He asked me to coffee and I said I didn’t drink coffee, so we had sushi instead. I now drink coffee. Our second date we watched Airplane!

Steven Miller and Chris Rufo will FOIA will your chat.

A word we should all know right now: pelf (n): money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

“History shows that wars can be lost [quickly] if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle.”

A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

I’m sorry wtf is joined italics; we are adding MORE forms of print writing to the curriculum!? Cuneiform next.

"Pipeline of future users" is like something you would have heard on Breaking Bad. www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...

My first book, THE SCIENCE OF SECOND CHANCES, comes out in two weeks! 🎉🎉🎉 Many of you have asked what you can do to support the book. The best things you can do are (1) pre-order it, wherever you buy books, and (2) tell your friends about it. Thank you!!🙏

Amazing how often new research is relevant when you're writing a book about bad ideas in education and how they harm kids.

In hindsight, Duke probably should have closed the Center for Advanced Hindsight just a bit sooner. dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

In the future we're gonna look back at online gambling and prediction markets in the same way we look now at cigarettes on airplanes and lead-based paint www.wsj.com/business/med...

Wish there was a gay Jews line

Good morning to everyone except the bird who keeps tapping on my office window. What a jerk.

An incredible turn of events here. 10/10, no notes. 😂

"admitting 1,000 new immigrants would lead to 142 new foreign healthcare workers ... a 25% increase in the steady state flow of immigrants to the US would result in 5,000 fewer deaths nationwide ... reduced use of nursing homes as a key mechanism driving this result." www.nber.org/papers/w3479...

New employment idea: sabbatical, but forever

This www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

You can’t have it both ways: report scores “adjusted for demographics” (which includes poverty), rank MS #1, and claim skeptics said “nothing can be done until poverty is addressed” The regression adjustment already addressed it. (Also, tell me who said “nothing can be done.” Nobody, ever.)

in conclusion, statehood for dc and pr

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

the chaos that agents are about to unleash as they are increasingly used by people with diminishing technical competence is going to be incredible. will be car crashes everywhere. this guy is a VC!

🇵🇷

KL: He did it. But it was harmless. White House: It was a mistake. It was an intern. Random observers: He really didn’t see what he posted. Trump: YOURE GOD DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED THE CODE RED

"I find robust evidence that moratoriums [on fraternities] decrease alcohol offenses by 26 percent. Additionally, I find suggestive evidence that moratoriums decrease reports of sexual assault on the weekends by 29 percent." [FYI I was in a fraternity] jhr.uwpress.org/content/61/1...

Huge win for economic historians who failed to learn cursive in middle school

You can tell it’s a very serious ranking scheme because of all the digits after the decimal point.

This has slowly been happening at all but flagship public universities. This would accelerate the practice, and I expect more states (including some blue states) to follow suit in the coming years.

"DOGE’s objective was never to save taxpayer dollars. Musk did not 'fail'...DOGE was—and remains, through Vought’s OMB—an effort to extinguish the existing government and create a new one in the image of oligarchs and far-right ideologues."

Sure, but LOTS of men are into speculation and crime.

www.chronicle.com/article/dive... Ohio State’s quest to diversify its professoriate grew, in some cases, without due consideration of the legal or reputational risks. A complex legal landscape, ideological insularity, and an unwillingness or inability to question the status quo all played a role.

This complaint from the University of Houston's basketball coach (annual salary: $5.5 million) likely won't sit well with many of the faculty and staff there.

I got so agitated last night that I had to tap out a few more words. I don’t know about you, but for me, writing can be therapeutic. bsky.app/profile/cant...

Many universities eager to cut PhD cohorts and programs will follow Harvard’s example and cut. But they will not be able to rally donors and raise $50-$100 million to re-fund those PhD programs “in perpetuity” as Harvard is now doing

USC's interim president Beong-Soo Kim has been tapped to stay on as president today.usc.edu/new-usc-pres...

In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down. They should be reminded of it. Often.

Here's the rub: large districts consistently avoid search tools that let families sort schools on student outcomes. Binding myself to the mast by sharing publicly that book revisions for "The Scarcity Loop: How School Choice Reshapes the Rationing of Public Education" must be submitted Monday.

School Choice and Accountability: Why Families Need Better Information Systems www.nciea.org/blog/school-...

Tim Daly is right that sports gambling is a cancer, especially for our adolescent boys open.substack.com/pub/timdaly/...

Using the proceeds to award Donald Trump more medals for peace and general awesomeness.

Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

All of this via Boston College's John Reyes via @michaelpetrilli.bsky.social: "More expansive approaches to parental choice that de-prioritize serving populations most in need...in favor of universal access is hard to square with the Church’s teaching on the preferential option for the poor."

Many public schools are located dangerously close to toxic sites, and students of color are overwhelmingly more likely to be in these exposed schools edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1384

"high-achieving underrepresented minority college-goers were up to 10 percentage points less likely to enroll in highly selective colleges... “cascading” down the college selectivity distribution into less selective colleges with lower graduation rates and earnings." edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1392

James Cashen go directly to jail www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/t...

The Trump administration is no longer trying to get cash from Harvard as it seeks a settlement. At this point, the White House seems happy to get a signature on anything they can call a compact.

Is this the thing that most didn't happen ever?

“'We’re doing away with every rule for these schools,' Woelfel said." Hey, what could possibly go wrong? 🙃

Let me just say that we have new nationally representative survey results coming out soon where we asked people whether they would prefer an AI or human person in a number of different occupations. Care to guess what percent said they'd like an AI doctor over a human one?