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As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers and scientists—especially from the United States.

The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers and scientists—especially from the United States. www.wired.com/story/us-cut...

uOttawa is seeking applications from world-class researchers in this thematic area of Sustainability in Action: Climate and Societal Solutions, including: • Arctic and Northern Studies: Advancing solutions-oriented research that benefits Arctic communities and strengthens Canada’s leadership in Arctic research. • Environmental Health and Toxicology: Studying the impact of environmental toxins on human, animal and ecosystem health, including toxicology, environmental genomics, and the development of tools to inform policy and promote sustainable health outcomes. • Disaster Communication: Conducting critical studies on disaster communication and strategies for countering disinformation. • Law, Democracy and Climate Action: Strengthening governance and legal frameworks to address climate-related societal challenges in northern communities, environmental protection and climate change resilience.

Attention climate scholars seeking to leave the US: Next year the University of Ottawa will be seeking int'l candidates for a Canada Excellence Research Chair in "Climate and Societal Solutions" (broadly defined) They'll seek established scholars with global reach in this area (see below)...

Indivisible's "What's The Plan" Zoom Download April 17
It's Thursday, so it's that time again. Today's call was very much the same broken record speech repeated over and over again. Up till now I've made this summary more like meeting notes,
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That's me at the designation of the Pacific Islands Heritage marine national monument in 2009

It exemplifies my career -- caught in the middle between Indigenous leaders and Western scientists

Trump rolled back some of the monument protections today

www.southernfriedscience.com/trump-signs-...

IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...

The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, CNN reports

#NEW: The House has also voted to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's rule limiting overdraft fees to $5.

217-211. All yay votes were GOP, 1 GOP plus all voting Dems were nay.

The big banks won. Regular people lost.

Some really ugly signals are showing in the markets. The credit spread is massively widening. Bond prices are cratering while equities are as well. That's really bad. Something is going to be break and spark a financial crisis. This is beyond what banks stress test for.

Earlier today at the #HandsOff #Honolulu protest.

I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now? Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can’t shake. It’s only Tuesday, but what a we...

I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

This is the admin's goal: Taking "gender identity" out of government language, so that the private sector feels pressure to take it out, too, and a future court will rule that actually it's not protected. www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

so my favorite dive bar in WI passed up showing tonight’s Bucks game so they could show live poll results. when the election was called for Crawford, the whole bar started chanting, “Fuck El*n”. the bartender pulled out the good stuff and handed out free shots to us all—an absolutely electric nite

💥🇭🇺 Police have given up guarding Budapest’s Liberty Bridge as anti-government protesters shut down traffic on four major bridges, rallying against Viktor Orbán’s new law curbing freedom of assembly and banning the Pride march.

They vow to escalate with a 24-hour shutdown next week.

RFK Jr. Expected To Lay Off Entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the Secretary of Health and Human Services is reportedly laying off the entire Office Of Infectious Disease And HIV/AIDS Policy. Here's the impact

#ugh

DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024.

Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

Millions of bees have died this year. It's "the worst bee loss in recorded history," one beekeeper says Bees play a key role in the U.S. food supply, and the mass deaths could jeopardize that.

The U.S. beekeeping industry is in crisis over the shocking and unexplained deaths of hundreds of millions of bees over the last eight months. https://cbsn.ws/429PUSq

Navigating an Attack on You or Your Colleagues | American Sociological Association Are you facing harassment for your scholarship or teaching? This can be frightening and overwhelming, but you are not alone. How can you protect yourself in

here's the American Sociological Association's guide www.asanet.org/public-engag...

I put on RoboCop again and realized that I find it increasingly less funny the older I get because of how accurately it predicted where America was going. What I’m fixing on tonight is how the corporation that runs the police made a certain executive immune to RoboCop’s enforcement ability.

I could watch this all day. #Haunani-KayTrask
#Cook #HawaiiSky
#KanakaSky

That is AI

Earlier today at Waimānalo

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.

Do not let anyone play games with you.

UMASS IS RESCINDING ALL GRAD POSITIONS FOR THIS YEAR

ProPublica just obtained a remarkable directive to those remaining at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then ... "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break." The email came from from the agency's acting executive secretary. I asked Kel McClanahan, a national security attorney, if this was legal. He said: "No it is not," citing the Federal Records Act. "Classified records are still federal records."

@propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy with an explosive scoop. This is insanity.

YouTube video by Times Radio Trump’s tariff chaos explained | Yanis Varoufakis

What's behind Trump's crypto reserve and, more generally, what is he up to with his tariffs and overall 'flooding the zone' with uncertainty strategy. On TIMES RADIO, yesterday www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Cd...

NEW: The actions of Trump and Vance in recent weeks highlight something under-appreciated.

The American right is now ideologically closer to countries like Russia, Turkey and in some senses China, than to the rest of the west (even the conservative west).

My column: www.ft.com/content/3046...

“We dont take an oath to a king.” -Gen Mark Milley