Tammie Visintainer
Associate Prof Science Education | NSF CAREER Climate Justice Action Research | Urban heat & community health | Former marine/wetland ecologist | Science is for everyone!💪🏼🫶🏼 | Mom, surfer, solo backpacker, mtb | Pro Humanity (*All views are my own)
- Science Magazine gets it wrong. 🧵
- “Her departure, which she announced this morning in an essay in Time, is believed to be the first time in the agency’s 75-year history that a member of the 24-person board resigned over a policy disagreement with an administration” @policyhound.bsky.social on Alondra Nelson’s bombshell resignation 🧪
- Thank you for highlighting why what is happening at NSF is anti-science and unethical and for taking a stand! A bit on the nose that in doing so you also had to underscore the importance of scientific literacy through the mischaracterization of your own experience….😡
- 🧪 National Science Foundation update alert ⚠️⚠️ NSF just made a **lot** of updates to its "priorities" page. It's mixed news. Some good. Some bad. ❌ Not welcome: NSF is now also terminating "environmental justice" awards. The highlighted text here is new: www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p... 1/8... 🧵
- Thanks David! Environmental justice was already terminated but glad they’re being transparent now 😵💫. For those appealing, I see you! I did not anticipate the rage/emotional toll I’d experience having to advocate for my dream project I put my life into and won after multiple attempts and was stolen
- MURRAY: How many staff have been cut from the NIH's clinical center? I want a specific number RFK Jr: I can't tell you that MURRAY: That's not acceptable
- This is enraging. Keep the personal stories of traumatic impact coming!!. These felons and frauds have no idea what they’re doing, or cutting, or who they are murdering and they don’t care. It’s the cruelest most inhumane administration in U.S. history. Also RFK looks like shit. Evil is poison
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- I feel like state organized crimes against humanity is exactly what all of this is in every sector
- Yes @karenattiah.bsky.social! As a science educator accused of “woke DEI activism” language matters. What is DEI to trump? Anti-white discrimination (i.e. politicized, BS). For those with terminated #NSF grants (>70% are from education)=Making science for EVERYONE! Science literacy is a civil right.
- My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid. While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️ x.com/i/broadcasts...
- This is anti-American! We take care of our most vulnerable citizens!
- That was Jesus’ whole thing too, funny how the supposed religious right could care less 😡
- Thank you for letting us know! The cruelty of this administration knows no bounds, cutting dignity and humanity at every opportunity, it’s crushing
- ICE convinced a woman she was being arrested and then threatened to take her baby into custody unless a relative showed up to take her. It was all a ruse to get her mother to leave her house. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
- The actions of ICE are so entirely cruel and inhumane and unethical that someday, anyone who participated in these acts of human terror will be tried for crimes against humanity
- I called both my house rep, and the house rep representing the university I work at. This time, I had the pleasure [sarcasm] of sharing that the grant I worked on with @drkwilkinson.bsky.social , @proftv.bsky.social and others was terminated by NSF on Friday. #academicsky #highered #saveNSF
- I rage called our senators and all our reps in Congress while stuck in traffic commuting home from campus after being informed our second NSF grant, which is transforming undergrad STEM education, “does not align with agency priorities”….. We will rise!! 💪🏼🫶🏼
- When your #NSF CAREER grant that engages science teachers & students in local issues of urban & extreme heat (in ALL communities) was terminated because it “no longer aligns with agency priorities.” The planet broke heat records consecutive summers (2023,24) DURING the teacher training…🤬🥵
- Last month was the 2nd hottest April on record globally... It was also separately the *warmest* April for global land areas and the 2nd warmest for global ocean areas. Data provided by @noaa.gov NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...).
