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If you work in, study at, or an alumnus of a U.S. university, it is a good time to contact your school's leadership to insist on taking a stand against government overreach.

Georg Weizsäcker@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · last yr.

Indeed a major opportunity to coordinate. Not many so salient ones will arise.

This is important. More than 700 Harvard faculty, with diverse views, have now signed a letter urging the university administration to "publicly condemn attacks on universities," "legally contest and refuse to comply with unlawful demands that threaten academic freedom" and +

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Europe to burned American scientists: We’ll take you in

The EU’s body for scientific research, as well as local, regional and national governments, are mobilizing to poach top U.S. scholars.

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Noteworthy that the protest organizers give info about the # of people who pledged to participate - in advance. It's a good way to communicate that there will be saftey in numbers.

50501 New York@50501newyork.bsky.social · last yr.

400,000 people have signed up for over 1,000 protests on April 5th. The people are rising. Find the protest closest to you: handsoff2025.com

Submissions for our 2025 ESA European Meeting are now open! Send your abstract by May 5 and join us in September in Brno @econmuni.bsky.social More info:👇 esa2025.econ.muni.cz #econtwitter #econsky

2025 European Meeting of the Economic Science Association in Brno, Czech Republic | 2025 ESA European Meeting

Join the European Meeting of the Economic Science Association 2025 at Masaryk University.

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There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

"Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say it. That’s why I resigned." Mathematics Professor Kit Yates quits as associate editor of the Royal Society’s journal Open Science www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates

It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates

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Just heard that Trump is putting an end to atmospheric monitoring site NY67 that is run out of my lab. This is one of the oldest NADP sites in the US, continually measuring acid rain and other pollutants since 1977. Closing it down is tragic.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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Manifesto di Ventotene, 1941. "The dividing line between progressive and reactionary parties no longer follows the formal line of greater or lesser democracy, or of more or less socialism to be instituted; ...

INRAE, my employer, a French public research centre, **officially** takes position in defense of Science in the USA and Stand Up for Science with a direct message from our CEO. INRAE also works to put in place positions for colleagues leaving the US. I am so very proud of this. Scientists Unite!

Can Europe become a safe haven for researchers, much as the United States once was for scholars fleeing totalitarian regimes in the 20th century? www.lefigaro.fr/marseille/fa...

Face au risque de «censure», l'université d'Aix-Marseille ouvre grand les bras aux chercheurs américains

Dans un communiqué, l’université d’Aix-Marseille lance un appel aux chercheurs américains qui craindraient des menaces, des entraves ou des censures de leurs recherches par l’administration Trump, not...

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Support for Ukraine at "Your contribution squared" is up and up ↗️: 100 people who each give at least 100€. The bang for the buck, ↗️ even more: only a single step (e.g., to 101) moves the total by more than 200€. An opportunity to be effective. Please pass it on. yourcontributionsquared.eu

ex-US Ambassador to Denmark “Americans are going to learn really quickly what it’s like to be politically isolated. We are burning bridges with our best friends. And let’s be clear: Russia and Saudi Arabia will never be our real friends. These are transactional relationships at best.”

Rufus Gifford@rufusgifford.bsky.social · last yr.

Couldn’t stay quiet on this one www.advocate.com/politics/ruf...

Democracy dies in deference

Why Dean Karlan, Chief Economist of USAID resigned yesterday: "I was ready to rebuild from wherever we ended up to identify the most effective programs, figure out how to get them back in place, and to recommend new awards. But I received no response. Zero engagement." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday

He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

npr.org

Today we published this page in @larepubblica.bsky.social and @mm-ilmanifesto-bot.bsky.social saying no to ethnic cleansing in Gaza and in the West Bank. Jews in Italy count only 30.000 community members, plus an imprecise number who "identify as"...

Humbled to be joining the great keynote lineup at ESA European Meeting. Huge thanks to @milosfisar.bsky.social and all the organizers. Excited to learn, share, and grow together—hope to see you there!

Miloš Fišar@milosfisar.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨Save the date: September 3 - 6, 2025 I'm happy to announce the 2025 European Meeting of Economic Science Association to be held at @econmuni.bsky.social in Brno🇨🇿 Keynote speakers: • Anna Dreber Almenberg • George Loewenstein • @mbigoni.bsky.social • Michal Bauer More info:👇 esa2025.econ.muni.cz

Submissions for the UNIBO Young economists workshop on social economy now open! Full info here: x.com/DSE_Unibo/st...

Grazie Nicola. Hai espresso benissimo quale sia l'urgenza ora, e io non posso che ripetere le tue parole: "Allontanarsi almeno un po’ da un approccio tecnicistico al sapere e all’interpretazione, chiuso dentro paradigmi e cauto nell’esporsi al di fuori...

Nicola Lacetera@nicolacetera.bsky.social · last yr.

Vale sempre la pena di pensare a qualcosa di nuovo e migliore. Senza questo desiderio, si rischia di non essere nemmeno capaci di considerare la possibilità del peggio, e di scorgerne i segni. www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

Jewish People Say No to Ethnic Cleansing (Yesterday’s New York Times) Our Director, Rabbi Nate DeGroot, was honored to sign this, alongside public figures and many other Jewish clergy, including many Shalom Center Board and Advisory Council members. Coverage from The Guardian and more info below

"Given the current political reality and the expansion of attacks on science, it is time for scientists to be more effective, forceful, and vociferous as their own political advocates," writes Augustine Fuentes (Princeton University) in this Science editorial. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists as political advocates

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

science.org

We are suddenly in a moment where it feels like simple idealism - in the sense of caring about others and not just about oneself - has never been rarer and more necessary at the same time.

TikTok boosted Republican messaging during the 2024 U.S. Presidential Race. Republican-seeded accounts received 11.8% more party-aligned recommendations. Democratic-seeded accounts were exposed to 7.5% more opposite-party recommendations. arxiv.org/pdf/2501.17831