What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

A screenshot from a news article from the Associated Press. The quote reads, “ ‘Under the Trump Administration, the Education Department will champion equal opportunity for all Americans, including women and girls, by protecting their right to safe and separate facilities and activities in schools, colleges and universities,’ said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor.”

Reading an article about the change to title IX and this gem pops up. Sounds a lot like “separate but equal,” but for gender

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California department of education response to Trump’s executive order on education.

California already told him to kick rocks, hopefully more states follow suit.

Everything in this is post is terrifying. But this part, that accreditation doesn’t matter in terms of DEIA, is extra terrifying to me. Does your university have social work and/or public health?

I deleted my Instagram and Facebook accounts today. It’s like a little bit of the weight of the world has been lifted off my shoulders!

Driving I5 between LA and the Bay Area is always a mess, but it’s a particular kind of mess on the Sunday after thanksgiving

Has anyone gotten some good news today?

Some of you are not conceiving of racism in the right way you’re thinking of it as something interpersonal when it’s institutional & cultural. It’s whiteness being primed to ascend whether it deserves to or NOT. It’s being “the default” Trump is the embodiment of it

Curious about folks’ thoughts on research funding under the upcoming federal administration. I’m guessing there will be a lot fewer research grants, which will significantly slow funding across the board. Any thoughts on what might change the most?

I’ll be there! Looking forward to connecting with folks and presenting on relationships in early childhood interventions

Also that antidepressants cause school shootings!

Few things give me hope for the future right now, but Last Week Tonight somehow always manages to find the right balance

One of my favorite things while teaching is when I say something in a classroom and I see a student’s face just completely change as they connect the dots and suddenly understand.

What are other great things about teaching?

Never really got into twitter - was this really what it was like in the before days? Because I've been enjoying this so far!