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Student Workers of Columbia @swcolumbia.bsky.social · 1d

"The unfortunate reality is that graduate workers have to defend ourselves not only from Trump, but also from administrators, who would rather cut education and research than reconsider executive bloat."

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 1d

“Many graduate student workers are concerned that university administrators will respond to the attacks on higher education by passing the hardship on to their workers.”

Our Right to Our Union: Graduate Student Workers Under Threat - Public Books

University leaders may make a show of opposing Trump when funding is under threat, but they will happily align themselves with him in confronting graduate student workers.

www.publicbooks.org

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 2d

Wow!!!

scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 7d

FAIR model for #IDC is in jeopardy: OMB may be moving forward with 15% rate with limited additional allowable DCs #RAdminSky www.acenet.edu/Documents/Le...

www.acenet.edu

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 7d

Who cares about merit review? Apparently.... #RAdminSky

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 7d

#RAdminSky priority fed funding if you sign the “compact”

Exclusive | White House Asks Colleges to Sign Sweeping Agreement to Get Funding Advantage

An initial round of nine schools, including Dartmouth, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania, are being asked to sign a wide-ranging “compact.”

www.wsj.com

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 8d

Shutdown good news: OMB can’t amend 2CFR200! #RAdminSky

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 8d

Debarment proceedings initiated #Harvard #RAdminSky

Health Department Moves to Block Harvard From Future Research Grants

www.nytimes.com

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 17d

Alert! H1B holders at academic centers should NOT leave the country until situation clarified. #RAdminSky #science

a stop sign that is red and white

ALT: a stop sign that is red and white

media.tenor.com

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 21d

Podcast #RAdminSky #cancer #science #medicine

The future of cancer research in the United States

How are these funding and staffing cuts affecting treatment?

the1a.org

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 21d

410 billion and counting: download the file from House website #fedcuts #savetheNSF #science #medicine #RAdminSky

Weeks Away from End of Fiscal Year, Trump is Blocking $410+ Billion in Funding Owed to Communities Nationwide

Since taking office, President Trump has trampled over our nation's laws and choked off critical investments that families, businesses, and local governments in every zip code in America are counting ...

democrats-appropriations.house.gov

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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 22d

Labor unions, faculty and students in the University of California education system sued President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday over the freezing of federal funds and other actions that they say aim to stifle academic freedom.

Trump administration sued over actions against University of California

Labor unions, faculty and students in the University of California education system sued President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday over the freezing of federal funds and other actions that they say aim to stifle academic freedom.

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 27d

Every MSI college losing their MSI status. #RAdminSky

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 27d

Wildly unconstitutional & illegal stuff happening every day. Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & well, 👇🤷‍♂️

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 28d

The Trump administration says it will withhold $350 million in grants to hundreds of colleges that serve large populations of minority students, calling the decades-old programs discriminatory.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 27d

So like just after we published this, the 4th Circuit held a hearing where a bunch of judges (including famously conservative ones) are just going out and out with "wtf is wrong with the supreme court, why are they doing this nonsense to us?")

www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28d

Another professor in Texas is fired, this time after a selectively edited video of a talk he gave was posted on X, with the bogus claim that he was inciting violence www.texastribune.org/2025/09/10/t...

Texas State fires professor accused of trying to incite political violence in video

Thomas Alter is the second professor in the state to be terminated for allegedly violating university policy after a video was posted on social media.

www.texastribune.org

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 29d

Incredible behavior

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29d

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 29d

Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral

Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 29d

What’s a passport card?

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The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 9

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 29d

That’s my alma mater lol

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scigeek69.bsky.social @scigeek69.bsky.social · 29d

Mississippi is not amused

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North Carolina Conference of the AAUP @ncaaup.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is what eager complicity sounds like, and what defenders of academic freedom must combat: "I think we've had a lot of success. We can't promise that we've cut every single thing. It is an effort that folks very much so undertook seriously," @aaup.org #highered
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