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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
"Nature has learnt that, as a result, some staff members are screening candidates’ social-media presences to check whether they have expressed negative views about the Trump administration or been involved in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts...at their institutions." 🧪
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Columbia University formally notified its accreditation is in jeopardy
A letter from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education to Columbia Acting President Claire Shipman serves to "warn the institution that its accreditation may be in jeopardy" because of "insuff...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2025
Trump on DeSantis's new detention camp for migrants: "We'd like to see them in many states. And at some point they might morph into a system."
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
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Trump Administration Finds Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard
More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Trump moves to slash NSF: why are the proposed budget cuts so big?
Major US science funder could lose more than half its budget — and researchers are reeling.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Republicans Trying to Control Indiana University Meet Little Resistance
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
🚨🚨🚨 In the last two hours, the Trump admin: - Banned all immigrant visas from 19 countries, including Cuba, Haiti, and Venezuela - Banned all student and researcher visas to Harvard - Colluded with Texas to kick 20,000 undocumented college students off of in-state tuition.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Trump takes Harvard out of the student visa program www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Enhancing National Security by Addressing Risks at Harvard University
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Admission into the United States to attend, conduct research, or teach at our
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says
The U.S. Department of Education said on Wednesday it has notified a university accreditation body that Columbia University had violated federal anti-discrimination laws by its alleged failure to protect Jewish students on its campus.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 02/06/2025
Indiana's governor fired all the elected members of Indiana University's Board of Trustees. Given a recent policy change, he'll be able to fill those seats with appointees. Which means he'll basically have unilateral control over IU decisions, including who gets hired, tenured, and fired.
FB post from BoT member Vivian Wilson, with a photo of a letter she received from Gov. Mike Braun, informing her, in one sentence, that she has been removed from her position effective immediately.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 03/06/2025
BREAKING: Trump admin must process education grants "without delay" A federal judge preserved his ability to enforce the ruling even if the Senate passes a budget bill restraining his contempt power. @AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/linda-mcma...
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BREAKING: Trump admin must process education grants "without delay"
A federal judge preserved his ability to enforce the ruling even if the Senate passes a budget bill restraining his contempt power.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment - Nature Human Behaviour
Nature Human Behaviour - NIH indirect cost cuts will affect the economy and employment
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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New HHS document details deep NIH cuts as part of Trump budget request
Budget documents for Congress provide the most detailed look yet at how the Trump Administration hopes to reshape the National Institutes of Health.
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
From over 300k to less than 100k. A picture of smaller, reduced science.
Estimates for # of people involved in NSF activities
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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DOGE Track: Tracking The Damage
A website tracking the various activities of the DOGE wrecking crew across government. Sunlight is the best disinfectant!
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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U.S. to begin revoking visas for Chinese students
The move marks a major escalation in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
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Alexander Mazziotti @entropyarrow.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
#NSF www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/n...
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16 States Sue Trump Over $1.4 Billion in Science Cuts
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The CEO of Norwegian foundation Aker Scholarship, *evacuated* one of its students from Harvard on Friday Due to Trump "The overall picture and the fact that the situation in the US and especially at Harvard University is now so tense, made us choose to evacuate the student" - Joar Hystad, Khrono
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Norsk stiftelse evakuerte en av sine Harvard-studenter i natt. Landet i Oslo fredag
Den norske stiftelsen Aker Scholarship følte det var best å ta affære da det oppstod en situasjon ved Harvard University torsdag kveld norsk tid.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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Trump Intends to Cancel All Federal Funds Directed at Harvard
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Restoring Gold Standard Science
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Bar International Students at Harvard
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades
The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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NIH killed grants on orders from Elon Musk’s DOGE
Court documents and internal correspondence show the cost-cutting force has broad control over the world’s largest public biomedical funder.
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Jon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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National Science Foundation Ends 196 Grants To Harvard Amid Feud With Trump
“Pure retribution,” one NSF staffer said of the administration axing $46 million in unfinished research. “We as a nation are shooting ourselves in both feet.”
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Breaking: NSF will pause the 15% indirect cost cap until June 13 in order to proceed to a summary judgment, thereby avoiding a preliminary hearing. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70143...
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Notice - Other – #50 in Association of American Universities v. National Science Foundation (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-11231) – CourtListener.com
Notice - Other
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Gabby Scher, PhD @gabbyscher.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Finding out HHMI is canceling the Hanna H. Gray Fellows competition is heartbreaking. Especially since if they decide to hold it next year, I’ll no longer be eligible
Email from HHMI. Subject is: [External] Update on the 2025 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Competition. 
Gray box says: Some people who received this message don’t often get email (the a red cross out of the email) why this is important.
Email reads: Dear HGF Applicant:
 
I am writing to share that HHMI has made the difficult decision to pause all competitions as we work to ensure continued support for our scientists at a challenging moment for science and science funding. This means that we are not proceeding with the 2025 Hanna H. Gray Fellows Competition. 
 
We received hundreds of thoughtful and inspiring applications, reaffirming the importance of supporting early career scientists through the transition from postdoc to faculty. We thank you for the time, effort, and care you put into your application materials.
 
Bests,
Leslie
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New: We have the list of ~190 Harvard NSF grant terminations from internal agency sources. About $148 million intended funds killed. Over 1/3 are from the MPS directorate—roughly 75 math and physics grants.
Pie chart showing Harvard NSF grant terminations
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Update on NSF grant terminations: NSF staff expect ~200 more terminations tomorrow. Harvard situation still unclear, but could be all 252 active grants. Currently 1464 on grant-watch.us/nsf-data.html, so total could soon be ~1900.
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nsf-data – Grant Watch
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Opinion | The Science I Would Be Doing if I Weren’t in ICE Detention
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
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Congressman Bill Foster @repbillfoster.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
NEWS: I just led 112 of my colleagues in demanding answers from the Trump Administration on their funding freeze of the National Science Foundation. Cutting off NSF funding threatens vital research, stalls innovation, and risks ceding global scientific leadership to China.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
NSF’s entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EDU/EES), which “aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds to actively participate and excel in STEM disciplines” and some of it congressionally mandated, was just notified they will be RIFed. www.nsf.gov/edu/ees/about
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About EES
The NSF Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) aims to provide opportunities for individuals from all backgrounds, especially those historically underrepresented in science and engineering.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I think this is the first lawsuit challenging the NSF's reduction to a flat 15% grant indirect (facilities & administration) costs. It was filed yesterday (2025-05-05). More info and full filing here: www.aau.edu/key-issues/l...
screenshot of cover page of PDF here:
https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files/AAU-Files/Key-Issues/Research-Administration-Regulation/Costs-of-Research/AAU-NSF-Complaint.pdf
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Trump Administration Disqualifies Harvard From Future Research Grants
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🚨🚨 Deranged letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon to Harvard’s president, cutting off federal funding for any new grants. Worth reading in full. It is NUTS.
THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION
WASHINGTON, DC 20202
May 5, 2025
Dr. Alan Garber
Office of the President
Harvard University
Massachusetts Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138
Dr. Garber,
The Federal Government has a sacred responsibility to be a wise and important steward of American taxpayer dollars. Harvard University, despite amassing a largely tax-free $53.2 billion dollar endowment (larger than the GDP of 100 countries), receives billions of dollars of taxpayer largess each year. Receiving such taxpayer funds is a privilege, not a right. Yet instead of using these funds to advance the education of its students, Harvard is engaging in a systemic pattern of violating federal law. Where do many of these "students" come from, who are they, how do they get into Harvard, or even into our country—and why is there so much HATE? These are questions that must be answered, among many more, but the biggest question of all is, why will Harvard not give straightforward answers to the American public?
Harvard University has made a mockery of this country's higher education system. It has invited foreign students, who engage in violent behavior and show contempt for the United States of America, to its campus. In every way, Harvard has failed to abide by its legal obligations, its ethical and fiduciary duties, its transparency responsibilities, and any semblance of academic rigor. It had scrapped standardized testing requirements and a normalized grading system. This year Harvard was forced to adopt an embarrassing "remedial math" program for undergraduates.
Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics, when it is supposedly so hard to get into this "acclaimed university"? Who is getting in under such a low standard when others, with fabulous grades and a great understanding of the highest levels of mathematics, are being rejected?
Harvard has even been embroiled in humiliating plagiarism scandals, exposed clearly and plainly in the media, with respect to your then…running the institution in a totally chaotic way. Harvard alumnus and highly successful hedge fund manager Bill Ackman noted that, under her leadership, Harvard has become "a political advocacy organization for one party."
Ackman has called for the resignation of Pritzker, concluding that the "[t)he mismanagement here is Penny Pritzker" and noting that any serious corporation would have removed her after a litany of recent failings and the fact that, incredibly, "Harvard is not in a good financial position." According to Ackman, one of the world's foremost finance experts, Harvard's so-called S53 billion endowment is "massively overstated as far as what it's really worth," and Harvard has irresponsibly taken out $8 billion in debt.
If this is true, it is concerning evidence of Harvard's disastrous mismanagement, indicating an urgent need for massive reform-not continued taxpayer investment. If Harvard prefers not to change, then Harvard should have no problem using its overflowing endowment to fund its bloated bureaucracy.
At its best, a university should fulfill the highest ideals of our Nation, and enlighten the thousands of hopeful students who walk through its magnificent gates. But Harvard has betrayed this ideal.
Perhaps most alarmingly, Harvard has failed to abide by the United States Supreme Court's ruling demanding that it end its racial preferencing, and continues to engage in ugly racism in its undergraduate and graduate schools, and even within the Harvard Law Review itself. Our universities should be bastions of merit that reward and celebrate excellence and achievement.
They should not be incubators of discrimination that encourage resentment and instill grievance and racism into our wonderful young Americans.
The above concerns are only a fraction of the long list of Harvard's consistent violations of its own legal duties. Given these and other concerning allegations, this letter is to inform you that Harvard should no longer seek GRANTS from the fede…Federal Agencies. The Administration's priorities have not changed and today's letter marks the end of new grants for the University.
These requests will advance the best interests of Harvard University, so it can reclaim its status as a respected educational institution for the future leaders of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Sincerely,
Linda E. McMahon
Secretary of Education
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
the propsed budget if you want to wade through page 38 has nsf, page 9 starts HHS www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Leslie Rissler @ljrissler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
About NSF’s new(est) bulletin - 15% indirect cost rates will kill universities. Apparently that’s the point. I am sick.
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Signal in the Storm @signalinthestorm.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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New ICE Policy Puts International Students at Greater Risk
A week after restoring foreign students’ legal status, immigration officials detailed plans for a new policy granting unprecedented leeway to terminate their residency. It could foreshadow a new round...
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