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petersuber

Update. "#NIH freezes funds to #Harvard and four other universities, but can’t tell them."
science.org/content/article/ni
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"After freezing all grants to #Columbia University last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now stopping grant and contract payments to Harvard University and four other universities [#Brown, #Northwestern, #Cornell, #WeillCornell Medical School]…The move will both block new funding and halt payments to investigators currently working on NIH projects…The Department of Health and Human Services (#HHS)…instructed NIH staff not to provide any communication to these institutions or to Columbia about whether the funds are frozen or why, according to the email."

#Academia #DefendResearch #Funding #Trump #USPol #USPolitics
@academicchatter

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BakersRelay

#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #Cornel #Northwestern

Trump administration halts $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell, $790 million for Northwestern

apnews.com/article/trump-corne

AP News · Trump administration halts $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell, $790 million for NorthwesternMore than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell and around $790 million for Northwestern have been frozen as the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at both universities. That's according to the White House. It’s part of a broader push to use government funding to get major academic institutions to comply with President Donald Trump’s political agenda. The White House late Tuesday confirmed the funding pauses to both schools, but offered no further details on what it entails, or what grants to the schools are being affected. The moves come as the Trump administration has increasingly begun using governmental grant funding as a spigot to try and influence campus policy.
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AnnaAnthro

#Trump White House freezes funds for #Cornell and #Northwestern universities in latest political shakedown

#highered

« Universities, despite rapidly escalating political, legal and financial risks, cannot afford to cede the space of public discourse and the free exchange of ideas,” the Cornell president Michael Kotlikoff wrote on 31 March.

On Tuesday, the Trump administrationfroze over $1bn in funding for Cornell. »

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · White House freezes funds for Cornell and Northwestern in latest crackdownBy Guardian staff reporter
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ @terrigarland

That building on the right is a massive mixed-use building with #Northwestern offices, a pharmacy, restaurants, and at least 3 separate residential “towers,” but none of those are remarkable facts.

What’s remarkable is the stunning architectural detail inside the lobby.

The most spectacular details are in the lobby of the East tower, closest to the lake.

The address is 680 N Lakeshore Drive, Chicago

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras

Got this email earlier and I’m still upset about it. Some unnamed “team from #Northwestern, #Stanford & #Cornell” fed our preprint through their “#AI" to generate "suggestions" on how we could improve it.

This feels like some really shit #HCI study that seems to think asking for consent is optional. And like one that wants to spin out into an even shittier start-up in the future (hence not giving any names of team members)?

@academicchatter @hci

Screenshot of an email, reads: Hi there, Congratulations on your recent preprint on arXiv, titled "Co-Designing a wiki-based community knowledge management system for personal science". We are grateful for your hard work and dedication to the field, and we value your contributions! We are part of a team from Northwestern University, Stanford University, and Cornell University, committed to providing research feedback to scholars with the assistance of advance AI models. We have followed your work closely and, upon a thorough examination, generate the suggestions below. These suggestions cover various aspects of your work, including the writing style, research design, and title. We hope they offer you fresh insights that may enhance the depth and impact of your research. To view detailed comments regarding your research, please visit this link: http://feedback.kellogg.northwestern.edu/redacted Once again, congratulations on your achievement. We are certain that your work will have an impact on the future of your field and will inspire fellow researchers worldwide. Should you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at redacted_address@outlook.com. Your insights would be invaluable in helping us better support the community's research development.
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John

Grad students signing up 1000 supporters in one day, voting yes within weeks

labornotes.org/2024/05/how-ten

Labor Notes · How Tens of Thousands of Grad Workers Are Organizing ThemselvesIt’s the biggest organizing wave the U.S. labor movement has seen in decades. Graduate workers are unionizing in huge numbers, winning drive after drive with 90 percent support or more. What’s more, the workers are in the driver’s seat of these campaigns, with little help from union staff. Most union organizing these days relies on a staff-heavy approach that’s tough to scale up. But the grad worker upsurge offers a sketch of a worker-led model that could help reverse labor’s decline.
#union#unions#UnionStrong
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