Here's GREAT news for educators! You know all the hard work you put in to design outside of class activities to help your students learn? Well, when they do those things, in the order you intended, they actually learn more! Check it out: dx.doi.org/10.1037/edu0... #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

The 2026 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 95 tenure-track positions and 10 teaching-only positions: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #chemsky #chemjobs #facultychemjobs

Excited to share some great news! My PhD advisor, Dr. Ellen Yezierski, has been honored with the prestigious 2026 American Chemical Society Award for Achievement in Research for the Teaching and Learning of Chemistry! Congrats!!! lnkd.in/g6uv8j6U lnkd.in/guSPdDD8

Latest Yale Bud Lab analysis of Senate Bill. What does an extra $3.3 trillion in debt get you? 2.9% decease in income for bottom 20% 0.6% decrease in income for those in the 20-40% group 10-15 million losing health insurance. All so the top 10% can have an extra $9,000 vacation each year.

Sigh -- only 14 awards for anything related to STEM Education (0.93% of the awards)

1/ Dr. Sibrina Collins is an inorganic chemist and STEM administrator. She earned her M.S. (1996) and Ph.D. (2000), both in the field of inorganic chemistry, from The Ohio State University . #WomenInSTEM #WomanToday

Very excited to share this accepted article, "Understanding the Reasons and Cues that Guide General Chemistry Students’ Studying Decisions" pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... (open access if you make a free account).

Excited to share this new article! We examined the resources and support provided to marginalized women in chemistry PhD programs, as well as the resources and support they wished they had received. We end with a table of tangible implications -- and it is open access! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

New York Times article on NSF www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 1/2

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🧪🔭⭐🌌😭😰🤬

For a sense of scale, going from 2B/year to 1B/year does nothing for the deficit. The deficit is 1.8 trillion, so this is less than 0.06% (image from reddit). You certainly lose more than that in tax revenue since most science spending gets about 8x worth of economic return.

HHMI halting fellowships right after a proposed 10% endowment tax on foundations isn’t a coincidence. The public needs to understand: this directly harms our brightest young scientists. These aren’t slush funds—they’re the pipeline. And their future is what’s being cut.

Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!

That's a wrap on our semester-long exploration of learning in STEM and various theories of cognition! What a great group of students in chemistry, biology, and math! They are passionate about improving their learning and teaching others, and I can't wait to see what they do next!

Just a friendly reminder - the priority deadline for the Postdoctoral Research Fellow position with me at the University of Rhode Island is Friday April 18. For more information, see: jobs.uri.edu/postings/14981

I get to celebrate a graduate student becoming a doctoral candidate!! Kendra is my first graduate student and is paving the way for chemistry education research at my school -- she aced her comprehensive exam and I am so excited for her bright future! Woohoo!

The group attended our first regional meeting for chemistry education! Hosted at Tufts University, we got to meet and network with chem edu scholars from across New England! It was an honor being invited to share our work & we are excited to continue conversations and collaborations moving forward!

“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant

Had a great time at ACS Spring 2025 in San Diego. The group gave 3 oral presentations and 1 poster presentation, and received lots of positive feedback! So glad I get to work with this amazing group of scholars. We also established the P^2 group (Pratt & Popova)!

The Pratt Research Group at the University of Rhode Island invites applications for one (1) Postdoctoral Research Fellow for a full-time, 12-month position with benefits. For more information, see: jobs.uri.edu/postings/14981. Please share and let me know if you have any questions!

The group is gearing up for the ACS meeting in San Diego. Looking forward to sharing the great work we've been doing!!

The ACS Inclusivity Style Guide used to include sections on “Gender and Sexuality” and on “Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality”. Both are now gone. www.acs.org/about/inclus...

"It’s important that the education research community not surrender in the face of what’s ahead but rather find ways to work hard—in whatever ways we individually can—to continue to support better education for children." —@mpolikoff.bsky.social for @edweek.bsky.social https://bit.ly/412XZb2

I remember my first manuscript submission as a student; it was super exciting! I'm so happy that I now get to share this experience with my students. What they don't know is that this is only my second independent submission, so we've all got things to celebrate!

Today's update: 30 new NSF awards yesterday. And 1 (!) was in the EDU directorate. But still massively below FY24 levels...

The claim about "nearly 500 awards have been made" is technically correct but ignores that targeted pauses are occurring, most notably in NSF's Directorate for STEM Ed:

Hmm. Still not using the d word.

Just saw an email sent to a student of mine from a REU canceling their program due to staffing & federal research funding uncertainties. A REU was when I internalized my science ID & applying to grad school. If this continues, it will devastate my students #1 pathway to STEM careers.

My first NIH proposal was supposed to be scored at a study section yesterday. But that didn't happen. And I'm left wondering how to "just keep doing science" as the entire rulebook gets thrown out and I run out of money this summer. #NewPI

Please enjoy this extremely niche Valentine's Day card I made for those who enjoy frontier orbitals and love. #chemsky

"I've spent over five decades as a scientist in academia and the federal government," Harold Varmus, the former director of the N.I.H., writes in a guest essay. "Never before have I seen my profession so politicized as it is now under the Trump administration."

👇🎯 Consider starting a Trouble Nation group redwine.blue/troublenation/, because protecting democracy is WAY more fun with friends. H/T, @redwineblueusa.bsky.social ? Or check out mobilize.us & see what's already in your vicinity. #resist #strongertogether #Hoosiersky we need some small town ones!

I have been an academic for just over 25 years. I have never felt so unsupported at both institutional or local level. If it wasn't for the students, who remain an absolute joy to work with, I suspect no-one else actually wants me there.

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

#ChemTogether. Forever. #RealTimeChem #ChemSky #Chemistry

Rarely have I been less surprised than I am by the move of the American Chemical Society to delete its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect. The organization that has never taken a stand on anything has continued that trend.

The ACS has deleted its website on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect. And with that move, have shown they are worthy of none of the latter. People ask why no-one stands up to fascists, this is why - they are too worried about their own standing to challenge it. www.acs.org/about/divers...

The @acs.org has deleted its website on diversity, equity, inclusion and respect. www.acs.org/about/divers...

Please make it stop

This is great visual of what IDC is used for from the Council of Governmental Relations (COGR).

My heart goes out to colleagues in STEM, and to all of higher ed right now. This admin is Not Good for us. Still, I can't help but wish folks had cared when it was the Rest of Us in the crosshairs. I can't get over the idea that many were OK with us being attacked by the far right because "DEI."

Ardem, I am sorry. In this middle of this chaos, HHMI will always hold the dubious distinction of being the first organization, federal or private, to cut an ongoing and funded DEI program. In the darkest hour, it ran for the hills. As a member of those groups, I can’t tell you how painful this is.

Not only are they killing the program, they're stopping payments to people who are ~3 years into a promised 6 years of funding. Those PIs have started projects, hired personnel, bought equipment, and now the rug is being pulled out from under them. Some shameful shit.

The thing about the program that was killed is a lot of the schools involved were smaller schools (PUIs and community colleges) where the money was making a ton of difference.

As I said on a call this evening, the only possible metaphor I can imagine for what the US is doing to science right now is like if you won the gold in the Olympics for 70 years straight and then one year you stepped up to the medal stand and pulled out a gun and shot yourself in the face

Here’s a story with some numbers. The proposed cuts are unfathomable: a 60% reduction to NSF would be the end of American science as we know it.

Apparently the agenda includes "scrubbing your grant portfolio and website wording" www.science.org/content/arti... Will HHMI awardees speak up?

Are you an HHMI-funded researcher affected by the cancellation today of IC3 (Inclusive Excellence 3)? Find me at [email protected] or on Signal: meredithwadman.13