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🔬🧪🧬 @sadbumblebee.buzz and I are collecting stories from scientists whose research funding has been halted by the Trump admin. Feel free to share this form with anyone who has been impacted and as always you can reach me on signal at caitlingilbert.24 thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/scient...

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

In response to uncertainty about NIH and federal funding, Case Western announced indefinite freezes on the following: - staff hiring - temporary employee hours - discretionary spending, including for speakers - travel not related to donors

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

The indiscriminate slashing by DOGE is wasteful and damaging to our efforts to improve education. We spend way less than we should on education research in this country--a minuscule amount that is truly a rounding error in the federal budget, let alone as a fraction of total education spending.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Freezing out the NIH's funding means freezing out American innovation. Research into curing cancer, Alzheimer's, and Parkinson's all delayed. And ultimately it won't just cost us advancements in life-saving research, it will cost us lives.

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 4 days ago • 2205 comments

Todays hero

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

If only the US had some sort of agency that could invest in breakthrough like this on behalf of the American people. If we did, surely we wouldn't just defund it.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A core part of being productive is learning how to prioritize. This week I discuss some strategies that have helped me! #edusky #PhDsky #AcademicSky #phdlife #psychsky #scisky #gradsky

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We’re headed toward an America where discoveries (which will be fewer in number) are hidden behind for-profit paywalls instead of belonging to the American people. We’ll all be worse off.

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All that’s missing is passing papers through an AI grader. Then students and professors can just sit back while the machines do all the learning and teaching. That’s the dream, right?

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 5 days ago • 83 comments

Totally foreseeable, despite their assurances otherwise. Increasingly clear that we will not be able to rely on federal data collection and research efforts under this administration--it's going to be all up to the states.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Keep calling - it’s working: “Keylin provided a noticed from the Senate sergeant at arms, who indicated that instead of the usual 25-40 calls the Senate receives per minute, the server is was taking in about 1,500-1,600 per minute.” www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The committee on Science, Space, and Technology are collecting testimony of Federal employees fired in the past days. Please share with your colleagues and friends. The more testimony, the better we can argue against this injustice.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

If you haven’t yet taken real life action, please use this latest outrage to light a 🔥 under you and find a group, get involved in your community, call your reps, take to the streets, whatever approach suits you. Action > Anxiety Real Life > Social Media You got this!

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A gene called NOVA1 may be part of the solution to the mystery of how our ancestors evolved language. Here's my story about mice with strange squeaks. [Gift link] nyti.ms/3XuVehN 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Committing to doing this in my hometown paper in Michigan.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This is a perfectly fine (useless) letter. As academics we are paying dearly for not engaging directly with our communities. Ending the letter with "so stop it, pretty please?" was...a choice. If laws are easy to ignore why would a letter written by academics be any different?

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

1/ I am seeing a lot of comments on the slashing of NIH support along the lines of “universities should just spend their huge endowments.” I’m the last person to cheer on the institutional stratification rising endowments have contributed to. But let me explain why this is not a solution.

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

Oh ffs just because I can outpace someone if I'm on a bike and they're on their two feet doesn't make me a better runner. Plus...how would one learn how to "ask the right questions" and interrogate the answers? Could it POSSIBLY be education, which helps with critical thinking? Maybe??

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 10 days ago • 386 comments

Give yourself a break! Knowing when and how to take a break from mundane or repetitive tasks (i.e., metacognition of attention) improves performance. https://buff.ly/4b0iwRS

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

“Our sample was small, biased, not representative of anyone except those 11 people, but we still want to squeeze out some generalized inference to make you read this article!” How about no. Why don’t folks just go find their own Trump supporter friends (yes, you have them) and have a conversation?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

This week I discuss a few strategies for first year PhD students: #edusky #PhDsky #AcademicSky #phdlife #psychsky #scisky #gradsky

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I won't bother to link Ted Cruz's dumb list of "woke" grants because it's clearly a lesson in CTRL+F and pivot tables failing miserably. BUT A grant I was Co-PI on is on the list, and it's worth digging into it.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This is what happens when your approach to evaluation is Crtl+F.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

😂 Honestly I think it was a miscalculation for a certain Senator to publish this list by showing how absurd it is (and how important the actual funded research is) Sen. Ted Cruz's list of 'woke' science includes self-driving cars and solar eclipses

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

A clear and compelling read on IES. I hope policymakers pay attention to this. There is a very strong bipartisan case to be made for continuing to fund the development, evaluation, and syntheses of evaluations of educational programs.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Presumably the same will happen for IES. But if it’s a scream test and not enough ppl scream then maybe not.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

How IES Helps Students and Educators. theconversation.com/helping-teac...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Listen if social scientists get dinged for "p<.05" not being rigorous enough then maybe we should hold "AI crime detectors" to a higher standard than p=.10

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The inability for Dems to play hardball and use parliamentary shenanigans to force their agenda as an opposition party is both predictable and infuriating. Do they not realize that the moral arguments they've used until now are totally useless at this stage?

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

The Department of Education has agreed to temporarily block DOGE from accessing federal student loan data.

submitted 15 days ago • 149 comments