My latest newsletter piece explores the future of higher education in light of declining enrollment and AI-inspired career skepticism. bistromathic.substack.com/p/the-enroll...

A lost generation of scientists. bistromathic.substack.com/p/a-lost-gen...

A year of turbulence for higher education. bistromathic.substack.com/p/ten-higher...

substack.com/@bistromathi... I actually think Cornell cut a pretty good deal with the federal government

I revisited an earlier article on the cost of college in light of the Pew Research survey this week that showed 70% of the public believing higher education is headed in the wrong direction. bistromathic.substack.com/p/the-cost-o...

This echoes a recent post I put up regarding how slowly dollars are getting out the door at federal science agencies. substack.com/@bistromathi...

And here’s the piece on the conservative imbalance in academia. bistromathic.substack.com/p/the-conser...

Dropping a new article tomorrow on the lack of conservatives in academia. And, of course, who’s to blame. substack.com/@bistromathic

The National Science Foundation was kicked out of its headquarters last week. What does this say about our regard for science and long term investments in our future. Hint--it's not good. open.substack.com/pub/bistroma...

You can afford college!! bistromathic.substack.com/p/college-is...

The National Science Foundation is being kicked out of its headquarters so HUD can move out of DC. This has been about as bad a year as possible for an agency that for seven decades has been a crown jewel for United States competitiveness.

Ready for some crazy research?! bistromathic.substack.com/p/the-joy-of...

Is a new Bell Labs the answer? bistromathic.substack.com/p/let-the-be...

What if we sought to build up our universities instead of tear them down? bistromathic.substack.com/p/what-if-we...

Cut off international students, reduce research funding, cut back on outreach. 🧠✨ My latest dive into why panic will not keep America on top. #HigherEd #Policy #Innovation #immigration bistromathic.substack.com/p/deterring-...

Last week, the WH Science Advisor called for a new Golden Age of Innovation, but the Administration's budget proposals tell a different story. bistromathic.substack.com/p/follow-the...

Breaking news: House Republicans approved President Trump’s sprawling tax and immigration agenda Thursday morning, sending to the Senate legislation that the GOP hopes will transform the federal government.

Bottom line: the proposed NIH & NSF cuts alone would eventually strip at least $10 billion per year from U.S. output. www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

We want colleges to retain students, comply with federal law, provide mental health, and protect national security… then we call the people doing that “bloat.” The problem isn’t the staff, it’s the expectations. “A Culprit Behind College Closures” bistromathic.substack.com/p/a-college-...

This is just a partial glimpse of the destruction of American science by Trump and the GOP.

We don’t get the next mRNA vaccine or moon landing without risk. Short-term grants. Political landmines. Shrinking budgets. Big bets are disappearing—and so are possible breakthroughs. bistromathic.substack.com/p/the-case-f... #science #risk #innovation #NSF #NIH #research #bluesky

I don’t even understand what the theoretical end game is here. All I’m seeing are cuts to funding and RiFs—not any re-prioritization or increased support for new priorities.

The Choose Europe for Science program will invest more than half a billion dollars between 2025 and 2027 to recruit researchers and scientists—especially from the United States. www.wired.com/story/us-cut...

What’s so frustrating is that these reductions in indirect costs are not being redirected to research, but just arbitrarily cut from the research enterprise. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

In my latest article, I ask the question, how far does the latest budget request stray from what Congress has authorized for science over the years. Spoiler--a lot. open.substack.com/pub/bistroma...

I may need to update this article after today’s White House budget release. substack.com/@bistromathi...

A recent EO looks to upend college accreditation and put the focus squarely on ROI. In my latest article I explore why that is too narrow an approach to a valid concern. bistromathic.substack.com/p/beyond-roi...

I made a timeline of all the actions in Trump's (almost) first 100 days that have upended science and health. It was staggering to me to see it all in one place, even though I reported on many on these events. www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/t...

Latest addition to "So Long and Thanks for All the Innovation" is up. It explores the reality with college and university endowments--the vast majority of which are not in the billions of dollars. bistromathic.substack.com/p/the-endowm...

Fascinating!! Could be where dolphins came from :)

Love to see it from another of my former institutions.

The Department of Education said on Friday that it was moving to cut off all federal funding for Maine’s public schools because the state had ignored President Trump’s executive order banning transgender athletes from girls’ sports teams.

Breaking news: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced it is unilaterally cutting in half the overhead rate on its academic grants, something that a federal judge recently told the National Institutes of Health it could not do.

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Wasn’t Betelgeuse supposed to explode?

During the first Trump administration, the annual budgets contained all sorts of draconian cuts to science, but Congress basically ignored them. I’m more worried this time around.

Higher education in the United States should be viewed by the breadth of offerings among the more than 5000 colleges and universities in the United States. Here's my latest Substack post. open.substack.com/pub/bistroma...

NEW: The number of new grants handed out by the National Science Foundation since President Donald Trump took office has fallen by nearly 50% compared with the same 2-month period 1 year ago. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Went down a rabbit hole on tuition and the cost of going to college. open.substack.com/pub/bistroma...

exclusive: Intelligence Assessment Said to Contradict Trump on Venezuelan Gang To invoke wartime deportation powers, Trump asserted that Venezuela’s government controls a gang. U.S. intelligence analysts think that is not true. w/ @julianbarnes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

Up with a new article on So Long and Thanks for All the Innovation. open.substack.com/pub/bistroma...

Kudos @holdenthorp.bsky.social for this excellent article and his forthrightness. “One thing that unites both of these camps [views on how to conceptualize and ‘treat’ autism], however, is a disdain for the persistence of the debunked claim that autism is a result of vaccination.”

Nothing to see here. Just JWST 🔭 IMAGING A PLANETARY SYSTEM AROUND ANOTHER STAR. Look at the different planet colors! Go NASA science!!! science.nasa.gov/missions/web...

Taking the leap in longer form and starting a "regular" Substack exploring the crossroads at which higher education finds itself. bistromathic.substack.com/subscribe

University leaders “need to defend the core mission of their institutions” against the Trump administration’s campaign against higher education, the editorial board writes.

A lot of 3 Body Problem vibes here, and not in s good way.

Happy pi day!