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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for the boost and the kind words!!!

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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you for the kind words!

Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the kind words words. Good luck at the faculty meeting! 😉

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David Webb @djphysicswebb.bsky.social · 1d

Research suggesting how an exam gender gap can be inflated from zero up to roughly 1/3 of a grade point simply by increasing the stakes of your exams.
Can't help thinking of gaps on a different high stakes exam, the SAT, when I see results like these.
#iTeachPhysics 🎢 #EduSky 🍎 #academia #HigherEd

Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 1d

Proud of the work I published with @djphysicswebb.bsky.social . Gender Gap in intro physics is eliminated when employing retake exams because women do better on the FIRST try - suggesting exam STAKES (not differences in preparation/understanding) explain gender gap. 🧪 link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

High-stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introductory physics series

A study in introductory physics suggests high-stakes exams are causing a gender gap, rather than measuring it.

link.aps.org

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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for reading our paper, Dan! I appreciate the kind words!

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Check out this storymap highlighting findings from our latest report. 🔌💡

Fighting for Fair Development, Community Benefits Agreements as a Strategy for making the #EnergyTransition more Equitable in the United States. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a860...

Fighting for Fair Development

Community Benefits Agreements as a Strategy for Making the Energy Transition More Equitable in the United States

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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · 1d

Proud of the work I published with @djphysicswebb.bsky.social . Gender Gap in intro physics is eliminated when employing retake exams because women do better on the FIRST try - suggesting exam STAKES (not differences in preparation/understanding) explain gender gap. 🧪 link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...

High-stakes exams inflate a gender gap and contribute to systematic grading errors in one introductory physics series

A study in introductory physics suggests high-stakes exams are causing a gender gap, rather than measuring it.

link.aps.org

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 4d

#NOKINGS

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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · Aug 28

6 papers for me!

Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · Aug 28

6 of my papers were in this database.

Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · Aug 28

10 of my papers were in this data base.

samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Aug 27

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case.

Academics:
1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · Aug 19

I’m at my kids’ parent orientation, and the topic that generated more questions from parents is the school car line. Curriculum? No. New teachers? Nope. If that’s not an indicator of a failed transportation system, I don’t know what is.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Aug 15

Something I wish more people understood: part of the point of shock-and-awe grant terminations at NIH and NSF has been to make scientists and university administrators afraid to speak out against the administration. And it's working. But, some of us were never going to get a grant from them anyway.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Aug 13

🎤 BOOM: Federal judge just ruled to *reinstate* the suspended ~300 NSF grants at UCLA.

Determines that NSF violated the previous court order by attempting to swap "termination" with "suspension".

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NSF’s actions violate the Preliminary Injunction. Though there may be situations where
a “termination” and “suspension” are not the same thing, there is no principled difference
between a “termination” and the immediate, indefinite, and “final” “suspension” of funding in
this context. The suspensions have the same effect, and are based on the same type of deficient
explanations, as the original terminations. NSF communicated the suspensions by means of a
form letter that failed to provide the requisite grant-specific reason for halting funding, and that
failed to adequately consider grant-specific interests, including the reliance interests of the
researchers. Therefore, pursuant to the Preliminary Injunction (Dkt. No. 55), NSF’s suspension
of the grants at issue here is VACATED. For avoidance of doubt, the Court also clarifies that
grant “termination,” as the term is used in the Preliminary Injunction, encompasses
circumstances where grant funding is cut off on a long-term or indefinite basis, like the
suspensions carried out by NSF on July 30

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Aug 8

Absolutely the fuck not.

Any senior administrator who even entertains the possibility of a $1 BILLION DOLLAR SETTLEMENT has no legitimate place overseeing researchers.

Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics

The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...

www.cnn.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 31

📚 (Early) good news for education researchers!

Today, Senate appropriators said NO cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) budget for FY26.

Holds flat at $793 million. In contrast, the President's budget request wanted to slash IES's budget by -67%.

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Senators—Including Republicans—Reject All of Trump's Proposed Education Cuts

The budget bill could go before the full Senate as early as September.

www.edweek.org

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · Jul 30

Sen. Elizabeth Warren argued that Democrats can’t trust Republicans and Trump to uphold any bipartisan government funding agreement.
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/warren-...

Warren Demands Dems Refuse to Participate in Budgeting So Long As Trump is Freezing Funds

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) took to the Senate floor on Wednesday morning...

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 30

If you've ever *benefitted* from NIH research (big population), CALL YOUR SENATOR now to let them know.

⏰ Tmrw morning, Senate appropriators will mark up NIH's FY26 budget.

Personal examples help.

My own case: decades of *sustained* investment in NIH-funded cancer research saved my life.

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Feb 9

1/11 Though it's personal, I’m sharing this analogy if it helps others: In the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about my past journey with cancer.

Years ago, I found out in the worst way. My doctor accidentally released the biopsy results to my online patient portal.

🧵 Thread

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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · Jul 29

Glad reporting is still happening around this issue. I appreciate that Rep. Zoe Lofgren ‪@lofgren.house.gov‬ keeps pushing on this. UC researchers have had their NSF grants reinstated through class action lawsuit, but CSU researchers are still waiting. sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-rep...

San Jose Rep. Lofgren calls out Trump for science cuts - San José Spotlight

Government workers from the National Science Foundation are sounding the alarm on President Donald Trump’s attack on the federal independent agency and its impact on the scientific community. In a Jul...

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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · Jul 24

Thank you!!!!

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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · Jul 23

Researchers who have had their NSF grants cancelled and are finishing up publications started before the termination…. How are we thanking (or not thanking) NSF in the acknowledgments? I can’t be the only one thinking about this! Feel free to drop your preprint or pub below.👇 #academicsky #science 🧪

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · Jul 21

🧪280 NASA employees past & present + at least 4 astronauts, have signed a declaration of opposition to the many of the impending drastic changes

The last six months have been full of rapid, wasteful & catastrophic changes that have sabotaged their mission.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘We dissent’: NASA staff declare opposition to Trump cuts

Declaration of dissent, which warns that science and safety are at risk, joins similar documents from staff at the EPA and the NIH.

www.nature.com

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Cassandra Paul @cassandrapaul.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hi! Cassandra Paul here, professor of Physics & Astronomy and also Science Education. Can you please add me to the science feed? Here is my orchid ID: 0000-0003-2843-9448

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Katie Wilkinson @drkwilkinson.bsky.social · Jul 20

Thanks to @mercurynews.com for highlighting the local impacts of federal grant cuts at SJSU featuring multiple colleagues who have lost grants including @cassandrapaul.bsky.social @proftv.bsky.social and @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social. 🧪 www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/19/c...

Cuts to science grants force San Jose researchers, student to scramble

Federal agencies lose billions in research funding as Trump directives target DEI in part to cut cut taxes.

www.mercurynews.com

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Jul 17

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!!

An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.

🧵 Brief thread 1/4

Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants

Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment

www.science.org

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