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Mike Kusiak

@skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social
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Husband. Dad. 2d best, according to my son. CV School Board. The Justin Trudeau of Castro Valley, according to a lunch invite from a coworker. #BeKind 🐝

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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Where did all of the #Arugula go? I haven’t found it in weeks here in Northern California, not at Trader Joe’s, Safeway, or even Whole Foods #WhereMyArugulaAt
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Hey @bsky.app! Please let @homelandgov.bsky.social know that my account is an anti-ice account! Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Meanwhile in Castro Valley, California: students and neighbors gathered for peaceful protest against fascism, authoritarianism, and the harm being done to vulnerable communities by the Trump Administration. #CastroValley #California #CVStandsUnitedAgainstHate #ICEOut #AbolishICE
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Quiet, piggy. You’re the fascist pig 🐽 #quietpiggy
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I love how German news media is talking about Hitler’s #Mikropenis the same time #SouthPark is talking about Trump’s #Tageschau
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
When a white supremacist is the President, you end up prioritizing Afrikaners as “refugees.” public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Other than BBC News and PBS NewsHour, I don’t lean on cable news networks for news, information, and analysis. I was however struck by the @nytimes.com description of @newsnation.bsky.social as a “conservative news network.” I thought that they were aiming to be “centrist”?
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Once dubbed the Justin Trudeau of Castro Valley. This week? Accused of being worse than Donald Trump—during a school board meeting. Apparently I contain multitudes. #winning #range #welcometocastrovalley
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
My son says that I sound like #ChatGPT.
Text from my son to me telling me that my text sounded like something that ChatGPT would say.
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Note to evangelical youth groups: Super creepy when you approach a 14-year-old in a Target on a Friday night about joining your club, talk to him about finding “fellowship.” My kid is too polite to tell you to leave him alone. He just wants his energy drink. Take the night off, go watch a movie.
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The attack on research continues, reducing IDC to 15% for DOE. Of course, announced after hours on a Friday. Trump’s war on “woke” universities is unraveling decades of a successful partnership. #IndirectCosts #IDCMatters #ResearchAdministration #SciencePolicy #DOE www.science.org/content/arti...
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Energy Department cuts university overhead rates to 15% on research grants
Sudden move mirrors NIH cap on “indirect” costs that was ruled illegal
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Lochlan must be a #TarHeel because he saw God @uncchapelhill.bsky.social #GoToHellDuke #WhiteLotus
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
They need to hurry up and rescue these #Yellowjackets.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Worst. Episode. EVER.
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Die AfD darf sich verpissen lassen. And so can JD Vance and Trump for embracing a political movement that includes literal Nazis. #NazisRaus #FCKAFD
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
What would Vannevar Bush do? Maybe we need an Endless Frontier 2.0. #scipol #researchadministration #researchpolicy #SaveNIH #IDCMatters 🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A direct hit
Late last week, the Trump administration set off a frenzy in the US scientific community when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that indirect cost reimbursement for federally funded re...
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Please #Denmark, buy #California! After the past few weeks of Trump 2.0, we good use hella Hygge. We can enjoy your lovely dairy products. But, I’m not learning Danish - I speak German and can be a Hjemmetyskere. 🐻🇩🇰 #hygge denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b...
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Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not?
Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing ever
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
NIH Updates Good news: It appears that at least of the submitted F31 diversity supplements for which the study section had disappeared from eRA commons are reappearing with the original study section. Still uncertain future, but it's a step. 1/2
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Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
A federal judge in Massachusetts has just blocked Trump administration's move to cut NIH's funding of indirect costs A hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 21 in case, which was brought by 22 states earlier today storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A screenshot of text that reads in part: 'ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF STATES’ EX PARTE EMERGENCY MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER ANGEL KELLEY, D.J. Plaintiff States’ Ex Parte Emergency Motion For Temporary Restraining Order [Dkt. 4] is GRANTED. Defendants and their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors are hereby enjoined from taking any steps to implement, apply, or enforce the Rate Change Notice (NOT-OD-25- 068) within Plaintiff States until further order is issued by this Court. Counsel for Defendants shall file a status report with the Court within 24 hours of the entry of this Order, and at biweekly intervals thereafter, confirming the regular disbursement and obligation of federal financial assistance funds and reporting all steps that NIH, HHS and their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors have taken to comply with the Court’s temporary restraining order. Defendants’ opposition to the Motion is due by Friday, February
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Another good indirect cost recovery resource #IDCMatters #SaveNIH
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Speak up higher education! The last few weeks of demurring while the Trump Administration has gone after the diversity of our communities has been disheartening.
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
❤️ this graphic from MIT about indirect costs. Conveys that a “high” rate doesn’t mean that a majority of a grant goes to IDC. At large research universities, it’s about 25-30% of total costs. I have to explain this to researchers all the time: web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/2... #IDCMatters #SaveNIH
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This was all foretold in #Project2025 (see page 355) because DEI bad, universities “too woke” static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate... #IDCMatters #SaveNIH
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
For an administration that wants to deregulate, it would prudent that they would look to remove some of the administrative burdens imposed on grant recipients (see this graphic from the Council on Governmental Relations - COGR). Also this list: www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul... #IDCMatters #SaveNIH
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Visual from COGR (Council on Governmental Relations), tracking federal regulations + policies that impact how contacts & grants are managed. In my over 20 years in the #researchadministration biz, I can attest that the complexity of these requirements has grown tremendously #idcmatters #scipol
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Let’s put my sudden semi-popularity on #Bluesky to good use! My son Teddy is raising funds for the #CastroValley High School Band! A flute-playing baddie, he wants to crush his $500 goal. Buy some expensive popcorn 🍿, support our Trojans! #InTrojanTogetherness 🪈🎶🎼 popup.doublegood.com/s/gs4jk714
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Indirect costs “are real and necessary costs of conducting the groundbreaking research that has led to countless breakthroughs in the past decades.” A cut in NIH IDC “is quite simply a cut to the life-saving medical research that helps countless American families.” www.aau.edu/newsroom/pre...
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Statement of AAU President Barbara R. Snyder on Cuts to NIH Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Research Costs | Association of American Universities (AAU)
Statement from AAU President Barbara R. Snyder on NIH's announcement that it will cut reimbursement of facilities and administrative (F&A) research costs.
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
"there will be a standard indirect rate of 15% across all NIH grants for indirect costs in lieu of a separately negotiated rate for indirect costs in every grant." This misguidance will damage US R&D. #sciencepolicy #researchadministration #IDCmatters #SaveTheNIH grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Paging @urichmond.bsky.social ... #GoSpiders 🕷️
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I’m starting to think that Trump’s proposal for a #GazaRiviera is really just a setup for a future season of the #WhiteLotus.
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 07/02/2025
“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.” The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av
A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
#AnticipatoryObedience www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience
Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The only reason you would try and stop so much science from happening is if you know that scientifically you suck shit
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Dear US scientists, We've been hearing a lot of questions of the form "Why aren't universities doing anything!? They need to speak out!" We can explain. It's bad news. We're on our own. But understanding why can help us all figure out our plan. Read along in thread 1/x 🧪
"The first rule of research administration is [generally scientists don't know much about it]"
Time for that to change
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Early in my #researchadministration career, I regularly worked with NIH staff on eRA Commons, the application that DOGE is playing with. This was a fun time, as we went from a paper to digital grants environment. Universities & federal partners worked together to evolve a process, make it better.
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Why is every #nyt columnist quitting except David Brooks and Maureen Dowd?
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
📢 Join us for a peaceful protest TONIGHT in #CastroValley! 🌈✊🏽 Our #LGBTQ, immigrant, and historically underrepresented communities are being targeted. Bring your signs, your passion, and your friends—let’s show our strength and commitment to justice! #StandUpFightBack #EqualityForAll #LoveIsLove
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Heck, I can barely recognize what it has become this week @davelevitan.bsky.social !
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Being kind & supporting ALL students isn’t “indoctrination”—it’s basic humanity. Trump’s exec orders targeting trans kids are cruel. As a parent & Castro Valley school board trustee, I believe in loving kids unconditionally, no matter their identity. #TransIsBeautiful #LoveIsLove #BeTheLight 🏳️‍⚧️
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Ten years of Luna, the Christmas Chihuahua!
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Mike Kusiak @skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Dear #CastroValley MAC: As a reminder, in no jurisdiction in #California is a school district or its elected board subordinate to a municipality or a county. School districts are independent government districts. Trustees are elected by people, not appointed #cvmtg #endtaxationwithoutrepresentation
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