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Well the sh!t was swimming with the sh!t. How appropriate.

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

IF YOU HAVEN’T READ IT
DO YOURSELF A FAVOR!

I did something exciting today with my two amazing genetics dept colleagues @schindlerlab.bsky.social and @matiset.bsky.social. We joined a round table discussion on science, innovation and industry with NJ Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov. We have some new strategies to #standupforscience2025! 💪🧪

🚨CDC🚨there’s an email going out that HR will request CVs in the next 48H to help with shuffling people during a RIF. Apparently a template is forthcoming. Updating your CV now to have all info handy is a good idea.

Also save/download telework contracts. They are being pulled from the system. 🥄🥄🥄

MIT offering travel advice (or rather do not travel advice) for international visitors and green card holders.

If folks at other institutions are receiving similar guidance, please consider sharing here.

Please be as safe as you can.

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We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Ozymandias

I agree with every single word in this for only adults rant that Rick Wilson is saying. Every single word!

Brown University Professor and Doctor Are Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order Dr. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and Brown University professor who had a valid visa, was expelled in apparent defiance of a court order.

Valid visa and now gone. BTW, she was here to SAVE LIVES.

Doctor and Professor Is Deported to Lebanon Despite a Judge’s Order www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

I’m curious how you think about how protests should be addressed, considering the context of what you just said. The Trump administration just announced it’s pulling $400 million in funding from Columbia University, giving the reason as “relentless violence, intimidation and antisemitic harassment.” I’m wondering what you make of that. Columbia did not do enough. I criticized them. And believe me, I believe in free speech, I believe in the right to protest, as you read in my book. I started my career protesting the Vietnam War. I say to some people, “If I were your age, I’d be protesting something or other.” So I get that, and I love it, and it’s about America. But when it shades over to violence and antisemitism, the colleges had to do something, and a lot of them didn’t do enough. They shrugged their shoulders, looked the other way. Columbia among them. So what did they do? They took away $400 million. I’m trying to find out what they took away. Are they taking away money from cancer

"Columbia did not do enough....shrugged their shoulders, looked the other way. So what did [Trump] do? Took away $400 million.
... I think we have to see." @schumer.senate.gov to @nytimes.com.

Oh, my word.
This is a punch in the stomach.
Schumer is not standing up for science, or universities. 1/

Young scientists see career pathways vanish as schools adapt to federal funding cuts Reductions to federal support for research at universities and other institutions under President Donald Trump are dimming young scientists’ prospects, cutting off pathways to career-building projects and graduate programs.

“American students are looking to institutions overseas.”

Making America Weak As can be, to sell out our government to corrupt oligarchs.

The MAWA agenda is meant only to enrich Musk and Trump — to let them steal from you. Every Republican in Congress supports Musk.
apnews.com/young-sci... #NIH

“Punishing even one person for their speech is meant to intimidate others into self-censorship…these threats cut to the core of what it means to live in a pluralistic democracy. journalism.columbia.edu/news/cjs-fac...

What - and I cannot stress this enough - THE FUCK???

The Trump regime will arrest you in the middle of the night because you spoke your mind.

And federal agents in plain clothes who refuse to identify themselves will be the ones to do it.

If you think I'm being hyperbolic, watch this clip.

www.cpr.org/2025/03/03/h...

Trump Administration Pushes to Slash I.R.S. Work Force in Half Losing half of its employees would severely strap the I.R.S., meaning Americans may have to wait longer to receive tax refunds.

The IRS is preparing to shed as much as 50% of its staff, according to four people familiar with the matter, a significant cut that could jeopardize the agency’s ability to complete its basic mission of collecting taxes.

Reimagining the Federalist Papers A Little Bit of Background

Well, this looks promising!

open.substack.com/pub/boldlibe...

Grad School Is in Trouble The latest signal that the future of the university is under threat

Thinking about the relationship between these.

doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

Remember this: Tyranny cannot prevail over people who refuse to succumb to it.

Leaders of the free world stand united in London

The United States is not among them

Exactly two people are celebrating the United States’ great abdication:

Trump and Putin.

The world weeps. Europe acts. And decades of U.S. leadership have been lost.

UPDATE ON FUNDING

These are data through 2/21/25. The lag in Reporter really does appear to be about a week.

There was a second mini-pause as suspected from internal reports, but grants are being awarded.

About 21% new or competitive renewals (compared to 29% in 2017, and 22% in 2021

A large herd of Bison on spring grass with scattered sage in Lamar Valley.

All our public lands could and should look like this.
The only thing stopping a recovery
Are welfare ranchers.

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?