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...

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)

Ugh I'm sorry Allison 😔 The situation sucks so much right now. You are such an inspiring researcher and professor! We read several of your papers in my classes and they're always a hit ☺️

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.”

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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.

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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!

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

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.

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...

🧪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.

Aww thank you Allison!! ❤️🤗

Thanks Allison, I needed that too. It's been rough out here for us DEI researchers 😭

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

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-...

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