The latest ChemQuiz.net newsletter is out! It contains information about a webinar about the Exams feature this upcoming Wednesday at 7pm ET/4pm PT, some new quiz features, lots of bug fixes, and a fun electron configuration game #chemed #iteachchem mailchi.mp/chemquiz.net...

"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.

Y'all, It's TOMORROW. Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork, "Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn" Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST Online, Free www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica... #Lit #OctaviaEButler

This is where the party ends I can’t stand here listening to you And your racist friend I know politics bore you But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you And your racist friend

Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs

The ChemQuiz.net October 2025 newsletter is out! 🎃 Topics include new pop-out periodic tables, Dashboard features to help you save time, a Webinar about Question Banks & more on Wed 10/29, lots of bug fixes, the Walk to End Alzheimer's, and more! #chemed #iteachchem mailchi.mp/chemquiz.net...

Ohio educators will keep their voices on the STRS board for now due to an appellate court upholding a temporary block on a new state law. After this court loss, the GOP House speaker wants to remove some judicial power ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/10/08/o...

Just added a new feature to most of the quizzes - pop-up periodic table! If your students happen to misplace their periodic table or you've activated tab-switch detection on an assignment, they can now use this instead. The pop-up calculator works alongside it, too! #chemed #iteachchem

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Happy Fall! 🍁 The ChemQuiz.net September 2025 newsletter is out and highlights new features on the site, including Topics to organize assignments on the Dashboard, an easy-to-read downloadable periodic table, a live webinar on September 30th, and more #chemed #iteachchem mailchi.mp/chemquiz.net...

"0.3 per cent of the world’s land area – yes, just the land – would be needed to meet the current energy demand from solar alone, which is LESS THAN THE CURRENT LAND FOOTPRINT OF FOSSIL FUEL INFRASTRUCTURE."

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

The PhysQuiz.net September 2025 newsletter! Coulomb's Law diagrams, AP® Physics 1 & 2 exemplars, pop-out calculator, and more #physics #physicsed #iteachphysics mailchi.mp/physquiz.net...

“I don’t want to hear these people talk. Spin the wheel.” - my 5 yo daughter watching the first few minutes of Wheel of Fortune

0.1 precision here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

0.01 precision here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I was looking for a clean and simple periodic table that was easy to read with a fixed-width serif font that clearly differentiated between lowercase L, uppercase i, and 1. I couldn't quite find what I wanted, so I made my own! 0.001 precision here #chemed #iteachchem docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Come join the first ever ChemQuiz.net Dashboard webinar on Monday, August 18th at 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific! Find out about new features, ways to streamline your assignments, and other tricks for getting the most out of ChemQuiz.net. Register for free at: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Tivy High School is a ChemQuiz.net school that's located in Kerrville TX, which was devastated by flooding this past July. Please consider helping their public school by donating to the Kerrville Public School Foundation, which gives out teaching grants and student scholarships! #chemsky #iteachchem

The August ChemQuiz.net newsletter is out! It includes information about the new PES and Coulomb's Law quizzes, as well as other new features across the site such as requiring students to round their answers using correct sig figs. Check it out! #chemsky #iteachchem mailchi.mp/chemquiz.net...

behold the "HTML bomb" It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

If Ohio taxpayers are expected to fund private schools through vouchers, then the private schools need to publish the same data as the public schools, including attendance, graduation rate, and mandated state test scores

July 2025 is one for the atmospheric record books. The rising waters have claimed many lives; prompted dramatic rescues, including from subway cars; and caused millions of dollars’ worth of property damage. cen.acs.org/environment/... #chemsky 🧪

"Conjure"

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There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

I taught Environmental Science for 14 years and when we got to the population demographics unit I saw attitudes among my students (especially girls) about having children go from mostly positive to mostly neutral to largely negative because of cost of living, climate change, and politics

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

I used to show this slide in class when I taught Environmental Science and before I would show it I would ask how many students had heard that wind turbines killed birds (several), but when they saw the graph they always had lots of stories to share about their own cats being bird murderers

You know who never abandoned the school that they sponsored?

Teachers don't need more tech. They need smaller classes and more (paid) time for prep and instruction. But alas, the tech option means more profit for billionaires, while the latter would cost billionaires more in taxes. And so, in our current kleptocracy, tech is what teachers are going to get...

The push to embed AI into classroom teaching is absolutely going to be used to justify increasing the number of students teachers have so that they can cut teaching positions to pay for the AI subscriptions. “Use AI to respond to parent emails!” is recipe for disaster

Efficiency is not effectiveness. “Speed and efficiency are not educational values…When it comes to learning, what matters is the learning. We have to be careful not to fall into the trap of privileging speedier outcomes.”

Skepticism is deeply ingrained and valued in scientific practices throughout history, but when confronted with sufficient evidence, a skeptic will change their mind but a crank will not. The difference is important and largely lost on the general public and mainstream media.

I once worked with an administrator who suggested I interview each of my students at the beginning of the year to find out their personal interests and custom tailor the course to them. I usually have 4-6 preps of ~100 total students, so I ignored her just like I’ll ignore this doofus.

🚨 🚨 A huge ruling in Ohio yesterday: universal vouchers struck down as unconstitutional A 🧵 on some of the damning facts: 1/

Just added diagrams to the Coulomb's Law & Electric Fields Quiz! I also added a new question type to calculate the force between an atom's nucleus and its outermost electron. Check it out & let me know what you think! physquiz.net/cou #physics #iteachphysics

Just added the Coulomb's Law Quiz to ChemQuiz.net! Borrowed from PhysQuiz.net, the quiz now features diagrams and a new question type to calculate the force between an atom's nucleus and its outermost electron. Check it out & let me know what you think! chemquiz.net/cou #chemed #iteachchem #chemsky

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Just published a new Photoelectron Spectroscopy (PES) Quiz to ChemQuiz.net! Question types include identifying elements and subshells from PES graphs, selecting the most correct graph for elements, and writing out electron configurations. Try it out now at chemquiz.net/pes #chemed #iteachchem

More reason to stop donating to @npr.org, they can't even report scientific facts accurately

I was backstage at a Foo Fighters concert in 1998 and rock goddess Kim Deal came up to me and started yelling “They were throwing little mini hot dogs at the first band! I was so mad! And then I realized it’s because the band was That Dog and it was their fans.”

The June 2025 PhysQuiz.net newsletter is out! Topics include the new Images feature for Question Banks, a new anti-cheating security feature, annual site maintenance, planned new features for next school year, and some personal news about my oldest kid graduating! mailchi.mp/physquiz.net...

The June 2025 ChemQuiz.net newsletter is out! Topics include an end of the school year survey, a chance to win a $50 gift card, annual site maintenance, planned new features for next school year, and some personal news about my oldest kid graduating! #chemed #iteachchem mailchi.mp/chemquiz.net...

"That's the amazing thing about this restoration story: it happened in a lifetime.”

When I tell my colleagues that they should buy a MERV-13 air filter for their classrooms to try to keep themselves & their students safe, they look at me like I'm nuts, but if I tell them they should buy rope so they can escape out the window from an active shooter, they ask for recommendations

Last year, I shared a gofundme for one of our students that made it to nationals for the National History Day competition. This year, his younger brother is going. Our first junior high student to make it to Nationals! There is no funding for travel and registration. Please help! gofund.me/5d6ef6f5

The ultimate purpose of AI in education is to justify increasing teacher workloads so that they can cut teaching positions

How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.