In the 15th inning of tonight's ALDS, my beloved Humpy the salmon won his first ever victory in the Mariners' salmon race. A half an inning later, the Mariners finished it all off. Coincidence? www.mlb.com/mariners/fan...

This ought to be engraved somewhere.

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Good dialectical reasoning at it’s finest and applied to a significant public health concern

Cursed Number xkcd.com/3137/

For the uninitiated: youtu.be/ri2YukcvXFM?...

See, here’s the thing, when you include credible sources calling the theory of action underpinning a causal link into question, you ruin good’nuff journalism by using this shitty click-bait title. .. and in Seattle of all places! 🙄 As a related PSA: get screened, runners and non-runners!

2 bits of data from new Economist/YouGov poll..... 13% support for cutting research funding to universities. 24% among Republicans. Polling on this continues to be catastrophic for the Rs, suggests Dems should be learning far harder into standing up for science and our universities. 1/

The massive list of suspended UCLA grants came out today: 300 NSF and 500 NIH grants. I am miraculously not on the list, but this is devastating. Science will be lost, progress will be frozen, people will lose jobs, and careers in science and medicine are being destroyed. This is not ok.

Ichiro Comedy Special Somehow Already Up on Netflix: tinyurl.com/mry8xvj5

Geologic Periods xkcd.com/3120/

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

I think you are thinking of Paul Bruno's list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New paper about a brief word-problem screener for use in the elementary grades. It's free to read this article! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... And then download the screener at: www.piratemathequationquest.com

"In the meantime for the sake of transparency to transit riders, King County Metro says it will be officially renaming Route 8 to Route ∞."

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This is generally a must-listen podcast anyway, but this episode hit really hard. While none of my close friends and family who are teachers worked in the US during the pandemic, the statements that teachers' lives were the trade off to reopen schools still felt so true and validating.

BREAKING: A federal judge ruled all transgender and intersex people can obtain passports that align with their gender identity while the case against President Trump's executive order proceeds. While this is good news, we will continue fighting until this executive order is blocked permanently.

Over the next 25 years, if proposed cuts in NIH funding are made real, “In a population of more than 340 million, this reflects **82 million** fewer years of life.” In the US alone. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

An important thing to know about Donald Trump is that very few people actually like him! The structure of his support at this point is a relatively small number of psychotic groypers and a much larger swathe of the public who have been convinced by right-wing propaganda that Democrats are worse.

I want to help teachers work smarter, not harder. That’s why I rely on respected researchers like Dr. Brian Poncy & @rastokke.bsky.social to tell me what the research says AND which resources to use to support my instruction. I don’t have time for new fads in education & my students don’t either.🧵

Huge thanks to @rastokke.bsky.social for not just telling teachers like me what to do but for providing great tools to support us! Most teachers aren’t trained how to read, understand and interpret research papers. I only learned in my M.Ed. So here’s a helpful “cheat-sheet” for those who need it:

Increasingly believe that this should be required reading before anyone is allowed to do science. I spend an *inordinate* amount of time these days citing this piece and explaining that RCTs are not instrinsically and exclusively causal. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Updated literature review on special education teachers' occupational wellbeing and burnout is published online! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... @lizbettini.bsky.social @michellecumming.bsky.social Excited to see the nascent intervention work prior research has catalyzed!

Read the whole thing. You won’t be surprised, but you should be outraged.

The program will invest €500 million ($568 million) between 2025 and 2027 to recruit specialists in various fields of knowledge to come and work in Europe.

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

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I understand why @aeraedresearch.bsky.social asked us not to share pics etc from presentations at the conference. So I’ll just say there are great people here doing important work benefitting all people. I’m proud to be among them and look forward to days ahead when we can properly celebrate them.

This article describes a problem I see daily in the math classes I visit. More teachers than we care to admit have only a shaky understanding of the math they teach. Some have a palpable FEAR of math. They deserve better support. #iTeachMath www.edsurge.com/news...

What are ways to help students understand expressions and equations? Download these FREE lesson guides, problem sets, and vocabulary cards! buff.ly/4gRHNz5

“It is essential to consider any practices that need to be de-implemented (Hamilton er al., 2023). It is unreasonable to roll out new initiatives without a game plan for how they will fit and what will go to make room.” Nathaniel Swain 1/3🧵

A number of presidents have added their signature throughout the day. If your president isn't on here yet it may be that they are still in process with their board or etc about signing - or it may be that they need a nudge from you, or a group of you. If the latter - organize on your campus/alumni.

Things that happened in Canada the last time voter turnout exceeded 70% (1993): - Canadiens won their 24th Stanley Cup - Toronto Blue Jays won 2nd World Series - This Hour Has 22 Minutes premiered - Nunavut Act Passed Let's beat 70 this election! Get out and vote! #letsbeat70

the nice thing about creating a variable is that you never know who might be mad at you 20 years later for your weird decisions while doing so

For every dollar invested in public research grants the economy benefits $2.56 (for medical research). I think auditing the rich returns us $12 for every dollar invested but that doesn’t appear to be on the table.

Hey Canada! Advanced Polls are now OPEN! Friday to Monday you can vote from 9am to 9pm - go to elections.ca to find out where and how. After all, the Easter Bunny might not be real, but threats to our democracy are! (I asked Carney to make this his slogan and he refused for some reason) 🐣🍁

Now back to work #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter

NIH Resumes Key Grant Review Panels After a months-long pause, advisory councils for the National Institutes of Health are restarting, paving the way for the final approval of grants. Experts say it’s an encouraging sign for the $47 billion agency. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/42LrIqJ

Teaching multiplication with whole numbers? Know students who need more practice with multiplication? Use these lesson guides, problem sets, and vocabulary cards. buff.ly/3QQJy5f

Kurt Vonnegut man

How Have Teacher Candidates Learned to Use Evidence? A Systematic Review of Research journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Canada Makes Washington 11th Province: tinyurl.com/yc58xxwj

New comment by @faridanvari.bsky.social and friends arguing that psychology is fragmented into the study of too many constructs and measures with too few links. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research with restricted-use data is more precise, powerful, and relevant. Faculty and staff will be working through the weekend to answer important research questions before we no longer can. This is not normal, necessary, or efficient.

Alaska Airlines Announces Emotional Baggage Fee: bit.ly/4bOqH4d

To be clear, shutting down USDOE is pure hostility to kids with disabilities, families of low income, students that need financial assistance to afford college, and those counting on enforcement of civil rights protection preserve their well-being.

UPDATE: According to the department, more than 1,300 positions will be cut as a result of this reduction in force. Roughly another 600 employees have accepted voluntary resignations or retired.