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Watching (needed) energy, collaboration & collective effort about NIH indirect costs by institutions/societies & the difference in energy & collective efforts around rollback of DEI took me back to impetus to write "Make equity essential to expedite change in academia"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Make equity essential to expedite change in academia - Nature Microbiology
In response to COVID-19, universities and other education providers pivoted rapidly from in-class learning to digital course instruction. Student tuition was deemed essential, thus swift change ensued...
www.nature.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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On behalf of their members, the AFL-CIO labor union sues the US Treasury Department and it's Director, Scott Bessent for unlawfully providing their membership's personal information to Elon Musk.

#labor #laborunion #unions #privacy #informationsecurity

news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/t...?
Treasury, Bessent Sued Over Giving Access to Musk’s DOGE (2)
The Treasury Department was accused of breaking federal law by giving Elon Musk’s team of government efficiency enforcers access to a trove of personal and financial information — setting up a legal s...
news.bloomberglaw.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪

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drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
January 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM