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Travis T. York, Ph.D. (he/they)
@travisyork.bsky.social
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Social Scientist, Education Researcher, Author, Advocate, Policy Wonk, & Association (NGO) Leader transforming Education & STEMM systems for ALL - Queer, 1st-Gen, Half-Indigenous, Foodie, Sailer, Boccer - posts are my own.
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🥂✨ Golden Goose night! Celebrating the “odd-sounding” 🧪research that saves lives—like platinum chemo that turned testicular cancer survival from 10% to >90%, and cell-biology breakthroughs powering modern diagnostics. Federally funded basic science delivers. #GoldenGoose #ScienceMatters
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September 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Want a better 🧪STEMM ecosystem? We shape our world, and alignment & connection are essential to achieve great things. Join the @stemmopportunity.bsky.social to connect across the #STEMM education and workforce sectors during #WorkforceDevelopmentMonth and beyond.
@aaascsew.bsky.social @aaas.org
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September 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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🧪We’re celebrating #WorkforceDevelopmentMonth this September! Join @aaascsew.bsky.social & @stemmopportunity.bsky.social this month to learn more about how STEMM jobs contribute to the U.S. economy and how SOA Partners are connecting education and workforce efforts to achieve great things.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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🧪Can AI advance gender equality & inclusion?
Join the Just?Tech webinar Finding a Home for AI in Social Sustainability|4 Sept, 15–16 CEST|Speakers: Faheem Shah, Klaudia Mur & Pernilla Alexandersson
Register by 9/3 👉 forms.office.com/e/8HWqkkKtXg
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Digital poster for the Just?Tech webinar Finding a home for AI in addressing gender equality and social sustainability. Event on 4 September, 15:00–16:00 CEST. Speakers: Faheem Shah (Jolint Network Analytics), Klaudia Mur (Jolint Network Analytics & Epicz Labs), and Pernilla Alexandersson (Add Gender). Includes registration link to receive the Zoom link by 3 September.
August 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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🗓️ TODAY, 2PM ET🧪
Join @aaas.org for Effective Meetings with Lawmakers, featuring Dr. Owen + insights from Gwendolyn Bogard. Learn how STEMM pros can advocate for science locally. Free + open to all! click.aaas.sciencepubs.org?qs=63d01ce8d...
#SciencePolicy #LSEN #STEMM #CivicEngagement
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July 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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🧪What can a Choctaw story about a hunter & an alligator teach us about survival & thriving in STEM?

Dr. Liza Leclair shows how Indigenous storytelling helps students feel seen—and succeed—in STEM.
aaas-arise.org/2025/06/12/t...

#IndigenousSTEM #STEMEducation #BelongingInSTEM #Choctaw @aaas.org
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June 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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🎓 Opportunity by Design is a new, free course for #HigherEd leaders navigating excellence in a shifting legal landscape.
For leaders w/out a legal background, tracks (1) Student Enrollment & Benefits and (2) Faculty & Staff Hiring, support lasting, mission-driven change.
🧪👉 Enroll: bit.ly/3SRG7MC
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June 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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#AERA2025 Postsec Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Data’s Present & Future: Public Commentary on a National Study & the Impact of Changing Federal Policy

TODAY, 1:30-3:00pm MDT | The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Ballroom Level, Mile High Ballroom 1CD
🧪🏳️‍🌈 @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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🧪Today @ #AAASmtg - Shaping Tomorrow’s Scientists, Innovators, and Researchers 2:30PM Rm 206 HynesCC. Hear from Heidi Schweingruber @nasem-education.bsky.social &
George Wimberly @aeraedresearch.bsky.social #AAAS2025 #STEMEd #SciSky
Unfortunately our NSF colleagues panelists can no longer attend.
Shaping Tomorrow’s Scientists, Innovators, and Researchers Friday, February 14, 2025 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EST Room 206 (Hynes Convention Center)
February 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Today, 11:30am, at the #AAASmtg #AAAS2025, join us for The Power of Diverse Partnerships to Increase Inclusive Pathways Into STEM via 3 law-attentive incredible pathway programs (UofNorthernAZ, @uofmichigan.bsky.social, & Vanderbilt) - funded by @sloanfoundation.bsky.social. @aaas.org
The Power of Diverse Partnerships to Increase Inclusive Pathways Into STEM Friday, February 14, 2025 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST Room 201 (Hynes Convention Center)
February 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Attending #AAAS2025 Annual Meeting? Join us as we launch the revised framework for 🧪science diplomacy, developed in partnership with @royalsociety.org. Don't miss this session where our co-chairs will discuss science diplomacy in a new era. #AAASmtg aaas.confex.com/aaas/2025/meet…
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February 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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🧪Need more time for your L’Oreal USA FWIS Award application? We’ve extended the deadline to February 24, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET. Apply now! aaas.secure-platform.com/lorealfwis
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February 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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Thrilled with this nomination! 🧪

On behalf of #AAAS, CEO Sudip Parikh would like to extend his congratulations to Dario Gil on his nomination as undersecretary of science and innovation at US Dept of #Energy.
#STEM #NSB
A blue graphic with a quote from Sudip Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Executive Publisher of the Science Family of Journals. The quote reads, "I am thrilled to congratulate my friend Dr. Darío Gil on his nomination as undersecretary for science and innovation at the Department of Energy. Dario’s creativity, technical savvy, and endless energy will serve the nation well. I look forward to continuing to work with him in his critical new role."
January 18, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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Will you be joining us for the the 2025 #AAAS Annual Meeting? Here's just a small sampling of the distinguished individuals who will be leading special session. Join me at the Malcom Breakfast or our PRIDE ☕️

🧪Check out the full program and register for the meeting here: meetings.aaas.org
Image featuring photos of three individuals, along with their associated lecture, lecture title, and name. Texts reads: John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences. "Would Enhancing Spatial Thinking Enrich STEM Education?" [by] Nora S. Newcombe, Temple University. George Sarton Memorial Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science. "Visualizing Space/Time/Matter: Physics, Film, History" [by] Peter Galison, Harvard University Life at the Interface of Science + Engineering Lecture Series. "Discovery in Life Sciences: Biotechnology and Convergence with Engineering" [by] Phillip A. Sharpe, MIT (Emeritus). Nobel Laureate.
January 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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🎉 Sharing because this news isn’t shared often enough: My federal students loans are officially FORGIVEN thanks to the Public Servant Loan Forgiveness #PSLF program! 10 years of paying my loans while serving my nation as a public servant.🧪 #Proud #FinAid #EduSky @chronicle.com @hepi-news.bsky.social
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January 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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In partnership with L’Oreal of Paris USA, we are seeking 5 outstanding #women #Postdocs in #STEMM to advance their research & serve as role models for the next generation of girls in STEM. Awardees receive $75,000 to advance your career and research! 🧪 Apply Now: aaas.secure-platform.com/lorealfwis
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January 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Got to celebrate America’s nearly 60-year collaboration with Italy recently - truly amazing to see what’s on the horizon of our universe! #VirginGalactic also announced a new feasibility study for a new spaceport in Puglia - exciting! #italianembassy #Space #AAAS #ItalianTradeAssociation
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December 28, 2024 at 2:59 PM
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The end of this year has been one of the busiest yet! Shoutouts to our incredible #STEM partners! First up, @lorealusa.bsky.social - for their unwavering commitment to supporting #WomenInSTEM. Congrats Katherine Ennis, Caterina Profaci, Andréa Hughes, Taylor Hersh & Emily McGuinness!
Katherine Ennis, Caterina Profaci, Andréa Hughes, Taylor Hersh and Emily McGuinness are the 2024 winners of the For Women in Science award. | L'Oréal USA
December 21, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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AAAS is delighted to announce the four recipients of the 2025 Marion Milligan Mason Award for Women in the Chemical Sciences.
🧪 Michelle Calabrese, Grace Han, Jessica Lamb, Erin Stache! #WomeninSTEM

www.aaas.org/news/four-ch...
Clockwise from top left: Michelle Calabrese, Grace Han, Jessica Lamb, Erin Stache
December 20, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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🧪Don't miss the 2025 AAAS Annual Meeting! Join us in Boston for exciting panels, lectures, poster presentations, international Expo, networking, and more! Early registration is open—save by registering and reserving your hotel by January 22. #AAASmtg meetings.aaas.org/registration/
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December 17, 2024 at 9:23 PM
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One of the main findings of this year's NSF-funded Scholarships in #STEM Deep Dive Report indicated that real-world experience not only benefits scholars’ academic persistence but benefits their employment opportunities.
🧪Learn more in the REC's second annual report today: brnw.ch/21wPlLk
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December 14, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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We’re searching for a new Communications Specialist to support our STEMM Education, Worfkkforce Development and broadening participation initiatives!!! Come join our STEMM Dream Team!

Apply here: lnkd.in/eFREsKgP
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December 14, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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It’s December, and that means it’s almost time for December Dialogues! Join #AAAS DoSER on 12/11 at 5:30 pm ET for a panel discussion on the past, present, and future of research on and use of psychedelics. Register today: brnw.ch/21wP8kR

#STEMM #Science #Religion #Psychedlics
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December 6, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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My team & I are proud partners with @lorealparisusa.bsky.social as we congratulate the recipients of the 2024 L’Oréal For Women in Science Award! Awardees receive $60k to fund their research, mentorship and outreach to support the next generation of female scientists. www.aaas.org/news/five-po...
Photos of Katherine Ennis, Caterina Profaci, Andréa Hughes, Taylor Hersh and Emily McGuinness are the 2024 winners of the For Women in Science award. | L'Oréal USA
December 4, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Join us on December 11 at 2:00pm ET as we talk with AI experts Gabriella Waters and Suresh Venkatasubramanian to learn about tools for the equitable use of AI in the public sector. Hosted by AAAS' EPI Center. Register now: aaas.org/events/tools-e…#AIA#AAASA#STEMMMM
Promotional banner for a webinar titled 'Tools for the Equitable Use of AI in the Public Sector,' scheduled for Wednesday, December 11, from 2 PM to 3 PM ET. The left side features graphic artwork with circuit-like patterns in pink and blue leading to the letters 'AI.' Logos of EPICenter and AAAS are displayed on the right.
December 4, 2024 at 1:49 PM