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Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission): 1) actions 2) background 3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Aid and rescue workers in Gaza are risking their lives every single day. Many have been killed by Israeli forces in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Efforts to investigate these violations & crimes are obstructed by the Israeli authorities. We need a permanent ceasefire now.

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38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 920 comments

Florida: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez (20) is being held in the Leon County Jail, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien." Lopez-Gomez is a U.S. Citizen, born in the USA. He showed his U.S. birth certificate in court. The judge held him in jail anyway. This is Fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

1,374 days until January 20, 2029. No one can just wait this out and hope everything will blow over.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

Anti-trans policies don't just hurt trans people. They hurt anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a pink box or a blue one. And they hurt the rest of us by creating pressure to ensure that we always fit neatly into our box.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Harvard has fuck-you money to burn and literally mints the benchmark currency of cultural capital in the United States. They are first among a handful of universities in the U.S. that have the power to thwart this fascist singelhandedly. Columbia was one of those institutions. Never will be again.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

AERA, in partnership with the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education over the unlawful dismantling of the Institute of Education Sciences. www.aera.net/Newsroom/AER...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Let's go! That's 2/3 of my associations standing up (aefp already announced their suit).

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Just Education Policy is coming back! We’re excited to announce that we are planning for an in-person Just Education Policy Institute this Fall 2025. Applications & more details will be released in early May. For more info. about the Just Education Policy Institute, visit justeducationpolicy.org.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

In the authoritarian year of 2025, I desperately want adults to be okay with me or anyone else not enjoying something that they enjoy. Amen.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Ended. Up. Ended. Up. endedup

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. Populations get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 6 days ago • 181 comments

I’m angry about many, many, aspects of Trumpism. And it’s not the top of my list, but I hate the amount of media (and mental) space occupied by absolute cranks, racists, and fools who have been promot because of their venality stupidity. If this is “meritocracy,” it is a meritocray of monsters.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

One thing life gave me is resilience. Resilience is, far and away, the single greatest factor to anything good that I have in my life. Someone recently asked me what I want for the kids in my life. It’s this. Resilience. Because life ain’t fair & you gotta live it anyway.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

interesting how rapidly academic freedom and free speech disappeared from the conversation after dominating it for years and years www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments

In case you're wondering... it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans. And nobody has been fired... Don't stop talking about SignalGate

submitted 8 days ago • 325 comments

Congress must find out if trump's inner circle is illegally profiting off of these huge swings in the stock market by insider trading. Once more, Sen. Chris Murphy tells it like it is !

submitted 8 days ago • 24 comments

A must ready by @kevincarey1.bsky.social today. www.vox.com/education/40... Why don't the richest universities strategically and collectively use their endowments to lead the fight! If a forever legacy is what these leaders (and boards?) want, they need to act from their positions of wealth.

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submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) has a bill to return tariff authority to Congress. If it were to pass, the purposeless tariffs would end. Speaker Johnson is blocking it. Call your member of Congress, R or D, & urge a discharge petition on the bill, which forces a vote. U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121.

submitted 12 days ago • 44 comments

Paige Bueckers has been through quite the journey, quite the heartache, and now quite the triumph since this cover in January 2020. So gratified to have followed her journey.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Every country should tell him to go to Hell

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Correct. Watch. It isn’t trade policy, it isn’t economic policy. It’s a way to get political control over the business world.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Billionaire fires hundreds of thousands of Americans while positioning himself “to see billions of dollars in new federal contracts or other support”: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

submitted 17 days ago • 191 comments

What @roxanegay.bsky.social said!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning. Monday morning. In a rank choice voting system you need to rank five good apples for mayor in addition to NOT ranking Cuomo and NOT ranking Adams. Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments

Trans rights are human rights. #TransDayofVisibility

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Kickass statement from Dean of the UM Stamps School of Art & Design Full text at link mailchi.mp/04bd06b0c03c...

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

I have been hearing from people that they have been having issues accessing their Social Security accounts. INSTEAD of going to a branch which may be hundreds or 1Ks+ of miles away from you, call your members of Congress. They have constituent services that will help you regain access. Please share!

submitted 19 days ago • 134 comments

Keep talking about Signalgate. Do not let them push it out of the news.

submitted 20 days ago • 186 comments

Over and over again

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

So important to note that the threats of arrest and even deportation to a country not your own are designed to force students to self-deport, meaning that they’ll never even have the chance of getting their day in court. Hard to overstate how shocking this is

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

This is about curbing campus activism. But it's also an effort to cut off another leg of the funding on which universities stand. At many schools, >10% of the students are international. And they're much more likely than domestic students to pay full price. These actions will drive many away.

submitted 20 days ago • 7 comments

Here’s an updated list of students known to have been targeted by the Trump administration for speaking out about what Israel is doing to Palestinians in Gaza, in a clear attempt to chill/stop free speech: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19058...

submitted 20 days ago • 61 comments

NCME and our organizational colleagues call on Congress to protect federal educational databases, including ensuring that expert staff remain to maintain them: www.aera.net/Portals/38/E... For other recent @ncme38.bsky.social actions in support of our members, see here: www.ncme.org/blogs/nathan...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

an executive order is not a law an executive order is not a law an executive order is not a law an executive order is not a law an executive order is not a law an executive order is not a law an executive order is not a law an executive order is not a law an executive order is not a law

submitted 21 days ago • 481 comments

See. Now we understand why they are so threatened by Critical Race Theory

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

I feel the need to share this with the limited audience I have for no reason other than my staunch belief that art may be the thing that heals this world. Also, Jacob Collier is a genius. youtu.be/TURkB9zqxa0?...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford

submitted 23 days ago • 2772 comments

NEW: The Trump administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves. With @capitolnewsil.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments

I should've mentioned, every org I volunteer with and donate my time, energy, and efforts to signed onto this. I don't have time for academic associations who don't recognize our current threats.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump admin is full of segregationists, and I wish (apparently pointlessly) that influential organizations that were supposedly leaders in creating integrated spaces would show some backbone. I’m feeling for the facutly and students this targets. You all deserve better.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments