Outrageous. (Also, this figure makes a 33% drop look like a 105% drop)

What AI Can’t Do AI may replace narrow technical skills, but the liberal arts equip students with the critical thinking employers increasingly demand.

The case for the liberal arts just got a lot stronger, writes @wildavsky.bsky.social.

How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists Into Exploited Gig Workers Tech elites are enriching themselves by plundering STEM institutions—and offering researchers scraps.

“Silicon Valley would not exist without [taxpayer-] funded research.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

These are the times of anti-science and anti-education courses at a University of all places ‼️

Shameful ad alarming ‼️

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a... cc @olivia.science

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit

"Students should be free to make up their own mind, but in order to be free to do so, they must be exposed to different ideas. We can't just expose them to conservative ideology approved by the board of regents or the governor of Texas."

— Martin Peterson, Texas A&M AAUP

STOP HB580 Dear UCW Members and Supporters, We need to write our representatives and urge them to vote NO on AL HB580 TODAY. HB580 places severe limits on Faculty Senates. It mandates post-tenure review, grant...

STOP HB580 in Alabama:

If HB580 passes in Alabama, it will eviserate academic freedom in the state & shift all control over higher ed curriculum & tenure to partisan politicians.

This bill isn't about accountability; it’s about censorship & the dismantling of intellectual independence, innovation & progress.

I spent 6 months there with my two young sons while conducting fieldwork in Isfahan in 2002, and went back and forth many times. Iran is one of my favorite places on earth and the Iranian people embody the meaning of hospitality. This insanity must stop!

Humans Are Wonderfully Varied. Scholars Shouldn’t Let the Government Say Otherwise. - Science Politics Academics have a responsibility to speak up when misrepresented scientific work about race, sex, and gender shapes policy.

NSF getting rid of SBE is total capitulation before a budget is approved. Intended to silence science that reveals the lies of the administration. Scholars in these areas need to speak up in the classroom, hallways, and in public! sciencepolitics.org/2026/03/25/h...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

"NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely." what!!!! No. No. Nope. No. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Paige Amormino - Saving SBE starts before the bill is written. Right now, NSF SBE does not have its own separate line of funding in the FY2027 budget structure. This matters because if SBE is not specifically protected ...

Saving SBE starts before the bill is written.

SBE needs a distinct FY27 appropriation. If your sch. is on the list, get a group of colleagues to meet w your House/Sen. offices. Esp. for Republican seats, direct constituent comms matter. Timeline/templates/updates:

www.paigeamormino.com/pages/9337

Can they actually do this? Of course, I've been asking myself that a lot lately.

As do I!! So many I wrote a book about it! lol

This is catastrophic!

Yeah, thanks. I do get contacted reporters all the time, cuz there's always some new scandal that comes out! Like the Thai women trafficked to Cyprus and kept in a dorm who had no idea they were there to have their eggs extracted!

I'm also eager to check out your book on writing for the media.

And yes, the realities of the entire egg donation process, from donor selection, to how human eggs are bought, sold, and distributed, and the lack of research on risks and lack of informed consent... The way in which neocapitalism operates through young women's bodies.

That's correct!

Nice! Thanks! It's a 10 year study on donors in US and Spain. I look forward to your thoughts. If you teach another class on the topic I'd be happy to zoom in to discuss!

Thanks!!

Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion-dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to addres...

Routledge has a sale on paperbacks right now!

www.routledge.com/Eggonomics-T...

Thanks!

Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them (Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction) Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them (Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction): 9781032549910: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com

I'll buy your book if you buy mine! lol www.amazon.com/Eggonomics-S...

Yeah, while it certainly cuts cost for those who want to freeze, there's no guarantee that the eggs you keep are the same quality as the ones you share. Plus higher dosages to increase quantity lead to higher risks. But donating for pay 10K++, is also coercive.

Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them (Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction) Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them (Social Science Perspectives on Childbirth and Reproduction): 9781032549910: Medicine & Health Science Books @ Amazon.com

Noooooo!!! Read my book #Eggonomics! www.amazon.com/Eggonomics-S...

Thanks! They did a great job!

The Global Economy of Human Eggs: An interview with Diane Tober A German translation of this interview will be published in May 2026 in t

In an interview w/ biorespect, @dianetober.bsky.social shares her research on egg donors’ experiences in the U.S. and Spain, stressing financial incentives and hidden risks that donors face and the need for more data collection, transparency + regulation. www.geneticsandsociety.org/biopolitical...

I've always considered that as part of the process of needing to refuel before moving on to the next great project.

I really needed to read this reframing of ADHD. As a person who is extremely curious it resonated and helped me connect some dots: It's not that I'm incapable of focusing, but there's so much to learn and explore! When my brain is not learning, it wants to move on! Great piece @neuranne.bsky.social