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Want to see all the National Academies has to offer on #education? Browse our publications that cover everything from #ECE to #HigherEd, including deeper dives on engineering, medical training, math and science, and teacher prep. Take a look! buff.ly/41hdFHt

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Impatient for THE AI CON to come out? So are we! If you want to be sure to have a copy at the first possible moment, pre-order from your favorite bookseller. thecon.ai w/ @alexhanna.bsky.social

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Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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“Some students asked, 'Are we going to practice like an [active shooter] drill for when ICE comes?'” How Trump’s immigration agenda is disrupting education around the country

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A teacher on why so many students aren't showing up to school: “The thing I kept getting is: ‘What if I go home today and my parents are already gone?’" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Dismantling the US Department of Education could affect public school students with disabilities. A new Urban Wire piece provides an overview of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and examines potential impacts of disrupting the Department of Education’s key functions.

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Thousands of federal workers performing essential functions—from food safety to forestry and fire management to nuclear safeguards—have been illegally fired. The Department of Justice has abandoned more than 150 years of independence. The president has claimed that he is a king. It is day 31.

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This is a flat-out, clear-cut violation of the First Amendment.

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This excellent piece by @chrisgeidner.bsky.social picks apart the precise extent to which the rule of law is holding. It is realistic about the stakes, but argues that the Rubicon has not been crossed -- and we need to fight to keep it that way.

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Is your NSF grant on this list? Reach out if so! Ted Cruz released a list of grants flagged for DEI or "neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda" from his Oct. report. NSF is using keywords from that report for their review, though Cruz's list is likely larger. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

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A very clear statement of what is happening to science right now. And on the social science side: "This cuts across economics, psychology, sociology. In all these fields, there are whole chunks of the discipline that may just not be possible to carry on anymore."

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From the Chronice of Higher Ed's daily newsletter email. The first ICE arrest on a college campus happened at Spokane Community College yesterday. The Chronicle, however, is here to tell us that in "the bigger picture," it's no big deal, even if "the loudest voices" say it is.

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He's running our country like one of his casinos, where the lights and the noise keep people from noticing the grime (and the crime) all around them, and where the free buffet and the chance at a big payoff are designed to make people forget that the house always wins.

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All hands on deck red alert, please share broadly: Senate GOP budget resolution calls to cut Ag & Finance. This means they’re coming after SNAP & Medicaid. They are trying to take away nutrition & health care. The reconciliation bill is filibuster proof & so can be passed w/ their slim majority.

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Many of you started following me a few weeks ago when I shared my experiences of getting kicked out of an NIH workshop. I’ve now shared those experiences and their potential long term effects in an OpEd published this week in the Akron Beacon Journal. You can read it here:

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BREAKING: Elon Musk and Donald Trump have officially started shutting down the Department of Education! GOP traitors are physically blocking members of Congress from entering the building—this is a full-on takeover of our education system. We CANNOT let them steal our children’s future.

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Supporting each other through difficult and challenging times theresearchcompanion.com/supporting-i... Free, gentle, practical and bonding suggestions for anyone impacted by university changes, cuts, closures, threats and dangers #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #gradschool #PhDChat #PhDHelp

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- 10,000 research grants flagged for review by NSF Program Directors - Reviews due by 5 p.m. today - They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"

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SCOOP: Many of the pages that went missing on Friday from the CDC website on Friday have reappeared — in response to intense media coverage, backlash from the scientific community and concern for the public’s health. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...

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For those interested in crime data...the FBI's CDE going down shouldn't impact too much. All of their data back to 1960 is archived thanks to the tireless work of Jacob Kaplan and projects like the RTCI do a better job tracking current trends than the FBI data.

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Just incase, a friend downloaded the CDC vaccine schedule for kids and adults and I put it in a dropbox folder here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/psiuq...

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I just tried to access the 2020 Census results and got the following error message: www.census.gov/2020results.

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I'm an R1 professor who voluntarily signed up for a two-day long teaching convening (outside of my university) to engage in professional development on my pedagogical practice (focused on prioritizing justice in research methods). Being in this space is such a balm to my soul right now.

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GO GRAB YOUR HIV DATA. If it’s public, just go grab. Download a hard copy. CDC is knocking down HIV data next and there’s so much confusion it’ll be easy to miss your state doing the same.

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When “In Living Color” beat the NFL in halftime viewers in 1992.. the NFL called the ONLY person they knew could make sure it wouldn’t happen the next year... Michael Joseph Jackson... 133 million viewers, more than the actual game. #SuperBowl #TheKingofPop #SBXXVI

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From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

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🚨In Brief! UBC Sociology grad student Colter J. Uscola summarizes new work from @posada.website in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social on the ways work platforms, digital crypto banks, and local brokers slash international workers' take-home pay: contexts.org/articles/she...

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Ok, here's what you need to know about Trump's anti-trans executive order targeting trans youth. Teamed up with @leximcmenamin.bsky.social to explain what it means for trans youth right now, with legal input from @aclu.org attorney @harperseldin.bsky.social www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps...

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go.bsky.app/ALbjGXE I have created a starter pack of Indigenous Authors and Book Reviewers. This list is growing. If I missed you, dm me. Please share! #diversebooks #booksky

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Pub 🚨! This is one of two papers by myself and @dryasmiyn.bsky.social that explores the racial recategorization of Latinos in the 2020 census race question. In this particular article, we examine the reassignment of White Latinos out of White categorical membership link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Resegregation was always the point of resistance to the Civil Rights movements that brought us these celebrations.

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Just up, “New Estimates of Immigrants’ Self-employment From Linked Tax Records”: Villarreal & Tamborini find “the rate in admin data is nearly double" that in CPS data. @https://read.dukeupress.edu/demography/article/doi/10.1215/00703370-11773170/394821/Research-Note-New-Estimates-of-Immigrants-Self

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When you can only win with disinformation, data becomes a threat.

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If you’re a federal govt employee targeted for leave or termination on the basis of your DEI work, please file an EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) complaint & retain legal counsel. I’m a former NIH PI. Happy to refer you to a law firm that has successfully sued the govt many times! Pls repost 🙏❤️

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I’m looking to speak to federal workers about how this will impact childcare. Message me securely on Signal at marisakabas.04

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As Trump threatens Chicago, organizers are bracing for raids but also hopeful that a vast suite of local protections and community trainings can limit the scale of deportations. NEW in Bolts: boltsmag.org/chicago...

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Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge). You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant no matter what the ICE officer says.

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Great article on the Making Tech Work for Workers conference we attended in Sacramento earlier this week. Unionized + non-unionized workers recognize threats that AI use by employers + others outside the workplace (landlords, governments, etc.) pose to economic stability + are gearing up to fight!

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Emphasizing that a Child Tax Credit expansion will especially benefit Black and Hispanic children did not reduce policy support or advocacy intentions among White and Republican respondents. In PNAS Nexus: academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

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Some of these GoFundMe's for displaced Black people in So Cal aren't really moving. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... - there's a ton of need.

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On Monday I participated in a panel moderated by Clare Croft with Ruth Behar, Jim Burnstein, Frieda Ekotto, Silke-Maria Weineck, and Jason Young on the Role of Arts Research/Creative Practice in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Thanks to the Michigan Daily! www.michigandaily.com/news/academi...

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Hundreds of L.A. landlords have hiked rents on desperate people fleeing the wildfires. Landlords for at least 400 properties appear to have ignored the law and the warnings of California's Attorney General and illegally raised rents since the fires began. www.yahoo.com/news/hundred...

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Accounting for Individual-Specific Heterogeneity in Intergenerational Income Mobility www.nber.org/papers/w3334... "race and parental education interact with parental income in children’s economic prospects in ways that can create bottlenecks in mobility"

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The Gilded Age and Beyond: The Persistence of Elite Wealth in American History www.nber.org/papers/w3335... "We find a non-linear association between grandparental wealth and being in the top 1%, such that having a rich grandparent exponentially increases the likelihood of reaching the top 1%."

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Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives. www.nber.org/papers/w33357

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