The NSF grants suspended at UCLA total $179M, half of which was still outstanding: CAREER grants, a major math institute, and basic science research and training of all types.
More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.
We must see that our lives, our struggles and successes, are bound up in each other. What does collective action look like if you stop being optimistic your discipline's market will improve and instead think about academia as a whole?
Struck by this being an "ominous sign for the economy" because "Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore."
Why was it a reliable path? Why weren't history jobs disappearing an ominous sign?
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Everyone should listen to this by @govpritzker.illinois.gov
The Republican and Democratic senators who aren’t calling this despicable regime out are condoning it by their silence.
The MSM who are even now normalising a lot of what is happening are complicit.
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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?
Good read. Her name was Sophie Mousseau, and her story is worth remembering and contemplating.
Sorry, Roath.
Watch this and donate to Roach.
Primary all these fuckers.
A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months
This word cloud tells the whole story. Fucking enraging/heartbreaking. #PhD #Academicsky #AcademicChatter
Share this widely.
Don't read unless you want to be infuriated. The Trump regime is taking willful ignorance to new heights (depths?). I hope the UC system is considering ways to resist, even if it means tapping the sacrosanct endowment.
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House Republicans Advance Plan to Upend Student Loans
Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jVnfYi
I know, same! This is the best motivation to polish up my French tho.
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Imagine hating Black people so much you don't want clean milk or healthy kids.
A headline from Hell.
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