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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
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Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.
Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:
1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:
1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
June 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.
Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:
1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:
1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.
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I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
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Now the goal is clear.
Gut real science and replace it with MAGA junk science.
The goal isn’t to just to turn NIH into a rightwing thinktank, it’s to take money from NIH to CREATE a rightwing thinktank.
Gut real science and replace it with MAGA junk science.
The goal isn’t to just to turn NIH into a rightwing thinktank, it’s to take money from NIH to CREATE a rightwing thinktank.
Taking from NIH research to create a new MAHA agency? wapo.st/42gLz0Z Summary: Proposal: $47B NIH budget split into $27B for NIH (now only 8 institutes, from 27) and $20B for a new "Administration for a Healthy America" (incl. primary care, childhood chronic disease).
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.
wapo.st
April 16, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Now the goal is clear.
Gut real science and replace it with MAGA junk science.
The goal isn’t to just to turn NIH into a rightwing thinktank, it’s to take money from NIH to CREATE a rightwing thinktank.
Gut real science and replace it with MAGA junk science.
The goal isn’t to just to turn NIH into a rightwing thinktank, it’s to take money from NIH to CREATE a rightwing thinktank.
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Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
propub.li
April 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
Few Americans know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.
(Published 2022)
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Very much so. The courts will not save us. We need to shift public opinion by spreading the word about what is really happening, and we need to push Congress members to act like this is an emergency.
Which it is.
Which it is.
February 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Very much so. The courts will not save us. We need to shift public opinion by spreading the word about what is really happening, and we need to push Congress members to act like this is an emergency.
Which it is.
Which it is.
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Lots of leaders of colleges and other key institutions are staying silent, either out of fear or a misguided view of "neutrality." But not Michael Roth. wapo.st/4k1ueQt
Opinion | The college president who is fighting back against Trumpism
Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.
wapo.st
February 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Lots of leaders of colleges and other key institutions are staying silent, either out of fear or a misguided view of "neutrality." But not Michael Roth. wapo.st/4k1ueQt
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ATTENTION FEDS Judge Chutkin won't block Musk's federal worker firings because "'possibility' that defendants may take actions that irreparably harm plaintiffs is not enough" Attorneys are asking us for evidence of harm. If you have evidence contact the tipline asap. We'll provide an email address
February 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
ATTENTION FEDS Judge Chutkin won't block Musk's federal worker firings because "'possibility' that defendants may take actions that irreparably harm plaintiffs is not enough" Attorneys are asking us for evidence of harm. If you have evidence contact the tipline asap. We'll provide an email address
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“I don’t know how to explain to our daughter…that our own government is doing this to us.”
JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
February 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
“I don’t know how to explain to our daughter…that our own government is doing this to us.”
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JUST IN: Catholic Bishops sue over Trump suspension of refugee admissions. Doc:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
JUST IN: Catholic Bishops sue over Trump suspension of refugee admissions. Doc:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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We're hiring a research specialist to help run a set of large-scale randomized trials optimizing a well-being app. We're super excited about this work and hoping to find an equally excited research specialist to join our team and make the magic happen! Details here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...
Research Specialist - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary:
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Center for Healthy Minds (CHM) is a leader in conducting science - in and out of the lab - on how to nurture emotional well-being in daily life, co...
jobs.wisc.edu
February 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We're hiring a research specialist to help run a set of large-scale randomized trials optimizing a well-being app. We're super excited about this work and hoping to find an equally excited research specialist to join our team and make the magic happen! Details here: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...
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we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power
February 15, 2025 at 2:05 PM
we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power
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If Trump and the GOP extend their 2017 tax cuts, the top 1% will make out like bandits — taking home an extra $165 per day.
But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
February 15, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If Trump and the GOP extend their 2017 tax cuts, the top 1% will make out like bandits — taking home an extra $165 per day.
But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
But the bottom 60% will get shafted — getting only an extra $1.10 per day in exchange for massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP.
It's reverse Robin Hood.
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If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed.
We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose.
Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in
We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose.
Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in
February 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you care about science & higher ed in America right now, your world has changed.
We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose.
Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in
We have been forced into a battle we didn’t choose.
Whatever our titles, our jobs now also includes emergency response, psychological first aid, organizing & many other things we weren’t trained in
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They're already ignoring court orders!
It will be easy for them to just not pay your indirects—either via impoundment, or via direct Musk control of the Treasury payment system.
The court case is one step. But don't trust it to save science.
It will be easy for them to just not pay your indirects—either via impoundment, or via direct Musk control of the Treasury payment system.
The court case is one step. But don't trust it to save science.
Judge Finds Admin Not Complying With Court Order After Musk, Vance Rail Against Judiciary talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-t...
Judge Finds Admin Not Complying With Court Order After Musk, Vance Rail Against Judiciary
It’s quite a split screen: The president, vice president, White House deputy...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
They're already ignoring court orders!
It will be easy for them to just not pay your indirects—either via impoundment, or via direct Musk control of the Treasury payment system.
The court case is one step. But don't trust it to save science.
It will be easy for them to just not pay your indirects—either via impoundment, or via direct Musk control of the Treasury payment system.
The court case is one step. But don't trust it to save science.
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"the courts are not going to save us. They were not designed for this"
Instead, mobilize public opinion, and yell at your Senators to use every obstruction tool they have. Don't sit back and trust the courts.
Instead, mobilize public opinion, and yell at your Senators to use every obstruction tool they have. Don't sit back and trust the courts.
From a DOJ litigator at a Super Bowl party rn:
“Don’t rely on the courts [to stop the coup]. The courts are not going to save us. They’re not designed for this.”
“Don’t rely on the courts [to stop the coup]. The courts are not going to save us. They’re not designed for this.”
February 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"the courts are not going to save us. They were not designed for this"
Instead, mobilize public opinion, and yell at your Senators to use every obstruction tool they have. Don't sit back and trust the courts.
Instead, mobilize public opinion, and yell at your Senators to use every obstruction tool they have. Don't sit back and trust the courts.
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Dear US scientists: we love you all, but don't be that "heartened" by legal action. Musk is saying he will ignore judicial orders. USAID/CFPB actions are blatantly illegal.
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
Hearing from more people at affected universities today. One at another major research institute said people there were “frozen with fear” at the potential of the rate cut and relative silence from leadership over the weekend, but heartened by the unified response of the quick lawsuit.
Destructive Banality: NIH Indirect Costs Move Sounds Boring, Could Kill You
Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.
www.splinter.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Dear US scientists: we love you all, but don't be that "heartened" by legal action. Musk is saying he will ignore judicial orders. USAID/CFPB actions are blatantly illegal.
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
We're begging you: read @jamellebouie.net @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social on law and politics. 1/ 🧪
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lawyers: your bat signal has been activated
The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law."
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so.
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
February 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
lawyers: your bat signal has been activated
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Thank you!
William is offering to talk to scientists about media training to approach local TV stations. Anyone interested?
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William is offering to talk to scientists about media training to approach local TV stations. Anyone interested?
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I'm a scientist turned comms pro. I do media training. The below is 100% accurate & if you'd like to try but don't know how, talk to me. I can help you understand how to approach local stations & what to expect. This is entirely pro bono; I just want to help! calendar.app.google/z4KR3xfXTc17...
February 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Thank you!
William is offering to talk to scientists about media training to approach local TV stations. Anyone interested?
🧪
William is offering to talk to scientists about media training to approach local TV stations. Anyone interested?
🧪
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Psychologists and psych-adjacent folks concerned about NIH indirect costs reduction: APA has a petition and request you contact your reps. This means APA has decided to pursue this, so I think we should too:
www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...
www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...
Tell Congress to Stop NIH Cuts
Please take 2 minutes today to ask Congress to take steps to stop funding cuts at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The administration's proposed cuts to federal research funding, particul...
www.votervoice.net
February 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Psychologists and psych-adjacent folks concerned about NIH indirect costs reduction: APA has a petition and request you contact your reps. This means APA has decided to pursue this, so I think we should too:
www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...
www.votervoice.net/Shares/BAAAA...
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Excuse me while I vent for a moment
SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.
SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins slams the Trump admin’s NIH cuts as “poorly conceived” and says she has called RFK to “to express my strong opposition to these arbitrary cuts in funding for vital research.” She says he promised to “re-examine this initiative” if confirmed as HHS secretary.
February 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Excuse me while I vent for a moment
SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.
SHE IS THE APPROPRIATIONS CHAIR. SHE CAN SUBPOENA OFFICIALS, HOLD TELEVISED HEARINGS, HOLD UP ANYONE’S FUNDING, ZERO OUT THE WHITE HOUSE’S FUCKING ICE CREAM AND DIET COKE BUDGET, AND ENFORCE THE APPROPRIATIONS LAWS THAT ARE THE SOURCE OF HER PERSONAL POWER.
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JD Vance knows perfectly well what the truth is here. But if a lie will be more useful to him, he knows what to do.
February 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
JD Vance knows perfectly well what the truth is here. But if a lie will be more useful to him, he knows what to do.
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February 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me.
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THANK YOU
If you have applied for a F99/R00 or K99/R00 Diversity award and the study section for review is not listed on your eRA Commons page, please reach out to me.
DM me, email berg.grants.2029@gmail.com, Signal jeremymberg.78
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