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Poolpo @poolpo.bsky.social · 14d

Research at your fingertips. Easily find the right participants for your scientific studies with Poolpo. Find out how!

www.poolpo.it/project

Poolpo | Trova subito partecipanti per i tuoi studi accademici

Crea il tuo studio. Trova partecipanti affidabili. Monitora gli avanzamenti. Porta a termine la tua ricerca.

www.poolpo.it

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Maria Bigoni @mbigoni.bsky.social · 15d

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Poolpo @poolpo.bsky.social · 15d

Nice to meet you! I’m Poolpo, the platform that simplifies volunteer recruitment for your scientific studies, both online and in person.

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Maria Bigoni @mbigoni.bsky.social · Jul 30

Many thanks to Paolo Roberti for having given me the opportunity to take part in this workshop: it was amazing, I learnt a lot from all participants and had the opportunity to finally meet in person many colleagues whom so far, I only knew through their great papers.

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Roberto Weber @robertoweber.bsky.social · Apr 15

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 · Apr 15

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

Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · Apr 15

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · Mar 28

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 +

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Maria Bigoni @mbigoni.bsky.social · Apr 5

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.

www.politico.eu

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · Apr 4

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 · Apr 3

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

Map from handsoff2025.com showing over 1,000 protests against Trump & Musk taking place nationwide on 4/5.

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Miloš Fišar @milosfisar.bsky.social · Mar 19

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.

esa2025.econ.muni.cz

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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Mar 18

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/🧵

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Predatory Journals @predatoryjournals.org · Mar 16

"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

www.theguardian.com

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Prof. Bob Howarth @profbobhowarth.bsky.social · Mar 14

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.

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Lorenz Goette @lorenzgoette.bsky.social · Mar 17

This is extremely concerning.

Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social · Mar 17

Shared by the Yale chapter of AAUP

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · Mar 15

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...

Balkinization: A Title VI Demand Letter That Itself Violates Title VI (and the Constitution)

A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics

balkin.blogspot.com

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Mar 15

"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.

www.nytimes.com

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Maria Bigoni @mbigoni.bsky.social · Mar 15

The second are those who see the creation of a solid international State as the main purpose; they will direct popular forces toward this goal, and, having won national power, will use it first and foremost as an instrument for achieving international unity."

Maria Bigoni @mbigoni.bsky.social · Mar 15

... and who, although involuntarily, play into the hands of reactionary forces, letting the incandescent lava of popular passions set in the old moulds, and thus allowing old absurdities to arise once again. ...

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Maria Bigoni @mbigoni.bsky.social · Mar 15

...rather the division falls along the line, very new and substantial, that separates the party members into two groups. The first is made up of those who conceive the essential purpose and goal of struggle as the ancient one, that is, the conquest of national political power...

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Maria Bigoni @mbigoni.bsky.social · Mar 15

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; ...

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · Mar 6

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!

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Maria Bigoni @mbigoni.bsky.social · Mar 6

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...

www.lefigaro.fr

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

Your Contribution Squared

yourcontributionsquared.eu

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · Feb 28

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 · Feb 28

Couldn’t stay quiet on this one

www.advocate.com/politics/ruf...

Americans should be 'ashamed' at how Trump treats Zelenskyy and our allies, says Ambassador Rufus Gifford

Historically, we’ve been the good guys, Now the world is rooting against us, and that should be unacceptable to Americans.

www.advocate.com

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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · Feb 26

Democracy dies in deference

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Jeff Mosenkis @mosenkis.bsky.social · Feb 26

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.

www.npr.org

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Helena Janeczek @helenajaneczek.bsky.social · Feb 26

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"...

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