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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Great story about one of my doctoral school classmates!

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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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ASU Social Work @asusocialwork.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Join our team! The School of Social Work is looking for an assistant to help support our director. Applicants should be organized, dependable and able to work in a fast-paced academic environment. This position offers valuable professional experience in higher education. Apply today: bit.ly/SSWJobs

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NPR @npr.org · 02/07/2025

When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.

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The disabled teen stuck in a hospital for six years finally gets her own home

When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Really concerned about the Fulbright program!

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 18/04/2025

International students contribute $44 billion to the US economy annually, creating 1 job for every 4 students enrolled. Higher ed is America’s 10th largest export industry. A finance professor explores how their impact reaches beyond big cities to small towns like Mankato, MN.

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I'm very concerned about the dismantling of the Administration on Community Living. ACL funds programs like Meals on Wheels or Independent Living Services that support people to live in the community. This has not been much getting attention in the media. www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

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Agency for older adults, people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts

In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as respite care to more than 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-livin...

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ASU Social Work @asusocialwork.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Attend the 2025 Ann Adalist-Estrin Memorial National Children of Incarcerated Parents Conference to explore the impact of parental incarceration and ways to foster healing. Register today: childwellbeing.asu.edu/CIP

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Meta might have used 42 of my articles to train its AI. I'd encourage social work scholars to search their name and see how much of your work might have been pirated. #socialwork

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The Council on Social Work Education (@cswe.bsky.social) is a signatory to the American Council on Education letter in response to the February 14th "Dear Colleague" letter aimed at institutions of education K-12 through higher ed. #socialwork

Fourth and final page of letter - just signatures

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Great to see 225+ faculty, staff, and students from Arizona State University School of Social Work at our talk yesterday about recent federal changes and their potential impacts on social work education, social work research, and social work practice. Social workers are paying attention.

Photo of title of the talk - "recent federal government changes and their impacts on social work."

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Nice distraction to read about the history of Valentines Cards. Apparently may of the original cards sent in the 1860s were "absolutely intended to be sent as cruel insults."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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NPR @npr.org · 09/02/2025

Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died. He was 95.

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Sam Nujoma, Namibia's fiery freedom fighter and first president, dies aged 95

Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died. He was 95.

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This will have huge effects on research universities.

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Apparently there has been an all night fillibuster in the Senate that's still going on. It wasn't mentioned in the NYT. Guess I need to go to Bluesky first in the morning...

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Social Work Educators, Researchers and Students: SSWR, CSWE, and NADD are hosting an event: "Safeguarding Social Work Education and Science in Uncertain Times." Tuesday, February 11 from 2:00-3:15 EST (12 AZ time). Register here: cswe.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Flyer with hosts, date, time, and registeration link - same as in post.

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

A list of terms that will get grants flagged at the National Science Foundation.

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Important for researchers. The full text of the new Temporary Restraining Order saying that the federal govt shall not "pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate" federal funding, nor should it try to do it by calling it something else. Very broad. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Science Explorist @scipexplorist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

James Webb telescope just dropped its latest image, Neptune, and its rings.

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Joanne Cacciatore at ASU School of Social Work made this great, very short video on how to deal with grief during the holidays. In the video you can get a glimpse of the magical Selah Carefarm, the first carefarm for the traumatically bereaved in the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trt...

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How to deal with grief during the holidays | ASU Online

YouTube video by ASU Online

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Huge implications for older people, disabled people, and people living in poverty! Medicaid May Face Big Cuts and Work Requirements www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/h...

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Medicaid May Face Big Cuts and Work Requirements

Republicans in Congress are eyeing cuts to Medicaid, which could threaten health coverage for tens of millions of poor Americans.

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 17/11/2024

Among the saddest things about this is that last time it happened—and it did happen, almost immediately—Trump deported a bunch of adoptees whose parents thought adoption gave them citizenship. It didn’t.

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This article is very troubling. AAUP is the main organization supporting academic freedom (including tenure). FIRE it's a free speech in higher education organization. While they sometimes overlap, free speech is NOT the same as academic freedom!

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The APHA has a great page detailing Project 2025's implications for public health with detailed action plans. Wish #socialwork had a unified body that could act like this. www.apha.org/topics-and-i...

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Project 2025 – A Threat to Public Health

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We're holding an event for our social work students, faculty & alumni on Monday about social work after the 2024 election focusing on potential policy impacts. We've had more students sign up for this than any event since I joined ASU 3 years ago. #socialwork asuevents.asu.edu/event/social...

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Social Work After the 2024 Election | ASU Events

The ASU School of Social Work presents Social Work After the 2024 Election on November 18th at 12:30-1:30 in the Concho Room at Westward Ho.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

We need to remember none of these nominees are a done deal. Despair is the enemy.

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Liz Lightfoot @lizlightfoot.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I'm still not sure if this is a joke or not.

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