Lisa Lundgren,PhD
lisalundgren.bsky.social
Lisa Lundgren,PhD
@lisalundgren.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences | Utah State University | social network and informal STEM education researcher | I get to go to comic cons and summer camps and see how people learn! Hooray!
I am once again asking science education researchers to not read me their slides
March 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Headed out to touch grass (snow), so bye for now Bluesky
February 26, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Reposted by Lisa Lundgren,PhD
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."

Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.

I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
February 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
You know, you start off expecting to have a good day and then you accidentally set off bear spray in your car and your outlook on the day rapidly shifts.
February 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Reposted by Lisa Lundgren,PhD
And no, genuinely top-tier copy editing can't be done by "AI," because, like with translation, there are subtle bits an LLM isn't going to pick up on, because it's not actually intelligent. There's more to copy editing than just grammar. A good copy edit can make a story better. Brains are required.
February 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Reposted by Lisa Lundgren,PhD
This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.
February 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Reposted by Lisa Lundgren,PhD
If you're an NSF PI like me, you might be wondering: Will my grant be suspended or terminated next week?

A few key things to know: First off, remember that NSF is **congressionally mandated** to evaluate broader impacts. And laws like CHIPS and Science supersede EOs.

But also... 🧵 thread
Found this gem in an arcane NSF doc...key to know:

The Constitution and law SUPERSEDES exec orders!

"In the event of a conflict between policies issued at a lower tier versus policies issued at a higher tier, the higher tier policy will take precedence"

nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/Resear...
February 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Reposted by Lisa Lundgren,PhD
All right babes I have 20 minutes so let's do some "I help you read the research on how to keep a democracy."

First of all: let's talk about factors positively and negatively associated with democratic resilience.

we're pulling from this free full-text paper: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
How democracies prevail: democratic resilience as a two-stage process
This article introduces a novel conceptualization of democratic resilience - a two-stage process where democracies avoid democratic declines altogether or avert democratic breakdown given that such au...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
February 6, 2025 at 7:11 PM