April Adams
@april-adams.bsky.social
Mother, partner, sister, daughter, friend, neighbor, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally, advocate, counselor, researcher, feminist, and maybe soon, Dr.
A phenomenal discussion of the current state and potential futures for higher education in the U.S.
My employer got a call-out for one possible move toward more meaningful coursework!
My employer got a call-out for one possible move toward more meaningful coursework!
The End of the American University as We Knew It
And the Models Likely to Replace It
open.substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
A phenomenal discussion of the current state and potential futures for higher education in the U.S.
My employer got a call-out for one possible move toward more meaningful coursework!
My employer got a call-out for one possible move toward more meaningful coursework!
Not an indicator of greatness…
U.S. Highlighted on International Human Rights Watchlist — TIME
The watchlist cited
apple.news
July 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Not an indicator of greatness…
Reposted by April Adams
This is the weaponization of the supermom myth--the idea that kids are under threat and that the only way to keep them safe is for moms to sacrifice themselves (i.e., by spending hours researching to keep kids safe from vaccines, rather than trusting the government to keep kids safe from measles).
4/ He promotes what sociologists call "intensive parenting," as a superior way to ensure kids are safe. That's a time/labor-intensive & stressful form of parenting many US *mothers* feel pressured to follow due to cultural norms/expectations around mothers as primary caregivers.
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April 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is the weaponization of the supermom myth--the idea that kids are under threat and that the only way to keep them safe is for moms to sacrifice themselves (i.e., by spending hours researching to keep kids safe from vaccines, rather than trusting the government to keep kids safe from measles).
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These sure are some “first they came for” times
April 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
These sure are some “first they came for” times
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“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen…
March 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
“Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen…
Meanwhile, in Texas… the MAGA testing ground of cruelty and hatred:
capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...
capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...
capitol.texas.gov
March 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Meanwhile, in Texas… the MAGA testing ground of cruelty and hatred:
capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...
capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/89R/...
Welp.
Following Trump's lead, Abbott orders state workers to return to offices
The governor quietly directed heads of state agencies to phase out hybrid-work schedules. It's unclear whether there's a hard deadline or if agencies could permit some workers to continue to work remo...
www.kut.org
March 6, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Welp.
Finding myself in an inward phase….
Very dry lighthouse research led to this passage from Acceptance.
March 4, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Finding myself in an inward phase….
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Investing in social services & community intervention works. San Antonio saw a 37% drop in violent crime, and Houston saw a 13% reduction in homicides. Smart solutions save lives. #TexasGunSense #GunSenseMajority
February 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Investing in social services & community intervention works. San Antonio saw a 37% drop in violent crime, and Houston saw a 13% reduction in homicides. Smart solutions save lives. #TexasGunSense #GunSenseMajority
I’ve felt really alone as I have discussed my concerns for brain-drain in my state and now in our nation this year. Others often urge me not to overreact.
We need social scientists to inform/assess policy impacts on human behavior & guard against social breakdown
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
We need social scientists to inform/assess policy impacts on human behavior & guard against social breakdown
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Grad School Is in Trouble
The latest signal that the future of the university is under threat
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I’ve felt really alone as I have discussed my concerns for brain-drain in my state and now in our nation this year. Others often urge me not to overreact.
We need social scientists to inform/assess policy impacts on human behavior & guard against social breakdown
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
We need social scientists to inform/assess policy impacts on human behavior & guard against social breakdown
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
I want a 5 calls app that lets me contact my state reps
February 13, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I want a 5 calls app that lets me contact my state reps
Let’s play this out… if 10% of the federal workforce leave their jobs or are laid off or fired… that will mean substantially higher job seekers on the market. This likely will drive down wages, hurting all job seekers.
Meanwhile, tariffs increase prices. Anybody see where this is going?
Meanwhile, tariffs increase prices. Anybody see where this is going?
February 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Let’s play this out… if 10% of the federal workforce leave their jobs or are laid off or fired… that will mean substantially higher job seekers on the market. This likely will drive down wages, hurting all job seekers.
Meanwhile, tariffs increase prices. Anybody see where this is going?
Meanwhile, tariffs increase prices. Anybody see where this is going?
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social - I don’t know how to share this without sounding all “fan-girl.”
You are one of the people whose posts I look for. Please keep
Speaking truth. I want to be where you are speaking truth.
You are one of the people whose posts I look for. Please keep
Speaking truth. I want to be where you are speaking truth.
February 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
@jessicacalarco.bsky.social - I don’t know how to share this without sounding all “fan-girl.”
You are one of the people whose posts I look for. Please keep
Speaking truth. I want to be where you are speaking truth.
You are one of the people whose posts I look for. Please keep
Speaking truth. I want to be where you are speaking truth.
This.
Education and social science researchers are speaking truths right now and we feel like we’re screaming into the abyss.
Education and social science researchers are speaking truths right now and we feel like we’re screaming into the abyss.
They're dismantling the Institute for Education Sciences to create the illusion of meritocracy. Because no data means no evidence of systemic inequities.
February 11, 2025 at 5:18 AM
This.
Education and social science researchers are speaking truths right now and we feel like we’re screaming into the abyss.
Education and social science researchers are speaking truths right now and we feel like we’re screaming into the abyss.
Never have I been more relieved that I did not win a grant for my research.
Banned words include "female" and "women," but not "male" or "men."
🚨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.
February 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Never have I been more relieved that I did not win a grant for my research.
As a scholar, researcher, advocate, & student, I am very concerned about the lasting impact of the new policies.
Those who work in publicly funded institutions in conservative states likely feel unable to speak or write openly about their views or how these policies affect them & their industries.
Those who work in publicly funded institutions in conservative states likely feel unable to speak or write openly about their views or how these policies affect them & their industries.
January 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
As a scholar, researcher, advocate, & student, I am very concerned about the lasting impact of the new policies.
Those who work in publicly funded institutions in conservative states likely feel unable to speak or write openly about their views or how these policies affect them & their industries.
Those who work in publicly funded institutions in conservative states likely feel unable to speak or write openly about their views or how these policies affect them & their industries.
To my queer and trans friends and neighbors, this is not okay. I see you.
And for everyone else, let’s not fail to see that sec 2d and 2e appear to be a sneaky way to enshrine in law that upon conception, a fully human life exists.
And for everyone else, let’s not fail to see that sec 2d and 2e appear to be a sneaky way to enshrine in law that upon conception, a fully human life exists.
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 4:39 AM
To my queer and trans friends and neighbors, this is not okay. I see you.
And for everyone else, let’s not fail to see that sec 2d and 2e appear to be a sneaky way to enshrine in law that upon conception, a fully human life exists.
And for everyone else, let’s not fail to see that sec 2d and 2e appear to be a sneaky way to enshrine in law that upon conception, a fully human life exists.
He is rarely impressed
He is not proud
Does not want
Desires, wishes, only spoken as if they are destined to be
To ask would risk too much
so he speaks
and waits
with a certain expectation
for the world to fall in line
conform to his will
to please him
We may never know his pleasure
Only the peace
He is not proud
Does not want
Desires, wishes, only spoken as if they are destined to be
To ask would risk too much
so he speaks
and waits
with a certain expectation
for the world to fall in line
conform to his will
to please him
We may never know his pleasure
Only the peace
January 19, 2025 at 7:28 PM
He is rarely impressed
He is not proud
Does not want
Desires, wishes, only spoken as if they are destined to be
To ask would risk too much
so he speaks
and waits
with a certain expectation
for the world to fall in line
conform to his will
to please him
We may never know his pleasure
Only the peace
He is not proud
Does not want
Desires, wishes, only spoken as if they are destined to be
To ask would risk too much
so he speaks
and waits
with a certain expectation
for the world to fall in line
conform to his will
to please him
We may never know his pleasure
Only the peace
Listening to @rebeccalindenbach.bsky.social on the Bare Marriage Podcast today, I realized how much has changed in my parenting now that I have a true partner. Because of how I am supported by partner, I find I am far less inclined to care whether my kids “like” me or how I parent them.
January 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Listening to @rebeccalindenbach.bsky.social on the Bare Marriage Podcast today, I realized how much has changed in my parenting now that I have a true partner. Because of how I am supported by partner, I find I am far less inclined to care whether my kids “like” me or how I parent them.
Do you think parenthood affects college goals for mothers differently than it does for fathers?
January 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Do you think parenthood affects college goals for mothers differently than it does for fathers?