Such an honor to be the closing keynote speaker- many thanks to @digital-science.com for the invitation 😊

I’m excited to lead this @nisoinfo.bsky.social training series - collaboration is more important than ever! I look forward to meeting the attendees, sharing my experiences & hearing from guest lecturers Chris Shillum @orcid.org & Maurice York @bigtenacademic.bsky.social

Harvard Weathers a Year of Turmoil | Harvard Magazine The federal government has launched unprecedented actions against the University. Here’s a guide.

One year of strife between #Harvard and the #Trump admin, March 2025 - March 2026.
www.harvardmagazine.com/harvard-in-t...

#AcademicFreedom #AcadSky #AcademicSky #DefendResearch #EduSky #Funding #TrumpVResearch #Universities #USPol #USPolitics
@academic-chatter.bsky.social

I love how @everylibrary.bsky.social makes it so easy to contact your reps about the Trump administrations efforts to stop funding for libraries and museums 👏👏👏
civicmail.org/about-campai...

TS Eliot was right April IS the cruelest month - it’s snowing here in Boston!!!
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Call Scripts Call Scripts Last updated: April 6, 2026 Trump’s 2027 Proposed Budget Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP]. I'm calling to urge [REP/SEN NAME] to reject President Trump’s prop...

Trump's despicable proposed 2027 #budget puts $1.5T towards wars and decimates areas serving critical domestic needs, including our knowledge, research, and education infrastructure. I made my calls and hope others will too! Sharing my script if that helps! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Responsible publishing report As part of our ever-evolving understanding of what inequality feels like and how we may start to tackle it in academic publishing, we’ve commissioned a global report on inclusivity.

Hugely grateful to @emeraldpublishing.bsky.social for supporting our work to #DefendResearch against US govt censorship - highlighted in their new responsible publishing report along with many other great initiatives 👏👏👏
www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/responsible-...

Huge, impactful, disastrous move by Trump being almost totally ignored or misreported by major news organizations: www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

This is why we need to #DefendResearch!

NO KINGS Boston!! · No Kings We’re coming together on **Saturday, March 28** to declare: # We the People are We the Powerful. ## And we will not stand for an authoritarian takeover of the United States. We’re fighting against...

Who else will be at #NoKingsBoston tomorrow? Looks like it will be sunny but chilly - so wrap up warm and let's make this the biggest yet!
www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Peer Review Week (PRW) is a global celebration of the vital role peer review plays in ensuring the quality and integrity of research. Peer Review Week (PRW) is a global celebration of the vital role peer review plays in ensuring the quality and integrity of research.

Don't forget to vote for this year's @peerreviewweek.bsky.social theme - incentives, mentorship, capacity, or governance. Learn more & vote at peerreviewweek.net

‘They singled out non-white, foreign-born workers’: the restaurants raided by Britain’s version of ICE They’re not armed and they keep a relatively low profile. But the Home Office’s immigration compliance and enforcement officers have searched thousands of business in pursuit of illegal workers. Are t...

Anyone else who didn’t know that there’s a UK version of ICE too? 😢
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Calling all #PersistentIdentifier people -- today's your last chance to submit a proposal for #PIDfest26! Make sure you've completed this form before midnight CET tonight!
pretalx.surf.nl/pidfest-26-2...

Great post @rharington1.bsky.social & as you say an excellent companion piece to @juniper9.bsky.social & Ben Kaube’s recent piece on why scholarly societies are different. More reasons to be cheerful than gloomy IMO 😊

The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried. MRI machines need thousands of liters of liquid helium to function. Health care workers say they can’t afford any disruptions to the helium supply chain.

Get ready to learn a lot more about Helium.

There's going to be a global shortage due to this completely prevantable and unnecessary war.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

NIH grant terminations affected women scientists more than men, study finds A new paper shows that women, particularly those early in their careers, have been disproportionately affected by NIH grant terminations

A new paper suggests that grant terminations from the NIH over the past year may have further punctured the so-called "leaky pipeline" because women were more impacted by grant terminations than men

www.statnews.com/2026/03/23/n...

I need cis people to watch this. And then watch it again.

I am a trans man with a beard just like this gentleman. If I leave my state, I have to think about this too. Heck, even if i dont leave the state. There are people anywhere who want to attack me for peeing.

Nature Index: Institution ranking

Decline in U.S. University Autonomy, Index Shows Drop in institutional autonomy of 50 percent since 2015 means country is now only rated as “moderate” by experts.

According to Academic Freedom Index, an annual benchmarking report compiled by researchers at Germany’s University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the decline in university autonomy in the US has been faster than in places such as Hungary, India and Turkey. 😮😡

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Terrifyingly believable

Disgraceful. History will not judge them kindly...

This should be a great discussion, I'm looking forward to moderating these three excellent speakers!

‘We were ready’: Democratic attorneys general lead fight to stop Trump As some elected leaders choose to play nice with the president, Democratic AGs have done the opposite – to impressive effect

If only everyone in the democrat party had prepared as well as the AGs for Trump 2.0… Apparently they started meeting in early 24, went through Project 25, formed groups focusing on different issues & more.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Keeping Knowledge Connected – at PIDfest 2026! - The Scholarly Kitchen PIDfest is back and you're invited! Find out more in today's post by Alice Meadows about PIDfest 2026 (October 27-29, Leiden, The Netherlands).

It's back! #PIDfest2026 takes place in Leiden, Netherlands on Oct 27-29. It's a must for all #PID enthusiasts & the call for proposals is now open! Learn more in my post on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today - & submit your proposal by Mar 22.
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/26/k...

Standing Up by Stepping Down - The Scholarly Kitchen Today's post discusses the impact and intention of DEIA advocacy and the value of taking a pause as an act of resistance and self-preservation.

Powerful post in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social on how marginalized people (esp Black women) can & should stand up for #DEIA advocacy by stepping down -- & the rest of us must step up. Thanks to @dianndramarie.bsky.social Valarie Guagnini, Devyani Mahajan 👏
scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/02/25/s...

Behind the numbers: The truth about Gaza's death list ***

“Even if the argument over the total number of dead is, for now, largely settled, disagreement in Israel continues over who the dead were…. None of this alters the stark figures in the table. Of the recorded deaths, 20,876, about 30 percent, are young girls, teenage girls and women.”

How tech turned against women As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly

"large language models such as ChatGPT were consistently advising women to ask for lower salaries than men in recruitment processes,... AI tools already in use by more than half of England’s councils were downplaying women’s medical conditions, potentially resulting in unequal care"

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.

"So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

Two pedestrians injured in separate Brookline car crashes on Thursday - Brookline.News One crash was outside the Driscoll School, and the other in Coolidge Corner.

I was looking into an incident of a pedestrian struck and injured while walking in a Brookline crosswalk yesterday, near Driscoll School. By the time I had enough information to publish a story, another pedestrian had been struck and injured in a different crosswalk.

brookline.news/two-pedestri...

Yes huge thanks to everyone for your support & a special shout out to honorary Declaration co-author @funsizesuze.bsky.social for all her contributions
So grateful to be part of this amazing team
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