Edward Walker

So wonderful, Hahrie!!

Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants A San Francisco-based federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to restore all National Institutes of Health grants to UCLA, roughly $500 million, that the government suspended in July.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Burning Questions: A Collection of Perspectives on Climate Action - By Evan Nesterak - Behavioral Scientist The barriers to solving climate change seem to be getting higher, and the need for breakthroughs feels more urgent than ever. What are the most pressing ideas on the minds of social and behavioral sci...

Big thanks to @behscientist.bsky.social & its editor-in-chief Evan Nesterak for attending CASBS's two-day climate change workshop not long ago & soliciting these participant contributions on the 'backlash, burnout, and backsliding' related to climate action 🌍

behavioralscientist.org/burning-ques...

Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:

Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…

1. Download your NSF award letters.

2. Print PDF your annual reports.

3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.

NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

Congratulations David!

So cool that three CASBS fellows who occupied study #38 - Jon Krosnick (1996-97 AND 2013-14), @edwardwalker.bsky.social (2021-22) & @ralmeling.bsky.social (2019-20) were here at the same time for a workshop!

As 'ghosts' of that study, they pretty much haunted current occupant Tom Lyon all day 👻👻👻

Diary Week 1

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

One way to make it more salient bsky.app/profile/imbe...

A related concern: despite the vast impact is likely to have, federal indirects seem like a textbook low-salience policy for those with less of a connection to science/higher ed

Seems very likely that NSF and other federal funders will follow suit. This single move seems very likely to upend the entire model of the U.S. research university as we know it.

This is a de facto massive budget cut to research universities. We are talking Great Recession size impacts.

Excellent piece. Modern autocrats arrive at power via elections, and then gradually erode democracy until only a facade remains.

Coups provoke mass opposition and mobilization: salami tactics don’t.

chicago is effectively shutting down its federal grant funded research

Super illuminating thread on the current situation and possible road ahead around federal grants

Oh Nuzzel, how I've missed you. Great that @sill.social is up and running

Emmett Institute Fellowship in Environmental Law and Policy 2025-2027 (China Focus) University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

We are hiring a China-focused Environmental Law and Policy Fellow at the Emmett Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA! This is a two-year position, and the hire will work closely with me. See here for details: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10027

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And, finally, if you're interested in what sociologists have been writing about environmental policy in states and localities, here's a recent Annual Review (with Vasi): www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

I've also been interested in unusual coalitions between firms and social movements, as in this new piece in the Academy of Management Review with Maurice Murphy and Nan Jia journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5... Ungated: ucla.app.box.com/file/1703498...

In my latest on business political activity (with Yuni Wen and Lori Yue), we examine how Uber/Lyft mobilize their user bases (extending an NYT op-ed I wrote a while ago) journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5.... We find user-mobilization may backfire on sponsors. Ungated: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The natural gas industry, the Republican Party, and state preemption of local building decarbonization - npj Climate Action npj Climate Action - The natural gas industry, the Republican Party, and state preemption of local building decarbonization

Another recent paper in NPJ Climate Action (with Drew Malmuth) examines how the states have quickly moved to preempt local building decarbonization efforts. We find significant similarities in the language used across these state bills www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Boosting Your Enemies to Garner the Sympathy of Friends: Pro-Fracking Industry Communications and the Geography of Contention Abstract. Scholarship has recognized that contention shapes impression management efforts by business actors but has largely ignored how geographic factors

I've had a number of studies on the anti-fracking movement and interactions with industry. A new paper in Social Problems (with Bodi Vasi) examines how trade groups for the fracking industry selectively respond to protest depending on geography and partisanship academic.oup.com/socpro/advan...

Good to be meeting people on here! I study social movements, business political activity, and organizations/organizing, and how these topics intersect (often around environment/sustainability). Please say hello and, if you like, check out a few of my recent projects in this thread.

As Mr. Show wisely taught us, 24 is the highest number.