‘It’s just crickets’: An uptick of apartment vacancies in Boston suggests a decline in student enrollment… www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/b... Andrew Brinker and @ditikohli.bsky.social

Tech doesn’t exist in isolation from politics - especially not right now. I talked to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social about why @wired.com is doing what we’re doing right now. www.status.news/p/wired-kati...

The U.S. government is deploying an AI tool, called SweetREX and developed by DOGE, to gut federal regulations. (More specifically, the tool was developed by an undergrad who took leave from college to join DOGE...) www.wired.com/story/sweetr...

NEW: Massive and confusing inconsistencies at NIH. New director says health disparities research is critical yet grants are being cut left and right. With @aniloza.bsky.social and @ericboodman.bsky.social. (Also my last story for STAT. 😢) www.statnews.com/2025/08/01/n...

If you have (or had!) student loans, the Globe wants to hear about it for a few stories we have cooking on changes in the college financial aid system. Tell us how you're feeling here: podboston.survey.fm/student-debt...

The @bostonglobe.com today covers one way in which colleges and universities are dealing with the economic strains largely triggered by the current presidential administration: cutting low enrollment degree programs. I offer my dismal science observations. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/b...

Contemporary theater at Berklee. Ancient history at Clark. Seven degrees at the University of Maine. In an era of cost-cutting and layoffs, universities are eliminating — or scaling back — some academic programs. For @bostonglobe.com: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/30/b...

Students and professors are the most visible part of universities. But college staff who rarely enter the classroom are the first to be impacted by colleges' mounting financial crisis, raising questions about the future of the Mass. middle class. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/27/b...

Grant Watch — now called Grant Witness — is the leading watchdog of lost research dollars from the NIH and NSF. I wrote about how the site came to be and about Scott Delaney (@scott-delaney.bsky.social), the Harvard research scientist who helped make it happen: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/b...

The Globe spent seven days reporting from immigrant communities, where the streets and pews are quiet, the graduation is skipped, the barber shop empty. Some families have locked their doors and pulled their shades, turning their homes into stifling bunkers. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/02/m...

Our elite universities are fighting for billions in lost research dollars. But many of the large public schools in the South and Midwest see themselves well-positioned to grow, or even flourish. For @bostonglobe.com w/ @hilaryburns.bsky.social: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/26/m...

Shorter reappointments for Harvard postdocs. Staff layoffs at the Kennedy School. And a push to have some PhD candidates graduate early. In the midst of the Trump-Harvard battle, here are the myriad ways the university is already cutting back. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/26/b...

Exclusive: A new analysis from the Institute for Women's Policy Research estimates that the Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade—issued 3 years ago tomorrow—is costing the nation more than $133 billion annually. First reported by me for @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: My latest for @bostonglobe.com is about how Fall River, a city in southern Massachusetts, is grappling with the reality of tariffs and changing immigration policies.

People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are all in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

This is a big deal. Economists Raise Questions About Quality of U.S. Inflation Data

How the Farm Industry Spied on Animal Rights Activists and Pushed the FBI to Treat Them as Bioterrorists www.wired.com/story/fbi-wm... @rshapiro.bsky.social of @propertyofthepeople.org does excellent FOIA work, give them a follow

Harvard has long said its $53 billion endowment is not a piggy bank to be tapped in emergencies. But as Trump's attacks intensify, will the university's budget crunch will be enough to warrant — or force — a change of course? My latest @bostonglobe.com story: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/b...

ICYMI: Our explainer of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, or SEVIS, is mighty relevant today. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/m...

"I tried to book an appointment at the Columbia clinic, where, she said, 'almost everybody' was able to get one. But there were none online, and there were none when I called. The receptionist suggested I go to Kansas."

“No one is watching, no one will hold them accountable, so they can just do what they want,” said one HUD attorney. “The civil rights laws that people marched for and fought for, ... it’s not happening. And people are really being harmed by it.” By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

Harvard Medical School operated in the red for years. What does that mean now, as research dollars vanish, layoffs begin, and leaders talk about a "longterm, sustainable" shift in how the school operates? My latest for @bostonglobe.com: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/24/b...

The Globe higher ed team (and me!) will be answering questions about the Harvard-Trump standoff live on Thursday at 11 a.m. And we're taking questions until then here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/22/m...

🚨SCOOP🚨: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants. They are already cross-referencing immigration data with data from SSA, IRS, and voting records from at least Pennsylvania and Florida, sources tell me. www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

‪Foreign contributions for Harvard are in the limelight, again, as the DoE levies its second attempt (but first in this term!) to probe donations to the school from abroad. Data shows the money funds $$ aid for Arab students, Chinese trees, and much more. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/18/b...

Reporter @ditikohli.bsky.social spoke with @johnfugelsang.bsky.social about the Trump administration freezing federal funding to Harvard University.

What does $2 billion funding freeze mean for the country’s wealthiest college? An explainer on how the Harvard budget works and the benefits of having an endowment bigger than the economy of Iceland for @bostonglobe.com www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/b...

New from me: The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His ‘Legion’ of Babies—and Their Mothers www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

Lawyers for Harvard University said the school will not comply with a new list of demands sent by the Trump administration on Friday.

An economic revival is happening in old New England port cities — like New London, Connecticut — that have bet their future on offshore wind. But as Trump pushes to "end" the industry, the question is whether it will last. www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-53... via @miriamwasser.bsky.social @wbur.org

This was….five months ago

He joined the college GOP & the Federalist Society. He celebrated Trump's defeat, backed "Team Joe" Biden, and authored a legal brief supporting transgender kids. Now, 28-year-old Jeremy Lewin is helping Trump & DOGE dismantle USAID. w @sambrodey.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/02/n...

Woods Hole has been a company town for #ocean and #climate science for 150 years. Now, it may be one of the most extreme examples of a community vulnerable to federal spending cuts. The centers here rely heavily on government $$ to support research. My latest: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/27/s...

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A contested student union effort at Clark University is a sign, labor experts said, of the end of the half-decade of record-breaking organizing on university campuses. “These victories are fragile at the moment," one told me for @bostonglobe.com. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/b...

The Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" Hamdan Ballal was beaten up by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and taken away by Israeli soldiers, his colleagues and eyewitnesses said.

A star drug cop in Massachusetts manipulated confidential informants and fell under FBI scrutiny. Now he's the police chief. And under his watch, police have abused the informant system in almost every way imaginable. New from @globespotlight.bsky.social: trib.al/rMDxWr4

Adjunct professors, I want to hear from you 📚🚨 Tell @bostonglobe.com about your experience as part-time faculty for a story about what the job is like, and how universities rely on your labor: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/b...

Many rural towns rely on teensy private colleges to anchor their economies. But what happens when the schools close? I wrote about the now-shuttered Green Mountain College, its whiskey-hawking owner, and the future of higher education in New England. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/13/b...