My ❤️ is happy. Visiting my colleague Song An’s math methods class and thinking of @triangleman.bsky.social’s puzzles and Nick Johnson’s current research. This was the pick-me-up I so desperately needed.

The fact that people actually have to cut their nails is wild to me.

I will not resubmit a revised Frankenpaper. I will not resubmit a revised Frankenpaper. I will not resubmit a revised Frankenpaper.

This is the story we need to be sharing. It’s the guns.

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

A NYT comment: “Humans ate organic, whole foods for millennia. They got plenty of exercise, lived without plastics. Until the mid-1800s, life expectancy at birth was 39. Food may be good medicine, but it’s not a panacea. Medical advances—like vaccines—have doubled the human lifespan, not superfoods”

We’re waging trade war on the country that is literally known for its neutrality (and for allowing rich people to keep bank accounts). Make it make sense. Switzerland Is Stunned by 39% U.S. Tariff, Among the Highest in the World www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

The double standard here is stunning. Universities are losing grants, student aid, and endowments for being "too woke." But churches (which also receive federal funds, eg, for school vouchers, food banks, and marriage promotion programs) are now allowed to openly endorse political candidates.

The news is depressing, so here's a 25 second reprieve.

Seriously? Seriously. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

The yellow tie makes him look far worse. Or maybe they put some extra blonde colored hairspray?

Everybody I know is posting about conferences and summer learning and I’m just running (and riding, and swimming) away from it all.

In the spirit of @howiehua.bsky.social… I am excited to announce that I am an assistant professor of early childhood education at Colorado College! I didn’t get a job here or anything, but I’m physically on their campus and that’s my title 🤣 Beautiful track in the Springs.

As an athlete, I now see food as fuel. But I didn’t always. Growing up, Diet Coke, Snackwell cookies, and published diets listing half a grapefruit with a boiled egg and black coffee for breakfast destroyed many of us. I still have body image issues. But fueling activity matters more.

What about those of us living with high risk individuals? As a Novid, I don’t want to get sick. But even more so, I don’t want to bring it home.

We were pulled aside going through border patrol. No complaint. We told them CBD gummies were previously in a backpack. They tossed our vehicle & let a large dog trample all over it. The dog damaged the interior & somehow we get yelled at by agents, blamed because of the potential trace of substance

First roundtable of #aera2025 was a success! Such good conversations around community engagement with @cawiltshire.bsky.social and our new friends!

You know what I miss about twitter? I miss the AERA helpers. Where is the delightful help I need when the app seems *so excellent* yet again?

Another tiny, obscure corner of the Education Department is scheduled to lose funding this week. hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

A new view in an upside down world. The PhD was the half-marathon. Tenure is the full. How many researchers are also physical endurance athletes? Becoming a triathlete makes total sense to me. 🧠🏊‍♀️🚴‍♀️🏃‍♀️🧠

This reminds me that if you stop testing for Covid, it won’t spread. If we have no data, we can’t decline.

“KiDs tHeSe days: Can’t tell time Don’t know coins” Reminder that *adults* created the digital clocks & payments. Kids are living in the world adults created. If they only see an analog clock and coins in math class it’s harder to learn! Not that it’s not important but let’s stop blaming the kids.

Recession brought to you by Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

"I love the poorly educated." - Donald Trump, 2/24/2016

Before I protect my sanity for a bit. Uncertainty drives up mental distress and suicidal ideation for #PSLF borrowers - as illustrated by those waiting on a forgiveness decision. See the graphs below. With N=2,400 suicidal ideation was already 3x higher than national reported avg.

Call me crazy, but I just keep thinking that there is a REASON it’s called rocket science and that maybe funding STEM education programs is a good choice instead of ripping the Department of Ed and NSF apart.

I haven’t been posting as much. Honestly, I haven’t been keeping up as much. It’s for my health. You can join me.

Hey Federal workers: Don’t forget to turn on your OOO message when leaving the office for the weekend so that the inboxes of anyone emailing you on a Friday night with be flooded and/or know that you adhere to your work hours, as required by your agency.

Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

Why isn’t this on the national news? A bus carrying high school athletes traveling from Las Cruces to a swim meet in Albuquerque was boarded by border patrol agents who demanded students (read: minors) to defend their citizenship.

📢 Check on your junior colleagues! The stress, research disruptions, and uncertainty of the current moment are weighing on a lot of us (and, tbh, have been since we started jobs in... *check notes*... a pandemic)

Training for Boulder 70.3 starts tomorrow! The cool part is, I’m doing this with Meat Fight, the most bad ass funlathopists and athletes I know; we raise funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and support athletes with MS. project-13-boulder-703-2025-34013.causevox.com/p/robyn-davi...

My read: the price of foods that are available in food deserts/swamps and that are relied upon at food pantries will increase.

Please… editors… in your review reminder emails, please consider adding a button that says “Request an extension.”

Saw on reddit: A colleague encountered this while renewing CITI training. Apparently the Belmont Report is woke DEI now.

The cancellation of these contracts wastes taxpayer money, harms students and teachers, and worsens the American economy now and in the future.

I’m that college prof that includes smiley faces :) in my grading comments. I guess it’s my replacement for giving stickers.

Seen on my run before the cold temps arrive (Bar shown for memories circa 2012/13)

Excited to share this publication on how teachers can utilize a spatial reasoning task to estimate children’s shape composition skills! Co-authors Sarah Wellberg, Moraima Castro-Faix, and @leanne-kg.bsky.social. Read it online here link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...

Felt an earthquake tonight. It was a 4.9 with a 2.6 aftershock in Toyah, TX, about 200 miles east of me. I really hope we get to keep the USGS. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Y’all, we did a bad thing. We abandoned MapQuest and our paper print outs long ago. Alas, their map is accurate and I’m glad they still exist! They even have an app now (though road trips 20 years ago with all the paper were charming).

Please, tell me again how this was unexpected… Completely predictable to anyone paying attention.

A quick resistance task: 1. Google Gulf of Mexico 2. “Gulf of America" is the top 3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it 4. Select "Send Feedback" 5. Click on "Gulf Of America" 6. Select "Inaccurate content" 7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Filling the timeline (is that what it’s called?) with fur babies because they don’t care about funding or productivity.

All practice guides are in the public domain. Just in case... osf.io/dk4r5/

Day 2 Recap An early morning run through corridors to the dark side. A Texas-sized group for affiliate breakfast. More EC MTE collaboration and fun. Exiting this palace of lights for the first time since arriving. Let’s now close out #AMTE2025

Day 1 recap: Thinking about next steps in math identity work. Supporting STaRs (and learning about cool research). Playtime. Celebrating the best STaR mentor. Let’s go Day 2! #AMTE2025

Sharing to remind myself to listen (and share with students)