BREAKING: A federal judge reversed National Institutes of Health's terminations of hundreds of critical research grants that were canceled because of their alleged connection to disfavored topics, including diversity, equity, inclusion, and gender identity. This is a major win for public health.

TRANS STUDIES IN K-12 EDUCATION edited by @ftmathteacher.bsky.social and @melindamangin.bsky.social argues for the design of education research, policies, and environments that honor all gender experiences and identities. Find out more: https://bit.ly/4kvCxDl

@drjgutz.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your abstracts due at the end of this month!

Saying it’s ‘about hate,’ Beshear vetoes ban on DEI in Kentucky public higher education kentuckylantern.com/2025/03/20/s...

The amount of damage to education that this administration is doing is irreparable. All the folks at NCES are in my thoughts

Breaking story early this evening, NCES Commissioner Dr. Peggy Carr was placed on administrative leave, as a further blow to this statistical agency's capacity to collect, analyze, and report on high quality education data with objectivity and integrity. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Incredible news! The Trump administration's under 19 trans care ban has been BLOCKED in federal court via a bench temporary restraining order. The administration CANNOT withhold funds from hospitals providing trans youth care. ACLU statement here:

Congratulations to the five institutions receiving funding to improve their collection and use of SOGI data using best practices! Read more about our mixed-methods national study by QTPiE! We will be presenting some results at the AAAS annual meeting. If you'll be attending, stop by and see us!

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”

The CDC website for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) has suddenly disappeared. YRBS provides invaluable youth health data, including for LGBTQ youth. Trump admin is trying to enact harmful policy AND take away key tools to measure that harm. Like a crime + cover-up. www.cdc.gov/yrbs/results...

🥳📣 Call for abstracts for an upcoming Special Issue of JQTSIE: "Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education" edited by @drjgutz.bsky.social and @ftmathteacher.bsky.social! Abstracts due May 30, 2025! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.jqtsie.com @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Looking for a QuantQueer postdoc position with an amazing mentor?!? Look no further! Apply to VCU to work with Dr. Strunk!

Planning your writing calendar for 2025? Consider including us in your plans! @ftmathteacher.bsky.social and I are co-editing a special issue, “Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education”, through @jqtsie.bsky.social. The quoted thread has all the info you need! Abstracts due 5/30/25.

Amazing leadership by Lee Iskander on this new paper out from the Trans Workers in Schools Project!

Super proud of our 2023 QTPIE Emerging Scholars cohort---here's their latest publication led by Arsene Frederic, Jr.! www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/14...

Since I'm back here now... share this @jqtsie.bsky.social special issue call with your networks! I'm co-editing! "Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education" Abstracts due: May 30, 2025 Full call: QR code/in the replies

it's that time of the year when so many of you will bake pecan everything, so here's a brief video on its pronunciation www.tiktok.com/t/ZTYLKLhjv/

So pleased to share a new study of rightful presence for queer youth in STEM through Making by @colbytg.bsky.social, me, @ftmathteacher.bsky.social, and our other co-authors not yet on BlueSky! It takes a mixed methods a blending social design experiment and queer theory. doi.org/10.1080/1050...

If you engage in queer and/or trans educational research, consider submitting your scholarship to #JQTSIE, a fee-free open-access academic journal! www.jqtsie.com Journal Editors: @kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

Community for Education Scholars in all areas and concentrations looking to find each other! Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #EducationScholars go.bsky.app/BaXvoap

Hey, I started a Trans Studies starter pack, but it needs more names. I can add them, I think. Here it is, so far: go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH

Want to join of a community of Latinx/a/o Scholars broadly throughout academia? Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! Shout out to @larrylafountain.bsky.social for bringing us together! go.bsky.app/NrJs1Hr

Figuring out ways to build community as we transition to this app. Please reply to this post if you want to be added!! #QTSE go.bsky.app/VitwfUt