Henry Suárez 😷💚🇻🇪
@sciedhenry.bsky.social
Associate professor of science education at UMass Amherst. Making SciEd more just for bi-/multilingual children. Trying hard to be the right kind of pest. Views are my own and whatnot. (He/Él)
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I just stopped doomscrolling to (a) organize grocery gift card donations for families at my kid's school, (b) make plans to fold zines about ICE through @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and (c) call Chuck Schumer to tell him what I think of his leadership. Highly recommend, way less infuriating.
November 10, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I just stopped doomscrolling to (a) organize grocery gift card donations for families at my kid's school, (b) make plans to fold zines about ICE through @handsoffnyc.bsky.social and (c) call Chuck Schumer to tell him what I think of his leadership. Highly recommend, way less infuriating.
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Healthcare is a human right.
Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.
Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Healthcare is a human right.
Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.
Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.
Things were already bad and we were being asked to turn water into wine. But as (public) univs are having their funds restricted/illegally terminated, these pressures and demands are only going to get worse, especially as univs try to make up for those funding gaps by increasing enrollment 😵💫🥴
AI is enticing because it makes it seem like I might be able to do all the things I’m asked to do. I can’t write 5 articles, revise books, mentor students, write letters of recommendation, teach classes, work in the community, review for my peers, etc. and be a whole person.
November 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Things were already bad and we were being asked to turn water into wine. But as (public) univs are having their funds restricted/illegally terminated, these pressures and demands are only going to get worse, especially as univs try to make up for those funding gaps by increasing enrollment 😵💫🥴
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PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS
The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
November 7, 2025 at 12:43 AM
PLS SHARE #SciEd #NGSS
The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
The UW @stemteachingtool.bsky.social team just published a NEW TOOL on how the words we use to describe the ecological world matters! Since language reflects & constructs power we should root our words in environmental justice & flourishing.
➡️ stemteachingtools.org/brief/104
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100% accurate. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting will be in retrospect a clear moment when the rise in Islamophobia spilled over into antisemitism.
By the by, I'm not sure you get the slow upswing in blatant antisemitism/groyperism on the right without the broad mainstreaming of blatant Islamophobia during the Bush and Obama eras. The xenophobic image of the Anti-Christian Other was always going to extend to American Jews
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
100% accurate. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting will be in retrospect a clear moment when the rise in Islamophobia spilled over into antisemitism.
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There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
There are still a lot of hard times ahead, but remember this moment and what it means: We can win.
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No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
No more Black or trans staffers. No politics of any kind. The cowardice of mainstream media isn't just insulting, it's *boring.* Now TV is just like any other beauty rag. Why not just kill it quickly? Why the slow-motion pretense?
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It’s a tradition that I ask my “Physics III” class to create some memes about our class material. It’s *also* a tradition that they’re super good at this. Please enjoy, like and share! 🧪
(I promised my students extra game points if this goes nano-viral!)
(Front pic is my own entry.)
1/17
(I promised my students extra game points if this goes nano-viral!)
(Front pic is my own entry.)
1/17
November 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It’s a tradition that I ask my “Physics III” class to create some memes about our class material. It’s *also* a tradition that they’re super good at this. Please enjoy, like and share! 🧪
(I promised my students extra game points if this goes nano-viral!)
(Front pic is my own entry.)
1/17
(I promised my students extra game points if this goes nano-viral!)
(Front pic is my own entry.)
1/17
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As Trump bombs more boats from Venezuela & moves warships to the Caribbean, even Republican lawmakers are arguing he can’t order such military actions w/o Congressional approval. But did you know U.S. presidents going back 2 George Washington, have fought undeclared wars?
October 31, 2025 at 3:48 PM
As Trump bombs more boats from Venezuela & moves warships to the Caribbean, even Republican lawmakers are arguing he can’t order such military actions w/o Congressional approval. But did you know U.S. presidents going back 2 George Washington, have fought undeclared wars?
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Are you a high school U.S. history teacher in South Carolina? We are looking for participants for a study on the teaching of right wing movements. Would only involve 1-2 interviews. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Are you a high school U.S. history teacher in South Carolina? We are looking for participants for a study on the teaching of right wing movements. Would only involve 1-2 interviews. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
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I’m sorry “federal preemption” with respect to AI means what, Kyrsten?
Say what you mean.
You are advocating for technonationalism and oligarchic capitalism and you either don’t understand that or care.
We cannot develop education against this form of nationalistic AI framing quickly enough.
Say what you mean.
You are advocating for technonationalism and oligarchic capitalism and you either don’t understand that or care.
We cannot develop education against this form of nationalistic AI framing quickly enough.
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
I’m sorry “federal preemption” with respect to AI means what, Kyrsten?
Say what you mean.
You are advocating for technonationalism and oligarchic capitalism and you either don’t understand that or care.
We cannot develop education against this form of nationalistic AI framing quickly enough.
Say what you mean.
You are advocating for technonationalism and oligarchic capitalism and you either don’t understand that or care.
We cannot develop education against this form of nationalistic AI framing quickly enough.
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Now also feels like a good time to remind fellow educators and academic of this, an excerpt from a piece @cnygren.bsky.social and I co-wrote a few years ago. journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/da...
October 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Now also feels like a good time to remind fellow educators and academic of this, an excerpt from a piece @cnygren.bsky.social and I co-wrote a few years ago. journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/da...
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For years the right has tried to convince us that the free speech of conservative professors are under attack when peers critique their shoddy research and students call out their lies. Now that the government is literally attacking speech it doesn’t like they are silent.
apple.news/Ajs_gX4XiR0K...
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Texas will target professors 'pushing leftist ideologies,' Greg Abbott says — Advocate
Greg Abbott has vowed to remove professors that he believes are
apple.news
October 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
For years the right has tried to convince us that the free speech of conservative professors are under attack when peers critique their shoddy research and students call out their lies. Now that the government is literally attacking speech it doesn’t like they are silent.
apple.news/Ajs_gX4XiR0K...
apple.news/Ajs_gX4XiR0K...
This week we discussed ethnlc studles in K12 and IDK what I would’ve done without the reporting of profe @shereenmarisol.bsky.social from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social! The deep dive into the history of ES at SFSU was essential for tying it to today’s pushback.
October 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This week we discussed ethnlc studles in K12 and IDK what I would’ve done without the reporting of profe @shereenmarisol.bsky.social from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @berkeleyjournalism.bsky.social! The deep dive into the history of ES at SFSU was essential for tying it to today’s pushback.
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For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.
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Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Once again, EVERY R1 research university depends on federal funding for ~15-25% of its budget. You simply can't unplug the largest or 2nd-largest source of $$ of every R1 university & expect it not to have devastating consequences for graduate education, which will spill over to undergrad education.
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We discuss the long term implications of cutting science funding on this episode of Pop & Play. This will be a generational catastrophe.
October 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We discuss the long term implications of cutting science funding on this episode of Pop & Play. This will be a generational catastrophe.
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in which @lmesseri.bsky.social and @mjcrockett.bsky.social upend the increasingly pervasive premise of the LLM-fabricated human research subject (and the histories/ ideologies of cognition baked into the experimental "tasks" they're called upon to complete) at its epistemic roots
Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/
AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…
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October 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
in which @lmesseri.bsky.social and @mjcrockett.bsky.social upend the increasingly pervasive premise of the LLM-fabricated human research subject (and the histories/ ideologies of cognition baked into the experimental "tasks" they're called upon to complete) at its epistemic roots
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Y'all want people to have illness so you can write it off. But you cannot admit that once someone commits to white supremacy via "an explosive mixture of race science, libertarianism, and rugged capitalism", they already lost the plot. They were just very rich so you treated them like a genius.
October 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Y'all want people to have illness so you can write it off. But you cannot admit that once someone commits to white supremacy via "an explosive mixture of race science, libertarianism, and rugged capitalism", they already lost the plot. They were just very rich so you treated them like a genius.
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Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have
To say
Don’t bait them.
pay them DUST.
Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .
In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them
To say
Don’t bait them.
pay them DUST.
Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .
In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them
October 17, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Hi. There is an influx of government sites and I’m gonna use what little clout I have
To say
Don’t bait them.
pay them DUST.
Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .
In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them
To say
Don’t bait them.
pay them DUST.
Commit to boosting coverage of what they do, centering the voices of who they target .
In fact start muting folks who over antagonize them
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Also here are higher ed professors from UT Austin, the University of Arizona, and the University of Southern California strenuously urging all institutions to reject the compact
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
October 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Also here are higher ed professors from UT Austin, the University of Arizona, and the University of Southern California strenuously urging all institutions to reject the compact
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...
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"The reality right now is that if you refuse to engage with the science- the science that shows that COVID is a virus that disables human beings, and that this virus is asymptomatic 44% of the time- then you are spreading a disabling virus, and you are harming people. "
Beyond all reason
Long COVID patients are constantly harangued about our requests for COVID safety. Yet what we're asking for is far less than what we're called on to do to survive.
www.thegauntlet.news
October 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"The reality right now is that if you refuse to engage with the science- the science that shows that COVID is a virus that disables human beings, and that this virus is asymptomatic 44% of the time- then you are spreading a disabling virus, and you are harming people. "
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I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet
Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...
docs.google.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.
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Constantly astonished and frustrated by the fact that so many cognitive scientists claim that LLMs can teach us about how babies learn language. If anything, we should be talking about how the way babies learn language can tell us about how AI will never be “sentient.”
October 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Constantly astonished and frustrated by the fact that so many cognitive scientists claim that LLMs can teach us about how babies learn language. If anything, we should be talking about how the way babies learn language can tell us about how AI will never be “sentient.”