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6/2/25:  Inside Trump’s Attack on Harvard (New York Times, video) The battle between Harvard University and the Trump administration has continued to escalate. Michael C. Bender, a correspondent for The New York Times in Washington, surveys the administration’s actions against the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010197818/inside-trumps-attack-on-harvard.html

6/1/25:  Trump administration claims Chinese students ‘exploit’ U.S. universities (Washington Post) Beijing wants talented Chinese studying overseas to return home. But are Chinese students in the United States really a national security threat? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/01/china-us-students-national-security-threat/

5/31/25:  Why Trump’s push for ‘gold-standard science’ has researchers alarmed (Washington Post) Many scientists fear the Trump administration’s new standard means putting political appointees in charge, which could undercut independent research. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/05/31/trump-science-gold-standard-politics/

5/30/25:  NIH Seeks Public Input on Responsible Development of Innovative AI Tools (NOT-OD-25-118) NIH is requesting input on effective strategies for mitigating controlled-access human genomic data leakage when developing and sharing generative AI tools and applications. Importantly, these strategies should still promote and enable widespread innovation and adoption of responsible AI for biomedical research. Comments Due July 16.  https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-118.html

5/30/25:  Final NSF budget proposal jettisons one giant telescope amid savage agencywide cuts (Science) Following up on the “skinny budget” unveiled on 2 May, the White House’s  full NSF budget request  to Congress for the 2026 fiscal year would all but doom one of two proposed giant telescopes, eliminate funding for the U.S. global change research program and research on clean energy technologies, and close half of a pioneering gravitational wave observatory whose data on black hole mergers produced a Nobel Prize. The NSF budget proposal would also reduce by two-thirds the agency’s investment in training the next generation of U.S. scientists and engineers and eviscerate its $1.4 billion portfolio to increase the diversity of that workforce. https://www.science.org/content/article/final-nsf-budget-proposal-jettisons-one-giant-telescope-amid-savage-agencywide-cuts