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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 22

UN-backed experts declare famine in and around Gaza City

IPC says famine is ‘entirely man-made’ and immediate response is needed or avoidable deaths will soar * Israel-Gaza war – latest updates An “entirely man-made” famine is taking place in Gaza’s largest city and its surrounding area, UN-backed experts have declared, in an escalation in the devastated territory’s humanitarian crisis. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a globally recognised organisation that classifies the severity of food insecurity and malnutrition, found that three key thresholds for famine had been met. Continue reading...

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · Apr 2

Cory Booker just spoke for 25 hours straight about defending democracy. Here's why we’re not clapping.

— In 2019, he backed anti-BDS legislation
— In 2019, he told AIPAC: “If I forget thee, O Israel…”
— In 2021, he pushed normalization with Arab states—at Palestinians' expense

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sk1 @sk1.bsky.social · Apr 1

A good day to log off this website is when everyone is praising an unapologetic genocide guy

Cory Booker, proudly posing next to genocidal Zionist war criminal, Yoav Gallant. In the caption, Gallant praises Booker for supporting genocidal acts against Palestinians.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · Apr 1

Booker doing what the Neoliberal corporate Democrats do best: theater in place of actual material pushback or change.
Bookers stunt tonight is nothing more than a photo op and achieves nothing beyond political theater.
Like other corporate Democrats he is unwilling to do anything beyond theater

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cameronleroux.bsky.social @cameronleroux.bsky.social · Apr 1

Seriously reconsidering even submitting my recycled F31-Diversity application. Feels like begging for scraps from an agency that now overtly embraces heteropatriarchal white supremacy

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cameronleroux.bsky.social @cameronleroux.bsky.social · Apr 1

Yesterday NIH revised the NOFO for the Parent F31 Fellowship to remove words like "diverse" and "gender", and to delete a statement encouraging predominantly BIPOC institutions to apply for funding

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cameronleroux.bsky.social @cameronleroux.bsky.social · Mar 27

advocating for science right now also means protecting academics' right to free speech, demanding that our institutions keep ICE off our campuses, & talking as much about the PhD students and professors who have been abducted by plain clothes "officers" as we do about the corruption @ NIH

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · Mar 26

RUMEYSA OZTURK KIDNAPPING VIDEO

Here is a video of federal agents detaining Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk Tuesday night.

Rumeysa was abducted as she was heading to meet with friends to break her Ramadan fast.

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Rejji Kuruvilla @rkuruvi1.bsky.social · Mar 18

And study section is postponed a day before the meeting. After taking the time to review the applications. And a few of my applications were pulled earlier this week (after I reviewed them) because of diversity. It’s disheartening and awful.

Rejji Kuruvilla @rkuruvi1.bsky.social · Mar 16

Reviewing NIH student (F31) fellowships this week, and nothing serves to hit more about the impact of current draconian attacks, on our ability to train the next gen of scientists. The talent, perseverance, scientific curiosity, and entrepreneurship of the next generation are all at stake right now.

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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · Mar 18

I am livid that my student who submitted a diversity F31 and received an outstanding score, near the top of the fundable range, was told to submit again.

Refusing to fund F31s from URMs while funding regular F31s from white/privileged students with worse scores is blatant discrimination.

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CNN @cnn.com · Mar 18

BREAKING: Over 400 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in Israel's renewed strikes in Gaza, health ministry in the enclave says. cnn.it/3FwVrus

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cameronleroux.bsky.social @cameronleroux.bsky.social · Mar 18

‼️‼️‼️ NIH is blatantly discriminating against underrepresented young scientists (again)

Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · Mar 18

If this sounds familiar, that's because it is: For the second time in as many months, the NIH withdrew applications to a grant program for doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #PhDSky

NIH Again Tosses Grant Applications for Program That Funds Minority Researchers

The agency, for the second time this year, has withdrawn applications for the F31 diversity fellowship, which is designed to “promote diversity in health-related research.”

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Megan Zahneis @mzahneis.bsky.social · Mar 18

If this sounds familiar, that's because it is: For the second time in as many months, the NIH withdrew applications to a grant program for doctoral students from underrepresented backgrounds. #HigherEd #AcademicSky #PhDSky

NIH Again Tosses Grant Applications for Program That Funds Minority Researchers

The agency, for the second time this year, has withdrawn applications for the F31 diversity fellowship, which is designed to “promote diversity in health-related research.”

www.chronicle.com

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Björn Kafsack @kafsacklab.bsky.social · Mar 13

The NIH just pulled all the F31 Diversity fellowship applications from the study section I'm on ...

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Regina Joice Cordy @rejoicephd.bsky.social · Mar 14

I hate that I have to even type this post but the information must be shared: F31 diversity #nih grants are being removed again from study section (after being put back in for a period of time). Just to let yall know. My student was notified yesterday. @insidehighered.com @jeremymberg.bsky.social

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Jason Coupet @professajay.bsky.social · Mar 15

Yall ten years ago: why would a bunch of faculty ever need a union (sigh) we are not factory workers I hate unions blah blah deadweight loss blah blah

Today: the furher says the university has to fire anyone who says anything bad about him I hope I dont go to the camps for saying tariffs are bad

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cameronleroux.bsky.social @cameronleroux.bsky.social · Mar 14

i hope my refusal to put genuine effort into catering to arbitrary bigoted guidelines is apparent to the reviewers

cameronleroux.bsky.social @cameronleroux.bsky.social · Mar 14

changing "underrepresented students" to "students with underrecognized identities" in my biosketch because i'm petty & i wanna make the guy who has to ctrl+F grant proposals for DEI words' life harder

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · Mar 12

EPA is terminating more than two dozen protections against air and water pollution. It would overturn limits on soot from smokestacks that have been linked to respiratory problems in humans and premature deaths as well as restrictions on emissions of mercury, a neurotoxin.

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Lakota Watson 🍉 (she/they) @watsonlakota.bsky.social · Mar 13

F-31D applicants who submitted their grant proposals at the Dec 8th deadline have been removed from study sections, again, over the course of the last 48 hours. @altnih4science.bsky.social #NIH

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Mar 13

BREAKING

NEW YORK (AP) — Columbia University says it has expelled or suspended some students who took over a campus building during pro-Palestinian protests last spring, and had temporarily revoked the diplomas of some students who have since graduated.

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The Onion @theonion.com · Mar 11

From The Archives: Columbia University Gives Students Option To Finish Classes From Prison

Columbia University Gives Students Option To Finish Classes From Prison

NEW YORK—Emphasizing that it was their only option amid the rampant protests that had erupted on campus, Columbia University announced Monday that it had given students the option to finish classes fr...

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cameronleroux.bsky.social @cameronleroux.bsky.social · Mar 13

an insane thing i had to type out in an email about my NIH fellowship application today

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