I just stopped doomscrolling to (a) organize grocery gift card donations for families at my kid's school, (b) make plans to fold zines about ICE through @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and (c) call Chuck Schumer to tell him what I think of his leadership. Highly recommend, way less infuriating.

Healthcare is a human right. Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

Things were already bad and we were being asked to turn water into wine. But as (public) univs are having their funds restricted/illegally terminated, these pressures and demands are only going to get worse, especially as univs try to make up for those funding gaps by increasing enrollment 😵‍💫🥴

PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing. ➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104

100% accurate. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting will be in retrospect a clear moment when the rise in Islamophobia spilled over into antisemitism.

There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.

No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?

It’s a tradition that I ask my “Physics III” class to create some memes about our class material. It’s *also* a tradition that they’re super good at this. Please enjoy, like and share! 🧪 (I promised my students extra game points if this goes nano-viral!) (Front pic is my own entry.) 1/17

As Trump bombs more boats from Venezuela & moves warships to the Caribbean, even Republican lawmakers are arguing he can’t order such military actions w/o Congressional approval. But did you know U.S. presidents going back 2 George Washington, have fought undeclared wars?

Are you a high school U.S. history teacher in South Carolina? We are looking for participants for a study on the teaching of right wing movements. Would only involve 1-2 interviews. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

I’m sorry “federal preemption” with respect to AI means what, Kyrsten? Say what you mean. You are advocating for technonationalism and oligarchic capitalism and you either don’t understand that or care. We cannot develop education against this form of nationalistic AI framing quickly enough.

Now also feels like a good time to remind fellow educators and academic of this, an excerpt from a piece @cnygren.bsky.social and I co-wrote a few years ago. journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/da...

For years the right has tried to convince us that the free speech of conservative professors are under attack when peers critique their shoddy research and students call out their lies. Now that the government is literally attacking speech it doesn’t like they are silent. apple.news/Ajs_gX4XiR0K...

This week we discussed ethnlc studles in K12 and IDK what I would’ve done without the reporting of profe @shereenmarisol.bsky.social from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social! The deep dive into the history of ES at SFSU was essential for tying it to today’s pushback.

For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.

We discuss the long term implications of cutting science funding on this episode of Pop & Play. This will be a generational catastrophe.

in which @lmesseri.bsky.social and @mjcrockett.bsky.social upend the increasingly pervasive premise of the LLM-fabricated human research subject (and the histories/ ideologies of cognition baked into the experimental "tasks" they're called upon to complete) at its epistemic roots

Y'all want people to have illness so you can write it off. But you cannot admit that once someone commits to white supremacy via "an explosive mixture of race science, libertarianism, and rugged capitalism", they already lost the plot. They were just very rich so you treated them like a genius.

Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have To say Don’t bait them. pay them DUST. Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target . In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them

Also here are higher ed professors from UT Austin, the University of Arizona, and the University of Southern California strenuously urging all institutions to reject the compact www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

"The reality right now is that if you refuse to engage with the science- the science that shows that COVID is a virus that disables human beings, and that this virus is asymptomatic 44% of the time- then you are spreading a disabling virus, and you are harming people. "

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Constantly astonished and frustrated by the fact that so many cognitive scientists claim that LLMs can teach us about how babies learn language. If anything, we should be talking about how the way babies learn language can tell us about how AI will never be “sentient.”

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

I know not everyone is who they thought they would be under a fascist, authoritarian regime. That's okay. But it's time to do more than react and post about it. It's time to get organized—including mapping or creating lines of support and defense in your community.

The specifics of the RIFs I’ve seen in group chats have been staggering. Bracing & reminding myself these are specifically intended to cause fear & distress. Please share URLs for any good trackers you seen as they emerge. (I want more than OMB’s version) fedscoop.com/trump-federa...

It is difficult for me to express how disastrous this is.

Anyone who was paying attention during Gamergate recognizes these tactics. “Oh *we’re* against doxxing, of course, but that person who got doxxed totally deserved it, and yeah, sure we’ve been calling for them to be fired and their lives ruined, but *we* didn’t personally do it.”

Racism + ableism= “compassion fatigue”. You hate to see suffering but instead of alleviating it, you see it as something to cage and hide because white supremacy has made broken your sense of responsibility and empathy.

And if people know of physics/astro departments, med physics programs, and potentially nat. labs in the US or US Territories who are interested in continuous, data-informed improvements to remove unnecessary barriers for all populations, please let them know about @physastroseachange.bsky.social

I actually have more hate for this flavor because every Marxist/AnCap I have encountered who advances this position eventually terminates in “fuck the disabled. Sacrifices must be made for the revolution.” At least the fash are transparent about their desire to end me.

A whole generation of kids will be shaped by this experience of authorities harassing children and their parents at school and at home That will be school for them laist.com/news/student...

Disinformation thrives without data No jobs numbers = the economy isn't struggling! No food insecurity data = people are fed! No education research = defunding and threatening schools doesn't hurt kids! No public health studies = our policies aren't making people sick!

Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...

‘Almost 60 US scientific societies have signed a letter calling on the US government to “safeguard the integrity” of the peer-review process when distributing grants.’ ⚛️🧪🔭 physicsworld.com/a/us-scienti...

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

Disabled people are particularly vulnerable to abuse under fascism. ICE has been neglecting the medical needs of detainees. One disabled immigrant, Rodney Taylor, needs our help. He's a double amputee who's been in the country since he was two years old. He's being held in solitary:

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

I escaped the Rapture and all I got was this weird discussion about Tylenol.

*What makes or breaks teaching for young people?* I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching 🧵(1/11)

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

Where have I been the past couple months? Working on a project that will feature #DisabledInSTEM chemists who pushing the boundaries of their fields! Can't wait for that to go live Monday! Until then, I invite you to read about 8 disabled scientists who left a lasting mark on modern chemistry. ⬇️

The disposability of humans across everything—eugenics, AI, government, etc.—is breathtaking in its scope. Our survival depends on breaking these systems of inhumanity

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

And be sure to read through the rest of the package, ably edited by my colleagues @mannyfoxmorone.bsky.social and @kvasquez.bsky.social, featuring how chemists with disabilities are reimagining the discipline: cen.acs.org/people/profi...

Building #ventilation is critical for preventing the spread of infectious diseases and improving overall health and productivity. Explore key actions for improving #IndoorAirQuality at our September 17 workshop: buff.ly/YllUOp7

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.