Tanya Saraiya, PhD

CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing ‘Financial Decision’ CBS said it planned to cancel Stephen Colbert's Late Show after next season, citing the weakening finances of late night

CBS to cancel "Late Show With Stephen Colbert" after the next TV season, citing a “financial decision"

Abortion bans have led to more relationship violence, new research finds A Northeastern researcher tracked a spike in intimate partner violence after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.

Study finds in states w/ near-total abortion bans since 2022, intimate partner violence rose 7% - 10% (9,271 - 13,998 additional incidents). Women also “found it harder to exit abusive relationships once they were forced to carry that pregnancy to term." news.northeastern.edu/2025/06/30/a...

"Though Wu was never charged, Northwestern reassigned her grant funding, closed her lab and forcibly admitted her to the university’s psychiatric hospital..."

American academia is actively hostile to the health, well being and survival of women of color.

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

As others have pointed out, this also underlies recent changes in NIH policy: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Are We Gatekeeping Trauma? A Conceptual Model to Expand Criterion A for Invisible, Identity-Based, and Systemic Traumas Since the inception of the criterion A framework into the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis in DSM-III, what qualifies as traumatic has b…

There are 100% more imp. things to talk about in the world today. But--a personal/academic win for me: After 3+ years thinking and working on this article (which started with an idea on a plane), it is finally published. I am proud.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lawsuit aims to broadly overturn NIH’s grant terminations Multiple groups and NIH-funded scientists challenge agency’s decision as arbitrary and capricious

Breaking news: A new lawsuit seeks to challenge the National Institutes of Health’s decisions to abruptly terminate hundreds of grants, totaling more than $2.4 billion, over the past month. scim.ag/3DZnylL

What is the point of getting grants and doing research if investigators have no power in how said grant funds are used or in building teams who have the skills to carry out the work?

In the past two weeks, the institution I’m at prevented me access to grant funds to pay a student helping me on my project and now are “terminating” a volunteer on a visa/residing in another country. Is this what is to come?

I know too many people in one day who have lost PhD program offers, job offers, been notified their postdoc fellowships are ending, and of course, all those whose grants are cancelled. Of course it doesn’t measure to being (unfairly) deported but ‘I am weary of the ways of the world.’

I'm old enough to remember when apa was apologizing for it's racism bc that was just 4 years ago...
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US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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Had some devastating conversations yesterday about universities and free speech and our international students and scholars.

Neither campus nor the cops are going to protect you. So please, if you've even ever walked by a protest, develop a buddy system so you no longer go places alone. 1/3

WATCH: The Moment Masked ICE Agents Arrested Tufts Graduate Student Who Spoke Out in Support of Palestine “I can buy that badge from a fucking costume store,” says a witness to the “kidnapping” of Rumeysa Ozturk as she was on her way to break her Ramadan fast.

NEW—After a day of uncertainty on where agents took Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, she appears to be in a Louisiana facility.

1400+ miles from Somerville, Massachusetts, where she was taken.

A judge ordered to not take her out of state without 48 hour notice. She was detained last night.

‪Stand Up for Science 2025 - 7 March, Columbia, SC

#scienceforall #sciencenotsilence #standupforscience2025

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“It's really disturbing to see how spineless institutions led by liberals have been. People that we thought were our friends have basically thrown Black folks, women, LGBTQ folks under the bus so they can show that they are preemptively complying with executive orders that are unconstitutional”

Same girl. Same. 💯 tired. 😮‍💨

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What better time than now to do a survey on the experiences of inequity among academics? Please share! ~20 min.
rutgers.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This is what leadership looks like

I am studying medical school responses to anti-DEI legislation. If only our deans were so courageous. #medicaleducation #meded #medsky #academicsky

Opinion | The college president who is fighting back against Trumpism Wesleyan University’s president is advocating for values in higher education while others stay silent.

Lots of leaders of colleges and other key institutions are staying silent, either out of fear or a misguided view of "neutrality." But not Michael Roth. wapo.st/4k1ueQt

On affirmative action, Asian Americans got played (opinion) Let’s not get played again, OiYan Poon and Janelle Wong write.

New letter from Trump Dept of Ed suggests racial equity programs/DEI disadvantage #AsianAmericans and whites. Asian Americans, we should challenge this false, dangerous narrative EVERY SINGLE TIME. @oiyanpoon.bsky.social and I show why below
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Diversity supplements have been reopened! New expiration date May 8 2026

8/8. So, if you’re feeling down about these attacks, I understand—I feel that way too. But just remember that they’re not attacking because your work doesn’t matter; they’re attacking *precisely* because it does. So, get some rest, connect with your people, and keep doing it.

Academics and researchers are receiving emails from their higher-ups, explaining that rules are changing and their institutions are carefully monitoring the situation.

Have any university higher-ups sent emails saying "We continue to be unwavering in our support for the rights of all human beings?"

Hey - please help save jobs and lives!
Anyone who works at a university, who works on medical research, or could benefit from medical research is at risk!

Please tell them to click the link below. Takes 2 seconds, literally.

click.info.apa.org?qs=09c745fe0...

Penn State has halted submission and *acceptance* of NIH grants pending the resolution of the overhead rate cut.

This lost time will never be recovered. The economic cost to Pennsylvania is enormous and the cost to humanity immeasurable.