Rachel
@appalrachian.bsky.social
Interested in higher education, rurality, reproductive freedom, the great outdoors, live music, cats, FIRE, and cooking.
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For comparison, they're sad that white men are only 56% of the tenured faculty in 2023 after being 64% in 2013
The percentage of white men in the US pop is ~30%. Thus, as always, the complaint is that white men are not sufficiently overrepresented (as they have been throughout US history). www.chronicle.com/article/facu...
Faculty Hiring Is Under Federal Scrutiny at Harvard
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has pointed to the university’s data showing a declining proportion of white, male professors.
www.chronicle.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:44 PM
For comparison, they're sad that white men are only 56% of the tenured faculty in 2023 after being 64% in 2013
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ESPN is covering the elimination of funding for research on traumatic brain injuries--a big problem in some sports--in the proposed FY26 federal budget. This will get more attention than what most universities can (or are willing to) generate.
Trump plan cuts funding for brain injury research
The Trump administration's budget request eliminates major federal funding for traumatic brain injury research and education, potentially undercutting efforts to address head injuries in sports.
www.espn.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
ESPN is covering the elimination of funding for research on traumatic brain injuries--a big problem in some sports--in the proposed FY26 federal budget. This will get more attention than what most universities can (or are willing to) generate.
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Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
May 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10
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New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
donmoynihan.substack.com
April 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New at Can We Still Govern: An anonymous NIH employee maps out the GOP budget gameplan to permanently gut our most important science agency.
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
Impoundment, delay and red tape will create artificial "savings" that become the new benchmark for NIH budgets.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nih-bu...
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This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
Why I Left the Washington Post
Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years. After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided...
www.newyorker.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This week I left The Washington Post after 40 years, 6 months and 6 days. Today I have a piece in the New Yorker explaining my heart-breaking decision, and including the column that was spiked. I wish I never had to write it. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...
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I sat in a meeting last week where someone had the absolute gall to tell others to comply and keep their head down so they can make it to the other side. The other side of what?!
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Education Department to reduce staff by half
Ahead of the announcement, the department told staff that DC offices would be closed on Wednesday and reopen Thursday for “security reasons.”
www.insidehighered.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I sat in a meeting last week where someone had the absolute gall to tell others to comply and keep their head down so they can make it to the other side. The other side of what?!
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Yes, the NIH is *still* violating a court order and freezing funds for new and competitive awards.
But I guess the law is more guidelines than rules these days.
But I guess the law is more guidelines than rules these days.
Extending my grant update this morning. Here are data limited to new and competitive renewal applications.
The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
The Pause is dead, Long live the Pause...
March 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Yes, the NIH is *still* violating a court order and freezing funds for new and competitive awards.
But I guess the law is more guidelines than rules these days.
But I guess the law is more guidelines than rules these days.
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Elon and trump block young people from pursuing careers in science
BREAKING:
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes.
It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/
NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled.
Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.
February 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Elon and trump block young people from pursuing careers in science
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While some of the agency's study sections will resume, advisory council meetings, which make final funding decisions, seem to still be held up.
Some NIH study sections will resume reviewing grants, but final funding decisions are still in limbo
While some NIH study sections will resume, advisory council meetings, which make final funding decisions, seem to still be held up.
buff.ly
February 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
While some of the agency's study sections will resume, advisory council meetings, which make final funding decisions, seem to still be held up.
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There were news reports about grant reviews resuming in early February (e.g. www.science.org/content/arti...) but why is there no news coverage about how advisory councils continue to be cancelled today with no signs (per the register) that they are resuming? This needs attention outside bsky yes?
NIH eases freeze on grant reviews imposed after Trump communications pause
Meetings of study sections and closed portion of councils back on track as agency also deals with diversity-related executive orders
www.science.org
February 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
There were news reports about grant reviews resuming in early February (e.g. www.science.org/content/arti...) but why is there no news coverage about how advisory councils continue to be cancelled today with no signs (per the register) that they are resuming? This needs attention outside bsky yes?
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Viewpoint: Recent disruptions and funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) undermine the infrastructure and stability of US scientific research, threatening the nation's global leadership and scientific productivity.
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#MedSky
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#MedSky
February 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Viewpoint: Recent disruptions and funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) undermine the infrastructure and stability of US scientific research, threatening the nation's global leadership and scientific productivity.
ja.ma/41hBnoc
#MedSky
ja.ma/41hBnoc
#MedSky
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6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
February 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.