Adam Perzynski
@atperzynski.bsky.social
writer, professor, business owner; sociology, gerontology, medicine, research methods, population health
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'If this keeps up, it would be really devastating'
"Academic departments at US universities are planning to cut the size of graduate-student cohorts... Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students..amid uncertainty about federal science funding."
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Academic departments at US universities are planning to cut the size of graduate-student cohorts... Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students..amid uncertainty about federal science funding."
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
www.nature.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
'If this keeps up, it would be really devastating'
"Academic departments at US universities are planning to cut the size of graduate-student cohorts... Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students..amid uncertainty about federal science funding."
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"Academic departments at US universities are planning to cut the size of graduate-student cohorts... Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students..amid uncertainty about federal science funding."
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump officials take steps toward a radically different NSF
Efforts to shrink staff, budget, and focus have alarmed members of Congress
www.science.org
May 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants.
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."
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📣 Last call for applications! Deadline 30.04.25
DEADLINE APPROACHING! ⏰
CALL FOR EDITORS
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (LLCS) Journal
1. Associate Editor (Health & Population Sciences)
2. Associate Editor (Statistical Sciences & Methodology)
3. Study Profiles Editor
Deadline for applications: 30.04.25
www.slls.org.uk/pages/opport...
CALL FOR EDITORS
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (LLCS) Journal
1. Associate Editor (Health & Population Sciences)
2. Associate Editor (Statistical Sciences & Methodology)
3. Study Profiles Editor
Deadline for applications: 30.04.25
www.slls.org.uk/pages/opport...
April 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
📣 Last call for applications! Deadline 30.04.25
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Hamburg researchers scanned 44 Long COVID patients and found severe shrinkage in key brainstem-cerebellum bridges.
These structural breaks, called “Broken Bridge Syndrome,” may underlie fatigue, motor issues, and autonomic dysfunction.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
These structural breaks, called “Broken Bridge Syndrome,” may underlie fatigue, motor issues, and autonomic dysfunction.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brainstem Reduction and Deformation in the 4th Ventricle Cerebellar Peduncles in Long COVID Patients: Insights into Neuroinflammatory Sequelae and "Broken Bridge Syndrome"
Post-COVID Syndrome (PCS), also known as Long COVID, is characterized by persistent and often debilitating neurological sequelae, including fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, motor deficits, and autonomi...
www.medrxiv.org
April 8, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Hamburg researchers scanned 44 Long COVID patients and found severe shrinkage in key brainstem-cerebellum bridges.
These structural breaks, called “Broken Bridge Syndrome,” may underlie fatigue, motor issues, and autonomic dysfunction.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
These structural breaks, called “Broken Bridge Syndrome,” may underlie fatigue, motor issues, and autonomic dysfunction.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Coincidentally, the $45 billion to be spent on concentration camps happens to be the size of the NIH budget.
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention
A request for proposals for new detention facilities and other services would allow the government to expedite the contracting process and rapidly expand detention.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Coincidentally, the $45 billion to be spent on concentration camps happens to be the size of the NIH budget.
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Bumping this post for anyone who missed it yesterday and needs tigris this weekend!
Users of the tigris / tidycensus #rstats packages:
The Census website has been blocking requests from tigris (and curl) since yesterday.
(Don’t worry, the datasets are still there!)
I’ve patched tigris, install with `pak::pak("walkerke/tigris@ftp-patch")` and everything should work.
The Census website has been blocking requests from tigris (and curl) since yesterday.
(Don’t worry, the datasets are still there!)
I’ve patched tigris, install with `pak::pak("walkerke/tigris@ftp-patch")` and everything should work.
April 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Bumping this post for anyone who missed it yesterday and needs tigris this weekend!
This AI generated forest is really not keeping up with what real trees can do for me yet.
March 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This AI generated forest is really not keeping up with what real trees can do for me yet.
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The photo at the right is actually the more hopeful one, because it was taken after liberation.
March 27, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The photo at the right is actually the more hopeful one, because it was taken after liberation.
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US
Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US
Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los Angeles for a gig
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US
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Despite families of cancer victims pleading with Ohio lawmakers, Republicans at the Statehouse aren't interested in raising the tax on cigarettes to pay for a $1,000 child tax credit proposed by Gov. Mike DeWine.
Ohio Republican lawmakers reject proposed cigarette tax increase to pay for child tax credit • Ohio Capital Journal
Despite families of cancer victims pleading with Ohio lawmakers, Republicans at the Statehouse aren't interested in raising the tax on cigarettes to pay for a $1,000 child tax credit proposed by Gov.…
buff.ly
March 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Despite families of cancer victims pleading with Ohio lawmakers, Republicans at the Statehouse aren't interested in raising the tax on cigarettes to pay for a $1,000 child tax credit proposed by Gov. Mike DeWine.
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Former President of my current University. I’ve never felt so much fear in University spaces in my 25 year career. As an 80s kid, it feels at least a little bit like how I imagined people might feel (and behave) in Soviet Russia.
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
March 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Former President of my current University. I’ve never felt so much fear in University spaces in my 25 year career. As an 80s kid, it feels at least a little bit like how I imagined people might feel (and behave) in Soviet Russia.
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Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
March 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Share the media.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
The news is compromised.
We're starting to boil over.
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Take it from people inside #NIH:
If we don’t shut the government down now and instead accept this horrible Republican CR, NIH will be dead.
Forget the budget, the study sections, the councils: Trump and Musk will just cancel your grants as they did to Columbia. 🧪
If we don’t shut the government down now and instead accept this horrible Republican CR, NIH will be dead.
Forget the budget, the study sections, the councils: Trump and Musk will just cancel your grants as they did to Columbia. 🧪
March 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Take it from people inside #NIH:
If we don’t shut the government down now and instead accept this horrible Republican CR, NIH will be dead.
Forget the budget, the study sections, the councils: Trump and Musk will just cancel your grants as they did to Columbia. 🧪
If we don’t shut the government down now and instead accept this horrible Republican CR, NIH will be dead.
Forget the budget, the study sections, the councils: Trump and Musk will just cancel your grants as they did to Columbia. 🧪
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This is a lie. Social Security is even more efficient than the private sector. It's a political tool they're wielding to destroy Social Security. "Fraud, waste, and abuse has become the rallying cry for Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...
March 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This is a lie. Social Security is even more efficient than the private sector. It's a political tool they're wielding to destroy Social Security. "Fraud, waste, and abuse has become the rallying cry for Elon Musk’s dismantling of the federal government." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...
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This Wednesday at 12pm ET, I'll be giving a FREE 3-hour webinar on "Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in #rstats"
Learn a variety of strategies for working with spatial Census data in R along with brand-new packages like mapgl!
Register: umich.zoom.us/webina...
Learn a variety of strategies for working with spatial Census data in R along with brand-new packages like mapgl!
Register: umich.zoom.us/webina...
February 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This Wednesday at 12pm ET, I'll be giving a FREE 3-hour webinar on "Mapping and Spatial Analysis with US Census Data in #rstats"
Learn a variety of strategies for working with spatial Census data in R along with brand-new packages like mapgl!
Register: umich.zoom.us/webina...
Learn a variety of strategies for working with spatial Census data in R along with brand-new packages like mapgl!
Register: umich.zoom.us/webina...
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I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short.
www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...
www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...
Press Release | Press Office | SSA
2025 Press Releases
www.ssa.gov
February 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short.
www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...
www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...
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This is a war on science, an illegal attack on functioning government, and it is racism. Real students, current and future research professionals -- working on the pressing issues of the day, for government and society -- which any functioning modern democracy needs, having their careers cut off.
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February 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
This is a war on science, an illegal attack on functioning government, and it is racism. Real students, current and future research professionals -- working on the pressing issues of the day, for government and society -- which any functioning modern democracy needs, having their careers cut off.
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Looking forward to receiving your submissions! ⭐
Submission Deadline: 14 March 2025
Submission Deadline: 14 March 2025
📣SLLS 2025 CONFERENCE - CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!
Life Course Transitions and Patterns: Stronger Evidence for Better Policies
University of Fribourg, Switzerland / 8-10 September
We look forward to receiving your submissions! 😀
Submission Deadline: 14/03/25
www.sllsconference.com/callforabstr...
Life Course Transitions and Patterns: Stronger Evidence for Better Policies
University of Fribourg, Switzerland / 8-10 September
We look forward to receiving your submissions! 😀
Submission Deadline: 14/03/25
www.sllsconference.com/callforabstr...
February 17, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Looking forward to receiving your submissions! ⭐
Submission Deadline: 14 March 2025
Submission Deadline: 14 March 2025
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“The president has completely stopped funding for research that discovers cures for diseases that devastate families across the country, like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, all so he can give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations… crushing families’ hopes and dreams of having cures.”
NIH Research Grants Lag Behind Last Year’s by $1 Billion
After weeks of disruption to scientific federal grants, the National Institutes of Health has fallen behind in funding research into treatments for deadly diseases.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“The president has completely stopped funding for research that discovers cures for diseases that devastate families across the country, like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease, all so he can give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations… crushing families’ hopes and dreams of having cures.”
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98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule
February 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
98% of NIH grants that should have gone out this month, didn't. Despite court orders 'unfreezing' the funds, they are frozen. Biomedical research will grind to a halt. Clinical trials will end. All for no reason: the total impact on the US budget is miniscule
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The powerful thing about this website issue is that it is very easy for the judge to verify compliance.
That's very different for impoundment. The Trump admin can hold up payments and that's hard to check.
But websites? We can all tell if the website has been restored.
That's very different for impoundment. The Trump admin can hold up payments and that's hard to check.
But websites? We can all tell if the website has been restored.
Less than two hours until the deadline and all of these pages are still down:
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/public-healt...
Removal of pages from CDC website brings confusion, dismay
www.cidrap.umn.edu
February 12, 2025 at 5:00 AM
The powerful thing about this website issue is that it is very easy for the judge to verify compliance.
That's very different for impoundment. The Trump admin can hold up payments and that's hard to check.
But websites? We can all tell if the website has been restored.
That's very different for impoundment. The Trump admin can hold up payments and that's hard to check.
But websites? We can all tell if the website has been restored.
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JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
JUST IN:
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
This is the way.
The attorneys general for Iowa, Missouri & all other state, red or blue, that did not join the lawsuit filed by 22 AGs this morning to stop the chopping of NIH funds, need to join the suit *now*. Because a judge temporarily halted the cuts. Rally all to call state AG! Demand to join the lawsuit
February 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This is the way.
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Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social