This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Submit to our special issue Hybrid Organizing for Social Good: Implications for Communication. 3/31/26 journals.sagepub.com/page/mcq/202...

On Saturday, the American people will rise up again for a truly historic day of defiance. Make your plan to be part of the biggest day of peaceful protest in modern US history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Two minutes out!! Drop on by for a visit.

How can local news thrive? A study by @EmilyVanDuyn and @TaliaStroud finds that engaged journalism — where journalists connect more directly with communities — may be part of the answer.

A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.

I’m doing a thing at @sacstate.bsky.social today. #sacstate #research #nerdalert

AI medical tools downplay symptoms in women and ethnic minorities on.ft.com/46ILa9z

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

How to Lead Conversations within a Highly Polarized Political Context. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

New Issue Alert! Introducing the JoC Special Issue: Qualitative Theorizing and Methodological Advancements, edited by Kristina M. Scharp, Elizabeth A. Hintz @elizabethahintz.bsky.social and Sandra Vera Zambrano Check it out here: academic.oup.com/joc/issue

Illinois is now the number one state in the Midwest to work in. This ranking reflects our work in making Illinois the best state in the nation to do business, raise a family, and thrive.

Republicans have tossed the rulebook out. Here in Illinois, we will do whatever it takes to preserve democracy.

Congratulations to UIUC's own Dr. Kaiyu Guan who is receiving national recognition for his groundbreaking work in food security and environmental sustainability!

Will Barley! youtu.be/8u8GB44WuDg?...

What Happens When You Trade Doomscrolling for Hopescrolling: Doomscrolling turns our phones into misery machines—and makes us see the world as a mean, scary place. Here's what happened when Jennifer Mercieca's students tried hopescrolling instead www.zocalopublicsquare.org/what-happens...

Looks like oral exams after LLM use may not be the easy fix some are hoping for. arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872

Huge congratulations to my brilliant Rutgers colleague Sophia Fu for receiving the #ICA25 Early Career Scholar Award! So glad to see her important work recognized with this prestigious award!

Ten actions every one of us can take to defend democracy open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Thanks to a great team: Quinn Grundy, Nandini Sharma, @jadeshiva.bsky.social, @barbourjosh.bsky.social, Justin Rousseau, @zoltanmajdik.bsky.social, and Lisa Bero Read article here: rdcu.be/elVHg

Excited to share open access to this new book edited by Drs. Stephanie Fox, Kirstie McAllum, Leena Mikkola. Dr. Cassidy Doucet and I contributed a chapter. If you’re interested in professions, healthcare organizing, or interprofessional communication, check it out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

OCMC 2025 publish.illinois.edu/ocmc-2025/

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

Silicon Valley could not have come up with some of its most valuable ideas without government support, @matteowong.bsky.social writes. Withholding federal funding for academic research is “rapidly eroding the engine of scientific innovation in America.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Over 1,200 protests took place in all 50 states today including this massive one in Boston. Beautiful. 💙👊

Sharing a little bit more about my NEH-sponsored research on anatomical museums today. I have no idea if this project will retain funding, but I am incredibly grateful for the NEH program officers and reviewers who have made so much humanities research possible. sscottgraham.com/archives/911

“This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

Georgetown has put together resources for federal workers who may be facing a transition in jobs. These include various seminars and workshops, as well as tuition scholarships providing a discount on many master's programs and certificates. Please spread the word to anybody who might benefit.

It’s such a great app!!!

Exciting research on AI and journalism! A great look at how participatory approaches to LLMs could shape the future of news.

A new study finds that workers aren’t buying into AI hype. They see it as a tech “that will primarily benefit large corporations, be used to surveil them & invade their privacy, & over which they will have little power,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social reports. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/workers-kn...

In these unprecedented dark times for American life science and medical research (no less well beyond biomedicine), my coping mechanism is to laser focus on the unremitting and remarkable daily advances, and the fervent hope these will not be slowed or interrupted.

I ain't buying sh*t tomorrow. 🏆

This is a great list of things you can do right now to protect democracy. It made me think about supporting your local food bank too. If/when snap loses federal funding & folks lose benefits, food banks will be crucial support networks. protectdemocracy.org/how-to-prote...

Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus. Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet. Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

Texas measles outbreak doubled, now into 4 counties www.houstonchronicle.com/health/artic...

Tonight my Congressperson called me to have me join this telephone town hall. She’s taking questions from her constituents. It’s encouraging to participate in democracy. Thank you Congresswoman @budzinski.house.gov!

How to get 146% return on investment? The NIH. That's just the economic benefit. Biomedical research promotes human health.

A shining example....there are 1,000s of these fundamental science discoveries that NIH supports to promote human health

Friendly reminder that multiple studies show that basically all new FDA approved drugs start with NIH grant dollars, so I guess we don't want any more new drugs?

Nice primer on indirect cost rates here. (Also worth mentioning that these aren't the cash cows many people think. My uni gets 56 cents on the dollar in indirect costs, but spends 71 cents on the dollar to support research.)

I know the spiteful assholes behind this move see it as a way to punish those pointy-headed professors, but this will hurt their students, their communities and states, and also ordinary Americans who benefit from scientific breakthroughs at these universities in countless ways.

This is good, from @annelamott.bsky.social 🎁 wapo.st/4jCf7wG

Every family and child deserves to feel safe and secure in the place they call home. Every resident of Illinois should know their rights. I intend to protect those rights and ensure our state laws are followed.

Folks at MIT Sloan looked at multiple studies of return to office (RTO) mandates & found they are lose-lose-lose. No reward from Wall Street for “getting tough,” an actual decrease in productivity & revenue, and loss of top talent. youtu.be/4ec_yZCWOCY...

@aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social have a new @datasociety.bsky.social must-read! "The labor impact of genAI spans a vast landscape of workforces, processes & geographies, even as AI co.s [say] that genAI merely enhances efficiency & automates drudgery" datasociety.net/library/gene...