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UW-Platteville is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in psychology! Come join us in the Driftless region of Wisconsin. Link to job ad: wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Com... #psychjobs #academicjobs #teachpsych

UW-Platteville is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in psychology! Come join us in the Driftless region of Wisconsin. Link to job ad: wisconsin.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UW_Com... #psychjobs #academicjobs #teachpsych

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science

Opinion piece by @cdelawalla.bsky.social, Nobel laureates Victor Ambrose, Carol Greider et al.
The EO called "Restoring Gold Science" has a plan for enshittification of science; political loyalists have power over experts & punish those who don't fall in line.🧪
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

KILL THE CUTS national day of action april 8th

🚨HEY DORKS! PROTEST ALERT🚨

Kill The Cuts National Day of Action is Tomorrow, Tuesday April 8th!

Find an action near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-...

Stand Up for lifesaving research, healthcare, and education!
@aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social

#standupforscience
#killthecuts

(next to an image of Susan Crawford) Congratulations JUDGE SUSAN CRAWFORD FOR WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT!

We just secured the liberal majority on Wisconsin's Supreme Court thru 2029! Susan Crawford's big win keeps the highest court in this battleground state from falling into MAGA hands. Thank you for all you did to elect this Indivisible-endorsed candidate (and make Elon Musk waste over $20 million)!

Twenty-four hours into his time, Sen. Booker just passionately defended public science and universities-- which, at their best, are cornerstones of democracy and a powerful tool for collective liberation (which is why they've been so aggressively attacked).

Thank you, Senator.

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

“We have the right to determine our own missions” Mount Holyoke College President Danielle R. Holley spoke to “Here and Now” on NPR about the growing tensions between higher education and the federal government.

For some hopeful news, here is a college President standing up against the current administration. "The government really has some serious restrictions under the First Amendment about telling us what our values and missions can be"
www.mtholyoke.edu/news/news-st...

Mahmoud Khalil writing from a Louisiana detention center: "I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor, but also to liberate my oppressors from their hatred and fear."

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

Here is UW - Madison's budget. Our <largest> funder is the federal government. 25%. It used to be the state. Either way, the university in its current form ceases to exist if these federal cuts really happen. But The. Public. Doesn't. Know. This. And our leaders are absent from the public debate.

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Want to stream our DC event & hear from amazing speakers like Bill Nye, Francis Collins, Atul Gawande, and SO MANY MORE?

Join our livestream at www.twitch.tv/standupforsc..., starting at 12 pm!

#standupforscience2025

BREAKING NEWS: Canadian Premier Wab Kinew of Manitoba MOCKS Trump by signing a “beautiful” order that officially removes ALL American liquor from Canadian stores in his province.

Donald Trump just caused massive economic damage to our country. How sad and embarrassing.

NEW: Elon Musk is trying to buy Wisconsin’s Supreme Court, spending millions to install bought-and-paid-for MAGA extremist Brad Schimel.

Today, @WisDems launches a campaign to punch back: The People v. Musk.🧵

Good. And it goes to show what happens when the local leaders show a spine.

AUBURN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH STUDY VIRTUAL EATING DISORDER TREATMENT FOR LGBTQIA+ INDIVIDUALS The ACCEPT Lab at Auburn University is recruiting for a study evaluating a new virtual (Zoom) treatment for eating disorders that is specifically developed for members of the LGBTQIA+ community. This study will occur over the span of 9 months and is completely voluntary and confidential. YOU MAY QUALIFY IF YOU: Are 18-65 years old Identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and/or asexual Are experiencing problems with eating or body image (619) 594-1785 PRIDE@AUBURN.EDU Scan this QR code with your smartphone camera, Snapchat OR go to https://aub.ie/pridestudy EARN UP TO $250 L G B T Q A + IN E-GIFTCARDS

Please distribute widely! This is a great opportunity to receive a novel eating disorder treatment specifically tailored to the LGBTQ+ community and developed by an LGBTQ+ eating disorder research lab!

If you’re siding with Vladimir Putin, you’re wrong.

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

Oppose Safety Net Cuts to Fund Billionaire Tax Breaks - Vote Tues 2/25 ⭑ 5 Calls UPDATE (02/21/25): Early on Feb 21st, Senate Republicans passed their own slimmed down budget resolution. The Senate plan does not yet extend the 2017 …

I just called my reps to Oppose Safety Net Cuts to Fund Billionaire Tax Breaks - Vote Tues 2/25 — you should too: 5calls.org/issue/budget...

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.


https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

Higher-Ed Employees Talk About How Trump’s Actions Have Changed Their Lives Here’s what leaders, professors, researchers, and students told us about the personal impact of White House policy directives.

"All I want to do is scream at the top of my lungs. But I’m trying my best to keep it together for my students—to try and be the hope for them that sometimes I struggle to have for myself."

higher-ed leaders, researchers and students on the last few weeks: www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

The Trump Administration is maintaining the NIH grant freeze despite lawsuits challenging the order, a Nature article reported today.

Science funding in the US is already lagging, leaving researchers in limbo.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Long lines and canceled rentals: Firings bring chaos to national parks Trump’s purge of federal employees is already harming the visitor experience at national parks across the country.

President Donald Trump’s purge of federal employees is already harming the visitor experience at national parks across the country.

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!)

democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles infection.

But infants under 12 months old are not eligible for the vaccine, leaving them vulnerable.

When measles spreads due to low vaccination rates, it puts our youngest—and most defenseless—children at the greatest risk.

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”.

This is a manifesto against disability.

This is the language of eugenics.

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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.

Trump advisers weigh plan to dismantle Department of Education, WSJ reports U.S. President Donald Trump's advisers are mulling executive actions to dismantle the Department of Education as part of a campaign by Trump's close adviser Elon Musk and his allies to reduce to size of the government's workforce, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

They're gonna do it. They're gonna eliminate the Department of Education.

Call your reps 👉 5calls.org/issue/educat...

Education is a fundamental right, not a privilege for the wealthy.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...