Husband just came in to tell me that since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln every American president has been alive at the same time as Herbert Hoover.

Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone

Oregon raises electricity rates by 29.7% for data centers and cuts residential electricity rates by 1.3%. www.opb.org/article/2026... #energysky

David Lynch’s Paddington

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

An amazing story from top to bottom. I didn’t see the Bernie Madoff angle coming.

This is what it looks like to take wildlife collisions seriously. There are >40 wildlife overpasses and underpasses with fencing along the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff, Alberta. They’ve reduced wildlife-vehicle collisions by 80%, saving human & animal lives while promoting connected ecosystems.

The privately furnished NC booth appears to only feature the Biltmore estate, NASCAR, and the Confederate flag. One of the booth sponsors has expressed surprise: "[Mt. Olive Pickle Company] stands on values of human dignity, opportunity, and freedom." Right. spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte...

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

you used to call me on my shell phone

Mariska doing a matinee and a 7 pm performance of her one-woman Broadway show and then watching the greatest comeback in Finals history actually looks like the Jordan flu game

Merge two movies: 12 Angry Men in Black

I lucked into this lineup within 6 attempts and I’m pretty sure I’ve peaked

Love education data? The Strategic Data Project is looking for data fellows for placements in Texas, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles, Trenton, and NOVA/DC. Position description and requirements: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Application Deadline: 11:59pm ET on 6/21

It's The Sisko Day. Here is this scene on human existence in the Deep Space Nine pilot.

Ed policy doc students: Don’t forget that Fall applications are due June 1!!!

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Corporate power today is scary, but not new. In WHEN COMPANIES RULE, I recount its 400-year history from the East India Company to Amazon, what motivates the oligarchs who would be kings, and what we can do about them. Out in November, pre-order now: cup.columbia.edu/book/when-co...

I still remember when The Fast and the Furious won the Palme d’iesel

Princeton won't have to pay net investment income tax on returns from its $36.4 billion endowment. A recent expansion of its undergraduate financial aid program left the university below a 3,000 tuition-paying student threshold to qualify for taxation. www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2026...

Ask yourself: if you were a glass pitcher full of dyed sugar water, would you be willing to risk it all by running through a brick wall just to get refreshments to kids slightly sooner? At Kool-Aid, the answer is <spreads hands mid-air> “Oh yeah!”

Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

About 20 years ago, lighting was the single largest use of electricity in American homes. But energy-efficient lightbulbs has shrunk the category to sixth place! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Currently experiencing a delightful Amtrak ride where kids are pretending to have different jobs. Recent exchange: KID 1: I’m a New York City contractor KID 2: Oh, how much will it be to fix our kitchen? KID 1: All your money! And I get to decide when it’s finished Someone’s been burned before…

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

The Department of Education has issued its proposed rule regarding earnings accountability metrics and program-level tuition data. Comments are due in 30 days.

Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old) We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

My latest column is an interview with renowned historian of higher ed, Eddie Cole. Come for learning about HBCUs and stay for his thoughts on why accreditation is the biggest issue we're not talking enough about in higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

New at PB: Dominique J. Baker (@bakerdphd.bsky.social) & Christopher T. Bennett share their research into the question: Who gets prestigious fellowships?

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Cherry blossoms!

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

the Artemis crew took photography classes so they could take the best photos possible up there 😭

The incredible team at @inquirer.com continues to be all over this story. The revised approach the administration proposes here is very typical in recent years, qualifying statements about Washington’s enslaving by pointing to his statements in opposition to it. (Gift link) share.inquirer.com/tkvteN

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

I just had to send a bunch of “good idea for a book but not a good fit for us” rejections, which always bums me out, so: this is your periodic reminder that our pals at @aupresses.bsky.social publish a guide to which UPs publish in which subject areas —

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

i feel like you all need this

After emerging from the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts witnessed something few have ever experienced—a total solar eclipse in space. 📷 NASA

Look to your left. Look to your right. If you’re Joe Lunardi, chances are that both those people had a better bracket than you.

For those keeping track at home, we're only one episode into the Real Housewives of Rhode Island and we're already three spaces away from a bingo! Not on my bingo card: the cousin math was for a couple that is still married

US car dealers hate EVs because EVs need a lot less maintenance www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/202...

My favorite genre of mnemonic devices are the ones that are easy to mangle: -In [year ending in 2], Columbus sailed the ocean blue -Remember, remember the 5th of [month ending in -ember]

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement" The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

SCORE, a collaboration of 865 researchers, is now released as three papers in Nature, six preprints, and a lot of data (cos.io/score/). SCORE examined repeatability of findings from the social-behavioral sciences and tested whether human and automated methods could predict replicability.

The Missouri House passed a budget bill that would abruptly shift all state higher ed funding to a per-FTE basis, resulting in some rural institutions and HBCUs losing half their funding. It may shutter my alma mater, its region's economic engine. This is unprecedented in higher ed finance.