Leya
@leyamohsin.bsky.social
making policy more evidence-based @scientistsorg.bsky.social | alum of @arnoldventures.bsky.social + @teachforamerica.bsky.social
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she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
Attending #2025APPAM? Come check out my session this Saturday where I'm partnering with colleagues to talk about the future role of evidence synthesis and AI in powering better policy- and decision-making.
November 13, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Attending #2025APPAM? Come check out my session this Saturday where I'm partnering with colleagues to talk about the future role of evidence synthesis and AI in powering better policy- and decision-making.
also worth noting that TX-18, a heavily democratic district, has been without a rep since January...
The Arizona Democrat would be the decisive signature on a petition to force a vote on releasing the records. But Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not swear her in until after the shutdown is over. n.pr/4o30DrC
Adelita Grijalva can force a vote on the Epstein files, but she's still not sworn in
The Arizona Democrat would be the decisive signature on a petition to force a vote on releasing the records. But Speaker Mike Johnson says he will not swear her in until after the shutdown is over.
n.pr
October 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
also worth noting that TX-18, a heavily democratic district, has been without a rep since January...
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This is illegal. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...
August 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is illegal. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...
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Rep. Wesley Hunt has spent months trying to get officials to hire Elon Musk’s The Boring Co. to build a major flood control project in Houston. The company has pitched tunnels that are far smaller than what may be needed to address the flooding issues.🤔
@lmcgaughy.bsky.social @chengyilun.bsky.social
@lmcgaughy.bsky.social @chengyilun.bsky.social
A Texas Congressman Is Quietly Helping Elon Musk Pitch a $760M Plan to Build Tunnels Under Houston to Ease Flooding
For years, experts in Houston have been studying the idea of building massive tunnels to divert floodwaters and save lives and property. Now Elon Musk’s tunneling company wants a piece of the project.
www.propublica.org
August 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Rep. Wesley Hunt has spent months trying to get officials to hire Elon Musk’s The Boring Co. to build a major flood control project in Houston. The company has pitched tunnels that are far smaller than what may be needed to address the flooding issues.🤔
@lmcgaughy.bsky.social @chengyilun.bsky.social
@lmcgaughy.bsky.social @chengyilun.bsky.social
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Truly wild that this entire story doesn't mention the fact that DOGE nuked USDS and 18F, which actually did this work for years. Including online passport renewal and the creation of Direct File to make filing taxes easier! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump’s new chief design officer aims to make federal websites ‘satisfying’
Joe Gebbia, an Elon Musk ally who also worked for DOGE, said navigating dot-gov websites should be just as easy as visiting the Apple Store.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Truly wild that this entire story doesn't mention the fact that DOGE nuked USDS and 18F, which actually did this work for years. Including online passport renewal and the creation of Direct File to make filing taxes easier! www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Ever since the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics was dismissed by the Trump administration in February, I wanted to hear her story. Peggy Carr was among a string of Black senior officials fired in early 2025. (1/3)
July 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Ever since the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics was dismissed by the Trump administration in February, I wanted to hear her story. Peggy Carr was among a string of Black senior officials fired in early 2025. (1/3)
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Posted in the State Department. The resistance always grows. Tomorrow there will be more of us.
July 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Posted in the State Department. The resistance always grows. Tomorrow there will be more of us.
It’s true, FEMA doesn’t serve people as well as it should. But it’s also clear that in large part the tragedy unfolding in Central Texas was exacerbated by a failure of local and state officials’ response. So why should Texans trust those same people to manage their recovery?
The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Texas is relying on FEMA. State leaders said it should be cut
The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
n.pr
July 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
It’s true, FEMA doesn’t serve people as well as it should. But it’s also clear that in large part the tragedy unfolding in Central Texas was exacerbated by a failure of local and state officials’ response. So why should Texans trust those same people to manage their recovery?
for my #edusky people, highly recommend this resource the HEDCO institute just dropped that is tracking research on four-day school weeks (and all their research dashboards!): hedcoinstitute.uoregon.edu/dashboards/f...
Four-Day School Week Research Database
hedcoinstitute.uoregon.edu
June 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
for my #edusky people, highly recommend this resource the HEDCO institute just dropped that is tracking research on four-day school weeks (and all their research dashboards!): hedcoinstitute.uoregon.edu/dashboards/f...
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real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
June 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time
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Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)
June 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Yesterday, June 2, was an interesting day at work. I was reporting a story about how the Education Department hadn't delivered a report to Congress on the Condition of Education, despite the June 1 deadline mandated by law. 🧵 (1/9)
A blast from my past: New evidence on the program Skew the Script finds promising impact of the curriculum on AP test scores. This resource helped me bring Beyonce, influencer salary, and food deserts into the conversation into my math classroom! skewthescript.org/blog/harvard...
#edusky #mathsky
#edusky #mathsky
Harvard researchers find evidence that Skew The Script boosts AP Stats scores — Skew The Script
A research group at Harvard found evidence that Skew The Script lessons had a causal impact on AP Stats scores across Texas…
skewthescript.org
June 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
A blast from my past: New evidence on the program Skew the Script finds promising impact of the curriculum on AP test scores. This resource helped me bring Beyonce, influencer salary, and food deserts into the conversation into my math classroom! skewthescript.org/blog/harvard...
#edusky #mathsky
#edusky #mathsky
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Delighted to see this piece with Victor Ambros, @carlbergstrom.com, Carol Greider, @michaelemann.bsky.social, and @briannosek.bsky.social in the wild.
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it
@standupforscience.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it
@standupforscience.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it | Colette Delawalla
The new executive order allows political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way to state-controlled science
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Delighted to see this piece with Victor Ambros, @carlbergstrom.com, Carol Greider, @michaelemann.bsky.social, and @briannosek.bsky.social in the wild.
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it
@standupforscience.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it
@standupforscience.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors
The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.
www.notus.org
May 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors
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Exactly what we’ve been SCREAMING about since this whole mess started. This was inevitable. It’s not fault of the office itself. It’s entirely the fault of the current administration.
9 people were killed in a tornado last night in KY. The NWS office responsible for that area has faced some of the most extreme cuts by the Trump administration, including the loss of overnight forecasting.
Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
Last night, they were rushing to find help for the office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...
After Cuts, a Kentucky Weather Office Scrambles for Staffing as Severe Storms Bear Down
www.nytimes.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Exactly what we’ve been SCREAMING about since this whole mess started. This was inevitable. It’s not fault of the office itself. It’s entirely the fault of the current administration.
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
THREAD | Today, our team from the @scientistsorg.bsky.social and the Future Evidence Foundation shared a report sharing learnings and recommendations from a year-long design sprint that explored potential use of an innovative approach, living evidence, at the federal What Works Clearinghouse.
May 1, 2025 at 2:25 PM
THREAD | Today, our team from the @scientistsorg.bsky.social and the Future Evidence Foundation shared a report sharing learnings and recommendations from a year-long design sprint that explored potential use of an innovative approach, living evidence, at the federal What Works Clearinghouse.
Last summer, we @scientistsorg.bsky.social sourced 100+ science and technology policy ideas that would be ready in-time for whoever took office to act on. We gave the authors of these ideas the tools to push for them, support them, and turn them into actually-implemented policy.
April 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Last summer, we @scientistsorg.bsky.social sourced 100+ science and technology policy ideas that would be ready in-time for whoever took office to act on. We gave the authors of these ideas the tools to push for them, support them, and turn them into actually-implemented policy.
Visiting the Whitney Plantation changed my life, and I think about the lessons it taught me constantly. It is emotionally heavy but so worth your time to prioritize visiting, especially now.
A plantation museum focused on the truths of slavery had two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’
Trump cuts federal grants to plantation museum focused on reality of slavery
Whitney Plantation has two grants for Black history and culture terminated in ‘furtherance of president’s agenda’
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Visiting the Whitney Plantation changed my life, and I think about the lessons it taught me constantly. It is emotionally heavy but so worth your time to prioritize visiting, especially now.
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower was not just a novel, but an actual prophecy...
A measure to formally launch Starbase — the town long dreamed of by Elon Musk to be home to his rocket company, SpaceX, and its 3,500 employees — is now on the ballot in Texas.
At Elon Musk’s Behest, Voters Cast Ballots for a New Town: Starbase, Texas
It has been a rough patch for Mr. Musk, but he is about to realize a dream for SpaceX, its employees and for himself, his own town on the southern tip of Texas.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower was not just a novel, but an actual prophecy...
Linda McMahon said just two weeks ago at ASU+GSV that NAEP was "something we absolutely need to keep" and that it's "what keeps us honest, because it's comparing apples to apples."
NAGB just voted (reluctantly) to kill several NAEP exams over the next 10 yrs. Cuts: 1) No Long-Term Trend NAEP at all until 2033. 2) No 4th grade science in 2028 and no 12th grade science in 2032. 3) Writing scrapped altogether. 4) No 12th grade history in 2030 (1/3)
April 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Linda McMahon said just two weeks ago at ASU+GSV that NAEP was "something we absolutely need to keep" and that it's "what keeps us honest, because it's comparing apples to apples."
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Funding for the education department's online library is slated to end: hechingerreport.org/proof-points... via @jillbarshay.bsky.social
A treasure trove of education reports and studies is under threat
Funding for the Education Department’s online library, ERIC, is slated to end this week
hechingerreport.org
April 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Funding for the education department's online library is slated to end: hechingerreport.org/proof-points... via @jillbarshay.bsky.social
Found this quote while on a walk when the Dept of Ed layoffs were announced… we’d do better to remember these wise words.
April 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Found this quote while on a walk when the Dept of Ed layoffs were announced… we’d do better to remember these wise words.