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Research at risk: Life-saving heart pumps for babies | Cornell Chronicle After receiving a stop-work order from the federal government, the future of a device to help children with heart defects is uncertain.

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects.

It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this.

The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

Unlike smaller and shorter awards, they provide the time and resources needed to establish relationships, try out new approaches, collect the data needed to know when and and for whom those approaches are useful, and share the results in ways that practitioners can use.

I am so grateful for what this NSF-funded CAREER project has allowed me to do. CAREER awards give five years of funding to early career researchers to develop a line of work.

flier describing Productive Uncertainty in Science Education book available at Teachers College Press.

Our group's presentation at NSTA on using productive uncertainty to support meaningful science practice.

In the past weeks, we shared 11 presentations & professional learning sessions. Four BU Wheelock doctoral students and four partner teachers have presented this work with me, sharing their expertise and connecting with educators and researchers.

@buwheelock.bsky.social

It was a privilege to serve on your committee! This is amazing and important work.

Learn about Productive Uncertainty in Science Investigations at #NSTA25! Learn to see the different ways youth express uncertainty; leave with tools and new approaches for eliciting and honoring student sensemaking.

Register for TED CEC's Advocacy in Action webinar, tomorrow afternoon!
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Graphic detail of the BU Wheelock Forum: Thriving in the Middle School Years. With featured speakers, Jason Reynolds, Wendi Williams, Tina Durand, Michael Medina.

🗣️ We are so excited to announce the 2025 BU Wheelock Forum: Thriving in the Middle School Years. Join us to explore the complexity of this pivotal time in adolescent development.

🚨 Register Now:http://spr.ly/63320LeDp8

Over the next three months we will be talking about the book and the ideas in it in lots of places, including in MA, at NARST, and NSTA. We hope to get to talk with you how you see children experiencing uncertainty in science and how we can nurture and build from it. @buwheelock.bsky.social

3 months from our book release! (www.tcpress.com/productive-u...)

Now more than ever, our team is passionate about children experiencing and grappling with uncertainty–so that they can participate in sensemaking, develop their critical capacities, and engage in meaningful community discourse.

Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

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Would you please consider reposting this? The Department of Education needs to hear from as many people as possible that it is not acceptable in the year of our Lord 2025 to offer only two gender options. Thank you.
Love, Julie/Mommy of a non-binary college student

PBS shutters DEI office The public broadcaster says it is closing its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to comply with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

The public broadcaster says it is closing its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to comply with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.

Join us for the 2025 Curiosity & Learning Conference at Boston University - a morning of hands-on STEAM exploration and learning. This isn't your typical conference - instead of lectures, you'll find interactive stations where you can experiment with new ideas and materials. @buwheelock.bsky.social

AAUP statement against anticipatory obedience: "Organize locally, regionally, and nationally. The erosion of faculty rights goes hand in hand with attacks on tenure, faculty unions, and academic governance." @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/report/again...

Outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz:

"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."

BOOM!

Resources for scientists who are being threatened or targeted below from the @nationalacademies.org www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

What Percentage of a State's Primary and Secondary Education Revenue Comes from the US Department of Education | Created with Datawrapper Red dots represent states where Trump won the majority of the electorate, and blue dots where Harris did.

For those who care about education, here’s your graph for calls today on federal grants being frozen. Please if you are in a state that went for Trump, CALL CONGRESS, and point out that it hurts your state disproportionately MORE.

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Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH Please click the link to complete this form.

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately.
There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event.
Join us!
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Thank you! That is really kind of you to share!

“Those Air Bubbles Are Like Secret Steam Tunnels”: Using Resources to Support Explanation ​ — INVESTIGATIONS PROJECT Grade 2 Lauren uses a read aloud to help students build from their investigation findings toward an explanation of why cake batter becomes (and stays) solid after being baked.​

How can teachers use texts to build on students’ thinking after investigations, supporting further sensemaking rather than “providing the answer?” #NGSS #SciEd
www.investigationsproject.org/cases/cake-n...

Here to share some good news, which is that a special issue I edited called “The Adventures of Trans Educators: A Comic Issue” has just been released! It features comics created through a collaboration bt trans educators and queer/trans artists. Share widely! www.bankstreet.edu/research-pub...

Resourceful Decision-Making: Supporting Children’s Engagement in Planning Investigations — INVESTIGATIONS PROJECT Grade 2 Students use diverse meaning-making resources to plan an investigation to test whether a seed travels by sticking to animal.

One beautiful case on our website, led by Souhaila Nassar, shows the translanguaging and transemiotising practices Diana G. uses to support second grade multilingual students to plan a science investigation together. #NGSS

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INVESTIGATIONS PROJECT

Excited to be in touch with a growing #NGSS and educator network here! A central part of my work is exploring uncertainty in science learning.

Check out our website, www.investigationsproject.org with examples of uncertainty, classroom cases, and educator tools. More to come!

Hi Johanna! I'd love to be added!

I love these! I am writing a book about classrooms and thinking of doing something similar- I would love to check in with you about the process of doing this if that's okay!

It features work by two of the amazing teachers I've worked alongside and includes examples from so many other fantastic educators and researchers.

Rise and Thrive with Science: Teaching PK-5 Science and Engineering Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

I am so excited that Rise and Thrive with Science is out! This guide illustrates the findings of the National Academies report on Preschool through Grade 5 science and engineering with classroom examples, principles, and reflections of and for educators. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2685...