Beth Herbel-Eisenmann (she/her)

Senior Researchers 60,400 --> 16,900 Other Professionals 14,400 --> 4,100 Postdoctoral Associates 5,500 --> 1,000 Graduate Students 41,500 --> 12,400 Undergraduate Students 37,300 --> 8,000 PreK-12 Teachers 42,900 --> 8,200 PreK-12 Students 128,100 --> 39,400 Total Number of People 330,100 --> 90,000

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪

NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**

🧵 on some highlights...

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Well would you look at that.

Academic Abuse | Data and Resources to Disrupt College Harassment, Bullying, and Misconduct At Academic Abuse, learn to identify, prevent, and conquer academic injustice, including: power imbalances, discrimination, plagiarism, harassment, bullying, retaliation, sexual misconduct, and more.

Merry Christmas morning all!!🎄 New to Bsky, but not to academic abuse? Judging from #edusky posts, maybe we all need the gift 🎁 of being heard. Take our anonymous survey at academicabuse.com/#survey. Results will go live after the first 💯 responses.

Happy holidays!

Sabbatical, sabbatical, sabbatical, sabbatical... 24 years doing this and finally my second sabbatical begins!!

Yet another illustration of university administrators behaving as if faculty are an inconvenient expense on the budget line and the marginal value the time they spend doing what they think is important is zero.

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Human Rights Award for Teaching for Change - Teaching for Change Teaching for Change was selected by the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) for their 2024 Community Human Rights Award.

We are honored that, on our 35th anniversary, Teaching for Change was selected by the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area (UNA-NCA) for their 2024 Community Human Rights Award.

www.teachingforchange.org/human-rights...

Just a little cloudy over Lake Michigan today!

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing. Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

100%

Work against the systems and practices that marginalize them

Tips to move beyond a “lurker” (and/or start to interact with the Online Math Community) Like - Who benefits: You (it acts like a bookmark) & the Poster (“Yay someone liked what I said”) Repost - Who benefits: You (it acts like a bookmark), the Poster (“Wow, they liked enough to share it”) & the rest of us (Reposting sends it back to the top of the feed increasing the chance of your followers and their followers to see it) Comment - Who benefits: You (interaction brings more friends and knowledge), the Poster (the conversation they started continues) & us (entices us to become part of the conversation too) Post - Who benefits: You (sharing thoughts and resources help to hone your own ideas) & Everyone else (the more discussion, the higher the chance we all learn) Tips for making your Posts more visible: Add an image - including a visual has been shown to increase the interaction Include hashtags (not too many) - a hashtag categorizes your Post and makes it visible to a wider audience than just your followers. Here are some math related hashtags that relate to education: #MathChat #MathsChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath #ElemMathChat #MathArt #MathSky Tag some people (not too many) - you can tag relevant people (even those who don’t follow you) in the Post or in the Image to increase the conversation potential

The #math community seems to be growing here and becoming more active. I have presented on how to get the most of being in a community like this many times and here are my tips to grow this PLN and make it useful for educators.

Bonus Tip - Use the Feeds:
#MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath #MathSky

He makes them feel okay about denying science, education, math, and higher learning. He makes their racism, bigotry , and other ignorant isms mainstream.

Project 2025 posits school choice as a solution to declining math & reading scores, praising states already offering school choice as examples of success in education. Those same states have the lowest national average math & reading scores-a detail the report conveniently omits. #EduSky

Yes please!

So much fun to chat w you all! You’re doing amazing things in NC and I learned a lot from our conversation!

I have had SUCH A BLAST engaging in conversations with @mandymathed.bsky.social @geoffkrall.bsky.social @bheprime.bsky.social @awmcculloch.bsky.social and others on NC2ML’s new podcast! Can’t wait for the episodes planned in the near future!

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.

Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.

Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

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4/When Project 2025 began to attract a lot of media attention, the reaction was overwhelmingly negative. Trump distanced himself. The public bought it. Now is a good time to reeducate yourself about what's coming. It's not pretty. joycevance.substack.com/p/project-20...

Let’s not forget sexual predator and misogynist

This is very interesting.

The man who knew nothing about Project 2025 is literally staffing his Administration with Project 2025 authors.

So much appreciation for you coming in to share you knowledge and experience about combining PBL and social justice! Thanks again!

7.5 hours of meetings on zoom… and much deserved walk on the beach with Esperanza. Is it too early for a glass of wine?