Melissa Marsh

This is amazing. @katestarbird.bsky.social

Crushing to hear of more junior colleagues in the computer science & human-computer interaction (HCI) space whose NSF CAREER grants were terminated this week. I'm hopeful that philanthropic funders can find a way to support this generation of scientists studying online manipulation, bias in AI, etc.

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

This is going to have huge implications on the future of science and research. So scary.

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Trump Leads a ‘Machinery’ of Misinformation in Second Term President Trump’s first four years in the White House were filled with falsehoods. Now he and those around him are using false claims to justify their policy changes.

The NYT's Steven Lee Myers and Stuart Thompson describe the machinery of misinformation (or what I prefer to call the "bullshit machine") that Trump and allies exploit to gain, maintain, and justify their power. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/b...

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I accept memes as reading responses in my undergrad social media class, and I thought @katestarbird.bsky.social and her fans would appreciate this one that a student created this week:

Senate Democrats block GOP-led bill to ban transgender athletes from women’s sports | CNN Politics Senate Democrats on Monday blocked a GOP-led bill that would ban transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports at federally funded schools and educational institutions.

Some good news today…

The temptation to duck & cover & hope the attack passes over us can be strong. But ultimately, they'll come back around for all of us. They are out to destroy the American university, which they view as a threat. So we might as well stand up, speak out, & fight back while we still have the chance.

It’s not “great television” it’s people’s lives. I am mortified and embarrassed to be an American today. Ukraine is in my thoughts and prayers.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Trump and Elon are destroying the Social Security Administration, and without staff & offices, there will be people who can’t get their benefits—period.

I put together a fact sheet about what Elon's decimation of Social Security will mean for YOU.

Please share it far and wide.

In an extraordinary display of public support, heads of state, heads of government, and foreign ministers from all over Europe and Canada are posting in support of Ukraine in response to the Oval Office meeting with Trump, Zelenskyy, and Vance.

Donald Trump has disgraced the United States of America in countless ways since he first entered political life ten years ago.

But he had never disgraced the nation as badly as he did today.

He has brought shame on this country to an extent I had never thought possible. And he has only just begun.

We need to talk more about how it feels to be a woman amidst this sudden onslaught of “reclaiming masculinity,” celebrating male aggression and violence, and vanishing smart experienced women from positions of power.

The White House says it 'will determine' which news outlets cover Trump, rotating traditional ones The decision departs from a century of tradition in which a pool of independent news organizations go where the chief executive does and holds him accountable on behalf of regular Americans.

This is what dictators do — they silence the free press and only let those who are on their side ask questions. apnews.com/article/trum...

Since I have defended and supported the WaPo in the months since the election and the infamous pulled endorsement, I feel obliged to say: this is very, very bad. A dear friend at a Post vet says it's the worst thing to happen to the Post in its long history, and I can't argue.

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The administration just deleted information & resources from its website on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women & violence against Indigenous women.

To the families of missing or murdered women: you will never be erased.

Linking resources below, please share:

Jeff Bezos is an oligarch.

Cutting $880 billion from Medicaid is going to have a lot of devastating consequences for a lot of people

Kates giving a talk today. In person at the UW or you can stream it.

Jane Fonda Says ‘Woke Just Means You Give a Damn About Other People,’ Calls on Hollywood to Fight With Empathy in SAG Awards Speech Jane Fonda was honored on Sunday night with SAG's life achievement award.

Jane Fonda Says ‘Woke Just Means You Give a Damn About Other People,’ Calls on Hollywood to Fight With Empathy in SAG Awards Speech variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Please PLAY with me. Or at least pet me. Geez.

The way predatory people like Musk operate is they get their foot in the door incrementally. Just comply with my email, what’s so hard about that? Then when people give in because they don’t want a hassle, he owns you. Then he comes back next time demanding something much worse.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds.

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Today’s Ruby post. She is so pretty.

YouTube video by WAAY 31 News Ex Viking Chris Kluwe ARRESTED after criticizing MAGA at Huntington Beach, Calif., meeting

My new hero…