Ina Ganguli

BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs

Falling responses, budgets & staff are biting. #BLS will cut 350 #ProducerPriceIndex #inflation sub-indexes.
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.

www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org

The Harvard Crimson (which includes many international students as journalists) gets it right. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Weird how "making America great again" consists of dismantling all America's soft power and also future source of hard power

tfidf cosine is a well precedented method for patent novelty measurement but not unproblematic
conference.nber.org/confer/2022/...
and paper @inaganguli.bsky.social et al 2024 www.nber.org/system/files...

“In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rapid response bridge grant opportunity for impacted scholars”

Truly an idiotic self-own to drive away US-trained talent.

Memoli’s email was sent to leaders of NIH institutes and centers Thursday in response to questions about whether clinical trials with foreign sites would be able to continue under the new policy. “I don’t know how to make this clearer. Subawards to foreign sites can’t continue,” Memoli wrote. “If a study has a foreign site, we need to start closing it down or finding a different way to fund it that can be tracked properly.”

Sorry, what now?!
www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/n...

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year
NASA cut by 24%
NIH cut by 40%
EPA cut by 55%
NSF cut by 56%
Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

💯. Why does almost no one in the public know this though?

If you think about it, the government’s creation of the internet is probably one of the greatest policy achievements and worst communication failures of all time.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites. Effective immediately, the following are terminated: NSF Award Id NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled 'Termination and Enforcement,' on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal.

Just got mine.

Totally expected, but it still sucks.

Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.

Important thread explaining how proposed changes to federal employment policy threatens the federal statistical infrastructure. Comment period is open for those who rely on these data to convey their views to the Administration….

I was devastated to learn about the unexpected passing of gifted historian and my former committee member Laura Lovett. Dr. Lovett was not only a renowned expert in women's history, but also an incredible mentor. I will miss her greatly. www.history.pitt.edu/news/memoriam

NOT an email glitch!

Congestion on the Information Superhighway: Does Economics Have a Working Papers Problem? Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Yes, there is an @nber.org working paper on this! They also use the timing of submission and an email glitch though I think: www.nber.org/papers/w29153

Where Science Moves Progress Follows How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy.

How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy.

Great insights from @inaganguli.bsky.social for @ineteconomics.bsky.social

www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

I'm reporting on what's happening at NSF for @cenmag.bsky.social!

If you're a researcher who had an NSF grant that was previously approved for funding but is now in limbo because of what's happening at the agency, my signal is kvasquez.12.

Always open to discussing options for anonymity.

UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...

This is how you do it.

The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".

The moral imperative may be to fight...

but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:

www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

Been seeing some speculation about the NSF freeze being due to the "broader impacts" criterion.

There's not a lot of hard facts out there yet, so here's a few facts below (but still inconclusive).

Short thread 1/5 🧵

Today in weird statistical coincidences

Super exciting finding that they may have found signs of life 120 light years away www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

…and then they end with the fact that if NASA funding is cut as proposed then this research agenda will be stopped

Devastating.

🌾Flour from wheat that grew on demined Ukrainian fields was used to bake traditional Easter bread in the US.

This flour traveled across the globe to New York's iconic Ukrainian restaurant Veselka. There, UN diplomats, entrepreneurs, and community leaders gathered to bake Easter bread together. ⤵️

Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.

30% budget cut for NIH plus whittling into down to 8 institutes.

We are so screwed.

wapo.st/42gLz0Z

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Russian strikes on Ukrainian city of Sumy kill 35, in deadliest attack this year | CNN Russian ballistic missiles ripped through the busy center of Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Sunday, officials said, killing at least 35 people and striking terror into residents who were out e...

Russia has been continuing its war against Ukrainian civilians. On Sunday, two ballistic missiles hit a central area of the city of Sumy, killing 34 and injuring over 100.

Read on to hear how you can directly help those affected.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/13/e...

Most Nobel Prize winners did their prize-winning work in the US, but many came here from different countries -- similar pattern for participants in International Math Olympiad competitions:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Recently talked with @ineteconomics.bsky.social about the mobility of scientists and why it matters for economic progress - and whether the U.S. will continue to be the magnet for scientific talent it has been in the past. 👩🏽‍🔬 🔬 🌎

One pattern we discussed -- Nobel Prize winners: