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About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
March 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
About fifty years ago, NASA strapped a message in a bottle to a rocket and flung it into the deep dark
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
It wasn’t supposed to go this far, but it did. Long past its mission, it’s still out there so far away now that a simple hello takes a day to reach it, and another day to hear if it says hello back
@baldwin.senate.gov @markpocan.bsky.social what's the plan?
The state of the union is that the President is spitting in the face of the law.
He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will.
I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.
He is letting an unelected billionaire fire cancer researchers and wreck federal agencies like the Social Security Administration at will.
I won't be attending tomorrow's Joint Address.
March 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
@baldwin.senate.gov @markpocan.bsky.social what's the plan?
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"Still, every university remained publicly silent. The chief sponsor of Senate Bill 1 took notice. Republican State Sen. Jerry Cirino reportedly said that IUC’s neutrality over the bill was a sign that the presidents were at least not overwhelmingly opposed to his vision for higher education reform"
Ohio’s SB1 bans faculty strikes and eliminates diversity efforts, among other things.
Ohio’s higher ed lobbying group told colleges to avoid picking fights over it and to try to get more funding instead
Great reporting: signalcleveland.org/ohio-univers...
Ohio’s higher ed lobbying group told colleges to avoid picking fights over it and to try to get more funding instead
Great reporting: signalcleveland.org/ohio-univers...
Here’s why Ohio university presidents stayed quiet on Senate Bill 1
The lobbying group for the state’s public universities advised them to sit on the sidelines over Senate Bill 1, records show.
signalcleveland.org
March 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"Still, every university remained publicly silent. The chief sponsor of Senate Bill 1 took notice. Republican State Sen. Jerry Cirino reportedly said that IUC’s neutrality over the bill was a sign that the presidents were at least not overwhelmingly opposed to his vision for higher education reform"
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
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Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
www.wesa.fm
February 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.
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hey, look at this. read it, reskeet this, like this, and do it as well. it's about trans people and passports. take it seriously. thank you!
February 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
hey, look at this. read it, reskeet this, like this, and do it as well. it's about trans people and passports. take it seriously. thank you!
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between NIH and “stop all DEI [which is anything] or get no funding,” I think they just don’t want universities to exist.
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
between NIH and “stop all DEI [which is anything] or get no funding,” I think they just don’t want universities to exist.
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The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
February 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
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All those universities that bravely took up those positions of "institutional neutrality" a few months ago, what do you do now?
February 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
All those universities that bravely took up those positions of "institutional neutrality" a few months ago, what do you do now?
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Instead of "don't cut our funding," our message should be: hands off higher ed.
You want to restrict what professors can say in the classroom? Hands off.
You want to ban diversity offices? Hands off.
You want to cut our research funding? Hands off.
Hands. Off. Higher. Ed.
You want to restrict what professors can say in the classroom? Hands off.
You want to ban diversity offices? Hands off.
You want to cut our research funding? Hands off.
Hands. Off. Higher. Ed.
February 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Instead of "don't cut our funding," our message should be: hands off higher ed.
You want to restrict what professors can say in the classroom? Hands off.
You want to ban diversity offices? Hands off.
You want to cut our research funding? Hands off.
Hands. Off. Higher. Ed.
You want to restrict what professors can say in the classroom? Hands off.
You want to ban diversity offices? Hands off.
You want to cut our research funding? Hands off.
Hands. Off. Higher. Ed.
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Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI.
I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.
I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.
February 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI.
I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.
I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.
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Before you say something mean about Henry Kissinger, take a breath and see if you can think of something meaner
November 30, 2023 at 2:05 AM
Before you say something mean about Henry Kissinger, take a breath and see if you can think of something meaner
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I think it's good to remember voting (or abstaining) isn't a symbolic representation of your values or even an endorsement of the politician your voting for. It's a strategic decision with real-world outcomes for the people you know and love, which hopefully includes yourself.
November 12, 2023 at 12:55 PM
I think it's good to remember voting (or abstaining) isn't a symbolic representation of your values or even an endorsement of the politician your voting for. It's a strategic decision with real-world outcomes for the people you know and love, which hopefully includes yourself.
Come on now
The entire UNC system will only award Distinguished Professorships to faculty in STEM fields from now on.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
UNC System is getting $3.7 billion from the state budget. Here’s where the money is going.
The UNC System Board of Governors allocated $3.7 billion from the General Assembly. This includes investments in faculty salary increases, athletics and rural healthcare.
www.wunc.org
October 27, 2023 at 12:48 PM
Come on now
