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wytham88.bsky.social
these are very cool, thank you!
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
oh that's a nice, clean look. thank you!
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
haha I started looking at it cos of you! but that's a good idea, thanks!
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by Wei Yang — Reposted by: Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

wytham88.bsky.social
experimenting with Typst recently. any recommendations for templates? cc @paulgp.com
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
If you're at Summer Institute and see a lightweight, dark green sweater lying around pls lmk!
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Reposted by: Wei Yang, Kelly R. Zamudio, Nancy K. Baym

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I appreciate the offers from other scientists to help Harvard (students, labs, etc) through this attack, but what would be most helpful is for you to use your position to contact your elected representatives and make it clear this fight isn't just Harvard, it will affect you, and their districts too
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by Dani Rodrik — Reposted by: Wei Yang, Michael Müller

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Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!
Tufts student detained by ICE in viral video is released, thanks supporters
Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk was released from ICE detention on Friday, offering brief words of thanks to supporters gathered outside the Louisiana facility.
www.nbcboston.com
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Reposted by: Wei Yang

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The #NIH will no longer allow researchers working on its grants have sub-awards in other countries, a common practice that allows US scientists to investigate questions that cannot be studied in this country. @mmolteni.bsky.social reports. www.statnews.com/2025/05/01/n...
NIH halts funding for new projects with foreign collaborators, citing national security concerns
NIH announced it will no longer allow subawards to foreign institutions, as part of a national security-minded overhaul to how it manages research funding
www.statnews.com
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Reposted by: Wei Yang, Erica Chenoweth

kyledcheney.bsky.social
NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all.

It follows intense pushback from courts across the country.

Details TK
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by Michael A. Clemens — Reposted by: Wei Yang, Ilan H. Meyer

judgeluttig.bsky.social
On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador
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Reposted by: Wei Yang, Liam Delaney

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"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

(April 8, 2025)
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Reposted by: Wei Yang, Éric Gilbert, Thomas Arnold , and 1 more

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If you are a university researcher NOT paid on soft money, and federal grant cancellations or disruptions are impacting your personal income (e.g., via summer salary losses or other direct-compensation disruptions), I would like to speak with you: [email protected] or Signal ibogost.47.
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Reposted by: Wei Yang, Bhaven N. Sampat

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Looks like the cat is out of the bag. Good post by @stuartbuck.bsky.social on indirect cost recovery citing new joint work with @sampat.bsky.social and @pierre-azoulay.bsky.social.

Find it here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g8792...
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Reposted by: Wei Yang

bitsyperlman.bsky.social
The building was built to have that level of telework. People built their lives around not having an office. This is a much bigger deal than "commuting sucks" (thought it does) and "figuring out childcare is hard" (thought it is). It's am I going to move my family for an uncertain job?
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Reposted by: Wei Yang, Ina Ganguli

hansilowang.bsky.social
JUST IN: The Census Bureau is ending its telework and remote-work agreements for unionized federal workers and requiring a full return to office for telework employees by April 21 and a return for remote employees within 60 days, according to emails shared with @npr.org
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
Such is the burden of being right about everything
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Reposted by: Wei Yang, Wendy D. Manning

hansilowang.bsky.social
NEW: The Census Bureau hasn't been recruiting and retaining enough interviewers for three key surveys, including the source of the monthly job report, and lacks a plan for building up a field representative staff, the bureau's internal watchdog, Commerce OIG, finds
www.oig.doc.gov/wp-content/O...
WHAT WE FOUND We found that the bureau does not have effective strategies to address staffing gaps and high vacancies in FR positions. Specifically, the bureau did not: • Meet its staffing goals for ACS, CPS, and NCVS. • Implement a process to track and assess vacancy information from the regions. Without a workforce plan, the bureau lacks a comprehensive strategy to ensure it has the necessary FR staff to help accomplish its mission of providing high-quality data. Unaddressed FR staffing gaps increase the risks of lower response rates on surveys and higher attrition of other field staff, who bear the burden of increased workloads. Developing and implementing a workforce plan for FRs will help the bureau address the issues we identify in this report.
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Reposted by: Wei Yang, Susan Butler

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if you've had an NIH grant terminated, I want to hear about it. Signal: katherinejwu.12
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
I love data visualization
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · Mar 6
Lmao I was joking about this but Sheinbaum literally did it today and it worked
A picture of Claudia Sheinbaum in front of a chart showing declining fentanyl seizures under Donald Trump.
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Reposted by: Wei Yang

josephpolitano.bsky.social
Lmao I was joking about this but Sheinbaum literally did it today and it worked
A picture of Claudia Sheinbaum in front of a chart showing declining fentanyl seizures under Donald Trump.
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Reposted by: Wei Yang

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worth seeing
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
Niche life advice: if you attend a dance class/social as part of a couple, don't stick together the whole time. Dancing with other ppl helps you learn faster, is more fun, and contributes to the public good of building a community
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
Heartbreaking
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Katherine J. Wu @katherinejwu.com · Feb 27
I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
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Reposted by: Wei Yang, Steven L. Salzberg, Joshua A. Salomon , and 4 more

katherinejwu.com
I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
chicken burger (sandwich! not combo!) from A&W costs $10 CAD
Surprised Pikachu GIF
ALT: Surprised Pikachu GIF
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
whoa
mclem.org
Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Feb 24
The world's top network of labor economists—@iza.org—will close permanently at the end of this year.

What a loss to research. Especially now when the rising waters of disinformation choke truth.

It is up to us, now, to begin the work to rebuild.

www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...
www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org
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by Michael A. Clemens — Reposted by: Wei Yang, Alex Imas

mclem.org
The world's top network of labor economists—@iza.org—will close permanently at the end of this year.

What a loss to research. Especially now when the rising waters of disinformation choke truth.

It is up to us, now, to begin the work to rebuild.

www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org/media/202502...
www.deutsche-post-stiftung.org
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
"The agency didn’t have to fire its experts but decided to in the interest of fairness, a top NSF official told staffers"

huh???
ndhapple.bsky.social
City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · Feb 20
“NSF fired about 10 percent of its staff at the end of Tuesday, removing 168 people who included most of the agency’s probationary employees and all of its experts, a class of contract workers who are specialists in niche scientific fields.” — www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
‘Cowardliness at the top’: Science agency staff revolt over cuts
At an emotional meeting, foundation officials announced layoffs for about 10 percent of their workforce and warned of more firings to come.
www.politico.com
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
"We didn’t know that studying Gila monster venom would lead to the invention of GLP-1...horseshoe crab blood would prove crucial to vaccine development, or...bacteria in geysers would lead to the development of PCR...on which much of modern molecular biology...rests."
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Deena Mousa @deenamousa.com · Feb 20
Skepticism of government-funded scientific research is making the rounds again. In @asteriskmag.bsky.social, @lgilbert.co‬ and I write about why “weird” research pays off, and how the government is particularly well-positioned— better than the private sector—to fund it. 🧵
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by Wei Yang

wytham88.bsky.social
I watched the Kim's Convenience play and enjoyed it very much, but it also made me mourn what the TV show could've been

opposabletham.substack.com/p/kims-conve...
Kim's Convenience (the play)
The play laid bare what the sitcom could have been
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