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Wei Yang Tham
@wytham88.bsky.social
Economics of science and innovation University of Toronto weiyangtham.com
If you're at Summer Institute and see a lightweight, dark green sweater lying around pls lmk!
I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too
The #NIH will no longer allow researchers working on its grants have sub-awards in other countries, a common practice that allows US scientists to investigate questions that cannot be studied in this country. @mmolteni.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...
NIH halts funding for new projects with foreign collaborators, citing national security concerns
NIH announced it will no longer allow subawards to foreign institutions, as part of a national security-minded overhaul to how it manages research funding
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NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all. It follows intense pushback from courts across the country. Details TK
I just contacted all of my representatives in the US Congress. I demanded immediate and drastic action to defend our Constitutional order. If you are American, please stop what you are doing and take 15 minutes to do the same. ▸ www.senate.gov/senators/sen... ▸ www.house.gov/representati...
Judge Luttig@judgeluttig.bsky.social · last yr.On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong (April 8, 2025)
If you are a university researcher NOT paid on soft money, and federal grant cancellations or disruptions are impacting your personal income (e.g., via summer salary losses or other direct-compensation disruptions), I would like to speak with you: ibogost@theatlantic.com or Signal ibogost.47.
Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Good post by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on indirect cost recovery citing new joint work with @sampat.bsky.social and @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social. Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...
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Stuart Buck@stuartbuck.bsky.social · last yr.As someone who loves spending part of a weekend digging into indirect cost regulations, here's a new piece! goodscience.substack.com/p/federal-in...
The building was built to have that level of telework. People built their lives around not having an office. This is a much bigger deal than "commuting sucks" (thought it does) and "figuring out childcare is hard" (thought it is). It's am I going to move my family for an uncertain job?
JUST IN: The Census Bureau is ending its telework and remote-work agreements for unionized federal workers and requiring a full return to office for telework employees by April 21 and a return for remote employees within 60 days, according to emails shared with @npr.org
NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...
if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
Niche life advice: if you attend a dance class/social as part of a couple, don't stick together the whole time. Dancing with other ppl helps you learn faster, is more fun, and contributes to the public good of building a community
Heartbreaking
Katherine J. Wu@katherinejwu.com · last yr.I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
chicken burger (sandwich! not combo!) from A&W costs $10 CAD
Surprised Pikachu GIF
ALT: Surprised Pikachu GIF
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whoa
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · last yr.The world's top network of labor economists—@iza.org—will close permanently at the end of this year. What a loss to research. Especially now when the rising waters of disinformation choke truth. It is up to us, now, to begin the work to rebuild. www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...
"The agency didn’t have to fire its experts but decided to in the interest of fairness, a top NSF official told staffers" huh???
Nolan Hicks@ndhapple.bsky.social · last yr.“NSF fired about 10 percent of its staff at the end of Tuesday, removing 168 people who included most of the agency’s probationary employees and all of its experts, a class of contract workers who are specialists in niche scientific fields.” — www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
"We didn’t know that studying Gila monster venom would lead to the invention of GLP-1...horseshoe crab blood would prove crucial to vaccine development, or...bacteria in geysers would lead to the development of PCR...on which much of modern molecular biology...rests."
Deena Mousa@deenamousa.com · last yr.Skepticism of government-funded scientific research is making the rounds again. In @asteriskmag.bsky.social, @lgilbert.co and I write about why “weird” research pays off, and how the government is particularly well-positioned— better than the private sector—to fund it. 🧵 x.com/deenamousa/...
I watched the Kim's Convenience play and enjoyed it very much, but it also made me mourn what the TV show could've been opposabletham.substack.com/p/kims-conve...
Kim's Convenience (the play)
The play laid bare what the sitcom could have been
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Besides being practically stupid, this seems politically unpopular?
Peter Gleick@petergleick.bsky.social · last yr.Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
Living on the > 30th floor is mostly cool except when the fire alarm goes off and u have to take the stairs down
TIL Prince Edward Island is not a subset of Prince Edward County
How does econ work for PhD programs? Let’s say a student gets into a top program but is really wanting to go to a program they haven’t heard from yet. How might you navigate that? I know what to do for other disciplines, but not econ! #EconSky
on one hand, would be nice for the world to stop burning, but I'll take the tiny win of having our work covered in the news statnews.com/2025/02/12/t... @bitsyperlman.bsky.social
Trump policies spark fears of brain drain, threatening to undermine U.S. dominance in biomedicine
A torrent of Trump administration policies is alarming scientists who fear the current climate is weakening researchers’ resolve to stick with careers in academic science.
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Penn State also pausing new NIH submissions and pausing acceptance of new awards. #academicsky