UMass ISSR
@umassissr.bsky.social
Institute for Social Science Research at UMass Amherst. Interdisciplinary hub for new ideas, research design, methods training/consultation, and grant support.
Learn more: https://www.umass.edu/social-science-research/
Learn more: https://www.umass.edu/social-science-research/
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UMass ISSR
@umassissr.bsky.social
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Every grant is different, so contact ISSR Grant Support early to hit your proposal development milestones!
Contact our ISSR Grant Support staff for more information: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Contact our ISSR Grant Support staff for more information: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Thank you to everyone who attended our ABCs of the IRB session yesterday! That’s it on our programming this semester, but we’ll be back in the spring with new seminars and research/ grant funding workshops, as well as methodology training workshops!
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thank you to everyone who attended our ABCs of the IRB session yesterday! That’s it on our programming this semester, but we’ll be back in the spring with new seminars and research/ grant funding workshops, as well as methodology training workshops!
Timothy Black visited the UMass Amherst Center at Springfield campus last night to give a talk about his 30 year study tracking the life experiences of a network of Puerto Rican men and women. Thank you to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next event!
November 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Timothy Black visited the UMass Amherst Center at Springfield campus last night to give a talk about his 30 year study tracking the life experiences of a network of Puerto Rican men and women. Thank you to everyone who came out! We look forward to seeing you at our next event!
Join us this Thursday for our ABCs of the IRB event and learn the ins and outs of the IRB for researchers working with human subjects. This session will be useful for both graduate students and faculty.
RSVP now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...
RSVP now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...
November 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Join us this Thursday for our ABCs of the IRB event and learn the ins and outs of the IRB for researchers working with human subjects. This session will be useful for both graduate students and faculty.
RSVP now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...
RSVP now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Join us in Springfield tomorrow (Nov. 18) evening for this special talk by Timothy Black! Free and open to all!
Get additional details (including driving directions) and RSVP: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Get additional details (including driving directions) and RSVP: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
November 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Join us in Springfield tomorrow (Nov. 18) evening for this special talk by Timothy Black! Free and open to all!
Get additional details (including driving directions) and RSVP: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Get additional details (including driving directions) and RSVP: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
We wrapped up our last Funding (Friday on) Thursday session of the semester yesterday. Thank you for attending our sessions this semester!
We'll be back in the Spring for a new roster of sessions! Subscribe for email notifications on upcoming Funding Thursdays: subscribe.umass.edu/subscription...
We'll be back in the Spring for a new roster of sessions! Subscribe for email notifications on upcoming Funding Thursdays: subscribe.umass.edu/subscription...
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
We wrapped up our last Funding (Friday on) Thursday session of the semester yesterday. Thank you for attending our sessions this semester!
We'll be back in the Spring for a new roster of sessions! Subscribe for email notifications on upcoming Funding Thursdays: subscribe.umass.edu/subscription...
We'll be back in the Spring for a new roster of sessions! Subscribe for email notifications on upcoming Funding Thursdays: subscribe.umass.edu/subscription...
Thank you to everyone who came to our Open House last night and to the Commonwealth Restaurant for hosting us! Stay tuned for the next Open House.
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Thank you to everyone who came to our Open House last night and to the Commonwealth Restaurant for hosting us! Stay tuned for the next Open House.
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Join us in Springfield next Tuesday!
Join us for this free talk by Timothy Black (PhD, UMass Sociology) on his 30 year study tracking the life experiences of a network of Puerto Rican men and women in social conditions that have severely limited them. This talk is open to the public! www.umass.edu/social-scien...
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Join us in Springfield next Tuesday!
The last Funding Thursdays session of the semester meets tomorrow. Join us for a panel discussion on seeking grant and fellowship funding after tenure.
Get more information & RSVP now: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Get more information & RSVP now: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
November 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The last Funding Thursdays session of the semester meets tomorrow. Join us for a panel discussion on seeking grant and fellowship funding after tenure.
Get more information & RSVP now: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Get more information & RSVP now: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Kick off your research year with a visit to ISSR!
Come join us at the Commonwealth Restaurant for our Open House today from 4:30-6:30 pm!
Come join us at the Commonwealth Restaurant for our Open House today from 4:30-6:30 pm!
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Kick off your research year with a visit to ISSR!
Come join us at the Commonwealth Restaurant for our Open House today from 4:30-6:30 pm!
Come join us at the Commonwealth Restaurant for our Open House today from 4:30-6:30 pm!
Congratulations to Libby Sharrow (ISSR Director of Faculty Research) & Kelsey Shoub (ISSR Scholar 23-24), who've received a research grant that supports undergraduate research experience, with 7 SBS undergrads as research assistants for this project!
Read all about it: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Read all about it: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Shoub and Sharrow Receive Research Grant, Support Undergraduate Research Experience : College of Social & Behavioral Sciences : UMass Amherst
Kelsey Shoub, public policy, & Libby Sharrow, public policy & history, received a grant supporting their research on the effects of campus authority on students
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November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Congratulations to Libby Sharrow (ISSR Director of Faculty Research) & Kelsey Shoub (ISSR Scholar 23-24), who've received a research grant that supports undergraduate research experience, with 7 SBS undergrads as research assistants for this project!
Read all about it: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Read all about it: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
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“Transgender people are more than just a political issue, and we're in danger. We need all the help we can get from friends, neighbors, politicians, and school administrators.. trans people are increasingly discriminated against, excluded, and treated without respect or dignity…
Help us.”
Help us.”
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
“Transgender people are more than just a political issue, and we're in danger. We need all the help we can get from friends, neighbors, politicians, and school administrators.. trans people are increasingly discriminated against, excluded, and treated without respect or dignity…
Help us.”
Help us.”
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Higher Ed Feels “Cumulative Exhaustion” of Longest Shutdown
Worries about access to health care, food, research funding and tuition assistance are mounting on college campuses as the record-breaking government shutdown persists. https://bit.ly/4oS3iEk
Worries about access to health care, food, research funding and tuition assistance are mounting on college campuses as the record-breaking government shutdown persists. https://bit.ly/4oS3iEk
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Higher Ed Feels “Cumulative Exhaustion” of Longest Shutdown
Worries about access to health care, food, research funding and tuition assistance are mounting on college campuses as the record-breaking government shutdown persists. https://bit.ly/4oS3iEk
Worries about access to health care, food, research funding and tuition assistance are mounting on college campuses as the record-breaking government shutdown persists. https://bit.ly/4oS3iEk
Join us for our final Funding Thursday, 11/13! We will cover how to get grant & fellowship opportunities at/for mid-career. This session will feature two ISSR Scholar alumni in a panel discussion regarding their strategies for grants and fellowships after tenure.
RSVP: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
RSVP: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
November 4, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Join us for our final Funding Thursday, 11/13! We will cover how to get grant & fellowship opportunities at/for mid-career. This session will feature two ISSR Scholar alumni in a panel discussion regarding their strategies for grants and fellowships after tenure.
RSVP: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
RSVP: www.umass.edu/social-scien...
Join us for this free talk by Timothy Black (PhD, UMass Sociology) on his 30 year study tracking the life experiences of a network of Puerto Rican men and women in social conditions that have severely limited them. This talk is open to the public! www.umass.edu/social-scien...
October 31, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Join us for this free talk by Timothy Black (PhD, UMass Sociology) on his 30 year study tracking the life experiences of a network of Puerto Rican men and women in social conditions that have severely limited them. This talk is open to the public! www.umass.edu/social-scien...
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The next Community Talk event, sponsored by the Center for Justice, Law, and Societies, is coming up this Thursday, 10/30! 🏛️ Faculty will offer insights on current events related to federal law and politics. 4-5 pm in the ILC Comm Hub:
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The next Community Talk event, sponsored by the Center for Justice, Law, and Societies, is coming up this Thursday, 10/30! 🏛️ Faculty will offer insights on current events related to federal law and politics. 4-5 pm in the ILC Comm Hub:
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International students fill college classrooms, staff research labs, and enrich campus culture. They fuel U.S. college growth. What would it mean for a university if they are gone?
This Year’s Drop in International Students Portends Worse. Here’s What That Would Cost.
The stakes are high. But the extraordinary politicization of foreign students — and of higher education, in general — has made colleges reluctant to talk about the consequences.
chroni.cl
October 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
International students fill college classrooms, staff research labs, and enrich campus culture. They fuel U.S. college growth. What would it mean for a university if they are gone?
This is happening today! Come join us in person. Over lunch, we will walk through some of the most important things you need to successfully navigate the path for successful research funding.
Join us this Thursday (10/16) for our annual Faculty Grants Summit! This session designed to put you on solid ground for landing and managing your research funding at any level, and to share great ideas from the ISSR grants support team and your peers.
More info & register now: shorturl.at/H7oYr
More info & register now: shorturl.at/H7oYr
October 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This is happening today! Come join us in person. Over lunch, we will walk through some of the most important things you need to successfully navigate the path for successful research funding.
Exciting things are happening at @umassamherst.bsky.social where researchers have developed a vaccine that prevents cancer in mice. This is why we must continue funding the sciences! www.umass.edu/news/article...
UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst
The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.
www.umass.edu
October 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Exciting things are happening at @umassamherst.bsky.social where researchers have developed a vaccine that prevents cancer in mice. This is why we must continue funding the sciences! www.umass.edu/news/article...
Join us this Thursday (10/16) for our annual Faculty Grants Summit! This session designed to put you on solid ground for landing and managing your research funding at any level, and to share great ideas from the ISSR grants support team and your peers.
More info & register now: shorturl.at/H7oYr
More info & register now: shorturl.at/H7oYr
October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Join us this Thursday (10/16) for our annual Faculty Grants Summit! This session designed to put you on solid ground for landing and managing your research funding at any level, and to share great ideas from the ISSR grants support team and your peers.
More info & register now: shorturl.at/H7oYr
More info & register now: shorturl.at/H7oYr
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MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
orgchart.mit.edu
October 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
MIT rejects "compact" proposed by the Trump administration.
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
MIT prez wrote: it "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution" and "is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
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#academicsky @academicsky.org . Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom? | Psychology Today The answer is NO, not in America today....
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...
Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom?
Personal Perspective: Gender matters for teaching about families, workplaces, and even children's literature, but when social science is censored, where does that leave students?
www.psychologytoday.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#academicsky @academicsky.org . Do Feminist Scholars Still Have Academic Freedom? | Psychology Today The answer is NO, not in America today....
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gend...
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Still waiting for it to trickle down...
October 6, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Still waiting for it to trickle down...
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In honor of Banned Books Week (October 5-11, 2025), the Libraries are offering a workshop, "Book Bans & Your Rights to Read," on Friday, October 10, 11-12:30 p.m., Du Bois Library, Floor 19, Room 1920.
Link: libcal.library.umass.edu/event/15405321
Link: libcal.library.umass.edu/event/15405321
October 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In honor of Banned Books Week (October 5-11, 2025), the Libraries are offering a workshop, "Book Bans & Your Rights to Read," on Friday, October 10, 11-12:30 p.m., Du Bois Library, Floor 19, Room 1920.
Link: libcal.library.umass.edu/event/15405321
Link: libcal.library.umass.edu/event/15405321
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Chris Rufo did this and was platformed as a legitimate authority on universities by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Chris Rufo did this and was platformed as a legitimate authority on universities by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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What the Government Shutdown Could Mean for Higher Ed
Colleges and universities likely won’t face immediate issues, but research may be disrupted as grants pause. https://bit.ly/4nuRxmW
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Colleges and universities likely won’t face immediate issues, but research may be disrupted as grants pause. https://bit.ly/4nuRxmW
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
What the Government Shutdown Could Mean for Higher Ed
Colleges and universities likely won’t face immediate issues, but research may be disrupted as grants pause. https://bit.ly/4nuRxmW
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Colleges and universities likely won’t face immediate issues, but research may be disrupted as grants pause. https://bit.ly/4nuRxmW
#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky