Wow. Seeing it like this really drives it home.

Is it even worth it to put work on new proposals at this point?

Finance/legal/ed nerd friends: I did not take a cancer deferment of student loans during tx of my lymphoma 5 years ago because cancer coincided with COVID-19 forbearance. However, unknown to me, if I worked less than 30 hours/week, it wouldn't count towards my PSLF. I worked 20. Because cancer.

ICE just kidnapped a Columbia student from their dorm. ICE off campus now.

An Epstein Barr vaccine would've likely prevented my lymphoma.

LAST DAY TO EARLY VOTE!!!!! Woke up with the energy of 1,000 Dolly Partons 💅🏼✨ A new poll has us just 2 points behind. It’s the LAST day to early vote! COLLEGE KIDS COMING HOME: hug your fam, kiss the dog, then find your polling place at iwillvote.com?utm_so.... Let’s flip TN-07!

Yesterday, Pennsylvania Governor @joshshapiropa.bsky.social signed their state's budget into law. That leaves North Carolina as the only state in the entire nation without an operating budget. Our Republican legislature, unable to decide amongst themselves, just quit and went home.

We're hiring! Clinical AP in Birth-Kindergarten. Great fit for someone with plenty of ECE training and teaching experience and willingness to work closely with interns! We're a great department, and WNC is a lovely place to live! Reach out with questions. jobs.wcu.edu/postings/31977

In the midst of discourse denigrating the humanities & esteeming "pure" STEM disciplines, I've been struggling to articulate how STEM & SEL interact- This paper presenting a model for storybook STEM from @amandahaber17.bsky.social + Sona Kumar is my new go-to : www.mdpi.com/3541088

MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ARE HERE! All across North Carolina, voters are choosing their local elected leaders. Here are the 23 candidates who Carolina Forward is proud to endorse. Full list: carolinaforward.org/blog/2025-mu...

ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

Anybody else on here read the new ACF email yet? Can we get a support group going?

This was also true at the Society for Research in Child Development in May.

You’re think *you’re* depressed? Try being at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association right now with 5,000 political scientists presenting their work on the state of democracy, public opinion, and media. They are also drinking heavily.

Super cool paper for anyone who’s ever worked with non-normal data or run am interaction model and struggled to describe the effect!

Are all faculty everywhere still PDFing every acceptance letter and email, or has someone invented a better way to do this tenure dossier thing yet? thinking being able to forward emails to [email protected] and get a nicely zipped set of folders +attachments sounds like a great biz idea.

Thank a farmworker! ¡Gracias, campesinos! 🍅

Here's what AI has to say about what $200 million could buy taxpayers besides a golden freaking ballrooom.

Check out my open access work!

@tll6601.bsky.social @pirkkoelf.bsky.social @stanzucker.bsky.social @sarahpedonti.bsky.social @alexandrashelton.bsky.social @drdpaweston.bsky.social #EduSky 🙏 Seeking participants for dissertation survey on social inclusion for students w/ Autism- Please consider reposting! #EduSky

Excited to share new work! www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu... Early educators’ outdoor values —> lower perceived science teaching “costs”. Outdoor values —> positive science beliefs & practices, through lower “costs”. Rurality —> more outdoor learning & lower perceived costs for science teaching.

There’s no time like the first week of summer vacation for a dedicated fourth grader to learn to whistle.

My brothers and sisters in Christ: this is why we need academics (or just people with basic statistical training) more than ever.

Federal research funding cut? Don’t stop now. Two quick-response grants can help: Spencer Foundation – bridge funding for education researchers: bit.ly/4jvA7oi RWJF – racial & Indigenous health equity research support: bit.ly/44VUJ4D #SRCD #ChildDevelopment

wonderful time with great colleagues (new and old) at #SRCD2025. Thankful for everyone practicing joy as resistance and speaking truth to power right now.

Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... #GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

A #criticalThinking exercise reduced Dems' #fakeNews sharing intent, but not Reps' (N > 1k). CT exercise: answer 3 questions (with an alluring-but-false option), and then read correct answers, explanations, and instructions to think more reflectively. 🔓 doi.org/10.1007/s121...

They are hooking all this info up to AI. They don’t have the manpower to go through this themselves. Comply with fouled data. Project numbers and incoherent descriptions that lack obvious key terms for AI to look over. Brag about yourself endlessly without ever getting to the points. Be academics.

Part of the reason I blasted AEI at AEFP. Them, CATO, Heritage, Manhattan, and others engaged in a decades long public attack on #HigherEd with garbage research - like very basic/shitty ROI work or made up shit about student loans. Then DC, Ivy League educated reporters platformed them + still do.

Kevin, I would like to suggest that future finance historians call this stock market collapse “The Orange Crush.” Thank you in advance.

If you’re a North Carolinian, you can check whether your name or the names of anyone you know is on the list of the 65K voters whose votes may be tossed. You could have an opportunity to fix it if so. thegriffinlist.com

Hello! We are a scrappy three-year-old civics blog based in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. We just updated thegriffinlist.com, which contains detailed instructions for 65,000 NC voters whose votes might be thrown out in the state Supreme Court race. Please share!

devour feculence, indeed.

Just found out my six year old thought the words sung at the end of the birthday song were “and mini-marrrrrt” instead of “and many more”. Mini-mart kind of slaps, actually

As someone who relies on a lot of federal systems (data, grants) this has been a stressful/unpleasant time to move. But as of this week it’s all wrapped up despite the chaos. And look at this view!

If you need help explaining to people what the Department of Education does and why it matters, this, from Ben Miller (hosted by @mattyglesias.bsky.social) is as good as it gets open.substack.com/pub/matthewy...

suggestions for things to watch while packing to make me feel like less like I am dying inside?

Repayment plans are changing fast and it's not yet clear which plans are safest for maintaining PSLF counts. Join the discord for up to date discussion. The invite link has been updated. discord.gg/w9K5GM3D #PSLF #StudentLoans #publicserviceloanforgiveness

Alright, you want your congressmen/women to "DO SOMETHING" - this is doing something. Petterson gave birth 3 weeks ago. Mullin is hospitalized with complications from knee surgery.

Feels like we shouldn't need to say this, but here we are: Federal workers exist. The idea that many "don't even exist" is a lie.

Quantitative scholars everywhere banging our heads against a wall. This is what happens when you demonize higher education and doctorate holders.

Just a phonetics contrarian, begging journalists to start pronouncing them as “dodgy” instead of “dohj”.

Please get out there today. For my kid. And yours.

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

My sister is one of these people. My parents with Parkinson’s moved in with her last year when she started because we thought the federal job would have more stability. Fuck Elon. The amount of suffering they are causing is unconscionable.

Imagine.

I would love to see more of this, especially at medical schools, right @panagis.bsky.social?

In the piece below, I talk a lot about mass messaging (posters, stickers, etc.) to keep the focus not just on enmity towards Trump and Musk but the impact of their actions. In case it's helpful, I put together some examples! Not perfect, but they get the job done (feel free to steal/share)

Academics- get out of your NIH/NSF/IES research funding spiral and go do some community-engaged work. I promise you'll feel better and be able to return with renewed vigor and purpose (2 hour community meeting in my neckof woods and subsequent personal lift in mood tonight as Exhibit A) Onward!