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Ina Ganguli

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Economist at UMass Amherst. Labor, science & innovation, gender, immigration. 🪷🌻 websites.umass.edu/iganguli

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Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · Apr 16

Recently talked with @ineteconomics.bsky.social about the mobility of scientists and why it matters for economic progress - and whether the U.S. will continue to be the magnet for scientific talent it has been in the past. 👩🏽‍🔬 🔬 🌎

One pattern we discussed -- Nobel Prize winners:

INET - Institute for New Economic Thinking @ineteconomics.bsky.social · Apr 9

When we block migration, we block innovation.
👉 youtu.be/F-2dKmw1-mM 👀
Ina Ganguli shows how scientific breakthroughs—from vaccines to AI—are built on global talent flows.

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · May 22

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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Erica Groshen @ericagroshen.bsky.social · May 22

Falling responses, budgets & staff are biting. #BLS will cut 350 #ProducerPriceIndex #inflation sub-indexes.
It'll be harder to gauge effects of #supplychain disruptions, #tariffs, #monetary, #fiscal & #regulatory #policy and more.

www.bls.gov/ppi/notices/...
#econsky #PPI @aaronsojourner.org

BLS to Discontinue Selected PPIs

www.bls.gov

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brendan o’connor (at COLM on Friday) @brenocon.bsky.social · May 17

tfidf cosine is a well precedented method for patent novelty measurement but not unproblematic
conference.nber.org/confer/2022/...
and paper @inaganguli.bsky.social et al 2024 www.nber.org/system/files...

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · May 7

Weird how "making America great again" consists of dismantling all America's soft power and also future source of hard power

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · May 7

Let’s Remember Why There’s a System of Federal Research Grants to Universities talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/lets-...

Let’s Remember Why There’s a System of Federal Research Grants to Universities

This is largely preaching to the choir. But it’s absent enough from...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · May 2

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year
NASA cut by 24%
NIH cut by 40%
EPA cut by 55%
NSF cut by 56%
Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts to US science

Huge reductions, if enacted, could have ‘catastrophic’ effects on US competitiveness and the scientific pipeline, critics say.

www.nature.com

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · May 2

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · May 2

Sorry, what now?!
www.statnews.com/2025/05/02/n...

Memoli’s email was sent to leaders of NIH institutes and centers Thursday in response to questions about whether clinical trials with foreign sites would be able to continue under the new policy. “I don’t know how to make this clearer. Subawards to foreign sites can’t continue,” Memoli wrote. “If a study has a foreign site, we need to start closing it down or finding a different way to fund it that can be tracked properly.”

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Mike Brown @plutokiller.com · May 2

I just got the official email from the NSF about the drastic cuts and I think the correct translation is "if you are a young researcher who still wants to do science strongly consider leaving the United States if you can." which, really, is not an ideal message to be sending.

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Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · Apr 30

NOT an email glitch!

Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · Apr 30

Yes, there is an @nber.org working paper on this! They also use the timing of submission and an email glitch though I think: www.nber.org/papers/w29153

Congestion on the Information Superhighway: Does Economics Have a Working Papers Problem?

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Apr 30

Just got mine.

Totally expected, but it still sucks.

Probably the most for all the work that so many of us put in on behalf of US taxpayers that is now wasted and will never come to fruition.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has undertaken a review of its award portfolio. Each award was carefully and individually reviewed, and the agency has determined that termination of certain awards is necessary because they are not in alignment with current NSF priorites.

Effective immediately, the following are terminated:

NSF Award Id

NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant to NSF Grant General Conditions (GC-1) term and condition entitled 'Termination and Enforcement,' on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities. This is the final agency decision and not subject to appeal.

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Jennifer Withrow @withrowjenny.bsky.social · Apr 29

I was devastated to learn about the unexpected passing of gifted historian and my former committee member Laura Lovett. Dr. Lovett was not only a renowned expert in women's history, but also an incredible mentor. I will miss her greatly. www.history.pitt.edu/news/memoriam

In Memoriam | Department of History | University of Pittsburgh

Laura L. Lovett (1963-2025) Our dear colleague Laura Lovett passed away unexpectedly on March 4, 2025. Laura joined Pitt’s History Department and its Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies Program in 20...

www.history.pitt.edu

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Apr 29

The administration is moving the rule. Official public (that's us!!) comment period is open.

Friends of BLS has resources making it super easy & efficient for you to:
1) submit evidence to the official record &
2) communicate to your federal reps
#econsky
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

Schedule Policy/Career Rule is a Threat to Federal Statistical Agencies. Take Action Today.
The Friends of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is very concerned about the potential impact on federal statistics of Schedule Policy/Career Rule, a proposed change to federal employment policy. This change, initially introduced at the end of the first Trump administration (then referred to as “Schedule F”) seeks to reclassify certain senior federal employees, making it easier to remove them from their positions. Doing this requires adoption of regulations (a “rule”) to govern its implementation. On April 23, 2025, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) opened a 30-day comment period on a rule to institute Schedule Policy/Career. OMB is accepting comments through May 23, 2025.

We urge all Friends of BLS to utilize the templates below and take action to help preserve the integrity and objectivity of the federal statistical system by:

Writing to your Representatives in Congress.

Submitting a comment on regulations.gov.

Policy Brief

Email Template

Comment Template

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · Apr 17

How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy.

Great insights from @inaganguli.bsky.social for @ineteconomics.bsky.social

www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives...

Where Science Moves Progress Follows

How global scientific mobility drives innovation—and what’s at stake when migration is restricted by war, politics, or policy.

www.ineteconomics.org

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Krystal Vasquez @kvasquez.bsky.social · Apr 17

I'm reporting on what's happening at NSF for @cenmag.bsky.social!

If you're a researcher who had an NSF grant that was previously approved for funding but is now in limbo because of what's happening at the agency, my signal is kvasquez.12.

Always open to discussing options for anonymity.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · Apr 17

Folding 27 NIH institutes and centers down into *8*, which is even worse than the rumored plan for 15, is catastrophic for American biomedical research. Completely insane.

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Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · Apr 16

Devastating.

Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · Apr 16

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Apr 16

Still thinking about this one.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Apr 10

Me trying to explain fascism to students: "A lot has to do with fear of supposedly stable gendered boundaries blurring, and how that maps onto racial and national hierarchies. But can I really say transphobia is the lodestone to fascism?"

Aleksandr Dugin: "Ukrainians are collective transgenders."

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Apr 16

Still thinking about this one.

Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Apr 10

"Ukrainians are ‘collective transgenders’ – Dugin
The country has bartered away its Russian identity for an “abstract and absurd alternative,” the political scientist has said
Ukrainians are ‘collective transgenders’ – Dugin
Alexandr Dugin. © Sputnik
Ukrainians have become “collective transgenders” in their desire to get closer to the West and cut ties with Moscow, Russian philosopher and political scientist Aleksandr Dugin has said."

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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · Apr 16

30% budget cut for NIH plus whittling into down to 8 institutes.

We are so screwed.

wapo.st/42gLz0Z

Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts

HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.

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Anne Fitzpatrick @annefitz13.bsky.social · Apr 16

Super exciting finding that they may have found signs of life 120 light years away www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/s...

…and then they end with the fact that if NASA funding is cut as proposed then this research agenda will be stopped

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Apr 16

This is how you do it.

The "Mutual Academic Defense Compact".

The moral imperative may be to fight...

but the strategic imperative is to not fight alone:

www.gazettenet.com/UMass-Amhers...

UMass faculty calls on land grant universities to join in fight against Trump administration; McGovern, AG also weigh in

AMHERST — Faculty at the University of Massachusetts are calling on Chancellor Javier Reyes and President Martin Meehan to form a compact with the 250 land grant and public universities across the cou...

www.gazettenet.com

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · Apr 16

🌾Flour from wheat that grew on demined Ukrainian fields was used to bake traditional Easter bread in the US.

This flour traveled across the globe to New York's iconic Ukrainian restaurant Veselka. There, UN diplomats, entrepreneurs, and community leaders gathered to bake Easter bread together. ⤵️

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Apr 16

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards

Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ina Ganguli @inaganguli.bsky.social · Apr 16

Most Nobel Prize winners did their prize-winning work in the US, but many came here from different countries -- similar pattern for participants in International Math Olympiad competitions:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Apr 16

Russia has been continuing its war against Ukrainian civilians. On Sunday, two ballistic missiles hit a central area of the city of Sumy, killing 34 and injuring over 100.

Read on to hear how you can directly help those affected.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/13/e...

Russian strikes on Ukrainian city of Sumy kill 35, in deadliest attack this year | CNN

Russian ballistic missiles ripped through the busy center of Ukraine’s northeastern city of Sumy on Sunday, officials said, killing at least 35 people and striking terror into residents who were out e...

www.cnn.com

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🕊 Sharon ~ NHDogLover ⚖️ 🗽 @nhdoglover.bsky.social · Apr 16

A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...

Leading Harvard scientist ordered to halt research in funding freeze - The Boston Globe

Researchers may have to kill macaques, a kind of primate used in a vaccine study, due to the order.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Megan Menchaca @meganmenchaca.bsky.social · Apr 16

"I will no longer be able to continue teaching."

Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked

A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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