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🧠 The recent attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in U.S. universities are part of a wider anti-gender, anti-science, and anti-democratic agenda that seeks to dismantle equality infrastructures.
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↪️ "DEI as Infrastructure--and Why We'll Miss It When It's Gone" by Jessica R. Gold (Northeastern), Laura K. Nelson (@lauraknelson.bsky.social), and Kathrin Zippel (@kzippel.bsky.social)
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....
Update: www.lauraknelson.com/publication/...
Wowza this issue is phenomenal. Three comments.
1. Protect the dolls.
2. Check out the special section on defending DEI - curated to include some of my favorite scholars on the topic (journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10....)
3. Their Spotify playlist includes Fugazi. FUGAZI.
So yea. Amazing issue.
Highly recommend this book.
(And I mean that. I've left copies in Little Free Libraries because I think everyone should read it.)
Screenshot of a page from the report. It begins: Grants by State The following table breaks down active, terminated, and new grants by state. “Lost funding” is the amount of money awarded to grants that was not paid out because of terminations. Percentages reflect the share of grants of that type in each state that have been terminated. So far, the total lost funding across all US states and DC is approximately $2,528,143,000...
We also have a detailed report of weekly changes to #NIH grants that we will start publishing regularly, thanks to the excellent work of Emma Mairson: grant-watch.us/docs/2025-04...
Screenshot of table showing number of grants and total value terminated by NSF directorate. STEM Education directorate is highlighted, with 417 terminations totaling 322 million dollars. CSV of table: Directorate,No. Terminated,Total Value Biological Sciences,46,"$27,960,075" Computer and Information Science and Engineering,85,"$44,630,113" Engineering,94,"$33,472,485" Geosciences,52,"$36,454,740" Mathematical and Physical Sciences,30,"$6,418,312" Office of the Director,7,"$4,859,738" STEM Education,417,"$322,680,063" "Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences",266,"$77,635,904" "Technology, Innovation and Partnerships",46,"$62,231,309"
UPDATE: We have data on >1000 terminated #NSF grants at grant-watch.us. Thanks to all who have been contributing data the past few days.
We've also added a "Reports" section with some analyses. For NSF, we see that the STEM education directorate has been absolutely pummeled.
#WarOnScience
I’ve said this again, and again, and again, and again. Science is a fragile ecosystem. This administration has forever damaged it. There is no going back. All that is left is making the crash landing as soft as possible.
This really surprised me. I keep hearing that higher education is completely alienated from and mistrusted by the public - especially elite schools
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This one is great, too. Very good news. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
There are loads more methods and substantive details in the paper. Check it out if you're inclined:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
On the methods: if you've ever done large-scale bibliometric analysis, you know how difficult (nearly impossible?) it is to do comparative analyses across disciplines *and* time. Alex Gates @complexgates.bsky.social did magic using methods from statistical physics to allow us to do this comparison.+
DEI is essential to actually carry out university missions to provide the best, most innovative teaching and research. When DEI programs are deliberately designed, as is the case with the ADVANCE program, those involved do not have to sacrifice their own productivity. Resources really do matter. +
The ADVANCE program thus created a spillover effect: by providing symbolic and actual resources to teams of administrators and faculty to change the structure of academic STEM-removing barriers faced by women faculty-they also created conditions for the faculty involved to do their own research. +
Figure 1. Author productivity relative to the year of ADVANCE award: average discipline-, year-, and career-normalized annual productivity relative to the year of ADVANCE award for (A) ADVANCE authors and (B) their matched authors. The graph shows an increase in publications rates for ADVANCE authors compared to their matched authors.
Contrary to grumbling that DEI programs are a distraction from the core mission of universities - that they're administrative "bloat", we find the opposite: research-active faculty who received an ADVANCE aware published *more* papers *in their core scientific area* compared to a matched sample.
As we were writing this paper the NSF ADVANCE program was "archived" (cancelled). A heavy moment for us mid-paper. The results are important - check it out:
ADVANCE is one of the (if not the) longest running NSF programs, and, unusually for the NSF, is a collaboration among multiple directorates.
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🏛️ Funding #EquityInitiatives = funding academic careers
New #Socius study by Drs. Gates, @lauraknelson.bsky.social, Grudt & @kzippel.bsky.social finds #NSF #ADVANCE awards help faculty doing #OrganizationalChange work maintain—or boost—#ResearchProductivity.
Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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Teresa Koloma-Beck
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This is good and welcome. I wish it included universities.
www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/podc...
interessant & wichtig. manches teile ich nicht ganz, zB die Idee eines 'wissenschaftlichen Chefberaters' in der Regierung. Aber die Betonung von Autonomie von Forschung (und Lehre, nicht alle sind MPG!) sowie von Diversität als 1 derer Qualitätsmerkmale: ja!
This is a great thread.
For those pointing out that his casinos went bankrupt: Yes, but he leveraged those bankruptcies for personal profit, which seems to be what he's trying to do to our country now.
He's running our country like one of his casinos, where the lights and the noise keep people from noticing the grime (and the crime) all around them, and where the free buffet and the chance at a big payoff are designed to make people forget that the house always wins.
#Wissenschaftsfreiheit
Wer dieses o 1 darauf basierendes Statement f d eigene Institution - @dfg.de @wissrat.bsky.social @maxweberstiftung.de @mpifg.bsky.social @daadworldwide.bsky.social @nnwiss.bsky.social @badw.de @bbaw.bsky.social @ruhr-uni-bochum.de zB - aufsetzen will, nur zu!
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Reviewing @jessicacalarco.bsky.social's "Holding it Together" for The British Journal of Sociology was a treat, but tough. It's a difficult book to do justice to in 2 journal pages. I hope it puts more of her books in people's hands and on their shelves. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
