If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

the main problem with video as a format is that it's too slow at dispensing information. I can read much faster than you can talk and there's no way you can address this without becoming incomprehensible to most of the audience.

Alt text isn't for jokes. It's for describing the image for people who can't see it.

The current leaders of our institutions do not have what it takes to handle what we are facing. I am very disappointed in the NAS and the AAAS.

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

Harvard has just voted to cap grades: instructors may assign A's to a max of 20% of students (plus four) per course. The outcome will unfairly harm racially minoritized students and, through course evals, gender minoritized instructors. My new piece in Inside Higher Ed. #AcademicSky #EduSky

Apropos of nothing, if you think grades should reflect actual student learning rather than arbitrary institutional policies, I'd like to invite you to join us at the Grading Conference June 16--18

Anyway "harvard" is not "higher ed" and everyone should read @josheyler.bsky.social's book.

Anyone still gonna argue grades actually correlate with learning?

Does 80% let me keep my organic chemistry card? mino.mobi/draw mino.mobi/draw

Somewhere in the last couple weeks I passed my 30,000th anti-ice whistle printed and shipped to organizers, neighbors, and friends around the country. the work has become second-nature at this point, the chirp of the printer a sound nobody in my house even notices. Get yours: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

If we could just have one academic year without absolute chaos, that would be great

I met with an early career person in my field today to discuss a project we're collaborating on. We debated on whether we should even bother to spend the time writing an IUSE proposal or whether our time would be better spent looking elsewhere

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure

The American Chemical Society, masters of the passive voice. "Members were dismissed" BY WHO, ACS, who did the dismissing?

The larger point of the author that they cannot fathom learning anything about teaching from experts outside their discipline reads to me as a skill issue---if you truly can't find anything to learn from colleagues across disciplines, that speaks more to your close-mindedness than their expertise.

Please RT! The Dept of Chemistry at UC Irvine invites applications for a tenured faculty position in Synthetic Organic Chemistry. Deadline: July 1, 2026. More information about the position can be found here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10109 @uciphyssci.bsky.social

If you were a non-Catholic who was forced to go to a Catholic school for a while in the dreaded middle school years, can you band together with others with similar experiences and collectively excommunicate one person? How many collective months/years do we need for this?

Science is good. We should fund it.

The correct audiobook speed is 1.2x

I have read both of these series multiple times

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

You can not and must not ever let yourself be convinced that people with evil leaders are evil people. It is not true in Iran or China or Russia or America or anywhere. It will never be true. Everywhere you look you'll find people full of light.

Just sitting here watching the Artemis II live stream and looked up to see Falcon 9 going by

Unreal

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

Exactly this

"But AI uses em dashes and semi-colons and figures of speech, so you can't use them in your--" Let me stop you right there. I don't give a damn what AI does. It will never impact the way I write. Ever. Nothing is less relevant to me than generative AI "writing" tendencies.

I hate how stupid everything is.

Took three tries and a screen cleaning to get this good at 0.0021 www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Sorry, can't hear you over this sign

Auto mechanic and something that involved night shifts at a fruit packing plant

Dog efficiency. Why go all the way outside when you can just lean far enough to get the important bits out the door.

My clicky dumpster fire spending time with my capybara in a top hat sample holder. Get your clicky dumpster fire before they're gone again! (This time with photo!)

Team MeCN and iPrOH

Thinking a lot today about how there's an entire story arc in Dance with the Devil about how the hero signed up for the Evil Super Soldier Program because his father had died when he was 17 & and the signing bonus could support his mother & younger siblings for a couple years.

A.I./LLMs are part of a continuing trend of reducing the learning community that is so important in education to individual struggles. I want students at my office hours. I want them to just stop by my office when the door is open (they rarely do this anymore). These are good things!

I think Harvard's plan to respond to the every-decade moral panic about grade inflation by capping A's is pedagogically obscene. Grades should be a measure of learning, not competition. Grade caps engender competition and anxiety where we should be teaching collaboration and a love of learning.

WHAT'S THAT??? Did we cross 900,000 whistles?!?!? HELL YEAH WE DID!!! one million is such a large number, but it feels like it's coming at us real fast. 💓 THANK YOU for all of your help, and if you want to contribute scroll up for several ways! Or get whistles: whistlegoblins.fun

Good morning friends! Your neighborhood Whistle Witch was hiding for much of the weekend, but I am back because today we will cross 900,000 whistles shipped!!! (585k this month!) If you need whistles, reach out to us: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles Especially if you're an org prepping for No Kings!

I'm sorry, what was that? I can't hear him over the screams of all the people he said it was perfectly fine to torture

This is worth reading for those in higher ed: www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

I want to help Marie complete her utter domination by getting her the resources she needs. If we could print her tens of thousands of red cards, I have faith that she would distribute them ALL. So help us help Marie. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-whist...

So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it. WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY

I lost my total score because I didn't screenshot but I guess I'm very good at blue

#Chemsky -- PhDs in Canada in chemistry--brief. Reskeets welcome. 🧵 Seeing that a lot of excellent US students are not receiving admission to PhD programs for...the obvious reasons...I want to make sure mentors, students, and advisors are aware that Canada might still be an option. 1/n

"Marimar Martinez, the Chicago woman shot by federal agents last fall, was already on the government's radar before an agent opened fire, identified as a threat after a social media post."

The Cutting Edge is a perfect movie.

I have a pre-AI publication history that documents my love of em dashes. I have gone to battle with a journal over keeping my em dashes. No AI detector bs will keep me from my em dashes

Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.