This week’s main story is about the budget and staffing cuts being made to public health agencies in the U.S. under RFK Jr.’s leadership, how those cuts will impact all of us, and some foolproof ideas for what scientists can do in the absence of totally superfluous stuff like, y’know, centrifuges.

The Trump-Supreme Court battle is not really the crisis. The crisis is here now. Trump is enacting an insidious coordinated attack on our institutions of democratic accountability, designed to crater democracy before next fall. 1/ A long 🧵to explain the plan & how we stop it.

This admin's impact on nonprofits: shutting down service delivery, squeezing resources, & criminalizing mission. Harvard - and higher ed generally - exemplify this. Self-promoing this video, part of a series here at Wagner. #nonprofitsky #pasky www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNz1...

The doge attack on the IRS is a gift to rich tax cheats. That should worry all of us. Read this @donmoyn.bsky.social piece ⤵️ www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

0. Vought, Vance, Rufo, and those attacking academia see scientists as bureaucrats—in the most pejorative sense of the term—who they can "put into trauma" and drive to quit. They don't understand that science is not just a job. It's a vocation, literally, in the original sense of *a calling*.

Nearly a 1,000 student visas invoked by Sec. of State Rubio and counting.

„Tariffs are costly not just because they raise prices but because they force you to make different decisions that will extract a different kind of cost from you over time.“ A must read!

Den Artikel kann ich empfehlen, ohne ihn nochmal gelesen zu haben 😜 Danke an @bastianbrauns.bsky.social , der meinen Redeschwall in so kurzer Zeit so kompetent in eine lesbare Form brachte. Danke auch, dass man endlich mal etwas ausführlicher reden konnte.

Trump announces his tariffs, which are (somehow?) related to the trade barriers other countries are imposing on the U.S. But... THE NUMBERS HE'S PRESENTING BEAR NO RELATION TO REALITY. It would be absurd to call these reciprocal tariffs. They're grievances.

The reason DEI exists is so that competent, qualified people don't get passed over in favor of mediocre incompetent white men who had a well-connected buddy. Or so that utter morons who share war plans on the group chat don't hire their brother and get away with it bc they're white dudes.

This is a disaster and will have major consequences for public health staffing and services in Indiana I don't know what to say at this point they are dismantling pretty much all public health infrastructure www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

Same discussion in private academic mama groups…. :(

"Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable, but, as the Columbia case suggests, it’s not working. Columbia’s leadership made repeated concessions to right-wing critics, only to be the first to come under attack. Remaining silent will not protect us." 👇👇

Anyone framing the Democratic schism as "left vs right" should be discarded as either uninformed or disingenuous (which is what Politico's attempt to blame "the left" is). The key divide is between those who want to fight back forcefully - and those who cannot imagine anything but accommodation.

I wrote a thing about competitive philanthropy (based on research with @marlenewalk.bsky.social and Cali Curley). You can also hear us talk about this project with @rhodridavies.bsky.social (link to that podcast in the next post) 1/2

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

💥 BREAKING: At John Deere's annual shareholders meeting today, shareholders overwhelmingly rejected an anti-DEI proposal brought by the same group that targeted Costco and Apple. An anti-DEI proposal from the NCPPR received less than 1 percent of votes. Deere shareholders: DEI is in. Bigots are out

MAGA, the German Far Right, and the Transnational Assault on Democracy A reflection on the German far right, Elon Musk’s interference in the German election, and why the MAGA-AfD alliance isn’t nearly as irresistible as they want us to believe. New piece:

Deshalb wähle ich am 23. Februar Grün. teilen.gruene.de/s/MqxDg4VV #TeamHabeck 🌻

It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Außer dem Wahl-o-maten gibt es den Kandidierendencheck von @abgeordnetenwatch.de Da erfährt man was über die Bewerber im eigenen Wahlkreis Macht eure ❌❌ wo ihr wollt, aber macht sie! www.kandidierendencheck.de/bundestag?mt...

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

Banned words include "female" and "women," but not "male" or "men."

This is effectively a ban on sociology. Banned words include "inequality" (and "inequalities" just in case), "socioeconomic," "status," "gender," "race and ethnicity," "institutional," "systemic," "biases," "polarization," and even "sense of belonging." Is there any subfield left?!

Good morning #hoosiersky #medsky #publichealthsky! Now coming right to your ears every Friday. Relevant to all Hoosiers and anyone wanting an inside look at how the fight for patient-centered care, public health, and health equity happens in a state like ours.

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

If you're new to Bluesky (welcome!) or just looking for some new folks to follow - check out the WOB starter pack It has 140 researchers studying DEI, sustainability, activism, emotions, employment, entrepreneurship, HR, negotiations, and many other topics related to organizations #academicsky

We don't know what Elon Musk meant with that hand gesture but one of Germany's biggest newspapers Die Zeit calls it a "Hitler salute" and covers up the photo. (Nazi salutes are illegal in Germany, punishable by up to three years in prison.) www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...

As chair of the AOM PNP 2025 Book Award, I’m excited to announce our call for book nominations! We’re looking for books published in 2022, 2023, or 2024 that contribute to modern management theory & practice in the public/nonprofit sectors. #AOMPNP #Management

In this edition we hear from: - @marlenewalk.bsky.social from @uni-freiburg.de and @jamielevdan.bsky.social from NYU Wagner -Maikel Meijeren from Radboud University, and - Noelia Salido Andres from University of A Coruna

Thank you @rhodridavies.bsky.social for having @marlenewalk.bsky.social and me on to talk about our research with Cali Curley. Interested in philanthropy, social media, and/or gamification? This chat and paper are for you. Paper in the post that follows 1/2 #nonprofitsky

Full paper available at Communication and the Public. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 3/3

Do you like social media? (Clearly you do if you are on here.) ERNOP's latest Research Notes issue is out, and includes a focus on "Message (in)congruence: Tweeting while competing for donations" by Cali Curley, @marlenewalk.bsky.social, and me. #Nonprofitsky 1/3 ernop.eu/overview-of-...

3: mama, du geht’s weg und closed die door #Denglish

3: I want to sing alleine because my shoulder is hurting #Denglish

5.30am 3: mama, ich bin nicht tired! Kannst du die light on? #Denglish

How I feel responding to email:

3: mama, I hock! #Schwenglish

My kids (3/6) have been independently playing for 45 minutes. The magical toy you ask? Clothing pins! #MumWin

Alle drei Minuten erlebt eine Frau in Deutschland Partnerschaftsgewalt. Fast jeden Tag wird eine Frau aufgrund ihres Geschlechts ermordet. In Deutschland fehlen 13.000 Frauenhausplätze. Das Gewalthilfegesetz muss jetzt kommen. #TagGegenGewaltAnFrauen

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Angela Merkel über Schwarz-Grün & das Agieren von Markus Söder. Interview via @spiegel.de www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

3: Mama, ich wollte nur good night to you sagen! #Denglish

6: mama, ich muss mein ankle auch resten! #Denglish

3: mama, ich talke to daddy!! 6: Ich bin still noch nicht müde weil ich hab einen nap getooked #Denglish #Vibes