Hi! I’m Liz Neeley and I’m glad you’re here. Each Friday evening, I write a summary of the week’s events in science and higher education. I pull together roughly three bulleted paragraphs about what…

It’s not just about cuts to research. It’s about power.

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Trump ordered the withdrawal a year ago, accusing the UN agency of failing to adopt reforms and mishandling the pandemic.

Kansas Board of Regents adopts model for annual assessment of state university faculty in terms of teaching, research and public service.

Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will be rearrested and deported to Algeria, Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs, announced Thursday, as the federal…

All Florida public universities would be banned from hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas under a policy change that the Florida Board of Governors will consider next week.

Jan 17-23, 2026 - memories in the making

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you…

The judicial branch announced that beginning on Monday, Oct. 20, it will no longer have funding to sustain full, paid operations.

“It's been like living in a washing machine, it's been constant chaos,” former NIH official Jeremy Berg said at the #STATSummit

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The University of Arizona was one of nine universities invited on October 1 by the U.S. Department of Education to provide feedback on their proposal to advance excellence in higher education.

Hi! I’m Liz Neeley and I’m glad you’re here. Each Friday evening, I write a summary of the week’s events in science and higher education. I pull together roughly three bulleted paragraphs about what…

Two leaders removed by Trump administration had hoped to stay at agency as in-house investigators

Sept 27-Oct 2, 2025 - hold the door

file under: PROCESS NOTES this one is from: LIZ Last December, Ambika and I took a large roll of paper, unfurled it across my dining room table, and started...

file under: PROCESS NOTESthis one is from: LIZ I am evidently a bit of a monster: I am unbothered by, and sometimes even enjoy, listening to recordings of my...

file under: PROCESS NOTESthis one is from: AMBIKA At the heart of everything we do at Liminal is our conviction that science communication is not just one...

file under: IN CONVERSATIONthis one is from: LIZ I’m still thinking about courage and this idea that courage is like a muscle. How do we flex it? What does...

file under: THE STACKthis one is from: AMBIKA For this edition of Making Science Make Sense, we’ve assembled a collection of things that we (and some of our...

file under: PROCESS NOTESthis one is from: AMBIKA I recently ran my first workshop as a member of Liminal! It was about telling the story of one’s journey in...

file under: IN CONVERSATION this one is from: LIZ In my last post, I wrote about recognizing and reclaiming power over your career choices. But I couldn’t...

file under: IN CONVERSATION this one is from: LIZ In my last post, I wrote about recognizing and reclaiming power over your career choices. But I couldn’t...

file under: SOLICITED ADVICE. this one is from: LIZ. In 2009, Vanity Fair hooked me with a story about how fishing policy transformed Iceland into “a machine...

file under: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE. this one is from: AMBIKA. Here on the California coast, the start of the winter heralds the arrival of northern elephant...

file under: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE. this one is from: AMBIKA. Every time I go to the doctor, I give myself a pep talk beforehand. I remind myself that I...

file under: SOLICITED ADVICE this one is from: LIZ When my husband and I were invited to join Slate’s Dear Prudence podcast, I was thrilled to be tasked with...

Hi! We’re glad you’re here. We are Ambika Kamath + Liz Neeley. We’re the founding members of Liminal—a science communication collective that focuses on sensemaking in a noisy and complicated w...