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Happy #PrideMonth! 🏳️‍🌈

submitted 5 days ago • 170 comments

if a student turned in this slop, we'd be having a serious conversation in my office. is this the plan to ruin the credibility of american health sciences? fully shatter the public's trust? i'm so sick of this administration playing around like toddlers (no offense, toddlers) with people's lives.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants). scienceimpacts.org

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

every week it's part of my work to advise undergraduate STEM students on their grad school and career paths.. these used to be joyful conversations. now, they are full of anxiety and questions about "alternative options" 💔

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

A pride of lions is a nice metaphor for how to respond to the attacks by the current admin on science, education, public service, and reality. Remind ourselves we are part of a group and then work together. This is part of why we must go to protests. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/o...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"at that very same conference that I learned critical thinking takes up 20 percent, sometimes 30 percent, of company time. It’s clear to me that some of you are not focused on the profit potential of outsourcing all of our thinking" 💯A+ as always @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-c...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Hi! Do you want to rip your face off over the constant attacks on science in the US? Here are some actions you can take! They require varying amounts of time, repetitiveness, and sticking your neck out, so hopefully you can find something in here that’s right for you: 🧪 #scicomm

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

i know y'all on bluesky already know this.. but in class this week i'm talking about data visualization, and so all my students are going to have to look long and hard at this: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Imagine if you had to pour the right amount water into a little tube in your computer and then ride a stationary bike long enough to produce sufficient energy for Chat GPT to respond to your prompt...we live in a world stripped of feedback and it shows.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

submitted 17 days ago • 1230 comments

back last night from my 25th college reunion at Penn.. weird time right now. hard to know how to feel about our beloved alma mater 💔 everyone nervously milling about joking if don jr would show up (course not), while also telling sad stories about defunded grad students. hurah hurah pennsylvania?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

This is either interesting scientific research or the start of one incredible heist

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

submitted 23 days ago • 32 comments

oh sigh, just thinking how much groundbreaking early childhood research you could fund with a $400 million luxury jet. or how many early childhood teachers' salaries... or how many children's healthy breakfasts... or how many, many picturebooks we could buy... 😠

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

don't go silent... www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

it will take years to rebuild from the damage that is being done today to the NSF pipeline that supports so so many germinal experiences for students and trainees. 💔

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

🎤 Want to bring science to your community? We’re launching What’s the Big Idea? — Science for Good’s first local science communication initiative, and looking for pilot sites to host the first round of events! A science open mic night for everyone. No PhD required! 🧵👇

submitted 28 days ago • 5 comments

still giggling about this.. iykyk

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Hi...the proposed Trump budget is absolutely terrible for children. Would other dev. scientists be interested in writing op-eds for local papers about how the budget represents a threat to children across the board? I can give you support & talking points. DM me your email #babiesoverbillionnaires

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

i will never apologize for a post

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Federal research funding cut? Don’t stop now. Two quick-response grants can help: Spencer Foundation – bridge funding for education researchers: bit.ly/4jvA7oi RWJF – racial & Indigenous health equity research support: bit.ly/44VUJ4D #SRCD #ChildDevelopment

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.

submitted 34 days ago • 55 comments

Trump's 100 days in 100 seconds. From yours truly. Watch/share/subscribe: zeteo.com/subscribe

submitted 38 days ago • 85 comments

Do not let anyone get away with calling this "savings".

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

this means a lot to many of us ❤️

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent thread on some of the projects cancelled because of the illegal NSF grant terminations.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

yup.. this (is one of the things that) keeps me up at night. i spend most of my worklife training and mentoring junior researchers, and i worry i'm sending them out into a bleak environment...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Faculty and staff at UC Irvine have been criminalized for exercising their freedom of speech on campus in defense of Palestinian life and dignity. They are now in the position of needing to defend themselves. Can you help? If you have $5, please join me in donating. www.gofundme.com/f/defend-aca...

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments

Hey academics, wondering about changes for evaluating job applicants and T&P decisions. Downgrade importance of grants if getting grants is no longer based on scientific evaluation. Increase the value of communication with the general public. We need to speak clearly about the value of our work.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

there's a lot lately in the news that makes me want to scream-cry, but this.. this.. please, please not Head Start 💔

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

the thing about having a non-academic spouse is that he really, really doesn't understand sometimes why i'm so mentally exhausted. it could be middle age, it could be fascism, or it could be Reviewer #2...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

John Flavell was an amazing scholar with the deepest understanding of Piaget, but also just an incredibly good human and the biggest hearted mentor I met in grad school. I feel so lucky to have known him and Ellie. ❤️

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.” 🔥 🔥 This is exactly the response universities need to be giving across the board.

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

aaargh! i got an R&R back from a journal less than a month ago, and now i'm getting "revision overdue" notices. there was no due date on the revision, and i've never experienced this kind of aggression from a journal before... wtf? there's kind of a lot going on right now!

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I really feel like we are being governed by a bunch of dudes whose dads didn't hug them enough.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

New on Academe Blog: academeblog.org/2025/04/11/t...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

if you, like me, heard this interview and started SCREAMING into the void about the destructive and upside-down ideas of this gleeful little tyrant, then it may be helpful to read or share @carlbergstrom.com 's breakdown thread.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

"when will donald trump and his friends be rich enough that they'll stop picking on everyone else?" - my 9-year-old

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

taking a what now??! please make this stop. make. it. stop.

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment