New work with @zenamello.bsky.social -- using the person-centered approach, we found that social class discrimination, particularly discrimination that occurs in school negatively relates to academic outcomes. Classism from teachers was most common onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Social Class Discrimination and Academic Success: A Person‐Centered Approach Among Adolescents Disadvantaged in Social Class

Introduction Prior research indicates that social class is strongly associated with academic outcomes such as GPA. However, little work explores the role that social discrimination plays in this rel...

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Excited to share a new paper by my grad student and myself, highlighting how classroom experiences such as positive classroom climate relate to changes in STEM motivational beliefs across the semester 🤸‍♀️🎉https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8Px,8E16MF-A

New report in Education Week profiles IDS affiliate @christinerstarr.bsky.social's work that looks to better understand how to motivate students in STEM whose parents didn't attend college. www.edweek.org/leadership/m...

Many Kids' Parents Didn't Go to College. You Can Still Motivate Them in STEM

Students whose parents did not go to college often do not feel they have the necessary support to excel STEM subjects.

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Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!

It’s a tough time for STEM education research right now, but we are still excited to share our new PNAS paper, “Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields”! We have big surveys (2,765 students in Grades 1-12), 2 pre-registered studies, and open data. (1/13)

Looks like NSF-BPE has been canceled. My institution was literally supposed to submit my and Dr. Alan Meca's grant to it today... 🫠

🧪 Brand new details on DOGE’s infiltration at NSF ““The Office of Management and Budget recently instructed some NSF staff that all funding opportunities needed approval from DOGE, OMB, or the Office of the Director, a document viewed by FedScoop indicated.” ‼️‼️

How DOGE got into the National Science Foundation

Associates of the Elon Musk- led group recently showed up at the National Science Foundation.

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It was just a matter of time. My R01, a grant dedicated to addressing sexual harassment in biomedical research (which affects over 50% of women and sexual and gender minorities), is being terminated. I guess I should be grateful this letter doesn’t have the offensive language in other terminations.

www.crawfordforwi.com #MomSky Just finished phone banking session and will start another soon Wisconsin VOTE FOR SUSAN CRAWFORD POLLS OPEN TILL 8PM POLLING LOCATION GO... myvote.wi.gov Vote Susan Crawford Wisconsin Vote for your freedoms

Judge Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court

Judge Susan Crawford is a former prosecutor and current Circuit Court Judge running for Wisconsin Supreme Court to protect the rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites.

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Analysis of Terminated NIH Grants with Word Clouds First, using the titles of grants not to Columbia... Gender and DEI predominate

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission): 1) actions 2) background 3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!

Rescinded NIH & NSF Grants

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Universities: We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · last yr.

Columbia was first, but it seems very likely they're going to effectively use the same playback to retract federal scientific funding. A new hit list from Trump's Dept of Ed. www.ed.gov/about/news/p...

This makes me so sad... I've been using one of these datasets for the past 5 years. They're so important for education research.

AERA@aeraedresearch.bsky.social · last yr.

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates

The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.

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🧪The entire staff of the Department of Education’s NCES-a vital independent statistical agency - has just been RIFed. The continued erasure of data and evidence allows for the Trump administration to hide the impact of their corruption. #EduSky #Scisky @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @cossa.bsky.social

Just talked with CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) about my NSF EDU-funded study on early stereotypes in STEM. With my @airinforms.bsky.social colleagues, the results show the importance of *sustained* and *evidence-based* funded efforts to expand opportunities for girls in tech at early ages.

Exploring kids’ early stereotypes about STEM

U.S. researcher David Miller discusses kids’ favouring boys in certain STEM subjects, while Canadian Association of Girls in Science CEO Larissa Vingilis-Jaremko shares ways to counter gender stereoty...

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A call for papers for a special issue of JRA. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Journal of Research on Adolescence Call for Abstracts – Exploring Identity-based Discrimination, Victimization, Bullying, and Violence among Adolescents from a Global Perspective

Both basic and applied studies using diverse methodologies, including qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, and participatory action research, as well as high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses will be considered.

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I encourage everyone to go through to see the grants that have been categorized as "woke DEI." It's disgusting. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...

Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database

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Why is the Institute of Education Sciences important for students, teachers, schools, and for the United States?

Nicole McNeil@nicolemmcneil.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.

Mike Cook@mikecook82.bsky.social · last yr.

Please consider sharing.

This TICS paper turned out to be unexpectedly timely... We could have called it "Why DEI and Merit Go Hand in Hand" given recent developments... Valuing diversity and excellence/merit aren't opposing forces -- they're complementary.

Society for Philosophy and Psychology@socphilpsych.bsky.social · last yr.

Why the belief in meritocracy is so pervasive 🚨Recent work from
Ian R. Hadden, Céline Darnon, Lewis Doyle, Matthew J. Easterbrook, Sébastien Goudeau & Andrei Cimpian

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...

Challenging Stereotypes: Cultivating STEM Futures for Girls - A Conversation with Dr Allison Master

YouTube video by Australia's Women in STEM Ambassador

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Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.

We know a lot about STEM attrition, but tons of students change career plans WITHIN STEM. Who are these students and what motivates their career plan changes? I'm happy to share a new publication at Journal of Educational Psychology, which examines this topic. (1/5)

Omg it’s hard to keep up with the news about even just NSF!! NSF plans to lay off 25-50% of its staff over the next 2 months, according to comments from the head of NSF’s Engineering Directorate 🤬🤬🤬

Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs

National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.

politico.com

The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...