Dr. Terrell Morton

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Looking forward to sharing some thoughts on #Afrofuturism #AI and #STEM at the 40th annual #SASTE Meeting!

It is our duty to fight for our freedom! Quote by Assata Shakur

Long Live the Revolutionary!

I pray for her family! I’m grateful for her work and sacrifices! And I hope she is able to rest!

#AssataShakur

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Hanging out with some amazing people this weekend at #MorehouseCollege to support some amazing emerging scholars

#HBCUSTEMUs

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New Publication 🚨

I am excited to share, “An exploration of Black girls’ science motivation and teacher- and school-related beliefs: A QuantCrit approach utilizing situated expectancy-value theory and critical race feminism.”

S/O to my co-authors!

Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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Looking forward to presenting at #ESERA2025 in the following symposium later today! If you’re here, stop by!

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I am looking forward to being a part of this upcoming panel at #APA25

Be sure to come and check us out today!

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Allow me to reintroduce myself… I am Dr. Morton, Associate Professor, Identity and Justice in STEM Education (with INDEFINITE Tenure)!

Thank you God! Thank you to my family, friends, and colleagues who have supported throughout this journey! It has been an interesting one for sure!

Senate panel raises hopes that NSF will restore killed grants Republicans promise to work with Democrats to salvage defeated amendment

🧪Have a terminated NSF grant? Or been impacted by such a termination? Call your Senators, esp if they're Repub!!

An amendment to restore killed NSF grants will later be debated on the *full Senate* floor, after it narrowly failed in committee today.

🧵 Brief thread 1/4

A cool Black guy sitting on a mountaintop in Hawaii

Another rotation around the sun, and all I can say is Thank You Lord for All You’ve Done For Me! I have a praise on my heart, a smile on my face, and a fire shut up in my bones! I got a special pre-birthday surprise but can’t share it yet…. #IYKYK

Motherdear, you’re the real MVP of the day!

1. Congress appropriates: Fiscal year 2025 budget levels were set on March 15, 2025 ($9 billion for NSF). 2. OMB apportions: Russ Vought decides when to send NSF appropriated funds 3. Agencies spend: NSF spends down (e.g., make new awards) by end of fiscal year (September 30).

🧪 Russ Vought, a Project 2025 architect, is currently withholding $2.5 billion from NSF's budget for this year.

This move is:

-Illegally secretive
-Unusual and suspect
-Disrupts science
-Subverts Congress

It's also urgent because the *fiscal* year ends Sept 30 (call your rep).

🧵 Let's unpack...

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Happy #Juneteenth

Happy Father’s Day to all of the Fathers, Step Fathers, Bonus Dads, Grandfathers, Uncles, Community Fathers, Soon-to-Be Fathers, Want-to-Be Fathers, and those with Fathering demeanors!

We are better because of you!

Special s/o to my fathers (Dad, Step Dad, Uncles, Granddad)

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New Publication 🚨

I am excited to share “Rethinking and Reenvisioning Research Experiences for Undergraduate Black Women in #STEM”

Shout out to Monica, Whitney, and Charlotte!

Link: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

In this paper we highlight the phenomenal work happening at #NCCU #DreamSTEM

Navigating racism: A scoping review of barriers in the experiences of Black Health Professions students - Discover Education This manuscript examines the racism experienced by Black students in health professions through a scoping review of 33 articles. The analysis reveals significant gaps in the literature across multiple...

New Publication 🚨

I am excited to share “Navigating Racism: A Scoping Review of Barriers in the Experiences of Black Health Professions Students”

Link to Open Access Article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#Racism #BlackHealthProfessions

This is the energy we all need to have, I echo @drtrmorton.bsky.social that we need boots on the ground!

I’ll spare my musings but I believe boots on the ground has multiple meanings.

*collective action since I can’t edit the skeet. 😂

Thank you @advancejournal.bsky.social for featuring my thoughts on the current moment.

I invite you all to check out “This Joy that I Have…” and then dialogue with me about individual and collection action.

Link: www.advancejournal.org/post/3240-th...

#RacialJustice #STEMEducation #CRT #NSF

See what research at Tennessee universities was defunded in Trump’s federal grant cuts • Tennessee Lookout Among the federally funded grants at Tennessee universities terminated by the Trump administration is one for rural mental health programs.

Thank you @tennesseelookout.com for including my thoughts in your recent article on Federal Grant cancellations that impact the state of #Tennessee

We need more local reports of the federal impact to show that these cuts impact everyone!

tennesseelookout.com/2025/05/27/s...

9 Federally Funded Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed Everything

For those who need to see the connection between funding STEM and STEM Education research and your everyday life, please check out this article.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/s...

The chancellor approved!

Now it’s up to the Board of Trustees!

#Journeytotenure

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mothers, grandmothers, church mothers, community mothers, other mothers, aunties, soon to be mothers, want to be mothers, and those with mothering demeanors.

We appreciate you all for your love, light, and support.

Special shout out to my Motherdear!!!

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I look forward to joining this esteemed panel on Wed, May 7th, as we discuss the current state of Education in the US, with a focus on North Carolina, specifically Buncombe County and the City of Asheville!

@asheville.bsky.social @buncombecounty.bsky.social

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Nearly 800 NIH grants have been terminated so far, including some focused on HIV and AIDS, trans health, and COVID-19, after researchers were told their work was no longer an agency priority. https://cbsn.ws/3YkDndI

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Getting back from an emotion filled #AERA25 to see a new pub has dropped.

Check out: “But I Just Want to Be Free:” A CRT-PVEST Analysis of #Blackness in #STEMM in #Canada

Link: rdcu.be/ejuPb

#CRT #STEM

Hundreds more NSF grants terminated after agency director resigns Sethuraman Panchanathan abruptly leaves helm of US funding agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE arrives.

“Constitutionally, you have a right to due process,” says Bridget Fahey, a legal scholar who specializes in contracts at the University of Chicago in Illinois.

New story from @dangaristo.bsky.social on NSF grant terminations (a fresh batch today, even more than last week's ~400 terminations):

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

The Trump Administration Has Canceled Millions in NSF Grants Projects related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and misinformation and disinformation were cut “to protect the interests of the government,” the agency said.

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

National Science Foundation Terminates Hundreds of Active Research Awards (Gift Article) The agency targeted grants focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as research on misinformation.

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

~ Audre Lorde

My responses to the current context around the erasure and removal of Black Intellectual Thought.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/s...

The Trump Administration Has Canceled Millions in NSF Grants Projects related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and misinformation and disinformation were cut “to protect the interests of the government,” the agency said.

Researcher @drtrmorton.bsky.social in Chronicle of Higher Education, after the cancellation of two NSF racial equity grants:

I’ve had to tell Black students “that their voice, their ideas, their stories, their experiences, do not align with the country’s values.”

Story from @mzahneis.bsky.social: