on the shoulder of giants. #srcd2025 tribute to the one and only Dr Garcia Coll 🇵🇷

“The board of trustees must realize that this is no longer just about Columbia…we can either succumb to authoritarianism or stand up against it. Columbia’s decisions will impact not just our present community, but the entire nation and world for decades to come.”

Columbia faculty (700+ signatures!) urges our Trustees to do 6 things: 1. Stand up for higher ed 2. Fight back against federal attacks (sue!) 3. Protect our students 4. Preserve academic freedom & fac governance 5. Affirm tenants of DEI 6. Protect research & provide backup funding shorturl.at/6OLTJ

It appears that 2 things, Harvard’s strong stance resisting Trump’s demands & negative publicity toward Columbia’s potential agreement to similar demands, have resulted in the postponement of any announcement from Columbia re its capitulation to Trump. Let’s see how this goes.

Join us on Monday as we call on Columbia and the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump administration's assault on our students, research, teaching and patients! 📍Low Library Steps ⏰ 12:30pm Monday April 14

MONDAY in NYC: Stand with Columbia faculty, researchers, physicians, & nurses calling on the the Columbia Board of Trustees to resist Trump’s assault students, patients, lifesaving research, & teaching. @aaupcu.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @csmapnyu.org

Big news: I'm running my first marathon—the 2025 NYC Marathon! 🏃‍♀️ I'm proud to run for @AnimalLeague, who do real rescuing every day (hopefully no one has to rescue me at mile 20 😅). Support my run & help save lives: takeaction.animalleague.org/goto/Claudia... #TeamAnimalLeague

Scientists & faculty of the Columbia Irving Medical Center spoke out today on Trump’s ongoing assault on Columbia & all higher learning in America & how cuts in vital scientific research will harm the health of ALL Americans. Listen to Dr. Delivette Castor, Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology.

complacency = complicity

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

What happened last night at Columbia was nothing short of catastrophic. In the blink of an eye hundreds of grants disappeared. In a particularly vile showing of this administration’s complete contempt for the long-term health and well-being of this nation, training grants were completely gutted.

study is back up, only a few days left to participate!

reminder to please complete this ~5 minute survey about the impact of executive orders on academia. Will only be around for a couple of more days and we want to make sure your voice is captured.

I just completed this survey and it was so validating to write out my thoughts. I'll admit that I scrolled past the last time I saw the link so, if that happened to you, here's the link again below.

nerds are out, and we have our backpacks with us

Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s idea of efficiency is stopping research on curing cancer.

Please consider completed this ~5 min survey on the impact of executive orders on academics. In a time of such uncertainty, there is power in sharing our stories.

Imagine if university presidents instead of cowering, called up their faculty too speak in a round-the-clock marathon across the nation about how their research serves every American who has ever faced illness and disease.

I wish I would’ve gotten as many emails as I am just a couple of weeks ago (into last week) when DEI was the target of attacks rather than indirects. 🤔

This is a fantastic idea!

Quick reminder that if you have tenure, this is the time you need to use it. This is what it is for. This moment, right now. Sorry to have to inform you of this, but it's important.

Read @drnancypadilla.bsky.social's full interview: www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight... @storiesofwin.bsky.social #WomenInScience #February11 #neuroskyence

In honor of today’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science, The Transmitter spoke with eight women neuroscientists leading initiatives that strive to promote women in the field. www.thetransmitter.org/qa/how-eight... #WomenInScience #February11

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

Hero lawyers in state AG offices busted their asses over the weekend to get this done. Now do your part: call your Representative and Senators TODAY. Call your AG AND governor and voice your support for these lawsuits.

Get in Dorks, we are going protesting. STAND UP FOR SCIENCE. MARCH 7th 12-4pm. DC AND YOUR STATE CAPITALS. More information to come.

exactly my thoughts. institutions have been veeeery quiet, until ICs came under fire. guess DEI wasn’t actually central to our missions or whatever they told you in summer of 2020 🙃

Noting: still up on RePORT

If you are on a study section that will not be reviewing diversity fellowships but will be reviewing "regular" fellowships, your next move is clear. Do not participate in the review unless all submissions can be reviewed together. Reclassify diversity grants as "regular" grants & review them all

Amplifying this on the Science feed 🧪 If you care about science, follow below for details about a nationwide protest on March 7th!

New info about Sage journals censoring papers: 🧪 "They asked that the paper be revised...to replace any of "gender" with "sex" and to delete all mentions of words such as nonbinary, inclusivity, etc....the editor of the journal replied reiterating the request." 1/

My student's diversity F31 has been pulled from study section even though it's the SAME APPLICATION as regular F31s, normally reviewed together in the same panel. Throwing out all the applications from URMs while the ones from white/privileged students get to be reviewed is blatant discrimination.

Resist, persist, and take care of each other.

the horror begins

You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀

getting 2 talks accepted for @srcdorg.bsky.social = amazing. getting to do both with @drjennyzd.bsky.social = priceless 🤩🤩🤩

So thankful to @columbiauniversity.bsky.social for highlighting my research and career trajectory. This was a great chat about how I got here and where Im going next in my perinatal sleep work! @columbiapsych.bsky.social 🤰🧠👶🏾#sleep www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/materna...

I just learned about this important organization friendsofnimh.org which lobbies on behalf of NIMH #acnp2024

My recent work examining mental health disparities among sexual and gender minority students is out now in the Journal of American College Mental Health doi.org/10.1080/0744... This included N=483,574 students in the Healthy Minds Study (2007-2022) - an amazing resource!

lol at the fact that I dress like LESS of a professor

las adoro!

president biden who pushed the button two minutes early sir