The Erasure of Diverse American Histories https://trevordawes.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/the-erasure-of-diverse-american-histories/ #history #diversity #education #libraries

The Erasure of Diverse American Histories https://trevordawes.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/the-erasure-of-diverse-american-histories/ #history #diversity #education #libraries

The ROSCon 2025 Diversity scholarship application is now open! The deadline is the 18th of April. Please repost or share with anyone you think who will qualify.
http://bit.ly/ROSCon25DSP

Our Shared Future
Upholding Canadian Values in the 2025 Federal Election

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bmrrFxNnX6YhDsgo_44Roq-Qgdjd3UxueaGTqIAYcVw/edit?usp=sharing

CAVE: collaborate, advocate, vote, educate

#CalPol #CanadaVotes #2025CdnElection #democracy #CanadianValues #diversity #multiculturalism
#ElbowsUp #never51
#populism #conservatism #housing #FoodSecurity #inflation #unions #solidarity

A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
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The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.
https://www.propublica.org/article/regional-public-universities-trump-funding-dei?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

The courage of a 6th grade teacher can have a big impact!
#courage #resistance #diversity #DEI #schools

Received my two new t-shirts today. Happy with both of them.

So #ElonMusk went after a depository of carefully preserved #seeds and #plants and fired the #scientists who look after them, putting at risk one of the world's sources of #genetic #diversity for #crops.
And this #NYT article complains only about the #danger for Americans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/doge-elon-musk-usda-crops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.504.kCEk.N097nAkPJN0u&smid=nytcore-android-share

#capitalism #techbros #oligarchy #doge #fascism #stupidity #science #food

Who are the most important world changers? Those who shout 'make XY great again' and walk over dead bodies in their greed? Or the more quiet ones who get together, let tiny seeds slip through their fingers, swap old varieties, and revitalise this important knowledge? https://steadyhq.com/en/naturematchcuts/posts/025f4904-2364-4711-8907-f7e55841993f

Nasa drops plan to land first woman and first person of color on the moon

Promise was central plank to space agency’s Artemis program, which is scheduled to return humans to the lunar surface in 2027

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/nasa-drops-plan-first-woman-moon

Disabled By Society just shared this. Thought you might like it.

Enjoy your weekend!

"If we're a society that's suppressing art, we're a society that is afraid of what it might reveal about itself. If we're suppressing music, we're suppressing emotions, we're suppressing expression, we're suppressing vulnerability, we're suppressing the very essence of what makes us human. We are devaluing our own humanity. We are degrading our own humanity."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/concert-cancellation-trump-administration-dei-order-60-minutes-transcript/

Affirming Our Commitment to Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility.

The Carpentries has always been committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible community. In light of growing global challenges to efforts that support diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility—including the impact of the recent U.S. Executive Order on related programs—we want to reaffirm our stance.

Creating inclusive and equitable learning spaces is essential to open science and open education—not radical, wasteful, or preferential.

For 27 years, our community has built pathways to make learning more accessible, research more reproducible, and collaboration more inclusive. We remain steadfast in that mission.

Read our full statement by our Executive Director @drkariljordan and Chair of our Board of Directors @yabellini, and explore our resources to support this work: https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/03/the-carpentries-reinforced-commitment-to-inclusion-diversity-equity-and-accessibility/

"After a recent change by the Trump administration, the federal government no longer explicitly prohibits contractors from having segregated restaurants, waiting rooms and drinking fountains.

The segregation clause is one of several identified in a public memo issued by the General Services Administration last month, affecting all civil federal agencies."

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5326118/segregation-federal-contracts-far-regulation-trump

The Way Texans Elect School Board Members Plays a Key Role in What Students in Diverse Districts Learn
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In six Texas districts that used at-large voting systems, ideologically driven conservatives successfully helped elect school board members who have moved aggressively to ban or remove educational materials that teach children about diversity.
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-school-boards-richardson-keller-at-large-voting?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

At the start of the live video of the Crew-9 splashdown, there was a short intro on the brief history of NASA. It included the first African-American astronaut, Guion Bluford, the first female commander, Eileen Marie Collins, and the first all-female spacewalk, Christina Koch and Jessica Meir.

History will not be erased, and the rebels are alive and well inside of #NASA.