Melissa Keith

Submissions will OPEN 30 October for the 2026 APS Annual Convention taking place in Barcelona! (Closing 5 December) #APS26BCN

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Quantitude helping me navigate family conversations one mmmmaybe at a time 😂
much better than my usual… “if you say so.”

More Things We'll Never Know because of Trump's Cuts to Science Funding 🧪

New #preprint on the recent elimination of EO 11246. Our accepted IOP brief summarizes EO 11246 and sheds light on common misunderstandings concerning the order's #affirmativeaction directive. We also consider the implications in light of the current political climate.
tinyurl.com/yp7955py

New preprint with @mzickar.bsky.social! Our accepted IOP brief, reviews recent state legislation impacting higher education and suggests that these state efforts centered on #DEI, curriculum, #tenure, and #unionization pose threats to academic freedom.
tinyurl.com/2p9kn6k2
#academicfreedom #highed

Perhaps academics should take a step back and consider the duty we have to our profession to be accurate and respectful in our public engagement.

Opinion | The Great Transgender-Mouse Debate Experts who criticize politicians should make sure they have their facts straight.

"Academic faculty are held to a higher standard precisely because they’re presumed to know better. When we skip fundamental fact-checking, perhaps for a quick social-media jab, it only fuels doubts about the integrity of higher education."
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
#academicsky

And why?! Who does this benefit? Our international students and immigrant faculty bring so many benefits to this country and are often some of the brightest in the world. It's pure bigotry.

Someone please explain school fundraisers to me… I spend $30, the school gets $6, and I get pizza/cookies/whatever that I don’t want and have to make myself? What kind of system is this?! Can’t I just give you $20 and save myself the $10?

Dear academic journals,
Please desk reject more papers! It feels like such a waste of time to provide thoughtful and constructive feedback on a paper that is so poorly executed and has clear and critical flaws.
Sincerely, Overworked Reviewers
#academicsky #academicchatter

U.S. scientists, we need you! Make your voices heard and contact Congress TODAY. #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #Science

Here's a guide to get you started: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now

The fact that this is in my email inbox is just 🤯

Is science in danger? Unexplainable · Episode

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🗣️We just issued a legal memo to Ohio school officials regarding the rights of immigrant students.

📃The letter provides clarity on federal and state laws and offers tools to ensure districts are prepared for heightened immigration enforcement.
www.acluohio.org/en/press-rel...

The Time of the Wasps Now is not the time for your usual life. Within our hive the wasps have already launched their swift assault, overwhelming our guards, killing the workers, turning their avid eyes on our pooled, collective honey. They come for our eggs, too. We have expected the assault— they are wasps, after all— but not the shape of that assault, and that could well be our undoing if we pretend that now is the time for our usual life. Now is the time to shower love on those who wield the pen; the poets, the comics, the resolute reporters, yes, but also on those who build palisades and pitfalls from statutes and precedents, who slow the charge of the lawless now empowered. Now is not the time for your usual life. Use normality as a ruse, silence as a shield, but not as a path. Hold close your joy and love and frolicsomeness— the you that longs for your usual life— while in safe places you share rumblings and connections and lay smart plans to make a swarming cacophony in unsafe spaces. Now is the time of the wasps who bring their billions to crush our millions. But they are few.

A poem for the times from my co-worker, Rose Vines.