cindy mosqueda
@cindylu.bsky.social
higher ed STEM pathway programs by day. helping my kids with homework and missing LA by night. semi-retired bloguera at loteriachicana.com 💙
I know I’m gonna sound like a spoiled Dodger fan, but the irony of my kids finally being old enough to stay up for a big game and I’m not home because work travel. Anyway, glad their hearts weren’t broken by this team.
November 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I know I’m gonna sound like a spoiled Dodger fan, but the irony of my kids finally being old enough to stay up for a big game and I’m not home because work travel. Anyway, glad their hearts weren’t broken by this team.
My half ass costume. My brother says I need to look more worried.
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
My half ass costume. My brother says I need to look more worried.
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Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.
October 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Belatedly reading about this and as always really important to remind people in *every breath* that when the right talks about “woke” and “DEI” they are talking about the cultural and political wins of the civil rights movement. This arrangement existed for 52 years because of historical activism.
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i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Harvard Ends Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program as Trump Targets Race in Admissions | News | The Harvard Crimson
By ending the minority recruitment program in May, Harvard shuttered a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply.
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September 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Still reeling from having our Upstate LSAMP alliance terminated in early May. Couldn’t agree more with this.
“These students are not just participants in science. They are crucial to its evolution…The termination of programs that have been shown to reduce barriers to STEM inclusiveness means a narrowing of scientific inquiry and a missed opportunity to expand the scope and relevance of research.”
@advancejournal.bsky.social is publishing a blog series about the impacts of terminations of NSF grants focused on equity.
www.advancejournal.org/post/3230-pa...
www.advancejournal.org/post/3230-pa...
May 31, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Still reeling from having our Upstate LSAMP alliance terminated in early May. Couldn’t agree more with this.
A Trivial Moment
Earlier this year I listed playing trivia and word games as one of the sources of joy when things seem hard. I was definitely feeling it in February, but even more now when the other shoe dropped in my work life (see: grants from NSF being terminated). Sean and I play several,…
Earlier this year I listed playing trivia and word games as one of the sources of joy when things seem hard. I was definitely feeling it in February, but even more now when the other shoe dropped in my work life (see: grants from NSF being terminated). Sean and I play several,…
A Trivial Moment
Earlier this year I listed playing trivia and word games as one of the sources of joy when things seem hard. I was definitely feeling it in February, but even more now when the other shoe dropped in my work life (see: grants from NSF being terminated). Sean and I play several, mostly just us two. We starting playing the NPR Sunday Puzzle last spring.
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May 18, 2025 at 9:59 PM
A Trivial Moment
Earlier this year I listed playing trivia and word games as one of the sources of joy when things seem hard. I was definitely feeling it in February, but even more now when the other shoe dropped in my work life (see: grants from NSF being terminated). Sean and I play several,…
Earlier this year I listed playing trivia and word games as one of the sources of joy when things seem hard. I was definitely feeling it in February, but even more now when the other shoe dropped in my work life (see: grants from NSF being terminated). Sean and I play several,…
Welp that concludes my periodic close following of my UCLA sports. I’ll always love my Bruins, even when it’s painful to watch. 💙💛
April 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Welp that concludes my periodic close following of my UCLA sports. I’ll always love my Bruins, even when it’s painful to watch. 💙💛
Am I reading into it, or are the footnotes kinda catty? Or is that just legalese, which I don’t read much.
New York Dept of Education says it will not comply with the US Dept of Ed's order to certify their schools are getting rid of DEI programs.
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
"We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...
April 5, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Am I reading into it, or are the footnotes kinda catty? Or is that just legalese, which I don’t read much.
This Week: Friday Five
One. I have a pretty gnarly cold and had to skip book club at church. Normally this would not have been an issue, but I volunteered earlier in the week to facilitate the discussion and bring snacks. The book for this month was Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from…
One. I have a pretty gnarly cold and had to skip book club at church. Normally this would not have been an issue, but I volunteered earlier in the week to facilitate the discussion and bring snacks. The book for this month was Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from…
This Week: Friday Five
One. I have a pretty gnarly cold and had to skip book club at church. Normally this would not have been an issue, but I volunteered earlier in the week to facilitate the discussion and bring snacks. The book for this month was Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua.
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April 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This Week: Friday Five
One. I have a pretty gnarly cold and had to skip book club at church. Normally this would not have been an issue, but I volunteered earlier in the week to facilitate the discussion and bring snacks. The book for this month was Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from…
One. I have a pretty gnarly cold and had to skip book club at church. Normally this would not have been an issue, but I volunteered earlier in the week to facilitate the discussion and bring snacks. The book for this month was Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from…
Let’s Go Bruins! 🐻💙💛
March 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Let’s Go Bruins! 🐻💙💛
New post on how I used to think I wasn't a musical person and how that's changed, especially with the influence of my kid: It's An Old Song loteriachicana.com/2025/03/29/i...
It’s An Old Song
A few months ago I remember seeing a prompt on Bluesky from a contributor with This American Life. They needed stories from when someone said an off-hand remark that stuck with you for a long time …
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March 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
New post on how I used to think I wasn't a musical person and how that's changed, especially with the influence of my kid: It's An Old Song loteriachicana.com/2025/03/29/i...
In these times
I've been getting flashbacks to early 2020 when we didn't yet know how COVID-19 was going to impact us. There were huge impacts in my work at a university. I had to pivot to cancel or figure out how to move programs online. I barely knew how to use Zoom before March 2020 and quickly…
I've been getting flashbacks to early 2020 when we didn't yet know how COVID-19 was going to impact us. There were huge impacts in my work at a university. I had to pivot to cancel or figure out how to move programs online. I barely knew how to use Zoom before March 2020 and quickly…
In these times
I've been getting flashbacks to early 2020 when we didn't yet know how COVID-19 was going to impact us. There were huge impacts in my work at a university. I had to pivot to cancel or figure out how to move programs online. I barely knew how to use Zoom before March 2020 and quickly had to learn. I won't even get into all the changes with school and childcare.
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February 22, 2025 at 2:08 AM
In these times
I've been getting flashbacks to early 2020 when we didn't yet know how COVID-19 was going to impact us. There were huge impacts in my work at a university. I had to pivot to cancel or figure out how to move programs online. I barely knew how to use Zoom before March 2020 and quickly…
I've been getting flashbacks to early 2020 when we didn't yet know how COVID-19 was going to impact us. There were huge impacts in my work at a university. I had to pivot to cancel or figure out how to move programs online. I barely knew how to use Zoom before March 2020 and quickly…
We stopped shopping at Target and now we can afford eggs.
so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
February 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
We stopped shopping at Target and now we can afford eggs.
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To continue banging this drum: so many people are like "there's no protest music anymore!" and here's the biggest artist in the world (give or take) releasing a gorgeous concept album with a specific point of view on cultural imperialism, community, resistance, and more. Oh and also THIS:
BAD BUNNY - TURiSTA (Video Oficial) | DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
YouTube video by Bad Bunny
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February 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
To continue banging this drum: so many people are like "there's no protest music anymore!" and here's the biggest artist in the world (give or take) releasing a gorgeous concept album with a specific point of view on cultural imperialism, community, resistance, and more. Oh and also THIS:
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Hey Mark, You catch up with Helly R? #Severance
February 15, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Hey Mark, You catch up with Helly R? #Severance
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Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation
Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB
Education Sciences Act of 2002
Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education
Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB
Education Sciences Act of 2002
Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education
Hearing that DOGE went into the Dept of Education today and shut down almost the entirety of the department's in-house research arm, Institute of Educational Sciences, cancelling contracts totally about $900m.
February 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Institute of Education Sciences was a George W Bush innovation
Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB
Education Sciences Act of 2002
Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education
Republicans made it happen, as part of NCLB
Education Sciences Act of 2002
Idea was to provide a research base for its accountability: here are scientifically-tested methods than can improve education
NSBE’s national convention is coming up… interesting to see what their career & college fair will look like.
SCOOP: The military has started making deliberate efforts to scale back the recruiting of Black Americans. www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event
Until this week, Army Recruiting Command had a public partnership with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards, or BEYA, an annual conference that draws students, academics and professionals in science,...
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February 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
NSBE’s national convention is coming up… interesting to see what their career & college fair will look like.
Shakira starting with Ojos Así 💙
February 3, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Shakira starting with Ojos Así 💙
Book Goals for 2025 and January Reads
One of my favorite things about the beginning of the year is updating my list of books I'd like to read. I've already added a bunch of the books friends with similar taste has listed as their favorites so my list keeps growing. It's not a bad problem to have…
One of my favorite things about the beginning of the year is updating my list of books I'd like to read. I've already added a bunch of the books friends with similar taste has listed as their favorites so my list keeps growing. It's not a bad problem to have…
Book Goals for 2025 and January Reads
One of my favorite things about the beginning of the year is updating my list of books I'd like to read. I've already added a bunch of the books friends with similar taste has listed as their favorites so my list keeps growing. It's not a bad problem to have and makes me thankful for libraries. Below are my goals/intentions for the year in reading:
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February 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Book Goals for 2025 and January Reads
One of my favorite things about the beginning of the year is updating my list of books I'd like to read. I've already added a bunch of the books friends with similar taste has listed as their favorites so my list keeps growing. It's not a bad problem to have…
One of my favorite things about the beginning of the year is updating my list of books I'd like to read. I've already added a bunch of the books friends with similar taste has listed as their favorites so my list keeps growing. It's not a bad problem to have…
The First Two Weeks
Many years ago I went camping with a bunch of my cousins, siblings, and our significant others in Yosemite. It was amazing, but midway through our week there we got heavy rain overnight. We discovered that our tents were not as waterproof as we expected, or we just didn't set…
Many years ago I went camping with a bunch of my cousins, siblings, and our significant others in Yosemite. It was amazing, but midway through our week there we got heavy rain overnight. We discovered that our tents were not as waterproof as we expected, or we just didn't set…
The First Two Weeks
Many years ago I went camping with a bunch of my cousins, siblings, and our significant others in Yosemite. It was amazing, but midway through our week there we got heavy rain overnight. We discovered that our tents were not as waterproof as we expected, or we just didn't set things up right, because we were all Southern California born and raised kids who had years of living through droughts.
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February 2, 2025 at 2:39 AM
The First Two Weeks
Many years ago I went camping with a bunch of my cousins, siblings, and our significant others in Yosemite. It was amazing, but midway through our week there we got heavy rain overnight. We discovered that our tents were not as waterproof as we expected, or we just didn't set…
Many years ago I went camping with a bunch of my cousins, siblings, and our significant others in Yosemite. It was amazing, but midway through our week there we got heavy rain overnight. We discovered that our tents were not as waterproof as we expected, or we just didn't set…
“Are you building or are you destroying?” - words from L, a college peer as we pushed for more equitable admissions at UCLA and other UC campuses and built coalitions.
January 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“Are you building or are you destroying?” - words from L, a college peer as we pushed for more equitable admissions at UCLA and other UC campuses and built coalitions.
“No one ever really leaves” - day 1 lesson from #thatsite
It’s so funny, there’s a long social media tradition going back 25 years of making a big deal about how you were going to quit, and then only being gone for like half a day.
January 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“No one ever really leaves” - day 1 lesson from #thatsite
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I still haven’t gotten over Google Reader being discontinued. Can kinda relate to the kids losing TikTok.
January 19, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I still haven’t gotten over Google Reader being discontinued. Can kinda relate to the kids losing TikTok.
I read this for the first time 6 weeks ago. It starts in 2024 on the main character’s birthday. LA was already burning and experiencing drought in 1993 when the book was published. Growing up in LA we already had such bad air quality there were smog days regularly.
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
January 9, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I read this for the first time 6 weeks ago. It starts in 2024 on the main character’s birthday. LA was already burning and experiencing drought in 1993 when the book was published. Growing up in LA we already had such bad air quality there were smog days regularly.