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Christy Starr 🏳️‍🌈

@christinerstarr.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology University of Wisconsin-Madison Studies motivation and equity in STEM, identity & stereotypes. #queer #firstgen #feminist, She.

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Christy Starr 🏳️‍🌈 @christinerstarr.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
New work with @zenamello.bsky.social -- using the person-centered approach, we found that social class discrimination, particularly discrimination that occurs in school negatively relates to academic outcomes. Classism from teachers was most common onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Social Class Discrimination and Academic Success: A Person‐Centered Approach Among Adolescents Disadvantaged in Social Class
Introduction Prior research indicates that social class is strongly associated with academic outcomes such as GPA. However, little work explores the role that social discrimination plays in this rel...
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Christy Starr 🏳️‍🌈 @christinerstarr.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Excited to share a new paper by my grad student and myself, highlighting how classroom experiences such as positive classroom climate relate to changes in STEM motivational beliefs across the semester 🤸‍♀️🎉https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1m8Px,8E16MF-A
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Institute for Diversity Science @idswisc.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New report in Education Week profiles IDS affiliate @christinerstarr.bsky.social's work that looks to better understand how to motivate students in STEM whose parents didn't attend college. www.edweek.org/leadership/m...
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Many Kids' Parents Didn't Go to College. You Can Still Motivate Them in STEM
Students whose parents did not go to college often do not feel they have the necessary support to excel STEM subjects.
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Calvin Lai @calvinklai.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Come join us! I have startup funds to hire a postdoc for Fall 2025 at Rutgers to study intergroup relations. The job ad is at jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/249... & evaluations begin in 1 wk (5/16) w rolling evaluation. See 🧵below for a write-up on what I'm looking for in a postdoc. Please share widely!
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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It’s a tough time for STEM education research right now, but we are still excited to share our new PNAS paper, “Divergence in children’s gender stereotypes and motivation across STEM fields”! We have big surveys (2,765 students in Grades 1-12), 2 pre-registered studies, and open data. (1/13)
Abstract for new PNAS article
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Christy Starr 🏳️‍🌈 @christinerstarr.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Looks like NSF-BPE has been canceled. My institution was literally supposed to submit my and Dr. Alan Meca's grant to it today... 🫠
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
🧪 Brand new details on DOGE’s infiltration at NSF ““The Office of Management and Budget recently instructed some NSF staff that all funding opportunities needed approval from DOGE, OMB, or the Office of the Director, a document viewed by FedScoop indicated.” ‼️‼️
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How DOGE got into the National Science Foundation
Associates of the Elon Musk- led group recently showed up at the National Science Foundation.
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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 03/04/2025
It was just a matter of time. My R01, a grant dedicated to addressing sexual harassment in biomedical research (which affects over 50% of women and sexual and gender minorities), is being terminated. I guess I should be grateful this letter doesn’t have the offensive language in other terminations.
Dear Dr. Salles,
I am writing to let you know that due to changes in NIH/HHS priorities, the Research on Interventions that Promote the Careers of Individuals in the Biomedical Research Enterprise (R01) program has been terminated.
Your institution can continue to draw funds on any active award for allowed costs that are within scope and consistent with the Grants Policy Statement. Further awards will not be made, and NIGMS will not permit no-cost extensions.
NIGMS grants management will follow up if there is any specific information or action needed regarding your award. For additional information regarding funding opportunities that NIGMS supports, see NIGMS TWD Webpage:
https://www.nigms.nih.gov/.
training/Pages/TWDPrograms.
If you have specific follow up questions, please email nigmstrainingmail@nigms.nih.gov and include the grant number.
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Patti Olivier 💙VOTE BLUE @patti3333.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
www.crawfordforwi.com #MomSky Just finished phone banking session and will start another soon Wisconsin VOTE FOR SUSAN CRAWFORD POLLS OPEN TILL 8PM POLLING LOCATION GO... myvote.wi.gov Vote Susan Crawford Wisconsin Vote for your freedoms
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Judge Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court
Judge Susan Crawford is a former prosecutor and current Circuit Court Judge running for Wisconsin Supreme Court to protect the rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Analysis of Terminated NIH Grants with Word Clouds First, using the titles of grants not to Columbia... Gender and DEI predominate
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary. I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.
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Andrew Ho @andrewdeanho.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Want to help save research using NCES restricted-use data? Here is a gdrive with actions, background, and context from my colleague sean reardon (sharing with permission): 1) actions 2) background 3) list of data files: drive.google.com/drive/folder...
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!
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Rescinded NIH & NSF Grants
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Universities: We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately
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Christy Starr 🏳️‍🌈 @christinerstarr.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This makes me so sad... I've been using one of these datasets for the past 5 years. They're so important for education research.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/03/2025
As predicted, women in New Hampshire had a hard time voting yesterday because of the new proof of citizenship law: “It doesn’t have my married name on it,” she said. Town voting officials then sent her away a second time, to get her marriage certificate. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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NH’s new ID requirements send some would-be voters home to grab passports, birth certificates
The law requires all new voters to show proof of their U.S. citizenship. For some, that meant making multiple trips to and from the polls before finally casting a ballot on Tuesday.
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Travis T. York, Ph.D. (he/they) @travisyork.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🧪The entire staff of the Department of Education’s NCES-a vital independent statistical agency - has just been RIFed. The continued erasure of data and evidence allows for the Trump administration to hide the impact of their corruption. #EduSky #Scisky @aeraedresearch.bsky.social @cossa.bsky.social
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Just talked with CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) about my NSF EDU-funded study on early stereotypes in STEM. With my @airinforms.bsky.social colleagues, the results show the importance of *sustained* and *evidence-based* funded efforts to expand opportunities for girls in tech at early ages.
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Exploring kids’ early stereotypes about STEM
U.S. researcher David Miller discusses kids’ favouring boys in certain STEM subjects, while Canadian Association of Girls in Science CEO Larissa Vingilis-Jaremko shares ways to counter gender stereoty...
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Amy Bellmore @amybellmore.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A call for papers for a special issue of JRA. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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Journal of Research on Adolescence Call for Abstracts – Exploring Identity-based Discrimination, Victimization, Bullying, and Violence among Adolescents from a Global Perspective
Both basic and applied studies using diverse methodologies, including qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, and participatory action research, as well as high quality systematic reviews and meta-analyses will be considered.
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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
I encourage everyone to go through to see the grants that have been categorized as "woke DEI." It's disgusting. www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-...
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Cruz-Led Investigation Uncovers $2 Billion in Woke DEI Grants at NSF, Releases Full Database
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Why is the Institute of Education Sciences important for students, teachers, schools, and for the United States?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.
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Andrei Cimpian @andreicimpian.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This TICS paper turned out to be unexpectedly timely... We could have called it "Why DEI and Merit Go Hand in Hand" given recent developments... Valuing diversity and excellence/merit aren't opposing forces -- they're complementary.
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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! It is more necessary than ever to emphasize the importance of increasing gender equity in STEM. Here's a throw-back to last year's conversation with Dr. Lisa Harvey-Smith, Australia's Women in STEM Ambassador: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXjG...
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Challenging Stereotypes: Cultivating STEM Futures for Girls - A Conversation with Dr Allison Master
YouTube video by Australia's Women in STEM Ambassador
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Cooper Battle @chbattle.com · 05/02/2025
Extremely disappointed to see HHMI decide to kill their Inclusive Excellence program, including terminating the current IE3 awards to over a hundred institutions effective this year in the middle of a 6-year grant. I was hoping HHMI (and other private funders) would continue to lead the way.
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Emily Rosenzweig @emilyqr.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
We know a lot about STEM attrition, but tons of students change career plans WITHIN STEM. Who are these students and what motivates their career plan changes? I'm happy to share a new publication at Journal of Educational Psychology, which examines this topic. (1/5)
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Omg it’s hard to keep up with the news about even just NSF!! NSF plans to lay off 25-50% of its staff over the next 2 months, according to comments from the head of NSF’s Engineering Directorate 🤬🤬🤬
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Science funding agency threatened with mass layoffs
National Science Foundation staff heard the plans at a meeting Tuesday.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The number of people surprised by the long list of words NSF is targeting makes me think many of you all have not seen this: www.commerce.senate.gov/services/fil...
maybe 250 words describing status250-ish social justice wordssmaller text -- 400 words on social justice and gender?And another 150 or so on race
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
- 10,000 research grants flagged for review by NSF Program Directors - Reviews due by 5 p.m. today - They flag grants with "broadening participation" language, foreign aid, climate science, domestic energy, and "discriminatory programs including illegal DEI"
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
NSF grantees - people who have already received their grants based on a previously funded and approved research proposal - are being told to stop any activities related to DEI and accessibility. Call this what it is: government censorship of ongoing research projects. www.opm.gov/policy-data-...
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James P. Collins @jpcollins.me · 28/01/2025
do it now -- took 3 mins. call answered by D rep. office, voicemail from both R senators
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Christy Starr 🏳️‍🌈 @christinerstarr.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I just tried searching "equity" on NIH's website, and it literally won't let you. Same thing happened for "diversity" and "inclusion" 🫠 www.nih.gov
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National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIH is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the ...
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Scott Hadland, MD @drscotthadland.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The NIH Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office website has been taken down. LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately subjected to violence, discrimination & stigma, affecting their health outcomes. Ignoring these facts endangers us all. #MedSky #LGBT #LGBTQ #NIH #research #science
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Joe Cimpian @handle.invalid · 14/01/2025
New @brookings.edu post on the widening gender gap in engineering at computer science at the least selective universities and what it means for women's economic advancement. Co-authored with @joalkhafajiking.bsky.social www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
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The hidden STEM gender gap: Why progress at top universities masks a growing crisis
Joseph R. Cimpian and Jo R. King examine the widening STEM gender gap at colleges serving lower math achievers.
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Christy Starr 🏳️‍🌈 @christinerstarr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Perks of being an assistant professor - sleeping in until 9am and grabbing fancy pancakes on a Wednesday 😁😋
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Great #STEMed postdoc opportunity that can lead to a tenure-track asst prof job! (And *mind blown* that that kind of postdoc opportunity exists!)
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Christy Starr 🏳️‍🌈 @christinerstarr.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New paper out! Across 3 large high school datasets, we found that girls and boys largely place similar value on math. No meaningful differences were found in the most recent dataset (2012), but some differences were found in the two older datasets (1990s and early 2000s). doi.org/10.1002/jad....
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Girls and Boys Typically Have Similar Math Value Beliefs: Replication Evidence Across Historical Time, High School, and Racial/Ethnic Groups
Introduction Individuals' math value beliefs are theorized to influence who persists in STEM. However, the existing findings on gender differences in adolescents' math value beliefs are inconsistent...
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Matt @tiredgenerally.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
i hate to be a monocausal guy but i really think this discussion of masculinity, trade school, the gendering of education etc is beating around the bush. male democrats have seen no sizable drop in their desire to attend college. female republicans have. it’s about politics.
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
If universities want to retain female faculty they need to deal with the people who create hostile workplaces. That means actually dealing with sexual harassers, assholes, bullies, and every else who scores high on the dark triad. If not, you will lose your best people over and over again.
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Dr. Allison Master @allisonmaster.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Happy #CSEdWeek! Are you a middle school CS teacher who would like to get more girls interested in taking your class? We are recruiting RIGHT NOW for an NSF-funded intervention. Brand-new data from >200 kids shows that our project increased girls' interest in their school's coding class by 40%!
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a man and a woman are sitting on a couch with the words let us help you netflix on the bottom
Alt: a man and a woman are sitting on a couch with the words "let us help you" on the bottom
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
On a more serious note, there are some more somber takeaways for thinking about gender equity in STEM. For instance, girls' male-STEM bias rapidly increases with age, which could potentially drive them away from fast-growing tech fields such as AI. (Again, created this graph for wider reach.)
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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
🚨🚨 Out TODAY in Psych Bulletin!! 🚨🚨 After 5 long years, the NSF meta-analysis I led on children's gender stereotypes about STEM and verbal abilities just came out today in Psych Bulletin!! In the words of great cultural critic Stefon, it has everything... doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
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a man says " and it has everything " in front of a world map
ALT: a man says " and it has everything " in front of a world map
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Martinique Sealy Mitchell, PhD @martiniquesealy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Good morning! I put together an Ed Psych starter pack for educational psychologists and those who do educational psychology research. Let me know if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/2rLLNzP
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