Meeting the Moment Hi! I’m Liz Neeley and I’m glad you’re here. Each Friday evening, I write a summary of the week’s events in science and higher education. I pull together roughly three bulleted paragraphs about what…

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@LizNeeley's parting thought for Year 2, Week 4 (con't): Whether they are deliberate manipulations, or merely side-effects of exhaustion, cynicism, or stress, we must not allow false social realities to control us.

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@LizNeeley's parting thought for Year 2, Week 4: Sometimes our memories fail us, our fears dull us, and our institutions fail us. But I can’t stop thinking about the role every single person can play in resisting the erasure of our past and distortion of our present.

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Governor Newsom meets with World Health Organization Director-General, announces California becomes first state to join WHO-coordinated international network | Governor of California Official website of the State of California

But for what it's worth, California announced that it has already joined the WHO’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network.
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US officially leaves World Health Organization Trump ordered the withdrawal a year ago, accusing the UN agency of failing to adopt reforms and mishandling the pandemic.

The US formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, and we owe $260 million in unpaid debts.
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Kansas adopts faculty workload, post-tenure review system for public universities • Kansas Reflector Kansas Board of Regents adopts model for annual assessment of state university faculty in terms of teaching, research and public service.

The Kansas Board of Regents has instituted a new mandate for post-tenure performance and workload review.
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Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will be rearrested and deported to Algeria, DHS says Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA ’24, will be rearrested and deported to Algeria, Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs, announced Thursday, as the federal…

The administration is still attempting to deport Mahmoud Khalil, this time to Algeria.
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Florida Proposes H-1B Hiring Ban at All Public Universities All Florida public universities would be banned from hiring foreign workers on H-1B visas under a policy change that the Florida Board of Governors will consider next week.

The Florida Board of Governors is considering a rule that would forbid state universities from hiring H-1B visa holders for the rest of 2026.
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Trump Administration Drops Appeal in School DEI lawsuit

In the win column: the Department of Education withdrew from legal proceedings over threats to withhold billions of dollars from schools who maintain DEI programs.
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Year 2, Week 4 Jan 17-23, 2026 - memories in the making

Each Friday evening, @LizNeeley.bsky.social writes a debrief of the week’s events in #Science & #HigherEd - What's happened? What next & what to do? 🧪

The goal is to help you keep current— by staying focused instead of flooded.
Jan 19-23, 2026 was Year 2, Week 4
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@LizNeeley's parting thought for Week 39: It all matters. It all helps. Every part. Every step. Every time. (2/2)

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@LizNeeley's parting thought for Week 39: As @prisonculture.bsky.social says, “I believe in strugglers and I believe in coworkers and I believe in solidarity. I believe we need more people all the time in all of our work, in all of our movements.” (1/2)

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The #NoKings protests took place this past weekend.

There are very good reasons some of us cannot or should not demonstrate. All the more reason for the rest of us to keep showing up:
- safety in numbers
- joy in community
- to coordinate and work in formation are falling away

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Judiciary Funding Runs Out; Only Limited Operations to Continue The judicial branch announced that beginning on Monday, Oct. 20, it will no longer have funding to sustain full, paid operations.

The judicial branch has run out of funding.

When our courts start reducing services, sending staff home, and not paying those who are required to keep showing up… what will that mean for this essential branch of the government?

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Former NIH leaders lament ‘constant chaos’ at the agency, and caution it’s not over “It's been like living in a washing machine, it's been constant chaos,” former NIH official Jeremy Berg said at the #STATSummit

Between one quarter and one third of CDC employees have been removed from work, according to their union. And experts warn us to keep bracing for more.

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California announces coalition of Governors forming new alliance to protect public health from political interference | Governor of California Official website of the State of California

Fifteen governors have launched the Governors Public Health Alliance to strengthen their emergency preparedness and bolster their ability to rapidly and reliably respond to emerging health threats.

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Update on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education The University of Arizona was one of nine universities invited on October 1 by the U.S. Department of Education to provide feedback on their proposal to advance excellence in higher education.

Brown, USC, Penn, and UVA joined MIT in rejecting the promise of preferential funding in exchange for academic freedom (i.e., the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.) Since we published the newsletter, so did University of Arizona. bit.ly/3KYIJYd

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Each Friday evening, @LizNeeley.bsky.social writes a debrief of the week’s events in #Science & #HigherEd - What's happened? What next & what to do? 🧪

The goal is to help you keep current— by staying focused instead of flooded.
Oct 11-17 was Week 39: buff.ly/pHUaQ2P

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The #DoNothingDems are not #MeetingTheMoment they need an aggressive plan of attack and multiple contingencies for when shit goes sideways! #Repeal22ndA #Obama2028 #StackTheCourt

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When the Fire Reaches the Library By Leigh Silverton, Ph.D. In 1933, on a cold night in May, students in Berlin gathered in Opernplatz and flung thousands of books into a bonfire. Thomas Mann, Nobel…

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As tRump lights up #America these fools version of #MeetingTheMoment

Hey Dem ‘leadership’ the people will take it from here. You have all proven yourselves incapable of meeting the moment.

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Next week, we’re launching Brewing Hope: Meeting the Moment, our annual fundraising campaign to support survivors from the communities most impacted by gender-based violence. Kick us off with an early donation to help us raise $20,000 by June 6. Link in bio!

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Save the Date! On 5/29, we are launching our summer fundraising campaign to raise $20,000 by June 6. This year’s theme–Brewing Hope: Meeting the Moment–is a call to action to fund the dissemination of HTA’s model to intersecting organizations & communities in Chicago.

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Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social summarizes the criminal regime's first 100 days of rampant corruption.
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