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Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

It is time to approach science research wholly as a #political act. It is the only way to ensure progress in these hostile times.

Climate scientists have embraced this fact for decades. Here’s to #scientists moving from apathy to disruption of politics. Here’s to wielding fascination over fear.

Scientific institutions
— universities, societies, government — should have spoken out about medical misinformation long ago. But better now than never.

Look at the byline on the right. That's Trump's nominee for NIH director. Are we going to stand up against him? Will Stanford?

I was a resident playwright fellow there 1992-95

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NextGen Voices: 2025 and 2050, in haiku

We at @science.org gave young scientists this prompt: Write a pair of haiku. In the first, describe academia or your field in 2025; in the second, describe your predictions for 2050. Read a selection of the responses here:

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The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes.

The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds.

This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

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Got word that several NIH employees in a group working on cancer clinical trials got terminated via email this evening.

“The [cancer research] trials will literally not be able to function without us.”

Trump and Musk are killing cancer research. 🧪

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president