Wait... What?

It is remarkable how quickly I go from zero to furious when someone who clearly has never listened to our podcast tries to pass off an AI summary as consumption. Just talk to me. You don't have to lead with a lie. I didn't ASK if you listened.

How do teachers create group structures that foster creativity? New research on moment-to-moment collaboration patterns identify the importance of teachers scaffolding group norms BEFORE you step back and let students focus on being creative. #EduSky twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

ED is requesting public comments on the direction that they should take the Institute of Education Sciences. Feedback is due October 15. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-18608.pdf

It is bananas this game is at all close. 6 sacks?

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨 I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity. I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

"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."

Cut to another block by the Jets! What is happening?!?

Back to back blocks... That is entertainment!

I played Rev Theory's new (collab?) Venom Crown and it's good... But also, it kicked me to an autoplay playlist that is 1) all new stuff to, she 2) all bangers. Outstanding. So fun.

Ace Combat 4 & Balatro

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

One of my oldest friends just compared an old photo of us set right next to an image of the boy band in K-Pop Demon Hunters... and that #PairedTexts was absolutely devastating.

Oh no... this paper I'm reviewing is pretty good! It takes SO MUCH LONGER to write reviewer memos for good papers.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have been convinced for a while that the perfect litmus test for whether a use of AI is a problem is disclosure. If you are embarrassed... That's a pretty reliable red flag.

Adobe's tool pop-up just now: 'I see you're reading a long document. Want to save time by not reading it (with AI)?' No, Adobe. I actually opened this document to read it.

When one student gets help from another, who really benefits? A new meta-analysis indicates the answer is BOTH - and often the tutor more than the tutee! This month we discuss how we might approach peer tutoring in our classrooms. #EduSky #AcademicSky twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

I produce and co-host an education research podcast that releases new episodes on the 12th of every month. We open season 9 with a discussion of the far-ranging benefits of peer tutoring and the key structures necessary for groups to be creative. twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

I produce and co-host an education research podcast that releases new episodes on the 12th of every month. We open season 9 with a discussion of the far-ranging benefits of peer tutoring and the key structures necessary for groups to be creative. twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

The first version of CAUSE's public, freely-available guide to evaluating learning environments is now available! Read about the measures and see how you can integrate them into your surveys. #AcademicSky #EduSky www.causecoalition.org/user-guide

Apropos of nothing, observe Benny's expert-level sun sleeps.

Pitt volleyball just put together a really solid win over a better seeded Kentucky. Nice job ladies.

Excellent sci-com example. I will be showing this in class this spring.

#AcademicSky I am looking to connect with a scholar in Columbus, OH - maybe @ohiostatepress.bsky.social - to give some guest remarks at a summit on school design research in November. Anyone have any suggestions?

Wow... my feed is just wall-to-wall that AHA historian job posting right now. Literally nothing else for so long...

I can. Not. Believe. Buffalo won that football game.

"Fall decorating" is setting up my TV viewing area!

What a #PairedTexts in the @usatoday.com feed this morning...

Hi KU IA students - you get 10 extra internet points for looking me up on Bluesky. Internet points redeemable with me for a high five or firm handshake. Your choice!

If we are more careful with how the field treats deadlines, we will get better submissions - higher quality, more diverse ideas, and healthier work/life balance to boot. I look forward to everyone's hate mail. :)

Apropos of yet another "extended" deadline, let me share one of my longest standing academic hot takes: Deadlines should be real. I'm on a road trip, let me take some time to explain. 🧵

Howie's stuff is just so consistently wonderful. Terrific model for how to approach math curiosity.

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

- "Nearly two-thirds of Americans agree that teacher salaries are inadequate." - "A majority of U.S. adults support limiting cell phone use during the school day." - "66% of U.S. adults oppose eliminating the federal education department." pdkpoll.org/2025-poll-re...

A bit of personal news to practice joy and celebration: They asked me back! I'm going to teach undergrads again this coming spring. I am overjoyed because I love that class and want to teach for them forever.

To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!

I went to a Goo Goo Dolls concert tonight. I asked my wife about listening to their music throughout the day and she made fun of me for "doing homework". They released a new album. Today. Literally today. Dashboard Confessional opened for them, so I'll say... I am vindicated.

🧵 New #openaccess pub just dropped: "Teachers' subjectivities in responsive instruction: When ambitious instruction encounters challenging teaching situations" by me, Yeliz Günal Aggül, Shuqin Li, and Christine Hood #AcademicSky #EduSky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In this year's season finale, we identify our Most Noteworthy Papers. Congrats to @benjaminjriley.bsky.social & @paul-bruno.com for writing my top paper of the year! "The Educational Hazards of Generative AI" pushed my thinking on artificial intelligence. twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

In this year's season finale, we identify our Most Noteworthy Papers. Congrats to @imogenherrick.bsky.social for being recognized as Laurence's top paper! "How Do These Data Make You Feel?" really made an impact on both of our practices. twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

I perceive that people in my professional life who routinely use AI are getting worse at editing themselves/their work. Content bombs are becoming more common... way too much text that swamps out human content/connection. I'd like to see a systematic study of this.

An excellent story that shines a bright light on the devastation in my field.

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

Pre-season is for trying stuff. Great. Good. Appropriate. These virtual measurements for first downs are awful. We tried. They're bad. A solution in search of a problem. I'm not a "nothing new" kind of guy... but this change is indisputably making the game worse.

It's probably not weird that I talk to my pets like they are people. I bet it's weird that I still talk to them when I am traveling... And they are not with me.

In math, spacing practice has a small positive effect compared to massed practice per this meta-analysis. However, what we really need are more/better studies of spaced retrieval practice v. massed practice in math. A call to action for math ed research! #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

Slightly diminish a band: Eight Inch Nails