privileged.
www.msnbc.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Why is the administration trying to get rid of Head Start?
Because it challenges their narrative of waste, fraud, and abuse. And because it gets in the way of their efforts to trap people in precarity and make them easier to exploit.
My latest for @msnbc.com:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Because it challenges their narrative of waste, fraud, and abuse. And because it gets in the way of their efforts to trap people in precarity and make them easier to exploit.
My latest for @msnbc.com:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish
A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.
www.nytimes.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...
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A few thoughts on the day, regarding the op/ed: If you haven't read it, its here: t.co/uonKEbl17p
https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-eds/in-defense-of-our-institutional-independence/
t.co
April 24, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A few thoughts on the day, regarding the op/ed: If you haven't read it, its here: t.co/uonKEbl17p
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@therevelator.org: “Yes, Your Friends and Neighbors Want to Talk to You About Climate Change”
By @johnrplatt.bsky.social
Really, they do — they just don’t think you want to talk about it. So stop being afraid of pushback, break the “climate silence,” and start a conversation. #The89Percent
By @johnrplatt.bsky.social
Really, they do — they just don’t think you want to talk about it. So stop being afraid of pushback, break the “climate silence,” and start a conversation. #The89Percent
Yes, Your Friends and Neighbors Want to Talk to You About Climate Change • The Revelator
Really, they do — they just don’t think you want to talk about it. So stop being afraid of pushback, break the “climate silence,” and start a conversation.
therevelator.org
April 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
@therevelator.org: “Yes, Your Friends and Neighbors Want to Talk to You About Climate Change”
By @johnrplatt.bsky.social
Really, they do — they just don’t think you want to talk about it. So stop being afraid of pushback, break the “climate silence,” and start a conversation. #The89Percent
By @johnrplatt.bsky.social
Really, they do — they just don’t think you want to talk about it. So stop being afraid of pushback, break the “climate silence,” and start a conversation. #The89Percent
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My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.
NSF Award Search: Award # 2240343 - Constructing Credible Knowledge and Expertise in Air Pollution Regulation and Monitoring: The Problem of Quantification Lock
www.nsf.gov
April 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.
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Browsing articles on AI and environmental justice (across all disciplines). So many of them are like "how to use AI to achieve environmental justice," and totally miss the point that AI is the environmental injustice.
April 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Browsing articles on AI and environmental justice (across all disciplines). So many of them are like "how to use AI to achieve environmental justice," and totally miss the point that AI is the environmental injustice.
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The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
April 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
The NYT wants you to think universities became dependent on government. This is false.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
The government invested in the national research infrastructure by competitive grants to universities. The taxpayers built this. It got us to the moon. Won the Cold War. Created Silicon Valley. Made the McRib.
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Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
April 19, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
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There are so many ways one could provide context for this data.
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
How Universities Became So Dependent on the Federal Government
For decades, universities got billions in federal dollars for research. The relationship was mutually beneficial, until President Trump decided it wasn’t.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
There are so many ways one could provide context for this data.
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
For example, in the last five years universities have received 52-55% of their research funding from the federal government. That's the lowest percentage since the 1950s. 1/x ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/high...
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This is the policy process in a Trump White House.
Rival factions jockey for access to the Oval, race to get POTUS to run their thing up the flagpole publicly before another faction can shoot it down.
This is not a healthy policy process...
Rival factions jockey for access to the Oval, race to get POTUS to run their thing up the flagpole publicly before another faction can shoot it down.
This is not a healthy policy process...
WSJ: “.. So that morning, when Navarro was .. in a different part of the White House, Bessent and Lutnick made their move ..
“.. They rushed to the Oval Office to .. propose a pause ..
“.. They stayed until Trump tapped out a Truth Social post ..” 🤡
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
“.. They rushed to the Oval Office to .. propose a pause ..
“.. They stayed until Trump tapped out a Truth Social post ..” 🤡
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
April 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This is the policy process in a Trump White House.
Rival factions jockey for access to the Oval, race to get POTUS to run their thing up the flagpole publicly before another faction can shoot it down.
This is not a healthy policy process...
Rival factions jockey for access to the Oval, race to get POTUS to run their thing up the flagpole publicly before another faction can shoot it down.
This is not a healthy policy process...
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This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
April 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
NSF has posted an “update on priorities.”
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
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White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some enviro nonprofits of tax-exempt status for Earth Day, by @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups
White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some environmental nonprofits of their tax-exempt status, setting up a possible Earth Day strike against organizations seen as sta...
www.bloomberg.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:51 AM
White House officials are preparing executive orders that would strip some enviro nonprofits of tax-exempt status for Earth Day, by @jendlouhy.bsky.social & @akshatrathi.bsky.social
🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
🎁 Gift Link: Trump Officials Weigh Earth Day Move Against Green Groups www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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The Trump administration justifies a lot of their racism and transphobia through “protecting women from violence.”
But this is just another reminder that they’re pro-rape. And using rape victims as a shield is just another form of objectification.
But this is just another reminder that they’re pro-rape. And using rape victims as a shield is just another form of objectification.
New— Trump's crusade against the American Bar Association continues, this time terminating all grants via DOJ's Office of Violence Against Women.
This morning a webinar on trauma-informed representation was canceled moments before starting. ABA sent email attachment to participants (shared w/ me):
This morning a webinar on trauma-informed representation was canceled moments before starting. ABA sent email attachment to participants (shared w/ me):
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The Trump administration justifies a lot of their racism and transphobia through “protecting women from violence.”
But this is just another reminder that they’re pro-rape. And using rape victims as a shield is just another form of objectification.
But this is just another reminder that they’re pro-rape. And using rape victims as a shield is just another form of objectification.