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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

📢BREAKING: Just left the courthouse for our NIH grant termination case Judge ruled terminations are “VOID & ILLEGAL” As a plaintiff, I felt a wave of relief & hope; he acknowledged the discrimination & harm Closed by asking, ‘Have we fallen so low? Have we no shame?’

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Tom Hollenstein @tomhollenstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

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Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

Graphic of Washington Post poll from April 18-22, 2025, showing "Majorities of Americans oppose various Trump proposals"

highlighting two lines in particular:
"Increasing the Federal Government's role in how private universities operate" - 28 percent support, 70 percent oppose
"Reducing federal funding for medical research" - 21 percent support, 77 percent oppose

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Aaron Shaw @aaronshaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

University presidents, the time is now! Unshackle the general counsel's office! File all the lawsuits! Release the faculty upon the op-ed sections! Write to your alumni, parents, and donors! You have nothing to lose but a tiny percentage of your enormous endowments... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

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Trump Officials Freeze $1 Billion for Cornell and $790 Million for Northwestern

The funding pause amid civil rights investigations into both universities sharply escalates the Trump administration’s campaign against elite colleges.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals

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AAUP @aaup.org · 25/03/2025

BREAKING: We are suing the Trump admin on behalf of our members for unlawfully cutting off $400 million in federal funding for crucial public health research to force Columbia University to surrender its academic independence. Stay Tuned.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

This is what breaks my heart. These young people who are so eager and full of promise and who are the next generation of Nobel Prize winners, scientists inventors, teachers. #Trump and #Musk have destroyed it all. www.wired.com/story/the-ch...

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The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling

As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, the path to a science career for students and researchers just got a whole lot harder.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Circulate this widely! We need to know which NIH grants have been terminated. It goes beyond the list that HHS has released. Send to every scientist you know. @scott-delaney.bsky.social @noamross.net

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

HEY DORKS! I did some math. WE can be the difference. Erica Chenoweth’s work suggests that when 3.5% of a public are mobilized in one non-violent action, the movement is almost always successful. How does this apply right now? Follow me 1/x www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

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Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule

The “3.5% rule” refers to the claim that no government has withstood a challenge of 3.5% of their population mobilized against it during a peak event. In this brief paper, author Erica Chenoweth addre...

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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2025

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

Map of Stand Up for Science events, with official SUFS events in Red and solidarity events in Blue

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Cindy Veldhuis, PhD @cbv.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Multiple LGBTQ+ NIH grants terminated over the weekend. This is terrifying for those of us who do federally funded LGBTQ+ research-I know I lost a lot of sleep this weekend. Very grateful that @britshmit.bsky.social was also awake at 3am on saturday to DM about it. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

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New: Trump-controlled NIH begins targeted purge of LGBTQ+ research.

Citing "agency priorities," some grants were terminated on Friday, leaving researchers with uncertain futures.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

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Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

And if this wan't bad enough on its own, a number of academic publishers have recently started licensing academic works to AI companies for training LLMs without consulting the authors, making even more money. 5/ www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...

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Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI

Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.

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Chenglin Hong, PhD 🏳️‍🌈 @chenglinhong.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🚨 New Pub in Trauma, Violence & Abuse - We identified the associations between IPV and mental health outcomes among sexual minority men through a SRMA. Super proud of my student RAs - Yilin, Yuqing, and Sreelakshmi - for their invaluable contributions to this work 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1524...

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Psychologists, Perspectives has been resurrected and is now accepting submissions again.

The academic journal Perspectives on Psychological Science is back after a long hiatus

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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I’m old enough to remember the catastrophic toll of HIV/AIDS denial by South African President Thabo Mbeki, which led to >300,000 AIDS deaths. I never thought that 20 years later, an HIV/AIDS denialist would be tapped for the helm of health policy in the US. RFK Jr MUST be rejected #WorldAIDSDay

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 29/11/2024

Every academic right now

A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.

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Eric Schrimshaw @ericschrimshaw.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

@jackiewoerner.bsky.social welcome to the clear blue skys!! 🌈⛅️

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