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This summer I joined Camino al Altar to talk with religious leaders about bridging science and faith to improve health outcomes in Puerto Rico. Grateful for the conversation. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/7ocM...

Join me Aug 12 at 15:00 CEST / 9 AM EDT / 8 AM CDT for the next @mscl.bsky.social Colloquium. I’ll present findings from Ciencia Puerto Rico's work with community leaders on climate change, extreme heat, and the role of culturally grounded communication. Register: lnkd.in/daB4vzQW

Last Feb, I joined The Spirit of Asilomar summit as a Next Gen Leader. This piece explores conversations that emerged during the event around religion & science, and how to move past that divide to foster more inclusive and responsible biotech. Read here: repository.rice.edu/items/b7d6fb...

Deadline Extended to July 14! The Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship (IRFF) is still accepting applications! This free program supports facilitators and trainers working with scientists to grow inclusive, reflexive practices. Apply by July 14: www.cienciapr.org/irff

¡Ya está abierta la solicitud para la Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship! Programa GRATIS para quienes apoyan el desarrollo profesional de científicos. Mejora tu facilitación, únete a colegas y recibe un estipendio. ¡Solicita antes del 8 de julio 2025! 🔗 www.cienciapr.org/irff

Excited to announce the Inclusive and Reflexive Facilitation Fellowship, a FREE program for career development professionals supporting scientists. Enhance your facilitation skills, join a vibrant peer group, and receive a development stipend. Apply by July 8, 2025! 🔗 www.cienciapr.org/irff

Back from @icahdq.bsky.social, where I shared CienciaPR’s work on how Puerto Rican community leaders are navigating climate change. Also presented on our efforts to make science more culturally relevant, which received a Top Poster Award from the Intercultural Communication Division. Seguimos! 🇵🇷

RFK Jr. wants to block NIH scientists from publishing in the best medical journals. This is censorship by the United States government. Y’all getting nervous yet? www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

“A rare move that bypasses the traditional system of vaccine recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

FDA tightens requirements for COVID vaccine, adding trials for healthy adults reut.rs/3Sgxhrk

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

🧪 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...

¿Eres líder comunitaria y te interesa el cambio climático? Te invitamos a unirte a una de tres conversaciones virtuales sobre el impacto del cambio climático en Puerto Rico. Las sesiones se realizarán el 7, 14, y 21 de mayo a las 6PM por Zoom. Puedes registrarte aquí: bit.ly/sesionesCien... .

¿Eres líder comunitaria y te interesa el cambio climático? Te invitamos a unirte a una de tres conversaciones virtuales sobre el impacto del cambio climático en Puerto Rico. Las sesiones se realizarán el 7, 14, y 21 de mayo a las 6PM por Zoom. Puedes registrarte aquí: bit.ly/sesionesCien... .

Thrilled to be back home in Puerto Rico and sharing the incredible work that CienciaPR is doing to uplift science and community!

For the last 3 yrs, I was the director for the Science of Science program at the NSF. We funded projects on science communication - science communication to the public, communication of public priorities to scientists, citizens engagement & participation in science. 🧵

Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

For science communicators at #SciTalk25 just encountering some of these ideas, our colleague @andrea-isabel.bsky.social contributed an introduction to reflexivity in 2023 www.aldacenter.org/thelink/post... (The Link is another helpful resource to bookmark)

A new White House freeze on using government-issued credit cards is the latest shock for federal scientists, potentially affecting everything from conference travel to needed purchases for clinical care or lab work. scim.ag/4hV9oRb

Well. I have been informed that it is the weekend, again. When you are ready to sit down together & figure out what just happened and what to do, we’ve got you: buttondown.com/liminalcreat... It’s also okay if you’re coming in hot! “What the actual fuck??” is a sensible start place at the moment.

🚨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.

The news cycle right now - even just for science & higher ed - is overwhelming. We have to do it, but fortunately, we don’t have to do it alone. My team is focused on tracking what’s happening to research funding, jobs & salaries, shared datasets, university responses & safety of our communities

i wrote about something strange happening within the environmental movement — many of its supporters have careened into the far right www.vox.com/climate/3935...

"NSF reviews grant applications based on two criteria: intellectual merit and broader impacts... a crucial component of those broader impacts relate to increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in the scientific process." Deeply concerning news. Diversity in science in essential.

Great resource! Would love to see Puerto Rico included in these stats—especially since the NIH also supports important work there.

I was raised in a multi-generational organizing family and I can say with firsthand knowledge that 20th century organizers read theory and they studied history and literature quite closely The need to do that hasn’t changed If studying history isn’t part of your organizing work, change that

I'm thrilled to be featured in the #CivicScienceMeans nanoseries on CivicSciTV's QuickTake program! Want to learn more about civic science? Check out the series here: lnkd.in/edBBXpBG

Let's transform Puerto Rico with science! Help Ciencia Puerto Rico raise $5,000 to continue impacting communities and students. Donate here: YoApoyoCienciaPR.org and share this initiative.

Let's transform Puerto Rico with science! Help Ciencia Puerto Rico raise $5,000 to continue impacting communities and students. Donate here: YoApoyoCienciaPR.org and share this initiative.

¡Transformemos Puerto Rico con ciencia! Ayuda a Ciencia Puerto Rico a recaudar $5,000 para continuar impactando comunidades y estudiantes. Dona aquí: YoApoyoCienciaPR.org y comparte esta iniciativa.

A new peer-reviewed study finds that books by women of color, often featuring diverse characters, are frequent targets.

De verdad que no hay sentimiento mas lindo que aterrizar en Puerto Rico

“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. received the most positive reception, as 47% of respondents said Kennedy—controversial due to his vaccine skepticism and support for fringe health theories—is a good choice for Health and Human Services secretary, 34% said he’s not good and 19% said they haven’t heard enough.”

Republican support for school vaccine requirements dropped from 79% in 2019 to 57% in 2023. www.pewresearch.org/science/2023... 🧪🌐

Super excited that this amazing book is finally available for preorder. It was written by over 50 Indigenous Peoples from around the world and contains stories, poetry, and critical thought pieces on how TEK is used and extracted from our communities and what folks are doing to protect it.

New research in @natureportfolio.bsky.social reveals that intellectual humility boosts trust in scientists & their research. When scientists come across as humble, people trust them more. A reminder of the power of humility in effective #Science🧪 & #Scicomm. Full study: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The words we use matter! 💬 Check out this article on using “interest-holders” as a more inclusive alternative to "stakeholders" ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SciComm

Yesterday I created this #starterpack. Unfortunately, it's dominated by Western scholars, whereas much of the important research outside Europe/US is underrepresented... 🌍 So please help me de-Westernize the list and (self)nominate #scicomm scholars from non-Western countries, so I can add them!

“Collaboratively imagining a shared future together, it seems, may be an important first step toward creating it.”

Del ataúd a la urna

Great resource for anyone thinking of applying to #STEM PhD programs.

“It is not only a question of what constitutes ‘crossing the boundary’ from neutral communication to activism, but also who makes that judgement, and what values are used in doing so. One person’s ‘neutral’ communication can be perceived by another to be activism.”

“Communication is seen as an area of relative weakness for scientists.” 👀 #scicomm

I don’t know about “known for” but I was most proud of finishing this

Great opportunity for early-career science communicators!

Measles vaccination coverage globally has still not recovered to pre-Covid levels, a fact that contributed to a 20% increase in measles cases in 2023 over the previous year.

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Es importante recordar que tampoco tiene experiencia en el campo de la salud pública y que promueve abiertamente ideas antivacunas. 🙃