Science teachers, check out our (with @eveimanz.bsky.social and @dtcampbe.bsky.social) new paper being published across the NSTA journals on working with uncertainty in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Excited for this one to be out! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Statement from @health.nationalacademies.org "...based on our body of work on this topic and the overwhelming scientific consensus, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism." www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...

Really grateful to be part of this work w @rongray76.bsky.social & @eveimanz.bsky.social

Check out our new video about using our Model-Based Inquiry Plannign template! youtu.be/DjY3TbB3VLk?...

Five Ways Trump’s Department of Education Is Upending Public Schools, by @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

“When the Executive publicly announces its intent to break the law, and then executes on that promise, it is the Judiciary’s duty to check that lawlessness, not expedite it.” -Justice Sonia Sotomayor

As the Senate considers voting to approve Trump's devastating funding cuts to public broadcasting, listen to the words of LeVar Burton. The Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. Contact your senators today and urge them to oppose these cuts.

Historian here 💯”Trump’s way forward is to go in reverse, by about a century”

Look at this amazing sign. #NoKings #butterfly

Yesterday's Supreme Court decision on nationwide injunctions is one of the worst of 2025 so far. Yet, these tools still exist: 1️⃣ More class-action lawsuits 2️⃣ More plaintiffs joining 3️⃣ Faster final judgements on the merits 4️⃣ Arguments about "complete relief" 🧵 Using science funding as example...

One piece of good news, Mike Lee’s bill failed! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/c...

Historian of Reconstruction here the Supreme Court is behaving like its predecessor in the late 19th century when it gutted the Reconstruction constitution and federal civil rights laws. It refused to implement the 14th amendment against Trump and now he has a blank check to upend our constitution.

BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵

Excited 2 see this published about our E-Corp Project! aaas-iuse.org/tackling-rea...

Been quiet lately for a good reason (vacation), but hopping onto to say: 🚨 NEW NSF LAWSUIT TODAY!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Targets grant terminations & freezes in spending congressionally appropriated funds. Press release: democracyforward.org/updates/coal... Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

The neighborhood is getting ready for tomorrow

Genetic material shed by tumors can be detected in the bloodstream three years before cancer diagnosis, according to a study led by investigators at Johns Hopkins University. That study was made possible with federal funding. Now, many studies like this are canceled. hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/04/...

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Hey for your summer car journeys #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic audio book is 75% off in a summer sale! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

The politicization of the army is the first step towards dictatorship as any historian of the post colonial global south will tell you www.military.com/daily-news/2...

Here’s a presidential pardon in the making

Threats to science according to Marcia McNutt, Natl Academies prez: -Foreign competition -Rising facilities costs -Foreign talent exodus -Budget deficit FORGETTING ANYTHING???? How about, "administration hellbent on punishing unis, slashing science $, and turning science into a political tool"?

🧪 This admin cares about research misconduct so much that…*checks notes*…. It caused the entire six-person team that investigated those claims at NSF to leave 😳 This *totally* gives me high confidence for how the agency will implement the “Gold Standard Science” EO…

headline construction masterclass

Historian here presidential pardon is in the Constitution but the founders did not imagine they could be solicited through bribes or upend the rule of law. My take here.https://www.wfsb.com/2025/05/28/former-connecticut-governor-john-rowland-receives-pardon-by-president-trump/

6/ There are steep 75% proposed cuts to NSF's STEM eduction funding as a whole, which spans K-12 to undergrad to grad to workforce and beyond. Early-career scientists will be directly harmed. The request guts direct NSF support for 29,000 undergraduates and 29,000 graduate students.

75% slash to STEM Ed 😡

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪 NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF... We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people** 🧵 on some highlights...

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Mob boss presidency.

NSF Physics was cut by 85%, basically wiping out most of its capacity for supporting research. NSF Astronomy was cut by 53% Undergrad education was cut by 71% and research on learning by 79% Graduate education was cut by 100% to ZERO. #GiftLink ⚛️🔭 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Booya! Breaking update: Looks like a federal judge will further halt destruction and firings at NSF, HHS, HUD, EPA, Energy, etc. (previous halt was set to expire tomorrow) Says the evidence strongly suggests "the recent actions of the executive branch usurp the constitutional powers of Congress"

Remember during COVID, “if you don’t test, you have fewer cases.” Same logic here. Whether you track the costs or not, they are still costs. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/c...

🧪 The union for NSF employees just called on Micah Cheatham, NSF's chief management officer, to resign: "Beyond his willingness to break the law, CMO Cheatham’s duplicitous cruelty and callous disregard for the people whose livelihoods are being jeopardized reveal a fundamental unfitness."

HAPPY 75th, NSF! We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond. Read on 🧵(1/11):

🧪 Y'all, drop Amy—the last NSF historian—a follow, take her up on her generous offer and request!! 👏👏 "Like scientists, historians are empiricists." Offer: Reach out at [email protected] Request: Tell how NSF has affected *your* life, even if you're not directly NSF funded yourself.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

🚨 All staff for NSF’s Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM (EES) have just been fired. In email to grantees: “the entire Division of Equity for Excellence in STEM has just been dissolved and the entire staff fired.” High time for scientists, public, Congress, YOU to take action to #SaveNSF