This is basically harassment of scholars willing to question the Trump administration’s targeting of Chinese colleagues. Innes already had the FBI investigate his lab and was given the all clear. Now USDA is shutting down the Lab, which focuses on making fungus-resistant plants.
Don Moynihan
"These are the predictable results of a system that has been steadily underfunded and reorganized around market logic rather than public purpose. When the people who educate and support students lack stability and voice, students feel the consequences directly."
Oh my god, yes!
Honestly, Slaughter might be worth it if the Court nips this creeping idea that UET authorizes presidential prerogative rule in the bud. To be clear, I'm not expecting the Court to do anything helpful--just some wishful thinking.
There is a world where this kind of issue--i.e., resisting public subsidization of tech monopolies--transforms our politics, and we're not very far from realizing it.
Super excited to see this in print!
Those who stay will be champions.
not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers
www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...
www.stephenbainbridge.com
Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system
Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr
Move comes after Roger Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs
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🎓Be free & accessible
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In the fourth Article, Daniel E. Walters uncovers how agencies are accumulating unchecked powers to advance controversial policy goals through strategic uses of information and communication—what he calls “communicative administration.”
Ann M. Lipton
A very interesting and important new piece from Dave Pozen and Daniel Hemel! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Our new thing with college kids is to give them -- as part of any assignment -- exactly how Claude and Chat GPT do the assignment, with a a rubric that says "if you aren't better than this you fail." 10 mini-mester kids dropped the class day 1. Good. Frauds. -OS
