An artificial heart for children with congenital heart defects was almost finished. Families had waited for years it. Then, Trump canceled billions in grants for universities — including the grant for this device. The cruelty is endless. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

For the first time, many of our student groups are actually outperforming the state. @laschools.bsky.social saw improvement across all grades and student subgroups, surpassing statewide growth. This marks an unprecedented achievement for our District.

Timeline cleanse.

We must all stand up and speak out.

I wrote about the “compact” for higher education newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Excellent article about the higher ed “compact”. Too much good stuff to pick one quote.

Do folks have a preferred platform for collecting survey responses?

We are hiring! We are looking for a new member to join our department with research experience in math education. You can apply on MathJobs: www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...

Heads up! Solar wind conditions are favorable for mid-latitude aurora, and views will improve during substorms. Take a look north if you have claer skies. 45th parallel and further north should be in "pants on" mode. Monitor: go.theauroraguy.com/webcams go.theauroraguy.com/goesmag

Join us tomorrow for this introduction to pi-Base Zoom workshop!

Paging topologists, @clontz.org has a workshop for contributors tomorrow!

Just...wow.

Why is NPR saying the science isn't clear?!? This is irresponsible and will actively harm pregnant people and babies. Here's a quote from another story from NPR itself: "Available evidence has found no link". Pretty damn clear!

Cool graphics in this argument that #SpaceTime is likely emergent from an underlying #quantum reality [via @quantamagazine.bsky.social] 🧪🌌⚛️ (introduces the 'manifold' idea, Einstein and Schrödinger's equations, the AdS/CFT equivalence, etc.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIqV... #gravity #singularity

I am looking for a comforter for the guest bedroom and I'm sorry what monster did this

A big missing piece in this discourse so far (thought it's early) is the impact that this would have on higher education. I've ran and supported well over 50 searches in higher ed, and it's likely that half of them ended up sponsoring H1Bs. This will devastate hiring in almost every field.

Sweeping reductions proposed for UN-L. budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-bud...

#MathSky! We (@code4math.org) have MORE talks tomorrow Mon Sept 15!! 🌟 at 9am Eastern, Accessible papers with PreTeXt 🌟 at 3pm Eastern, Intro to the LMFDB 🌟 at 4pm Eastern, Lessons from software on managing complexity (Note the last two talks were just switched around to accommodate scheduling!)

@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#ACSFall2025 is starts tomorrow🔬 Day 1 goes digital featuring research from the Chen Group. Tag @nuchemistry.bsky.social in your highlights—we’re ready to reshare the fun! 🎉

So ... we did it again! The July 2025 issue of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics is now ready for your enjoyment! At 415 pages, we hope that there is something in it that will appeal to everyone. Please check it out! #mathart #poetry #openaccess #mathishuman scholarship.claremont.edu/jhm/

Curious what a Team-Based Inquiry Learning lesson looks like? This paper is a deep dive into one explaining typical student thinking and facilitation moves. If this sounds interesting, we should have the 2025 editions of the activity books up on tbil.org next week.

The republican theory of law.

Not sure what to say about this other than something something values and mission of a land-grant university. This after refusing to raise tuition to save faculty jobs. www.wvnews.com/bluegoldnews...

Is your child texting about econometrics? BRB = Biased Regression, Bro LMAO = Linear Models Are Ok SMH = Structural Model Hypothesis YOLO = You Obviously Lack Observations IMHO = Instrumental Methods Help OLS LOL = Lots of Lags GOAT = GLS Occasionally Addresses This WTF = Wald Test Failed

So exhausted by these tirades from people who MADE THEIR FORTUNES USING SUPPORT FROM NSF. NCSA Mosaic, which was the basis for the development of Netscape that Andreesen leveraged into billions, was funded by a grant from NSF in the early 90s. The 'Web' exists b/c of it. And Google, Amazon...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The National Science Foundation has sent an email out to its members to collect signatures for a dissent declaration similar to the NIH’s Bethesda Declaration and the EPA’s Declaration of Dissent. This comes on the heels of Lee Zeldin putting 139 EPA declaration signers on admin leave

Like with the NIH and EPA, this new declaration had organizational help from the group @standupforscience.bsky.social. Details to come….

Hey political science data folks: I've got a large (1-2 GB) dataset that I want to post someplace for public use. What are my best options?

My grandparents were sharecroppers in GA until they could buy their own property in the late 1950s. They worked 12h days in the fields, mostly raising/picking cotton and corn. My grandmother's hands were swollen and damaged by decades of it. Eternally grateful for the work people do in the fields.

Yes, we even have a name for the phenomenon. Policy Based Evidence Making.

Deeply troubling story and profoundly disturbing reflection of the state of the relationship between the US government and higher education www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/u...

I guess folks think this is a trivial thing and 'no big deal'^{tm}. But people die from tooth decay. My great uncle Everett, in fact, died at 5yo from an abscessed infection, so maybe don't be so off-hand about yet another deprecation of a public health service that saves lives?

Difficult to overstate this. It seems that many in core science and math fields feel that they will be able to hunker down and wait, but the infrastructure for ALL science is being diminished. This will diminish US higher ed in ways that will not be apparent for another 12-18 months.

Yes, this is real. The office of the director was informed at 4p on 6/24, the day before this insane 'press conference' at our headquarters. The building is now full of NSF employees that were forced back to Alexandria.

Trump’s America. Where the wheelchair-bound are zip tied by police for going to Congress to protest their healthcare being removed.

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

Couldn't have said it better. Click the link and take the 12 frame tour of the image. It's worth it.

Good morning #Evol2025 ! We are looking for a Postdoc in the LaBella Lab! Do you love fungi 🍄, genetics 🧬and bioinformatics 💻 - then this might be a good fit for you! jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/63307 Applications accepted through July 1 #Evol25

"Republicans say the One Big Beautiful Bill wouldn’t touch Medicare. That is not true. One of the more important health care cuts in the legislation would affect some of the most vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities who are on Medicare." www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-they-a...

This is beyond the military industrial complex - basically a pure merger of public military power and private interests breakingdefense.com/2025/06/andu...

ALS is a quick and cruel disease that robs the body of the ability to move. There is no cure, but now there is new hope. Scientists have developed a genetic toolkit that can target the exact nerve cells destroyed by ALS - a discovery that could speed up the quest for a cure.

⚖️ HUGE day today in the NIH terminations cases There's a trial (of sorts) at 10a ET in Boston today for arguments that NIH unlawfully terminated 100s of grants. It's a 3 hour hearing and I'll post periodic updates. Of note: this is the 1st lawsuit filed against the Trump Admin to go to trial.

I told you we’d be back

Academics can effectively advocate for state and local policy by understanding the terrain. Review some helpful insights from Alexandra Dufresne of Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy. Read more: www.ams.org/news?news_id...

The 2025 Grading Conference starts tomorrow! Follow and use #TheGradingConference to see snippets from our incredible sessions and participate in the conversation!! Also, check out today's 100th episode of The Grading Podcast where we talk about the origins of the Conference! www.thegradingpod.com

Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"

TL;DR: Strategic investments in ed research can have big payoffs. Investing in the teachers who are in it for the kids and want to have long careers seems like a no brainer as well. It was an emotional week, though, because the future of our work together is uncertain. /End #edusky #iteachmath