SBPE, PhD
@sbpe.bsky.social
Evaluation Consultant. Social Scientist and Supporter of Equity, STEM, Health Equity, Indigenous Rights, Education, Climate and Science.
Mostly, I am just not a shitty person. Please don't follow if you are a hateful biggot.
Mostly, I am just not a shitty person. Please don't follow if you are a hateful biggot.
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This is good.
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
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May 16, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This is good.
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Definitely worth the 5 minutes to watch. Succinct summation of what is being thrown away
important historical perspective on the value of federal funding of basic research at universities: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" 🧪
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...
Fareed’s Take: Trump is gutting what made American science great
YouTube video by CNN
www.youtube.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Definitely worth the 5 minutes to watch. Succinct summation of what is being thrown away
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HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
May 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
HAPPY 75th, NSF!
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
We’re celebrating this milestone by highlighting some of NSF’s most transformative accomplishments—innovations that have shaped our world and continue to drive progress in health, technology, the environment, and beyond.
Read on 🧵(1/11):
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🚨 History Job at Vancouver Island University (2 of 2) 🚨
We're looking for someone to teach 4 courses (2 per term) for the 2025/2026 academic year in World History, the History of China, and British Imperialism.
Deadline to apply: 14 May
Please repost
careers.viu.ca/vacancy/inst...
We're looking for someone to teach 4 courses (2 per term) for the 2025/2026 academic year in World History, the History of China, and British Imperialism.
Deadline to apply: 14 May
Please repost
careers.viu.ca/vacancy/inst...
Instructor, History (2678) | VIU | Vancouver Island University
The History Department at Vancouver Island University offers a Bachelor of Arts degree with the option of a Major or Minor in a variety of areas of study that reflect the diversity and wide-ranging ex...
careers.viu.ca
May 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
🚨 History Job at Vancouver Island University (2 of 2) 🚨
We're looking for someone to teach 4 courses (2 per term) for the 2025/2026 academic year in World History, the History of China, and British Imperialism.
Deadline to apply: 14 May
Please repost
careers.viu.ca/vacancy/inst...
We're looking for someone to teach 4 courses (2 per term) for the 2025/2026 academic year in World History, the History of China, and British Imperialism.
Deadline to apply: 14 May
Please repost
careers.viu.ca/vacancy/inst...
"International visits to the United States fell approximately 14% in March 2025 compared to the same period last year."
"U.S. stands to lose $21 billion in travel-related exports."
www.ustravel.org/us-travel-sn...
"U.S. stands to lose $21 billion in travel-related exports."
www.ustravel.org/us-travel-sn...
May 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
"International visits to the United States fell approximately 14% in March 2025 compared to the same period last year."
"U.S. stands to lose $21 billion in travel-related exports."
www.ustravel.org/us-travel-sn...
"U.S. stands to lose $21 billion in travel-related exports."
www.ustravel.org/us-travel-sn...
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🧪 Q for the science community:
Are there lists/docs already out there for non-fed funding sources for those who do NSF/NIH/Dept of Ed/etc funded work that's now threatened?
For instance, one example with W. T. Grant Foundation: wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/rese...
Specific calls are welcome too!
Are there lists/docs already out there for non-fed funding sources for those who do NSF/NIH/Dept of Ed/etc funded work that's now threatened?
For instance, one example with W. T. Grant Foundation: wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/rese...
Specific calls are welcome too!
Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence - William T. Grant Foundation
Home / Funding / Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence Application: Currently closed The online application is currently c...
wtgrantfoundation.org
May 7, 2025 at 3:22 AM
🧪 Q for the science community:
Are there lists/docs already out there for non-fed funding sources for those who do NSF/NIH/Dept of Ed/etc funded work that's now threatened?
For instance, one example with W. T. Grant Foundation: wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/rese...
Specific calls are welcome too!
Are there lists/docs already out there for non-fed funding sources for those who do NSF/NIH/Dept of Ed/etc funded work that's now threatened?
For instance, one example with W. T. Grant Foundation: wtgrantfoundation.org/funding/rese...
Specific calls are welcome too!
So plan all along was for him to f@ck shit up so bad we would actually be begging him to make america great again?
May 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
So plan all along was for him to f@ck shit up so bad we would actually be begging him to make america great again?
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Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
May 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf.
❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them
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Who bears the brunt of these cuts? Well, here's a word cloud of the most frequent terms from the titles and abstracts of terminated grants, with word size proportional to frequency:
April 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Who bears the brunt of these cuts? Well, here's a word cloud of the most frequent terms from the titles and abstracts of terminated grants, with word size proportional to frequency:
He's publicly extorting billionaires live on tv and they are thanking him and bowing. This tv show is sad. We, in the real world admire empathy, decency, and the rule of law.
April 30, 2025 at 9:17 PM
He's publicly extorting billionaires live on tv and they are thanking him and bowing. This tv show is sad. We, in the real world admire empathy, decency, and the rule of law.
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NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
Grant Watch
grant-watch.us
April 30, 2025 at 4:19 AM
NEW: We (mostly @noamross.net) launched a website to shine a brighter light on terminated NIH and NSF grants.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
grant-watch.us
It links to our NIH & NSF trackers, grant info submission forms, and other info. We'll also add new analyses soon.
Check it out and let us know what else you'd like to see.
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New article in @thelancet.bsky.social by #StanDOM's @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social & Wendy Caceres: Academic institutions must protect #DEIA to achieve better health outcomes for all. bit.ly/4jqYX8P
April 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
New article in @thelancet.bsky.social by #StanDOM's @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social & Wendy Caceres: Academic institutions must protect #DEIA to achieve better health outcomes for all. bit.ly/4jqYX8P
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Critically, Republicans have terminated ~800 NIH grants over 8 weeks. But that's only half the story.
*Republicans have also cancelled nearly 1,000 NSF grants in 8 *days*.
The work continues. Report your terminated NSF grant here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
*Republicans have also cancelled nearly 1,000 NSF grants in 8 *days*.
The work continues. Report your terminated NSF grant here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 28, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Critically, Republicans have terminated ~800 NIH grants over 8 weeks. But that's only half the story.
*Republicans have also cancelled nearly 1,000 NSF grants in 8 *days*.
The work continues. Report your terminated NSF grant here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
*Republicans have also cancelled nearly 1,000 NSF grants in 8 *days*.
The work continues. Report your terminated NSF grant here:
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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🚨 Another major round of #NSF terminations today 😞. Please report and encourage your colleagues to as well! We need this info to shed light on the damage caused, and to organize and advocate for science that includes and benefits all. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... 🧪
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
🚨 Another major round of #NSF terminations today 😞. Please report and encourage your colleagues to as well! We need this info to shed light on the damage caused, and to organize and advocate for science that includes and benefits all. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... 🧪
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Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table
Today, they are arresting judges
Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress
Today, they are arresting judges
Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress
April 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Once you disregard the legal rights of immigrants, everything is on the table
Today, they are arresting judges
Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress
Today, they are arresting judges
Tomorrow it could be Democratic members of Congress
I will never forget: how can we get a collective action group that commits to never forgetting the stress, hurt and impact of the last three months? Not sure how long all these people will try to illegally try to steal our rights and liberties:
April 24, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I will never forget: how can we get a collective action group that commits to never forgetting the stress, hurt and impact of the last three months? Not sure how long all these people will try to illegally try to steal our rights and liberties:
It just dawned on me while watching tonight that the first 100 days is quickly approaching @maddow.msnbc.com, and I am not sure how we all will make it through May (and beyond) without you 📺
April 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
It just dawned on me while watching tonight that the first 100 days is quickly approaching @maddow.msnbc.com, and I am not sure how we all will make it through May (and beyond) without you 📺
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We still only know about a fraction of the damage this round of cancellation has done. If your #NIH or #NSF grant has been terminated, please report! bsky.app/profile/scot...
🙏 We need your help 🙏
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like.
We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:
NIH:
forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP...
NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
w/ @noamross.net
April 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
We still only know about a fraction of the damage this round of cancellation has done. If your #NIH or #NSF grant has been terminated, please report! bsky.app/profile/scot...
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🚨 NEW: Crowdsourced database of #NSF grant terminations. 🚨
We've been able to collect info on >110 cancelled grants that were cancelled on Friday. Thanks to all the researchers who reported over the holiday weekend. 🧪 airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We've been able to collect info on >110 cancelled grants that were cancelled on Friday. Thanks to all the researchers who reported over the holiday weekend. 🧪 airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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April 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
🚨 NEW: Crowdsourced database of #NSF grant terminations. 🚨
We've been able to collect info on >110 cancelled grants that were cancelled on Friday. Thanks to all the researchers who reported over the holiday weekend. 🧪 airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We've been able to collect info on >110 cancelled grants that were cancelled on Friday. Thanks to all the researchers who reported over the holiday weekend. 🧪 airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
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🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
April 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely!
airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...
Saturday April 19. Everyone should be posting: we all have a stake and power in this. Stop waiting for your own situation (or what you think your individual pain or suffering may be): Saturday, May 19: @indivisible.org or @50501movement.bsky.social : show up! We all need our voices heard!
April 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Saturday April 19. Everyone should be posting: we all have a stake and power in this. Stop waiting for your own situation (or what you think your individual pain or suffering may be): Saturday, May 19: @indivisible.org or @50501movement.bsky.social : show up! We all need our voices heard!
Here I am, drafting protocols to submit an IRB for research assuring I respect participants’ dignity, privacy and rights. Meanwhile, this Botox bimbo is literally posting pictures of wrongly detained (kidnapped) Americans and other legal residents on SOCIAL MEDIA!!!! 🤬 WTF??????
April 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Here I am, drafting protocols to submit an IRB for research assuring I respect participants’ dignity, privacy and rights. Meanwhile, this Botox bimbo is literally posting pictures of wrongly detained (kidnapped) Americans and other legal residents on SOCIAL MEDIA!!!! 🤬 WTF??????
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
We spent too long pandering to the center trying to find a balance. Truth is there was never a balance there. We should have stood more strongly on the far left, far far left to even inch forward a sense of « balance »
March 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
We spent too long pandering to the center trying to find a balance. Truth is there was never a balance there. We should have stood more strongly on the far left, far far left to even inch forward a sense of « balance »
Dear bsky: Would you consider adding an "Acknowledge the importance of this post", or "angry" emoji on this platform? I am starting to skip my reactions as it feels strange to "heart" this much nonsense and hardship on a daily basis.
March 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Dear bsky: Would you consider adding an "Acknowledge the importance of this post", or "angry" emoji on this platform? I am starting to skip my reactions as it feels strange to "heart" this much nonsense and hardship on a daily basis.