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Mark Patterson, MD, PhD

I love that #Harvard has taken a stand against the current administration and chosen not to fold their research efforts. Too much is at stake for the future of citizens of the US and globally. Their website profiles the work of Dr. David Walt. David and I shared a lab while at #MIT. He is a wonderful person and researcher. It is critical that his efforts, and those of scientists around the country, continue.
#science #research
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Harvard UniversityHarvard UniversityHarvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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CBC Canada

Open letter to federal leaders from Manitoba researchers gets support from hundreds of Canadian academics
An open letter penned by a group of Manitoba researchers has garnered support from hundreds of other scientists and academics across the country, sounding the alarm about the effects of research cuts in the U.S. on Canadian research and urging fede...
#research #politics #funding #science #Manitoba #Canada
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CBC Health

Open letter to federal leaders from Manitoba researchers gets support from hundreds of Canadian academics
An open letter penned by a group of Manitoba researchers has garnered support from hundreds of other scientists and academics across the country, sounding the alarm about the effects of research cuts in the U.S. on Canadian research and urging fede...
#research #politics #funding #science #Manitoba #Canada
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CBC Manitoba

Open letter to federal leaders from Manitoba researchers gets support from hundreds of Canadian academics
An open letter penned by a group of Manitoba researchers has garnered support from hundreds of other scientists and academics across the country, sounding the alarm about the effects of research cuts in the U.S. on Canadian research and urging fede...
#research #politics #funding #science #Manitoba #Canada
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Ned Yeung

Pierre Poilievre vows to end ‘woke ideology’ in science funding.

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RE: “I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics,” says Madeleine Pastinelli, president of the university professors’ union in the province of Quebec. “It could be a very terrible time for us.”

Wow, so I guess Danielle Smith's actions in Alberta have not reached the rest of the nation yet.

She came out in public and said that the scientific results of unbiased research does not produce enough "views" (as if scientific results are just an "opinion") which align with her Conservative ideology, so the Alberta government will step in to prevent Universities from receiving Federal funding on subjects which she finds to be "problematic", and could produce results which don't align with Conservative views.

I don't know how people can be unaware of this absolute travesty of authoritarian anti-science overreach.

I only wish she were right, that this dystopian nightmare was not so real.

On Power & Politics Friday, Premier Danielle Smith repeated her earlier claims that the federal government "uses its power through researchers to only fund certain types of opinions, certain types of researchers, and I don't think that's fair." She suggested Alberta offer its own research grants to ensure a broad range of research and opinion is reflected at universities. Smith said the government wants to review federal research funding coming into the province's post-secondary institutions to ensure that "all people from all political perspectives are able to engage in a robust debate and have a robust research agenda.” The review will look for funding agreements that are "problematic” to see if they should be reviewed, she said. CBC News has asked the premier's office for details of what such a review would involve. Smith said if universities were balanced, Canada would have as many conservative commentators and journalists graduating from journalism schools as liberal ones. At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding granted through what's known as "tri-council’ federal agencies. They are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In 2022-23, SSHRC granted $43 million to researchers in Alberta post-secondary, CIHR funded $124 million worth of research and NSERC pumped $150 million into the province.
News/Policy Bill 18 positions Alberta government as gatekeeper of federal research funding Opponents say it poses a threat to academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and the future of the postsecondary sector in Alberta. By University Affairs July 10, 2024
#abpoli#cdnpoli#education
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Ned Yeung

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RE: “I think this is the first time a politician in Canada has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics,” says Madeleine Pastinelli, president of the university professors’ union in the province of Quebec. “It could be a very terrible time for us.”

Wow, so I guess Danielle Smith's actions in Alberta have not reached the rest of the nation yet.

She came out in public and said that the scientific results of unbiased research does not produce enough "views" (as if scientific results are just an "opinion") which align with her Conservative ideology, so the Alberta government will step in to prevent Universities from receiving Federal funding on subjects which she finds to be "problematic", and could produce results which don't align with Conservative views.

I don't know how people can be unaware of this absolute travesty of authoritarian anti-science overreach.

I only wish she were right, that this dystopian nightmare was not so real.

On Power & Politics Friday, Premier Danielle Smith repeated her earlier claims that the federal government "uses its power through researchers to only fund certain types of opinions, certain types of researchers, and I don't think that's fair." She suggested Alberta offer its own research grants to ensure a broad range of research and opinion is reflected at universities. Smith said the government wants to review federal research funding coming into the province's post-secondary institutions to ensure that "all people from all political perspectives are able to engage in a robust debate and have a robust research agenda.” The review will look for funding agreements that are "problematic” to see if they should be reviewed, she said. CBC News has asked the premier's office for details of what such a review would involve. Smith said if universities were balanced, Canada would have as many conservative commentators and journalists graduating from journalism schools as liberal ones. At stake are hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding granted through what's known as "tri-council’ federal agencies. They are the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). In 2022-23, SSHRC granted $43 million to researchers in Alberta post-secondary, CIHR funded $124 million worth of research and NSERC pumped $150 million into the province.
News/Policy Bill 18 positions Alberta government as gatekeeper of federal research funding Opponents say it poses a threat to academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and the future of the postsecondary sector in Alberta. By University Affairs July 10, 2024
#abpoli#cdnpoli#education
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

**Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality**

“_This study supports the contention that transitions from labor- to land-limited systems, rather than cultivation and/or herding per se, have contributed systematically to the long-term dynamics of economic inequality._”

A. Bogaard, P. Cruz, M. Fochesato, J. Birch, G. Cervantes Quequezana, S. Chirikure, E.R. Crema, G.M. Feinman, A.S. Green, H. Hamerow, G. Jin, T. Kerig, D. Lawrence, M.D. McCoy, J. Munson, S.G. Ortman, C.A. Petrie, & P. Roscoe, Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (16) e2400694122, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.240069412 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Agriculture #Wealth #Inequality #Academia #Academics @anthropology

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Tuomas Väisänen 📼🧟‍♂️

My dear fellow researchers in #America.

If you are in the midst of finding a new #academic home and securing new #research #funding the Academy of Finland is preparing a funding call of at least €50 million in budget to cover the period from 2026 to 2030. Stay tuned!

aka.fi/en/about-us/whats-new/p

Research Council of FinlandRCF preparing call for universities to invite foreign researchers to FinlandThe Research Council of Finland (RCF) is planning a new funding call to help universities recruit international experts to Finland. The call would be part of the RCF funding scheme that strengthens university research profiles, the so-called Profi funding, which has been part of the RCF’s competitive funding portfolio since 2015.</...
#science#PhD#PostDoc
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

**Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library**

“_The results reveal that most manuscripts contain fewer than 20 excerpts, but a small number show much higher levels of excerpting, highlighting the immense intellectual and literary activities implicated in their production._”

Maeir N (2025) Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0320265. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0.

doi.orgMaterial philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British LibraryThis study explores the literary practice of excerpting in Syriac manuscripts through a computational-quantitative analysis, contributing to the emerging field of Syriac material philology. The primary objective is to offer a “big picture” charting of Syriac excerpting as a non-authorial literary practice. Using digitized data from the British Library’s Syriac manuscript collection, the study analyzes nearly 20,000 excerpts, introducing the Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM) metric to quantify and compare excerpting practices across manuscripts. The results reveal that most manuscripts contain fewer than 20 excerpts, but a small number show much higher levels of excerpting, highlighting the immense intellectual and literary activities implicated in their production. These high-EPM manuscripts appear across multiple genres, indicating that excerpting was a widespread and essential cultural activity rather than confined to specific literary types. The study also finds that manuscripts with the highest EPM values are concentrated between the 6th and 9th centuries CE, corresponding with a period of intense literary compilation in late antiquity. This pattern reflects the importance of excerpting in knowledge organization, aligning with broader trends in the canonization of texts within Christian, Jewish, and Greco-Roman traditions. The research emphasizes the limitations of earlier cataloging approaches, which obscure non-authorial practices by focusing on authors and texts. By reorienting data through computational analysis, the study provides new insights into the role of excerpting in Syriac manuscript culture. This approach demonstrates the value of digital tools in material philology, uncovering patterns that bridge genres and timeframes, and identifying high-EPM manuscripts as key sites of intellectual and cultural activity in the Syriac literary tradition.
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