One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

In the past weeks, we shared 11 presentations & professional learning sessions. Four BU Wheelock doctoral students and four partner teachers have presented this work with me, sharing their expertise and connecting with educators and researchers. @buwheelock.bsky.social

Learn about Productive Uncertainty in Science Investigations at #NSTA25! Learn to see the different ways youth express uncertainty; leave with tools and new approaches for eliciting and honoring student sensemaking.

Register for TED CEC's Advocacy in Action webinar, tomorrow afternoon! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🗣️ We are so excited to announce the 2025 BU Wheelock Forum: Thriving in the Middle School Years. Join us to explore the complexity of this pivotal time in adolescent development. 🚨 Register Now:http://spr.ly/63320LeDp8

3 months from our book release! (www.tcpress.com/productive-u...) Now more than ever, our team is passionate about children experiencing and grappling with uncertainty–so that they can participate in sensemaking, develop their critical capacities, and engage in meaningful community discourse.

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠 sciencehomecoming.com

Would you please consider reposting this? The Department of Education needs to hear from as many people as possible that it is not acceptable in the year of our Lord 2025 to offer only two gender options. Thank you. Love, Julie/Mommy of a non-binary college student

The public broadcaster says it is closing its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to comply with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

Join us for the 2025 Curiosity & Learning Conference at Boston University - a morning of hands-on STEAM exploration and learning. This isn't your typical conference - instead of lectures, you'll find interactive stations where you can experiment with new ideas and materials. @buwheelock.bsky.social

Colleagues, I’m about to make an ask that used to work better on Twitter, but if you could help me out that would be so amazing. I’m considering the timing of my tenure process and looking to make my strongest case. If you’ve used my work in class, could you please email or dm me to let me know?

AAUP statement against anticipatory obedience: "Organize locally, regionally, and nationally. The erosion of faculty rights goes hand in hand with attacks on tenure, faculty unions, and academic governance." @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/report/again...

Outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz: "If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers." BOOM!

Resources for scientists who are being threatened or targeted below from the @nationalacademies.org www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

For those who care about education, here’s your graph for calls today on federal grants being frozen. Please if you are in a state that went for Trump, CALL CONGRESS, and point out that it hurts your state disproportionately MORE. www.datawrapper.de/_/skaST/

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

How can teachers use texts to build on students’ thinking after investigations, supporting further sensemaking rather than “providing the answer?” #NGSS #SciEd www.investigationsproject.org/cases/cake-n...

Here to share some good news, which is that a special issue I edited called “The Adventures of Trans Educators: A Comic Issue” has just been released! It features comics created through a collaboration bt trans educators and queer/trans artists. Share widely! www.bankstreet.edu/research-pub...

One beautiful case on our website, led by Souhaila Nassar, shows the translanguaging and transemiotising practices Diana G. uses to support second grade multilingual students to plan a science investigation together. #NGSS www.investigationsproject.org/cases/sticki...

Excited to be in touch with a growing #NGSS and educator network here! A central part of my work is exploring uncertainty in science learning. Check out our website, www.investigationsproject.org with examples of uncertainty, classroom cases, and educator tools. More to come!

I am so excited that Rise and Thrive with Science is out! This guide illustrates the findings of the National Academies report on Preschool through Grade 5 science and engineering with classroom examples, principles, and reflections of and for educators. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2685...