Dr. Karen Kelsky@Professor Is In

The NSF grants suspended at UCLA total $179M, half of which was still outstanding: CAREER grants, a major math institute, and basic science research and training of all types.

More at grant-witness.us/posts/UCLA-n..., thanks to GW member Mally Shan, with grant-level details in our database.

We must see that our lives, our struggles and successes, are bound up in each other. What does collective action look like if you stop being optimistic your discipline's market will improve and instead think about academia as a whole?

The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy.

Struck by this being an "ominous sign for the economy" because "Earning a Ph.D. in economics has long been a reliable path to affluence and prestige. Not anymore."

Why was it a reliable path? Why weren't history jobs disappearing an ominous sign?

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What Leaving Academia Won’t Fix - Guest Post - The Professor Is In By:  M. Brielle Harbin, Ph.D. Brielle Harbin, PhD, is a tenured faculty member, an award-winning educator, and the founder of Your Cooperative Colleague LLC, a consulting practice that supports purpos...

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I’ve had a manuscript somewhere for the entire academic year. I *know* peer-review takes time but I am feeling really discouraged. I can’t get tenure on doing reviews. I know you’re overwhelmed. We all are. But please do some reviews. Please return them on time. #academicsky #academicchatter

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On the Fence About Academia? You're Not Alone - Guest Post - The Professor Is In Post 1 of 4 by M. Brielle Harbin, Ph.D. Brielle Harbin, PhD, is a tenured faculty member, an award-winning educator, and the founder of Your Cooperative Colleague LLC, a consulting practice that suppo...

Also from Dr. Brielle Harbin, a new guest post. "On the Fence About Academia? You’re Not Alone" "you probably feel conflicted. Not just about the future, but about what you owe the past. Leaving might feel disloyal. Staying might feel misaligned." theprofessorisin.com/2025/05/05/o... #AcademicSky

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Interestingly, the fact that 42% of Autistics identify as bisexual, gay, lesbian, or asexual seems to concern nearly no one. Nor does the finding that we’re more likely to be polyamorous and to build families that deviate from the nuclear norm. And neither set of trends usually gets considered alongside the broader observation that Autistics are also more morally and intellectually consistent than non-Autistic people. Research also shows that Autistics are more likely to be whistleblowers at companies that are behaving unethically, and that generally, we are more willing to sacrifice social acceptance in order to stand up for our beliefs.

Cannot even begin to adequately express how much Devon Price's writing on Autism resonates with me. Absolutely blown away every time I read his work. https://medium.com/@devonprice/im-pathologically-demand-avoidant-it-rules-a034a4e20da4

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YouTube video by NBC Chicago Gov. Pritzker blasts Republicans and ‘do-nothing Democrats' in fiery speech (FULL)

Everyone should listen to this by @govpritzker.illinois.gov

The Republican and Democratic senators who aren’t calling this despicable regime out are condoning it by their silence.

The MSM who are even now normalising a lot of what is happening are complicit.

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Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

Good read. Her name was Sophie Mousseau, and her story is worth remembering and contemplating.

Sorry, Roath.

Watch this and donate to Roach.

Primary all these fuckers.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

This word cloud tells the whole story. Fucking enraging/heartbreaking. #PhD #Academicsky #AcademicChatter

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Commentary: She was wrongly snagged by Trump's word police. Now her medical research is down the drain A UC San Francisco eye doctor mentioned "hesitancy" and "uptake" in her grant application. That cost her $3 million in funding for shingles vaccine research.

Don't read unless you want to be infuriated. The Trump regime is taking willful ignorance to new heights (depths?). I hope the UC system is considering ways to resist, even if it means tapping the sacrosanct endowment.

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Student Loan Overhaul Clears House Committee Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy.

House Republicans Advance Plan to Upend Student Loans

Democrats argued that the bill has nothing to do with lowering college costs or wasteful spending and everything to do with funding tax cuts for the wealthy. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/4jVnfYi

I know, same! This is the best motivation to polish up my French tho.

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Imagine hating Black people so much you don't want clean milk or healthy kids.

A headline from Hell.

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You’re welcome. “Je suis en homme blanc, mon avis est interessant” 😂 www.instagram.com/reel/DHtdfsd... #mansplaining #PhD #Academicsky