You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

ICE and CBP must not receive another cent while people are being killed, beaten, and kidnapped in the streets. www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-s...

Thank you, Sen. Schiff!

Across America and the world, people are realizing it’s not possible to appease America’s dictator. The only way to deal with him is to stand up to him — and the only way to stand up to him is by joining together against him. It's time for a massive general strike across the country.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

CC @liccardo.house.gov @padilla.senate.gov and @schiff.senate.gov

No science or nature today. ICE just murdered another person in my home state, an ICU nurse working with vets & now they're trying to frame him for the action . All because ICE is angry & afraid of the 50000 Minnesotans who marched yesterday. If you're not calling Congress you're letting them down

Tip for Californians- @padilla.senate.gov doesn’t allow VM at his DC office during non business hours (which seriously??) but you can leave a message at a local office. Neither CA Senators ever have people answering the phones in my experience at any office even during business hours.

We are extremely proud of this!

The San José State Physics and Astronomy Department has earned a Bronze Award from the #Physics and #Astronomy SEA Change Committee (P/A SEA Change) for its work to create a more inclusive and supportive department. Read more ➡ ow.ly/23Ru50XX3cG #PASEAChange #ITeachPhysics

Minnesota needs ICE to leave, not an escalation that brings additional federal troops beyond the 3,000 already here. My priority is keeping local law enforcement focused on public safety, not diverted by federal overreach. www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

No one in America is safe from ICE. They are taking our freedoms. ICE agents who are committing crimes must be prosecuted.

ICE is shooting mothers in the face and breaking down people’s doors without warrants. I won’t support a spending bill that doesn’t rein in Trump’s masked, poorly trained ICE agents terrorizing American citizens.

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

"No one should be made to feel inferior or that they do not belong in science because of their origins." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/48JF6Pg

Our new research indicates that the gender gap in intro physics is an artifact correlated with the “stakes” associated with physics exams and is therefore NOT due to differences in preparation or understanding. 🧪🧵 #acadmicsky #HigherEd #EduSky #STEMed link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

This thread illustrates why it’s so important to think about grades and grading from the student perspective.

Our new research indicates that the gender gap in intro physics is an artifact correlated with the “stakes” associated with physics exams and is therefore NOT due to differences in preparation or understanding. 🧪🧵 #acadmicsky #HigherEd #EduSky #STEMed link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

Research suggesting how an exam gender gap can be inflated from zero up to roughly 1/3 of a grade point simply by increasing the stakes of your exams. Can't help thinking of gaps on a different high stakes exam, the SAT, when I see results like these. #iTeachPhysics 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Proud of the work I published with @djphysicswebb.bsky.social . Gender Gap in intro physics is eliminated when employing retake exams because women do better on the FIRST try - suggesting exam STAKES (not differences in preparation/understanding) explain gender gap. 🧪 link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

#NOKINGS New York City, NY

6 of my papers were in this database.

I’m at my kids’ parent orientation, and the topic that generated more questions from parents is the school car line. Curriculum? No. New teachers? Nope. If that’s not an indicator of a failed transportation system, I don’t know what is.

Something I wish more people understood: part of the point of shock-and-awe grant terminations at NIH and NSF has been to make scientists and university administrators afraid to speak out against the administration. And it's working. But, some of us were never going to get a grant from them anyway.

🎤 BOOM: Federal judge just ruled to *reinstate* the suspended ~300 NSF grants at UCLA. Determines that NSF violated the previous court order by attempting to swap "termination" with "suspension". storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Absolutely the fuck not. Any senior administrator who even entertains the possibility of a $1 BILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT has no legitimate place overseeing researchers.

📚 (Early) good news for education researchers! Today, Senate appropriators said NO cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) budget for FY26. Holds flat at $793 million. In contrast, the President's budget request wanted to slash IES's budget by -67%. 🧵 1/3

Sen. Elizabeth Warren argued that Democrats can’t trust Republicans and Trump to uphold any bipartisan government funding agreement. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/warren-...

If you've ever *benefitted* from NIH research (big population), CALL YOUR SENATOR now to let them know. ⏰ Tmrw morning, Senate appropriators will mark up NIH's FY26 budget. Personal examples help. My own case: decades of *sustained* investment in NIH-funded cancer research saved my life.

Glad reporting is still happening around this issue. I appreciate that Rep. Zoe Lofgren ‪@lofgren.house.gov‬ keeps pushing on this. UC researchers have had their NSF grants reinstated through class action lawsuit, but CSU researchers are still waiting. sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-rep...

Researchers who have had their NSF grants cancelled and are finishing up publications started before the termination…. How are we thanking (or not thanking) NSF in the acknowledgments? I can’t be the only one thinking about this! Feel free to drop your preprint or pub below.👇 #academicsky #science 🧪

🧪280 NASA employees past & present + at least 4 astronauts, have signed a declaration of opposition to the many of the impending drastic changes The last six months have been full of rapid, wasteful & catastrophic changes that have sabotaged their mission. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thanks to @mercurynews.com for highlighting the local impacts of federal grant cuts at SJSU featuring multiple colleagues who have lost grants including @cassandrapaul.bsky.social @proftv.bsky.social and @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social. 🧪 www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/19/c...

🧪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

I’m hearing a lot of despair and “what’s the point”-ing. Here’s the point: ONE less person kidnapped by ICE. ONE more child vaccinated. ONE grant reinstated. ONE more PEPFAR treatment. ONE more meal to a hungry kid. ONE more person covered by Medicaid. One life is ALWAYS worth resistance.

SJSU’s U-RISE program is officially uncancelled, at least for this third year of the grant!

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

Hearing today (7/9) on the 16-state AG case against NSF grant terminations & indirect rates. We may see another prelim injunction (or even final judgment) soon after. But any reinstating grants would likely be limited to plaintiffs: CA, CT, CO, DE, HI, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NV, NM, NY, OR, RI, WA, WI

NEW: I wrote about scientists who have been ghosted by the NIH. The agency has disappeared dozens of grant applications. Not rejected them, but shoved them out of the peer-review pipeline into an administrative no-man’s land. And there’s no clear exit. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The full ruling explaining why NIH grant cuts are illegal came out today. It's just as blistering as the judge's oral remarks. And it uncovers fresh details in DOGE's role orchestrating the cuts — and on the cuts at Columbia. Here are my top highlights from the 103-page ruling. 🧵

Just got off a call with Dem leadership in the House 1. There are over 20 republicans that are soft on the Budget Monstrosity 2. They will get a ton of pressure to vote for it 3. We can create even more pressure to vote against it, but it will take all of us 4. We only need 4 flips.

Y'all, this past week for science funding lawsuits has been 🔥🔥🔥 ✅ Major recent wins regarding: 1. U of California researchers 2. NSF indirects 3. NIH terminations 4. EPA terminations Plus: 5. Brand new NSF lawsuit (about terminations & slowdown of new awards) 🧵 Let's break it down

I co-authored this open letter to students in March, a couple months before our project was terminated by NSF (among at least 5 other DEIA-centered STEM ED grants at SJSU). We are still collecting faculty signatures as this is still acutely relevant. 🧪 #AcademicSky medium.com/@dearstudent...

Thank you to Eric from @liccardo.house.gov’s office for meeting w @cassandrapaul.bsky.social & I to discuss canceled NSF grants at SJSU-including our grant w @proftv.bsky.social & Resa Kelly to improve intro STEM teaching & the LSAMP grant that has supported many undergrad researchers in my lab 🧪