Mike Kusiak
@skibidimckoozyak.bsky.social
Husband. Dad. 2d best, according to my son. CV School Board. The Justin Trudeau of Castro Valley, according to a lunch invite from a coworker. #BeKind 🐝
I love how German news media is talking about Hitler’s #Mikropenis the same time #SouthPark is talking about Trump’s #Tageschau
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I love how German news media is talking about Hitler’s #Mikropenis the same time #SouthPark is talking about Trump’s #Tageschau
When a white supremacist is the President, you end up prioritizing Afrikaners as “refugees.” public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf
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October 31, 2025 at 2:13 AM
When a white supremacist is the President, you end up prioritizing Afrikaners as “refugees.” public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-19752.pdf
Other than BBC News and PBS NewsHour, I don’t lean on cable news networks for news, information, and analysis. I was however struck by the @nytimes.com description of @newsnation.bsky.social as a “conservative news network.” I thought that they were aiming to be “centrist”?
July 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Other than BBC News and PBS NewsHour, I don’t lean on cable news networks for news, information, and analysis. I was however struck by the @nytimes.com description of @newsnation.bsky.social as a “conservative news network.” I thought that they were aiming to be “centrist”?
Once dubbed the Justin Trudeau of Castro Valley. This week? Accused of being worse than Donald Trump—during a school board meeting. Apparently I contain multitudes. #winning #range #welcometocastrovalley
two men in suits and ties are sitting in front of a fireplace with a flag that says navy
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May 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Once dubbed the Justin Trudeau of Castro Valley. This week? Accused of being worse than Donald Trump—during a school board meeting. Apparently I contain multitudes. #winning #range #welcometocastrovalley
Note to evangelical youth groups: Super creepy when you approach a 14-year-old in a Target on a Friday night about joining your club, talk to him about finding “fellowship.” My kid is too polite to tell you to leave him alone. He just wants his energy drink. Take the night off, go watch a movie.
a painting of jesus with the word no underneath him
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April 12, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Note to evangelical youth groups: Super creepy when you approach a 14-year-old in a Target on a Friday night about joining your club, talk to him about finding “fellowship.” My kid is too polite to tell you to leave him alone. He just wants his energy drink. Take the night off, go watch a movie.
The attack on research continues, reducing IDC to 15% for DOE. Of course, announced after hours on a Friday. Trump’s war on “woke” universities is unraveling decades of a successful partnership.
#IndirectCosts #IDCMatters #ResearchAdministration #SciencePolicy #DOE
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#IndirectCosts #IDCMatters #ResearchAdministration #SciencePolicy #DOE
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Energy Department cuts university overhead rates to 15% on research grants
Sudden move mirrors NIH cap on “indirect” costs that was ruled illegal
www.science.org
April 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
The attack on research continues, reducing IDC to 15% for DOE. Of course, announced after hours on a Friday. Trump’s war on “woke” universities is unraveling decades of a successful partnership.
#IndirectCosts #IDCMatters #ResearchAdministration #SciencePolicy #DOE
www.science.org/content/arti...
#IndirectCosts #IDCMatters #ResearchAdministration #SciencePolicy #DOE
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They need to hurry up and rescue these #Yellowjackets.
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March 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
They need to hurry up and rescue these #Yellowjackets.
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Worst. Episode. EVER.
February 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Worst. Episode. EVER.
Die AfD darf sich verpissen lassen.
And so can JD Vance and Trump for embracing a political movement that includes literal Nazis.
#NazisRaus #FCKAFD
And so can JD Vance and Trump for embracing a political movement that includes literal Nazis.
#NazisRaus #FCKAFD
February 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Die AfD darf sich verpissen lassen.
And so can JD Vance and Trump for embracing a political movement that includes literal Nazis.
#NazisRaus #FCKAFD
And so can JD Vance and Trump for embracing a political movement that includes literal Nazis.
#NazisRaus #FCKAFD
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If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
February 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.
What would Vannevar Bush do? Maybe we need an Endless Frontier 2.0.
#scipol #researchadministration #researchpolicy #SaveNIH #IDCMatters
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#scipol #researchadministration #researchpolicy #SaveNIH #IDCMatters
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A direct hit
Late last week, the Trump administration set off a frenzy in the US scientific community when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that indirect cost reimbursement for federally funded re...
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February 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
What would Vannevar Bush do? Maybe we need an Endless Frontier 2.0.
#scipol #researchadministration #researchpolicy #SaveNIH #IDCMatters
🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#scipol #researchadministration #researchpolicy #SaveNIH #IDCMatters
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Please #Denmark, buy #California!
After the past few weeks of Trump 2.0, we good use hella Hygge. We can enjoy your lovely dairy products.
But, I’m not learning Danish - I speak German and can be a Hjemmetyskere. 🐻🇩🇰 #hygge
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After the past few weeks of Trump 2.0, we good use hella Hygge. We can enjoy your lovely dairy products.
But, I’m not learning Danish - I speak German and can be a Hjemmetyskere. 🐻🇩🇰 #hygge
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Help Denmark Buy California – Because Why Not?
Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing ever
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February 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Please #Denmark, buy #California!
After the past few weeks of Trump 2.0, we good use hella Hygge. We can enjoy your lovely dairy products.
But, I’m not learning Danish - I speak German and can be a Hjemmetyskere. 🐻🇩🇰 #hygge
denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b...
After the past few weeks of Trump 2.0, we good use hella Hygge. We can enjoy your lovely dairy products.
But, I’m not learning Danish - I speak German and can be a Hjemmetyskere. 🐻🇩🇰 #hygge
denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b...
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Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
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NIH Updates
Good news: It appears that at least of the submitted F31 diversity supplements for which the study section had disappeared from eRA commons are reappearing with the original study section. Still uncertain future, but it's a step.
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Good news: It appears that at least of the submitted F31 diversity supplements for which the study section had disappeared from eRA commons are reappearing with the original study section. Still uncertain future, but it's a step.
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February 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
NIH Updates
Good news: It appears that at least of the submitted F31 diversity supplements for which the study section had disappeared from eRA commons are reappearing with the original study section. Still uncertain future, but it's a step.
1/2
Good news: It appears that at least of the submitted F31 diversity supplements for which the study section had disappeared from eRA commons are reappearing with the original study section. Still uncertain future, but it's a step.
1/2
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A federal judge in Massachusetts has just blocked Trump administration's move to cut NIH's funding of indirect costs
A hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 21 in case, which was brought by 22 states earlier today
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A hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 21 in case, which was brought by 22 states earlier today
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![A screenshot of text that reads in part: 'ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF STATES’ EX PARTE EMERGENCY MOTION FOR TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER ANGEL KELLEY, D.J. Plaintiff States’ Ex Parte Emergency Motion For Temporary Restraining Order [Dkt. 4] is GRANTED. Defendants and their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors are hereby enjoined from taking any steps to implement, apply, or enforce the Rate Change Notice (NOT-OD-25- 068) within Plaintiff States until further order is issued by this Court. Counsel for Defendants shall file a status report with the Court within 24 hours of the entry of this Order, and at biweekly intervals thereafter, confirming the regular disbursement and obligation of federal financial assistance funds and reporting all steps that NIH, HHS and their officers, employees, servants, agents, appointees, and successors have taken to comply with the Court’s temporary restraining order. Defendants’ opposition to the Motion is due by Friday, February](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uxvc5nwyutzf5gtu4x7jqyk3/bafkreib3p6spe427s4mlcv6f7lv6d3pbybuu2onntwd3ptnolalqtde3ku@jpeg)
February 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A federal judge in Massachusetts has just blocked Trump administration's move to cut NIH's funding of indirect costs
A hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 21 in case, which was brought by 22 states earlier today
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
A hearing is now scheduled for Feb. 21 in case, which was brought by 22 states earlier today
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates
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February 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
A Primer on Indirect Cost Rates
Another good indirect cost recovery resource #IDCMatters #SaveNIH
February 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Another good indirect cost recovery resource #IDCMatters #SaveNIH
Speak up higher education! The last few weeks of demurring while the Trump Administration has gone after the diversity of our communities has been disheartening.
From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...
Dear Fellow College Presidents: We Need to Do More Than Wait This One Out
Why civil society needs university leaders to speak up.
slate.com
February 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Speak up higher education! The last few weeks of demurring while the Trump Administration has gone after the diversity of our communities has been disheartening.
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Under fascism, no one is safe.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
February 8, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Under fascism, no one is safe.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc.
Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations.
Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.
❤️ this graphic from MIT about indirect costs. Conveys that a “high” rate doesn’t mean that a majority of a grant goes to IDC. At large research universities, it’s about 25-30% of total costs. I have to explain this to researchers all the time: web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/2...
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
February 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
❤️ this graphic from MIT about indirect costs. Conveys that a “high” rate doesn’t mean that a majority of a grant goes to IDC. At large research universities, it’s about 25-30% of total costs. I have to explain this to researchers all the time: web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/2...
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
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This was all foretold in #Project2025 (see page 355) because DEI bad, universities “too woke” static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
February 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
This was all foretold in #Project2025 (see page 355) because DEI bad, universities “too woke” static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
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For an administration that wants to deregulate, it would prudent that they would look to remove some of the administrative burdens imposed on grant recipients (see this graphic from the Council on Governmental Relations - COGR). Also this list: www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
February 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
For an administration that wants to deregulate, it would prudent that they would look to remove some of the administrative burdens imposed on grant recipients (see this graphic from the Council on Governmental Relations - COGR). Also this list: www.cogr.edu/sites/defaul...
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
#IDCMatters #SaveNIH
Visual from COGR (Council on Governmental Relations), tracking federal regulations + policies that impact how contacts & grants are managed. In my over 20 years in the #researchadministration biz, I can attest that the complexity of these requirements has grown tremendously #idcmatters #scipol
February 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Visual from COGR (Council on Governmental Relations), tracking federal regulations + policies that impact how contacts & grants are managed. In my over 20 years in the #researchadministration biz, I can attest that the complexity of these requirements has grown tremendously #idcmatters #scipol