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#Harvard says no chance it will comply with changes feds demand

The #Trump administration has been using federal research funding as a cudgel. The government has blocked billions of dollars in #research funds and threatened to put a hold on even more in order to compel #universities to adopt what it presents as essential reforms. In the case of #Columbia University, that includes changes in the leadership of individual #academic departments.

arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

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Ars Technica · Harvard says no chance it will comply with changes feds demandBy John Timmer
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DoomsdaysCW

#Harvard professors sue #Trump administration over funding cut threats

by Katie Cole, April 14, 2025, #WBUR

"The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors sued the Trump administration Friday over what they call an 'unlawful and unprecedented' attempt to use federal funding cuts to restrict #FreeSpeech.

"The #DepartmentOfEducation announced in late March that it would review $8.7 billion in federal grants and contacts given to Harvard, alleging that the school failed to prevent #antisemitic discrimination on campus.

"The Trump administration then unveiled a broad set of demands on April 4 the university must agree to in order to keep getting federal funding, including cutting all diversity, equity and inclusion programming, and modifying any programming and departments that 'fuel antisemitic harassment.' The administration gave Columbia University a similar set of demands in March, which the school agreed to.

"The lawsuit by the professors' group, filed in #Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the #TitleVI of the #CivilRightsAct, which prohibits discrimination in programs that receive federal funds. The court filing says the law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps.

"The group said in a press release that the administration's actions are in effort to create a chilling effect among universities and faculty to stop speech that the president does not like.

" 'Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important,' said Nikolas Bowie, a Harvard law professor and the secretary-treasurer of the school's #AAUP chapter, in a statement. 'But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics.'

"The lawsuit says that the actions by the administration have 'already caused severe and irreparable harm by halting #academic #research and #inquiry at Harvard.'

"This is the second suit that the Harvard AAUP chapter has filed against the Trump administration this year. The first was a joint suit with other chapters, including one from Columbia, over federal efforts to deport #MahmoudKhalil and students that engaged in #ProPalestinian #activism."

wbur.org/news/2025/04/14/harva

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www.wbur.orgHarvard professors sue Trump administration over funding cut threatsThe suit by the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors, filed in Massachusetts federal court, alleges that the administration's federal funding review violates the Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. The court filing says law requires specific procedures to cut federal funds and that the Trump administration has not taken any of those steps. 
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ahimsa

I think I've already posted this but it's worth re-posting:

"Trump admin's attacks on chronic disease research abandons long COVID and ME/CFS patients... Again"

salon.com/2025/04/01/admins-on

"Budget cuts and the dismantling of federal agencies are making it harder for patients with long COVID and ME/CFS"

@mecfs @longcovid

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Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University, has spent more than two decades studying a debilitating chronic illness that is often misunderstood and stigmatized, known as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Lipkin's work faces an uncertain future after grants from the federal government were terminated last week, stripping patients with this chronic disease of one of the few sources of research endeavoring to understand their condition and find treatments, he said. The Center for Solutions for ME/CFS is one of a few centers across the country dedicated to studying this condition, but it can no longer remain operational, Lipkin said. It was receiving funding from the National Institutes of Health, but the Trump Administration cut about $250 million in grants to Columbia, which the agency said occurred due to the university's "continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.”
#USPol#LongCovid#MEcfs
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Thousands of grants, including many at public universities and on topics as politically benign as Alzheimer’s, have been caught in what critics say is an unprecedented slowdown of the American research system that is threatening to upend universities and halt progress toward medical innovations, treatments and cures."

nbcnews.com/health/health-news

NBC News · One of the country’s leading Alzheimer’s projects is in jeopardyBy Evan Bush
#healthcare#NIH#HHS
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Charité Berlin

While little is known about the mysterious #Oropouche virus in Latin America, a number of deaths have been reported along with impacts on unborn babies. A #CharitéBerlin study has discovered that the pathogen is more widespread than previously thought.

👉 charite.de/en/service/press_re

Map of Latin America, with different regions shaded in a color scale from light yellow (low infection risk) to dark purple (high infection risk). The Amazon rainforest and other regions along the coast of Brazil, in Central America, and in the Caribbean are shown in purple. © Charité | Anna Frühauf (image taken from the original publication in The Lancet Infectious Diseases)
#CharitéVirology#CharitéPaper#medicine
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“While some young people the ABC spoke to have said these policies open up "a lot of opportunities" to enter the #HousingMarket and essentially make it "easier," experts argue the promises made by #Labor and the #Coalition (#Liberals/ #LNP / #Nationals) will only exacerbate already existing housing stressors.

Domain's Chief of #Research and #Economics Dr #NicolaPowellPhD said the extra demand the assistance would generate will elevate prices even further.

"So what we're likely to see is entry prices are going to boom, and we're likely to see even unit prices outperform, because this is where we're steering the demand”

#AusPol / #HousingCrisis <abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/vot>

ABC News · Voters and economists united against major party housing policy promisesBy Adelaide Miller
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Science Updates

"It is striking that by simply asking participants how they were feeling each day, we could detect the beneficial effects of probiotics on mood," said senior study author Laura Steenbergen. "In contrast, the standard psychological questionnaires that are common in this field were not sensitive enough to pick up these changes."

#probiotics #microbiology #science #research #medicine #health #biology

labroots.com/trending/microbio

LabrootsSmall Human Study Reveals Probiotics Boost Mood | MicrobiologyThe microbes in the human gut perform many important roles, and there are many beneficial, helpful microorganisms in the human gut microbiome... | Microbiology
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Gerd_Brodowski

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #research / #pew / #publicopinion

„Laura Silver at the Pew Research Center reports that 53% of Americans now have a negative view of Israel, a stark deterioration from 42% in spring 2022 before the Israeli total war on Gaza.

Moreover, in just 3 years the percentage of Americans with very negative views of Israel has nearly doubled, from 10% to 19%. That is nearly one in five Americans.“

juancole.com/2025/04/majority-

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