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Mixed Methods International Research Association @mmirassociation.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣Special Elections Announcement📣
MMIRA is accepting nominations for the position of Treasurer for the term Nov 1, 2025 – Jul 1, 2027. Link to more information and submission form: member.extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://buff.ly/12VPn3L

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Dr. Ty C. McNamee @tycmcnamee.bsky.social · Aug 12

HELP, Y'ALL!🙏🙂

I am serving this year as Program Co-Chair for the AERA Division J - Section 2a: College Student Access, Trajectories, & Transitions. Even after inviting many folks, we are short this year on our # of reviewers. If you can review some proposals for our section, please comment below.

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Aug 1

Isn’t this exactly the amount that Trump just extorted from Columbia? 🤔

NPR @npr.org · Jul 31

After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this coming September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.

Trump's dream of building a ballroom at the White House is becoming a reality

After at least 15 years of talking about it, President Trump is building a ballroom at the White House. Work will begin this September, with a price tag of $200 million, the White House says.

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Jul 18

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What a time to propose this policy:

"Duke University School of Medicine (SOM) plans to implement new faculty productivity guidelines that would tie tenured professors’ salaries to external research funding, according to documents reviewed by The Chronicle"
www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

Duke School of Medicine plans salary cuts for tenured faculty who do not meet grant expectations

Set to go in effect in 2026, the proposed policy would apply to the School’s basic sciences units. These units rely heavily on grants from the National Institutes of Health, which have been increasing...

www.dukechronicle.com

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Dr. Ty C. McNamee @tycmcnamee.bsky.social · May 20

Pub alert! Towards a Critical Rural Education Line of Inquiry: Rural Spaces as Multi-Identity Contexts published in the Handbook on Rural and Remote Ed. Honored to have written this piece w/ Dr. Jenay Willis and @jrdavisroger.bsky.social! THANK YOU to the editors! www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/b...

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · May 20

Verizon ends DEI policies to get FCC's blessing for its $20 billion Frontier deal

It's the latest big company to back away from its diversity pledges to keep the U.S. government happy.

www.npr.org

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Mario I. Suárez, Ph.D. (he/él) @ftmathteacher.bsky.social · May 19

@drjgutz.bsky.social and I are looking forward to your abstracts due at the end of this month!

Journal of Queer and Trans Studies in Education (JQTSIE) @jqtsie.bsky.social · May 19

🥳📣 Call for abstracts: Special Issue of JQTSIE:
"Critical Approaches to Queering STEM Education"
edited by @drjgutz.bsky.social & @ftmathteacher.bsky.social!
Abstracts are due SOON: May 30, 2025! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
www.jqtsie.com
@kamdenstrunk.bsky.social @drantonioduran.bsky.social @sashelton.bsky.social

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Gio Ramos @gramos.bsky.social · May 8

Are you a person of color interested in using a mindfulness app to improve your mental well-being?

You can earn up to $140 for participating in this study.

Help us make these apps better for people like you!

Eligibility: redcap.link/gjmdtwjc

Please participate and share 🤓

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Diana Cejas, MD, MPH @dianacejasmd.bsky.social · Apr 16

If you're a doctor & you're upset about how people in power have been talking about disabled folks (& you should be,) then what are you doing to make sure that your disabled patients feel safe & heard in your practice? Are you providing anti-ableist medical care?

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Ashley Mowreader @amowreader.com · Apr 11

Up to 795 students who have had their visa revoked due to political activism, previous crimes or unidentified reasons. Follow the latest updates here: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

@insidehighered.com

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P. Shannon-Baker @pshannonbaker.bsky.social · Apr 10

Verb tenses here are important. Article states these collections were already removed from this state-funded database! The order was made through a memo from March 31.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Apr 9

This is the literal destruction of knowledge.

Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases.
mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws - Mississippi Today

The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.

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J. Audra | he/they @jaudrazona.bsky.social · Apr 9

Please share with those who are interested in joining the conversation on #queerjoy

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Apr 9

IRS Acting Commissioner Is Resigning After Deal To Share Tax Information With ICE

The Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

www.huffpost.com

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P. Shannon-Baker @pshannonbaker.bsky.social · Apr 3

"As the Trump administration revokes hundreds of student visas each week, federal immigration officials also seem to be terminating students’ SEVIS status—paving the way for arrest and deportation. [...] affected students were almost all Middle Eastern [...] or from majority-Muslim countries."

Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · Apr 3

Smashing the Student Visa System

The Trump administration is upending the student visa bureaucracy to deport foreign students. University officials are struggling to keep up. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3G3NCwu

How Trump Is Wreaking Havoc on the Student Visa System

The Trump administration is upending the student visa bureaucracy to deport foreign students. University officials are struggling to keep up.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · Apr 1

This is not an April fools joke. Have any of you who have gotten your federal student loans cancelled in the last few years recently been notified by your servicer that your loans have been reinstated? If so, DM us, we want to look into this further.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Mar 17

The Trump administration violated *another* court order by deporting a professor despite her valid visa and a judge’s order halting her removal

Brown University Professor Deported Despite Valid Visa And Judge's Order

A representative for Customs and Border Protection told HuffPost, "Arriving aliens bear the burden of establishing admissibility to the United States."

www.huffpost.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Mar 15

ICE agents are torturing a green card holder from New Hampshire, his mother says

www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island.

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

Schmidt had been visiting Luxembourg and flew back to the U.S. on Friday. His partner had gone to pick him up at Logan Airport, and waited four hours before calling authorities.

“It was just said that his green card was flagged,” said Astrid Senior, his mother. She said she didn’t hear from her son directly until Tuesday, when she learned he’d been hospitalized.

Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 12

This is who was fired from the union workforce at the Department of Education yesterday. Every single number is a person who served the nation and whose life was wrongly disrupted. That's the first tragedy, but it's clearly not the only one.

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · Feb 17

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 14

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨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.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Feb 2

If you take down a Confederate memorial that was literally dedicated to promote white supremacy, that’s “erasing history.”

But if you hide pictures of accomplished women, that’s just fighting wokeness.

Gen Michael Hayden @genmhayden.bsky.social · Feb 2

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

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Joel Mittleman @joeljm.bsky.social · Jan 31

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991.

Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens.

As of this morning, it’s gone.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jan 24

Trump's FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, whose first act was to "end DEI" at the agency, has shut down public comments on predatory pricing and other shady corporate tactics.

The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder.

'Unthinkable': Trump FTC Chair Shuts Down Public Comments on Corporate Pricing Tactics | Common Dreams

"Chairman Ferguson could have done any number of things to actually lower the cost of living and create opportunities for American businesses and workers," said one Democratic FTC commissioner. "He…

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Dr. Ty C. McNamee @tycmcnamee.bsky.social · Dec 21

Woodward Hines Education Foundation is hiring an Assoc Director of Evaluation and Learning who will participate in strategic discussions, assess the impact of programmatic investments, and drive data-informed decisions for WHEF's strategic objectives. Apply soon!

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