The partisan divide has grown, too. The wealthiest 100 tended to give more to Republicans than to Democrats before last year. But giving to the GOP spiked in 2024, with *84%* of donations going to back Republicans or conservative PACs.

By this time next week, the estimated deaths due to the illegal destruction of USAID and the shuttering of its aid efforts will breach 400,000. More than 260,000 will be children. Source: www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

AAPT Member, James Lincoln, gives a TEDx Talk on "The Passion of the Teacher Rings True." The video is free to watch and features experiments and a history of physics. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArP7... #PhysicsEducation #PhysicsTeachers #ITeachPhysics

My latest: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

ICE detained a CSUCI prof protesting peacefully. He wasremoving a tear gas canister from under a wheelchair. The feds say he was throwing tear gas at police. You can decide if you believe the consistently violent cops using chemical weapons or the philosophy prof academeblog.org/2025/07/13/f...

They are saying the quiet part out loud again. We need to get ready.

1/7 💔 We are very disappointed to announce that on April 25, NSF terminated a $1.5M PhET grant – our Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems Phase II grant for advancing PhET’s SceneryStack project. Learn how this impacts our work and how you can help: bit.ly/PhETNSF2025

The Atlantic talks about the unethical University of Zurich experiment on r/changemyview: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

🧵 Thread on NSF grant terminations 🧪 This Nature article today confirms what DOGE's arrival at NSF can mean: terminating already awarded grants. "DOGE is...considering more than 200 of them for termination, NSF staff members have told Nature" What can we expect? And what should NSF grantees do?

NEW: Minnesota Republicans have elected a literal flat earther to a party leadership post. This is one of many flat earth Facebook posts by Bret Bussman, now the chair of the 7th District GOP. minnesotareformer.com/2025/04/16/m...

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

AAPT is pleased to announce that the 2025 Paul Zitzewitz Excellence in K-12 Physics Teaching Award winner is Bree Barnett Dreyfuss, Science teacher at Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA. The award will be presented at #AAPTSM25. Read more ➡ ow.ly/vSgF50VwJX2 #AAPTAwards

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Professors disappearing can’t be good.

“I think it’s adorable when people think we are going to fix education by improving teachers,” he tweeted on March 13. “Sorry, it’s AI tutors or the slow death of civilization. Those are the choices.” “First step,” he also wrote in March, “stop teachers from teaching.”

There's still time to join us tomorrow, 3/19, at 5pm PT on Zoom! We would love to have you there. #EduSky

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Great keynote by @galesinatra.bsky.social on science denial at the Western Regional Noyce Conference. Sciencedenialbook.com

Headed out to the #NoKingsDay rally

At Trump's request the army corps of engineers dumped 2.2 billion gallons of water from CA reservoirs. This could have watered 73,000 lawns for a year.

Teachers - @CSUN Department of Secondary Education M.A. Programs Information Session (on zoom) Friday, February 21st, 2025 (4:30pm) csun.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Learn about all of our MA Programs! (EdTech, Math Ed, Curriculum&Instruction starting this fall) #lausd #utla #teachla

Great tour of Algalita Marine Research and Education algalita.org to learn about their materials for teachers. Great resources to help students learn about #plastic pollution. Perfect finish to #aste2025

Check out the Science Teachers Guide to Pseudoscience website (bit.ly/TeachersGuidetoPseudoscience) including some new activities that are relevant to today's headlines: Flat Earth in the Classroom (just in time for the "final experiment" - link) Fluoride Poisoning #NGSS

Hello bsky - no promises about keeping up with this, but worth a try.