At the same time, a proposal making its way through #Congress that would increase #taxes on #university #endowments could cost #Harvard an estimated $850 million a year.
The wider #academic community was shocked at Thursday’s move by the #Trump Admin. In a statement, Sally Kornbluth, president of the #MIT, called it a “grave moment.”
A tenure-track position in the functional ecology of lotic systems (CPJ-CNRS) is now available in my laboratory in Lyon, France.
#Science #Ecology #job #career #academic #tenure #professorship #lehna #LEHNA_lab #CNRS #UnivLyon1
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CPJ/CPJ-2025-019/Default.aspx?lang=EN
Are you overworking as an academic?
I recently inventoried everything I was committed to doing and asked myself the following questions:
It was surprising how many things I was doing for which the answer to this was ‘no’ 
@ChrisMayLA6 scary how big the drop in #academic #proficiency in #Dutch #school children is...from near the top in 2018 to near the bottom end in 2022.
And this is a continuation of a trend of the last decades, not just Covid, still leading to no change/rollback in #policy
Increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe now confirmed
The European Research Council (#ERC) decision to increase its support for leading researchers moving to Europe has today been formally adopted. On top of its standard grants, the ERC offers additional 'start-up' funding to help new grantees establish their laboratories or research team in Europe. This funding is now being doubled from up to €1 million to up to €2 million. This will apply already in the ERC Advanced Grant competition, which is due to open on 22 May 2025.
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We’re offering funding between 5,000 and 50,000 euros! Whether you're a #SME, #academic, #public sector entity, #nonprofit, #community, or an individual - we want your innovative ideas! 
You can enhance GNU Taler by:
Developing auxiliary tools,Improving user experience,Creating integrations into FOSS applications, orBoosting infrastructure components (like merchant backends), to name a few ideas...
New #academic standards in #Oklahoma call for the teaching of "discrepancies" in the #2020election results, continuing the spread of a false narrative years after it was first pushed by #Trump & his allies.
The standards were enacted last month after the #Republican-controlled #Legislature declined to block them.
#education #indoctrination #BigLie #law
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/14/nx-s1-5384282/oklahoma-education-standards-2020-election
How had I not seen this before??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx71U3u--qU. Pure #academic comedy gold!
And, in case you were wondering, watching this in my working hours is totally justified: I am preparing #OpenAccess session of my #OpenScience for #linguistics seminar. 
The crosscurrents are unlike any that the #university has faced in its modern history. For centuries, #Harvard has cherished its #independence, its swaggering pride & its record of #academic excellence. But #Trump has reveled in unleashing #chaos that many believe will be difficult to contain as long as he sees the #university as a target.
On Mon, the Trump admin intensified the clash & threatened to choke off #grant money to Harvard indefinitely.
**High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide**
“_Here we show how GHG emissions from consumption and investments attributable to the wealthiest population groups have disproportionately influenced present-day climate change._”
Schöngart, S., Nicholls, Z., Hoffmann, R. et al. High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02325-x.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Science #Academia #Academic @climatechange @science
My social media profiles mention that I'm a recovering academic. What do I mean by that, and why do I think it's important?
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/learning/2025/01/recovering-academic
#BryceTech 
2025
• While broadband smallsats 
have dominated the market since 2020, earth observation 
and remote sensing smallsats are steadily increasing 
• Recent years have shown market interest with new entrants consistently deploying smallsats
• 85+ #Academic operators launched smallsats 2015 – 2024
• 130% growth from 2023 to 2024 for small mass class due to increase in mass of #Starlink satellites.
• Smallsats non-U.S. launch share below 15%
https://brycetech.com/reports/report-documents/smallsats-2025
So late last month, Professor Salas-de la Cruz & Paul Boxer, a professor of psychology at Rutgers University-Newark, drafted a one-page “mutual defense compact.” It was a one-for-all, all-for-one statement of solidarity among #schools in the #BigTen athletic & #academic conference—18 large, predominantly #public #universities that together enroll ~600k students each year. “An infringement against one member university,” they wrote, “shall be considered an infringement against all.”
This makes me happy. It was such an obvious right thing to do.
Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy
Garre said no, because those #schools would still need to meet the state’s #academic #standards & could not focus their #curriculum on those subjects. As a #CharterSchool, St. Isidore would have to meet those standards, too, Garre has argued.
That said, many #religious educators have questions. Among them: Would #schools be able to give preference in #admissions to #students from the schools’ stated religious affiliation? Would they be allowed to continue hiring & firing employees based on #religion? Would #government #academic requirements take up so much of the school day that there’s not enough left for religious instruction?
No shit Sherlock.
Cutting federal #funding for #scientific #research could cause long-run #economic damage equivalent to a major #recession, acc/to a new study from American University.
In recent months, the #Trump admin has sought to cancel or freeze billions of dollars in #grants to scientists at #Columbia, #Harvard & other #universities, & has moved to sharply curtail funding for #academic #medical centers & other institutions.
#economy #science #innovation #idiocracy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/business/trump-science-funding-cuts-economy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=C9A3F6F9-433F-4B43-8BB2-441EB0C8107E
A #Harvard task force released a scathing account of the #university on Tues, finding that #antisemitism had infiltrated coursework, social life, the hiring of some faculty & the worldview of certain #academic programs.
A separate report on anti-#Arab, anti-#Muslim & anti-#Palestinian bias [#Islamophobia] on campus, also released on Tues, found widespread discomfort & alienation among those students as well….
So same-old-same-old white men are the best treated. Shocker.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/harvard-antisemitism-islamophobia-reports.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=3A3C8750-C2AF-42A3-A9EF-55F4E00A66E1
