Great story about one of my doctoral school classmates!

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Join our team! The School of Social Work is looking for an assistant to help support our director. Applicants should be organized, dependable and able to work in a fast-paced academic environment. This position offers valuable professional experience in higher education. Apply today: bit.ly/SSWJobs

When a disabled young woman moved out of a hospital to her own apartment, the Trump administration celebrated — even though it's ending the federal program that made it possible.

Really concerned about the Fulbright program!

International students contribute $44 billion to the US economy annually, creating 1 job for every 4 students enrolled. Higher ed is America’s 10th largest export industry. A finance professor explores how their impact reaches beyond big cities to small towns like Mankato, MN.

I'm very concerned about the dismantling of the Administration on Community Living. ACL funds programs like Meals on Wheels or Independent Living Services that support people to live in the community. This has not been much getting attention in the media. www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

Attend the 2025 Ann Adalist-Estrin Memorial National Children of Incarcerated Parents Conference to explore the impact of parental incarceration and ways to foster healing. Register today: childwellbeing.asu.edu/CIP

Univ of Minn student taken by ICE. mndaily.com/293237/top-s...

Very surprising of APA. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/h...

Meta might have used 42 of my articles to train its AI. I'd encourage social work scholars to search their name and see how much of your work might have been pirated. #socialwork

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

The Council on Social Work Education (@cswe.bsky.social) is a signatory to the American Council on Education letter in response to the February 14th "Dear Colleague" letter aimed at institutions of education K-12 through higher ed. #socialwork

Great to see 225+ faculty, staff, and students from Arizona State University School of Social Work at our talk yesterday about recent federal changes and their potential impacts on social work education, social work research, and social work practice. Social workers are paying attention.

One of our faculty at @asusocialwork.bsky.social, Dr. Shanondora Billiot, is an author of this major report. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...

How Trump’s medical research cuts would hit colleges and hospitals in every state: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My colleagues and I crunched the numbers.

Nice distraction to read about the history of Valentines Cards. Apparently may of the original cards sent in the 1860s were "absolutely intended to be sent as cruel insults."

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Sam Nujoma, the freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died. He was 95.

This will have huge effects on research universities.

Apparently there has been an all night fillibuster in the Senate that's still going on. It wasn't mentioned in the NYT. Guess I need to go to Bluesky first in the morning...

Pretty good article discussing various ways campuses are responding to potential ICE raids. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Social Work Educators, Researchers and Students: SSWR, CSWE, and NADD are hosting an event: "Safeguarding Social Work Education and Science in Uncertain Times." Tuesday, February 11 from 2:00-3:15 EST (12 AZ time). Register here: cswe.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A list of terms that will get grants flagged at the National Science Foundation.

Important for researchers. The full text of the new Temporary Restraining Order saying that the federal govt shall not "pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate" federal funding, nor should it try to do it by calling it something else. Very broad. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This resource from Arizona State University might be useful for folks with federal research funds. Lots of links and info. blog.researchadmin.asu.edu/federal-fund...

James Webb telescope just dropped its latest image, Neptune, and its rings.

Joanne Cacciatore at ASU School of Social Work made this great, very short video on how to deal with grief during the holidays. In the video you can get a glimpse of the magical Selah Carefarm, the first carefarm for the traumatically bereaved in the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3trt...

Huge implications for older people, disabled people, and people living in poverty! Medicaid May Face Big Cuts and Work Requirements www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/h...

Among the saddest things about this is that last time it happened—and it did happen, almost immediately—Trump deported a bunch of adoptees whose parents thought adoption gave them citizenship. It didn’t.

This article is very troubling. AAUP is the main organization supporting academic freedom (including tenure). FIRE it's a free speech in higher education organization. While they sometimes overlap, free speech is NOT the same as academic freedom!

The APHA has a great page detailing Project 2025's implications for public health with detailed action plans. Wish #socialwork had a unified body that could act like this. www.apha.org/topics-and-i...

We're holding an event for our social work students, faculty & alumni on Monday about social work after the 2024 election focusing on potential policy impacts. We've had more students sign up for this than any event since I joined ASU 3 years ago. #socialwork asuevents.asu.edu/event/social...

We need to remember none of these nominees are a done deal. Despair is the enemy.

I'm still not sure if this is a joke or not.

My first try at a Conversation article. Parents with disabilities have faced discrimination for years in the US, but new rules will help ensure that child welfare systems treat them more fairly theconversation.com/parents-with...