India Ornelas
@profe-ornelas.bsky.social
Professor, U Washington, Public Health 🏳️🌈🇲🇽
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Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
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Wow! Amazing resolution at Northwestern
“In an historic, landslide vote -- 338 to 83 -- Northwestern University’s highest faculty legislative body voted to establish faculty oversight of the Board of Trustees and to defend academic
freedom against edicts of the Trump administration.”
“In an historic, landslide vote -- 338 to 83 -- Northwestern University’s highest faculty legislative body voted to establish faculty oversight of the Board of Trustees and to defend academic
freedom against edicts of the Trump administration.”
Northwestern Faculty Vote to Protect Students, Safeguard Academic Freedom from Unlawful Trump Edicts.pdf
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April 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Wow! Amazing resolution at Northwestern
“In an historic, landslide vote -- 338 to 83 -- Northwestern University’s highest faculty legislative body voted to establish faculty oversight of the Board of Trustees and to defend academic
freedom against edicts of the Trump administration.”
“In an historic, landslide vote -- 338 to 83 -- Northwestern University’s highest faculty legislative body voted to establish faculty oversight of the Board of Trustees and to defend academic
freedom against edicts of the Trump administration.”
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They're going after the accreditation of universities and threatening to revoke the ability of accreditors if they don't crack down on DEI and LGBTQ people in academia.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
www.whitehouse.gov
April 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
They're going after the accreditation of universities and threatening to revoke the ability of accreditors if they don't crack down on DEI and LGBTQ people in academia.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
Absolute BLOODBATH at HHS/NIH/CDC this morning. Generation of scientists, health care officials being wiped out
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April 2, 2025 at 2:29 AM
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.
They can't keep spewing carbon.
They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.
They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
March 22, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🧵Yesterday, I received notice that my #NIH grant, on the social environment, lifecourse, epigenetics & #birthoutcomes in Black families, was terminated. This grant represented a critical effort to address the ⬆️ rates of maternal & infant mortality in the US, particularly among Black mothers & babies
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Hunter College has reposted their search for 2 scholars of Palestine Studies. Both searches are open rank and the new deadline is April 21. Please share widely!
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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Jobs | City University of New York
cuny.jobs
March 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Hunter College has reposted their search for 2 scholars of Palestine Studies. Both searches are open rank and the new deadline is April 21. Please share widely!
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...
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I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.
The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.
March 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I'm just a small-town professor. I'll never be a provost or chancellor. But here's some free advice: we're about to hold the most watched college sports event in 🇺🇸. Every college president should be all over TV, at every game, explaining why the March Madness of federal budget cuts is a huge crisis.
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Spotted Beaker taking in the #StandUpforScience2025 rally in Washington, DC today. More photos later.
March 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Spotted Beaker taking in the #StandUpforScience2025 rally in Washington, DC today. More photos later.
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Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
scim.ag
March 7, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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We need to organize--let’s help each other.
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
March 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
We need to organize--let’s help each other.
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
NIH is cancelling grants, but it's not clear exactly what they're cancelling and why. Without this information, we can't respond.
I've started a Google Sheet to track grant cancellations.
Please add any canceled grants you know of and spread the word!
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“The Departments of Education and Health and Human Services plan to immediately issue stop-work orders on grants to the school, the task force said.”
www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-...
www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Administration Cancels $400 Million in Grants to Columbia
The cuts are “only the beginning,” according to Trump’s antisemitism task force.
www.thefp.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:51 PM
“The Departments of Education and Health and Human Services plan to immediately issue stop-work orders on grants to the school, the task force said.”
www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-...
www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-...
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March 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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We heard a 🦇💩 survey was going out to states and grantees.
This survey is an insult to 🦇💩 as guano is highly productive.
This survey is an insult to 🦇💩 as guano is highly productive.
This CDC "survey" getting sent to grantees is wild yall.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
This is some serious "Kiss my Ring" level bullshit.
March 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
We heard a 🦇💩 survey was going out to states and grantees.
This survey is an insult to 🦇💩 as guano is highly productive.
This survey is an insult to 🦇💩 as guano is highly productive.
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Presented without further comment.
March 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Presented without further comment.
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The Guardian is reporting that Trump is openly violating a court order, and has transferred multiple transgender women to men's facilities.
We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication.
This is inhumane and illegal.
We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication.
This is inhumane and illegal.
Trans women transferred to men’s prisons despite rulings against Trump’s order
Incarcerated trans women report being groped by male guards and suicidal thoughts: ‘I’m punished for existing’
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The Guardian is reporting that Trump is openly violating a court order, and has transferred multiple transgender women to men's facilities.
We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication.
This is inhumane and illegal.
We know in Florida, transgender women are having their hair shorn, feminine items confiscated, and pulled off medication.
This is inhumane and illegal.
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A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
RestoredCDC.org
March 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
A team of volunteer archivists has recreated the Centers for Disease Control website exactly as it was the day Donald Trump was inaugurated. The site, called RestoredCDC.org, went live Tuesday and is currently being hosted in Europe.
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Federal judge blocks change in NIH indirect cost recovering rates, saying it would jeopardize public health. Read about it here: www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. judge blocks NIH’s plan to slash overhead cost payments
Injunction allows universities to keep receiving billions to recover costs of supporting federal research on campus
www.science.org
March 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Federal judge blocks change in NIH indirect cost recovering rates, saying it would jeopardize public health. Read about it here: www.science.org/content/arti...
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I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.
February 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I can't think of a faster way to undermine the country than simultaneously firing government workers, cutting scientific research, rolling back protections on public health & environment, & cutting essential services. It's like the US was defeated in war and is being occupied by a hostile enemy.
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Reminder that the Census determines how federal dollars, and House seats, are allocated. This is, yet another, five alarm fire.
JUST IN: The Census Bureau's #2030Census Advisory Committee has been terminated by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who oversees the bureau, Arturo Vargas, the committee's chair, confirms to @npr.org. I've reached out to the press offices of the bureau and the Commerce Department for comment...
March 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reminder that the Census determines how federal dollars, and House seats, are allocated. This is, yet another, five alarm fire.
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“We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists.”
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Colleges must stand up to the new segregationists (opinion)
In rushing to comply with Trump’s executive actions, universities support a segregationist agenda, Subini Annamma and David Stovall write.
www.insidehighered.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“We believe this rush to comply is a sign that universities are willing to become an institutional wing of the new segregationists.”
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...