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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Thread of research relying on world-renowned data produced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Please contribute So much of my own research has used BLS data Growing income inequality in who gets a college education - from NLSY79/97 www.nber.org/system/files...

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

True of extracurricular activities more broadly as well-- a marker of "accomplishment" that isn't just about academics, but typically requires substantial time and/or financial resources from families to support it.

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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Thanks to James McCarthy who it seems must have bothered their line manager enough to say "guys, maybe this should be reported?" Which it now has been, a day later. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... And thanks to @nlygo.bsky.social for spotting.

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London Trans+ Pride brings 100,000 people to the streets

Organisers say this year's edition was the highest attended, making it the largest such event ever.

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Some resources to support evidence-informed use of those newly released Title 1-c and Title III-a dollars: edresearchforaction.org/research-bri... edresearchforaction.org/research-bri... #EdResearch #Multilingual #ESL #ESOL #ELL

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Promoting School Success for Immigrant-Origin Students - EdResearch for Action

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Cara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

In the past 3 weeks, how many hours did state and district leaders spend frantically re-arranging budgets, contracts, and staffing plans to address the budget uncertainty? Did that improve student outcomes? What a ridiculous waste of scarce resources.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The administration & their useful idiots say editors & peer reviewers are gatekeepers with an agenda. As @jeremyberg.bsky.social’s shows, the only agenda is scientific integrity. There is no substitute for a fair, evidence-driven, informed approach to editorial decisions. bsky.app/profile/jere...

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Leora Horwitz @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 23/07/2025

I'm on Cambridge's 87 bus right now, heading to the Royal Sonesta to hear some great Economics of Education talks as part of the #NBER Summer Institute. I'll try to live post as many as possible, so watch this thread! @nber.org #EconSky

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I’m no political strategist but if Trump wants to distract us from the Epstein Files, he could try fully funding NIH, EPA, NASA, NOAA, NSF, USDA, USGS, etc. We’d be so shocked that we won’t stop talking about it for months.

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Betsy Wolf @betsyjwolf.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

There’s not enough reporting, IMHO, on the targeted attacks on research and science across multiple fields: education, health, medicine, environment. Presumably, if they are killing the reporting and accountability mechanisms, they know what they’re doing will have negative consequences.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

🚨 New update on threats to funding for STEM education and training of future scientists 🧪 In past week, early signs from Congress are: "we don't want to destroy NSF". However, STEM education and training—which are vital to NSF's mission—remain particularly targeted. Thread 🧵

Graph comparing NSF actual budget for STEM ed ($1.2B in recent years) to CHIP authorizations levels ($2+ billion), asking where is it going to go next year?

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I—if I dare confess—love this.

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Erica Frankenberg @efrankenberg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

See our thoughts & those of other scholars examining why the layoffs at the U.S. Department of Educations are so concerning for students and protecting their civil rights. With @maithgopalan.bsky.social theconversation.com/trump-free-t...

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Trump free to begin gutting Department of Education after Supreme Court ‘shadow’ ruling − 5 essential reads

The justices overruled a lower court that had paused the Trump administration’s plan to fire over 1,300 workers.

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Absolutely essential time to build stronger infrastructures across states for education data, evidence use, research production, and brokerage/networking across all of them. Would love to see this span K-16+, and potentially also out-of-school supports and learning opportunities.

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Julie Borst @julielb.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

We need to be really clear about what the role of USED is, b/c the majority of public education decisions are at the state and local level. USED is about enforcement of students' civil rights and supplemental funding to assure a baseline of education for all students. 1/x @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

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Jodi Cohen @jodiscohen.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The U.S. Supreme Court just gave the Trump administration the go-ahead to slash the Education Department. I have been reporting on eduction for decades. If you have been impacted by this news, please reach out to me on Signal at jodireporter.88 www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...

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Help Us Report on How the Department of Education Is Handling Civil Rights Cases

Have you recently filed a civil rights complaint or do you have a pending case? We need your help to get a full picture of how the dismantling of the Office for Civil Rights is affecting students, par...

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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

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Exclusive: NIH to dismiss dozens of grant reviewers to align with Trump priorities

The move would undo years of work, leaving advisory councils understaffed, and without the full expertise needed for reviews.

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

"Early mRNA vaccine trials also indicated the recurrence of melanoma could be cut in half." Rich white ppl don't worry about skin cancer? "lifetime risk of getting melanoma is ~3% (1 in 33) for Whites, 0.1% (1 in 1,000) for Blacks, & 0.5% (1 in 200) for Hispanic ppl." www.cancer.org/cancer/types...

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Melanoma Skin Cancer Statistics

Find the American Cancer Society’s most recent statistics about melanoma skin cancer and how common melanoma is.

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

"The unnecessary suffering, the broadening risk to many Americans, and the burden the disease is placing on our health care system are all the more distressing because measles is preventable. In fact, measles was declared eliminated [in 2000] because of successful vaccination efforts."

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Naomi Caselli @naomicaselli.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Most deaf and hard of hearing kids are at risk of a condition called language deprivation. Almost all are born to hearing families who don’t know a sign language, and even with hearing aids or cochlear implants and speech therapy, many kids don’t get enough access to spoken language early on. (2/16)

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The National Science Foundation has sent an email out to its members to collect signatures for a dissent declaration similar to the NIH’s Bethesda Declaration and the EPA’s Declaration of Dissent. This comes on the heels of Lee Zeldin putting 139 EPA declaration signers on admin leave

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

AERA and 10 other education research groups urge Education Department leaders to act immediately to ensure the Civil Rights Data Collection for the 2025-26 school year. Read the letter: www.aera.net/Portals/38/U...

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

“It’s more complex than I thought. I used to think it’s just students who don’t put in the work, now I know it’s a collective effort.” “I’ve always known relationships matter, but this project helped me better understand why some students feel left out and how to be more responsive.”

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

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Subcommittee Markup of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

NAEP science scores planned for release in June are now delayed, in the wake of Education Department cuts, via @hechingerreport.org @jillbarshay.bsky.social: hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

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Another Education Department delay: release of NAEP science scores

But administration relents on yanking data from researchers

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 03/07/2025

In a democracy, government employees can voice respectful dissent to their leadership. But today, EPA leadership retaliated against its own employees for expressing disagreement w/ the admin’s actions & policy directions. Punishing gov't employees for this expression is an alarming development. 🧵

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Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Someone take up this very generous offer! I also recommend checking out the resources from the OpEd Project if you want to learn to write opinion: www.theopedproject.org

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The OpEd Project

The OpEd Project's mission is to increase the range of voices and quality of ideas we hear in the world. We provide trainings, fellowships, and resources to amplify underrepresented voices, and change...

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"As continued collections of federal data erode... Education States should [improve] their own data and research capacity, including... statewide school level expenditure data... additional content areas [and] more detailed measures of completion and dropout rates, chronic absence and more."

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 05/07/2025

Fireworks shows spreading westward on the air quality maps.

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

👍 Also add the policymakers, practitioners, & communities who use/benefit from the research. "Coordination often emerges when a discipline is unified around well-defined, pressing research questions — challenges that compel researchers to prioritize collective progress over individual ambition."

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

As someone who previously held some responsibility for safeguarding students' data, I kind of love this. It's not all that far off from what we did when reviewing research applications, tbh...

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Yesterday, Trump illegally cut off funding for public schools, precipitating a huge crisis for thousands of schools. This is a result of the recent Supreme Court ruling neutering federal courts. 1/ A dystopian new reign of lawlessness is likely coming. Let me explain.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

NEW: You may have heard that the Pentagon will soon stop processing & delivering data essential to hurricane forecasts. It's part of a dangerous pattern. RDP is tracking how the Trump admin's callous policy choices, before & after bouts of extreme weather, exacerbate avoidable suffering/death.🧵⬇️

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 02/07/2025

The Lancet Group's equity, diversity, and inclusion Collection is updated every month. Explore the latest content published across our journals: tinyurl.com/bdf2uvp2

Promotional card for The Lancet Group's equity, diversity, and inclusion Collection. Image depicts a diverse group of people. Credit: smartboy10/Getty images.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧪 Science folks: There are two *separate* budget battles 1️⃣ Almost over: The Big Bullshit Bill But now faces new opposition in the House (gift NYT link below—calling your House reps *right now* matters) 2️⃣ Just starting: FY26 appropriations Next week will be a big week for NSF. 🧵 1/3

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After Narrow Senate Passage, Trump’s Policy Bill Faces Resistance in House

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Zahava Stadler @zahavastadler.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

learningpolicyinstitute.org/blog/states-... From the Learning Policy Institute, showing the impact of the administration's reckless decision to withhold billions of critical education dollars. Vermont and DC are set to see over 20% of their federal school funding yanked. Over 10% in every state.

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States Face Uncertainty as an Estimated $6.2 Billion in K–12 Funding Remains Unreleased: Here’s the Fiscal Impact by State

States face uncertainty as $4.8 billion in K–12 federal funding remains unreleased. If the U.S. Department of Education doesn’t distribute these funds by July 1, state educational agencies will need p...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

This entire panic runs on weaponized pedantry. It's true that studies have not proven that gender-affirming care reduces *completed* suicides but that is because teen suicide is very rare! So few kids transition that you can't do a study large enough to get statistical significance.

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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The SCOTUS ruling this morning is a mess but I'm taking heart in their reluctance to address the constitutionality of the EO itself. Jackson's dissent argues they're doing this now because they know the EO will eventually be tossed. But I'm also looking to history for more reasons to hope. 🗃️🧵

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Here's a summary of some of our top findings from our study of the #NoKings Day-of-Action across the 3 samples we collected. Check it out for some consistent themes across hosts, national participants, and at the flagship event where we surveyed in Philly: danarfisher.com/2025/06/28/w...

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What We Learned Studying the #NoKings Day Across the US

One of the challenges of studying protest in this era of distributed activism is that it’s extremely difficult to get a decent sample of who is participating across sites. When my team survey…

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Audrey D. Zhang @audreydzhang.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🚨 New paper: As a PCP, I often hear from patients that managing their health care feels like a full-time job. To understand this better, we analyzed the first nationally-representative US survey of older adults’ self-reported treatment burden: agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Treatment Burden Among Older Adults in the United States, 2022

Background Treatment burden refers to the patient-perceived effort of managing health and health care, which impacts quality of life and engagement in care. International studies of treatment burden...

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Norma Ming @mindmannered.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Alas, 300 characters definitely cannot capture the scope of the harm that teachers have endured.

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Dara Purvis @darapurvis.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If you hate the idea that public schools' book selections will now be guided by the religious beliefs of the most conservative parent in your district, it is a *great* time to donate to and use the heck out of your local public library.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

For our part, the #SCIMaP team has provided one such assessment, focusing on economic impacts of cuts to NIH-supported research. The impacts are stark, national in scope, and impact communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org/fy26

Economic loss due to NIH budget cuts by congressional district, scienceimpacts.org/fy26

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