After years of delays, @NSF piloted LGBTQ questions for the US STEM census. The results? People have no problem with them. Yet @NSF still won't add them.

@NSF is Congressionally mandated to address US STEM disparities. LGBTQ disparities are no exception.

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… NSF's US STEM census surveys are critical for national STEM diversity efforts and used to officially document underrepresented groups in STEM and determine their eligibility for funding and federal resources. (2/9)

All newly minted PhDs take NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates - but NSF still won't track LGBTQ disparities in STEM

@AAAS, @AERA_EdResearch, and I are requesting that White House OMB require NSF to add LGBTQ questions and meet federal equity standards per a Biden executive order 2/ PDF: bit.ly/3sQhIaW

LGBTQ scientists encounter non-supportive STEM environments, and the U.S. may have lost 121,000 LGBTQ people who'd currently be in STEM - besides issues of equal opportunity, that's a massive waste of STEM talent for U.S. scientific progress