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Now this is an appropriate use of a National Guard.
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New paper, led by Shaan Chopra, examining how LLMs may–and may not–provide good support for personal health tracking: "Engagements with Generative AI and Personal Health Informatics: Opportunities for Planning, Tracking, Reflecting, and Acting around Personal Health Data"
I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.
Happy 4th of July, Batman.
Somebody will. It’ll be a historical documentary.
The #Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources recently released the text of a spending bill that would mandate the sale of up to 3.2 million acres of national #publiclands. If this bill becomes law, national public lands would be sold in 11 western states, including #Washington.
Seattle Times describes the protests here today as "one of the largest protests in the city's history" with more than 70,000 people marching from Capitol Hill to Seattle Center: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
The New York Times front page.
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
www.nokings.org
leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening
historians: that thing is definitely happening
star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it
news outlets: these protesters are out of control
NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission.
ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.
"The smartphone in your pocket, the car you drive and even the air you breathe are better because of university research." Yet research at the iSchool and universities nationwide is at risk.
Read Dean Anind Dey’s message on why university research is an investment worth protecting:
bit.ly/4l8KzCO
I think we’ve become so inured to this stuff that it’s easy to lose sight of just how quickly epistemic collapse has accelerated. Ten years ago, the media was wringing its hands over social media misinformation and what it meant that Trump had the gall to lie. Now, the lies control health policy.
Quick. Somebody tell Trump that the best way to own Elon is to restore all research grants and double NSF funding.
These are not just grants. This is thousands of people who devoted their lives and careers - taking pay cuts, working long hours, living with uncertainty - all for the chance to try to make people's lives a bit better for you and your loved ones. This breaks my heart.
Please share widely with friends, family, and foes. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/u...
I personally know 5 early career and trainee level academic scientists who have changed jobs/ career paths in the last month. They did not see a sustainable future with ongoing cuts and attacks.
The scale of decimation of the pipeline that the scientific workforce in U.S. faces is staggering.
The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend.
NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.
How bad will it be? Catastrophic.
Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.
But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.
Speak up now before it is too late.
(inflation adjusted $-s below)
If you want to see the planned impact on science with the proposed National Science Foundation cuts, this table in particular demonstrates it most devastatingly. Going from 330,000 people to 90,000 people involved in NSF activities. #SaveNSF
From: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
A table showing 75% cuts to senior researchers, postpone, graduate students, undergraduates, teachers, and youth.
The administration’s vision of science in America is that we do 75% less of it. That means more death, less progress, more ignorance, fewer experts, fewer educated people, all to make billionaires wealthier.
quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.
I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.
Calling rad academics who would like to move to lovely Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Monash EMERGE is actively recruiting folks impacted by global events. #academicsky
www.monash.edu/research/eme...
Here’s something we can all do: every time we see something about the Trump administration’s attacks on science — and the impacts of those attacks — boost it. People, and even faculty, have no idea how bad it is and how much worse it’s going to get. We need to let people know…
Shout out to all of the faculty and students who made it through this semester in particular. What a time to be teaching and learning in spaces that are directly under attack from people who benefited from having access to the same resources themselves.
Rogue Workshop: transform your science into action! Caro Williams-Pierce (carowp@umd.edu) Filled with rage at the dumpster fire that is our world and our countries right now? Tired of screaming endlessly into the void, and want to do something - anything - to stop the burning down of science and human rights? Learn how to channel that rage, use your CHI knowledge, and communicate with people, organizations, and political bodies. They need to hear our voices, our science, and our fury - time to make them listen. Wednesday, April 30 Room G313 2:10 - 3:40 pm
Come to my Rogue Workshop at #CHI2025 - if you're furious at funding cuts and public kidnappings and letting 19-year-old kids mess around in the Social Security database, this workshop is for you!
Wednesday, April 30
Room G313
2:10 - 3:40 pm
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James Fogarty at a podium, introducing DUB as part of launching DUB Research Day 2025.
Excited to kick off DUB Research Day 2025!
dub.washington.edu/seminars/202...
A great local event ahead of UW's participation in CHI 2025!
dub.washington.edu/posts/2025/c...
