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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country.

Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

Absolute Batman Annual #1 is awesome! The first story by @danielwarrenart.bsky.social is so cathartic. This was one of my favorite single issues I read all year. Check out @cbccpodcast.bsky.social recent episode for a great interview about this issue. #AbsoluteBatman #DC #DCComics #Comics #Comicsky

James Gunn’s American Project He is few critics’ idea of a respectable auteur, but his work is more consistently progressive than any other comic-book material today.

I wrote a piece on the work of writer and director James Gunn, who is engaged in a pretty incredible ongoing enterprise that despises bigotry and authoritarianism and reaffirms patriotism for progressives. www.vulture.com/article/jame...

Yes, Halloween is the deadliest day of the year for child pedestrians—great advice from @mcbazacophd.bsky.social

(It’s also our kid’s birthday)

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Dar Al Islam Jamaica is raising money to help their community during the Hurricane #Melissa

Please don't forget about the folks in Jamaica who must rebuild after the hurricane. Any amount helps; shares help too. This is a local organization.

@fairshare.help

This same person will write an article in November asking "Why aren't young people spending money?" as the economy dips.

A trade union to defend the rights of Tunisia's women farm labourers Tunisia has a strong trade union tradition compared with many countries in the Global South. The UGTT (Tunisian General Labour Union) is considered the most influential trade union in the Arab world. ...

TUNISIA: A trade union to defend the rights of Tunisia’s women farm labourers www.equaltimes.org/a-trade-unio...

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ.

We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights.

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There are many such stories in labor history. For instance, the US garment industry has long been primarily composed of newly arrived immigrants. In the early 20th century, the textile mills in Lawrence, MA employed people from over 50 diff backgrounds: Italian, Polish, Jewish, Syrian, Irish, etc.

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

So how did The Times, a pillar of quality British journalism since the 18th century, blow the story so badly? Part of the push came from the top. As the New York mayor’s race approaches, The Times of London has accelerated its push for more, and largely hostile, coverage of Mamdani. That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press, according two people with knowledge of the situation. Conklin did not edit the de Blasio article, a person familiar with the coverage said.

this story just keeps giving
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

"Dar Al Islam Jamaica is preparing to aid vulnerable communities as hurricane Melissa nears. Alhamdulillah we currently serve families through meal programs in Kingston, Negril. Donate to help provide emergency & hygiene kits, hot meals & food packages, relief for families in high-risk areas. info@daralislamjamaica.org"

This is an organization trusted by someone I trust who's providing on-the-ground aid to people in Negril and Kingston, two cities people will likely be sheltering in as they flee the direct path

Sanctions Lifted on a Putin-Backed Autocrat After Lobbying by Trump Allies

NEW: The Trump administration quietly lifted sanctions on Wednesday against the Putin-backed Serbian leader Milorad Dodik after an intensive campaign on his behalf by Trump allies including Rudy Giuliani, Mike Flynn, Laura Loomer & high-priced lobbyists.

Someone asked me the other day*:

How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed?

The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible.
The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research.
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Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official

Worthwhile read on the name changes scientists have made to get NIH grants funded in recent months.

www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...

I'm very excited to see this!

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I did not expect this post to resonate with so many people, but it makes sense considering how many people have been laid off or are going through layoffs rn. Gen X and Millennials were also taught to prioritize work and our careers, only to see homes become too expensive to buy and wages stagnate.

YouTube video by CBS New York Push on to rename NYC street in honor of Jack Kirby, one of the godfathers of comic books

Kirby!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfEI...

At this point I think it’s fair to say that most of the criticisms being lobbed at Mamdani are not out of genuine anger or surprise at any new revelations about him but are rather a transparently bad faith smear campaign to punish him for being a successful politician while Muslim

Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”

For those asking how to support, here’s how: www.greenbootsgardens.com/get-involved

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

The Covid-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic 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...

Work-from-home increases birth rates, but firms seem to hate it. So despite a pro-fertility coalition growing in US politics, no politicians openly supports work from home

www.nber.org/papers/w30569

via Mike Konczal

Screenshot of article title, authors, and Abstract Psychology and research assessment in the United Kingdom Matthew Inglis,Colin Foster,Hugues Lortie-Forgues,Victoria Simms & Elizabeth Stokoe Abstract What can we learn about psychology research in the UK, and its perceived quality, from examining manuscripts submitted to the psychology, psychiatry and neuroscience subpanel of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021)? Using a latent Dirichlet allocation topic modelling approach, we identified 33 topics which collectively summarised the content of the journal articles returned to the subpanel. We found that the composition of submissions to the subpanel, in terms of these topics, explained a large proportion of the variance in the quality assessments they received from the expert peer review subpanel. Our model identified topics which were typically associated with receiving higher and lower unit-level quality assessments. In our discussion we pay particular attention to the fate of qualitative research, and discuss possible accounts for why units who returned a large amount of qualitative work tended to receive lower quality assessments than those who did not.

For anyone interested in #psychology, #research assessment and evaluation, how the expert panel rated research submitted to #REF2021 - and especially the fate of #qualitative research - our article in Cogent Psychology is #OpenAccess (link in next post).

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Welcome to the new Dark Ages. In one self inflicted blow the US is giving up on knowledge generation, technical innovation and medical advances for a generation or more. This is Trump and Vought. This is their doing.