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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 7h

Heroes in the #WarOnEducation #AcademicSky

Reuters @reuters.com · 5d

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ

MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.

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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 7h

#AcademicSky #WarOnEducation

Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · Sep 10

Unless I'm missing something, three people were fired @tamu.bsky.social because a class syllabus expanded on this effusive description in the @tamu.bsky.social course catalog: "Literature for Children. Representative writers, genres, texts and movements." (See www.coursicle.com/tamu/courses...).

ENGL 360 - Literature for Children at Texas A&M University | Coursicle TAMU

ENGL 360 at Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station, Texas. Literature for Children. Credit 0 or 3. Representative writers, genres, texts and movements. Prerequisite: Junior or senior classification.

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Lilith Goddess of Rebellion @elo-cin.bsky.social · 2d

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 2d

5 million of them are about research

graph showing Timelapse of 4,949,864 posts linking to research items

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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 3d

Only negative controls amplified.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 3d

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Anne Simon 🧪🌱🐴🦠🍊🇨🇦🇺🇦 @annealiz1.bsky.social · 3d

Trump said layoffs were directed at Democratic priorities only. Conclusion is that Republicans care nothing about Americans dying of preventable diseases and stopping outbreaks before they become pandemics. Wow

www.rawstory.com/layoffs/

Horror as 'Friday night massacre' lays off entire DC office of disease experts

The Trump administration has carried out mass layoffs of federal public health officials that experts warn will leave the US dangerously unprepared to handle disease outbreaks.As reported by The New Y...

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Corey O'Neill @coreyoneill.bsky.social · 4d

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 4d

"Conversion therapy has been widely discredited by scientific studies and is viewed by many health professionals as being tantamount to torture. One such study ... found that LGBTQ people exposed to conversion therapy were twice as likely to have future episodes of suicide ideation."

Truthout @truthout.org · 7d

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Tuesday in a case that aims to undo several states’ bans on “conversion therapy” for youth, a dangerous pseudoscientific practice that purports to “convert” gay people to heterosexuality or make transgender people become cisgender.

Supreme Court Appears Poised to Strike Down State Bans on Conversion Therapy

Conversion therapy is a discredited anti-LBGTQ practice that many health experts say is akin to torture.

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 4d

"The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that 'the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens' is threatening 'the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.'”

Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices

U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.

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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 4d

The #WarOnScience is being perpetrated by the elites, not everyday Americans

Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 4d

Data: 62% of Americans disapprove of how RFKJ handles 💉 policy

Interpretation: 62% of Americans possess a survival instinct

New poll: Public confidence in CDC for vaccine advice tumbles

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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 4d

Bad Bunny (all Puerto Ricans, in fact!) is American, so make sure you ask yourself "Am I just being racist?" before speaking about the Superbowl.

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Martin A. Nuñez @martin-nunez.bsky.social · 5d

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 5d

Professional educators should decide what to teach, not politicians www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/t... #WarOnEducation #AcademicSky

Some Texas community colleges remove course materials amid broader push to limit gender identity discussions

At least two community colleges, Alvin and Blinn, are also considering what they can and can’t teach to high schoolers enrolled in their fast-growing dual credit courses.

www.texastribune.org

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Pritam Banerjee @pritam8683.bsky.social · 6d

My first post here 🙂

👩‍🔬💧 Can a few drops of water reveal hidden rice-field pests?
Our new bioRxiv preprint shows how low-cost eDNA can help farmers track native & invasive species efficiently—no long surveys needed.

🌾 Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#eDNA #Agroecology #PestMonitoring

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d

Hey US scientists, the NY Times wants to hear from you if you've had your funding cut. 🌊🧪

Has Your Scientific Work Been Cut? We Want to Hear.

www.nytimes.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 6d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 7d

#WarOnScience

Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 7d

Just zero shame, these people....

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA.
Neil Jacobs was found to have violated NOAA’s code of ethics after an investigation into an incident that centered on an altered hurricane forecast map in 2019. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

Senate Confirms ‘Sharpiegate’ Meteorologist to Lead NOAA

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 7d

Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 11d

UC’s Academic Council calls on the Office of the President & the UC Board of Regents to unequivocally reject governmental demands that compromise institutional autonomy and #academicfreedom.

This is the way.

#DefendHigherEd

Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 12d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 12d

#WarOnEducation

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12d

Weber State University in Utah was set to host a conference this week on "Navigating the Complexities of Censorship.”

Then, the conference got ... censored.

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www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah...

‘I was ordered to lie’: Weber State censorship event canceled, after organizers said school wanted to censor speakers

Weber State University's annual Unity Conference tried to tackle the subject of censorship. Organizers said they canceled when school officials said they would have to censor some of the speakers' mat...

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The Nature Conservancy @nature.org · 13d

We wrote a post about this desert… but it was a little dry. Ba dum tss. 🥁

Even in some of the driest deserts, rivers sustain life. Here's how The Nature Conservancy is working to protect some of the world’s most important rivers: https://nature.ly/4nPfhlo

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Ecological Society of America @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social · 13d

Looking to learn more about #eDNA? Join us Wednesday for this webinar on real-world applications and how and where the tech fits within broader environmental assessment and monitoring frameworks. #ednaesa/#edna" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://esa.org/career-development/professional-development-from-esa/#edna

a promotional image showing an AI-generated cloud of DNA double-helixes, with text describing the event superimposed. Click through for full information and to register.

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Matthew A. Barnes @drbarnes.org · 13d

#AcademicSky #WarOnEducation #WarOnScience

Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 13d

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

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NOAA @noaa.gov · 14d

The U.S. Government is closed & this account will not be updated.

NOAA.gov websites & social media necessary to protect lives & property WILL be maintained.

For critical weather info from NWS.noaa.gov, please visit
www.weather.gov

Learn more: www.commerce.gov/news/blog/

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