How can you summarise your research for a wider audience? I think it's a no-brainer to present your work in a way that's accessible to those outside academia. Having edited over 500 @voxdev.bsky.social articles, I've put what I've learned into this blog: voxdev.org/topic/commun...

As a pure matter of applied organizational theory I'm struggling to think of a modern state's policy-making capabilities collapsing so far so quickly without something like a military occupation or civil war. via @mclem.org @t0nyyates.bsky.social

Over the last century, many democracies have started down the road to autocracy. Some managed to turn around. What did these 'U-turns' have in common? Political economist @marinanord.bsky.social & colleagues' conclusions are clear and succinct. Full research summary: www.v-dem.net/media/public...

Lurching, spasmic, incompetent chaos. An alternative—which would be better for all Americans—is careful consideration, public debate, and transparency before extreme policy change. That is why we have procedures for legislation and rule-making, and we don't just sledgehammer with proclamations.

Michael Feuer carefully assess the vast and lasting harms to all Americans—Conservative and Liberal—from hobbling research at our universities. Basic research at universities has been a cornerstone of American innovation and competitiveness. The US Administration is systematically destroying it.

Steve Moore (!): Trump aims to bolster U.S. manufacturing—in part through steel and aluminum tariffs. But ...Trump’s order to raise the tax on imported aluminum to 50% will almost certainly cost far more manufacturing jobs than it will save. www.wsj.com/opinion/trum...

By Hap Kliban, 1976

Nick Kristof lays out how millions are dying from cuts to US foreign aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

Never in our history, not even during Watergate, has a single news cycle so comprehensibly established the deep corruption and politicization of the Department of Justice

Must-read; important to interpret recent events in terms of how Trump could turn the US into a competitive authoritarian state where the government abuses its powers to undermine the opposition even as elections continue to be held

Not a political statement. Equally true for any president representing any party, any viewpoint. It’s unchained perversion of American institutions.

The US administration could have clarified this in advance. It could have given people a period of time to alter their plans. It could have allowed for public debate. It could have allowed for study of the vast effects of this draconian action. Or it could just be spasmic, reckless, and cruel.

We need all journalists to reflect on this.

Against defeatism.

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

Authoritarian rule and suspension of our Constitution will bring grave harm to all Conservative and Liberal Americans. We reject lawless dictatorship and the perversion of regulatory duties into punishment for dissent. Those who seek to rule by fear, rejecting law, will find us unafraid.

This Admin fears experts. I have think of colleagues/friends, now US citizens with US-born children, who are here thanks to those H1B visas.

Larry is one of the greats. A top-echelon researcher who was just as effective in both raising up the next generation and in public service. Standing ovation

Up is down. Dogs are cats. Also, concealing public data for political reasons is *boldly fighting politicization*. www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Presidential proclamations do not have the force of law. They are announcements of when & how the president enforces laws passed by Congress. The president has zero power to shatter our legislated visa system with $100,000 taxes, or $100 million taxes, or whatever else suits his intestinal feels.

An absolute clown show. Avoiding chaos like this is one of the many reasons a for *not* having EOs be the normal method of legislating or regulating. You really want more careful review than “Steve Miller doodled it on a napkin and Trump signed it with a sharpie.” www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

The Trump Administration has announced measures to gut longstanding pathways based on exceptional ability, national interest, & merit in favor of pay-to-play immigration. @urbanviewradio.bsky.social This sends a signal to the world’s top talent that the U.S. is closing its doors. bit.ly/4nz1XBE

The White House has chosen a truly extremist step that will kneecap American research and innovation. It is an additional bomb dropped on the US higher education system, illegally and recklessly, that will end up harming every Conservative and Liberal American.

The comedian forced out by the US Administration due to his speech—in flagrant violation of our Constitution and by illegally perverting FCC regulatory duties—had been targeted by the US President *by name* prior to the arrival of the pretext.

Exactly. This is a de-facto ban on high skill immigration. The President does not have the authority to do this: Congress sets our visa policy, in law. The President does not have a sliver of a mandate to do this: large bipartisan majorities support high skill immigration. Lawless rampage.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

This is exactly right. Another regulatory duty, entrusted to the president, perverted into one-man power. The president now has extreme, arbitrary, personal leverage over Amazon, Microsoft, Tesla, Nvidia, JPMorgan, Google, Citi, Ford, GM — all and many more rely on this visa for top talent.

This H1B thing is a DISASTER for the USA. Phone your representative and senator NOW and demand action to protect America. This is an attack on the American economy and American technological and scientific advancement. Not to mention a truly awful thing to do to half a million people.

The H1-B visa thing is, like everything else in the Trump administration, set up to carve up exceptions for friends and punish enemies. It’s the authoritarian thru-line that stitches everything together.

what page of the training manual Is this?

The White House convinced many its focus is “illegal” immigration. Then: —Today’s near-ban on LEGAL high-skill work visas —Ended LEGAL refugee visas —Slashing LEGAL student visas —Ban all/most LEGAL visas for 17 countries —Ending LEGAL parole & TPS for millions Not a “crackdown”. A lawless purge.

High-skill workers from overseas on H-1B visas cause innovation, entrepreneurship, and job creation in the United States. Now the US President is illegally moving to tax those visas at $100,000 PER YEAR, something he has no legal authority to do. Sledgehammering American productivity.

No one will know… …the economic effects of shattering our public administration… …if you also shatter the economic data agencies {a wink, a smile, then a rolling tear}

A great Conservative insight: “In contriving any system of government,” wrote Hume, “every man ought to be supposed a knave” [dishonest and unprincipled]. “We must…make him, notwithstanding his insatiable avarice and ambition, co-operate to public good.” davidhume.org/texts/emp/ip...

The US President’s anti-Constitutional attack on a cornerstone of our free press—because the newspaper said things about him he didn’t like, and literally nothing else—is laughed out of court. Conservative and Liberal Americans reject the poison of authoritarian rule. Read this.

George Clooney has mirrored the actions of a movie star with uncanny accuracy Doesn’t make him a movie star tho

If you’ve ever uttered “I just don’t see how anyone could believe”… … consider that the difference might lie not mostly in how you and they process facts, but in which facts you’re processing.

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

The US Administration is entrusted to disburse Congressionally-mandated expenditures of the American public's money in support of our higher education system. It is illegal for any Liberal or Conservative president to pervert that duty into a weapon of coercion for its arbitrary whims and urges.

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Eviscerating our capacity for scientific research into new treatments for disease, the political project now underway in the United States, will tremendously harm all Conservative and Liberal Americans. The Americans who will die due to this scientific vandalism were unavailable for comment.

They are allowed to do that. They are precisely allowed to do precisely that. Politicians from Left or Right who slobber after the power to suppress dissenting speech are—under our cherished Constitution—impotent.

A US Administration sincerely concerned about speech that encourages violence for political ends would immediately cancel every contract with this businessman. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Took less than a day. Resist this un-American assault on freedom. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

They are allowed to do that. They are precisely allowed to do precisely that. Politicians from Left or Right who slobber after the power to suppress dissenting speech are—under our cherished Constitution—impotent.

The US Administration’s explicit policy is to coerce Canada to give up its existence and be forcibly absorbed as a possession of the United States. The chief US diplomat there now finds anti-American sentiment—and this is his exact word— “unexpected”.

Direct, flagrant, scoffing violation of our Constitution—by a person who swore to preserve and defend our Constitution—is incompatible with fitness for public office for any Liberal or Conservative American. Americans reject suspension of our Constitution. We recognize authoritarianism as poison.

Until the other two co-equal branches of our federal government decide to begin honoring the checking/balancing duties with which they are entrusted under our Constitution, nothing at all will prevent it.

The Erdoğan dictatorship in Turkey ended free speech by perverting state regulatory powers—licensing, tax enforcement, national security exceptions—to purge or hobble anyone with enough influence to challenge its power. Authoritarian rule will harm all Americans, Conservative and Liberal.