The stories behind the numbers: highly reviewed grants are being left unfunded, reducing America's medical research portfolio in the near-term and risking the loss of creative and capable researchers at all stages of careers.
Fiscal cliffs are coming if not already here.
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Has the left ruined the humanities? In a provocative report commissioned by two university chancellors, a group of scholars study that question and find “a deterioration in scholarly standards” in some fields.
First on @chronicle.com from me & @andyandy.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/has-...
NEW: They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding.
As the NIH bankrolls new research at a significantly slower-than-usual pace, I talked to scientists left in the lurch about the toll on their research and careers: www.chronicle.com/article/they...
Interesting write-up by @stephaniemlee.bsky.social in the Chronicle of Higher Ed @chronicle.com on the emerging research infrastructure in academia around the study of antisemitism, and some of the controversies and divisions around it
NEW: They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding.
As the NIH bankrolls new research at a significantly slower-than-usual pace, I talked to scientists left in the lurch about the toll on their research and careers: www.chronicle.com/article/they...
Tough times at The New School, which just handed layoff notices to about 15% of its employees to address a $48 million deficit — on top of a 7% workforce reduction via buyouts. It's also restructuring four colleges into two in a major reorg. #HigherEd #AcademicSky
www.chronicle.com/article/its-...
“We fell off the cliff,” said Mina Aganagic, a professor of math and physics at Berkeley. In order to avoid losing a large portion of her Calculus 1 classes, she says, “I had to teach basic algebra and fractions, which we never had to do before.”
www.chronicle.com/article/test...
@jackstripling.bsky.social interviews Dan Ariely about his years-long correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein www.chronicle.com/podcast/coll...
American Heart Association decries OMB proposal of federal financial grant oversight regs
“The Heart Association opposes efforts that undermine science or weaken independent, expert review"
newsroom.heart.org/news/strong-...
see www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
New Businessweek feature: A landmark case was unearthing new revelations about Amazon's intimate, intensive regulation of drivers it claims aren't its employees. Then Trump put Amazon's former lawyer in charge www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Based on 1000s of pages of records and 50+ interviews
NEW: They Got the Best NIH Scores of Their Careers. A Year Later, They Still Don’t Have Funding.
As the NIH bankrolls new research at a significantly slower-than-usual pace, I talked to scientists left in the lurch about the toll on their research and careers: www.chronicle.com/article/they...
The noted behavioral economist and Duke U. professor is facing a backlash over his years of interactions with the notorious sex offender.
www.chronicle.com
One of New York’s most prominent universities has handed layoff notices to about 15 percent of its employees, marking its latest measure to rectify a $48-million budget deficit.
A group of well-known scholars convened by two prominent campus leaders studied the question and found “a deterioration in scholarly standards” across several disciplines.
www.chronicle.com
WASHINGTON, D.C., June 2, 2026 — The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed a rule on federal financial assistance, which would dramatically change how federally funded research and other ...
What is going on in the field of antisemitism studies? I was interviewed by @stephaniemlee.bsky.social for this important piece along with several other colleagues.
How money, fear, and October 7th forged a contentious new area of study.
