Researchers weighing options amid federal funding cut threats to universities

News24 | ANALYSIS | SA has world class medical researchers – they can and should be bailed out

The sudden and severe US cuts to grants from the world's largest health research funder threaten to unravel the medical research landscape in South Africa. A crucial question now is whether the government will turn this crisis into an opportunity for renewal, write Marcus Low and Nathan Geffen.

So You Want to Be a Dissident?

Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer on how Americans are confronting rising risks for protest, free speech, and civil resistance amid Donald Trump’s Presidency.

Since Donald Trump took office, the attacks on the universities have come on strike: fear for colleagues, perplexity over events and perplexity over the next steps.

A Disaster for American Innovation

The Trump administration is jeopardizing the AI boom.

Universities Are Freaking Out Over Research Funding Cuts They Can Totally Handle — Minding The Campus

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published National Association of Scholars report, Rescuing Science. It has been edited to align with Minding the Campus’s style guidelines and is cross-posted here with permission.  Recently, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) proposed that indirect costs rates (administrative overheads) on research grants from the NIH […] The post Universities Are Freaking Out Over Research Fu…

Swedish minister calls in universities to discuss recruiting US researchers

Sweden's education minister on Thursday held a roundtable with nine Swedish universities to plan how best to attract US students and researchers affected by the cuts, censorship and ideological control imposed by the administration of US President Donald Trump.