Alan Richardson

US universities’ settlements with Trump ‘will only fuel his authoritarian appetite’ Experts say settlements worth hundreds of millions will further embolden US president’s use of ‘coercive tactics’

“‘Unsurprisingly, the anticipatory obedience of UCLA administrators has not prevented Trump administration attacks,’ the UCLA Faculty Association wrote in a statement. ‘Each university that falters legitimates the Trump administration’s attacks on all of our institutions of higher education.’”

How can we take this Federalist building and Versailles it up, but do it through Dollar General?

How the Department of Health and Human Services Took the Lead in… The agency has threatened crucial medical research funding to extract concessions from universities on student protests and DEI.

How the Department of Health and Human Services Took the Lead in Trump’s Campus Crackdown

“The agency has threatened crucial medical research funding to extract concessions from universities on student protests and DEI. …”

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The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away.

A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

I like to ask “professors of teaching” at my university what else anyone at a university might profess. Their title sounds like “teacher of teaching” to me.

I’d really like the federal Democrats to be at least angry about all the federal crimes the Trump administration is doing. Please indicate you give a shit!

Asking full professors “what are you full of?”

Trump Announces New Thing He Is Not Allowed to Do Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Lawless President Orders Illegal Thing

I admit I was fooled by the deepfake AI video of AOC that was marked explicitly marked as AI parody. But what does it say about AOC that I thought it was real?

by Chris Cuomo

Greg Radick takes over as the new editor-in-chief of journal Metascience (thanks to Greg for this service)!
And ICYMI, Metascience now has a Bluesky account ⬇️
@metasciencejournal.bsky.social Welcome to Bsky Metascience & congrats on the great new editor!
#HPS
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S5 E4 - Heather Douglas on Rethinking Science’s Social Contract The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · Episode

So delighted to welcome Prof. Heather Douglas to The HPS Podcast!

In this illuminating conversation, we explore the history & legacy of the “value-free ideal.” Heather offers insights on the evolving responsibilities of scientists, and presents her bold vision for a new social contract for science.

The next part of the plan to steal the midterms and/or the 2028 election - an attempt to do a mid-decade census to take seats and electoral votes away from blue states. I knew this was coming.

This is what happens when they finally sit down with someone who knows how to do an interview, which is extremely rare. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Sad news

That “may” in the headline is hilariously bad.

Cementing rich white rule is (and has long been) the point of most GOP policy and that is definitely the case for selective admissions.

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

really hard to overstate the psychic wound losing to obama did to conservatives like hassett. they really thought romney was a lock

Regardless of politics, economists should make clear: we do not condone reckless attacks on our statistical agencies, including by our fellow economists.

The staff at these agencies work painstakingly to collect the data our democracy and economy depend on.

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Dr. Katalin Karikó who won a Nobel Prize for developing mRNA vaccines responds to RFK Jr:

"When you are sick, you wouldn't ask for advice from a lawyer like Kennedy. You ask experts, your physician, for advice."

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Sign for West Coast Reduction Ltd. In Vancouver

Interesting. I just had psychology reduced to physics at the local shop.

mRNA vaccines are a game-changer. Faster to develop, generally safer, easy to modify, huge potential for wider applications (e.g. cancer). If the vaccine has been approved, it's already been thoroughly tested in randomised controlled trials. Nobody's trying to poison anyone with these vaccines.

And put the guy responsible for it on the Supreme Court

Colourful mural of bird, flower, and butterfly

Mural (detail) in Little India, Vancouver

Yup

Synthesis of the manifold of intuition to the unity of the object? Wtf, man, I got a dank meme to post….

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

Forget class consciousness, I’d settle for the transcendental unity of apperception at this point….