Tevah Platt

Nature headline "I invented a life-saving frog sauna." Photo of said frogs in said sauna

have never clicked a headline so fast www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.

theconversation.com/data-that-ta...

Thank you @tevahp.bsky.social @umisrcps.bsky.social @umich.edu
"The exhibit ends with a photograph of Vice President Vance, visiting the Dachau Concentration Camp Feb. 13, 2025. The next day, at the Munich Security Conference, Vance demanded that Germany’s far-right parties, including the AFD,
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A Clockwork that is Really Really Orange, Like Probably Twice as Orange as Any Other Orange. This movie is going to be huge.

9 to 1 am

Graduate, faculty, and post-doc researchers -- here is one way to communicate out about the value of the work you do in the public interest. ⬇️

Snakes on a Plan

I think you might be a fan of dad jokes, so here's this gem for your continued mental health benefit...?

It's surprising when people don't know what brutalist architecture is, when there are so many concrete examples! 🥁

University of Michigan caved to Donald Trump on DEI programs | Opinion Trump's attacks on DEI at University of Michigan is part of a larger deployment of misinformation and government threats to weaken universities.

Print edition of article with @epopppp.bsky.social ran in @freep.com today. Michigan shouldn’t let itself be one more trophy on the wall at Mar a Lago

www.freep.com/story/opinio...

Bronze statues of a duck and her ducklings. They each have a little white sign

Adorable. The Boston ducks have protest signs #handsoff

Second Teach In Alert, next Wednesday, March 19th, 7 pm. Please share!

We will update the U-M community on what has happened since the first teach in and will cover what is at stake for the international world order.

Come with questions and thoughts. Pizza for students starting at 6.30 pm.

#StandUpForScience

Three Reasons Why Congress Isn’t Checking Executive Overreach President Donald Trump seeks to expand executive power at the expense of congressional authority, but Congress has remained virtually silent.

Where is Congress? @ccavaille.bsky.social and @robmickey.bsky.social share three reasons Republicans in Congress aren't "pushing back" on executive overreach. From the recent #Umich teach-in: @jmping.bsky.social #PoliSky ➡️
myumi.ch/jZ14V

What is unique about executive orders under the second Trump administration? And will they succeed? - Center for Political Studies (CPS) Blog The EOs under the Trump administration are "unprecedented because they are illegal power grabs by design."

The controversial executive orders under Trump 2.0 are unique because political wins are their primary objective, and because they appear to be illegal by design, says Kenneth Lowande @umisrcps.bsky.social, an expert on executive power. Will they succeed? ➡️ myumi.ch/nyMm5 #PoliSky

This is honestly the best piece that I’ve seen on what is going on. If we can’t rely on the rule of law to stop this ignorant nonsense, what is left?

Someday, someone will write about how the conflation of university speech with “censorship” was used to mobilize actual government censorship.

Get in dorks, we're going protesting!

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025
WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL

Because science is for everyone!

Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org

#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

💙 Thank you @dananessel.bsky.social!

This event is happening this Wednesday at the #Umich Ann Arbor campus, come and please share!

No one can truly capture what cuts like the ones announced Friday might do to American medical research. But I decided to try, in terms that a general audience might understand. I hope it's useful. open.substack.com/pub/karagavi...

#StandWithUSAID
#SaveForeignAid

USAID What’s Happening & Why it Matters

What can you do about the assault on USAID?

Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Register now for #PAA2025: www.populationassociation.org/paa2025/reg-...

If you are presenting in any way, you need to be registered by February 3rd!

One way employers suppress negative info is binding employees to broad nondisclosure clauses. In #MeToo, some states narrowed NDA enforcability.

With Jason & @evanstarr.bsky.social, we show evidence that this increased the flow of negative info onto Glassdoor.
research.upjohn.org/cgi/viewcont...

From portraits to policy: A Profile of Artist-Researcher Angel Zhong

🌟 A star scholar to watch! Meet Guiying Angel Zhong, an artist, activist, and @rcgd-isr.bsky.social researcher in the @umisr.bsky.social Junior Professional Researchers program (now open for applications!) #UMich-research #UMich Read their feature profile:

rcgd.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...

If you're able to donate, here's a list of items that are needed. There are drop off points in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Huntington Park, Inglewood, Pacoima, Long Beach, Woodland Hills, and Glendale.

IG resistcarebloc and frontlinemedics

1 in 4 older Michiganders lack enough friends. That’s a health concern | Bridge Michigan Researchers at the University of Michigan sought to measure loneliness and isolation among Americans 50 and older. There’s good news amid the bad: Post-COVID, the rate of loneliness has receded.

A great read from @bridgemichigan.bsky.social on isolation felt by older Michiganders features our @spattersearch.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social and a reminder we can help this by checking in on older friends. #Demography
www.bridgemi.com/michigan-hea...

In case you need more demographers in your life.
(Who are we kidding? We ALL need more demographers in our lives.)

Cheers to 2025! As we begin the new year, we took a moment to reflect on all that we accomplished in 2024. Check out our most-read news stories from the past year. #NewYear

The best A ever. Going to games as a kid my dad would point to Ricky on first and say “watch he’s going to steal second base.” And every time, he did! The steals were incredible and I was equally impressed it seemed my dad could see the future.