incredible news 🤯

Science is good.

Fellow New Yorkers (and all those who are New York-curious), recommended follow:

"achievement may have improved by 0.017–0.025 SDs if absence rates had returned to pre-pandemic norms in 2023–2024, which would account for 13%–19% of the total needed to achieve a full academic recovery."

There have been plenty of takes since last week's #NAEP results showed 12th graders performing at the lowest reading level since the test launched in 1992. This analysis from @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social is esp. disconcerting: that cohort had achieved NAEP’s highest 4th-grade reading scores. #edusky

Current mood:

A fun, and yet entirely unsurprising, fact.

It's truly hard to believe that it's been 24 years. As always on this day, from @colsonwhitehead.com: www.nytimes.com/2001/11/11/m...

Vincent van Gogh, Rain, 1889 philamuseum.org/collection/o...

I don’t normally post personal photos on here, but my daughter got hitched last weekend so maybe just one.

Headline findings from the report: “Graduates are far more positive about their experience at university than people think, & feel far less burdened by the debt than many assume” www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...

Rufino Tamayo, Girl Attacked by a Strange Bird, 1947 #artbots #moma https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135035

Have officially made it to our sixth and final country in three weeks, this one the most important stop for our daughter’s wedding. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

🚨Only 10 DAYS left to vote! Help us get to #SXSWedu to explore how schools can harness AI thoughtfully while prioritizing what's best for young people and maintaining classrooms as places that foster curiosity, critical thinking, and human connection. Vote here: bit.ly/45FjuRz #edusky

🚨Only 10 DAYS left to vote! Help us get to #SXSWedu to explore how schools can harness AI thoughtfully while prioritizing what's best for young people and maintaining classrooms as places that foster curiosity, critical thinking, and human connection. Vote here: bit.ly/45FjuRz #edusky

NEW: Walkable cities linked to health benefits, study finds. “A new study found when people moved from less walkable U.S. cities to more walkable ones, they increased their levels of physical activity and saw health benefits.” Add this to many similar global studies. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Turns out the 1940s NYC Tax Department photographs (by WPA photogs) include outtakes, and they are so wonderful! 1940s.nyc/outtakes

Overheard while on a fjord cruise in Norway: “Long Island doesn’t have mountains like this.” Fact Check: True

Such good news.

This news made my day #nyc

I’m sharing this hoping that someone hiking the same route in Norway might see this. Let’s find @alecluhn.bsky.social!

I see lots of “Brooklyn” shops and bars in Europe, but today got a rarer reference for the Bronx in Copenhagen. When I spot a Staten Island reference, that’s when I’ll know New York has really made it.

As of 9:30 am in Copenhagen.

Normal French things ❤️🇫🇷

Just saw a French woman walk by with a tote bag full of baguettes that was specifically sized to hold baguettes. This is something that I never knew I always needed.

Went out to dinner at a restaurant in France last night and there was a menu section for “children and difficult people.”

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

Room in Brooklyn - 1932 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/3103978

Obligatory Mulaney

this site would be 800% better if everyone watched the gilded age, a beautiful, vapid show written at a second grade reading level that never disappoints

everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling the Beastie Boys

One of my most firmly held opinions. Microwave popcorn is trash.

Frankly stunned this hasn’t shown up in the Tragedeigh subreddit yet.

Breaking news: A Senate spending panel today offered a glimmer of hope to the more than 1600 scientists who had their grants terminated earlier this year by the National Science Foundation. scim.ag/46ctgwj

I memorized the keyboard command for my beloved em-dash (ALT+0151) long before AI was a glimmer in a tech bro's fevered imagination.

My (almost) 17 yo just got her first paycheck and, unbelievably, it's an actual paper check.

We’re about 10m in, and my daughter just said, “I don’t know that I love this movie.”

I just discovered that “Better Off Dead” is on HBO and am making my daughter watch it with me despite a sad conviction that it will not hold up at all. Wish me luck.

Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in: * 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily * Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65% * Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025 * $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements * B’way attendance +12% * Subway ridership +7% So yes this program is a SUCCESS.

wow: "67,000 fewer vehicles are entering Lower Manhattan each day" gothamist.com/news/numbers...

The number of 80s bangers that were actually about the ever-looming threat of nuclear holocaust.

It sucks that MURDER, SHE WROTE and THE X-FILES were on the air at the same time but we never got a crossover where Mulder and Scully investigate the astonishing number of murders that happen around Jessica Fletcher.

Why did they call them Viking runes and not Norse code

And I was polled this morning by YouGov for post-primary scenarios.

I told you all that my Park Slope early voting site was popping. #NYC

Hearing that Emerson, Atlas Intel, and Honan are polling too. I don’t know how accurate any of these will be when we have the unpredictable variable of 100-degree weather on Election Day.

My Park Slope early voting site was popping despite already high early turnout. Read the tea leaves as you will. #NYC

For those interested, YouGov has a #NYC election poll in the field. (Source: My daughter was polled)