Greenhouse gaslighting – denying, deriding and dismissing people's experiences of harm – a patriarchal practice of emotional abuse that is enabled by and seeks to perpetuate white-colonial-extractivism, is used to preserve fossil fuel interests

Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...

Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."

No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...

Interesting new paper on “motonormativity”, the tendency to view the motorist as the normal traveler and all others as alternative or marginal. By @ianwalker.bsky.social and Marco te Brőmmelstroet. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Trump Threatened to Revoke Visas of Students Who Dissent. Where’s the Pushback? Universities that decried Trump’s “Muslim Ban” in 2017 are largely silent now as Trump bullies international students.

Trump’s executive order lays bare something we already knew: Immigration status is an effective cudgel against the people and protesters who challenge an institution’s bottom line.

The witch hunt has started again. It is the return of McCarthyism, and among the first victims is Academic Research.

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An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.

Elon Musk’s Bureaucratic Coup Welcome to the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of the United States government.

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.

“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Volume 266 Issue 1 | Past & Present | Oxford Academic The official journal of the Past and Present Society. Publishes original scholarly articles on historical, social and cultural change in all parts of the world, examining particular problems and perio...

Past & Present No. 266 (February 2025) is now published

All articles in the issue can be accessed here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2... via our publisher @oupacademic.bsky.social

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USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites The directive could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives.

The email sent Thursday from USDA’s office of communications calls on website managers to “Identify and archive or unpublish any landing pages focused on climate change” and “Identify all web content related to climate change and document it in a spreadsheet” for the office to review.

Out of context, it might also seem like a way to control the quality of teaching for the benefit of students and the academic community. Instead, it is a move to ensure the effectiveness of any (and very likely) #censorship actions by the #Trump government and its cronies.

miami grapefruits, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1915

miami grapefruits, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1915