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.
Pinned
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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...
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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.
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🧪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...
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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)
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.
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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...
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“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...
📣 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]
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📣 🧪 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:
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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
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?
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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
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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 🏳️🌈
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Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site.
Standards editor:
David.marcelis@wsj.com
Journalists who wrote the article:
james.fanelli@wsj.com
sadie.gurman@wsj.com
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
Standards editor:
David.marcelis@wsj.com
Journalists who wrote the article:
james.fanelli@wsj.com
sadie.gurman@wsj.com
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:
David.marcelis@wsj.com
Journalists who wrote the article:
james.fanelli@wsj.com
sadie.gurman@wsj.com
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
Standards editor:
David.marcelis@wsj.com
Journalists who wrote the article:
james.fanelli@wsj.com
sadie.gurman@wsj.com
Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.
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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 😂
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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 ⬇️
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🔗📲JOIN US at the LINK in BIO, or in the REPLIES BELOW ⬇️
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 ⬇️
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📍WHERE: 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC
🔗📲JOIN US at the LINK in BIO, or in the REPLIES BELOW ⬇️
👎 BOO: Federal judge just denied a preliminary injunction to reinstate terminated NSF grants (link below).
Also allows Trump admin to still apply the lawless new "priorities" to pending NSF proposals, at least for now (www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...).
A thread... (with call to action for Congress) 🧵
Also allows Trump admin to still apply the lawless new "priorities" to pending NSF proposals, at least for now (www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...).
A thread... (with call to action for Congress) 🧵
storage.courtlistener.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
👎 BOO: Federal judge just denied a preliminary injunction to reinstate terminated NSF grants (link below).
Also allows Trump admin to still apply the lawless new "priorities" to pending NSF proposals, at least for now (www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...).
A thread... (with call to action for Congress) 🧵
Also allows Trump admin to still apply the lawless new "priorities" to pending NSF proposals, at least for now (www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...).
A thread... (with call to action for Congress) 🧵
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What's going on with politically-motivated terminations of federal grants? How should social psychologists react and respond? Where do we go from here? No good answers but join me and other affected researchers for a virtual discussion next Friday.
FYI - New @spspnews.bsky.social session on Navigating Uncertainty: A Community Conversation on Research Funding Challenges
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
Friday, September 19
2 - 3 PM ET (free and virtual)
Sign up: community.spsp.org/events/sNhWo...
SPSP
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September 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What's going on with politically-motivated terminations of federal grants? How should social psychologists react and respond? Where do we go from here? No good answers but join me and other affected researchers for a virtual discussion next Friday.
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A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.
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Join @aeraedresearch.bsky.social tomorrow, September 10, at 2 p.m. ET for an informational webinar about the AERA-NSF Grants Program!
The AERA-NSF Grants Program is accepting proposals for both Dissertation and Research Grants through Oct. 6.
Registration required: aera.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The AERA-NSF Grants Program is accepting proposals for both Dissertation and Research Grants through Oct. 6.
Registration required: aera.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Register for the AERA-NSF Grants Program informational webinar happening this week on 9/10 at 2pm ET to ask questions and learn more about the application process! aera.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: AERA-NSF Grants Program Informational Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Presenters:
Felice J. Levine
Principal Investigator, AERA Grants Program
American Educational Research Association
George L. Wimberly
Co-Principal Investigator, AERA Grants Program
American Educatio...
aera.zoom.us
September 9, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Join @aeraedresearch.bsky.social tomorrow, September 10, at 2 p.m. ET for an informational webinar about the AERA-NSF Grants Program!
The AERA-NSF Grants Program is accepting proposals for both Dissertation and Research Grants through Oct. 6.
Registration required: aera.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The AERA-NSF Grants Program is accepting proposals for both Dissertation and Research Grants through Oct. 6.
Registration required: aera.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
September 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Chaired law professor at NYU its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofi...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
When people who've devoted their careers to the law start talking like this...
Reposted by Dr. David Miller 🏳️🌈
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
September 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool