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“We must not sacrifice academic freedom and a healthy civil society for the short-term gains of anticipatory compliance.” ⁦#HigherEd AAC&U⁩ ⁦ACE⁩ ⁦Institute for Citizens & Scholars⁩ slate.com/life/2025/02/c…

Scientists warn Trump’s $4bn funding cuts will harm US medical research ft.com/content/028b2d… via @ft

Academy President and CEO @NickDirks recently moderated a roundtable discussion titled “Frontier Labs, AGI, and the State of Safety Science,” which included experts from AI startups and academia, as part of the AI Action Summit in Paris. #aisconnect

This just in! Academy President and CEO Nicholas B. Dirks spoke with Ruth at POLITICO about how federal funding cuts could impact the innovation economy in the U.S., including research that led to the development of #artificialintelligence. politico.com/newsletters/fu…

National Labs play a key role in the nation’s innovation ecosystem. #NLSLAM25 finalists from each of the 17 U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories had the opportunity to tour the U.S. Capitol and share their research with members of Congress. Learn more: nlresearchslam.org

Via carolyn johnson and Joel Achenbach of the Washpost. I will never stop saying this: The federal research partnership with colleges and universities is vital to all of our lives. The NIH is irreplaceable. #HigherEdBuildsAmerica washingtonpost.com/science/2025/0…

Great to speak on the Capitalisn't podcast where we discussed the role of the university in the 21st century, how fundraising changed the governance of higher education, and how universities might navigate the challenges of Trump's second administration: capitalisnt.com/episodes/trump…

“American universities did not cause the onslaught that the second Trump administration is unleashing upon them,” Nicholas B. Dirks writes. But they'd “be in a much stronger position today if they had made a proactive case to the public for their own importance.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

On the latest #Capitalisnt: Despite a common notion that liberal arts degrees are “useless,” former UC Berkeley chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks shares that some companies actually prefer liberal arts majors, even with the rise in AI. Listen now: capitalisnt.com/episodes/trump…

Academy President and CEO @NickDirks’ piece for @TimesHigherEd focuses on how higher education and science in the United States are under threat during the second Trump Administration. Read more: bit.nyas.org/4iLNYWG

Trump’s assault on US universities: five views from the chainsaw’s teeth --Josh Hiller, Jacqueline R. Olvera, Matthew Wright, Robert A. Brown, Jennifer Schnellmann, Robert Zaretsky and Nicholas B. Dirks Times Higher Education timeshighereducation.com/depth/trumps-a…

Former UC Berkeley chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks joins #Capitalisnt to discuss the challenges facing higher education. ms.spr.ly/6010qMRpw

.Nicholas B. Dirks Govt actions "will..do irreparable harm to the world’s..scientific..enterprise, not to mention US prosperity, security &health. University leaders may be correct to be cautious...but they would not be wrong to panic." timeshighereducation.com/depth/trumps-a… via Times Higher Education

The 2025 @NationalPostdoc Annual Conference takes place March 21-22 in Boston - featuring a keynote address by Academy President & CEO @NickDirks, concurrent workshop sessions, & opportunities to network. Don't miss the biggest postdoc event of the year: bit.nyas.org/3DRIg70

Former UC Berkeley chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks joins #Capitalisnt to discuss the challenges facing higher education. ms.spr.ly/6017qulqR

Who would be a university president in America right now? As difficult as these jobs may be, I write in the Financial Times that this is the time to assert in the loudest possible way the extraordinary value of our universities: ft.com/content/604979…

Read Nicholas B. Dirks "this is the time to assert in the loudest possible way the extraordinary value of our universities, and the paramount need to maintain their research programmes as well as their commitment to academic freedom." ft.com/content/604979… via @ft

In New York Times Opinion “I find no comfort in the Trump administration’s embrace of my people,” writes Wesleyan’s first Jewish president, Michael Roth. “Jew hatred is real, but today’s anti-antisemitism isn’t a legitimate effort to fight it.” nyti.ms/4jhJsPX

🎓The Global Humanities Initiative at Cambridge University - School of Arts & Humanities invites you to a special conversation with Prof Nicholas Dirks Nicholas B. Dirks - historian, author and President & CEO of NYAS. 🗓️Thursday 26 June - 5:30pm Christ's College ▶️Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/pasts-and-fu…

Yann LeCun, VP and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, was recently recognized with the Academy’s inaugural Trailblazer Award. Not only is LeCun an accomplished computer scientist but he's also a big fan of jazz music. Read more: nyas.org/ideas-insights…