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Jorge Valdes Kroff

@jorgelingo.bsky.social
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Psycholinguist investigating bilingual language use and comprehension. Assoc Professor at University of Florida. Former Program Director in the SBE Directorate at NSF. Views are my own.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OMB's focus on NIH and NSF, which has confused a lot of folks, pretty much boils down to stopping money going to universities.
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Uplifting News @upliftingnews.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.
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A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Scoop: This afternoon NSF will formally announce its four 'Frontier Initiatives', and a suite of other changes in a public letter. These Frontier Initiatives (left) are identical to OSTP's 'Grand Research Challenges' that we have been reporting on (right). www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Food so good you grow an extra finger!
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Here’s the Science piece detailing the changes. www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF shrinks support for social sciences in prestigious graduate fellowship program
New solicitation excludes students in seven fields and science education
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Jorge Valdes Kroff @jorgelingo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Psych and Social Sciences still appear here with an Oct 20 despite the demise of SBE.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NSF just announced its GRFP solicitation due in October - deadline varies by field: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo... Now for the bad news... * NSF estimates they will issue 1,500 awards, down from 2,500+ last year. * NSF removed STEM Education and Learning Research as a Major Field.
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Berkeley Linguistics is hiring a semanticist! Consider applying and spreading the word! Our department was founded 125 years ago as the first linguistics department in the country. This is a nice celebration of Berkeley linguistics legacy! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05458
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Assistant Professor - Semantics - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Finally, this has gone a bit under the radar, so I want to highlight it: The social, behavioral and economic sciences directorate (SBE) has simply ceased to deliver grants to many of its subareas. Any topic not specifically OK'd by the Trump administration is receiving zero new awards.
All of the NSF’s directorates are awarding fewer new grants, but the hardest hit is the social, behavioural and economic sciences (SBE) directorate, which the White House proposed eliminating in its 2027 budget request to Congress. SBE has so far awarded 84 new grants this year, about 11% of its average, mainly in areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive neuroscience and decision-making. Much of its portfolio, such as sociology, archaeology, political science, economics and geography, has received zero new awards. “I don’t think they’ve realized yet that there’s no awards,” one NSF staff member says of researchers in those fields. “That’s going to be clear soon.”
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Another case to track—a lawsuit against the DHS rule terminating duration of status and limiting international students to four years.
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Lawsuit challenges US rule ending duration of status
A coalition of cross-sector bodies have filed a lawsuit against the US government’s new visa restrictions, seeking “stability and protections” for international students and scholars.
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Open until filled (🚨🚨apply now!🚨🚨): Postdoc, speech acoustics and major depressive disorder, with me!, Northwestern Linguistics (working with folks in Psychology and Psychiatry). faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Hello, coming at you LIVE from the Patriot Games in Geneva Ohio, where I am one of maybe 500 people waiting to watch what appears to be American Ninja Warrior: Hunger Games Edition
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/08/2026
2. That highlights the following observation: If LLMs are even a tenth is important of a technology as the US government keeps telling us when diverting basic science research to this sector, it is absolutely bonkers that there is no frontier model available for independent scientists to study.
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Russ Poldrack @russpoldrack.org · 11/08/2026
Many of you will have seen the recent post about changes at OSF. If you'd like to learn more about how to use other services (particularly Zenodo) to share data and code, see my book chapter on resource sharing. bettercode-book.org/book-sharing...
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12  Sharing Research Objects – Better Code, Better Science
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Jonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yikes “Starting November 16, 2026, no new projects or child components of existing projects can be created on OSF. After February 19, 2027, all public and private OSF projects will become read-only.” www.cos.io/osf-changes
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OSF Changes | Center for Open Science
We are preparing substantial changes to OSF that will reduce its functionality, focus OSF on its unique strengths, and move toward an integrated model with complementary services. As part of that shif...
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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
ep 4 of By the People: What it means to reclaim the Constitution for the rest of us. With @jamellebouie.net and @mjsdc.bsky.social on what would take and how it could happen.
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By the People | Now It’s Your Turn | Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts
We’ve shown that history rejects the Supreme Court’s monopoly on constitutional interpretation. It’s time to reclaim your fair share.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
New from me: More than a trillion dollars flow through the federal government in grants. We have more and more evidence that the Trump administration has been directing those grants on purely partisan grounds, denying them to blue states. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/governing-...
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Governing without Accountability
Trump only wants to be President of some of America, not all of America
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
They got people dying in camps now and they’re happy about it. bsky.app/profile/joho...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares
Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Deadline Dec 1: Asst prof (tenure track), open area, ‼️NU Linguistics‼️ "an integrated approach to the scientific study of language, utilizing experimental, computational, and/or data-intensive approaches to inform linguistic theory and its applications" linguistics.northwestern.edu/about/open-p...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s latest effort to overhaul higher education.

The letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, asks schools to publicly pledge to make sweeping changes that include reexamining admissions practices, hiring more conservative faculty, cracking down on student protests, combating grade inflation, reducing foreign donations and lowering tuition.In contrast, the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges.


AAU’s president, Barbara Snyder, described the letter as a kind of olive branch. She told Bloomberg that the administration’s outreach opened communication channels between university leaders and the White House that have been largely shut since Trump launched his pressure campaign last year. She plans to call on member colleges to support the initiative.

“It’s critical to have a really good working partnership with the federal government,” Snyder said. “Whether your particular institution is under investigation or not, everyone understands how important that is.”
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Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
My department is hiring 2 (TWO!) Tenure Track faculty in Developmental Psych and Biological Psych, to start Fall 2027. Deadlines 9/1 (Developmental) and 10/1 (Biological). More info here: www.carleton.edu/psychology/i.... Reach out with questions! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...
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Assistant Professor in Developmental Psychology
The Carleton Psychology Department is seeking candidates for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Developmental Psychology (preferably with a focus on social, personality, and/or identity de...
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Rufo was "supplying policy blueprints and social-media firepower for an ambitious conservative overhaul. In return, FL became Rufo’s proving ground, elevating the up-and-coming activist into one of the movement’s most influential cheerleaders." www.chronicle.com/article/flor...
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Florida’s Great Conservative Crack-Up
In the behind-the-scenes effort to install Stuart Bell as the flagship’s new president, Gov. Ron DeSantis played a starring role — to the chagrin of his onetime allies.
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Jorge Valdes Kroff @jorgelingo.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I'm a regular listener of Amicus (pod about SCOTUS), hosted by @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social. I am totally digging their current By the People series (pod & articles). it's giving me hope about a possible future where SCOTUS is not a Guardian Council. slate.com/bythepeople
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By the People
As a thought experiment, we bring you popular constitutionalism—local, organic farm-to-table making of legal meaning.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Friends! Do you know a lot of PhD-holding nerds?? I'm surveying people who came from abroad to complete a PhD in the US, after the Trump admin announced student visas will only cover 4 years and folks must then seek uncertain renewal from USCIS. Please share! www.porchpartynews.com/p/trump-rule...
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Were you an international student who got an American PhD? Take our survey!
A new Trump rule forces foreign doctoral candidates to apply mid-degree for an uncertain visa extension. What will that mean for academia and society—and people’s lives?
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Kilu von Prince @kilinguistics.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We still need a book series for formal semantics (as in lambdas, not frames) at Language Science Press. Talk to me if you might consider setting it up.
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Language Science Press
High quality, peer reviewed linguistics books
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.
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Jorge Valdes Kroff @jorgelingo.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Very good piece for understanding this admin's approach to federal funding
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Rasmus Puggaard-Rode @rpuggaardrode.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
PSA Praat has a third author now! Time to reinstall and update those citations!
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Hey #CogSci2026! I'm so honored to be receiving this year's Elman Prize! Please join @m2b2.bsky.social and me Friday 2-3:30pm in Gavea A for two joint talks: "Multilingualism in Cognitive Science" and "Multilingualism for Cognitive Science and Society" 1/4 @cogscisociety.bsky.social
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Mara Breen @mbreen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Mount Holyoke College is hiring a clinical developmental psychologist! We’re a research-focused SLAC in beautiful western Mass - we have amazing students and we offer excellent faculty support - app review begins 9/7: mtholyoke.wd504.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job...
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Assistant Professor of Psychology & Education
Job no: R-0000003479 Position Title: Assistant Professor of Psychology & Education Work Type: Faculty Full time In-Person Start Date: 07/01/2027 Job Description: The Department of Psychology and E...
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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in African American History. Please spread the word! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant Professor in African American History - Stanford University, California, United States
The Department of African and African American Studies (DAAAS) at Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in African American History...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
New Science & Community Impacts Mapping Project (#SCIMaP) analysis on the impact of the WH plan to eliminate NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences directorate. @malar0ne.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social scienceimpacts.org/insights/SBE...
Insight blog

"Cuts to NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate will have significant economic impacts nationwide"
https://scienceimpacts.org/insights/SBE-2026-07-13
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/07/2026
denim = ‘de Nîmes’ because they were made in the French city of Nĭmes jeans = ‘Genoa’ because they were worn by the Genoese navy khakis = Hindi word for “dust-colored, brown” JNCO = “Judge None Choose One"
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Journalists: please, please get ready for this in ADVANCE. We know Trump's going to claim "new evidence shows the 2020 election was stolen". You've got 3 days to write a story that confronts that lie head-on before he says it - pre-write this like an obit. America is begging you: plan ahead. 1/
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The MAGA plot to subvert the 2026 midterm elections is coming into focus. 1. Declassify docs to claim 2020 was stolen. 2. Declare a "national emergency" to seize control of the election apparatus. 3. Hope the "national security" predicate keeps courts out. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...
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MAGA media's laughable propaganda about Trump's popularity is instrumental to the plot to subvert elections
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Black In Neuro @blackinneuro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Black In Neuro Week 2026 is July 27–Aug. 2. Join us for our 7th annual celebration of Black excellence in neuroscience. 📣 #BINRollCall ⏳ #BlackInTime (NEW!) 🧠 #NeuroRacism 🌍 #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora 💼 #NeuroCareers ✨ #BlackInNeuroJoy 😌 #BlackRestInNeuro #BINW26 #BlackInNeuro
Promotional graphic for Black In Neuro Week 2026 with a retro-inspired sunburst background in shades of orange, gold, cream, blue, and green. The headline reads “A Reimagined Future: Black In Neuro Week 2026.” A schedule lists the daily themes: July 27 – #BlackInNeuroRollCall, July 28 – #BlackInTime, July 29 – #NeuroRacism, July 30 – #NeuroAcrossTheDiaspora, July 31 – #NeuroCareers, August 1 – #BlackInNeuroJoy, and August 2 – #BlackRestInNeuro. The Black In Neuro logo appears in the bottom left corner, with decorative stars and colorful accents throughout.
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Deadline 9/1: Two (!) Asst Prof (tenure track), Cognitive Science, Pomona College academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32240
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Keith E. Whittington @kewhittington.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
After a long wait, circuit court rejects Florida’s defense of barring profs at public universities from espousing disfavored ideas in the classroom 1/
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
futurism.com/future-socie... lol
As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
"The institution whose decade-long mission had been to tell the full history of the mountaintop, including the lives of the 600 people Jefferson enslaved, stopped talking about slavery online." Clear story of the well-trod path from right-wing harassment to capitulation and institutional silence.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Glad to see this story and coverage of an important paper. www.statnews.com/2026/06/17/n... 1/16
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NIH diversity programs doubled undergraduates’ odds of getting a Ph.D., 20-year study finds
A new study found that two diversity-oriented programs supported by the NIH doubled the odds that an undergraduate would earn a Ph.D.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!
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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
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The war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it
“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 26/06/2026
If you're an #NSF funded researcher and haven't written a response to the OMB proposed rule and contacted your Congressional delegation about it, you should know Russ Vought is coming for your field first, enshrining the chaos of DOGE as policy. Do both at fight2win.standupforscience.net
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Stand up for Science
Stand up for Science
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Caitlin S., PhD @paleophile.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
#NSF is replacing the PAPPG with "NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance" (GFA) ("Guffaw"?). A notice in the Federal Register seeks comments, due in 60 days. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
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Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request; National Science Foundation Proposal/Award Information-NSF Guidance on Financial Assistance
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is announcing plans to renew and revise its collection for its financial assistance policies and procedures. In accordance with the requirements of the Paper...
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