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Alli DeJong

@allidejong.bsky.social
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climate, adaptation, decision analysis, flood risk, insurance, resilience, BCAs. planning & policy jack of all trades at the Water Institute. (personal account) also sports, birds, हिंदी, cities, etc. chicago via new orleans via chicago

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 8h
Small addendum: It's tricky to see what precisely SBE did fund in FY26 because almost everything was relabeled as 'cross-directorate activities'—a catch-all for directorate-wide funding. This plot, though, gives a sense of how many program areas (30+) SBE had previously funded and how they were cut.
Plot shows new grants in basically every area of SBE going to zero in 2026. Note that there is some double counting as some grants are in multiple areas. (e.g. Sociology and Economics)
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 8h
As recently as September, SBE's website proudly declared that it supported 63% of all research in US social and psychological sciences and worked to "creat[e] opportunities everywhere." Now, that message is gone.
Wayback machine version of SBE site: SBE provides 63% of the funding for all academic research in social and psychological sciences in the U.S. 

Through its core disciplinary and interdisciplinary programs, as well as contributions to cross-directorate NSF investments, SBE supports approximately 5,000 scientists, educators and students in a typical year.

The directorate's priorities include:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260906005733/https://www.nsf.gov/sbe/about#what-we-support-95b#what-we-support-95bhttps://www.nsf.gov/sbe/about#what-we-support-95b
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 9h
In addition to spending less money and making fewer new grants, SBE also dramatically narrowed where it made those new grants. Areas such as economics, sociology, and archaeology received few to no grants.
Grantmaking gutted
The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) awarded far fewer new awards than typical in fiscal year 2026—just 91. (The fiscal year runs from 1 October to 30 September.) Most of the new grants focused on cognitive science and artificial intelligence, in alignment with White House priorities; offices that support fields such as economics, sociology, and research ethics, as well as postdoctoral fellowships, awarded no grants at all.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 9h
But no part was hit as hard as SBE, which went from an average of 800 new grants to just 91, a precipitous, 90% decline. SBE spent just 95 million on new grants, far less than its average of 247 million.
Chart of SBE new grants by FY shows a massive decline in FY26Chart of obligations by SBE shows a 62% decline in FY26
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 9h
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
science.org
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
my dude
tom morello on the jumbotron at wrigley
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i made some new friends in the bar a couple weeks ago based on my love for Hum Aapke Hain Koun lol. (it turns out the magic phrase to clue people in that I am not an average gori is ghar ka khana.)
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
they also want to be able to drink a beer outside in the sunshine with their friends. something that could be possible if we changed open container laws
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THE SECRET IS THAT THE PEOPLE ABSOLUTELY FUCKING CRAVE CAR-FREE SPACES TO SPEND EVEN AN HOUR OF THEIR OTHERWISE COMPLETELY CAR-DOMINATED LIVES
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
yeah i really don’t feel so good bsky.app/profile/tani...
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t feel so good
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
no one beats your scansion game ever
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
were you at Raiford’s? god that place was fun
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Call it Irish Twin Touchdowns
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
More like Jaden GreatCatch
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Happy birthday! Enjoy this random artisanal meme
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Submarine Port also iconic tho I have not been in like 30 years lol. And Aurelio’s of course. But the most South Holland experience is getting stuck by a train on your way to church
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Go to Andy’s Grille after for the real South Holland experience
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Great colors
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I had to make sure I didn’t pull three MVVA examples, lol
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
But like… you could say that Chicago’s been on that ish since the Worlds Fair. And haven’t gardens (and thus their next iteration, public parks) always really been about power projection? Victorian era ones were for sure
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chicago honestly has so many. The Riverwalk is an amazing public space, so underrated. Maggie Daley Park! But Millennium really jump started this signature park movement which is why I think it’s an appropriate example here of parks as both aesthetic and messaging.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Most big cities have a fabulous park or two or three built in the last 25 years. Here are three of them
Old Fourth Ward Park - Atlanta Biidaasige Park - Toronto Millennium freaking Park!! Chicago!!
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh my god?? Is this just a prototype or are they rolling this out??
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
seriously this looks projectile to me?? could a bird do this??
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
what the hell??????
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
bReAk uP tHe MaSsiNg easily my least favorite urban design bullshit obsession of the last 25 years. Facades do not need to look like this I swear
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
thrilled to see this news - I’m reading The Golden Road right now and it’s excellent, like everything he does
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In two years we've gone from a standard where the President's budget proposal was a set of suggestions Congress would ignore to where Congressional appropriations are now a set of suggestions the President ignores.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
safe travels and i hope you have a better time in iceland than sarah jeong did recently
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Really encourage you to read this thread and then never make a “i know it smells crazy in there” joke in front of me ever again.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh hell yes. Last time I looked (years and years ago) it was like… completely unavailable
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
did you bring back ginjinha or did you find it in the US??
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The question presented here couldn't be more consequential. Answering "yes" would require the detention--without any possibility of a bond hearing--of millions of immigrants currently residing in the United States.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sky are out so all I’m rooting for is good basketball and my ND queens
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Where are all the “Arike washed” haters tonight??
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mike Tomlin would be a great planning commissioner
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I am obsessed with this
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Exciting!! (And also great to see that Foster Ave redevelopment too!)
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
need to reboot the cubs game and start over
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
best wishes for health and rest and joy!
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
goddamnit i forgot about this and i did want to go see it
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i would love to try them but have never successfully answered their riddles three because apparently they hate accepting money in exchange for pizza
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh i saw that too but ignored it since despite being extremely north side it didn’t even include jimmy’s pizza cafe
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
SVP is currently interviewing him with his daughter sitting with him!! It’s adorable
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
First I throw my lot in with the Cubs so that I can enjoy transit-oriented neighborhood baseball and now this. What is happening.
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can’t do it, first of all it would be so phony, I went all in on the Saints in 2006 when I watched Steve Gleason block the punt
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yes I grew up here but NO I didn’t grow up rooting for this team, I was raised with self-respect
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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can feel myself becoming a Bears Respecter, or at least a Bears Appreciator, and it’s really uncomfortable
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