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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

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It's hard to find the wherewithal to write when so much of human decency is being eroded by unadulterated hate.

Today was a slog for #AcademicWriting, but tonight, my kids want to play Dungeons & Dragons. In their D&D world, they can be the good that they want to see in ours. I can give them that.

If you're in Illinois, you're on Section 8, and your landlord tries to evict you because of the government funding freeze, email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. My cases are pay-whatever-you-can.

White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.

So is there a scientific organization leading a letter signed by thousands of academics about the broad sweeping impacts of this? Or for doctors re medicine? Or anyone? AAAS? University presidents? AAU? Anything anyone knows about?? #academicsky

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"You are not to blame for what happened. But are responsible for ensuring that it does not happen again." - Max Manheimer, survivor

International Holocaust Remembrance Day - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Find out how to observe this important day.

There are lots of grim things happening in the world right now, including ongoing genocides.

Let us not forget history; let us not become unwittingly complicit in similar horrors, and let us stand up to those who would willingly commit them.

www.ushmm.org/remember/int...

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500 classrooms have signed up for Skype a Scientist 2025!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&A sessions. It's FREE!

We have an advertising budget of $0. So tell an educator in your life that we exist

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“Make good trouble.”

~ John Lewis

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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One of my colleagues is recruiting participants for her dissertation. She’s interested in the experiences of Black women who work at historically white institutions who are not faculty and are not in DEI positions but are engaged in DEI initiatives. DM me if interested!!!

#AcademicSky #EduSky

Tired of all the tech bros? Fund the #humanities.
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter

Also worth mentioning this manuscript is technically a side project, and the 5,000+ words were produced on the way to, from, and during breaks at a writing retreat for a different project 🫠

5,000 words written over 4 days and, while still in progress, the least painful manuscript first-draft yet!

I think in my previous manuscripts, I was subconsciously conceptualizing the papers as a collection of related sections instead of a cohesive story. Your advice was invaluable!

Hey #AcademicSky #Sociology #PoliticalScience! Any interesting calls for papers for upcoming special issues re: gender, race, migration, refugees…

How to support neurodivergent postgraduate researchers How can universities ensure PhD students of all neurotypes can thrive? Here’s how to provide neurodiversity-affirmative supervision

How can universities ensure #PhD students of all neurotypes can thrive? A team at @durham-university.bsky.social explain how to provide #neurodiversity affirmative supervision timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s... #postdoc #academicsky #highered

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Opinion | I’m no genius with genuses, but your garden is killing the Earth Your lawn and garden are helping to doom the Earth. If you want to save the planet, all you really need to do is plant a single oak tree.

The #NoLawns movement deserves more attention and participation.

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I know there's a lot happening unrelated to this rn, but I'd love broad and generative engagement with this call. Please share!

#AcademicSky
#HistSci
#Autistic
#Disability
#DisabiilityJustice
#PhDSky
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#FeministSky
#STS
#PhilSci
#Metascience
#Bioethics
#Sociology

A mobile computer sits on an airport table between a coffee cup and miscellaneous belongings. On the computer screen, two windows are open: on the left, a Twitter thread from Dr. Anna Clemens about how to manage and streamline academic writing; on the right is a text document with an outline of a manuscript in process.

The silver lining of waiting in an airport is some uninterrupted writing time and the opportunity to try out @annaclemens.com's writing process!

(Don't judge my ~10 year old computer, it's survived undergrad, a master's, and coffee spills)

#AcademicSky #AcademicWriting #PhDSky

A gray barn owl with beady black eyes is looking intently at an apple that is cut in half, revealing that its shape and seeds make it look almost identical to the owls face. Above the owl, the text reads: NEUROTYPICALS. The text above the apple reads: MY NEUROTYPICAL MASK

#neurodivergent #adhd

Good: on my way to a writing retreat with some incredible folks!

Bad: I got next to no sleep because I was anticipating travel.

Yay, #ADHD time anxiety!

#AcademicSky #AcademicWriting

Hello, 2025 academic year! 🎒 As someone who's never not tired, I'm really not into social media, but I am so excited to be a part of this beautiful, growing community. 🌱 May your writing come easily and your incoming emails be few 🥂 #AcademicSky #PhDSky