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Emily Bolger

@ebolger06.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in CMSE at MSU studying computing education. Also, feminist, ally, crocheter, and book-lover. she/her

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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
the whiplash of reading statenews.com/article/2025... after reading this www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/l...
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Amid budget cuts, Michigan State University colleges pausing graduate program admissions - The State News
The halted enrollment adds to a growing list of tangible effects being felt on campus from the university’s mission to reduce its operating budget by 9% over the next two fiscal years.
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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 04/11/2025
Academics should note this applies equally to universities, not just corporations.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Ok scientists, how many of you did this as a kid? 🙋‍♀️
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
wowowow🫠
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.
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Drew Lewis @drew-lewis.com · 12/10/2025
Universities: We can't afford cost of living adjustments for faculty and staff, we have budget problems. Also universities: Our football coach lost three games so we will pay him $50 million to go away
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 02/10/2025
Breaking News: The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.
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Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
Demands sent to nine top schools included pledging to freeze tuition for five years and to commit to strict definitions of gender.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A defining feature of patriarchal violence is that it isn’t just directed at women. It’s also directed at other men in power struggles to determine whose ideology should dominate. It is unsurprising that men who encourage violence to jockey for political power will find themselves subjected to it.
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The State News @statenews.com · 10/09/2025
After years of negotiations, the Union of Tenure System Faculty has been officially recognized by Michigan State University. statenews.com/article/2025/09/union… 
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Union of Tenure System Faculty officially recognized by MSU after years of negotiations - The State News
After years of legal negotiations and assembling, the Union of Tenure System Faculty has been officially recognized by Michigan State University.
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New, from me: America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism. This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
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The authoritarian checklist
It is time to admit that America is no longer a functioning democracy
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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
how do I make ppl who think AI should be everywhere read this? codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/a...
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AI in education is a public problem
Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash Over the past year or so, a narrative that AI will inevitably transform education has become widespread. You can find it in the pronouncements of investors, tech ind…
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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
This is the second program at msu I’ve heard of this week not accepting new students. I’m sure the firsts of many. Science is not doing great yall
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
One of the biggest mistakes the left makes is that we accept Republicans’ wins. And most of the time, that means ceding ground that makes the next fight much, much harder to win too. We have to reject the idea of a lost cause. Especially when it comes to civil rights.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2025
We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Tonight, I'll go home and sleep in my bed. I have a lawyer, I'll get due process. But Edgardo, whose arm was ripped from mine by ICE agents, has none of those things. That's why I'll keep coming back to court, week after week, to make sure that people's rights are protected.
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Brad Lander: "I'll keep coming back to court, week after week"
YouTube video by Brad Lander for NYC
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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her
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MemeStar @memestar1.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Musk throwing out Trump’s history of sexual violence is just another example of a man objectifying survivors for his own political gain. The only time any of these men think rape is wrong is when they suspect taking that stance will give them a competitive edge over another man.
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Blasphemous Jones ↙️ @blasphemousjones.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"South Florida weatherman tells viewers he can't accurately predict hurricanes because of government cuts" Source: old.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
So very grateful to be working with awesome people on this timely project!
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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 12/05/2025
How's fascism going for you? medium.com/bits-and-beh...
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How is fascism going for you? Here’s how it’s going for me.
A catalog of impacts thus far from this administration’s horrors.
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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Okay this can stop now. Thanks.
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Penn Science Policy and Diplomacy Group @pspdg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Are you interested in writing for the McClintock Letters, but aren't sure where to start? Join us for an Op-Ed workshop led by author and NYT reporter and editor Clay Risen @risenc.bsky.social this Wednesday, May 7th at 4pm ET. Register here to attend on Zoom: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Every time there's a massive settlement for sexual abuse, there's a lot of handwringing over whether the survivors who came forward will cause the institution's ruin. But Michigan State is still here. The Boy Scouts are still here. The Catholic Church is still here.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com
Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation
A Girl Looking at a Physics Model
TAKE ACTION
Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation.

 

Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work.

 

 Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
SaveNSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the NSF. The mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation. Join: www.savensf.com
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Home | Savensf
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
🧪 What the f is going on with NSF right now??? 🚨🚨🚨 There's been so many NSF updates within the past 48 hours that it's hard to keep track. It feels like an onslaught. It *is* an onslaught. But it's still vital to remain focused, organized, and strategic. So here's my recap of past 48 hours...
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a man is holding his head with his eyes closed and the words focus focus focus behind him .
Alt: A man is holding his head with his eyes closed and the words focus focus focus behind him .
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Nature @nature.com · 01/05/2025
Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. go.nature.com/44Ugf9V
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
#WithoutNSF I wouldn’t be in graduate school, in a program that’s pushed me to be a better scientist. My REU & my current dissertation work are NSF funded. We do better science, when we have a more diverse group of people doing science. STEM education, fueled by NSF, helps make sure of that.
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🚨 Science nerds: TIME FOR ACTION!! 🧪 The past two weeks have been horrendous for NSF. Will only continue to get worse, with likely more hits and fuckery today & tomorrow. See this new @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social article for where we are today (gift link). 🧵 But then most importantly...
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Amid DOGE-induced turmoil, National Science Foundation in crisis
The $9 billion agency, which exists solely to fund researchers, projects and facilities outside its Alexandria, Virginia, headquarters, is hitting reverse on its mission.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/05/2025
🔔BREAKING🔔 The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding. This is censorship disguised as oversight. Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3): www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 01/05/2025
Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching. Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.
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Dr. Diaz Eaton up to Good Trouble @mathprofcarrie.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
From a reliable source: NSF’s budget cuts will be worse than they could ever have expected, and that almost all broadening participation programs will be killed. NSF is moving everything to standard grants only, with remaining budgets to paying down the mortgage from each program. 1/5
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Amy J. Ko @amyko.phd · 22/04/2025
The Chronicle reports on the NSF cuts, including notes from me and a few other researchers, all of whom were advancing information and STEM literacy nationwide: www.chronicle.com/article/the-... Making America worse, one cut at a time.
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The Trump Administration Has Canceled Millions in NSF Grants
Projects related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and misinformation and disinformation were cut “to protect the interests of the government,” the agency said.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 22/04/2025
NSF has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into STEM. Not anymore. scim.ag/3RUtgZg
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NSF starts to kill grants that violate Trump’s war on diversity efforts
Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/04/2025
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
NSF Grant Termination Information Collection Form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NSF grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025.


We are tracking these grants to increase transparency, organize affected PIs, and facilitate responses, including via litigation. Please share the form as widely as possible with your networks. 


We are actively building a pipeline to organize these terminations and will soon have a tracker akin to our NIH grant tracker at https://airtable.com/appjhyo9NTvJLocRy/shrNto1NNp9eJlgpA


WE WILL NOT DISCLOSE THE IDENTITY OF ANYONE WHO USES THIS FORM TO PROVIDE INFORMATION. We will keep your identity confidential.


These resources are maintained by Noam Ross of rOpenSci and Scott Delaney of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with input and support from additional volunteers. For any questions, please contact Scott Delaney on Signal (sdelaney.84).


THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!
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Science Magazine @science.org · 18/04/2025
NSF has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into STEM. Not anymore. scim.ag/3RUtgZg
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NSF starts to kill grants that violate Trump’s war on diversity efforts
Attracting women and minorities into science and studying misinformation are no longer priorities, agency says
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
How do you draft broader impacts that "should not preference some groups at the expense of others, or directly/indirectly exclude individuals or groups" when not all Americans have the same opportunities to participate in STEM? 🫠
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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Ugh.
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Emily Bolger @ebolger06.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Proud to stand with and for my colleagues. We’re just getting started. www.fox47news.com/neighborhood...
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MSU students and faculty fight to protect education
MSU students and faculty came together Thursday, fighting to protect higher education. They're hoping to be heard by the federal government.
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