On balance, would you send your children to #Harvard or #Princeton? Given their relative fealty in recent months?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/12/us/harvard-university-professors-lawsuit-trump-administration/index.html

Interview: Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal, former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett

Bennett is touring north American campuses, coinciding with the deportations, detainments, and disappearances of students at these same campuses for protesting Israel’s genocide.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/palestinians-speak-out-against-princeton

#israeliwarcriminals #princeton #uspol #;freepalestine #studentprotests #fascism #illegaldeportations .

While not exactly an alumnus, I did a postdoc at Princeton, and it’s great to hear that their president is taking a stand.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/podcasts/the-daily/princeton-university-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Margaret Sullivan: The AP’s win against Trump shows principles still have power in the US

"Series of actions this week including at #Princeton and in a tiny town, offer #hope that courageous voices can make a difference"

#law #AP #journalism #ICE #deporation #immigration #academicfreedom
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/09/associated-press-trump-administration

R.I.P. Jerry Ostriker (1937-2025)

Once again I find myself using this blog to pass on sad news. This time it is of the death of renowned astrophysicist Jerry Ostriker (pictured left in 2012), who passed away on Monday 6th April 2025 just a week before his 88th birthday.

Jeremiah Paul Ostriker (to give his full name) was an extremely energetic, versatile and influential theorist who worked on a wide range of problems in diverse areas of astrophysics and produced a number of classic papers. Close to my own specialism I would quote two in particular: one written with Jim Peebles in 1973 about the stability of galactic disks; and the other with Martin Rees in 1977 about the role of gas cooling and fragmentation in determining the size of galaxies and clusters. He also did much to establish the use of hydrodynamic simulations in cosmology and was an early adopter of the current standard cosmological model, including a cosmological constant. He worked on many other things too, including pulsars and galactic nuclei.

I only met Jerry Ostriker a few times, mainly at conferences – where he was never shy to contribute to discussions after talks – but also once back in the 1990s when I was a visitor Princeton (where he was Professor). I didn’t have much time to talk to him then as he always seemed to be on the go, so I never really got to know him personally. After spending most of his career in Princeton, including a spell as Provost, in 2001 Ostriker moved to Cambridge for a short stint as Plumian Professor, before returning to Princeton.

There is a very nice obituary of Jerry Ostriker by Dennis Overbye in the New York Times.

Rest in peace, Jerry Ostriker

More science research cuts—

Commerce Secretary Lutnick announced yesterday that he is taking back ~ $4 million of funding to Princeton University intended to study the effects and risks of climate change, global warming, water availability, and rising sea levels since those objectives do not meet Trump’s new goals for NOAA.

#USA #USGov #trump #ClimateChange #NOAA #education #research #science #princeton

https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2025/04/ending-cooperative-agreements-funding-princeton-university

Interview: Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal, former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett

Bennett is touring north American campuses, coinciding with the deportations, detainments, and disappearances of students at these same campuses for protesting Israel’s genocide.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/palestinians-speak-out-against-princeton

#israeliwarcriminals #princeton #uspol #;freepalestine #studentprotests #fascism #illegaldeportations .

#Princeton's biggest crypto boosting computer scientist Jaswinder Pal Singh has somehow ended up in the middle of an alleged corporate fraud involving (yet another) member of the Forbes 30 under 30.

I don’t know any details about this but the fact that JP Singh has been using Princeton's name to provide legitimacy to cryptocurrency for years and has now somehow landed in the middle of what looks like an egregious and massive corporate fraud going on at CaaStle is… interesting.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/caastle-let-ceo-remain-after-learning-of-alleged-fraud

Interview: Palestinians Speak Out Against Princeton Welcoming Israeli War Criminal, former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett

Bennett is touring north American campuses, coinciding with the deportations, detainments, and disappearances of students at these same campuses for protesting Israel’s genocide.

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/palestinians-speak-out-against-princeton

#israeliwarcriminals #princeton #uspol #;freepalestine #studentprotests #fascism #illegaldeportations .

https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025/04/princeton-news-adpol-eisgruber-university-concessions-bloomberg-interview

Princeton University has said the U.S. government froze several dozen research grants to the school, which became the latest academic institution targeted by the Trump administration. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/02/world/politics/princeton-us-grants-trump/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #princeton #us #republicans #donaldtrump #universities

The #education of children, even at our best schools are under attack. #princeton is the latest university being impacted by #trump and #project2025 will turn the #usa into a Christian taliban state. #handmaidstale is truly becoming a reality.
#fascism #antifa #injustice

https://apnews.com/article/princeton-trump-federal-funding-9c32a996256849ac00792ef50dbdfb0e

A Review of Efes Mediterranean Grill, in Princeton https://www.diningandcooking.com/1984521/a-review-of-efes-mediterranean-grill-in-princeton/ #EfesMediterraneanGrill(Princeton #Mediterranean #MediterraneanSoup #nj #Princeton(NJ) #restaurant #Restaurants

Measles in Princeton NJ - both not NJ residents
#measles #NJ #Princeton #Amtrak

https://www.nj.gov/health/news/2025/approved/20250328c.shtml

Excited to be speaking tomorrow at the #Princeton Initiative for Data-Driven Social Science about @ropensci.org and software peer review. Give a shout if you're on campus and want to meet! #rstats

“Surrendering to Authoritarianism”

by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack

“Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception”

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/surrendering-to-authoritarianism?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios

FUR TRADE STORIES FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS:
#AmWriting #History
A hard walk up the Nicolum River led the HBC past the future location of the infamous Hope Slide, between #Hope and #Princeton, #BC https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/nicolum-river-hope-slide/

March Madness 2025 live updates, score: First Four continues ahead of NCAA tournament https://www.byteseu.com/845367/ #AlabamaState #IowaState #MarchMadness #NcaaTournament #Princeton #Sports #UCSanDiego

More of this please. Much more. Christopher Eisgruber, President of #Princeton speaks up: "The attack on #Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. #Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/columbia-academic-freedom/682088/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxd-dIYlBRWpmLVXNH5Dyk7w&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#USPol
#Fascism