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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · 21d

When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow | @science.org | @aaas.org

Women-led papers ... appeared more often in liberal-leaning outlets than conservative ones. And coverage of their work carried a more negative tone.
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When women researchers publish, media attention doesn’t always follow

Men-led papers receive more media coverage than women’s, new study finds

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · Aug 4

“Like their four-year counterparts, community colleges are grappling with disappearing federal grants, shuttered D.E.I. offices, eliminated programs… many of the grants that fund financial aid for low-income students and the staff that support them have been eliminated or threatened”

Trump Went to War With the Ivies. Community Colleges Are Being Hit.

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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Jul 18

Public funding of #STEM Education fuels innovation & remains essential. Our @fabbs.org policy review explains effective investments in students and systems to train a skilled & future-ready #STEMWorkforce. #EdPolicy #STEMEducation #FutureofWork @fsuannescollege.bsky.social

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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Jul 18

Key point #6:
Policy recommendations include pairing financial aid with structural supports and aligning STEM education with workforce demands through cross-sector collaboration.

Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Jul 18

Key point #5:
National and state programs (e.g., CS for All, regional workforce initiatives) show that multi-level, coordinated investments can create inclusive, career-aligned STEM pathways.

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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Jul 18

Key point #4:
STEM capacity building must go beyond individual and institutional financial aid alone, to attend to and mitigate resource constraints for students, their programs, and their schools and colleges: supporting talent across geographies and institutional types.

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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Jul 18

Key point #3:
Evidence-based interventions—like culturally responsive teaching, mentorship, and need-based aid—improve STEM persistence and outcomes, especially for underrepresented groups.

#STEMEducation #EdPolicy

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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Jul 18

Key point #2:
Disparities in #STEMED persist, particularly among women, racially minoritized, low-income, and rural students—due to limited access, environments, and financial barriers.

Based on evidence found: pulling back on fed investments in ed innovation & existing appropriations=a real risk

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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Jul 18

What did we find? 🧵

Key Points #1:
Strategic public investment in #STEM education has enhanced national competitiveness and broadened student access, especially in the U.S.

Cc @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @fabbs.org @fsuannescollege.bsky.social @fsuresearch.bsky.social

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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Jul 18

Public funding of #STEM Education fuels innovation & remains essential. Our @fabbs.org policy review explains effective investments in students and systems to train a skilled & future-ready #STEMWorkforce. #EdPolicy #STEMEducation #FutureofWork @fsuannescollege.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1177/2372...

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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Jun 19

Looking forward to #ASEE2025 in Montreal next week with valued community. Presenting in two sessions, one of which caps our #AAHHE award winning book's debut year. Join our Wednesday session - we'll have book copies to sign and sell, and look forward to conversation. @rutgersupress.bsky.social

Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Feb 5

Our Latin* Engineering Students book won its first award— Edited Book of the Year! Looking forward to AAHHE next month. Thanks to them and especially my co-editors @srod-vt.bsky.social & Ciera Fluker + our incredible collaborators & reviewers. Appreciate you all & @rutgersupress.bsky.social

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 4

🧪 PRACTICAL tip for NSF PIs with terminated grants:

You're entitled to recover more closeout costs than a DOGE-fueled NSF may lead you to believe.

➡️ Do this NOW: Send fed reg 2 CFR 200.472 on allowable "termination costs" to your sponsored research office:

www.ecfr.gov/current/titl...

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Alt: A man wearing glasses and a green and white shirt looks at the camera

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 2

🚨🚨🚨🚨 NOT A FUCKING DRILL!!!

NSF just announced slashing its indirect rate down to 15%, using the same previous fuckery at NIH.

Applies to new awards made to institutions of higher education on or after May 5 or after.

Demand to talk with your rep about reversing these cuts!!

Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

www.nsf.gov

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · May 2

🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 2

3. Fewer physics educators and programs.

4. Students wouldn’t have great science courses at uni.

5. Research community would not exist.

6. Would lose a generations of scientists.

Masterclass in connecting the personal to the political!!!

@standupforscience.bsky.social

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · Apr 27

Sending lots of support to the NSF and NIH program officers who have been serving the science community in so many ways. Thank you 🙏

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 25

UPDATE: After DOGE/NSF froze making any new NSF awards last week, it has now resumed.

Of course, this is amid the NSF director resigning yesterday, more terminations of active awards expected today, etc.

But an interesting tidbit nevertheless...

Apr 7 = 53
Apr 8 = 33
Apr 9 = 44
Apr 10 = 14
Apr 11 = 34
Apr 14 = 24
Apr 15 = 28
Apr 16 = 0
Apr 17 = 0
Apr 18 = 0
Apri 21 = 0
Apr 22 = 0
Apr 23 = 20
Apr 24 = 61

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Apr 25

“As far as I can tell, no one (including and especially Congress so far) voted for the dismantling of the NSF.

If you think the present trajectory is wrong, contact your legislators and make your voices heard.” 🧪

Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · Apr 25

🧪⚛️ Where is the NSF going? Right now, it doesn't look like it's on a good trajectory. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/04/nsf-...

NSF, quo vadis?

There is a lot going on. Today, some words about NSF. Yesterday Sethuraman Panchanathan , the director of the National Science Foundation, ...

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Eddy Conroy He/Him @econroy.bsky.social · Feb 14

Pell is facing a funding shortfall of $2.7 billion unless congress acts to shore up the programs funding.

The last time this happened, post Great Recession, the cuts were devastating and some of them have never been rolled back.
#EduSky

www.forbes.com/sites/edward...

How Will The $2.7 Billion Pell Grant Funding Gap Impact Students?

The Pell Grant program is facing a funding gap. Cuts to the program would likely put college out of reach for many low-income students.

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Jen @cassiciacum.bsky.social · Feb 16

Also related: we have run dept level job searches for the last several years. Any time we don’t hire a white male, all of our notes get FOIA’d by a think tank. It’s absolutely an effort to intimidate and make people feel threatened when making hiring decisions.

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Adam Harris @adamhsays.com · Feb 16

“Ironically, some of those history books on civil rights might reference the deployment of the 101st Airborne to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957 to protect Black students during the desegregation of a high school, a pivotal moment in civil rights history.”

Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · Feb 16

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com

At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

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Kevin R. McClure @drkevinrmcclure.com · Feb 16

This is something I'd like to give more dedicated attention in my writing coming up. (This is from The Chronicle's recent survey of 4,000 higher ed workers.) I've touched on workload in several parts of my writing, but mainly as a problem. Next is to think about solutions.

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srod-vt.bsky.social @srod-vt.bsky.social · Feb 9

So proud of our book being named one of #AAHHE's Books of the Year! Makes it even more special to share the category honor with José Del Real Viramontes and Marissa Vasquez, too, for their work on #comm_colleges!!

Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Feb 5

Our Latin* Engineering Students book won its first award— Edited Book of the Year! Looking forward to AAHHE next month. Thanks to them and especially my co-editors @srod-vt.bsky.social & Ciera Fluker + our incredible collaborators & reviewers. Appreciate you all & @rutgersupress.bsky.social

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srod-vt.bsky.social @srod-vt.bsky.social · Feb 9

Come out to our San Antonio #CoNECD2025 Book Signing and Meet-N-Greet! Mon, 2/10, 10AM, The Westin Riverwalk. Would love to see you there and have your support for the book! #Texas #Latine #engineering #SanAntonio #students #highered #identity

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Dr. Lara Perez-Felkner @perezfelkner.bsky.social · Feb 9

Here here!

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