There's still time to register for our next free webinar on Broadening Access via Law-Attentive Design. This week, we discuss critical strategies to communicate institutional policy/program design to maximize mission impact & minimize legal risk.
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📣Our Center's new course, Data-Driven Decision Making, is now LIVE on @aaas.org's Learning Hub!
Designed for #HIED & #Science leaders, participants will gain practical frameworks, shared language, and tools to support continuous improvement through inquiry.
🧪 @aaup.org @aeraedresearch.bsky.social
How can institutions communicate about their work in moments of heightened scrutiny? In this webinar, participants will consider how messaging shapes internal and external audiences. shorturl.at/Ki7fd
@artindc.bsky.social, @uscrossier.bsky.social, @julieposselt.bsky.social, @travisyork.bsky.social
The President’s FY27 budget is out today & again proposes cuts to 🧪science funding. But there’s plenty we can do in the coming months to ensure America’s STEM enterprise remains resilient and secure - learn more from @aaas.org CEO, Sudip Parikh here: youtu.be/K59eGbncvBA
Americans spoke up last year. We made it clear that funding America’s 🧪Science Enterprise is a priority, Congress heard & passed a responsive fed budget. Yet $$ aren’t flowing. Here’s why, Analysis: Why the research money isn’t flowing from NSF and NIH www.science.org/content/arti...
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Text reads, "Capacity Building at MSIs Webinar Series. Building Bridges: Leveraging External Partnerships to Strengthen S-STEM Scholar Success. Mar. 5 at 2 p.m. ET." Logos at the bottom include AAAS, S-STEM REC, and National Science Foundation.
Join the S-STEM REC on March 5 at 2 p.m. ET for Building Bridges: Leveraging External Partnerships to Strengthen S-STEM Scholar Success
aaas.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📣Federal policy shifts are moving fast in 2026 — and Leadership matters. Grateful to contribute to #HigherEdDive's roundup of key #HigherEd trends leaders can’t ignore.
🧪Dive in: highereddive.com/news/4-policy-trends-college-leaders-2026/810793/
#Policy #Leadership @aaas.org @aaascsew.bsky.social
🧪 The administration has dropped its appeal in the DEI schools lawsuit, leaving in place a ruling blocking guidance that threatened funding over diversity & equity efforts. A win for student opportunity — but the larger debate continues.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/u...
#STEMM #Education #Access
WATCH: “Renee Good was not a domestic terrorist. No one acting in good faith actually believes that, no matter what some of our Trump officials say at press conferences,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning.
After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.
📢 We’re hiring!
AAAS is looking for a Program Director to lead national STEMM education & workforce initiatives—especially those supporting MSIs and students from underserved communities.
Hybrid role (DC-based)-Please share with your networks!
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#HigherEd @aaascsew.bsky.social #Jobs
Check out CSEW's own @travisyork.bsky.social on the benefits of engaging with the scientific method -- in STEMM and beyond!
I had a great conversation w/ K-12Dive on why the scientific method isn’t just for 🧪science class — it’s a framework to help students think critically, reason with evidence, and navigate complexity across subjects: www.k12dive.com/news/scienti...
#Teaching #EdReform @aaascsew.bsky.social @aaas.org
Fewer Grants & Funds = Fewer Innovations & Discoveries
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
Federal Funding for Scientific R&D and Education is by far the greatest investment in America's Future!
A Fantastic 🧪 READ: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Congratulations to the L’Oréal USA For Women in Science awardees for 2025! The five postdoctoral scientists will receive grants of $75,000 to fund their innovative research along with their outreach activities to support young women and girls in STEM.
www.aaas.org/news/loreal-...
Proud to share L'Oréal USA’s 2025 For Women in Science awardees — five brilliant women driving discovery & innovation in STEM. Honored to be quoted in the release. 🌍🧪
Read: prn.to/3Xsnila
@aaas.org @aaascsew.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #ForWomenInScience #L'OrealUSA
Nearly a month into a government shutdown, CSEW Director @travisyork.bsky.social's comments about impacts on research and educational institutions are more relevant than ever. If you haven't read his insights in Inside Higher Ed yet, catch up now:
Thankful for @insidehighered.com's reporting on how the federal government shutdown is hurting the research ecosystem.
The shutdown is more than a budget pause — it delays new grants and strains institutions & innovation.
We need urgency, not inertia.
@aaascsew.bsky.social @aaas.org @science.org
Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.
Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself. Stand with us today – donate at the link below.
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The U.S. government has shut down, and the impacts on STEMM are wide-ranging. CSEW Director @travisyork.bsky.social provides insights on what it means for #HigherEd.
Grateful to be featured in the @chronicle.com today. Shutdowns don’t just stall DC—they steal time from science, students, and innovation. #HigherEd must keep showing up for our communities & make STEMM a national priority. 🧪
🔗 www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
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All people deserve to be included & contribute to the 🧪STEMM enterprise. Data is key to fair systems allowing America to leverage its rich talent, particularly for Queer & Trans scientists. Thank you @freemanjb.bsky.social & @democracynow.org for demanding public transparency & gov accountability!
2025 HBCU Making & Innovation Showcase Day One Plenary, Thursday, Sept. 25, The promo contains seven headshot photos, each with names and titles underneath. The pictured people are: Dr. Iris R. Wagstaff, STEM program director-AAAS and NSF PI; Dr. Travis York, director, Center for STEM Education and Workforce-AAAS; Dr. Monya Ruffin, deputy divisional director (DRL)-NSF; Ms. Rycal Blount, sample lab technician-Mother Murphy Flavors; Ms. Demetria Gallagher, vice president, higher education innovation ecosystems, Venturewell; Mr. Luke Lawal Jr., founder and CEO-HBCU Buzz; Dr. Mike Brizek, director, higher education ecosystems-Venturewell
Meet our #Maker2025 speakers! The @aaas.org HBCU Making and Innovation Showcase, supported by the National Science Foundation and VentureWell, starts next Thursday! Our opening plenary kicks off with seven members of our community of practice, ready to set the stage for the Maker students & faculty.
Education is the enemy of fascism.
The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants it sent to El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them, according to Homeland Security data.
(Published May)
Louise Boyd was born 138 years ago today. She used her gold mine inheritance to fund a series of scientific expeditions to Greenland in the 1930s to record the varieties of botanical life there, then carried out an extensive ethnographic study of Eastern Europe.
#WomenInSTEM #Botany 🌱🧪
White card with the text "The Golden Good Award" and the award logo to the left of the text, which is a golden egg with the head of a goose in the negative space.
🥂✨ Golden Goose night! Celebrating the “odd-sounding” 🧪research that saves lives—like platinum chemo that turned testicular cancer survival from 10% to >90%, and cell-biology breakthroughs powering modern diagnostics. Federally funded basic science delivers. #GoldenGoose #ScienceMatters
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The U.S. has led the #STEMM 🧪R&D & Education enterprise for decades thanks to shared values, international collab, & phil+fed funding. In 2022, we founded @stemmopportunity.bsky.social to jointly realize the change required to build a #workforce to power the future of innovation, science, & society.
