Tracey Meares

This is not real. It is true that China has sprinkle in support of Gaza but there is no evidence of China providing humanitarian aid to Gaza recently

Amazing book. I also love Trees!

But only a little . . .

Incisive analysis. History matters.

"committing to a strategy of aiming to satisfy the administration’s demands, even when unlawfully issued, the trustees have committed themselves to a strategic logic within which a Columbia president’s capacity to lead cannot be separated from" the whims of POTUS balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

Speak, friend!

The destruction of the future of science

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$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

That was shocking

I'm alive!

Shocking

And his post today about WaPo opinion section. Wow

Resveratrol

There is some great stuff in this volume and no paywall! Take a look!

I get it!

Another way the DOGE is not helping govt to work better

Been thinking about this a great deal lately . . .

Thanks for the facts

Eat real food

BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.

BREAKING

On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders

On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.

Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

This is a critical argument. Limiting federal indirects to 15% will devastate science in the United States

Thanks for this!

Am aware of grad student who are no unable to complete dissertations because the youth risk behavior survey is down. These decision are compromising science today and into the future

No

I follow this site and the news about bird flu is terrifying. It's everywhere and growing

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942.

I know. I was there in those camps.

My fellow academics won't believe this, but I heard a version of these words several times at my faculty mtg today