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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Now the @insidehighered.com map is updated to show >800 visas revoked across 150+ colleges in 41 states. Ohio State's known number of revocations increased from 7 to 11.

Orange map of the USA with black dots at locations where international student visas have been revoked. Text reads, "As of April 11, over 150 colleges and universities have identified 800-plus international students and recent graduates who have had their legal status changed by the State Department. Source: Inside Higher Education Analysis, Ashley Mowreader. Some institutions have shared publicly that students lost visas but have yet to disclose the number of students impacted. These are documented on the map, but the number is unknown."

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Jorge Moreno @jorgitomoreno.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

It’s paper day! Check out our latest paper on galactic shapes in FIREbox. Tip of the hat to Courtney Klein for leading this effort! 🔥 📦 🌌 arxiv.org/abs/2503.05612

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Jorge Moreno @jorgitomoreno.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

It’s paper day! Our paper on galactic sizes has now been accepted for publication (ApJ). Tip of the hat to Francisco Mercado for leading this effort! arxiv.org/abs/2501.04084 @astronomerc.bsky.social

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choir Collaboration @choirastro.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

MUTUAL AID ALERT: Stand with our community in Astro+ adjacent fields impacted by the attack on DEIA, support our community by giving aid through our GoFundMe. See links in thread! - choir collab, @blackinastro.bsky.social, Astro Poverty Survey Team, MVMT Consulting @dranicole.bsky.social)

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/02/2025

*this is illegal* FYI 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨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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Eric Boodman @ericboodman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

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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

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 30/01/2025

Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

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arXiv bot (astro-ph) @krxiv-astro-ph.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Effects of galactic environment on size and dark matter content in low-mass galaxies arxiv.org/pdf/2501.04084 Francisco J. Mercado, Jorge Moreno, Robert Feldmann, Marckie Zeender, Jose A. Benavides Blanco, Courtney Klein, Coral Wheeler, James Bullock, Lina Necib, Philip F. Hopkins

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04084

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Grant Tremblay @granttremblay.com · 09/01/2025

The @aasoffice.bsky.social will issue full registration refunds for all of our colleagues impacted by the devastating fires in CA. If you are an #AAS245 registrant and in CA standby for an email on how to request your registration. We at the AAS are heartbroken for you and ready to support.

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