Suzanne Evans Wagner

There's a new Collaborative Research Center focusing on the common ground at the University of Tübingen (where I did my MA), with a variety of really cool looking PhD and postdoc opportunities in linguistics starting in October: uni-tuebingen.de/en/283575

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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Responding to the mass cancellation of NSF grants, Fazio (@lkfazio.bsky.social), a researcher who studies misinformation: “What can US researchers do in this situation? One thing is clear: do not surrender to political pressure or abandon crucial research questions.”

Devastating blow to longitudinal research. “Our ability to understand what’s going on with those women will be severely curtailed,” Anderson says. “They’ve been dedicated to this process for 30 years and provide their data generously...” Thirty years!!

Bone chilling.

A court ordered Kilmar Abrego Garcia to stay in the United States.

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that he was illegally removed. Trump is pretending he won the ruling 9-0.

1/ You may not think this case means anything to you. But let me tell you why it does.

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US

Analysis: Trump’s Tariffs Disrupt Global Trade Without a Clear Strategy The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.

"When pressed, several senior officials conceded that they had spent only a few days considering how the economic earthquake might have second-order effects."

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...

Poster titled "Branding your research" by Suzanne Evans Wagner, Betsy Sneller, Jack Rechsteiner. Main text: "Branding makes research easier: It streamlines decisions. Anyone can do it, on any budget. Ask us how!" Secondary text: "Our research: MI Diaries. A longitudinal linguistics and oral history project collecting people's self-recordings via a custom mobile app. There is an image of the MI Diaries microphone logo surrounded by brand characteristics such as "authentic", "trustworthy" and "funny". There is a QR code, a hyperlink to https://mi-diaries.org and logos for Michigan State University and the US National Science Foundation.

Fwiw, here is our 'conversation starter' poster, including links to our LingVan paper: bit.ly/3R3YdKp and MI Diaries project: mi-diaries.org. #LingComm25

If you're headed to my poster with @betsysneller.bsky.social and @jackrechsteiner.bsky.social at #LingComm25, sorry I'm not there yet! Having some tech issues (on my side, not the conference's).

Trump cuts include Columbia U. research into mold at NYCHA, Bronx air quality A government document details the numerous research projects on the chopping block, from research into local health to projects on cancer and Alzheimer’s.

“ Medical miracles don't happen overnight. They take years. You won't notice it tomorrow or next week, but someday soon, you or a family member will be diagnosed with cancer, dementia, or some other terrifying disease, but this time there will be no miracle cure because there is no funding.”

I thought the goal was to not waste taxpayer money?

New new strategy: Call me after lunch!

Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies The DOGE-mandated credit card freeze is delaying shipments of critical supplies, stalling travel, and stopping employees from doing their jobs.

DOGE's crackdown on agency spending means that federal researchers can't do vital experiments, order liquid nitrogen tanks to preserve samples, or refill basic but necessary lab equipment. My story with @zoeschiffer.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

Also Gandhi, accused of being improperly dressed while wearing a loincloth at a meeting with King George V, who later said, "The king was wearing enough for the both of us."

If Trump can make millions of people believe he won in 2020, making them believe Ukraine started the war will be easy.

This.

As indicated by my profile banner, I’m a BIG fan of tulips, so this was a sad blow. Daffodils were still great though! And I like to be surprised?

This would be hilarious if it wasn’t part of something so chilling.

AAUP statement

www.aaup.org/report/again...

People—especially poor people—don't leave their home country at great risk unless the risk of staying—of dying—is far worse.

Foreign aid is the cheapest way to curb mass migration, and to stave off pandemics and disease.

End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say (Gift Article) A sense of crisis among aid groups was growing as U.S.A.I.D.’s website went dark.

Cutting off all foreign aid and development assistance—which is less than 1% of US spending overall—won't save American taxpayers anything. It will cause millions to starve, and spur mass migration and terrorism as a result. (gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

Department of Transportation order signed by the secretary tells staff to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” including on certain grant programs. It bars recipients of funding “from imposing vaccine and mask mandates.”

Yep.

Many NSF projects have core activities like doing the research work in collaboration w students from backgrounds that are underrepresented in research (mentoring them along the way), or running educational programs that help make STEM subjects widely accessible…

This absolutely censors the research

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including:
- Holocaust Remembrance Day
- MLK Day
- Juneteenth

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Here's the link: msu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...