Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
Two Men Are Convicted in Plot to Kill Iranian Dissident Masih Alinejad in New York City
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/n...
Wu: "But for 395 years, come high water or hell - no matter who threatens to bring it - Boston has stood up for the people we love and the country we built. And weβre not stopping now."
Wu: "Boston is not a city that tolerates tyranny. We are the city that leads in the storm; that stands up under pressure, together; and finds strength in each other. We will defend the people we love with all that weβve got. I couldnβt ask for more in a family."
Wu: "God bless our City, God bless our people, and God save whoever messes with Boston."
When you have time, take a listen to my colleague in Gaza. This aired Sunday before the Israeli strikes resumed. A Palestinian Reporter Returns Home to Gaza City one.npr.org/i/1238987354...
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. Iβm a well funded investigator, and thereβs no choice. Science canβt function without the stability of NIH
From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University.
www.chronicle.com/article/were...
Trump is already in the process of illegally abolishing the Department of Education and Department of Labor so the useless Democratic strategists advising us to keep our powder dry on USAID should just go away forever. Either you fight for the principle and all the agencies, or none of them
βBeing afraid to stand up for foreign aid will let the worst impulses of isolationism win, and for the worst possible reasons and in the worst possible way with the most dire consequences for the beneficiaries of aid at home and abroad.β - from Paul
Musgrave.
musgrave.substack.com/p/you-can-de...
The Hamilton Project at @brookings.edu has published a daily federal outlay tracker, showing whether agencies & federal projects are being funded. Something that in the past would have been overkill & in the weeds, but in the current moment feels essential. www.hamiltonproject.org/data/trackin...
There is so much going on that this has slipped under the radar. Franceβs military retreat from Africa has taken place at astonishing speed. By the end of this year, the only French permanent military base in Africa will be in Djibouti
In @economist.com
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
ICYMI β¬@brookings.edu Foreign Policy scholars reflected on President Carter's foreign policy achievements as well as the challenges his administration faced on the world stage.
With: @marsin.bsky.social @asliaydintasbas.bsky.social Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jeffrey Feltman, @sharangrewal.bsky.social Steven Heydemann, Mara Karlin, Kemal KiriΕci, @suzannemaloney.bsky.social Itamar Rabinovich, Bruce Riedel, Angela Stent, @stelhami.bsky.social & me
The Assad regime falls. What happens now?
@brookings.edu experts weigh in.
Including>>
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
What to expect from Trump 2.0 on Iran policy:
Jackie Northam @npr.org
Dana Stroul @washinstitute.bsky.social
@suzannemaloney.bsky.social @brookingsinst.bsky.social
& me
www.npr.org/2024/11/26/n...
Vanda Felbab-Brown & Bill de Blasioβ© kick off Brookings Foreign Policy's #FentanylEpidemicForum, an important milestone in a multi-year @brookingsinst.bsky.socialβ© project that provides evidence-based, actionable policy recommendations on domestic & global drug policy
Even the day after, it was clear that Oct 7 was going to upend the Mid Eastβs tenuous state. What wasnβt clear was how. What weβre seeing in Syria is perhaps just the start of the ripple effects of Israelβs wars. Momentum has shiftedβbut weβre a long way from a definitive reset.
Iβve a long record of no drama in almost all things. But this right here is pretty close to the worst nomination ever. Nightmare pick.
The videos of Syrians returning to their home cities after displacement and exile, and the videos of Syrians reuniting with their families -- our region deserves this and so much more. β€οΈβπ©Ή
Anyone interested in Syria reporting and following of news updates, here is a helpful list to start with:
go.bsky.app/TpjA464
What does a ceasefire sound like? War, until it doesn't.
I'm reminded today of this recreation, based on British field recordings, of the last minute of World War I into the armistice www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwis...
And how suprised are they gonna be to discover they're running the department of 50% nuclear weapons, 15% environmental cleanup, 15% basic science, and then only 20% all the things people assume the DOE does
You know Donald Trump is going to love firing Marco Rubio. I can already imagine what that tweet is going to look like.
This change will not only decimate area studies programs in the US, its distributional impact will be to restrict the study of nonwestern cultures, histories, languages, and literatures to the wealthiest universities only. (Disclosure: I have benefitted from Title VI funding for SE Asia)
