Sonali Majumdar

The US Administration has mounted an unprecedented and unpopular attack on high skill immigration.

It’s working. The world’s best and brightest are starting to understand that the US government considers them an infection.

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Excited to co-author a chapter on #systemic reforms and #policy change for the #academic #research community in @sonali-m-19.bsky.social's book supporting #international #scientists!

The book will be out Oct 28. Pre-order it @ucpress.bsky.social w/ 30% discount code UCPSAVE30: bit.ly/4oj7DjN.

🙏 to @harmitmalik.bsky.social for sharing tips on mentoring and support international graduate students and postdocs (especially now) in my book 'Thriving As An International Scientist'.

Many international scientists have benefitted from his generosity of support when they most needed it.

Hope this book serves as a resource to support fellow international scientists... Thank you for sharing your meaningful insights and experience on mentoring international scientists.. Many of your advice is applicable to mentoring all scientists..

Thriving as an International Scientist by Sonali Majumdar - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

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Got the first hardcover of my book Thriving As An International Scientist (@ucpress.bsky.social, out Oct 28)! 🎉

What began as an awkward office pic request turned into a photoshoot by colleagues on Princeton's iconic Clio Hall with Morrison Hall (named after Toni Morrison) in the background.

such a pleasant and earnest vibe in these deeply cynical and dark times

Between this and the Huntington gene therapy news, the universe is healing.. Amid the general awfulness...Yay science!

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers.

Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.

tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

Sonali Majumdar, phD My non-linear career in healthcare, scientific research and academic administration is undeterred by restrictive systems

In a 3-year journey into 🌍 of publishing, I learned about writing in a new genre, promotions and media literacy and even building a website from scratch- sonalimajumdar.com

🙏 to early praise and encouragement from Fanta Aw, @itaiyanai.bsky.social , Keith Yamamoto & Leonard Cassuto 2/2.

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🎉 My first book, Thriving as an International Scientist (@ucpress.bsky.social), is out on Oct 28. Can’t wait to share with 🌍. This is the first career guidebook for international grad students, postdocs in the US and their mentors.

Consider pre-ordering (30% off on UC Press site (flyer)
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I said something last week that is more broadly applicable today:

Calling for empathy is not neutral or apolitical when only one group of people have been socialized and brutalized into having empathy.

This campaign keeps getting better every time I think they can't top their last video.. So creative..

Statement from Alan Garber about ruling affirming "core principles of American higher education."

Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard.

Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education."

And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories?

Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.

Game on.

Little T is growing up too fast.. I need to visit soon to meet his sister..

Brutal!
Glass houses, stones, and all

ran HUD for 4 years and confusing rent-stabilized and rent controlled?
I mean the bar is low in 2025, but still..

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

We are on a bullet train to the end of US science, and possibly the country as a whole, when political appointees are reviewing every scientific grant submitted to NIH to determine if The Regime finds the science acceptable.

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

Further consolidating control over federal research funding under Russell Vought and a cadre of apparatchiks.

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To have this paper appear the same day that RFK Jr is canceling all mRNA vaccine funding is further indication that irony is not dead, even though we might all be soon.

thought I was getting numb to the daily spate of moronic & devastating decisions but today, I am angry..

decades of RNA research got us to this point, where RNAs could be effective vaccines against retrovirus and even cancer therapies.. other parts of the world have to sustain the momentum

Scientists have their own yardsticks for signaling US will behind on overall scientific research eminence..

This is the one for me- giving up on mRNA vaccines and RNA-based therapies at this juncture will decelerate biomedical research advancements & biotech competitiveness.

DuPont has reached a landmark deal with New Jersey where the company will pay over $2 billion to remedy "forever chemical" contamination across the state.

International scientists are force multipliers we increase productivity, scientific advancements and economic output overall. Decrease in international enrollment in STEM programs also correlates to decrease in domestic enrollment. 3/3

..to highlight careers of international scientists amid a dated and restrictive immigration system, and the creativity and courage it takes to design dynamic careers nevertheless.

@mclem.org dispelled the zero sum notion that international scientists deprive U.S. citizens off opportunities..2/3

Served as a panelist at @nationalacademies.org Reimagining STEMM Grad Ed and postdoc yesterday to discuss 'What if International Students and Postdoctoral Scholars Stopped Coming to the United States?'

I drew from my book 'Thriving As An International Scientist' @ucpress.bsky.social .. 1/3

Presenting work-in-progress at the @nationalacademies.org this morning on the impacts of the US government’s policy program of international student exclusion