We have a new paper out on how the AI boom is creating a scientific monoculture! Everything AI. "The task for social science is to ensure that, in navigating this moment, we do not become artificial ourselves." www.nature.com/articles/s44... Led by the brilliant @cecilietraberg.bsky.social

Overheard at our house just now: 8b: [derisively] "You are so obsessed with not blowing the house up..."

Okay... we're reading a new paper on dual enrollment for today's podcast taping. The opening paragraphs establish the growth in the format "over the last decade". I then howled when I realized we discussed dual enrollment a decade ago on this very podcast. 💀💀💀

@dccmath.bsky.social wrote about how he has aligned all his class systems around core philosophical priorities of 1) Intellectual courage 2) Productive failure It took us on a wonderful journey of how everything we do should be mission-aligned. All of it! #EduSky twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

While LLMs will try to follow good research practices by default, you can pretty easily convince them to p-hack for you. In one case (out of the 4 tested), the LLM moved the result from p > 0.05 to p < 0.001. github.com/janetmalzahn...

I love this so much. I think we, presenters in all settings, should hit our time marks. Period.

"Billions of dollars have been wiped from research budgets, almost 8,000 grants have been cancelled at NIH and the US National Science Foundation alone, and more than 1,000 NIH employees have been fired." #HigherEd #EdcHat #AcademicSky #Trump #research #phdchat www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you want a heartbreaking example of what this looks like when it happens... And it does happen... Read this very good work from Dr. Ng and team. doi.org/10.1177/0161...

The current Kansas budget bill would: -Withhold $2 million from each public university until they can certify no diversity-related content -Freeze tuition revenue, not just rates -Require a plan to cut administrative spending by 10% The questions asked during the the hearing are fascinating.

What's the difference between individualization, personalization, and differentiation? The law uses one, policy guidance uses another, and the third shows up most in PD! How can teachers cut through the noise to meaningfully tailor instruction for students? #EduSky twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

Just had a brand new (to me) interaction with someone who knew my podcast before they knew me, and they just found out. "Wait, Two Pint PLC is your podcast?!" Believe me when I tell you that stuff is why I still do it. My heart is aflutter.

No better full series arc for a couple. I hope they don't screw it up in March...

Pretty sure this video explainer in a survey I'm taking is using an AI-based text-to-voice technology... and it's got this weird dissonance that sounds like 2 voices speaking with slight misalignment. I'm taking massive psychic damage right now.

Last night one of my students asked me earnestly 'How do I get to be like [big famous scholar in his field]?' and it's been living rent free in my head ever since... Man, you are asking a guy who has made pretty much every single decision possible to avoid that. Hell if I know.

I produce and co-host an education research podcast that releases new episodes on the 12th of every month. Dr. Zhang joins to discuss law and policy around teaching adjustment, and we read a case study of a class focused on inquiry & growth. #EduSky twopintplc.com/podcast-epis...

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Welp... we will be having an AI talk in my class much earlier this year than last year. That is disappointing... but also, this is the place to learn and it is exactly my job to teach them. We can do this.

To be clear, kids get hurt and I'm not mad at all. I just immediately thought of when I did sports med in high school. You have X-ray vision? You don't know... and the fact you feel the need to say so tells me something real happened. So... let's limit our claims to our evidence friends.

When I got to aftercare pickup this afternoon, Cam was sitting out and crying. The first thing they told me was 'she hurt it, but it's not broken'. Guess what.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I had to go through my camera roll to find some photos I took for work and I am realizing that it's like... over 50% photos of a sleeping dog. It's too much and I am embarrassed... but also, look at this sleeping boy!

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

That Seattle blitz is just a nightmare. Good for them.

Who do you name MVP in a Super Bowl with zero touchdowns?

"Ms. Hart doesn’t disclose her use of A.I. ... she requested anonymity because she still uses her real name for some publishing" 'Will you put your name on this use of AI' remains undefeated as the perfect litmus test.

Stress waking up early on a Saturday because I have grading that students really need back by now. The semester is truly under way!

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

More on NSF funding data A deeper dive into the numbers of awards by Directorate. 1/9

At no point did I know what would happen next in this story. Ever.

I teach my methods students to use a paper notebook, too. Anyone have good references or guides like what Hadley requests? #AcademicSky

For as much attention that academics pay to citations of papers, it is wild to me how incompatible academic writing is to citing anything else... Turns out photos have dates too.

I get this very very intensely. The sad irony is that it is one of my wife's favorite types of television... And I often have to leave the room entirely.

Our hyper-lawful dwarven fighter just stole something, and the party is in absolute disarray. I'm the rogue and even I'm like "dude, wut"

Hey @chelseasprite.bsky.social, I have occasion to look at existing research on "one stop shop" student service centers in higher education. This seemed like something that might touch what you study. Have any recommendations or suggestions for research (including perhaps your own)?

I'm not paying this company, so I'm compute-limited by day... after about 3 days of trying to get the model to generate I have a result. It's terrible. This is officially a dud. It CAN make .stl files... but why? It's the same trash as any other output.

The delay between 'when I've eaten too many Starbursts' and 'when my stomach tells me I've eaten too many Starbursts' is a serious problem...

This all sure makes it look like it's the Seahawk's shebang to lose... Whew. Lookin sharp.

I tinker with AI-based tools because my jobs (both teacher and researcher) require me to know what's going on in that space. I learned ChatGPT can create STL files for 3D printing... and the interface is still dumb as a box of rocks. Those math errors sure matter in this space!

What's better on a bad weather weekend than a podcast?!? Check out this new "Emerging Research in Educational Psychology" episode with Drs. @wcastillophd.bsky.social and @sarahgillborn.bsky.social, who talk all about QuantCrit and how to apply it to your research. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky

More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few of the ways Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science go.nature.com/4sTPWdp

Oh. My. Goodness. I take surveys when I get invites, because I make surveys for my job. Sadly, I have a new contender for the worst-constructed survey I have ever seen in the wild. From a university, no less! And with a partnership with a state agency?! So embarrassing for them.

This looks fun! I think we will do this next week! Thanks for sharing.

If anything I am probably Zazou in this analogy.

Curious about team teaching? Check out some simple ways to give it a try yourself! #EduSky

If you're teaching first year statisitcs (particularly for biology/ag), the data package `smbdata`, featuring all data from the Welham et al (2015) book, is now published on CRAN. Thank you to the authors for their permission to put it on CRAN! cran.r-project.org/web/packages... #rstats

Man... Caleb is hanging his guys out for some big hits... It's going to hurt eventually.

The EIGHTH turnover in this game. Incredible.

I went to the doctor. I broke my foot. It actually feels pretty validating. It DOES hurt. Whew.