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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Cool new opportunity for young African professionals to work in government on the WB/AFDB's "Mission 300" - like the ODI fellowship but for African nationals and focused on electrification

careers.odi.org/en/postings/...

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

ECOSOLUTIONS - Combining Nature and Technology to Tackle the Urban Chemical Pollution Challenge at University of Sheffield on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - ECOSOLUTIONS - Combining Nature and Technology to Tackle the Urban Chemical Pollution Challenge at University of Sheffield, listed on FindAPhD.com

This fully funded PhD project is available at the University of Sheffield to develop technology and nature based approaches to tackle urban chemical pollution challenges.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

J Street Condemns Trump Administration for Using “Fighting Antisemitism” as Pretext for Attacks on Immigrants, Higher Education and Constitutional Protections - J Street It is chilling for us – as Jews – to see the rights of immigrants and minorities being undercut by state authorities in our name.

J Street is appalled by the Trump Administration’s exploitation of Jewish Americans' real fears about antisemitism as cover for its all-out assault on key pillars of American democracy: Immigration, higher education and the rule of law.

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

New unclassified Annual Threat Assessment from the Director of National Intelligence *does not* mention climate or environmental security -- the first not to do so in over a decade. During the first Trump term, climate was included regularly.

www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d...

I'm planning to be at the courthouse tomorrow and hope to see others from CNY and Ithaca the as well.

We have been asked to circulate this for those interested. If you would like to show up to court in Syracuse on Tuesday to support Mr. Taal, please read below carefully and follow courtroom protocols.

All of my pubs are here (and also all of my sister's...) some of which earned me cease and desist notifications from the publishers when posted to my website. My publicly funded work should be public. I am not keen for public $ + my hard work + my team's hard work to make Meta $$$$$$$$$$$$$.

Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region. We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant survival over the past 50...

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.

Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

CALL NOW: Tell Senate Democrats to Hold the Line Against the Extreme MAGA Continuing Resolution

🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: we are hearing from sources that there is a very serious danger that Senate Democrats are on the verge of folding on the MAGA CR. CALL THIS MORNING indivisible.org/resource/cal...

But it is a very bad time for Democrats to be this passive.

Help us, Senate Democrats!

Please help federal workers by not agreeing to the dirty CR.
Shut the government down instead — it would be better for us if you put up a fight.

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker

Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

🧵 THREAD: In the second Trump administration, we’re devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.

Here are some of the issues we’re watching — and how you can inform our work.

Fatal Errors: The Mortality Value of Accurate Weather Forecasts Accurate weather forecasts save thousands of lives. Accounting for benefits and costs, forecasts create billions of dollars of value for Americans every year.

Census working paper showing that more accurate weather predictions save lives www.census.gov/library/work...

For those unaware, I would argue this is one of the most important pipeline programs supporting Black students in the US to enter the agricultural and applied economics profession.

Diary Week 1

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

FANTASTIC

ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?)

You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have

www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

Judge orders Trump administration to restore funds for foreign aid programs A U.S. district judge said the administration failed to account for the extraordinary harm caused by the broad-based halt.

Starting the day off with good news- judge orders a stay on foreign aid stoppage!!!! #AltGov keep fighting the crimes at every turn! #SaveUSAID
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

From independent @USAID sources, >800 contracts and awards are being terminated en masse – with the procurement team subject to hourly checks on speed of executing terminations. The pace has exceeded the ability to confirm whether lifesaving assistance or any Congressional mandate is affected.

NEW: The USAID Inspector General was fired on Tuesday, a day after his office released a report critical of the impact of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle USAID, a source familiar told CNN.

recent widespread staffing reductions across the Agency, particularly within BHA, coupled with uncertainty about the scope of foreign assistance waivers and permissible communications with implementers, has degraded USAID’s ability to distribute & safeguard taxpayer-funded humanitarian assistance."

to BHA staff, the placement of most of its staff on administrative leave is preventing the bureau from responding to USAID OIG audit requests, reports of investigative findings, and other routine OIG oversight inquiries....

limitations on communications with aid organizations stemming from the cessation of U.S. foreign assistance have limited USAID’s ability to receive, react to, and report allegations of diversion, all of which impacts the Agency’s mandatory reporting obligations to Congress. Additionally, according

#StandWithUSAID
#SaveForeignAid

"USAID OIG has previously reported that USAID-funded commodities, supplies, and equipment in high-risk environments are susceptible to diversion to terrorist organizations, such as Hamas. Over the past 2 weeks, staffing shortages and ...

Please consider sharing this w/your Congressional Reps & Senators. This OIG report articulates why, despite Rubio's "waivers," lifesaving assistance isn't getting through and how staffing shortages risk national security. @altusaid.bsky.social @urgentfundingusaid.bsky.social oig.usaid.gov/node/7439

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Job opportunity:
Lecturer (Teaching) in #HumanitarianOperations & #CrisisManagement
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Full-time, permanent contract
@uclrdr.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
Closes 28 Feb. 2025

#DRR #AcademicJobs #PhDJobs #ScienceJobs #Humanitarianism #DisasterRiskReduction #DisasterRiskManagement

Are we paying too much for biomedical research? Trump's attack on NIH

Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...