💼 Why do some CEOs earn way more than others? Henriksen, Poulsen & Avent-Holt find: – Elite network ties boost CEO pay – Weak boards enable pay premiums – Worker wages drop after CEO windfalls Status drives inequality—from the top down. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/... #SER @daventholt.bsky.social

Elite corporate networks and CEO compensation: the causes and consequences of CEO pay premiums

Abstract. CEO compensation has expanded dramatically over the past half-century, with network processes playing a pivotal role. We advance research on thes

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Funding awards are down in nearly every division, and total new awards approximate levels of new awards in the early 1990s. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades

The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

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The four-day, thirty-two-hour week: analysing organisational success and failure https://osf.io/5mvcq The four-day week signals a shift in how work is organised, but what determines whether that shift takes hold across workplaces? While there is considerable evidence that a four-day week #sociology

As a reminder here: this is not Trump's money! He is impounding funds illegally based on the most obvious fig leafs to settle grievances. It is an extraordinary abuse of his public office. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

Trump administration canceling National Endowment for the Humanities' grants www.npr.org/2025/04/10/n...

Where did U.S. humanities grants go? To projects from a baseball film to AI research

From AI research to historical preservation, programs funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities reach every corner of the U.S. Now the government has terminated those grants.

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"those who credit manufacturing jobs f/ a glorious past America mistake correlation f/ causation. . .In reality, their parents & grandparents had that life b/c of unions, pensions, high marginal tax rates & strong social policies" 🎯 @jessicacalarco.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs

Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.

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Universities’ current strategy—cower and capitulate—is failing spectacularly. They should go to court. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Wow! Three scholars at Columbia, Michigan, & Maryland just introduced a measure of the partisan leanings of employers in the U.S. The data is constructed by linking voter registrations to online worker profiles. VRscores capture the political affiliations of 21.8M workers across 2.6M employers.

“At a time when the world is down to a single drug that can reliably cure gonorrhea, the U.S. government has shuttered the country’s premier sexually transmitted diseases laboratory, leaving experts aghast and fearful about what lies ahead.” www.statnews.com/2025/04/05/c...

CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration

The Trump administration fired everyone in a CDC lab that is crucial to tracking drug-resistant gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases. "We are blind," an expert says.

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"I get my news from a broad variety of sources. I follow not only Elon Musk directly but also outlets that screenshot his posts without analysis."

I’m a Free-Thinking Centrist with Only Right-Wing Ideas

You’ve probably wondered about me, the independent thinker in your social network. I’m one part libertarian, one part populist, and one part common...

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The administration is hobbling the #NEH. State humanities councils are gutted. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/a...

Groups Are Told That Federal Humanities Grants Are Canceled

Letters informed grant recipients that funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities would be redirected to furthering “the president’s agenda.”

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This is politics by extortion. K-12 schools are being forced to choose between getting the federal funding they need and throwing their students under the bus. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/04/03/t...

The Tumblr meme factory has kicked into gear

If this is how universities reapond to a survey from the Chronicle of Higher Education… #highered www.chronicle.com/article/we-a...

We Asked Colleges How They Would React to Demands From Trump. They Wouldn’t Say.

The possibility became more real on Friday, when Columbia University agreed to make changes in response to a letter from the Trump administration.

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“Columbia’s concessions today strike at core principles of academic freedom and self-governance in the higher education sector,” says Kristen Shahverdian, PEN America's program director for Campus Free Speech. Full statement: pen.org/press-releas...

Columbia University’s Concessions Strike at Core Principles of Academic Freedom and Self-Governance - PEN America

Columbia University capitulates to federal government setting dangerous precedents striking at core academic freedoms

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“What is really happening here is an attack on the American faith in knowledge as a value and a public good that has served us well.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Opinion | The View Inside Trump’s Assault on Universities (Gift Article)

The Trump administration’s attacks on universities will lead to the permanent diminishment of vital American institutions.

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A lot of comments on the attempt to dismantle an academic department. Equally alarming is the demand to centralize power into the university president.

Jameel Jaffer@jameeljaffer.bsky.social · last yr.

I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”

"Why Welcoming the Nazis is Better for the People of France" by Marshal Philippe Petain.

Trump targeting the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/a...

Chair of National Endowment for the Humanities Leaves at Trump’s ‘Direction’

Shelly C. Lowe, a scholar of higher education and the first Native American to lead the agency, was appointed by former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.

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The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University, spurring the nation’s top spender on research and development to plan layoffs and cancel health projects

Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts

Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts.

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Information produced by the state is a public good. This administration seems dead set on destroying basically all public goods, from public health to education to weather forecasting. It’s breathtaking in its simplicity and its harm.

Andrew Koricich@drandrewk.bsky.social · last yr.

I’ve heard from an extremely reliable source that the entire National Center for Education Statistics is **gone**

Because the military is not a social institution I guess… 🧪

Science Magazine@science.org · last yr.

The U.S. Department of Defense is ending all of its funding for social science research, stopping 91 ongoing studies related to threats such as climate change, extremism, and disinformation. scim.ag/4hqu6HA

“It is the policy of NIH not to prioritize research activities that focuses gaining scientific knowledge on why individuals are hesitant to be vaccinated and/or explore ways to improve vaccine interest and commitment...Therefore, the award is terminated.”

NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake

The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.

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Pure scientific censorship. Welcome to the American Soviet Society …https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00703-1 @academicsky

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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School meals are more than just food—they're an investment in our future. My article for @newstatesman.com explains how a mission-oriented approach can tackle food insecurity while catalysing innovation across sectors for sustainable food systems and economic growth. Read more ➡️ buff.ly/igLY61e

A mission for a better country and economy

Universal school meals are not just good social policy. They can help shape dynamic markets that are green and inclusive

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Cutting the Department of Education to save money is like cutting your fingernails to lose weight.

The constant illegality is exhausting. And the extended nature of all this is going wear people down, as what was initially shocking becomes par for the course.

Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

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New escalation of direct censorship of fully vetted research that is well underway, at significant cost, & employing many highly-skilled people who will face immediate layoffs without warning When you stop a research project in the middle, you don't get half of the information. You may waste it all

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let's just be clear about this--Reagan was not in any way a good president. And without him, we wouldn't be in this whole mess right now. 🧵1/

Last December I did a podcast interview with @prospectmagazine.co.uk about "Super Election Year 2024," looking back and forward. You can listen to it here. 👇

Why the far right keeps winning | Cas Mudde on the Prospect Podcast

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