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.

I don't know if I just graphed a result or designed the cover of an 80s new wave album, but I like it!

When movies were shot on physical film, the film was measured in feet. This is why any recorded thing is now called ‘footage.'

New research challenges what we thought we knew about men's friendships. A new study by @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social Sociology grad student, Emily Fox (@emilycfox.bsky.social), asks: is the "gender friendship gap" really about gender? Spoiler: not exactly. 🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The next time imposter syndrome starts to creep in, I’m going to remember that someone who gets paid to speculate about the NCAA tourney all year has a bracket that’s right at the 50th percentile nationally

The Department of Education released an update to the College Scorecard. Debt and earnings at the institution level have not been updated in several years, but new program-level earnings data coming from the negotiated rulemaking dataset got pulled in.

Thompson's hematologist at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Robert A. Brodsky, published a study revealing that the research now has an overall 94% disease-free survival rate. "[A cure is now] available to the majority, almost the entirety, of sickle cell patients.” #GoodNews #BlackSky 🌱

DID right now

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST FILIPINA TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW.

#IES and #NCES have announced that data for the 2020-22 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:20/22) are available for analysis on DataLab, here: nces.ed.gov/datalab/inde... I'm pleased to see these data available and want to share some observations, below: (1/X)

Polar bear fur is transparent, not white, and their skin is black. www.loc.gov/everyday-mys...

In middle school, I scored more soccer goals with my hands (via throw-ins) than I did with my feet

OH MY With 100% of precincts reporting, Sam Page defeats Phil Berger by… TWO VOTES #ncpol

Two votes??!

Providence RI up to 32.8 inches through 1p which is the biggest snowstorm on record there. Beats 28.6 inches Feb 6-7, 1978. Records begin 1904. (edited)

I have a new essay out this morning about Black History Month, remembering in a moment when those in power want us to forget, and the importance of seeing people in the past as people www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Almost a month after abruptly dismantling exhibits about slavery from the President’s House, National Park Service employees began reinstalling the panels late morning on Thursday ahead of a court-imposed deadline. Story w/ @fallonroth.bsky.social & Maggie Prosser. www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

let's stay together

Ahead of Valentine’s Day, I’m thinking about this 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship bio from Harry Bernstein, who published his first novel at age 96, which was written shortly after the death of his wife of almost 70 years. I’m crying, you’re crying, we’re all crying.

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

As expected, the annual benchmark revisions sharply lowered estimates of job growth in earlier months. BLS now says we added just 181,000 jobs in 2025, down from the earlier estimate of 584,000. #NumbersDay

If you know the moral thing for an organization to do, feels important to state it, even if you recognize that the org likely won't do it. We should recognize the way that powerful orgs historically capitulated to censorship and suppression. Shame only works when we remember the transgressions.

We deserve good things!

Again, if you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.

BREAKING: @ajc.com on Tuesday evening said it will lay off approximately 50 staffers, about 15% of its headcount, as it seeks to cut costs and marshal resources to invest in its growth. The AJC published its last print edition on 12/31. About half of those laid off will come from the newsroom.