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Krista M. Harper

@kristamharper.bsky.social
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Professor of anthropology and public policy, interested in #energysky, #climatesky , #academicsky and #Urbanism+. Writes about #participatory and #qualitative research methods. I love #crochet and hate #cancer blogs.umass.edu/harper

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/09/2026
Your life saving clinical trail could be TERMINATED by the Trump administration. We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. It's time to talk about it and what you can do to stop this. 🧵 🧪
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
And so I say to every elected official: cancer doesn’t give a fuck who you vote for. Neither does heart disease or diabetes. The reason that we have made a great deal of progress on prevention and treatment is b/c scientists had the freedom to work on topics that are beneficial to ALL humans.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.
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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science
The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
before the inauguration, higher education was the U.S.'s SECOND LARGEST export. billions of dollars of U.S. economic activity is tied to international students during their student years and during the routinely authorized post-graduation professional years.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This data on self-censorship among U.S. academic scientists and engineers -- not even humanities people, this is STEM -- is so disturbing. theconversation.com/self-censors...
How are scientists adjusting the way they work during the Trump administration?
The survey asked a representative sample of university based scientists: "Since January 2025, have you intentionally done any of the following due to concerns about possible negative consequences for you, your work environment, or your career?" [then data]
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Zero new NSF grants in sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The agenda of this US govt is to stop documenting the society in which we live while they are destroying it. We will find other ways to track and explain our times and fight to restore our research funding.
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thanks, Senator Markey!
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We should never take these people seriously when they talk about "free speech on campus," ever again.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This amount would fund the US National Science Foundation for a decade. 🧪
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Pentagon seeks $80 billion from Congress for Iran war
The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the war in Iran.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 21/06/2026
Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here: Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track.  Spread the word. Stand up for science.
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I’m sure FIRE is concerned about this kind of academic cancel culture?
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/06/2026
I was struck when I corrected data for inflation and population growth. In no way is Trump policy a correction of some overreach. The Biden years were middling for science funding in the 21st century. This is retrenchment to a time before most Americans were born. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... 🧪
A line graph titled "Cumulative NSF Funds Awarded Per Capita (2024 dollars) by Day of Fiscal Year" shows inflation-adjusted per-capita NSF funding from October to September. A color-coded legend groups lines by decade from the 1960s through the 2020s. A thick bright red line labeled "2026" runs far below all other years, reaching only about $3–4 per person by mid-June. Year-end labels on the right show FY2024 in teal at the top (around $23 per capita), FY2025 in dark red (around $17), and "1987" in green (around $15). A red dot marks the FY2027 President\'s Budget Request at roughly $11 per capita, with "1973" in gold labeled as the closest historical year-end value. "1969" in brown at the very bottom (around $5) marks the historical year most closely matching FY2026's current pace.
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 19/06/2026
NSF's grantmaking is miserly when compared to recent years, but when compared it to the historical record, we see it's a radical break from the long-term consensus of investing in scientific innovation. grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF 🧪
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The NSF is on Track for its Worst Year in Generations – Grant Witness
Throttling of science funding is utterly unprecedented and radical when compared to the past 50 years.
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When we fight, sometimes we win!
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Nearly 5000 clinical trials, including more than 1000 cancer treatment tests, face termination under proposed federal regulations, a new analysis by the science advocacy group Stand Up for Science has found www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...
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Proposed White House regulations could kill 5,000 clinical trials, analysis finds
The Trump administration is mulling new rules that would give political appointees final say on research grants
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American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network @acscan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The people elected to office this November will make decisions that shape the future of healthcare & cancer research. Whether you’ve voted in every election for years or this is your first time heading to the polls, now is the time to check your voter registration status! Check now ⬇️ #CancerVotes
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Are you registered to vote?
Check your voter registration status to find out.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/06/2026
$765 million of your tax dollars being paid to *not* develop wind power.
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Trump Pays $765 Million to Kill 4 More Offshore Wind Leases
The deal with developer Invenergy includes a commitment to build geothermal generation in addition to natural gas.
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Biomedical progress brought to you by NIH funding and mRNA technologies.
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Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New @nberpubs: "Before the Exodus? Young Scientists and the Future of US Science" www.nber.org/papers/w3533... "The fraction likely to stay in the United States fell by 21 percentage points" 😔
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 15/06/2026
Sigh. A reminder that age-related social media bans require recording people’s age which means adding a layer of surveillance that makes vulnerable communities unsafe and creates a chilling effect on freedom of speech and particularly political speech.
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
NY Knicks fans expressing Textile joy!!! @shastingssimon.bsky.social
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 14/06/2026
New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Mainstream media is 24/7 saturation of poor people committing petty crimes. Shoplifting out of control! Venezuelan thugs are stealing your apartment! Meanwhile billionaires are genocidal serial killers and treated like the pillars of our society
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
When we fight, we win sometimes!
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026
A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
When the world's first trillionaire is an actual ideological neo-Nazi who is personally responsible for 750,000 unnecessary deaths, it's hard to blame young people for concluding that capitalism simply does not work.
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Looks like CA policymakers have read about the mid transition by @shastingssimon.bsky.social and @gruberte.bsky.social !!!
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The land of habermas didn’t come to play? 🥸
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/06/2026
Remember, AcademicSky: Always run your federal grant proposals through the chabots with the prompt, "Would any American oligarch object to this project?" While any chatbot says yes, self-censor any of your ideas any chatbot flagged as potentially objectionable. Finish this loop before submitting!
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Also RFK Jr is a straight-up eugenicist so he doesn’t really see a point in people with cancer surviving and enjoying their lives. For him, it’s just culling the weak out of the herd.
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🕸️Meg Conley @pocketobservatory.org · 11/04/2026
I have cancer. mRNA technology is already being used to develop some of the next cancer cures. He’s condemning some current and many, many, many future cancer patients to early, preventable deaths.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n
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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Universities, allocating millions for Civil Discourse Incubators and edgelord faculty lines: "Surely this will save us!" Vought: *asserts veto power over all scientific research*
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026
It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
THIS!!! On both sides of my family, folks were in union bowling leagues.
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The fact that it’s taken until 2026 for a restaurant chain to figure out EV fast charging just shows how hard it is for folks to imagine life without fossil fuels.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 21/05/2026
NYT: our college education does almost nothing to develop the sense that what we do in our day-to-day lives resonates with people beyond ourselves. Also NYT: we will never visit or report on CUNY.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Oh hi, I care about students deal with with deep philosophical problems, which is why I am advocating for a glorified horse farm with 26 undergrads as opposed to the erasure of the fucking humanities in big public institutions
“We all, technically, legally own the place,” Will Xu told me last year. We were sitting at a picnic table on the campus of Deep Springs College, a tiny, experimental school in the California desert where he is a student. The White and Inyo Mountains were ringed around us
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
US higher ed has problems, but mostly it is a miracle of big public investments generating massive returns in terms of economic gains, innovation, and exports. But God forbid the paper of record takes a break from joining in the populist assault of a great American success. bsky.app/profile/quan...
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Fun fact: 45% of global cancer research $$$ came from US federal funding until the DOGE/Trump cuts of 2025.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
A quick reminder that every time Bhattacharya's NIH asks you to remove words like "gender," "diverse," or "social determinants of health," they are undermining the institution's foundational statue. Gender: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/... SDOH/diverse: www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
42 U.S. Code § 283p - Population focused research
The Director of the National Institutes of Health shall, as appropriate, encourage efforts to improve research related to the health of sexual and gender minority populations, including by—
(1) facilitating increased participation of sexual and gender minority populations in clinical research supported by the National Institutes of Health, and reporting on such participation, as applicable;
(2) facilitating the development of valid and reliable methods for research relevant to sexual and gender minority populations; and
(3) addressing methodological challenges.
(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 404N, as added Pub. L. 114–255, div. A, title II, § 2038(d), Dec. 13, 2016, 130 Stat. 1065.)(D) encourage the collaboration described in subparagraph (C) to—
(i) allow for an increase in the number of subjects studied; and
(ii) utilize diverse study populations, with special consideration to biological, social, and other determinants of health that contribute to health disparities;(A) identify strategic research priorities and objectives across biomedical research, including—
(i) an assessment of the state of biomedical and behavioral research, including areas of opportunity with respect to basic, clinical, and translational research;
(ii) priorities and objectives to advance the treatment, cure, and prevention of health conditions;
(iii) emerging scientific opportunities, rising public health challenges, and scientific knowledge gaps; and
(iv) the identification of near-, mid-, and long-term scientific needs;
(B) consider, in carrying out subparagraph (A)—
(i) disease burden in the United States and the potential for return on investment to the United States;
(ii) rare diseases and conditions;
(iii) biological, social, and other determinants of health that contribute to health disparities; and
(iv) other factors the Director of National Institutes of Health determines appropriate;
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Krista M. Harper @kristamharper.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
It was painful to see this piece on the need for schools like Deep Springs and Berea the very same week that Hampshire College graduated its last class and put its campus up for sale.
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Vaccines save lives. That’s it. That’s the post.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
every time “birth rates” come up in the discourse eventually someone remembers its because teenagers arent really getting pregnant anymore and then we all go “oh yea” until we forget again a few weeks later and start all over again
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