🚨New Pub🚨 “Creating Liberatory STEM Spaces for Black Girls through an AfroHILL Framework: Lessons from a STEM Curriculum” I got to support my advisee with this one as it came from her dissertation published in #NSBE: nsbejournal.scholasticahq.com/article/1622... #Afrofuturism #BlackGirls #STEM

Checkout the first publication from the #BlackepiSTEMologies research group “Race-Focused Research as a Space for Identity and Belonging: Black Graduate Students’ Experiences in an All Black Research Team” Link: www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/16...

I got the chance to speak to the #SABEREast community while on the beautiful campus of #RIT #Joy #Paradox #STEMEducation

A new publication to share! Check out: “Applying an Afrofuturistic Climate-Environmental (ACE) Justice Literacy Within K-12 Classrooms and Learning Spaces” Co-authored by: @weatherkos.bsky.social Link: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Being named the 2025-2026 Rising Star in Social Sciences Research and Scholarship at University of Illinois Chicago is truly a great honor. See the article: today.uic.edu/meet-uics-20...

I am super excited for the opening session at #NARST26 Ms. Melba and #NorthwestTap are going to bring the joy! @narst.bsky.social

Here in #Seattle for #NARST26 Who all is joining me? What fun sessions are you going to? @narst.bsky.social #ScienceEducation #STEMEducation

Check out presentations from the #BlackepiSTEMologies research group and the #JSquaredSquad at @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #AERA2026

Excited to be here for the #HBCUSTEMUS conference!

It gives my great joy to introduce Dr. Williams! She successfully defended her dissertation today! Welcome to the #3StripesCrew

Such an honor to be recognized by my colleagues!

Habari Gani?!? ❤️🖤💚

In Washington, DC at the National Academy of Sciences, enjoying the NASEM meeting on the Status of the Field of Discipline Based Education Research. @drtrmorton.bsky.social

Speaking at the #NationalAcademies today

Happy Founders’ Day to my Brothers of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc!

Looking forward to joining my fellow DSP and BCC families later today! “The Future of STEM…Is Black”

🚨New Publication! We are excited to share: “Black girl embodied motivation: A critically, race-gender reimagined motivation theory” Coauthors: @drwhitneymccoy.bsky.social 📔: @edpsychjournal.bsky.social #Blackgirls #CRF #SEVT #Maicro #EdPsych Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I enjoyed sharing information about the #BlackepiSTEMologies project at #WERA in João Pessoa!

Join Dr: Gholdy Muhammad tomorrow October 14th at 4pmCT/5pmET/2pmPT for a free workshop on unlocking genius and joy in our curriculum! home.edweb.net/webinar/clrt...

Looking forward to sharing some thoughts on #Afrofuturism #AI and #STEM at the 40th annual #SASTE Meeting!

Long Live the Revolutionary! I pray for her family! I’m grateful for her work and sacrifices! And I hope she is able to rest! #AssataShakur

Hanging out with some amazing people this weekend at #MorehouseCollege to support some amazing emerging scholars #HBCUSTEMUs

New Publication 🚨 I am excited to share, “An exploration of Black girls’ science motivation and teacher- and school-related beliefs: A QuantCrit approach utilizing situated expectancy-value theory and critical race feminism.” S/O to my co-authors! Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Looking forward to presenting at #ESERA2025 in the following symposium later today! If you’re here, stop by!

I am looking forward to being a part of this upcoming panel at #APA25 Be sure to come and check us out today!

Allow me to reintroduce myself… I am Dr. Morton, Associate Professor, Identity and Justice in STEM Education (with INDEFINITE Tenure)! Thank you God! Thank you to my family, friends, and colleagues who have supported throughout this journey! It has been an interesting one for sure!

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!! An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today. 🧵 Brief thread 1/4

Another rotation around the sun, and all I can say is Thank You Lord for All You’ve Done For Me! I have a praise on my heart, a smile on my face, and a fire shut up in my bones! I got a special pre-birthday surprise but can’t share it yet…. #IYKYK Motherdear, you’re the real MVP of the day!

🧪 Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, is currently withholding $2.5 billion from NSF's budget for this year. This move is: -Illegally secretive -Unusual and suspect -Disrupts science -Subverts Congress It's also urgent because the *fiscal* year ends Sept 30 (call your rep). 🧵 Let's unpack...

Happy #Juneteenth

Happy Father’s Day to all of the Fathers, Step Fathers, Bonus Dads, Grandfathers, Uncles, Community Fathers, Soon-to-Be Fathers, Want-to-Be Fathers, and those with Fathering demeanors! We are better because of you! Special s/o to my fathers (Dad, Step Dad, Uncles, Granddad)

New Publication 🚨 I am excited to share “Rethinking and Reenvisioning Research Experiences for Undergraduate Black Women in #STEM” Shout out to Monica, Whitney, and Charlotte! Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... In this paper we highlight the phenomenal work happening at #NCCU #DreamSTEM

New Publication 🚨 I am excited to share “Navigating Racism: A Scoping Review of Barriers in the Experiences of Black Health Professions Students” Link to Open Access Article: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #Racism #BlackHealthProfessions

This is the energy we all need to have, I echo @drtrmorton.bsky.social that we need boots on the ground! I’ll spare my musings but I believe boots on the ground has multiple meanings.

Thank you @advancejournal.bsky.social for featuring my thoughts on the current moment. I invite you all to check out “This Joy that I Have…” and then dialogue with me about individual and collection action. Link: www.advancejournal.org/post/3240-th... #RacialJustice #STEMEducation #CRT #NSF

Thank you @tennesseelookout.com for including my thoughts in your recent article on Federal Grant cancellations that impact the state of #Tennessee We need more local reports of the federal impact to show that these cuts impact everyone! tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/27/s...

For those who need to see the connection between funding STEM and STEM Education research and your everyday life, please check out this article. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

The chancellor approved! Now it’s up to the Board of Trustees! #Journeytotenure

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers, grandmothers, church mothers, community mothers, other mothers, aunties, soon to be mothers, want to be mothers, and those with mothering demeanors. We appreciate you all for your love, light, and support. Special shout out to my Motherdear!!!

I look forward to joining this esteemed panel on Wed, May 7th, as we discuss the current state of Education in the US, with a focus on North Carolina, specifically Buncombe County and the City of Asheville! @asheville.bsky.social @buncombecounty.bsky.social

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Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI

Getting back from an emotion filled #AERA25 to see a new pub has dropped. Check out: “But I Just Want to Be Free:” A CRT-PVEST Analysis of #Blackness in #STEMM in #Canada Link: rdcu.be/ejuPb #CRT #STEM

“Constitutionally, you have a right to due process,” says Bridget Fahey, a legal scholar who specializes in contracts at the University of Chicago in Illinois. New story from @dangaristo.bsky.social on NSF grant terminations (a fresh batch today, even more than last week's ~400 terminations):

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” ~ Audre Lorde My responses to the current context around the erasure and removal of Black Intellectual Thought. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

Researcher @drtrmorton.bsky.social in Chronicle of Higher Education, after the cancellation of two NSF racial equity grants: I’ve had to tell Black students “that their voice, their ideas, their stories, their experiences, do not align with the country’s values.” Story from @mzahneis.bsky.social: