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Erica Harbatkin @harbatkat.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Our amazing colleague Danny Moraguez died last month: lnkd.in/eYag-N6q Danny was a brilliant scholar who was committed to social justice and educational equity. @anniewoff.bsky.social, @waltecton.bsky.social, and I couldn't have been luckier to have Danny in our hiring cohort. 1/3

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The semester started yesterday, and my first day of teaching is today! Here’s to Year 4 on the tenure track at the FSU Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences and to creating more joy every day. #FacultyLife #HigherEducation #AcademicSky #EduSky

A white woman with medium length brown hair and brown eyes standing in front of a bookcase and a poster that says, “Joy is a form of resistance.” She has a big smile that emulates this phrase.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/07/2025

How have you been impacted by the changes we've seen under the current administration? What would you want to say to those in charge? I'm launching a new research initiative to collect and share anonymous stories of the human toll. And I'd be very grateful for your help. tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

The Human Toll

The US is undergoing rapid social, economic, and policy change.

If you've been impacted, we want to hear your story!

To participate, visit: https://tinyurl.com/thehumantoll

Study sponsored under University of Wisconsin-Madison IRB Protocol #2025-1096. PI: Dr. Jessica Calarco

Participants must be at least 18 years of age and reside in the US

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We demonstrate how participants recognize and build hard and soft skills; clarify career interests; receive managerial and organizational support; navigate gender, age, and racial dynamics; and access future professional opportunities. #AcademicSky #EduSky #HigherEdSky #Engineering #Internship

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We used multiple sources of longitudinal qualitative data (i.e., timelines, interviews, reflective journaling) to understand how undergraduate students with minoritized gender identities experience internships in engineering.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Our article, "'Do I Even Belong?': Internships as Gendered Career Socialization Experiences in Engineering," was just assigned a volume/issue with the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education! It's always exciting to see "Online First" work move to a permanent home. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It's not lost on me that the quote we used for this title might resonate with many working in education at this moment. I firmly believe we can continue to change cultures through individual engagements. Demonstrating this in research and practice is one of the biggest honors of being faculty.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Findings discuss how attributes of equity-minded mentoring shaped participants’ mentoring motivations, benefits, and costs. Participants illustrated how qualities of social exchange (e.g., reciprocity) were often shaped by identity-based experiences and unclear boundaries in doctoral education.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The EM3 supports the goal of viewing mentors’ relational engagement through a lens that attends to identity/ies, power dynamics, and organizational structures.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

SET helps one understand reciprocal processes – like mentorship – and we apply its tenets to examine doctoral students’ motivations, benefits, and challenges as they engage in mentorship.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

In this study, we examine how US doctoral students in computing-related fields understand their roles as mentors by using a conceptual framework that merges social exchange theory (SET) and the equity-minded mentoring model (EM3).

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

New pub! "'We Can Change the Culture Through Those Individual Engagements': Social Exchange and Equity-Mindedness in STEMM Doctoral Students' Roles as Mentors," is newly out with Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education. Find it here (and DM if you don’t have access): doi.org/10.1108/SGPE...

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Just Education Policy Institute @justedpolicy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Just Education Policy is coming back! We’re excited to announce that we are planning for an *in-person* Just Education Policy Institute this Fall 2025. Applications & more details will be released in early May. For more info. about the Just Education Policy Institute, visit justeducationpolicy.org.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

What an incredible honor to hood Dr. Denise Gonzalez McHale yesterday! Thank you for trusting me from the beginning—a then brand-new faculty member—and allowing me to be part of your journey. You’ll always be part of mine and will forever be the first person I hooded! #graduation #facultylife

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Stay safe, FSU community. Active shooter report near the Student Union.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

As a born and raised Kansan, I will never get over the fact that I now live in a place that gets tornado warnings but A) has nearly zero basements, and B) has no city-wide tornado sirens. 😩

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Big cuts at the Education Department’s civil rights office will affect vulnerable students for years to come by Erica Frankenberg & @maithgopalan.bsky.social theconversation.com/big-cuts-at-...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.

Title: Both Liberal and Conservative Judges Rule Against Trump
Description: A scatter plot showing the rulings of judges against or in favor of Trump, categorized by ideology using the DIME score. The x-axis represents Judge Ideology (DIME Score), ranging from liberal (-1) to conservative (1), and the y-axis represents the case outcome (against or for Trump).
• Blue dots represent liberal judges, purple dots represent moderate judges, and red dots represent conservative judges.
• Some judges are labeled, including Rudolph Contreras, Lauren King, John Coughenour, and James Emanuel Boasberg on the liberal to moderate side, and Carl Nichols, Richard J. Leon, and Joseph N. Laplante on the conservative side.
• A note mentions that Boasberg, though slightly right-leaning, was initially appointed by George W. Bush.
• The visualization suggests that judges from both ideological backgrounds ruled against Trump.

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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

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James S. Murphy @jamessmurphy.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I'm super excited to share this short brief on who has power over the Department of Education, what the ED Sec can do, and what Executive Orders can do. There's a lot of info (and links!) packed into one place. I hope it's helpful. Please share. drive.google.com/file/d/1QpeK...

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Rogue SSA @alt-ssa.altgov.info · 06/03/2025

Collect 'em all! go.bsky.app/FLUwv5d

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back www.nature.com/articles/d41... by @heidiledford.bsky.social via @nature.com "Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists." #GoScience!

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US science is under threat ― now scientists are fighting back

Researchers are organizing protests and making their voices heard as Trump officials slash funding and lay off federal scientists.

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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 28/02/2025

Ted Cruz said he’d found $2 billion in “woke” science grants, but his team used keyword searches that flagged things out of context, like a grant to develop a device to treat severe bleeding that mentioned “victims” and “trauma.” www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”

The senator flagged thousands of National Science Foundation grants for using words like “female” and “diversify.” A ProPublica analysis found numerous examples of projects caught up in his crude meth...

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Beth Tipton @statstipton.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

In this op-ed, we - the presidents of SREE and AEFP - joined forces to argue for the importance of evidence on "what works" and how cutting such funding is not "efficient" - it is wasteful. www.brookings.edu/articles/cut...

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Cutting research funding would make education less effective and efficient

Presidents of education research associations explain the impacts of recent funding cuts to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).

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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

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The National Science Foundation - this is not business as usual

The National Science Foundation was created 75 years ago, at the behest of Vannevar Bush , who put together the famed study, Science, The E...

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callie lowenstein @callielowenstein.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Teachers, edu folks, allies: We will not let them destroy our Dept of Ed & its vital research, programs, & funding for our kids. Join us for an all-hands-on-deck organizing call this Sun, 2/16 at 7pm ET to plan actions to fight for our Ss, Ts, & schools. sparkstreetdigital.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: All Hands On Deck: Defending Edu Research, Defending Our Schools. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Republicans 2002: “We need evidence-based education policy” Republicans 2025: “Pls destroy any evidence that could inform education policy”

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Here's why your education friends had a real rough one today. It's... it's the entire education data collection apparatus of the United States. www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

Screenshot of the article that reads: The Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, appears to be the latest agency in the crosshairs of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency office.

Dozens of researchers and contractors received notices Feb. 10, directing them to immediately stop work on research projects and program evaluations financed by IES, a federal agency with a roughly $800 million budget, sources say.

It was not immediately clear which—or how many—of IES’ hundreds of contracts are affected, though one source estimated roughly 170.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 06/02/2025

- racist DOGE guy (redundant) canned - federal judge upholds birthright citizenship - another judge blocks voluntary resignation - NY state going to court over treasury business - patel put on ice for at least a week

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Our results show how these students value making a difference in their communities (i.e., resistant capital) and have high hopes for their lives (i.e., aspirational capital). These and other qualities can contribute to the success of upward transfer CS Students of Color in graduate education.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Supporting the talents of upward transfer Students of Color is crucial to advancing equity in CS graduate pathways–especially when grad school is the training ground for faculty and industry leaders. Institutions must develop practices & policies that value the assets of transfer Students of Color.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Finally, we analyze the extent to which forms of community cultural wealth (e.g., resistant capital, aspirational capital) among upward transfer Students of Color relate to students’ graduate school self-efficacy, graduate school information received, and their interest in earning a Ph.D.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Then, we address the sources of students’ knowledge about graduate school to learn more about the institutional or community actors that shape students’ knowledge about graduate degrees. For example, do students rely on faculty, peers, or advisors for information about graduate school?

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

We take an asset-based approach to recognize students’ many strengths they bring with them to their post-transfer environments. We first examine forms of capital among upward transfer Students of Color and potential variation across race/ethnicity, gender, and social class.

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Annie Wofford, Ph.D. @anniewoff.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

In trying times for our educational communities, it’s going to be vital to support the students in our spheres of influence. In this new paper, @jenniferblaney.bsky.social and I focus on supporting transfer Students of Color in computer science. 50 free downloads here: tinyurl.com/WoffordBlane...

Screenshot of the title and abstract from a new article called, “Community College Pathways to Graduate Study: Examining Community Cultural Wealth Among Transfer Students of Color.” This article can be found at: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9YCVU5WWJPGVTCE4AQ3F/full?target=10.1080/10668926.2025.2453466

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 04/02/2025

*this is illegal* FYI 🧪 🔭 ⚛️

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/01/2025

The goal here isn't to make public schools more conservative-friendly. The goal is to dismantle public schooling by driving families and teachers away.

Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling
EXECUTIVE ORDER
January 29, 2025

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Trump’s plan has always been to announce legally questionable executive orders that pressure people to acquiesce in the hopes that they will be left alone. It is disheartening to see how many universities are falling into this trap instead of fighting to save higher education from a fascist takeover

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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 29/01/2025

They knew this was an illegal and chaotic power grab, and their attempt failed because people said no—in the courts, at work, in the streets, and beyond. This is our reminder: Our outrage matters, and it works. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Trump White House reverses course, rescinds freeze on federal grants

The reversal followed criticism of the sudden freeze by the White House budget office.

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