Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
@davidimiller.bsky.social
Physicist Turned Psychologist | Senior Researcher in #STEMed | Meta-Analysis Nerd | https://d-miller.github.io/
Also posts about 🧪 science funding to focus my attention.
Personal account. I don’t speak for my employer or any other orgs.
Also posts about 🧪 science funding to focus my attention.
Personal account. I don’t speak for my employer or any other orgs.
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🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨
After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!!
In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything...
doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!!
In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything...
doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.
What we have is an appropriations king.
Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
What we have is an appropriations king.
Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
October 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.
What we have is an appropriations king.
Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
What we have is an appropriations king.
Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly
We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!
RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!
RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
October 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🧪Excited to co-present this @standupforscience.bsky.social event next week with UW's Dr. Ryan Kelly
We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!
RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
We'll cover how to effectively engage in public comments, to help shape public policy at all levels, federal to local. Attend in person or virtually!
RSVP: act.standupforscience.net/events/power...
Fuck that noise.
Federal workers deserve our respect and pay.
And more than that: it's the law.
"Shall be paid...at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends"
31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2): uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
Federal workers deserve our respect and pay.
And more than that: it's the law.
"Shall be paid...at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends"
31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2): uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
October 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Fuck that noise.
Federal workers deserve our respect and pay.
And more than that: it's the law.
"Shall be paid...at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends"
31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2): uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
Federal workers deserve our respect and pay.
And more than that: it's the law.
"Shall be paid...at the earliest date possible after the lapse in appropriations ends"
31 U.S. Code § 1341 (c)(2): uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?p...
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
I got fed up with Vance’s lies, so I made a video addressing a few of them:
-Why are ED wait times long? (Hint: it’s not immigrants)
-Are “illegal aliens” getting health insurance through the government? (Not since 1996)
-What about emergency Medicaid? (This goes to hospitals, not patients)
-Why are ED wait times long? (Hint: it’s not immigrants)
-Are “illegal aliens” getting health insurance through the government? (Not since 1996)
-What about emergency Medicaid? (This goes to hospitals, not patients)
October 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I got fed up with Vance’s lies, so I made a video addressing a few of them:
-Why are ED wait times long? (Hint: it’s not immigrants)
-Are “illegal aliens” getting health insurance through the government? (Not since 1996)
-What about emergency Medicaid? (This goes to hospitals, not patients)
-Why are ED wait times long? (Hint: it’s not immigrants)
-Are “illegal aliens” getting health insurance through the government? (Not since 1996)
-What about emergency Medicaid? (This goes to hospitals, not patients)
Receipts for above:
U of Texas Board of Regents (gift NYT link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
California governor: bsky.app/profile/gove...
The 10-page "compact" itself: www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
U of Texas Board of Regents (gift NYT link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
California governor: bsky.app/profile/gove...
The 10-page "compact" itself: www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Receipts for above:
U of Texas Board of Regents (gift NYT link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
California governor: bsky.app/profile/gove...
The 10-page "compact" itself: www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
U of Texas Board of Regents (gift NYT link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...
California governor: bsky.app/profile/gove...
The 10-page "compact" itself: www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
A tale of two states and Trump's shakedown of higher ed:
TEXAS: Oh goody, yes, we love to strip away academic freedoms to serve Trump's wishes.
CALIFORNIA: Eat shit. Any university who signs the letter will lose state funding.
TEXAS: Oh goody, yes, we love to strip away academic freedoms to serve Trump's wishes.
CALIFORNIA: Eat shit. Any university who signs the letter will lose state funding.
October 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A tale of two states and Trump's shakedown of higher ed:
TEXAS: Oh goody, yes, we love to strip away academic freedoms to serve Trump's wishes.
CALIFORNIA: Eat shit. Any university who signs the letter will lose state funding.
TEXAS: Oh goody, yes, we love to strip away academic freedoms to serve Trump's wishes.
CALIFORNIA: Eat shit. Any university who signs the letter will lose state funding.
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
Republicans had what was a strong shutdown position: We want to keep the govt open, Dems have demands.
They had traded this for Vought's position, which imo is much riskier, since it is based on an obvious lie about the need to make cuts.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...
They had traded this for Vought's position, which imo is much riskier, since it is based on an obvious lie about the need to make cuts.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...
October 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Republicans had what was a strong shutdown position: We want to keep the govt open, Dems have demands.
They had traded this for Vought's position, which imo is much riskier, since it is based on an obvious lie about the need to make cuts.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...
They had traded this for Vought's position, which imo is much riskier, since it is based on an obvious lie about the need to make cuts.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.”
- @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This US government shutdown is different: what it means for science
President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass lay-offs across the federal government.
www.nature.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“American science, the gold-standard and world-leading science and innovation enterprise, is being destroyed….Congress has a rare moment of leverage to check Trump’s executive overreach and it must stand up and do so.”
- @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- @markhisted.org, NIH neuroscientist
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Some further context on the abrupt policy change:
‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry
The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded
www.science.org
October 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Some further context on the abrupt policy change:
Though many NSF employees are currently furloughed, Congress is not (where this call is going to next):
📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
October 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Though many NSF employees are currently furloughed, Congress is not (where this call is going to next):
📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors:
You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship.
Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that.
[Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]
You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship.
Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that.
[Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
October 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
📣 Calling 2nd-year grad students and their mentors:
You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship.
Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that.
[Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]
You just abruptly lost the ability to apply for the NSF grad research fellowship.
Join ~900 others (and growing!) in signing @omfishient.bsky.social's petition to reverse that.
[Or reshare this petition if you're not directly impacted]
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
🧪 Were you one of the many thousands of STEM students (and mentors) impacted by the sudden change in #NSF #GRFP eligibility last week?
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
We created a petition to NSF leadership and Congress to reverse the changes - please sign and share your stories here!!
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/
Petition to NSF to Restore Eligibility for the 2026 Graduate Research Fellowship Program Competition
laurenkuehne.github.io
October 1, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📣 🧪 Update: #GRFP petition went to #NSF and OSTP (w/ the growing* comments list) yesterday.
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
We are now working to get these impacts in front of Congress, so PLEASE keep signing/sharing the petition!
*nearly 900!
@danielbolnick.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @jasonwilliamsny.bsky.social
One blatant violation of the Hatch Act after another:
![“I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal spending bill (HR 5371), leading to a government shutdown that is preventing the US Small Business Administration from serving America’s 36 million small businesses. Every day that Senate Democrats continue [to] oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.”
The email goes on to say that once the shutdown is over, “we are prepared to immediately return to the record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump Administration.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c5xrowexysrnn6rn6piltqjz/bafkreihe24btfvr2b3bvtor3ernferdn6daetgw6jhy5eivlw4ljwgur4q@jpeg)
October 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
One blatant violation of the Hatch Act after another:
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
Advice: download PDFs of any documents you might need from government websites. The NIFA website went offline during the government shutdown during my PhD
In that vein, NSF's shutdown plans just went public: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh...
Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.
Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.
September 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Advice: download PDFs of any documents you might need from government websites. The NIFA website went offline during the government shutdown during my PhD
In that vein, NSF's shutdown plans just went public: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh...
Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.
Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.
September 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
In that vein, NSF's shutdown plans just went public: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/nsf-sh...
Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.
Already-funded projects can continue. And proposals can be submitted. But don't expect a response from a program officer during the shutdown.
Needed to take a bit of a social media break for personal reasons, but hopping back on say:
At awe of the civil servants at NSF, NIH, etc.
While Vought uses their jobs/livelihood as a political pawn re: shutdown, their first instinct has remained: how do I support the communities of scientists?
At awe of the civil servants at NSF, NIH, etc.
While Vought uses their jobs/livelihood as a political pawn re: shutdown, their first instinct has remained: how do I support the communities of scientists?
September 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Needed to take a bit of a social media break for personal reasons, but hopping back on say:
At awe of the civil servants at NSF, NIH, etc.
While Vought uses their jobs/livelihood as a political pawn re: shutdown, their first instinct has remained: how do I support the communities of scientists?
At awe of the civil servants at NSF, NIH, etc.
While Vought uses their jobs/livelihood as a political pawn re: shutdown, their first instinct has remained: how do I support the communities of scientists?
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
September 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I might play this as my alarm every morning for the next month
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
New: More than two weeks after a court order ruled the Trump administration's termination of 1000+ grants illegal, Harvard's research funding is still frozen—with one exception. On Wednesday, NSF reinstated both Harvard's grants and access to funds. My reporting:
Harvard vs Trump: research funds still mostly frozen despite court win
US funding agencies might violate a judge’s ruling if they continue to withhold money.
www.nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
New: More than two weeks after a court order ruled the Trump administration's termination of 1000+ grants illegal, Harvard's research funding is still frozen—with one exception. On Wednesday, NSF reinstated both Harvard's grants and access to funds. My reporting:
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site.
Standards editor:
[email protected]
Journalists who wrote the article:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
Standards editor:
[email protected]
Journalists who wrote the article:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.
From the Charlie Kirk press conference:
September 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site.
Standards editor:
[email protected]
Journalists who wrote the article:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
Standards editor:
[email protected]
Journalists who wrote the article:
[email protected]
[email protected]
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.
September 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
If I don't see multiple ~media reporters~ columns about the extraordinarily irresponsible Wall Street Journal report from yesterday morning — and their extensive promotion of that inflammatory report — you all should just pack up and go home.
Appreciate the timeline cleanse 😂
‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.
‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
September 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Appreciate the timeline cleanse 😂
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ‼️🧬💪
⏰WHEN: Weds, Sept. 17th at 8am ET
📍WHERE: 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC
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September 11, 2025 at 8:14 PM
FIGHT FOR SCIENCE RALLY ‼️🧬💪
⏰WHEN: Weds, Sept. 17th at 8am ET
📍WHERE: 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC
🔗📲JOIN US at the LINK in BIO, or in the REPLIES BELOW ⬇️
⏰WHEN: Weds, Sept. 17th at 8am ET
📍WHERE: 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC
🔗📲JOIN US at the LINK in BIO, or in the REPLIES BELOW ⬇️
Statement from the plaintiffs:
“We are as united and committed as ever to ultimately winning this case and protecting these important NSF grants. The Trump-Vance administration acted unlawfully when it terminated these crucial grants."
“We are as united and committed as ever to ultimately winning this case and protecting these important NSF grants. The Trump-Vance administration acted unlawfully when it terminated these crucial grants."
In a Loss for American Innovation and Excellence, Court Allows Mass Termination of Grants at National Science Foundation as Case Continues - Democracy Forward
democracyforward.org
September 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Statement from the plaintiffs:
“We are as united and committed as ever to ultimately winning this case and protecting these important NSF grants. The Trump-Vance administration acted unlawfully when it terminated these crucial grants."
“We are as united and committed as ever to ultimately winning this case and protecting these important NSF grants. The Trump-Vance administration acted unlawfully when it terminated these crucial grants."
And more broadly, fuck this lawless dangerous SCOTUS.
Like how SCOTUS gave the green light for racial profiling earlier this week.
From a chaired law professor at NYU:
Like how SCOTUS gave the green light for racial profiling earlier this week.
From a chaired law professor at NYU:
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
And more broadly, fuck this lawless dangerous SCOTUS.
Like how SCOTUS gave the green light for racial profiling earlier this week.
From a chaired law professor at NYU:
Like how SCOTUS gave the green light for racial profiling earlier this week.
From a chaired law professor at NYU: