Erika Biederman
@ebbbiederman.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Indiana University
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A lot has changed in the world, so my colleagues and I at the @fordschool are opening up a special emergency admissions cycle for folks who want to start a Masters of Public Policy this fall.
Deets are here: fordschool.umich.edu/masters-prog...
I hope to see you in class in September!
Deets are here: fordschool.umich.edu/masters-prog...
I hope to see you in class in September!
Master's programs
Become the leader you've always wanted to be and work to create meaningful change in public policy and affairs that impact our communities and the world.
fordschool.umich.edu
April 24, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A lot has changed in the world, so my colleagues and I at the @fordschool are opening up a special emergency admissions cycle for folks who want to start a Masters of Public Policy this fall.
Deets are here: fordschool.umich.edu/masters-prog...
I hope to see you in class in September!
Deets are here: fordschool.umich.edu/masters-prog...
I hope to see you in class in September!
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This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
March 30, 2025 at 2:47 PM
This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.
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Publishing this behind a paywall seems suboptimal
“We call on the Trump administration to end the destructive attacks on colleges and universities” fortune.com/2025/04/08/c...
Former college and university presidents: Higher education must do better, but politically driven government intervention is not the solution
The Trump administration should halt its destructive attack on higher education—and establish a constructive dialogue.
fortune.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Publishing this behind a paywall seems suboptimal
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Today, millions of Americans from all walks of life showed more backbone than the country’s fanciest universities and law firms.
April 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Today, millions of Americans from all walks of life showed more backbone than the country’s fanciest universities and law firms.
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We’re launching the People’s Cabinet—a group of leaders, experts, and everyday Americans who will cut through Trump’s lies and speak directly to the people.
Stay tuned for more.
Stay tuned for more.
April 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
We’re launching the People’s Cabinet—a group of leaders, experts, and everyday Americans who will cut through Trump’s lies and speak directly to the people.
Stay tuned for more.
Stay tuned for more.
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As a psychologist, I’d like to bring attention to the word “deluded.” We are living in a time where delusional thinking - which at one time would have been diagnosed as a loose grasp of reality - is now normalized. It’s a sign of poor mental health and associated with poor decision making.
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
As a psychologist, I’d like to bring attention to the word “deluded.” We are living in a time where delusional thinking - which at one time would have been diagnosed as a loose grasp of reality - is now normalized. It’s a sign of poor mental health and associated with poor decision making.
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I just introduced the Delete DOGE Act, which – you guessed it – would defund DOGE.
April 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I just introduced the Delete DOGE Act, which – you guessed it – would defund DOGE.
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Congress can end this at any time.
April 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Congress can end this at any time.
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I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
March 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I feel confident in predicting history will judge this decade or so as the absolutely stupidest time in American history.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
Honestly our kids and grandkids will read about this time and be shocked that adults existed.
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I don't think much of the higher ed community realizes the extent to which international student enrollment is at risk right now. It seems crazy to think of nearly all international students being banned, but colleges and students need to prepare for that possibility.
How Trump Is Wreaking Havoc on the Student Visa System
The Trump administration is upending the student visa bureaucracy to deport foreign students. University officials are struggling to keep up.
www.insidehighered.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I don't think much of the higher ed community realizes the extent to which international student enrollment is at risk right now. It seems crazy to think of nearly all international students being banned, but colleges and students need to prepare for that possibility.
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We warned them that cutting science budgets would mean decimation of cancer research.
April 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
We warned them that cutting science budgets would mean decimation of cancer research.
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“When a grant is awarded to a university, there are terms and conditions that go with the grant. It’s basically a legal contract…I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that the great majority of the terminations that have been done are in fact legal.” @jeremymberg.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“When a grant is awarded to a university, there are terms and conditions that go with the grant. It’s basically a legal contract…I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion that the great majority of the terminations that have been done are in fact legal.” @jeremymberg.bsky.social
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This one hurts a lot. Richard is a great scientist. His elegant work inspired me to get into mitochondrial biology and he went out of his way to help me establish myself in the field. So sad for our whole community.
Dr. Richard Youle was fired today. He is an eminent scientist who has done important work on brain diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
Musk and Trump are stopping NIH research into cures, for diseases from cancer to Alzheimer’s. Americans did not vote for this.
NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...
April 2, 2025 at 1:51 AM
This one hurts a lot. Richard is a great scientist. His elegant work inspired me to get into mitochondrial biology and he went out of his way to help me establish myself in the field. So sad for our whole community.
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Clock it. 25 hours and 5 minutes of GOOD TROUBLE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
April 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Clock it. 25 hours and 5 minutes of GOOD TROUBLE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Yeah, guys. I regret to inform you that this is actually really good 🤷🏾♀️ It’s a storytelling & morale boosting exercise. Booker’s doing policy analysis & telling constituent stories & also encouraging/shuzing other D Senators. Part bullhorn, part relationship building.
I was skeptical but it’s gone on long enough to be genuinely disruptive. (They should also deny unanimous consent but) The YouTube comments are also euphoric. The supply of energy among party faithful is worth quite a bit. Not to mention the storytelling/framing that it allows D’s to do.
April 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Yeah, guys. I regret to inform you that this is actually really good 🤷🏾♀️ It’s a storytelling & morale boosting exercise. Booker’s doing policy analysis & telling constituent stories & also encouraging/shuzing other D Senators. Part bullhorn, part relationship building.
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Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful:
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
April 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful:
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
- Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored
- Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored
- Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored
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Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to.
Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not.
The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.
Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not.
The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.
EMU has no plans to close its Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
While sadness and anger are being expressed down the road in Ann Arbor, Eastern Michigan University says its Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will continue. WEMU’s Kevin Meerschaert has this...
www.wemu.org
March 31, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Yet another example of the lesser-ranked schools taking the stand that the bigger schools are too scared to.
Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not.
The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.
Here: even as Ann Arbor caves on DEI, Eastern Michigan does not.
The courage of the smaller schools is laudable. The refusal of the bigger schools is frustrating.
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You know, you could actually just hand-draw all the Ghibli-style images anybody could ever want, and pay royalties to the original artists, for slightly less than the $18 billion dolllars OpenAI has raised.
March 31, 2025 at 5:45 PM
You know, you could actually just hand-draw all the Ghibli-style images anybody could ever want, and pay royalties to the original artists, for slightly less than the $18 billion dolllars OpenAI has raised.
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"We call on the administration to cease its wholesale assault on U.S. science, and we urge the public to join this call...We all benefit from science, and we all stand to lose if the nation’s research enterprise is destroyed." 🧪
>1900 members of the National Academies of Science, Engineering & Medicine issued a statement supporting science for the benefit of all citizens, and ... 1/2
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Public Statement on Supporting Science for the Benefit of All Citizens
TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE We all rely on science. Science gave us the smartphones in our pockets, the navigation systems in our cars, and life-saving medical care. We count on engineers when we drive acr...
docs.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"We call on the administration to cease its wholesale assault on U.S. science, and we urge the public to join this call...We all benefit from science, and we all stand to lose if the nation’s research enterprise is destroyed." 🧪
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We have just 24 hours until polls open here in Florida on Tuesday! This last stretch is crucial for turning out voters but to do that we need to run ads, pay canvassers, and make sure we have voter support hotlines available. Help out here:
Support Josh Weil in the Special Election!
Show your support with a contribution.
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March 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We have just 24 hours until polls open here in Florida on Tuesday! This last stretch is crucial for turning out voters but to do that we need to run ads, pay canvassers, and make sure we have voter support hotlines available. Help out here:
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Tomorrow is Election Day for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race — and we have a message for Elon Musk: Wisconsin is not for sale! @benwikler.bsky.social @wisdems.bsky.social
Make sure to go vote and elect Judge Crawford, WI!
Make sure to go vote and elect Judge Crawford, WI!
March 31, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Tomorrow is Election Day for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race — and we have a message for Elon Musk: Wisconsin is not for sale! @benwikler.bsky.social @wisdems.bsky.social
Make sure to go vote and elect Judge Crawford, WI!
Make sure to go vote and elect Judge Crawford, WI!