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PhD candidate | Biology education research | Instructor practices + mental health in STEM education

Never not tired | Queer, disabled, first-gen, neurodivergent, veteran, bonus parent

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darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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altcdc.altgov.info
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
February 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It's hard to find the wherewithal to write when so much of human decency is being eroded by unadulterated hate.

Today was a slog for #AcademicWriting, but tonight, my kids want to play Dungeons & Dragons. In their D&D world, they can be the good that they want to see in ours. I can give them that.
January 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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leftistlawyer.com
If you're in Illinois, you're on Section 8, and your landlord tries to evict you because of the government funding freeze, email me at sheryl@weikallaw.com. My cases are pay-whatever-you-can.
January 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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profamymcgovern.bsky.social
So is there a scientific organization leading a letter signed by thousands of academics about the broad sweeping impacts of this? Or for doctors re medicine? Or anyone? AAAS? University presidents? AAU? Anything anyone knows about?? #academicsky

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
White House pauses all federal grants, sparking confusion
The Trump administration has put a hold on all federal financial grants and loans, affecting tens of billions of dollars in payments.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
"You are not to blame for what happened. But are responsible for ensuring that it does not happen again." - Max Manheimer, survivor
ismail-kuepeli.de Ismail Küpeli @ismail-kuepeli.de · Jan 27
"Ihr seid nicht schuld an dem, was war. Aber verantwortlich dafür, dass es nicht mehr geschieht" (Max Mannheimer) #HolocaustMemorialDay #WeRemember
"Ihr seid nicht schuld an dem, was war. Aber verantwortlich dafür, dass es nicht mehr geschieht" (Max Mannheimer) #HolocaustMemorialDay #WeRemember
January 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
There are lots of grim things happening in the world right now, including ongoing genocides.

Let us not forget history; let us not become unwittingly complicit in similar horrors, and let us stand up to those who would willingly commit them.

www.ushmm.org/remember/int...
International Holocaust Remembrance Day - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Find out how to observe this important day.
www.ushmm.org
January 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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sarahmackattack.bsky.social
500 classrooms have signed up for Skype a Scientist 2025!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, scout troops, libraries, & other groups for Q&A sessions. It's FREE!

We have an advertising budget of $0. So tell an educator in your life that we exist

SkypeAScientist.com
a hot pink flip phone with a DNA strand on the screen next to courier font text that says "Text a teacher: You can get matched with a scientist for a virtual Q&A in your classroom for free with skype a scientist"
January 23, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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unvirtuousabbey.bsky.social
“Make good trouble.”

~ John Lewis
Stained glass art of Bishop Budde
January 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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aaup.org
As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education.
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www.aaup.org/news/against...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
While administrators and faculty members may have to comply with legislation and court orders, even where these run counter to our values and to professional and constitutional principles, we are free...
www.aaup.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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bmbanks4.bsky.social
One of my colleagues is recruiting participants for her dissertation. She’s interested in the experiences of Black women who work at historically white institutions who are not faculty and are not in DEI positions but are engaged in DEI initiatives. DM me if interested!!!

#AcademicSky #EduSky
January 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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corinne-isabel.bsky.social
Tired of all the tech bros? Fund the #humanities.
#AcademicSky #AcademicChatter
January 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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anniechau.bsky.social
Hey #AcademicSky #Sociology #PoliticalScience! Any interesting calls for papers for upcoming special issues re: gender, race, migration, refugees…
January 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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mirandaprynne.bsky.social
How can universities ensure #PhD students of all neurotypes can thrive? A team at @durham-university.bsky.social explain how to provide #neurodiversity affirmative supervision timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s... #postdoc #academicsky #highered
How to support neurodivergent postgraduate researchers
How can universities ensure PhD students of all neurotypes can thrive? Here’s how to provide neurodiversity-affirmative supervision
timeshighereducation.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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espencer.bsky.social
#academicsky
January 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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minniewannie.bsky.social
The #NoLawns movement deserves more attention and participation.

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Opinion | I’m no genius with genuses, but your garden is killing the Earth
Your lawn and garden are helping to doom the Earth. If you want to save the planet, all you really need to do is plant a single oak tree.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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drbeef.bsky.social
I know there's a lot happening unrelated to this rn, but I'd love broad and generative engagement with this call. Please share!

#AcademicSky
#HistSci
#Autistic
#Disability
#DisabiilityJustice
#PhDSky
🛟 🩺 🧪 😷 🌈🎓 ‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🩺📊
#FeministSky
#STS
#PhilSci
#Metascience
#Bioethics
#Sociology
drbeef.bsky.social Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · Jan 4
Fascinated by the sociogeny of madness and "mental health”? Compelled by the affective turn? Want to burn down the house neurodivergence research currently resides in and build something much better from the ashes?

Consider submitting a proposal to join the 4S Panel I’m organizing!

Link in 🧵.
We have yet to see “the affective turn” genuinely embrace the world of neurodivergence and mental health. Scholars of disability and physical “health” are expanding notions of what it means to be disabled, and critiquing the interrelated necropolitical systems of incarceration, policing, public health, Capitalism, white supremacy, fascism, and others, that impact debility, wellness, and flourishing. Sadly, scholars of neurodivergence and mental health have largely not followed suit. This open panel aims to change that. We invite submissions that explore the complex interrelations of discursive practices, the human body, social and cultural forces, and individually experienced but historically situated affects and emotions of madness and/or mental health. Explorations might include: sanism and its discontents; critical psychopathology and/or emerging alternative approaches to mental health and wellbeing (e.g. somatic approaches, neo-pharmaceuticals/medicinals); historical-comparative case studies of madness and mental “illness" (including papers that explore the appropriation of indigenous and First Nations methods and modes of care/treatment and/or the exploitation of Black and Indigenous peoples themselves); critiques of the DSM (and/or other diagnostic tools and psychometrics); narratives and first-person accounts of diagnosis (including self-diagnosis) and/or coming in/to disability/madness (particularly those that decenter whiteness and cisheterosexuality, and/or that are global/transnational); visions of neurodivergent and/or mad futurity; stories of mad/crip thriving and kinship/care networks during the crumbling of empires; and many others not named here.
January 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The silver lining of waiting in an airport is some uninterrupted writing time and the opportunity to try out @annaclemens.com's writing process!

(Don't judge my ~10 year old computer, it's survived undergrad, a master's, and coffee spills)

#AcademicSky #AcademicWriting #PhDSky
A mobile computer sits on an airport table between a coffee cup and miscellaneous belongings. On the computer screen, two windows are open: on the left, a Twitter thread from Dr. Anna Clemens about how to manage and streamline academic writing; on the right is a text document with an outline of a manuscript in process.
January 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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ec2121.bsky.social
#neurodivergent #adhd
A gray barn owl with beady black eyes is looking intently at an apple that is cut in half, revealing that its shape and seeds make it look almost identical to the owls face. Above the owl, the text reads: NEUROTYPICALS. The text above the apple reads: MY NEUROTYPICAL MASK
January 4, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Good: on my way to a writing retreat with some incredible folks!

Bad: I got next to no sleep because I was anticipating travel.

Yay, #ADHD time anxiety!

#AcademicSky #AcademicWriting
January 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Hello, 2025 academic year! 🎒 As someone who's never not tired, I'm really not into social media, but I am so excited to be a part of this beautiful, growing community. 🌱 May your writing come easily and your incoming emails be few 🥂 #AcademicSky #PhDSky
January 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM