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"We celebrate our history, and we celebrate our contributions to this country. We don’t have to have a proclamation from anyone else but ourselves." My Juneteenth Amendment column on resistance and radical imagination in the age of erasure w/@kayewhitehead: 19thnews.org/2025/06/june...

Also…block him. ✌️😮‍💨

I'm an Associate Editor at Current Directions in Psychological Science and I have a new Special Issue call on Intergroup Allyship. Proposal submissions are due by July 18. Please share widely! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

Great time today giving a workshop on working w/worked examples in enVision math to DE math teachers & specialists for the School Success Center at @udelaware.bsky.social. Enjoyed developing the session w/PhD candidates @elenamsilla.bsky.social @meg-botello.bsky.social & Dr. @sarcler.bsky.social

Hooding a Doctoral student is really one of the BEST feelings EVER. Congratulations Dr. Clerjuste! @sarcler.bsky.social It has been an honor to serve as your advisor and a pleasure to watch you grow and thrive! SO PROUD! 🥹 @udelaware.bsky.social

Congrats @sarcler.bsky.social aka Dr. Clerjuste on passing her dissertation defense today! SO proud of all you’ve accomplished & looking forward to supporting you as you continue to succeed! Thanks to supportive committee members @mandymathed.bsky.social Henry May & Emily Fyfe (on Zoom-not pictured)

My ongoing request: If your NSF or NIH grant was terminated--whether at Harvard or elsewhere--please report it here. NSF: grant-watch.us/submit-nsf.h... NIH: grant-watch.us/submit-nih.h... Our trackers are actively used in lawsuits and are often the only record that terminations ever occurred.

It is difficult to find joy in our work when science is under attack. Today I led a professional learning session for math teachers based on my research w/ @elenamsilla.bsky.social. I also presented stellar grad students (including @sarcler.bsky.social) w/awards for their research. Joy unlocked 🤩

Clear summary of just what got cancelled in the recent misinformation grant terminations - lots of valuable research on how to improve the information environment and ensure that people have easy access to accurate information www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

🧪 If you had your NSF grant terminated, I'd *highly* recommend going to this Friday's webinar. Friday May 9 at 2-3 pm ET Will talk about both the appeals process, in addition to allowable closeout costs. Share widely. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for... 54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381) 75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M) The next generation of scientists is being targeted. #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF

Check out Meg’s new paper on motivational messaging during fraction instruction! Our students are so stellar 🤩 Love to see them shine ☺️

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

I typically teach our doctoral level intro stat course and use exams. This semester I replaced exams with research proposals - data analytic plans & r-scripts included. These are infinitely more fun to grade. New personal rule: don’t assign anything that’s annoying to grade. Ever.

Looking forward to #SRCD2025! Here are presentations from folks in the Cognitive Development & Communication Lab!

Check if your university has signed. Write to your President if not.

The NSF is in a crisis. its director is out, hundreds more grants have been cut, and it is staring down catastrophic budget cuts and layoffs. Our reporting: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

At #AERA25? Check out some work by M^3 lab members, lab alumni, & lab affiliates! @elenamsilla.bsky.social @meg-botello.bsky.social @kamalc31.bsky.social Taylor-Paige Guba & Andrew Rodrigues! Some work w/their advisors/mentors included! @drteyar.bsky.social @juliebooth.bsky.social

@rodriguesjm.bsky.social 🤩

🚨New Pub Alert!🚨 Check out our new paper in Educational Psychologist w/@rodriguesjm.bsky.social Leveraging cognitive load theory to support students with mathematics difficulty! Really enjoyed working on this piece w/Jess & hope we provide some useful recommendations! tinyurl.com/BarbieriRodrigues25

Good news on a Friday www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

🚨New paper! We provide a balanced approach to discussing context‐level disadvantage and individual‐level agency (a focus of strength‐based research). This approach allows for a broader–a holistic–perspective on existing inequality research. compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirec...

🚨 📄 JEP pub w/K. Gesuelli, @juliebooth.bsky.social & L. Young. We examine profiles of encoding of algebraic equations in middle school at start- & end-of-year. Fraction computation skill predicted SOY profile. EOY profile related to differential fraction & algebra outcomes. doi.org/10.1037/edu0...

I won't bother to link Ted Cruz's dumb list of "woke" grants because it's clearly a lesson in CTRL+F and pivot tables failing miserably. BUT A grant I was Co-PI on is on the list, and it's worth digging into it.

Quick survey for academics (grad students, faculty, administration)

Republican Senators just voted to confirm RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services - a man that believes Black Americans should receive a different vaccine schedule than White Americans. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

😂 Honestly I think it was a miscalculation for a certain Senator to publish this list by showing how absurd it is (and how important the actual funded research is) Sen. Ted Cruz's list of 'woke' science includes self-driving cars and solar eclipses

How IES Helps Students and Educators. theconversation.com/helping-teac...

For all mathematics education leaders: There will be an online conference on March 8 -- hosted by the Delaware Council of Mathematics Leaders (Delaware's NCSM affiliate)! Information for how to sign up is in the link below. docs.google.com/presentation...

UD SOURCE (Summer Opportunities for Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors) program provides FUNDED summer research opportunities for students outside of UD. Deadline to apply is Feb. 28. I love working w/these students! Please share w/interested undergrads! www.udel.edu/academics/co...

Happy International Day of Women & Girls in Science! I'm proud to work with so many excellent women scientists and to teach and mentor the next generation of #WomenInSTEM.

This.

No words. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! It is more necessary than ever to emphasize the importance of increasing gender equity in STEM. Here's a throw-back to last year's conversation with Dr. Lisa Harvey-Smith, Australia's Women in STEM Ambassador: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXjG...

Added NIH

It should not be radical for the American Bar Association to say that it supports the rule of law. But right now, it is. Let's see some other orgs taking a similar stance.

Musk shutting down IES isn’t just another headline. It’s a direct hit to the heart of education research and school innovation. $900M cut. The ripple effects? Catastrophic. 🧵

From the org I work at (AIR) about IES cancellations: "This is an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars, which have been invested—per Congressional appropriations and many according to specific legislation—in long-standing data collection and analysis efforts" www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

I have been serving on the WWC Stem panel and I am heartbroken over this. 💔 All that work we all did to review works in support of our schools and learners…especially AIR folks who spent the most time on this. Just devastating. 😔 What a waste of taxpayer dollars to cancel crucial works in progress.

I don’t really care about football. But I do care about Philly 💕 Plus my kid’s an 🦅 fan & I do like an excuse to eat wings & vibe to the halftime show. 💃🏻 So…Go Birds!

I mean even ChatGPT gets it. #NIH

A national diversity official whose group is suing to block President Trump's anti-DEI orders says the plaintiffs are sending the message that “if we believe in the rule of law, then we have to defend our work.... there’s a point at which you have to say ‘enough.’” chroni.cl/3WMTyj8

📢Attention! 📢 Join us for a panel on multicultural, critical, & decolonial research Wednesday 2/5/25. 🌍🤝 Ask questions, gain insights from experts, and enhance your research methods. See you then! #DecolonizeResearch #academicchatter #educationalresearch #criticalresearch

Today’s BHM figure is Audre Lorde, a poet and activist who reshaped discourse on identity, power, and injustice. Her work navigated the complexities of race, and gender, offering insights into the intersections of oppression. Her voice remains crucial in the study of social justice and liberation.

Breaking news: President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within, according to three people briefed on its contents.

Ever write a different kind of paper than what you’re used to and think “Yea, this is what I’m supposed to be doing!” Well, I’m writing that kind of paper right now. Finding my ray of light in the darkness 🤩 🥹

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.