Margaret Signorella

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

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If you have an email address with a Big Ten institution, then please vote for Challenged Stitches: a quilt with banned book data. This advocacy quilt utilizes an analog data visualization for @lovedataweek.bsky.social from Penn State. #QuiltSky
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Here are some actions you can take to defend gender-affirming care in your hospital system.

Encountered this today: "12 historic dining spots to try in Pennsylvania." Only some of them can be found *in* PA (unless Apple Maps is totally wrong), but I think it is safe to say that the famous (or infamous) South of the Border is NOT in PA.
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So how do Pennsylvanians get Fetterman to resign? I know Shapiro can appoint the replacement (temp until next election), but I am not understanding the process/tactics for effecting a Fetterman resignation.

On this day, I ruined the workplace.

A do-or-die moment for the scientific enterprise Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community.

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Maybe I am too tired today, but I was having trouble following the logic. Isn't this all just MeToo went too far and I should be able to favor men over women because men are the "real" breadwinners?

If anyone read the original Robbers Cave monograph, the issues in what were certainly messy field studies were disclosed, but I do admit to being defensive about my adviser's study.

A long time ago when my grad school adviser, Carolyn Sherif, discussed this book, she was clearly skeptical, and had issues with how the researchers acted.

At local fair, promoting local, county, and statewide candidates with signs and brochures.

Promoting local, county, and statewide candidates, including the crucial PA judge retention votes, at Westtown Twp, PA

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

The university president's letter is bananas, and anyone who sends such a letter should not be running an academic institution. A thread. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Note per @jamalgreene.bsky.social that the legal reasoning is dubious at best, but that won't stop it from chilling free speech

Meet the brand new special agent in charge of the FBI in Salt Lake City Meet Shohini Sinha, the brand new special agent in charge and only the second female to head up the FBI Salt Lake Field Office, which also covers Idaho and Montana.

Unfortunately, VERY RECENTLY the highly qualified SAC in Salt Lake city was ousted. Why? No doubt because she was a woman of color. You know, "DEI." No doubt a function of the Trump purge.
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Rossiter coined the term "Matilda effect" for when women's scientific work is attributed to men.

It was a twist on the "Matthew effect," famously attributed to Robert Merton, but actually studied jointly by Merton and his wife Harriet Zuckerman, who was denied co-authorship

Echoes of the Red Scare round ups of 1919-1920.

Email from the "PUBLIC RECORDS OFFICE" to Kate Starbird asking for all emails from Jan 1 2021 through July 30 2025 with any of the following keywords: "diversity and inclusion" "DEIA" "DEI" "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging" "DEIB" "gender identity" "racial preference" "ESG" "organizational equity" "intersectionality" "anti-racism" "critical race theory" "LGBTQ+" "transgender" "cisgender" "gender ideology" "white privilege" "privilege walk" "cultural humility" "equity audit" "restorative justice" "racial equity" "implicit bias" "microaggressions" "inclusive pedagogy" "identity-based oppression" "systems of oppression" "queer" "non-binary" "sexuality" “Trump” “fascist”

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

The "boy crisis" claims are ancient and pair with assertions that gender segregation in schools will solve all gender-related school issues. While writing a related commentary, I came across a book by Julia Grant (2014) that explores some of this history. monographmatters.srcd.org/2023/08/14/c...

A *huge* problem. It also includes search committee positions, review requests, letters of recommendation, P&T reviews (so, so many of these post tenure)—it goes on and on. And the social penalties for women saying no are so dramatically higher than when men say no.

Simpson’s gender-equality paradox | PNAS Several cross-country examinations have found larger gender differences in Western countries. More recently, it has been argued, from an evolutiona...

“The gender-equality paradox entails that countries with more equality have larger gender differences in behavior. Positive associations between equality & gender differences disappear or reverse when accounting for cultural clusters of countries. The paradox appears to be a methodological artifact”

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I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

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The parallels between Kash Patel and William J. Burns, a scandal-mongering 1920s FBI director — an FBI historian explains Some observers compare FBI Director Kash Patel to J. Edgar Hoover. A better historical match is the politically motivated William J. Burns.

Kash Patel's appointment as #FBI director draws parallels to William J. Burns, a 1920s FBI head known for targeting his political enemies. An FBI historian examines the similarities and potential implications for the bureau's independence. buff.ly/YrdTArm
@dmcharles.bsky.social, Penn State #polisky

Picture of pioneering astronomer Vera Rubin. Propublica Headline, 1/30/25 "Trump Administration The Rewriting of a Pioneering Female Astronomer’s Legacy Shows How Far Trump’s DEI Purge Will Go"

The federally funded Vera Rubin Observatory has been hit by Trump's anti-DEI campaign.

Astronomy remains a male dominated field. Vera Rubin tried to get more women in.

"By Monday morning, a section of her online biography titled, “She advocated for women in science,” was gone."

Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

1/I understand legit debate re: #DEI & whether pendulum swung too far, too quickly.

But what happened today at @NSAGov's @NatCryptoMuseum is unacceptable. Trump Admin new DEI policy disgraces cryptological historical trailblazers & icons in community.

See two covered areas? https://

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Dr. Margaret Strickland Collin’s studied termites, and was the first Black woman to earn PhD in entomology. siarchives.si.edu/blog/margare...

#BlackHistoryMonth #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory

A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck— that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground 💅🏼

A portrait of Daisy Roulland-Dussoix from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Roulland-Dussoix

Do you know Daisy Roulland-Dussoix? She is one of the discoverers of restriction enzymes, who’s findings paved the way for the development of recombinant DNA and cloning technologies. Accordingly, the finding was rewarded with a #NobelPrize. But the prize didn’t go to her.
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What can be done:

@smotus.bsky.social on publicity stunts, lawsuits, and Congressional delays smotus.substack.com/p/what-might...

@kimlanelaw.bsky.social on civil society and state governments raising costs and delaying action podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...