#usa 
“Over 100 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration Statement signed by Harvard, Princeton and Brown leaders denounces White House’s undue government intrusion” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/21/us-university-presidents-trump-administration?CMP=share_btn_url #veilleESR #Trump #Harvard #BrownUniversity #Princeton
Great to see #Harvard taking a stand - and they’re not alone. Only a handful of universities like #Yale, #Princeton, #Stanford, and #MIT have the financial strength to push back and hold the line. Now’s the time for leadership with real backbone. #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #USPol #ResearchSky
Former presidents of Columbia,...
The #Trump admin is also attempting to #deport some foreign protesters & has revoked hundreds of #visas across the country.
The Trump admin has frozen or canceled some #funding for #universities like #Columbia, #Princeton, #Brown, University of #Pennsylvania, #Cornell & #Northwestern as well.
They were quick to identify that Trump’s campaign didn’t really seem to be about fighting antisemitism @ all, but rather about using that fight as a justification for govt overreach. Roth, a historian & the pres. of #Wesleyan told The New Yorker, “Anti-antisemitism can be appropriated by any political movement. They can use that as a vehicle for persecuting researchers & institutions that are not aligned w/the ideology of the person in charge.”
https://forward.com/opinion/712714/jewish-university-presidents-trump-antisemitism-campus/
Here's a letter that I sent to Princeton University President Chris Eisgruber a few weeks ago urging the University to stand firm against the Trump administration's attempt to turn it into the Ivy version of the New College of Florida.
I'm pleased to see Harvard and MIT join the conflict.
https://notesfromthevoid.cc/note-74-my-letter-to-princetons-president/
@tankgrrl Harvard Class of 1979 here (AB, magna cum laude in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Massachusetts). I am proud to say that on the #MAGA #Collaborators tracker website, #Harvard — which was previously listed in the "Capitulating Schools" category, as having bowed unwillingly to pressure — has now been moved to the "Resisting Schools" category, as having "actively chosen to resist the fascist regime":
https://www.maga-collaborators.net/Schools
Also currently listed as resisters: Brown, Caltech, Cornell, MIT, Princeton, the University of Rochester — and the New York Public Schools system, the only non-university shown as resisting. (I can take pride in #Princeton as well: PhD in Philosophy, 1985.)
On balance, would you send your children to #Harvard or #Princeton? Given their relative fealty in recent months?
Unbelievable! #Climate anxiety is a real and understandable response to our situation, not a figment of the #imagination! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/trump-administration-cuts-princeton-climate-research-funding?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other #princeton #ComradeKrasnov #trump #fascism
Interview: Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal, former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett
Bennett is touring north American campuses, coinciding with the deportations, detainments, and disappearances of students at these same campuses for protesting Israel’s genocide.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/palestinians-speak-out-against-princeton
#israeliwarcriminals #princeton #uspol #;freepalestine #studentprotests #fascism #illegaldeportations .
Margaret Sullivan: The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in the US
"Series of actions this week including at #Princeton and in a tiny town, offer #hope that courageous voices can make a difference"
#law #AP #journalism #ICE #deporation #immigration #academicfreedom
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/associated-press-trump-administration
R.I.P. Jerry Ostriker (1937-2025)
Once again I find myself using this blog to pass on sad news. This time it is of the death of renowned astrophysicist Jerry Ostriker (pictured left in 2012), who passed away on Monday 6th April 2025 just a week before his 88th birthday.
Jeremiah Paul Ostriker (to give his full name) was an extremely energetic, versatile and influential theorist who worked on a wide range of problems in diverse areas of astrophysics and produced a number of classic papers. Close to my own specialism I would quote two in particular: one written with Jim Peebles in 1973 about the stability of galactic disks; and the other with Martin Rees in 1977 about the role of gas cooling and fragmentation in determining the size of galaxies and clusters. He also did much to establish the use of hydrodynamic simulations in cosmology and was an early adopter of the current standard cosmological model, including a cosmological constant. He worked on many other things too, including pulsars and galactic nuclei.
I only met Jerry Ostriker a few times, mainly at conferences – where he was never shy to contribute to discussions after talks – but also once back in the 1990s when I was a visitor Princeton (where he was Professor). I didn’t have much time to talk to him then as he always seemed to be on the go, so I never really got to know him personally. After spending most of his career in Princeton, including a spell as Provost, in 2001 Ostriker moved to Cambridge for a short stint as Plumian Professor, before returning to Princeton.
There is a very nice obituary of Jerry Ostriker by Dennis Overbye in the New York Times.
Rest in peace, Jerry Ostriker
More science research cuts—
Commerce Secretary Lutnick announced yesterday that he is taking back ~ $4 million of funding to Princeton University intended to study the effects and risks of climate change, global warming, water availability, and rising sea levels since those objectives do not meet Trump’s new goals for NOAA.
#USA #USGov #trump #ClimateChange #NOAA #education #research #science #princeton
This man stood on the #Princeton campus and screamed at Jewish students to “go back to Europe.” Can anyone identify him? (Repost to amplify) #Palimal #Terrorist #Deport
Interview: Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal, former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett
Bennett is touring north American campuses, coinciding with the deportations, detainments, and disappearances of students at these same campuses for protesting Israel’s genocide.
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/palestinians-speak-out-against-princeton
#israeliwarcriminals #princeton #uspol #;freepalestine #studentprotests #fascism #illegaldeportations .
https://www.europesays.com/uk/4933/ How One Bad Meal Rewires the Brain to Avoid That Food Forever #amygdala #BrainResearch #FoodAversion #FoodPoisoning #Health #Memory #neurobiology #Neuroscience #Princeton #UK #UnitedKingdom
#Princeton's biggest crypto boosting computer scientist Jaswinder Pal Singh has somehow ended up in the middle of an alleged corporate fraud involving (yet another) member of the Forbes 30 under 30.
I don’t know any details about this but the fact that JP Singh has been using Princeton's name to provide legitimacy to cryptocurrency for years and has now somehow landed in the middle of what looks like an egregious and massive corporate fraud going on at CaaStle is… interesting.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/caastle-let-ceo-remain-after-learning-of-alleged-fraud
