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Ina Ganguli

@inaganguli.bsky.social
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Economist at UMass Amherst. Labor, science & innovation, gender, immigration. 🪷🌻 websites.umass.edu/iganguli

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Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Yana van der Meulen Rodgers @yanarodgers.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Our #Econ5k group ran the shape of the Liberty Bell in downtown Philly as part of #ASSA2026. So much fun! Thanks @inaganguli.bsky.social @danielepaserman.bsky.social @owenozier.bsky.social Cynthia Bansak and Aurelia Lambert for joining!
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Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Don’t forget to upload your #Econ5K results! sites.google.com/view/econ5k/...
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Link To Upload Results
Starting December 1, 2025: to upload results CLICK HERE
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Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Got my @econ5k.bsky.social T-shirt, #EconSky, and you should too if you're an econ runner! I hope to see you in Philly in January #ASSA2026 sites.google.com/view/econ5k/...
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Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Modeling the 2026 #ECON5k gear. For more information go to sites.google.com/view/econ5k/home Cc @econ5k.bsky.social @inaganguli.bsky.social @sandrahgoff.bsky.social @yanarodgers.bsky.social
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Nautilus Magazine @nautil.us · 10/10/2025
Half of this year’s #NobelPrize winners in the U.S. were immigrants. Now, the Trump administration may be threatening the country’s Nobel future—and its top rank among global science powerhouses. nautil.us/will-trumps-...
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Will Trump's Immigration Policies Hurt US Nobel Chances?
This article explores the impact of the Trump administration's policies surrounding science funding and immigration on science.
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Anna Nagurney @annanagurney.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Very cool to have my colleague @inaganguli.bsky.social quoted in this @sciam.bsky.social article www.scientificamerican.com/article/immi...
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Visualizations Trace How Immigration Underpins Dozens of Recent Nobel Science Prizes
Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine this century, fewer than 70 percent hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. These graphics trace their...
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Erica Groshen @ericagroshen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Falling responses, budgets & staff are biting. #BLS will cut 350 #ProducerPriceIndex #inflation sub-indexes. It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more. www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/... #econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org
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BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs
BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 08/05/2025
Weird how "making America great again" consists of dismantling all America's soft power and also future source of hard power
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brendan o’connor @brenocon.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
tfidf cosine is a well precedented method for patent novelty measurement but not unproblematic conference.nber.org/confer/2022/... and paper @inaganguli.bsky.social et al 2024 www.nber.org/system/files...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rapid response bridge grant opportunity for impacted scholars”
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Truly an idiotic self-own to drive away US-trained talent.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 02/05/2025
Sorry, what now?! www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/n...
Memoli’s email was sent to leaders of NIH institutes and centers Thursday in response to questions about whether clinical trials with foreign sites would be able to continue under the new policy. “I don’t know how to make this clearer. Subawards to foreign sites can’t continue,” Memoli wrote. “If a study has a foreign site, we need to start closing it down or finding a different way to fund it that can be tracked properly.”
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science
Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.
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Dan Silverman @dmsilverman.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
💯. Why does almost no one in the public know this though? If you think about it, the government’s creation of the internet is probably one of the greatest policy achievements and worst communication failures of all time.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/04/2025
Just got mine. Totally expected, but it still sucks. Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites.

Effective immediately, the following are terminated:

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NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled 'Termination and Enforcement,' on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal.
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Jordan Matsudaira @jdmatsudaira.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Important thread explaining how proposed changes to federal employment policy threatens the federal statistical infrastructure. Comment period is open for those who rely on these data to convey their views to the Administration….
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Jennifer Withrow @withrowjenny.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I was devastated to learn about the unexpected passing of gifted historian and my former committee member Laura Lovett. Dr. Lovett was not only a renowned expert in women's history, but also an incredible mentor. I will miss her greatly. www.history.pitt.edu/news/memoriam
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In Memoriam | Department of History | University of Pittsburgh
Laura L. Lovett (1963-2025) Our dear colleague Laura Lovett passed away unexpectedly on March 4, 2025. Laura joined Pitt’s History Department and its Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program in 20...
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy. Great insights from @inaganguli.bsky.social for @ineteconomics.bsky.social www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...
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Where Science Moves Progress Follows
How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.
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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I'm reporting on what's happening at NSF for @cenmag.bsky.social! If you're a researcher who had an NSF grant that was previously approved for funding but is now in limbo because of what's happening at the agency, my signal is kvasquez.12. Always open to discussing options for anonymity.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is how you do it. The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact". The moral imperative may be to fight... but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone: www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...
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UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in
AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Been seeing some speculation about the NSF freeze being due to the "broader impacts" criterion. There's not a lot of hard facts out there yet, so here's a few facts below (but still inconclusive). Short thread 1/5 🧵
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 17/04/2025
Today in weird statistical coincidences
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Anne Fitzpatrick @annefitz13.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Super exciting finding that they may have found signs of life 120 light years away www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s... …and then they end with the fact that if NASA funding is cut as proposed then this research agenda will be stopped
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
🌾Flour from wheat that grew on demined Ukrainian fields was used to bake traditional Easter bread in the US. This flour traveled across the globe to New York's iconic Ukrainian restaurant Veselka. There, UN diplomats, entrepreneurs, and community leaders gathered to bake Easter bread together. ⤵️
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
30% budget cut for NIH plus whittling into down to 8 institutes. We are so screwed. wapo.st/42gLz0Z
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Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.
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Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Russia has been continuing its war against Ukrainian civilians. On Sunday, two ballistic missiles hit a central area of the city of Sumy, killing 34 and injuring over 100. Read on to hear how you can directly help those affected. www.cnn.com/2025/04/13/e...
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Russian strikes on Ukrainian city of Sumy kill 35, in deadliest attack this year | CNN
Russian ballistic missiles ripped through the busy center of Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Sunday, officials said, killing at least 35 people and striking terror into residents who were out e...
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Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Recently talked with @ineteconomics.bsky.social about the mobility of scientists and why it matters for economic progress - and whether the U.S. will continue to be the magnet for scientific talent it has been in the past. 👩🏽‍🔬 🔬 🌎 One pattern we discussed -- Nobel Prize winners:
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Megan Menchaca @meganmenchaca.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching." Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked
A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.
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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Reminder: Arnold Ventures has research funding available. We have an open RFP for causal research related to crime/criminal justice in the US, and can consider other topics as well. (This includes "last mile" funding for high-quality projects with cancelled government grants.)
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"Her $60 million contract with the NIH had supported an international network of researchers and clinicians who had produced pathbreaking work on a disease that infects a quarter of the world’s population and kills more than 1 million people per year."
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The student paper at the college at which I teach reports a "tsunami of takedown requests" from international students terrified of being targeted for innocuous, legitimate op-eds & opinions.. Many ask in person--leave no trace in writing. Reminds me of my father's account of studying in the USSR.
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Steve Cicala @stevecicala.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Killing your greatest export is an unusual tactic in the midst of a trade war. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/04/2025
As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.
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The NPR, PBS Grift Has Ripped Us Off for Too Long
For years, American taxpayers have been on the hook for subsidizing National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which spread
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
“.. The Canadian Association of University Teachers, which boasts a membership of 72,000 .. recommended in an advisory published Tuesday that “academic staff travel to the U.S. only if essential and necessary.” @politico.com #PariahState www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Do you have a PhD student who's interested in environmental and energy policy? Nominate them to attend NBER's upcoming Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference in Washington, DC (airfare, ground transport and one night of hotel covered) www.nber.org/conferences/...
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7th Annual NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference, Spring 2025
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
A science agency where researchers can't attend scientific meetings
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Ben Chu @benchu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Confused by all the numbers being bandied around for Trump's tariffs on China? "34%", "104%", "125%", "145%"? What the heck is actually going on? Hopefully this might help
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Sara Custer @saracuster.insidehighered.com · 09/04/2025
We're tracking the number of international students whose visas have been revoked by the State Department. We've confirmed over 300 so far and there are likely many more. Get in touch if you've got information you'd like to share with us www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
the @chronicle.com has launched what is going to be a tremendously useful tool: a tracker of the Trump administration's activities affecting higher ed, particularly in the areas of civil rights, research, policy, and immigration. check it out: www.chronicle.com/article/trac...
chronicle.com
Tracking Trump’s Higher-Ed Agenda
The federal government is reshaping its relationship with the nation’s colleges. Use our new tracker to keep up with the latest.
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Maksym Polyakov 🇺🇦🌻 @maksympolyakov.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
About 10 ballistic missiles, probably KN-23, were launched at Kyiv and suburbs this night 💥 Another sign of a willingness to cease fire?
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David Gura @davidgura.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Today, as Duke’s Khaman Maluach, of Rumbek, South Sudan, prepared to play in the NCAA Final Four, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced his department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders...”
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Jon Brudvig @jonbrudvig.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
When Nature does a photo roundup, it’s always worth a scroll. March’s edition is packed with mind-blowing REAL shots that capture the beauty, weirdness, and wonder of science 🧪—no AI needed. Case in point: this gorgeous shot of two courting crab spiders. Just one of many stunners. 💘
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Incredible close-up of colourful crab spiders — March’s best science images
The month’s sharpest science shots, selected by Nature’s photo team.
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Again, nobody is forcing them to put tariffs on bananas, coffee, avocados, or any of the hundreds food/minerals/materials that literally can't be obtained in the US. They could write exemptions for any or all of them. Instead they press the "make groceries more expensive" button.
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