The semester started yesterday, and my first day of teaching is today! Here’s to Year 4 on the tenure track at the FSU Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences and to creating more joy every day. #FacultyLife #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge? I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Our article, "'Do I Even Belong?': Internships as Gendered Career Socialization Experiences in Engineering," was just assigned a volume/issue with the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education! It's always exciting to see "Online First" work move to a permanent home. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

New publication out today! @dffeldon.bsky.social, @anniewoff.bsky.social, Kaylee Litson, and I developed and tested a brief intervention to transfer orientation/advising that significantly increases transfer students' beliefs about the value of earning PhDs in CS doi.org/10.1007/s111...

New pub! "'We Can Change the Culture Through Those Individual Engagements': Social Exchange and Equity-Mindedness in STEMM Doctoral Students' Roles as Mentors," is newly out with Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. Find it here (and DM if you don’t have access): doi.org/10.1108/SGPE...

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.

What an incredible honor to hood Dr. Denise Gonzalez McHale yesterday! Thank you for trusting me from the beginning—a then brand-new faculty member—and allowing me to be part of your journey. You’ll always be part of mine and will forever be the first person I hooded! #graduation #facultylife

Stay safe, FSU community. Active shooter report near the Student Union.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

As a born and raised Kansan, I will never get over the fact that I now live in a place that gets tornado warnings but A) has nearly zero basements, and B) has no city-wide tornado sirens. 😩

Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come by Erica Frankenberg & @maithgopalan.bsky.social theconversation.com/big-cuts-at-...

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do. There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share. drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...

Collect 'em all! go.bsky.app/FLUwv5d

Hey my nerds, I found these crowdsourced Syllabi Policies for AI Generative Tools while doing research. (Right now, there's 184) #amresearching #edusky #teachersky #edtech docs.google.com/document/d/1...

US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back www.nature.com/articles/d41... by @heidiledford.bsky.social via @nature.com "Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists." #GoScience!

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Crucial research halted as DOGE abruptly terminates Education Department contracts by @kalynbelsha.bsky.social www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/11/e...

Teachers, edu folks, allies: We will not let them destroy our Dept of Ed & its vital research, programs, & funding for our kids. Join us for an all-hands-on-deck organizing call this Sun, 2/16 at 7pm ET to plan actions to fight for our Ss, Ts, & schools. sparkstreetdigital.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Republicans 2002: “We need evidence-based education policy” Republicans 2025: “Pls destroy any evidence that could inform education policy”

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week

In trying times for our educational communities, it’s going to be vital to support the students in our spheres of influence. In this new paper, @jenniferblaney.bsky.social and I focus on supporting transfer Students of Color in computer science. 50 free downloads here: tinyurl.com/WoffordBlane...

*this is illegal* FYI 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

The goal here isn't to make public schools more conservative-friendly. The goal is to dismantle public schooling by driving families and teachers away.

Trump’s plan has always been to announce legally questionable executive orders that pressure people to acquiesce in the hopes that they will be left alone. It is disheartening to see how many universities are falling into this trap instead of fighting to save higher education from a fascist takeover

They knew this was an illegal and chaotic power grab, and their attempt failed because people said no—in the courts, at work, in the streets, and beyond. This is our reminder: Our outrage matters, and it works. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Yall read @victorerikray.bsky.social’s OpEd. “Behind MAGA movement’s assault on DEI is a push to resegregate America.” This moment is dizzying. theemancipator.org/2025/01/28/t...

I used to work for an elected official as the person who answered their emails. I can tell you from personal experience, if even twenty or thirty people all call an official in a day, they start panicking. This stuff does help.

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...

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

Excited to read this piece! STEM is not a monolith, and it’s important to examine students’ movement across STEM fields.

A snowy/icy morning in Tallahassee, Florida…so, you know, anything can happen, kids.

Time to go back to our respective libraries, y’all. Tech is gonna tech.

OH SO ENROLLMENT INCREASED THIS PAST FALL INTERESTING WHERE ARE THE NEWS ARTICLES WITH THIS UPDATE (I'm going to go workout my annoyance)

I left a lot of my heart in LA after the PhD, and that part of my heart has been breaking this past week. 💔

Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades

It’s the first day of the spring semester, and I can officially say it’s quite strange to be on parental leave and not be starting alongside my community. So grateful for this time at home, and I’m also wishing my academic colleagues a wonderful, smooth start. Cheers to new beginnings of all kinds!