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Valerie Tornini

@valetornini.bsky.social

Assistant Professor @ UCLA. Views my own.

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Científico Latino@cientificolatino.com · 2w ago

Representation is important because it inspires the next generation of scientists that they do belong in STEM. Our community leads with brilliance, integrity, and passion in the research and scientific outreach they have worked on to improve the science and society as a whole.

Tatiana M. Vera, Ph.D., PhD in Clinical, Counseling, and Applied Psychology at Columbia University Daniela Cossio, Ph.D., PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine Mariana Rocha, PhD, PhD in Neuroscience at Emory UniversityMelissa Ramirez, Ph.D., PhD in Organic Chemistry from UCLA
Valerie Tornini@valetornini.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Excited to work on these exciting and timely collaborative projects! So grateful to @kavlifoundation.org and @rescorp.org for funding support 🙏

Research Corporation for Science Advancement@rescorp.org · 3mo ago

15 researchers from the United States and Canada have won awards in the second year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.org.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 9mo ago

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

Willow Coyote-Maestas@willowcoyote.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.

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Jaweed Kaleem@jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 11mo ago

As of this week, every public university in California is under investigation from the Trump administration for alleged antisemitism www.latimes.com/california/s...

Cal State universities now target of antisemitism probe by Trump administration

The Trump administration has launched a systemwide investigation into allegations of antisemitism at California State University and has started issuing subpoenas for employees' contact information.

latimes.com

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽@needhibhalla.bsky.social · 11mo ago

“I will end my career writing dissent, that is my future. And you understand that you’re writing for a future society. That dissents are not about today. Dissents are writing for a future society that will take that dissent, that will be ready for that dissent, & enact it” @nhannahjones.bsky.social

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 11mo ago

The Trump administration has attacked diversity programs, historical discussions of slavery, civil rights and more as he pressures civic institutions to de-emphasize race. Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of The 1619 Project, discusses what led to this movement. nyti.ms/4msq3x8

A quote from Nikole Hannah-Jones, a domestic correspondent for The New York Times Magazine covering racial injustice and civil rights: "No court and no law has ever said that DEI – or diversity, equity, inclusion – or working on diversity is illegal. It is not illegal. It doesn't have to be. Right? Because all you have to have is the threat that your university will be harmed, your organization will be targeted, you may be sued."
Jaweed Kaleem@jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Trump wants UCLA to pay $1.2 billion to settle allegations it violated civil rights law. I took a look at the more than 7,300-word proposed UCLA settlement. Here's the detailed breakdown of Trump's plan to remake one of the nation's top public campuses: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image

The Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.

latimes.com

Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭@mayorwu.boston.gov · 12mo ago

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻@returnstosender.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it. It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities. Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.