Chris Rufo did this and was platformed as a legitimate authority on universities by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

What the Government Shutdown Could Mean for Higher Ed Colleges and universities likely won’t face immediate issues, but research may be disrupted as grants pause. https://bit.ly/4nuRxmW #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Join us next week (10/09) for our second Funding Thursday session on navigating the changing funding climate! Guest speakers will provide an overview of systems that help folks find federal or foundation funding, and suggestions for writing competitive proposals aimed at different types of funders.

"U.S. policymakers can reform corporate governance so that workers have a voice in corporate decision-making and can improve their own and the American public’s experience of economic growth and democracy," writes @lenorepalladino.bsky.social (economics & @sppumass.bsky.social) in a new essay:

Want to feel a bit more confident setting up and running your own projects in STATA? Sign up for the upcoming STATA for Research: Organize Your Workflow workshop. Learn how to navigate STATA comfortably, run descriptive stats, and set up a basic regression. Sign up! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Viviana Wu, public policy, and Anthony Paik, sociology, have been awarded a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to build a first-of-its-kind database tracking trends in foundations' nonprofit grantmaking: www.umass.edu/news/article... - with @sppumass.bsky.social

Strengthen your research skills and enroll for one of our methodology workshops! Check out the full listing of workshops, seminars, and other events offered this semester: www.umass.edu/social-scien...

We are celebrating Constitution Day this Wednesday! September 17th commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Stop by the UMass Amherst Student Union between 11 am - 2 pm to learn more about the Constitution, get your own free copy, share what it means to you, and play trivia!

Join us for the first Funding (Fridays on) Thursday session! How do you translate your research agenda into focused, doable, fundable research questions and/or specific aims? How do you think about “Broader Impacts” in the current funding climate? Sign up now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Every grant is different, so contact ISSR Grant Support early to hit your proposal development milestones! Contact our ISSR Grant Support staff for more information: www.umass.edu/social-scien...

🧵More NEH grant news today. We have thoughts: 👇👇 1) Congratulations to the recipients! We won’t dimish your hard work or your projects. It’s become even more difficult to secure any kind of funding, let alone NEH funding. We wish you the best in your endeavors. 2) There are still a LOT of (1/4)

The U.S. has led the world in science since the mid-20th century for two reasons: funding & welcoming students and researchers from around the world. The Trump administration is destroying both advantages (1/2)

"The impacts of the uncertainty and administration’s cruelty have been brutal," wrote one respondent. Another respondent: "The lack of mission has made me depressed. I show up every day not knowing the mission of the agency anymore." We wish more non-feds understood the depth of this awfulness.

Don't get stuck, call us! ISSR offers free consultation on quantitative and qualitative methods and computing packages to faculty, staff and students at UMass. We are here to help you! Request consultation: www.umass.edu/social-scien... Methods resources: www.umass.edu/social-scien...

We continue to stand with our #NSF #AFGE3403 colleagues. At #NEH, we understand the fear of retaliation all too well, as over two-thirds of us were terminated - but we also know that the #humanities and the #sciences are stronger and better when we stand together. #SaveNSF @savensf.bsky.social

Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/s...

Grant management is complicated. ISSR is here to help. Our staff provide grant support to all faculty and graduate students in SBS and HFA. Get more information on our website: umass.edu/social-science-research/grant-support

Our final workshop for the summer session, Text as Data in R, is coming up soon. With the rapid explosion in availability of digitized text, social scientists are increasingly turning to computational tools for the analysis of text-as-data. Get more info & enroll now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

This week, get some experience with Geospatial Information Systems! Using the QGIS software, this participatory workshop will introduce methods and best practices for GIS. Get additional information and sign up now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Coming up this week! In Web Scraping in R workshop, participants will learn how to efficiently automate the process of collecting data from large numbers of websites and text files using R. Get additional information and sign up now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

We are offering a second section of Introduction to NVivo 14 for Mac and Windows workshop from Wednesday to Friday next week. This workshop will get you up and running with coding and analyzing your qualitative data in NVivo 14. Get more details and register now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Causal Inference with Graphical Models starts next week, from 10 am to 5 pm! This workshop introduces participants to causal graphical models, a powerful formalism developed within computer science and statistics. Register for this workshop and secure your spot! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Enrollment is quickly filling up for our next offering of summer methodology workshops. Head over to our website for details and information on registering for upcoming methodology courses! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Getting Started with Social Network Analysis starts up next week! This intensive beginners workshop covers all the necessary elements to get started with network analysis in your own research. Get more information and register now to secure your spot! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

UMass Foundation Relations has updated their list of current and recurring limited submission funding opportunities for the entire year. Foundation Relations look forward to working with you as you consider your application plans! 🔗 www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Enroll for one of our workshops happening next week! Introduction to NVivo and Critical Narrative Intervention and Research run from Monday to Wednesday. Introduction to R is a one-day workshop happening later in the week. Get more information and register now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Contact your House and Senate representatives today and urge them to REJECT the President’s FY 2026 budget request for federal science funding which would see a 56% cut to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and +40% cut to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) & more: cossa.org/action-cente...

There is still time to enroll for our next methodology workshop, Qualitative Research: A Deep Dive into Data Analysis, designed to cover the basics of qualitative data analysis, for attendees with a range of qualitative research experience. Thursday & Friday, June 5-6 9:00 am - 4:00 pm ILC N111

Next week | Getting Started with Bayesian Statistics June 2-4, 9 am to 3:30 pm This seminar is designed for researchers who'd like to have a better understanding of Bayesian statistics and need some help taking the first steps toward incorporating Bayesian statistics into their research practices.

Summer methodology workshops start in 1 week! Sign up for one (or more!) of our many workshops being offered this summer. See our full listing of methodology workshops: www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series Presents: The Power of Numeric Evidence in Science Communication with Dr. Ellen Peters (University of Oregon) hosted by the Center for Research on Families Tuesday, May 13 10-11 AM CHC Events Hall East Register now! forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon...

Want to help turn as little as $5 into $264,000 for social science research and teaching? 🪄 For #UMassGives 2025, 15 donations to the SBS Faculty Excellence Fund will unlock a $264,000 challenge gift from Peggy & Bob Cole '59! umass.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-... #umass #UMassGives2025

Mellon to help offset the funding cuts to the NEH for state humanities councils: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/a...

From Ronald Reagan to Ron DeSantis, half-truths and exaggerations have become entrenched in the popular view of higher education. Ellen Schrecker explains. chroni.cl/4jsEal8

Next week! May 7: Ecological Crisis & Autonomist Politics, this talk is open to the public! May 8-9: Engaged Audiovisual Ethnography: A Visual Anthropology Practicum, a two-day workshop exploring the practice & function of multi-media ethnography. Registration is required. forms.gle/77nXQBgGzUS5...

FALCON UPDATE: 2 CHICKS!!! 🐣🐣🥳🥳🥳 Chick #2 appears to have hatched sometime last night or early this morning. #NESTFLIX

Join us on Monday, April 28, for this talk by Gregory Porumbescu, "Does Representation Matter? Assessing how Representative Bureaucracy Shapes the Relationship Between Automation and Responsiveness to Public Service Requests" Get more information here & register today! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series Presents: Cliodynamics of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration with Dr. Peter Turchin, Complexity Science Hub Vienna Date: Thur, May 1 Time: 4:30 – 6 PM Location: Crotty Hall, Room 209 Registration link in the next post!

The final Funding Friday session on Finalizing Your Grant is this *Thursday, April 17*! The goal of this final workshop is to leave you feeling capable of taking the final steps in your grant writing process. Register now and join us in-person or online! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Next Tuesday, Kevin Morris from the Brennan Center will deliver a talk, "The Voting Rights, Shelby County, and the Racial Turnout Gap". This talk is co-sponsored by the Institute for Social Science Research. April 22, 11:30am - 1pm ILC, Communication Hub Registration: www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Join us April 16 at 6pm for the 2025 James Baldwin Lecture, organized with the W. E. B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies. Steve Salaita explores questions of honesty and dishonesty on campus through an analysis of labor, inequality, alienation, and political violence on and off campus.

When does a problem become an intervention-worthy crisis? This Thurs., Dara Strolovitch (Yale University) presents "When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America." 4/10, 4pm, CHC Events Hall 📝 ➡️ umassamherst.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries and the Massachusetts Teachers Association are partnering to launch Revolutionizing Education, a new open access journal of peer-reviewed articles on education policy and practice, this year. Link: www.library.umass.edu/news/umass-a...

Trump's NEH has, it seems, just cancelled a bunch of fellowship programs with deadlines in the next couple of weeks. A brief thread: 1/ Awards for Faculty at Tribal Colleges and Universities has been cancelled for FY 2026 www.neh.gov/grants/resea...

Upcoming events this week! Get more information on Dara Strolovitch's talk: www.umass.edu/social-scien... Register for the RSF Panel: www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Join us next Friday, April 11, for an insightful discussion on how former Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholars navigated their journey toward the RSF Scholars program. Get more information and register now! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Next week! Join us for this talk, "Studying Inequalities in the Social Sciences" by Dara Strolovitch (Yale). Dr. Strolovitch will also discuss funding through the Russell Sage Foundation in an ISSR panel the next day. Get more information & register for both! www.umass.edu/social-scien...

Announcing the 2025 UACT Plug In! Stop by the Bromery Center for the Arts on Thur, April 3 to eat, check out info tables, view an exhibit on the history of activism at UMass, and attend short workshops led by powerful student and community organizers! websites.umass.edu/feinberg/student-organizing/

The student-curated exhibit “Be Revolutionary: UMass Student Solidarity with Central America in the 1980s” opens next week! This exhibit explores UMass’ history of anti-imperialist organizing. The exhibit launch event will be held Thursday, April 3 from 12-2PM at the Bromery Center for the Arts.

Mark your calendars for this talk by Dr. Heather MacIndoe on "The Geography of Grantmaking—Does Location Matter?" This talk is sponsored by ISSR and co-sponsored by the UMass Amherst School of Public Policy. March 31, 11:45-1:00 pm Thompson 620 Register here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...