We are delighted to announce a new specialization in the Philosophy of the Arts! I'm really excited we were able to put this together in a time of austerity.

The Netherlands is a lovely place! The cities are charming and walkable, the people friendly and honest, the food is often sufficient for typical calorific needs.

@Eurostar just denied passage to me, a single mother travelling alone with my two small children. We tried to show our tickets on the app to the worker on carriage 15 of the 15:53 from Brussels to Amsterdam. No help, no sympathy for a mother travelling alone. Shame on Eurostar!

America’s young men need to spend more time outdoors and less time texting with their friends. by Pete Hegseth

Please consider signing this petition opposing cuts to arts education in the Netherlands: chng.it/H4FdFw6Y

The collegium musicum is a cooperation between Leiden University and the conservatory in the Hague and lets LU students combine academics w musical training. It is an innovative and valuable cooperation! Now LU wants to cut it for piddly savings. To support, sign here: petities.nl/petitions/un...

"Harvard pushed back on the White House’s claim that it should have checked with the administration lawyers...'It remains unclear to us exactly what, among the government’s recent words and deeds, were mistakes or what the government actually meant to do and say.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...

HERE WE GO: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds probable cause for contempt of court against the Trump administration. In a masterclass move, he asks the government whether they’ll purge the contempt (by complying) or identify the people in the administration who should be subject to sanctions.

US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

Analysis | One week ago, Pete Hegseth's embarrassing Signalgate dominated the news, and Trump needed to change the narrative. By tanking the world economy, he's done exactly that. The grand master of four-dimensional chess remains undefeated. by Chris Cillizza

De minister van Onderwijs doet alsof de bezuinigingen een goddelijke beslissing zijn, in plaats van ideologisch gedreven keuzes van dit antiwetenschappelijke kabinet.

Okay, before I had toddlers I would have missed the genius here! So I guess having twins did have some benefits to my academic life.

We could not agree more today has given us new life and we will are so grateful!

frankly, I'm shocked that the guy who went broke running casinos would turn out to be shit at running an economy

Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who surrender their eggs to the US market. by Howard Lutnick

The founder of Signal releases a response to SignalGate: “There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations.”

"Ozturk was sent to Louisiana even after U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani ordered Ozturk to remain in the state and that the government give 48 hours’ notice before moving her." www.masslive.com/news/2025/03...

Trump administration to cut vaccination funds. "The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result," reports @stephanienolen.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

We are in the midst of what many consider the most promising pancreatic cancer cure research in decades. This is literally joining the War on Cancer on the side of cancer. It's happening in multiple departments. They're also attacking mRNA fax science which is the heart of the possible breakthrough.

one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line

Omg 😱. This is *awful*. I was expecting to push hard on submission to CDMRP funding opps for our cancer research this year, and it looks like cancer opps are gone. $1.5B total funding, slashed by 57% www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/t...

White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

Incredible. Gift version of article: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I fear this strategy will be effective in undermining one of the currently most robust avenues for fighting the authoritarian overreaches of the Tr*mp admin. As ideologically and economically backward and incoherent as the Admin is, the tactics are at least somewhat means-ends rational.

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Today Groningen strikes against the devastating cuts to Higher Education planned by the current Cabinet!

Over 120 full professors of VU Amsterdam signed an open letter in support of the strike on April 7! #WOinActie woinactie.blogspot.com/2025/03/meer...

From CMV to pancreatic cancer and melanoma, mRNA vaccines are super promising — the Admin is throwing this away too.

On strike today 🟥 Against cuts in higher education and science. Against damaging future generations and stifling innovation. #DoeHetNiet @woinactie.bsky.social @universiteitennl.bsky.social 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

This really looks like the Administration is now ignoring Court orders? That's a bright line.

This is where science is at. Amplify the message: when NIH is cut, science in this country stops. Science depends on the stability of the NIH +others. Funding cuts, delays, and uncertainties mean we can't do our work. Support KLAB, and also call your legislature and tell them this is unacceptable!

An excellent account of all the ways that the Administration's letter to Columbia was improper and, itself, violated Title VI. A particularly useful primer if, like me, you don't know the details of the conditions around Federal Funding and Title VI procedures.

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

This is a superb primer by @stevevladeck.bsky.social on President Trump’s radical invocation of the 1798 Alien Enemy Act. Everyone needs to read this:

Philosophers on strike! (Please don't) ask ChatGPT. @woinactie.bsky.social