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Hegseth Is Waging War on University Partnerships. His Targets Are Unclear.
Last month, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made several announcements, stating he was ending partnerships with multiple highly selective colleges and universities that have long educated military service members. But it remains unclear what he’s actually canceling, why specific universities have been targeted or favored and what he plans to replace these programs with.
3/6/26Science, Editorial, H. Holden Thorp
Sabotaging the NSF fellowship is a blunder
Over the last year, the Trump administration has sent one discouraging message after another to young people aspiring to a scientific career in the United States. The corrosive rhetoric that mocks scientific expertise and the proposed—and realized—cuts to funding are driving students away from scientific careers that may no longer exist by the time they graduate. Making matters even worse, cutbacks in visas awarded to foreign students are eroding the opportunities for young American scientists to work with the most talented people in the world. There is perhaps no stronger evidence of the administration’s objectives to reduce the quality of the US scientific workforce than its treatment of the National Science Foundation’s flagship Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
3/6/26STAT
How Stand Up For Science is trying to ‘pull every lever’ to win over the public
It was a year ago when a handful of early career researchers made a splash — organizing “Stand Up For Science” protests in dozens of cities to voice opposition to Trump administration policies disrupting research labs and public health. While it attracted attention, that initial day of action didn’t prevent grant terminations and layoffs across federal health and science agencies. But in the year since those largely symbolic protests, Stand Up For Science has become a formal organization and adopted a new strategy, attempting to take on the administration’s campaign to remake science, higher education, and public health on multiple fronts, while adopting more confrontational and grassroots tactics.
3/6/36Inside Higher Ed
NIH Will No Longer Recognize Union of Early-Career Researchers
The National Institutes of Health will no longer recognize a union of early-career researchers who work in its labs, NOTUS reported . NIH fellows—who typically receive term-limited grants—“are not ‘employees’” and are not “employed in an agency,” read the email the NIH sent to leaders of the NIH Fellows United-UAW union earlier this week. “The NIH/UAW bargaining unit should never have been certified.”
3/6/36Inside Higher Ed
Journal Submissions Riddled With AI-Created Fake Citations
References used to be one of the last things journal editors checked before publishing a paper. Artificial intelligence is changing that.