Rachel Renbarger
@drrachel.bsky.social
Educational psychologist researcher at a nonprofit focused on equity in K-20 settings. From rural Ok to suburban NC. Lover of being outside, eating, hanging with my spouse/cats/friends/books. New mom send help.
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BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault
We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
June 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault
We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
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NIH funding is HUUUUGEEE here in NC.
I’ve said we should watch the things trump does that will hurt members of Congress that actually have to run for reelection. There will be lots of examples to come.
Really good point about the NIH funding
February 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
NIH funding is HUUUUGEEE here in NC.
I'm trying this site again. Former rural and low income student and teacher -> educational psychologist studying inequity in K-12 & higher Ed, typically around race, ethnicity, class, gender, disability.
Cat / human mom, lover of food and books (mostly thriller, mystery, and "literary" fiction) 👋
Cat / human mom, lover of food and books (mostly thriller, mystery, and "literary" fiction) 👋
November 11, 2024 at 2:57 PM
I'm trying this site again. Former rural and low income student and teacher -> educational psychologist studying inequity in K-12 & higher Ed, typically around race, ethnicity, class, gender, disability.
Cat / human mom, lover of food and books (mostly thriller, mystery, and "literary" fiction) 👋
Cat / human mom, lover of food and books (mostly thriller, mystery, and "literary" fiction) 👋
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A class action suit against academic publishers
I’m the new chair of the publication committee for the American Sociological Association, whose operating budget is heavily subsidized by Sage in return for Sage profiting off our journals, & we must confront this
www.highereddive.com/news/6-major...
I’m the new chair of the publication committee for the American Sociological Association, whose operating budget is heavily subsidized by Sage in return for Sage profiting off our journals, & we must confront this
www.highereddive.com/news/6-major...
6 major academic publishers face antitrust lawsuit
The defendants, including Elsevier and Wiley, have done "tremendous damage to science and the public interest,” the complaint alleged.
www.highereddive.com
October 20, 2024 at 6:34 PM
A class action suit against academic publishers
I’m the new chair of the publication committee for the American Sociological Association, whose operating budget is heavily subsidized by Sage in return for Sage profiting off our journals, & we must confront this
www.highereddive.com/news/6-major...
I’m the new chair of the publication committee for the American Sociological Association, whose operating budget is heavily subsidized by Sage in return for Sage profiting off our journals, & we must confront this
www.highereddive.com/news/6-major...
30-40 people followed me in the past 2 days. Why?? I haven't posted here since AERA. How does this site work??
October 21, 2024 at 7:30 AM
30-40 people followed me in the past 2 days. Why?? I haven't posted here since AERA. How does this site work??
We’re thrilled to be presenting to fellow education researchers, scholars, and practitioners at #AERA24. We hope to see you in our sessions on Saturday! #FHI360US More info at linktr.ee/fhiataera
April 12, 2024 at 4:13 PM
We’re thrilled to be presenting to fellow education researchers, scholars, and practitioners at #AERA24. We hope to see you in our sessions on Saturday! #FHI360US More info at linktr.ee/fhiataera
Oh good
I wrote about Jan 6th on other social media sites instead of my blog (dumb!), but my 19th-century historians’s take is pretty simple: what you get when you invite white supremacists back into power after they tried to violently overthrow the govt is a century of apartheid & reactionary violence.
January 7, 2024 at 12:52 AM
Oh good
America is not pro-life and I've never known this more than through my experiences as a parent. If they wanted more babies, they would do the obvious like address maternal mortality, parental leave, child hunger, etc.
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January 2, 2024 at 3:23 AM
America is not pro-life and I've never known this more than through my experiences as a parent. If they wanted more babies, they would do the obvious like address maternal mortality, parental leave, child hunger, etc.
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Just sent invite code #10,850!
Requests have really slowed down, but if you know clinicians, researchers, scholars, including journals, departments, professional societies, etc. looking to come over, I still have about 500 codes still available: forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66... 🩺 🧪 #AcademicSky
Requests have really slowed down, but if you know clinicians, researchers, scholars, including journals, departments, professional societies, etc. looking to come over, I still have about 500 codes still available: forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66... 🩺 🧪 #AcademicSky
BlueSky Invites for Scientists, Researchers, and Medical Professionals
Please fill out this form if (1) you’d like to donate invite codes to scientists, medical professionals, academics, librarians, or other researchers or scholars or (2) you’re a member of one of th...
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December 29, 2023 at 11:45 PM
Just sent invite code #10,850!
Requests have really slowed down, but if you know clinicians, researchers, scholars, including journals, departments, professional societies, etc. looking to come over, I still have about 500 codes still available: forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66... 🩺 🧪 #AcademicSky
Requests have really slowed down, but if you know clinicians, researchers, scholars, including journals, departments, professional societies, etc. looking to come over, I still have about 500 codes still available: forms.gle/ZyYhpa5MHT66... 🩺 🧪 #AcademicSky
Glad I can blame drug companies for one more thing! 💩🤬😖
There's a new shot to protect babies from RSV but the hitch is: no one can actually get it because the drug companies completely fucked up
The RSV Shot For Babies Was Supposed To Save Lives. Then Nobody Could Get It.
Drugmakers grossly underestimated demand from patients for nirsevimab, the RSV vaccine for babies, and now supplies have all but dried up.
www.romper.com
December 22, 2023 at 1:13 AM
Glad I can blame drug companies for one more thing! 💩🤬😖
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We're hiring:
- Digital marketing manager
- Human resources generalist
- Scrum master
- Part time product marketing contractor
If you have questions about working at @cos.io, I'm happy to answer! Please pass along to anyone who might be interested!
#OpenScience #OpenScholarship #Metascience
- Digital marketing manager
- Human resources generalist
- Scrum master
- Part time product marketing contractor
If you have questions about working at @cos.io, I'm happy to answer! Please pass along to anyone who might be interested!
#OpenScience #OpenScholarship #Metascience
Careers | Center for Open Science
We're committed to quality design and architecture, an agile methodology, and contributing to the open-source community. Sound like you? Join us!
www.cos.io
December 12, 2023 at 2:46 PM
We're hiring:
- Digital marketing manager
- Human resources generalist
- Scrum master
- Part time product marketing contractor
If you have questions about working at @cos.io, I'm happy to answer! Please pass along to anyone who might be interested!
#OpenScience #OpenScholarship #Metascience
- Digital marketing manager
- Human resources generalist
- Scrum master
- Part time product marketing contractor
If you have questions about working at @cos.io, I'm happy to answer! Please pass along to anyone who might be interested!
#OpenScience #OpenScholarship #Metascience
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A 38-year-old woman who died Sunday from cancer has posthumously helped to erase $14 million in medical debt for others
Woman Who Died From Cancer Helps To Erase Millions In Medical Debt
Casey McIntyre died Sunday from cancer, but her posthumous plea helped erase $14 million in medical debt.
t.co
November 18, 2023 at 12:03 PM
A 38-year-old woman who died Sunday from cancer has posthumously helped to erase $14 million in medical debt for others
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🧪 Scientist?
🟦 New to BlueSky?
👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts?
📃 Here’s a list of over 170 science-related feeds and their hashtags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
🟦 New to BlueSky?
👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts?
📃 Here’s a list of over 170 science-related feeds and their hashtags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
BlueSky Science-Related Feeds
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Likes,Name (Click to visit feed),Tags,Contact to ask to be added to contributor list
11,<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ftnzzw4cnon2pzpw7i5m2xu7/feed/aaaiqnkwsgsz6">#AI&HCI</a>,#HCI,...
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November 2, 2023 at 11:34 AM
🧪 Scientist?
🟦 New to BlueSky?
👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts?
📃 Here’s a list of over 170 science-related feeds and their hashtags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
🟦 New to BlueSky?
👀 Wanna find posts by other people in your area and use the right hashtags in your own posts?
📃 Here’s a list of over 170 science-related feeds and their hashtags.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky
🫠☠️ glad they're doing this work but things have to change
What are the unique needs of disabled grad students? Our exploratory study shows Disability Services be inadequate. Over half of our sample chose not to disclose due to lack of awareness and fear of stigma from other academics: osf.io/fqxey/
osf.io
November 15, 2023 at 8:40 PM
🫠☠️ glad they're doing this work but things have to change
Wow wow wow. Amazing abstract that gets to the heart of the pain that millennials feel
New in AJS! @zjvanwinkle.bsky.social, Anette Fasang & I investigate a hotly debated question: are Millennials worse off than their parents’ generation, the Baby Boomers? We argue that this is a misleading question. Why? See ⬇️ or read www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
November 15, 2023 at 1:51 PM
Wow wow wow. Amazing abstract that gets to the heart of the pain that millennials feel
The thing I want people to know is how much time a chronic illness takes from us.
I don't just mean the time we spend in bed, either. It's a thousand tiny cuts that consume days and weeks.
A 🧵for anyone who wants to learn
I don't just mean the time we spend in bed, either. It's a thousand tiny cuts that consume days and weeks.
A 🧵for anyone who wants to learn
November 13, 2023 at 5:10 PM
The thing I want people to know is how much time a chronic illness takes from us.
I don't just mean the time we spend in bed, either. It's a thousand tiny cuts that consume days and weeks.
A 🧵for anyone who wants to learn
I don't just mean the time we spend in bed, either. It's a thousand tiny cuts that consume days and weeks.
A 🧵for anyone who wants to learn
Am I ever going to listen to an audiobook not read by Julia Whelan?? My brain now associates her with too many characters.
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November 13, 2023 at 1:54 AM
Am I ever going to listen to an audiobook not read by Julia Whelan?? My brain now associates her with too many characters.
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SIPS Pop-Up Event: Peer Community In Psychology
To support the creation of PCI Psychology, SIPS is holding online pop-up hackathons:
Monday, November 27, 2-3:30 PM US-Pacific
Tuesday, November 28, 9-10:30 AM US-Eastern
Please register to attend by filling out this form:
forms.gle/LLpDTHiZf8S6...
To support the creation of PCI Psychology, SIPS is holding online pop-up hackathons:
Monday, November 27, 2-3:30 PM US-Pacific
Tuesday, November 28, 9-10:30 AM US-Eastern
Please register to attend by filling out this form:
forms.gle/LLpDTHiZf8S6...
November 8, 2023 at 3:06 PM
SIPS Pop-Up Event: Peer Community In Psychology
To support the creation of PCI Psychology, SIPS is holding online pop-up hackathons:
Monday, November 27, 2-3:30 PM US-Pacific
Tuesday, November 28, 9-10:30 AM US-Eastern
Please register to attend by filling out this form:
forms.gle/LLpDTHiZf8S6...
To support the creation of PCI Psychology, SIPS is holding online pop-up hackathons:
Monday, November 27, 2-3:30 PM US-Pacific
Tuesday, November 28, 9-10:30 AM US-Eastern
Please register to attend by filling out this form:
forms.gle/LLpDTHiZf8S6...
No one is running opposed in my small town and it hurts 🫠
November 6, 2023 at 3:17 PM
No one is running opposed in my small town and it hurts 🫠
Why I study first gen student access and success!
PhD recipients are increasingly coming from parents with graduate degrees (& decreasingly coming from parents without undergraduate degrees) across fields
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
November 5, 2023 at 11:12 AM
Why I study first gen student access and success!
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One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one:
The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students.
That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.
The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students.
That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.
November 3, 2023 at 8:38 PM
One of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one:
The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students.
That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.
The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students.
That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.
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Now that it's job market season again
Could hiring committees PLEASE recognize how It reinforces inequality
to require grad students to pay for their market travel upfront?
Unless they have rich parents they are ILLIQUID and this is SUPER STRESSFUL
Could hiring committees PLEASE recognize how It reinforces inequality
to require grad students to pay for their market travel upfront?
Unless they have rich parents they are ILLIQUID and this is SUPER STRESSFUL
November 1, 2023 at 3:40 AM
Now that it's job market season again
Could hiring committees PLEASE recognize how It reinforces inequality
to require grad students to pay for their market travel upfront?
Unless they have rich parents they are ILLIQUID and this is SUPER STRESSFUL
Could hiring committees PLEASE recognize how It reinforces inequality
to require grad students to pay for their market travel upfront?
Unless they have rich parents they are ILLIQUID and this is SUPER STRESSFUL
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This is one of my favorite groups I've ever been involved in! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #OpenScience #Metascience
Hello world! We're an international, multidisciplinary group of qualitative and mixed methods researchers finding connections between the open science movement and qualitative and mixed methods research. You can learn more about us and our work on our website!
About Us - Quala Lab
Quala Lab is a collaborative working group finding connections between the open science movement and qualitative and mixed methods research.
qualalab.org
October 28, 2023 at 2:48 AM
This is one of my favorite groups I've ever been involved in! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #OpenScience #Metascience
Reposted by Rachel Renbarger
Hello world! We're an international, multidisciplinary group of qualitative and mixed methods researchers finding connections between the open science movement and qualitative and mixed methods research. You can learn more about us and our work on our website!
About Us - Quala Lab
Quala Lab is a collaborative working group finding connections between the open science movement and qualitative and mixed methods research.
qualalab.org
October 28, 2023 at 2:45 AM
Hello world! We're an international, multidisciplinary group of qualitative and mixed methods researchers finding connections between the open science movement and qualitative and mixed methods research. You can learn more about us and our work on our website!