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The right’s war on universities didn’t start with Trump--it's a century old and rooted in power, not ideas. A sharp history from @llassabe.bsky.social in the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus | Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began
www.theguardian.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
Google’s Sergey Brin Asks Workers to Spend More Time In the Office (Gift Article)
The tech giant’s co-founder said that if employees worked harder and were in the office more, the company could reach an artificial general intelligence breakthrough.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," that's only because the tech workers who can put in all those hours at the office have offloaded all their caregiving responsibilities onto others more vulnerable than them.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/t...
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1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
grants.nih.gov
February 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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How ironic would it be if Americans finally turned on Trump when he keeps them from getting the good TP?
"Virgin pulp, the key ingredient in toilet paper, accounted for 23% of Canada’s forest product exports." (Mostly to America.) www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...
Wiped out: America's love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests
Major brands’ refusal to use sustainable materials is having a devastating impact on forests and climate, new report says
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
How ironic would it be if Americans finally turned on Trump when he keeps them from getting the good TP?
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National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills
An NSF online payment system remained down after the federal funding freeze was lifted, leaving early-career scientists scrambling to pay bills
www.statnews.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social
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The goal here isn't to make public schools more conservative-friendly. The goal is to dismantle public schooling by driving families and teachers away.
January 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The goal here isn't to make public schools more conservative-friendly. The goal is to dismantle public schooling by driving families and teachers away.
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This one hour of day seven of the presidency.
January 27, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This one hour of day seven of the presidency.
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The Triplett Paradox
Or, why you don't want sociologists getting too good at their jobs
rodgraham.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
January 22, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Communications shutdown. Travel ban. Canceled study sections. Now a hiring freeze?
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
Shutting down the NIH indefinitely without stated cause is literally an act of sabotage.
Left: yesterday. Right: today.
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No study section...no grant reviews
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
January 22, 2025 at 9:21 PM
No study section...no grant reviews
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
No grant reviews...no grants awarded
No grants awarded...no research
No research...no functional NIH
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The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.
January 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
The censorship begins: According to officials, the Trump administration is instructing health agencies including the CDC, FDA, NIH, and HHS to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts.
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Other countries have safety nets. The US has women.
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
June 4, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Other countries have safety nets. The US has women.
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
Their labor creates the illusion of a DIY society, making it seem like we don't need a net.
Writing HOLDING IT TOGETHER was a labor of love and fury and I'm so grateful to share it with you all #PubDay
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
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This is cool. Not a way to effectively solve the problems of significant vaccine hesitancy (often, people's concern is about what's in vaccines vs. how they are administered), but it sure wouldn't hurt (no pun intended, I swear I just typed that)...
🛟 medsky idsky 🧪
🛟 medsky idsky 🧪
Major immune system breakthrough could mean needle-less vaccines
www.sciencefocus.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is cool. Not a way to effectively solve the problems of significant vaccine hesitancy (often, people's concern is about what's in vaccines vs. how they are administered), but it sure wouldn't hurt (no pun intended, I swear I just typed that)...
🛟 medsky idsky 🧪
🛟 medsky idsky 🧪
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I guess this is the freedom that libertarians imagine.
"Freedom" to have mandatory 12 hour workdays and not be paid in money.
"Freedom" to have mandatory 12 hour workdays and not be paid in money.
January 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I guess this is the freedom that libertarians imagine.
"Freedom" to have mandatory 12 hour workdays and not be paid in money.
"Freedom" to have mandatory 12 hour workdays and not be paid in money.
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In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
When Families Need Housing, Georgia Will Pay for Foster Care Rather Than Provide Assistance
In more than 700 cases over five years, Georgia reported inadequate housing as the sole reason for taking a child into foster care, a WABE and ProPublica analysis found. Advocates say it would be chea...
www.propublica.org
December 30, 2024 at 8:02 PM
In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing."
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care.
One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:
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It’s fun watching MAGAs and tech bros getting their knickers in a twist over H1B engineering jobs, but most of those jobs will be automated in a few years’ time. Coding was missold to a generation. Study disciplines that teach you how to think about the world and the people in it.
December 29, 2024 at 5:14 PM
It’s fun watching MAGAs and tech bros getting their knickers in a twist over H1B engineering jobs, but most of those jobs will be automated in a few years’ time. Coding was missold to a generation. Study disciplines that teach you how to think about the world and the people in it.
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"Rather than chasing newsworthy 'surprising' effects that turn out to be difficult to replicate, we should strive to uncover the general principles that underlie social phenomena, whether surprising or not."
New article by Arie Kruglanski and @sophiamoskalenko.bsky.social
Few quotes follow 🧵
New article by Arie Kruglanski and @sophiamoskalenko.bsky.social
Few quotes follow 🧵
Social psychology in the age of uncertainty: A tale of three quandaries
We examine the current state of social psychology in terms of three major quandaries that challenge our field: Value, Trust, and Purpose. The Value quandary involves balancing commitments to truth ...
doi.org
December 27, 2024 at 11:52 PM
"Rather than chasing newsworthy 'surprising' effects that turn out to be difficult to replicate, we should strive to uncover the general principles that underlie social phenomena, whether surprising or not."
New article by Arie Kruglanski and @sophiamoskalenko.bsky.social
Few quotes follow 🧵
New article by Arie Kruglanski and @sophiamoskalenko.bsky.social
Few quotes follow 🧵
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Has anyone written an article yet with the Orwellian title of “How AI can save the Humanities?” Because if some tech bro paid me $10 million I’d write it for them, because their AI surely couldn’t do a passable job of it.
December 26, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Has anyone written an article yet with the Orwellian title of “How AI can save the Humanities?” Because if some tech bro paid me $10 million I’d write it for them, because their AI surely couldn’t do a passable job of it.
Thanks to everyone who followed! Looking forward to connecting with anyone who’s doing research on inequality or using computational methods.
December 21, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Thanks to everyone who followed! Looking forward to connecting with anyone who’s doing research on inequality or using computational methods.
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Add to that to the "moral tightropes" many government workers have had to walk, as @jlkucinskas.bsky.social described from the first Trump administration www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
December 20, 2024 at 7:00 PM
Add to that to the "moral tightropes" many government workers have had to walk, as @jlkucinskas.bsky.social described from the first Trump administration www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Call for Papers! 📣 Amsterdam Trust Summit 2025 hosted by @trust-rpa.bsky.social on August 28-29, 2025
We welcome extended abstracts, full papers, position papers, round table proposals, workshop proposals, and hackathons.
Submission deadline: February 28, 2025
digitaltrust.uva.nl/amsterdam-tr...
We welcome extended abstracts, full papers, position papers, round table proposals, workshop proposals, and hackathons.
Submission deadline: February 28, 2025
digitaltrust.uva.nl/amsterdam-tr...
digitaltrust.uva.nl
December 4, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Call for Papers! 📣 Amsterdam Trust Summit 2025 hosted by @trust-rpa.bsky.social on August 28-29, 2025
We welcome extended abstracts, full papers, position papers, round table proposals, workshop proposals, and hackathons.
Submission deadline: February 28, 2025
digitaltrust.uva.nl/amsterdam-tr...
We welcome extended abstracts, full papers, position papers, round table proposals, workshop proposals, and hackathons.
Submission deadline: February 28, 2025
digitaltrust.uva.nl/amsterdam-tr...
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My latest on the lie that won't die, and why we're still talking about autism and vaccines.
Tracing the history back to "refrigerator mothers," I argue that to answer this question, we have to grapple with our culture of mother-burden and mother-blame.
open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...
Tracing the history back to "refrigerator mothers," I argue that to answer this question, we have to grapple with our culture of mother-burden and mother-blame.
open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...
The Lie That Won't Die
Why We're Still Talking About Autism and Vaccines
open.substack.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:18 PM
My latest on the lie that won't die, and why we're still talking about autism and vaccines.
Tracing the history back to "refrigerator mothers," I argue that to answer this question, we have to grapple with our culture of mother-burden and mother-blame.
open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...
Tracing the history back to "refrigerator mothers," I argue that to answer this question, we have to grapple with our culture of mother-burden and mother-blame.
open.substack.com/pub/jesscala...