@heatherkillen.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Institute for Learning Sciences UBuffalo • 2023 National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellow • PhD @ UMaryland • Mapmaker and Community Data Storyteller supporting local landscape and climate change learning • she/her
Being at the American Educational Research Association conference and watching in real time as people learn the National Science Foundation has canceled promised funding mid-project is heartbreaking.
Data transparency is essential. I shared these slides last month at a conference and now they are public. I'd love for researchers to use and share them widely. sites.google.com/view/tobecle...
It's a step to something new, but also terrible. I'm thinking of you.
So excited to have had the opportunity to present my work on collaborative community mapping for peer to peer climate change learning alongside this important work from @heather2mezimm.bsky.social and colleagues this week at @narst.bsky.social
Our Penn State College of Education research team was excited to present our work about supporting family talk and learning in informal settings with augmented reality at NARST 2025. I had great conversations with my Strand 6 and Strand 14 colleagues. @narst.bsky.social @psuedu.bsky.social
Yay!! Congratulations. ❤️
Moved in August and hoped there might be bulbs hiding in the backyard. So far so magical. Snowdrops everywhere!
Another example of how last fall was many lifetimes ago: Prepping for next week's science Ed conference: Oh it's a presentation, I was sure I got in as a poster . . . Huh, apparently I also signed up to be a mentor . . . Oh yeah, I do vaguely remember signing up for that pre-conference field trip.
We are so lucky to have @charleswlogan.bsky.social here to educate, inspire, and lead. What a privilege.
Thank you for engaging in this way Gale. It is so important.
Houses everywhere that have been just fine for 30, 50, or even 100 years are now in danger from more intense storms, heavier rain, higher tides, and faster fires. There are still actions we can take to make our tomorrows better. Fund #climatescience and #climateresilience
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Thank you! Please talk to #AAASmtg for advice about how to adequately host a conference that meets this extraordinary moment. They weren't perfect, but I am sure you can learn from them. It cannot be business as usual at #AERA2025.
Was at #AAASmtg last weekend and saw a fair to good job meeting this moment. The individual presentations included references to no-longer available data sets and funding as needed, while multiple panels seemed (re?)crafted to speak to our new reality. www.statnews.com/2025/02/17/a...
Just got back from the AAAS conference. It did not feel like business as usual. While the research sessions went as long-planned, with recognition to now-restricted data sets as needed, there were multiple new panels crafted to speak directly to this moment. #AERA needs a similar effort.
Lovely picture of McMurdo, where I was lucky enough to live and work for a season, way back when the government valued being a world leader in scientific knowledge production.
This is neither a fair or accurate metaphor, but I keep thinking about how DC feels like LA facing wildfires right now. The Elon wind is a fierce, but almost invisible, threat. It is setting small fires everywhere that then rage out of control. Everyone knows someone who has lost their career.
Never would have thought that getting that NSF postdoc application in would land me on a historic Dear PI email list. I am to stop all "non-compliant grant and award activities" immediately while being thanked for my "work advancing science, engineering, technology and innovation for our nation."
You simply can't live in Buffalo without rooting for the Bills. What a special fandom. Let's go Buffalo!!
An early hiring freeze is normal. Biden had one. Requiring people to come back to duty stations continues an unevenly enforced Biden policy. Firing people for making sure that federal recruiters went to HBCUs as well as all the other universities - that's the one that deserves our energy.
It is a false, damaging narrative that executive orders are, themselves, changes to law. They are part of a rulemaking process that can be opposed. So let's all get out there and do the work!
Executive orders give folks notice that they need to SHOW UP. When you don't agree with an executive order you need to get engaged in rulemaking. You need to support the organizations engaging in the public hearings and the organizations initiating the opposition litigation in the courts.
Executive orders are generally an indication of policy intent and a CALL to ACTION for anyone that might dissagree. Executive orders are the opening moves of one aspect of the rulemaking process and includes multiple, powerful avenues for formal opposition.
Executive orders generally CANNOT be implemented immediately. They are, in and of themselves, NOT changes to federal laws. Changing the federal regulations to implement executive orders requires time and involves a process where they can be challenged.
The changing or adding of federal regulations that is generally required before implementation of executive orders mean that there are moments for public participation, for the orders to be challenged in courts, or for the orders to be struck down by Congress.
Because of their low position in the hierarchy of federal laws, executive orders serve more as statements of policy intent. Generally they require additional steps to implement. These steps usually take the form of changing existing federal regulations or issuing new federal regulations.
An executive order is 4th in the hierarchy of federal laws. Number 1 is the Constitution. After the Constitution comes treaties. After treaties come statutes. And then, finally, you get to executive orders.
A torrent of executive orders are about to land on our heads. Starting tomorrow, we will have concrete notice about what we need to show up for and stand against. So let's take a minute to understand what an executive order is, and, very importantly, what it is not. 🧵
We are getting deeper into the journey driven by human-generated CO2, however, as I heard a county resiliency officer once say, "Just because you missed your stop you don't ride the bus to the end of the line." Decisions now will have amplified future effects. Let's all work to get off this bus.
SoCal friends, I’m so sorry you’re dealing with this. A few things I wish I’d known as we evacuated ahead of a wildfire (that took our home in 2021) 🧵
