I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.
“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”
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One thing you should know about me is that while my emails may routinely feature embarrassing spelling, grammar, or typographical errors, you can always be sure that they were written by a living, breathing human being—not a technological simulacrum of one.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
OUTSIDE COMMENTARY: Numbers the administration uses for proposed cuts to UNL do not hold up, and once the fuller financial picture is examined, the proposed eliminations produce no real savings.
From Deryl Hatch-Tocaimaza:
LJS photographer Ken Ferriera with a hell of a shot from this morning's meeting. The caskets of the programs on the chopping block line the steps to Varner Hall, where regents will vote on the proposals later this afternoon.
We have heard opposition testimony from Huskers past, present, and future.
Kaden Moody, a senior at Palmyra HS, said he hopes to become a meteorologist but will have to go out of state if regents cut the program.
"A 17yo shouldn't have to tell you to have some guts and vote no."
Clay Farris Naff, a science writer and former executive director of Lincoln Literacy, proposes furloughing NU administrators for several months a year to close the budget gap.
Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen boasted to people in Grand Island that he put the State Patrol on standby to arrest the ~100 University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who sat in a public area on the plaza behind the student union for like 8 hours one day.
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A terribly sad day. After hours of testimony to the contrary, the Regents could not find the will to support Nebraska. Our Earth and Atmospheric Science, Stats, Textiles, and Education Admin programs are gone. Along with the faculty and their creativity, knowledge, and passion. Sorry, students.
"Many faculty and students and some regents predicted there might be more cuts to come in the future." [...]
“I think this is a full-out five-alarm fire as to the state of higher education in Nebraska. I’m sitting on this board, and I’m telling you, we’re scared.”
PROGRAMS CUT: The University of Nebraska Board of Regents vote to eliminate four academic programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
From Zach Wendling buff.ly/Zw4giMP
You could reduce Fred Hoiberg's and Matt Rhule's salaries by an equal amount and save these academic programs entirely, and they'd each be making $880K and $5.9M, respectively—still more than the #UNL head women's volleyball coach of the best team in the NCAA having the best season ever.
Coach Kelly makes a $700K salary, which is obviously A LOT of money. Compare that to the head men's basketball coach ($4.25M) and the head football coach ($9.25M) and it seems suddenly underwhelming. But let's put something else in perspective: #UNL is eliminating four academic programs for $6.7M.
#UNL #Husker women's volleyball is having their best season ever, on track to finish undefeated without having dropped more than 7 sets over 94 played so far. They are a historically top team and are absolutely DOMINANT this season. Dani Busboom Kelly is having a tremendous first year as head coach.
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
A glorious selfie with the official MAHA lanyard seconds after I made it past Secret Service screening.
About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in.
Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
HISTORIC VOTE: Faculty leaders at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln passed a "no confidence" resolution Tuesday in Chancellor Rodney Bennett. It's the first such measure to pass in UNL’s nearly 157-year history.
From Zach Wendling:
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The UNL Faculty Senate passed the non-binding resolution Tuesday afternoon — a first in university history — on a 60-14 vote after rejecting a last-minute request to table the measure.
Amanda Gailey is a sharp, insightful writer and her account of running into UNL Chancellor Rodney Bennett apparently eavesdropping on a Faculty Senate conversation about a no-confidence vote against him is worth reading: thebugeater.substack.com/p/the-day-th...
Extrapolating from my current output I will either become the eternal god emperor of humanity, usher in a planetary extinction event, or produce a series of modestly influential whitepapers over the next 10 years.
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College athletics does not exist independent of college academics. There is a critical "student" component of "student athlete." Pouring this amount of funds into college athletics while firing tenured faculty, cutting programs, and charging students more for less is farcical absurdity.
They say the athletic department is financially independent from UNL and self-sustaining, yada yada yada. Fact of the matter is that the football team would not exist without the university. The scam of student athletics cannot function without a university.
We're facing $27.5M in cuts at UNL, on top of $75M since FY20, and they're closing departments and cutting programs while further raising tuition. Meanwhile, they're sparing no expense on extravagant luxury for a football team with a cumulative losing record over the past 12 seasons.
Regarding the first suspect.
Regarding the first suspect.
