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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

#HigherEd instructors: I used an article of mine to see how well ChatGPT answered prompts to: summarize the key findings, create quiz questions, and create group discussion questions. The results are interesting! If you want to see them, log in or join Prof2Prof.com and see Recent additions.

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Prof2Prof is a web-based platform for higher education professionals to share our most innovative and effective resources for teaching, research, administration and student support services. Together,...

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Prof2Prof @prof2prof.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Academia is stronger when we’re connected. Whether you're a faculty member, academic staff, doctoral student, or postdoc, you belong in a thriving academic ecosystem that celebrates collaboration, not silos. Here are 5 easy ways to grow your network on Prof2Prof:

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Ben Chrisinger @bchrisinger.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Important new work on EITC and healthy food purchasing. More evidence on how less complicated/restrictive safety net programs can be helpful for diet and health. Gets us out of a “people are just doing poverty wrong” mentality and more toward addressing root causes. #academicsky 🛟 🥗

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

To all those quick-thinking researchers who downloaded and saved these datasets before such action was taken—thank you.

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Amy Marie @amy-marie.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

putting this back out there. i welcome any suggestions! #AcademicSky #Sociology #HigherEd #TeacherSky

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Altac Jobs LLC @altacjobs.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

JOB - Information Researcher - State of Illinois - Chicago IL "doctoral degree in course of study requiring advanced statistics, such as social science, computer/data sciences" #altac #AcademicChatter #phdchat #adjunct #postdoc #highered #academic #academia altacjobs.com/j/informatio...

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Even LinkedIn is getting a bit toxic now.

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Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Spencer Foundation joins Kapor Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to launch a rapid response bridge funding program (up to $25,000) for education scholars impacted by the abrupt grant cancellations by the National Science Foundation (NSF)! #AcademicSky

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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This hugely compounds the effects of mass project closures.

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Thankful that this individual’s back and head involve only 4 colors.

Partially finished multi-colored cross-stitched pattern of a bicyclist

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Interesting, given this unequivocal defense of academic freedom from a few years back: president.uchicago.edu/en/from-the-...

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Statement on Faculty, Free Expression, and Diversity

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I've come across a few great resources lately for job seekers (especially those in the education/social science research space). Just thought I would drop them here for anyone who is looking. ☀️ 1. www.purposephilcareer.com 2. docs.google.com/spreadsheets... 3. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

With so many doc students relying on tenuous/stopped grant support, it needs to be all faculty hands on deck to help them find other opportunities for moving them expeditiously to degree. This collective mentoring model offers ideas on how faculty can help. #AcademicSky prof2prof.com/resource/col...

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I developed these career guidance tools when I was the director of a PhD program several years back. I used them myself when I was considering leaving academia. For anyone struggling with career next steps, take a look. prof2prof.com/resource/car...

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Anyone in Denver area looking for a job? Several openings to be found here.

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It's time to strengthen our academic networks.

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

#Academicsky, #Sciencesky, what do you consider to be “threshold concepts” in your discipline? These are concepts that are tricky to learn but transformative on the road to mastering your discipline. Here’s more detail on the concept. I’d appreciate your thoughts! www.prof2prof.com/blog/making-...

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Making the Clouds Part

Not too long ago, when my kids were 6 and 11, I recall a conversation we had about their interest in possible careers when they grow up. My youngest was intent on becoming an NBA star, while my oldest...

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Free to sign up for Inside Higher Ed. This needs to be widely distributed and leaders need to come together across institutions and organizations to colllectively act.

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The general public does not grasp on how devastating it is to shut down data collection on critical studies & monitoring systems. We’ll be flying blind on $ allocation/policy development/prevention. This allows those in power to dictate w/o evidence what should be done to address societal problems.

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Altac Jobs LLC @altacjobs.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

JOB - Data and Research Manager - Community Resources For Justice (CRJ) - REMOTE (US) "Understanding of quantitative and/or qualitative research methods" 💵$98,000/yr #altac #Academia #adjunct #postdoc #PhD #highered altacjobs.com/data-and-res...

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Data and Research Manager

Job Description Posted Friday, March 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM | Expires Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 11:59 PM Job purpose: The Data and Research Manager will play a key role in ensuring CJI continues t...

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It's me, Andrew @itsandrewrusso.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Hey #academicsky, I'm wondering if anyone has some good readings or examples for clear, concise, and helpful Reflective Essay Rubrics? I'd like to review some and learn to improve my own.

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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Fellow social scientists: What's your favorite survey panel for US adults in 2025? #commsky #academicChatter

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

So proud of my niece who just defended her dissertation and is now Dr. Isabella Lenz! See the fascinating project she is working on. I am hoping she now has time to join bsky. Her work is fascinating. arxiv.org/pdf/2503.15627. Check out her Google Scholar profile, too.

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Prof2Prof @prof2prof.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Academia, we welcome and support your research, teaching and student support programs that focus on fed-banned words. If they take it down or your uni won’t host it, talk about it on Prof2Prof.com. Don’t let them disappear it.

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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

Remember sitting in history, thinking “If I was alive then, I would’ve…” You’re alive now. Whatever you’re doing is what you would’ve done.

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Giovanni Ramos @gramos.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Important info about what NIH considers health disparities. This statement was just published on March 13th. www.nimhd.nih.gov/about/overvi...

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What are Health Disparities?

What are the NIH-Designated Populations Experiencing Health Disparities? Learn more.

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

#AcademicSky save every communication regarding stop work orders, directives to not use certain words, layoff notices, etc. this is a moment in history that needs to be preserved

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Melissa Kline Struhl @mekline.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers. Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...

I'm writing today with a big request during a difficult time for all of us. Together, we've grown Children Helping Science into a cornerstone for online developmental research. Researchers from roughly 150 institutions have conducted remote studies with over 15,000 families since 2020, with many of those families returning to participate in multiple studies across labs.
The CHS team and infrastructure is currently supported almost entirely by the United States government (NSF and NIH). Like many US researchers, we're facing substantial uncertainty about what this means for our financial stability over the coming months and years, and we are hard at work pursuing every angle to keep this platform available to the community. This includes exploring new funding strategies we have previously not considered, like possibly allowing some carefully vetted companies to display ads to families.
Researchers will continue to be able to use the CHS platform for free, but your support right now is critical. At the same time, we know that many of you, especially those of you in the United States, are facing the same instability to present and future funding as we are.
Today, we are asking for three FREE actions from all of you to support our immediate fundraising efforts:

**Send us your citations.**
If you have publications that collected data or advertised studies through CHS or Lookit, please share those references. These citations are essential for demonstrating CHS’s impact to funders. A list of all the citations we're aware of is linked here, in case you're not sure whether we have your recent articles.
**Send us publicly shareable materials and press coverage.**
If you have cute study designs, engaging visuals, or images of adorable kids (with the necessary permissions) we’d love to use them in presentations to potential funders. Similarly, if your research has been covered in any public media (university publications, podcasts, news articles), please send these to us.
**Share your funding applications and ideas.**
If you are preparing a grant proposal (to any funding source), please reach out to discuss how you can include a budget line to support CHS. If you have ideas for joint projects, or even of funders you think we should reach out to - we're all ears! And if you have ever received funding to conduct studies using CHS/Lookit, please also make sure we know about it.

You can do all of these things right now at this link (https://forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZizMK8). Please also feel free to email us (best address: mekline@mit.edu) with any other questions or ideas.
We are committed to keeping CHS running and serving this community, and we will do everything in our power to keep the lights on. Thank you for helping to make CHS such a wonderful community resource and for helping us in whatever ways you can!
With appreciation,
Melissa Kline Struhl
Executive Director
Laura Schulz
Scientific Director

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

In case you missed it…follow/like the the #SDOH feed to stay up-to-date on SDOH-related stories and research.

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Prof2Prof @prof2prof.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Now, more than ever, it is critical to share your scientific expertise. At Prof2Prof, we make that easy to do. Sharing your work takes effort, but it is critical for increasing public trust of science and scholarship in its many forms. Take the first step and visit Prof2Prof.com to start sharing!

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

These days, this is about the only activity that keeps my mind off of…things.

Half-complete cross stitch pattern of a cyclist

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A country without critical public health data is in real danger. This is one of many data sources we will soon be without. The irony is that by understanding what drives inequities, we can more efficiently distribute resources and make better progress in reducing maternal mortality overall.

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Dr. Roberta Ross-Fisher @robertarossfisher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The U.S. has long been a cornerstone of #highereducation and medical breakthroughs as a result of research. This type of shortsighted decision making will have a detrimental impact on our entire nation for decades. #AcademicSky

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Valerie Horsley @valeriejhorsley.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Please share: @delauro.house.gov is cochair of the US House Congressional Rapid Response Task Force and Litigation Working Group. They are looking for instances where the impoundment and restriction of NIH/NSF funds is having a negative impact. Submit examples here delauro.house.gov/constituent-...

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2025 Federal Financial Assistance Freeze

On Monday, January 27th, 2025, President Trump issued an order to freeze virtually all of approved and legally required federal funding.

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Academics and researchers: it is critical to promote your work and its impact given that many federal channels for this have shut down/stalled. The (imo flawed) citation-influenced metrics of "impact" are not as important outside of academia. Tell your professional story to open new doors!

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Huge cuts to indirect rates, work stop orders, cancelled projects, mass firings, funding freezes, & halted study sections = a true crisis for scientific advancement. A large drop in RFPs and attached $$s is likely next, which will ensure the demise of U.S. leadership in the knowledge economy.

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K.T. Elliott @ktelliottmicro.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

*Every single headline* about a scientific/medical advance right now should include the funding source I'm reading & discussing a bunch of papers w/ my class. I don't usually point out funders (almost always NIH/NSF/USDA for this class). You can bet your patooties I'm gonna do that from now on

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A great irony is that to NOT study inequities leads to enormous inefficiencies in terms of resource allocation.

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I started Prof2Prof in 2017 when I was a social work professor b/c I wanted a central online space to store and share research (beyond just pubs), teaching, mentoring and admin tools and resources, and I wanted it to be separate from my uni. #AcademiaSky #AcademicChatter #PhDSky #HigherEdSky

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Taking a break from the other stuff for a minute. For those of you who do survey research: as you are considering popular validated measures, do you think about how each question item may be experienced by respondents with different identities and experiences? Change the item?

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