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Every grant is different, so contact ISSR Grant Support early to hit your proposal development milestones!

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🧵More NEH grant news today. We have thoughts: 👇👇

1) Congratulations to the recipients! We won’t dimish your hard work or your projects. It’s become even more difficult to secure any kind of funding, let alone NEH funding. We wish you the best in your endeavors.

2) There are still a LOT of (1/4)

The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)

‘A never-ending nightmare’: Federal workers detail mental health toll of government downsizing Federal employees say in a new survey that they are experiencing high levels of anxiety, stress, sleep deprivation, anger outbursts and depression.

"The impacts of the uncertainty and administration’s cruelty have been brutal," wrote one respondent.

Another respondent: "The lack of mission has made me depressed. I show up every day not knowing the mission of the agency anymore."

We wish more non-feds understood the depth of this awfulness.

ISSR flyer promoting services in research design, data collection, and processing.

ISSR flyer promoting services in quantitative analysis

ISSR flyer promoting services in qualitative analysis and software platforms

Don't get stuck, call us!

ISSR offers free consultation on quantitative and qualitative methods and computing packages to faculty, staff and students at UMass. We are here to help you!

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We continue to stand with our #NSF #AFGE3403 colleagues. At #NEH, we understand the fear of retaliation all too well, as over two-thirds of us were terminated - but we also know that the #humanities and the #sciences are stronger and better when we stand together. #SaveNSF @savensf.bsky.social

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Graphic of a notification reminding folks that ISSR requires 6-8 weeks notice to assist with grant proposals.

Grant management is complicated. ISSR is here to help. Our staff provide grant support to all faculty and graduate students in SBS and HFA.

Get more information on our website: umass.edu/social-science-research/grant-support

ISSR workshop flyer promoting the last session on Text as Data in R.

Our final workshop for the summer session, Text as Data in R, is coming up soon. With the rapid explosion in availability of digitized text, social scientists are increasingly turning to computational tools for the analysis of text-as-data.

Get more info & enroll now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

This three-day (15-hour) in-person workshop (with lunch break) will introduce you to the basics of Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) using QGIS, a free and open-source software platform.

This week, get some experience with Geospatial Information Systems! Using the QGIS software, this participatory workshop will introduce methods and best practices for GIS.

Get additional information and sign up now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

ISSR workshop flyer promoting the Web Scraping in R workshop

Coming up this week! In Web Scraping in R workshop, participants will learn how to efficiently automate the process of collecting data from large numbers of websites and text files using R.

Get additional information and sign up now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

ISSR flyer promoting Introduction to NVivo 14 for Mac and WIndows workshop.

We are offering a second section of Introduction to NVivo 14 for Mac and Windows workshop from Wednesday to Friday next week. This workshop will get you up and running with coding and analyzing your qualitative data in NVivo 14.

Get more details and register now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Causal Inference with Graphical Models starts next week, from 10 am to 5 pm! This workshop introduces participants to causal graphical models, a powerful formalism developed within computer science and statistics.

Register for this workshop and secure your spot! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Upcoming summer methodology workshops hosted by ISSR

Enrollment is quickly filling up for our next offering of summer methodology workshops. Head over to our website for details and information on registering for upcoming methodology courses!
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ISSR summer methodology workshop ad for Getting Started with Social Network Analysis

Getting Started with Social Network Analysis starts up next week! This intensive beginners workshop covers all the necessary elements to get started with network analysis in your own research.

Get more information and register now to secure your spot! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

UMass Foundation Relations has updated their list of current and recurring limited submission funding opportunities for the entire year. Foundation Relations look forward to working with you as you consider your application plans!

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Enroll for one of our workshops happening next week! Introduction to NVivo and Critical Narrative Intervention and Research run from Monday to Wednesday. Introduction to R is a one-day workshop happening later in the week.

Get more information and register now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Action Center | COSSA A consortium of Social Science Associations works to communicate the importance of social & behavioral science research to policymakers. The powerful stories come from people who express how it is lik...

Contact your House and Senate representatives today and urge them to REJECT the President’s FY 2026 budget request for federal science funding which would see a 56% cut to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and +40% cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) & more:

cossa.org/action-cente...

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Flyer promoting ISSR summer methodology workshop on Qualitative Research: A Deep Dive into Data Analysis

There is still time to enroll for our next methodology workshop, Qualitative Research: A Deep Dive into Data Analysis, designed to cover the basics of qualitative data analysis, for attendees with a range of qualitative research experience.

Thursday & Friday, June 5-6
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
ILC N111

Register now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

ISSR flyer promoting summer workshop Getting Started with Bayesian Statistics

Next week | Getting Started with Bayesian Statistics
June 2-4, 9 am to 3:30 pm

This seminar is designed for researchers who'd like to have a better understanding of Bayesian statistics and need some help taking the first steps toward incorporating Bayesian statistics into their research practices.

Flyer promoting the upcoming summer methodology workshop offered by ISSR

Summer methodology workshops start in 1 week! Sign up for one (or more!) of our many workshops being offered this summer.

See our full listing of methodology workshops: www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series Presents: The Power of Numeric Evidence in Science Communication with Dr. Ellen Peters (University of Oregon) hosted by the Center for Research on Families

Tuesday, May 13
10-11 AM
CHC Events Hall East

Register now! forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

UMassGives 2025: Support what you love this April 29-30!

Want to help turn as little as $5 into $264,000 for social science research and teaching? 🪄 For #UMassGives 2025, 15 donations to the SBS Faculty Excellence Fund will unlock a $264,000 challenge gift from Peggy & Bob Cole '59! umass.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-... #umass #UMassGives2025

Mellon Foundation Announces $15 Million for Humanities Councils The emergency funding came after the National Endowment for the Humanities canceled most existing grants, part of a pivot toward President Trump’s priorities.

Mellon to help offset the funding cuts to the NEH for state humanities councils: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/a...

The 50-Year War on Higher Education To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.

From Ronald Reagan to Ron DeSantis, half-truths and exaggerations have become entrenched in the popular view of higher education. Ellen Schrecker explains. chroni.cl/4jsEal8

Flyer for the Engaged Audiovisual Ethnography & Ecological Crisis, May 7-9. The public talk on Ecological Crisis and Autonomist Politics takes place May 7. The workshop, Engaged Audiovisual Ethnography: A Visual Anthropology Practicum takes places May 8-9.

Next week!
May 7: Ecological Crisis & Autonomist Politics, this talk is open to the public!

May 8-9: Engaged Audiovisual Ethnography: A Visual Anthropology Practicum, a two-day workshop exploring the practice & function of multi-media ethnography. Registration is required. forms.gle/77nXQBgGzUS5...

2 peregrine falcon chicks sitting in the nest box with their heads poking up.

FALCON UPDATE: 2 CHICKS!!! 🐣🐣🥳🥳🥳
Chick #2 appears to have hatched sometime last night or early this morning. #NESTFLIX

Flyer promoting "Does Representation Matter? Assessing how Representative Bureaucracy Shapes the Relationship Between Automation and Responsiveness to Public Service Requests" with Gregory Porumbescu

Join us on Monday, April 28, for this talk by Gregory Porumbescu, "Does Representation Matter? Assessing how Representative Bureaucracy Shapes the Relationship Between Automation and Responsiveness to Public Service Requests"

Get more information here & register today! www.umass.edu/social-scien...