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This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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This is concerning…. Based on their new policy, NIH can stop providing reasoning for rejecting high-scoring proposals. #RAdminsky
This is concerning.
NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
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NIH is changing their policy so that staff have to prepare justification for every application that is funded BUT NO DOCUMENTATION FOR APPLICATIONS THAT ARE SKIPPED (BASED ON PERCENTILES).
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November 24, 2025 at 1:24 AM
This is concerning…. Based on their new policy, NIH can stop providing reasoning for rejecting high-scoring proposals. #RAdminsky
China Initiative 2.0 targeting universities using FCA: Trump's version #researchsecuirty #RAdminSky
DOJ Revives China Initiative Tactics: Investigating Academic Researchers by Targeting Universities Under the False Claims Act
DOJ is taking a renewed and aggressive enforcement approach under the False Claims Act targeting academic institutions for researchers with affiliations with China.
www.wilmerhale.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
China Initiative 2.0 targeting universities using FCA: Trump's version #researchsecuirty #RAdminSky
Trump and the courts review of cases to date
The “Presumption of Regularity” in Trump Administration Litigation
Comprehensive study of court cases involving Trump administration and the basis for courts no longer giving a "presumption of regularity."
www.justsecurity.org
November 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Trump and the courts review of cases to date
@jeremymberg.bsky.social What about today's Friday notice on paylines? #RAdminSky
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
@jeremymberg.bsky.social What about today's Friday notice on paylines? #RAdminSky
I don’t know what this means
ICYMI: No more paylines at #NIH. #RAdminsky
It's true. No more paylines at #NIH.
November 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I don’t know what this means
Thakur v. Trump et. al, 25-4249: researcher plaintiffs argue with Gov over #1stA suppression via DEI grant terminations. Plaintiff attorney is Dean Chemerinsky @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/video/...
www.ca9.uscourts.gov
November 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thakur v. Trump et. al, 25-4249: researcher plaintiffs argue with Gov over #1stA suppression via DEI grant terminations. Plaintiff attorney is Dean Chemerinsky @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/video/...
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November 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
#NSF SECURE Center briefing, Nov 20, 2025 #RAdminSky
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November 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
#NSF SECURE Center briefing, Nov 20, 2025 #RAdminSky
What is wrong with the SAFE Research Act? See www.aau.edu/key-issues/a... #RAminSky
AAU Expresses Concerns on NDAA's SAFE Research Act | Association of American Universities (AAU)
AAU and APLU sent a joint letter to House and Senate Committees on Armed Services leadership, expressing their concerns on the SAFE Research Act and requesting it be struck from any final measure.
www.aau.edu
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
What is wrong with the SAFE Research Act? See www.aau.edu/key-issues/a... #RAminSky
This- after the Ex-President Ryan’s contemporaneous notes last week came out excoriating his removal by #UVA BOV #RAdminSky #AcademicFreedom
The Trump Administration launched a direct attack on The University of Virginia — and on academic freedom.
It’s time Virginians have a Governor who stands up for our students.
It’s time Virginians have a Governor who stands up for our students.
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This- after the Ex-President Ryan’s contemporaneous notes last week came out excoriating his removal by #UVA BOV #RAdminSky #AcademicFreedom
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Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration
Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV
Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Tracking Key Lawsuits Against the Trump Administration
Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV
Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges. https://bit.ly/46VfIDV
'Anticipatory Conformity' could influence universities [to] cancel conferences on combating fascism, restrict faculty research on anti-fascist movements, and suspend student organizations.... The chilling effect on academic freedom would be profound" #antifa www.justsecurity.org/122643/antif...
Designating Antifa as FTO Could Threaten Civil Liberties
Trump's plan to designate Antifa as an FTO has implications extending beyond anti-fascist activists to the architecture of US civil society.
www.justsecurity.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
'Anticipatory Conformity' could influence universities [to] cancel conferences on combating fascism, restrict faculty research on anti-fascist movements, and suspend student organizations.... The chilling effect on academic freedom would be profound" #antifa www.justsecurity.org/122643/antif...
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"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
November 16, 2025 at 12:30 AM
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob."
—FDR, 1936
—FDR, 1936
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When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:12 PM
When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.
The case no. is 25-cv-07864-RFL. #NSF was told they cannot approve any new grants to UCLA & 584M is frozen at #UCLA. Gov violated #1A #10A #RAdminSky
"This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty, staff and students,"
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine.
#DefendHigherEd
— Veena Dubal, AAUP General Counsel & law professor at the University of California, Irvine.
#DefendHigherEd
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The case no. is 25-cv-07864-RFL. #NSF was told they cannot approve any new grants to UCLA & 584M is frozen at #UCLA. Gov violated #1A #10A #RAdminSky
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NIH grant applicants:
October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-26-005: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Interim Guidance on Reopening of NIH Extramural Activities NOT-OD-26-005. NIH
grants.nih.gov
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
NIH grant applicants:
October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
October and November grant application submission *deadlines* will be rescheduled (🤯). Specific dates TBD.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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Former UVA President Jim Ryan accused the board of dishonesty around the circumstance of his exit in a searing letter sent to the UVA Faculty Senate today. Read it here, as well as letters from board leadership and Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Former UVA President Jim Ryan accused the board of dishonesty around the circumstance of his exit in a searing letter sent to the UVA Faculty Senate today. Read it here, as well as letters from board leadership and Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Courses Studying Trump Proliferate, Despite Risk of President’s Ire
Academics running classes on the U.S. leader must grapple with fast-changing dynamics and the fear of provoking the world’s most powerful man.
Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/49hdf9X
Academics running classes on the U.S. leader must grapple with fast-changing dynamics and the fear of provoking the world’s most powerful man.
Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/49hdf9X
November 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Courses Studying Trump Proliferate, Despite Risk of President’s Ire
Academics running classes on the U.S. leader must grapple with fast-changing dynamics and the fear of provoking the world’s most powerful man.
Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/49hdf9X
Academics running classes on the U.S. leader must grapple with fast-changing dynamics and the fear of provoking the world’s most powerful man.
Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/49hdf9X
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I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.
Attrition may be a dribble now, but it will be long-lasting brain drain, esp. in their social sciences depts. If they want to be another University of Austin, then they are getting a running start. "Gig 'Em"
A lot of the comments are about how people are going to start fleeing TAMU and Texas for other schools. I wish I thought they could, but they can’t, except a few superstars. There are No Jobs. Anyone who has a job right now has won the lottery and people have kids to feed.
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Attrition may be a dribble now, but it will be long-lasting brain drain, esp. in their social sciences depts. If they want to be another University of Austin, then they are getting a running start. "Gig 'Em"
Must read..."felt like a hostage situation" #RAdminSky
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Must read..."felt like a hostage situation" #RAdminSky
NSF SECURE Center Research Security Briefing Vol. 1, No. 20 November 13, 2025 #researchsecurity #RAdminsky
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November 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
NSF SECURE Center Research Security Briefing Vol. 1, No. 20 November 13, 2025 #researchsecurity #RAdminsky